[Extract]
No 24.

It is my Duty to inform your Lordship that the North Americans are amply supplied with Gun powder and other Military Stores by the French in Hispaniola; which is sold at an advanc'd price by the Inhabitants who I find import great quantitys from Old France, finding it such an advantageous article of Commerce; But I do not learn that they get any out of the Royal Stores, or Magazines. ー In my Zeal for his Majesty's Service, I hope to be pardoned [in] hazarding my humble opinion, that if the Americans have been proclaimed in Great Britain in actual Rebellion that it would have been much to the Advantage of His Government in this Island, if I had been Authorized to publish a like Proclamation for reasons that I am sure will be very obvious to your Lordship.