Their Reliance is & has been entirely on the Crown thro' the powers Vested in its Officer, founded on a Certainty of the utter impossibility of receiving it at other hands whether the same be owing to Inexperience, Want of Leisure, disinclenation, The want of Legal provision adapted to the peculiarity of their Affairs, or to that particular biass of the Colonists which operates so much to the disadvantage of the Indians, throughout their Various subjects of Contention, whether in the Ordinary pursuit of their Landed or Commercial Interests in America,

These points in the Course of my Correspondence with his Majestys Ministers have been more than once enlarged on and I see with satisfaction that your Lordship & the Board of Trade are persuaded of their Geni. truth, and therefore I might have avoided giving your Lordship the Trouble of perusing so long a detail, did It not contain some Circumstances which will point out the difficulties I must expect to encounter, in reconciling the whole of the Measures according to the reform to the minds of the Ind*. & produce some thoughts from the Consideration of which I flatter myself that your Lordship will think it necessary to the public Quiet, that the Colonies have ample directions for the good Management of Affairs of Commerce as there is reason to apprehend they will not incline to be at much trouble or expense about them. These thoughts are with all becoming deference Humbly submitted to your Lordship. I am to assure your Lordship that I shall Lose no time in com'pleating & fulfilling his Majestys orders touching the carrying the Reform into Execution omitting no pains necessary for explaining & reconciling it to the Indians relying on his Majestys support for the more effectual discharge of the rest of the Dutys remaining under my Super Intendancy which I shall always