The Conduct also of Mr Livingstone towards the People settled tliere (according to the repeated advices & Complaints we have from them) in his threatning them to drive them by Force from their Possessions, to destroy their buildings, k in offering large Sums of Money to have them imprisoned, & in sending Parties of Riotous & disorderly Persons from " time to endeavour to apprehend them, is such as we should not have at any time expected from a Gentl" of his Character and Quahty, much less should we have imagined he would have taken such Measures at a time when he was very sure, that the Execution of tlie Measures consulted and determined by this Province respecting tills matter was suspended on a Prospect that a publick Deterniinatiou of tiiis Dispute & a Settlement of the Boundary Line between the two Provinces would probably soon be made, & when tlie People there had special Reason from his express Declaration, as well as from the Nature of the thing to expect he would suspend all further Prosecutions against them,untillsuc]i attempt of a pubUck accomodation should have been made.

These Proceedings both of the Sheriff & of Mr Livingstone (the' not equally extraordinary) yet are sucli as we could not have expected, and such as cannot be justified, and such as may justly excite an Uneasiness with those Gentlemen, as well as our Concern & Compassion for the sulfering Persons, & we doubt not your Excy will be of the same opinion respecting these matters.