They will also be able to acquaint you with the favourable Reception, Mess's Whittaker & Occum, & the Design they Recommend, meet with at Home ; and the Prospect I have of any Favour I can reasonably desire from the Board of Trade, if only the Place for the School was once determined. and as J would act in every step agreable to your mind, for I apprehend you are ahle above any man in this Land to serve the grand Design in view. What seems to be wanting at Home, at present, is only to know the place to fix it. And I purpose to mention several, with such Recommendations, Incouragements &c as shall be respectively given them, and leave it with Gentlemen at Home to determine which of the number it shall be.

You will please to weigh the Arguments offerd by MC, J. Smith to carry it into the Southern Governments, a rough Draft . of which I have sent by my son.

William (Major as we call him for distinction sake) is a very good Genius, and capable of making a very likely man; but his Pride and the Violence of his Temper have sometimes rendered him troublesome ; and obliged me to use severity with him, of which my son can inform you perhapsa Line or Message from You might be of Special service to him. I ordered him. to write a few lines (which I inclose) as a Specimen He complained, and you will see, not without Reason, that his Ink was bad. Iam heartily sorry to add to the great weight of Care, &