Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

We have nothing new here, but what we have from your quarter, unless it be worth informing you that forty or fifty Frenchmen in uniform arrived here by water from Charleston, whose destination is said to be Augustine, from whence it is inferred by some, that the Spaniards will shortly surrender it to the French. There are said to be some among us endeavoring to procure men to go to the same place; but their conduct, tho' it has excited some suspicions, has not, from any thing which I have heard authorized a belief of such intention.

People appear to be here as they are in Congress, and elsewhere, divided about the politics of the day. But tho' my retired situation prevents me from having the best opportunities of judging of the public sentiment, yet if I may determine from the observations I have made, I should conclude that the number of those who from an improper partiality would oppose the interests of, this country is few: Under this apparent impression, and I suppose from a view to evince an attachment to that interest, I found on my arrival in town a very prevalent disposition to pay particular attention to the ensuing anniversary of our independence.