On Monday 3d [sic 4th] Inst. one of the Provincial Ships of War was launched at Poghcepsing & called the Montgomery. It is seen but too late that this was an ill advised Undertaking. The Ship is to be carried to the Creek at Esopus & the Expence would have fitted Twenty Privateers out of N England where the People are growing rich by Captures of trading Vessels daily brought into Port. Poor N York! To the general Foresight of the total Loss of Trade & her becoming by the Means of Hudson's River & her scanty Sea Coast, the Theatre of this unnatural War, is in a great Measure to be imputed the Backwardness of Multitudes in adopting the common Principles of the Continent-There were other Reasons for their dreading a Civil War, which I have often mentioned elsewhere, and among the Rest that of losing their Estates by the Claims of the New England Colonies was not the least.