...or the exertion of your admirable talents, but your presence will be as neces- sary in New York. In like manner Franklin wrote: I am glad you are come to New York; but I also wish you could be in Canada ; and on the nineteenth the congress destined him to that most arduous service. John Adams, who had counselled his expedition to New York, wrote to him complacently, that a luckier or a happier one ...