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I have the honor to forward to you the request which the merchants of London interested in the trade with Northern America have presented to the King of England in order to beg His Majesty to refuse His consent with regard to the Bill passed by both Houses. I join to this document the protest made by 16 Lords on the same subject. . . .

We have not heard anything yet about the memorandum, petition and remonstrance expected from New York. It is only said with certainty that a ship which arrived there from Glasgow after the date set by the Congress when all importation must stop, was not able to unload her cargo neither whole nor in part, and that the situation is the same in the other Colonies.