Sir--I beg leave to mention to you, that it is nere asserted and generally believed, that Congress have authorised a Colo. Warner and certain other officers to raise a regiment in this State, at least without the intervention of the State. This measure has given anxiety and disgust to several of the first characters in. the State who have risqued both their lives and fortunes in its defence. If such a regiment was necessary, men worthy of confidence might have been found to raise it with at least equal success.

It is believed, sir, by some, that there are designs of individuals at least, to dismember this State. The appointments above mentioned, if such there are, may tend to this end. This State is of great importance in the present war; without the aid of this State, or even of the county of Albany (exclusive of every other part of it,) the war could not be supported with less than double the present expense, if it could be supported at any rate. The State will not submit to be dismembered; and there are not wanting many respectable characters, both in the Senate and the American army, who intimate that they would rather submit to a Tyrant at 3,000 miles distance, than to avaricious or tyrannical neighbours.

In a confidence, sir, that the sentiments of the people even from an individual, will not disoblige, I have taken the liberty

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hastily to mention part of those I have heard, and hope you will receive this private letter with the same friendly intention with which it is wrote. I have the honor to be, With great respect and esteem, sir.