Brunswick

21. Jany 1760

Sir,

I received your Favour of the 27. ulto. with the Copy of the Indian Treaty, and heartily congratulate you upon your Success and Prudence in having obtained Satisfaction and procured a Peace with that Nation, which will make all the adjoining Colonies safe and easy for the future, and will justly add to your honour in having undertaken and executed it so happily under your own Inspection without Loss of Blood; and am pleased to find from Colonel Waddell by a Copy of your Letter to him that you were pleased with his Endeavours to have cooperated with you But is to the Eternal Reproach of our Militia that so few join'd him out of the 500 he had Orders for and a Power to raise. However you must accept of my good Intentions to have assisted you; and the Cherokees finding that other Provinces wou'd join if necessary in the War, will secure the Peace for the future.

As this Continent will never be easy while the French hold the Mississippi and Mobile, I have and still will apply to, Mr. Pitt to send a sufficient force to dispossess them of those Rivers, which the Conquest of Quebec will make more easy, as we shall have Troops to spare from New York either against that Settlement or Martinico; for this Purpose I have got a congratulatory Address from the Council and Assembly here to his Majesty upon Our great Success, and have Reason to hope, for the future peace of these Southern Colonies, that the Conquest of Mississippi and Mobile will add to his Conquests, which I don't doubt but you will second; I am with Truth and Esteem

Sir,

Your Excellency's

most obedient

humble Servt.

Arthur Dobbs