Extract of a Letter from London to a Gentleman in New-York

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The anxiety of your mind at the unhappy state of the Colonies is honourable to your humanity. No good man can behold the picture you drew, without shedding a tear; all hope of an amicable settlement is, I fear, expired; and yet, as much as I know of this Country, I am convinced that nothing would be more pleasing to it than a reconciliation: not that the loss of your trade or military preparations are considered of importance, but that the characteristick benevolence of the nation laments the woes you are drawing upon your own heads.

Be not deceived by false representations of the state of this Country. You have already, in your non-importation scheme, found how little your seducers in this City are to be credited. The bulk of the people are against you, and your advocates few and inconsiderable. If some mode of pacification is not fallen on before spring, you will be fatally convinced of the truth of this information.