[Extract]
I wish You would without further delay see Lord G. Germain and put the finishing hand to the Commission Lord [Richard] Howe's idea of not being so tightly bound as to the change of Government in Connecticut and Rhode Island, I hope will not be consented to, as I think the alteration most material; indeed if Lord Howe would give up being a Commissioner I should think it better for himself as well as the Service.
Queens House April 13th 1776 25 pt 6 P.M.
1. Fortescue, ed., Correspondence of George III, III, 351-52.