If on the contrary there should notwithstanding the assurances given to General Gage, be any settled plan of seduction of the Indians adopted and attempted by France or Spain, every possible diligence and vigilance should be exerted to trace it to its source, and to verify the information by such facts and evidence as may justify the strongest representation and complaint.

As to the other matters contained in your Letter, and in particular what relates to the allowances for your department, and the continuation of the boundary Line so as to include New York, I have already, in my Letter No. 6, been very explicit thereupon, and I have now nothing further to add.

Inclosed I sendyouby the Kings command, HisMajestys Speech to His Parliament at the opening of the Session on the 8*^^ instant, together with the addresses to the King from both Houses, one of which Addresses passed nemine contradicente, and the other without a division.

I have the pleasure to acquaint you that the Queen was happily

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brought to bed of a Princess on Tuesday last, and that both her Majesty and the young Princess are as well as can be desired. I most heartily congratulate you upon this increase of the royal Family; an event that affords the greatest satisfaction to all his Majesty s Subjects.

I am Sir

Your Most Obedient Humble Ser\^nt Sir William Johnson Hillsborough.

SIR WK JOHNSON TO LORD HILLSBOROUGH.

Johnson Hall November 18th 1768.

My Lord,

I had the honor to write your Lordship (No 4) from Fort Stanwix Just before the opening the Treaty, wherein I represented the many difficulties in the way to the settlement of the Line, which however I have at length Surmounted and Settled in a manner which will I hope be agreeable to his Majesty for the particulars of which I beg Leave to referr your Lordship to a Copy of my Transactions which I have now the honor to inclose together with a Deed of Cession to his Majesty for the Lands Yielded up to the Crown.