Gentlemen

I have just now reced the enclosed Resolution from London, which Mr [Edmund] Burke made the 22d Instant in the House of Commons. He spoke for two hours & a half in the most masterly manner. A Speech which never was excelled within those Walls.² I send this to the Road therefore cannot farther enlarge than that the resolution passed as usual in the negative by a very great majority 270 to 78.

I am with great Truth Gentlemen [&c.]

I contine selling the Friendship's Wheat at 6/9.