I hope your Lordships will for that reason bear with me if I make it a long one, tho I will endeavour to be as concise as the apprehended Importance of my subject will permit.

My Lords, whether the actual extirpation of the French from North America will be effected by His Majesties Arms, before he thinks proper to lay them down, is a point which I do as I ought leave in respectful silence.

But I beg leave to offer it as my opinion to your Lordships that should the French be absolutely extirpated & much more if they should not, the Improvement & extension of His Majestys Indian Interest & the Trade consequent thereupon, are objects of the last moment to the Security & welfare of His American Dominions, and how intimately these are connected with the strength, wealth & Influence of Great Britain, Your Lordships are competent Judges.

An Equitable an Open & a well regulated Trade with the Indians, is and ever will be, the most natural & the most efficacious means to improve & extend His Majestys Indian Interest.

All manner of Trade with the Subjects of France in these parts ought to be prohibited vmder the Severest Penalties.

The Indians ought to be redressed or satisfied, in all their reasonable & well founded complaints of enormous & imrighteously obtained Patents for their Lands and Treaties of Limitations with the respective Provinces agreed upon & reUgiously observed, with regard to the Bounds of our Settlements towards the Indian Country ; in this the Province of Pensilvania & New Jersey lately very wisely & politicly set an Example.