Confidence in the general was gone, and evident despondency prevailed throughout.

I have succeeded beyond expectation.

I crossed the river, contrary to the opinion of Colonel Proctor,----, &c.; it is, therefore, no wonder that envy should attribute to good fortune what, in justice to my own discernment, I must say, proceeded from a cool calculation of the _pours_ and _contres_.
They say that the value of the articles captured will amount to 30 or L40,000; in that case, my proportion will be something considerable.

If it enable me to contribute to your comfort and happiness, I shall esteem it my highest reward.
When I returned Heaven thanks for my amazing success, I thought of you all; you appeared to me happy--your late sorrows forgotten; and I felt as if you acknowledged that the many benefits, which for a series of years I received from you, were not unworthily bestowed.

Let me know, my dearest brothers, that you are all again united.