| Description | "The post brought me yesterday your letter of the 5th of April, enclosing Mr Burke's and Mr Hartley's resolutions, the Merchants Petition to the King, and the Bill restraining the trade of the five middle colonies, filled up, and a clause added", is persuaded that the part of the Bill respecting the three lower counties will not have the desired effect as they will be governed by the decisions of the Congress, Lord North's conciliatory resolution has been ill-received here, since the late action all the provinces have applied themselves to military exercise, Gage is besieged in Boston by 9000 men and his destruction would have been attempted were it not for the distress it would have brought upon the town, remarks on armies preparing in Philadelphia, New England and New York, his own position very unpleasant |