We should never despair.

Our situation has before been unpromising, and has changed for the better.

So, I trust, it will again.

If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new exertions, and proportion our efforts to the exigency of the times." On receiving a letter from General Schuyler of the seventeenth, stating the divided situation of the British army, he seemed to anticipate the event which afterwards occurred, and to suggest the measure in which originated that torrent of misfortune with which Burgoyne was overwhelmed.

"Though our affairs," he said in reply to this information, "have for some days past worn a dark and gloomy aspect, I yet look forward to a fortunate and happy change.