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My Lord

I do myself the honor of writing to Your Lordship by the present opportunity although I have nothing authentic to add to my late representations of the state of this Country, in relation to the disorders that now most unhappily prevail in it, as in all other the Provinces of this Continent, because I would not omit to give Your Lordship the latest advices, and that I know not, as my communication with Charles Town is totally cut off, when I may have opportunity to avail myself of the Packet or to communicate with Your Lordship by any other channel, if I miss this, that a Merchant Ship bound to Plymouth,² now affords me; it being the last vessel that will go from hence to England, until Peace is restored here, if the people permit in their present humour of conforming to the decrees of the Philadelphia Congress, and rejecting the favour that Government has shewn them by the excep tion of this Province in the Act restraining the Trade of many other of the Colonies.

P.S. I have the honor to transmit to Your Lordship a material piece of evidence agst Mr Day in the Deposition of Mr John Stephen Purser of the Cruizer Sloop of War. Your Lordship will also receive herewith two more Depositions of Masters of Ships with regard to Mr Ashes expedition to Fort Johnston.