The Virginia Gazette

It was last year reported, that Sir Jeffery Amherst had said, that with 5000 English regulars he would engage to march from one end to the other of the continent of North America. This being spoken of publickly in a coffee-house in North America, Col. Washington, who was present, declared, that with 1000 Virginians he would engage to stop Sir Jeffery Amherst's march.---It is the fashion at St James's to despise the Americans, to call them cowards, poltroons, &c. and the resolution seems to be taken to put their courage to the proof. The very able, spirited, and prudent conduct of this gallant officer, when he covered and preserved the remains of the English army after one of their defeats last war in North America, has endeared him to every brave man, and stamped him with the name of being a most able officer.