Commenting on his presentation to the General Assembly of Greene's recent letters; reporting that he is taking "measures for procuring the forty dragoon Horses ... by purchase, or impressment if Necessary"; promising to do all he can to procure assistance for Greene; speaking critically of the state's government: "The extreme derangements in every department and the incredible imbecility of every power of Government open to me the most gloomy prospects at my very entrance upon my Office. Disciplin[e] must be introduced, and even an habitual negligence and disregard of Orders must be Corrected. Civil Government must be Reestablished, and enabled to Correct and Restrain the most licentious abuses which are now raging in this Country. The Revenues must be arranged, and in a word the Strictest attention and most Inflexible vigor must be applied to our affairs"; adding that he "hope[s] even to partake with [Greene] in the labors of the field So Soon as [he] shall have put the Civil business in proper train"; noting that his "Principal object ... will be to have force and Supplies always in readiness, and to be able at any time to Cooperate with Efficiency in any of [Greene's] General Measures"; adding that they "are no longer to expect the Second Division" [of ships], and remarking that "the Du[t]ch war has Occasioned this change in the disposition of the French forces"; mentioning Lord Cornwallis.