[Extract]
No 8

My Lord,  Last Tuesday I had the Honor to transmit to Your Lordship a Copy of the Memorial, which from the Motive I alledged in my Dispatch No. 7, I thought proper to present to a Deputation of the Senate on the 17th Instant; And I have now the Pleasure of inclosing to You, My Lord, the Extract of Their Register, with which, in Answer thereunto, Syndick Sillem and Senator Dörner were again deputed to me Today, and which contains almost ipsissimis verbis what They were directed, They said, to signify to me orally in the Name of Their Superiors, Vizt

"That immediately upon my Memorial being read in a full Senate, They had ordered the Deputies of the Commerce to convoke the Body of Merchants, and to notify to Them, for Their obedient Compliance the serious and earnest Prohibition The Senate had just passed, to carry on any Contreband Trade whatever with or to the British American Colonies." The Deputies added, "That, were even these Measures, tho' calculated for debarring their Trading Inhabitants from such illegal Practices, to be deemed much too insufficient by His Majesty's Government they should be enforced by an Edict to be immediately published and affixed for that Purpose;" ー And They took this Opportunity to desire me, that I would interpose my good Offices, as well in renewing the most respectful Assurances of the anxious Zeal and unlimited Devotion, which both the Senate and their City entertained for The King and His Government, as in conveying to His Majesty Their most ardent Wishes, that the Seeds of Discord and Opposition, scattered between the Mother and filiale-Countries, may soon be stifled or eradicated, and Great Britain hereafter enjoy a most perfect Tranquility and Happiness to the remotest of all Ages.