Lieut Colonel de Cambray will have the honor to deliver this to you. And as he enables me to pay my compliments to you, it is with pleasure I make use of the opportunity to recommend him to your Notice. He is a Gentleman, & bears the reputation of a good officer. (1)

   While I am sensible of the difficulties you have encountered in making head against the Enemy & am concerned at the trouble this has occasioned to you, I am happy in having the most perfect confidence in your abilities to exert the force you have collected to the best advantage. Arms ammunition, money & Pulaski with his Legion are sent on to give you farther strength, & the States of N. Carolina & Virginia are called upon in the most pressing terms to aid you. By the Blessing of God, I trust you will relieve the Public & add to your high reputation.