Your Cheeses were highly acceptable and reviving ; for unless amongst some of the officers, it was food scarcely known among us.

This generous humanity of Queens county is unanimously and gratefully applauded by all here ; we pray that your benevolence may be returned to you by the Great Shepherd of human Kind, a hundred fold ; and may those Amiable housewifes, to whose skill we owe the refreshing Cheeses, long contiune to shine in their useful and endearing stations.

I beg, gentlemen, that you in particular will accept of, and convey to your generous county, my grateful & respectful salutations for their seasonable beneficence to the Army under my command.

I am

Gentlemen

Your Most obedient and Obliged Servant W. Johnson.

[From the London Gkiz.]

Whitehall Nov. 18. 1755. The King has been pleased to grant unto W™. Johnson of New York, America, Esq"", and his heirs male the dignity of a Baronet of Great Britain.

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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE TO THE KING.

To the King's most Excellent Majesty May it please Your Majesty,

In obedience to Your Majesty's Commands signified to Us by M"". Fox, one of Your Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, ih his Letter dated the 18^*1, of November last. We have taken into Our Consideration the Copy of a Letter from M^. Thomas Penn, in behalf of himself and his Brother, Proprietaries of Pennsylvania, to Mr. Fox, together with a Copy of a Message from the Governor to the Assembly of that Province of the 20th. of July last, relating to an Oifer, then made and now proposed to be enlarged, of a Grant of Lands, in different Proportions, to such Officers and Soldiers as shall engage in the publick Service. Whereupon We beg Leave humbly to represent to Your Majesty,