Received your letter from Turks Island. What money you may have left let Messrs. John Lawrence and Co. take it and draw bills for it here upon us. If this scheme could not be executed, then we think rather than leave the money in the Government hands or take Continental money, you had better purchase new tobacco and let it remain in the warehouses, as it will be a more certain thing than the paper currency, should things take a bad turn against America. However you will be on the spot. You will be a better judge of what to do. The coast of America will be all crowded with cruising vessels early in the spring which will make the trade very dangerous and precarious. The reports are various, all we know for certain is the General Howe was within 20 miles of Philadelphia. General Washington and General Lee both in the Jersey's. Captain Jerh. Morgan was taken by a Man of War in his passage to Philadelphia. He is now confined on board the Admirals ship at New York. Lord Howe it is said is much exasperated at him and resolves to make an example of him as he is a Bermudian and of course a subject of Great Britain. We expect Tommy (Thomas Tudor Tucker) any time. He is not bringing his wife.