by the excessive bad Roads & the Scarcely of Forrage ren-
dered unfit for farther Service & the Assembly of Pens^a not
having at that time complied with the Request of S^r Iohn
S^t Clair who went to Phila^a the Beginning of Sept^r to repre-
sent the Difficulties that the General laboured under for want
of Waggons & to obtain an Act for compelling the Civil officers
to impress & furnish him with as many as the Service should
require. Such an Act being at length passed & a sufficient
quantity of Provisions carried up to Raes Town about the
Middle of Oct^r All the Troops which were at that place except
about a hundred Invalids that are left there as a Garrison
under the Command of one Major Wells prepared to march
but they did not proceed till the 23^d of that Month as you will
see by the Copy of a Letter that I received a few Days since
from the General & which I have taken the Liberty to inclose
for His Ldp's perusal. At the Expiration of the Month
during which I had at the General's Desire undertaken to
garrison Fort Cumberland upon a Supposition that the Cam-
paign would be in that time determined, I represented to the
General that it was not in my Power to detain them any longer,
& about 50 of the Virginians that had been left there sick in
the Hospital being then pretty well recovered I resigned up
the Command to their Officer & returned to Fort Frederick
where I stayed from the 12^th to the 14^th of Oct^r & then came
off for Annapolis to meet the Assembly which I did the 23^d of
that month as you will see by the inclosed Gazettes which
contain a Copy of my Speech at the Opening of the Session
& Copies of the Addresses which the two Houses were
pleased to present to me in Answer thereto. I am informed
that the Gentlemen of the Lower House have since made a
Resolve that they will out of the first Supplies that shall be
granted for His Majesty's Service appropriate a Sum to reim-
burse the General & to pay off all the Arrears that shall be

due to the Maryland Troops at the End of the Campaign but
as they propose to frame their Bill upon the Old Plan of an
Assesment I dare not flatter myself with the hopes of having

it in my power to signify my Assent to a Supply Bill this Ses-
sion tho I find that the Majority in the Lower House for that
Mode of Taxation is far less considerable now than it was
before the late Election. You will see in the Maryland
Gazette of Yesterday's Date some Account of an Attack that
the French are said to have made the 12^th of last Month on
our Camp at Loyalhanning, but as that Camp is surrounded
with a good breast Work & our Troops there said to amount
to 3000 or upwards I do not imagine that the Enemy expected
to force it nor can I conceive that they could have made
such an Attempt without suffering greatly, which does not