The writings of George Washington; being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes and illustrations. By Jared Sparks.

PART I.] PRIVATE LETTERS. 339
instant the Assembly will meet; and till then I will suspend my further opinion of the matter.
I am, with the most unalterable regard, your most
affectionate friend and servant.
TO ROBERT STEWART.
Mount Vernon, 13 August, 1763.
MY DEAR STEWART,
By Captain Walter Stewart I am favored with an opportunity of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of
the 6th of June, and at the same time of forwarding the
copy of my former 6ne, which was in readiness before
that came to hand, and which I incline to send, notwithstanding the original has reached you, because it contains the second bills, and other matters entire as they
ought to have been sent, and as I dare say Mr. Stewart
will be so good as to deliver them.
Another tempest has arisen upon our frontiers, and
the alarm spread wider than ever. In short, the inhabitants are so apprehensive of danger, that no families
remain above the Conococheague road, and many are
gone below it. Their harvests are in a manner lost, and
the distresses of the settlement are evident and manifold. In Augusta many people have been killed, and
numbers fled. Confusion and despair prevail in every
quarter. At this instant a calm is taking place, which
forebodes some mischief to Colonel Bouquet. At least
those, who wish well to the convoy, are apprehensive
for him; since it is not unlikely, that the retreat of all
the Indian parties at one and the same time from our
frontiers, is a proof of their assembling a force some