| Description | Has heard with regret of the late battle at Boston as it widens the breach and renders all hope of reconciliation more difficult and distant, a civil war has commenced in earnest, wishes some means could be found to stop it and settle differences without shedding more blood, requests him to do his utmost towards this end, great preparations being made here to furnish more troops and ships to America, and he thinks that country will have a hard time in seeking to overcome the same, victory on either side will be dearly bought, hopes the address which Congress proposes to lay before the King will be worded in proper terms and that in next October he will come over with equitable proposals and be the means of restoring peace and unanimity to British subjects everywhere |