The Virginia Gazette

Extract of a letter from the southward.

"I cannot affirm that Britain has made any proposals to Congress respecting an accommodation; on the contrary, from the best lights I am able to collect on this point, I think I may venture to assure you, she has not. This however does not prove that she is not in great need of a peace, and that she has not made use of the channel open at London, to signify her pacifick disposition; and to enquire upon what terms the war may be closed. But in making peace terms are every thing; And they may perhaps not come to such as would be accepted, in hopes of some lucky event turning up in her favour, in the course of another campaign.

I hope we shall be prepared for the campaign. I am told Congress is like soon to agree upon some measures that bid fair to put our currency upon a better and more stable footing; and that the union of that body increases respecting the points of general importance that come before them. I have less apprehensions of a speedy peace, than I had some time ago, and wish to see our battalions well filled up; and I am told this business goes on in this quarter with more expedition than it has yet done.

We have the best reason to hope, if we exert ourselves properly upon the present great occasion, that we shall ere long accomplish the great object of the revolution: We may depend upon it, that our magnanimous and good ally, will not abate in his exertions till this is effected; and we have the most undoubted assurance, that as he has all along regarded, so he continues to regard, his own interest and ours as one and the same."