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God preserve Her -- United -- it will be the principal means of our safety -- We cannot ascertain until the delivery of the Presidents Speech, on what footing we are; but the conjecture is, that we have grounds for peace and that in Europe, there is every prospect of a continuance of the War -- let them weaken each other -- we can chime in bye & bye, with some prospect of success -- it is said Britain intends to relinquish the Western posts -- Major Campbell has evacuated his post on the Rapids of the Miamis, and the Indians are said to have dispersed, disheartened & cursing the English. -- unclear action with them was a brilliant one -- he deserves praise & I am too much a lover of my Country to withhold it from my Enemy in a personal light. In two days from my leaving you on the Bluff, we were up with lookout; but from some fault in our compass, or bad steering, we had got into a Bite or Bay of Water, between the Frying Pan & Lookout Shoals. Barrys being