88 Journal and Correspondence

September 8

Quantity of Both, to more than the amount of my Subscription, it
will suit me better to Settle it in this way, and if it should answer
your purpose as well you will please inform me by a line.

September 9

[Chas Blake, Corsica to His Excellency Thos. Sim Lee Esqr]

Sir I rec^d y^r Ex^cys favour of the 21 ult^o by M^r Feddeman M^r
Hemsley has advertis'd that the 15 p^r C^t may be discharged in wheat
but none has yet come in. I have 1200 bus: for which I hourly
expect a Craft by which I shall send to Col. Hollingsworth 3 barrels
of pork and some bacon. There is now a Vessel load of Wheat going
to Elk of 1500 bus: which I am to have if I can pay for it in three
weeks, if not it will be sold by the Owner as it is wheat he is in debt
for. If y^r Ex^cy can lett me have the Cash I can secure that and much
more, there is now to be had a great deal of wheat here at £22.10.
M^r Hemsley has rec^d some Cash for the 1 5 p^r C^t and probably may
receive a good deal more if I had an order on him for what he has
or may receive it might assist till you could send a farther supply.
If I had cash I could send of immediatly ten or fifteen thousand
bus: I have the promise of some beef on the hoof but tis not yet
in condition. I have to send an immediate answer by the way of
Kent Island, I have had some letters sent via Rock Hall and some
by Cambridge that did not come to hand in a long time.

September 9
Brown Book

No 8

Letter

No. 16

[Horatio Gates Hillsborough to Gov. Jefferson Copy]
Sir Intelligence of a very particular Sort, is just arrived from
Camden, by a Person in whom we can confide; and no Doubt re-
mains, but that he may have been imposed upon; by a Finesse of the
Enemy. Since then two Deserters from the Enemy's 23^d Regiment
came in, and in a Manner confirm the Intelligence. It is as follows.
That Lord Cornwallis is going immediately, to embarque his Main
Force at George Town, for Cape Fear, and has wrote to Sir Harry
Clinton, to send a Reinforcement to take immediate Possession of
Portsmouth in your State. That two Regiments of Hessians only,
are to remain in Garrison at Charles Town, and the Seventh Regi-
ment at Savanah. That a Guard would be left at Camden to cover
the General Hospital, and send the sick and wounded as they recover
to Charles Town.
The 63^d Regiment had already marched down with the Prisoners
and Bryants Corps. Tarleton with the Legion, was gone to the
Waxhaws, to collect Horses for the Waggons, to take the Baggage
down the Country. The Council of Officers who assembled Yester-
day at my Quarters, were of Opinion, that I should immediately,
transmit this Intelligence to Your Excellency, that the Executive of
your State might be preparing, to defeat the Enemy's Designs.
Since I wrote your Excellency on the Colonel Marian of South
Carolina has surprized a Party of the Enemy, near Santee River,