Resolved unanimously that the Committee of Safety be directed to write a letter to the President of the Convention of Maryland in answer to his Letter of the twenty fifth instant expressing the deepest concern at the proceedings of that Convention respecting Governor Eden and our reasons for not becoming accessory thereto by giving him a passport through this Colony or the Bay adjoining: That we would with reluctance in any case intermeddle in the affairs of a Sister Colony but in this matter we are much interested and the Convention of Maryland by sending their proceedings to the Committee of Safety here, have made it the duty of this Convention to declare their Sentiments thereon.

That considering the intercepted Letter from Lord George Germaine to Governor Eden in which his whole conduct and confidential Letters are approved, and he is directed to give facility and assistance to the operations of Lord Dunmore against Virginia We are at a loss to account for the Council of Safety of Maryland their having neglected to seize him according to the Recommendation of the General Congress and more so for the Conventions having promoted his passage to assist in our destruction under a pretence of his retiring to England which we conceive from the above Letter, he is at Liberty to do. That supposing he should go to Britain, It appears to us that such Voyage with the address presented to him will enable him to assume the Character of a Publick Agent and by promoting division and disunion amongst the Colonies produce consequences the most fatal to the American Cause. ー

That as the reasons assigned for his departure "That he must obey the Ministerial Mandates while remaining in his Government" are very unsatisfactory when the Convention declare "that in his absence the Government in its old form will devolve on the Presiden't of the Council of State["] who will be under equal Obligation to perform such Mandates, We cannot avoid imputing those proceedings to some undue Influence of Governor Eden under the Masque of friendship to America, and of the proprietary Interest in Maryland whereby the Members of that Convention were betrayed into a Vote of fatal tendency to the Common cause and we fear to this Country in Particular and feel it an Indispensable duty to warn the good people of that Province to guard against the Proprietary Influence.

Resolved that the foregoing Resolution be forthwith published in the Virginia Gazette.