[Extract]
No 63.

Your Lordship's letter of the 5th of July No 21. I did not receive till the 7th inst. Lord William Campbell sent it to a Friend of Mine in Charles Town who had no safe opportunity of forwarding it before . . . It is great Goodness in His Majesty to order the Commanders of His Ships, to receive on Board and Protect, any of his officers, who may be Compelled by the Violence of the People, to Seek for such an Assylum. and which your Lordship knows long before this, was much wanted, but alas, in Some of the Colonies its too late, for all the King's officers in Charles Town are Prisoners Already, and no body knows how soon they may be so here. ー and no Ship seen or heard of yet, although ordered last February,