Politics run very high at this moment, but the French faction have evidently the preponderance, and they style themselves republicans! Was ever any thing more absurd?
A dreadful crash is not far off--I hope your friends have withheld their confidence in their public stocks.

There have been many failures at New York, and the merchants there are in a state of great confusion and dismay.
I returned recently from York, the capital of this province, where I passed ten days with the governor, (Gore,) as generous and as honest a being as ever existed.

His lady is perfectly well bred and very agreeable.

I found ample recompense in their society for the inconvenience of travelling over the worst roads I ever met with.

The governor was formerly quartered with the 44th in Guernsey, and recollects vividly the society of those days.
I seldom hear from James Brock, who dislikes writing to such a degree, that he hazards the loss of a friend rather than submit to the trouble; and what is strange, when he sets about it he expresses himself happily, and is highly entertaining.
Sir James Craig has triumphed completely over the French faction in the Lower Province.