We are duly favoured with your esteemed letter dated 6th May, and beg your acceptance of our thanks for the trouble you have taken, in giving us a circumstantial account of the late calamitous affair at Boston, the consequences whereof are much to be dreaded, and concerning which our sentiments do perfectly correspond with yours, this alarming event still further widens the unhappy breach subsisting between this Country and the Colonies and prevents the restoration of that harmony so requisite for their mutual prosperity and Interest, we ardently wish conciliating measures may be pursued, both by the Ministry and the General Congress, so as most effectually to retard the progress of a Civil War, and hasten the time of a satisfactory reconciliation, which must undoubtedly be the sincere desire of all who have the real welfare of their country fervently at heart.