act as you deem proper.

Your friend, Mr. Isaac Todd, is arrived, and looking much
better for his trip; he was suffered to pass by Albany and the
lake. He tells me that Mr. M'Donell is confirmed
attorney-general, and that the governor's salary is increased,
L1,000 a year. I sincerely trust that it will soon be your
own. Sir George has in his official dispatches, after paying
that tribute of praise so justly your due, stated as his
confirmed opinion, that the salvation of the Upper Province
has in a very great measure arisen from the civil and military
authority being combined in able hands. The prisoners, with
their general, arrived here on Sunday night; as they had not
halted since they left Kingston, and were in a very dirty
state, we kept them here on Monday, and they yesterday
proceeded to William Henry, on their way to Quebec; the
officers are to be on parole in Charlesbourg, and the men
confined on board two transports in the river. Sir George has
permitted most of the officers, who have families with them,
to return on their parole; four of them are proposed to be
exchanged for the officers of the Royal Scots, taken by the
Essex frigate. Sir George has also consented to allow General
Hull to return upon his parole: he is loud in his complaints
against the government at Washington, and the general thinks
that his voice, in the general cry, may be attended with
beneficial effects, and has allowed him to return and enter
the lists. General Hull appears to possess less feeling and
sense of shame than any man in his situation could be supposed
to do. He seems to be perfectly satisfied with himself, is
lavish of censure upon his government, but appears to think
that the most scrupulous cannot attach the slightest blame to
his own immediate conduct at Detroit. The grounds upon which
he rests his defence are not, I fancy, well founded, for he
told us that he had not gunpowder at Detroit for the service
of one day. Sir George has since shown him the return of the
large supply found in the fort; it did not create a blush, but
he made no reply. He professes great surprise and admiration
at the zeal and military preparation that he has everywhere
witnessed; that it was entirely unlooked for, and that he has
no doubt that his friend, General Dearborn, will share his
fa