Inclosed you have your own Account, as also the whole Expence of the Common Prayers, binding, Paper, &c. which I hope you'll think reasonable. Had it been English, the Printing Work could not have been done cheaper. I have not charged you with the News-Paper, as I am at a loss to know when you began, but I imagine 'tis not less than 10 years This, Perhaps you ean remember yourself, as the same is quite unknown to

Sir Your humble Servant

New-York ( H. Gaine. August 31, 1769.

Vou. Iv. 27

418 PAPERS RELATING TO

JAMES ADAIR ESQ. TO SIR W™* JOHNSON.

Honb!e Sire As yt kindly temper and public spirit invited me to write to you, (exactly after ye manner Sir Henry Moore did, with regard to myself) in what manner you could be of any service to me, at London, I make free to inform you, that, next April, I set off from this metropolis of Georgia-Colony, to London, in order to get my Indian Productions published, there, under y* auspicious patronage ; And, as you firmly believ'd, according to my creed, that general Licences are utterly destructive to ye Indian trade, and our barrier settlements and Colonies, by allowing such prodgious nubers of worthless trading Pedlars, as can give security for conforming to ye rules of trade, both to overstock it, corrupt ye Indians by trusting them twice more than they can pay : then perpexing them for ye effect of their own indiscretion, and betraying ye Secrets of Government, & & I'm hopeful, yowll recommend, in concert with Govern? Wright & Lieut Govern' Bull, to ye Lords of trade, if it lyes in their sphere of action, a total abrogation of that most pernicious custom of granting Licences ; Without which, 'tis ye universal opinion of all us, who have gain'd sufficient skill in Indian affairs, that, when the Creeks have made peace with ye Chocktah nation, they'll fall on our valuable weak Colony of Georgia, as they despise us like tame helpless dung-hill fowls, and, in their usual set speeches, and bacchanal days, term us so, by having been passively allowed, for these nine years past, to shed under y® ereatest security, a torrent of y° innocent crying blood of valuable british Subjects, to ye shame and discredit of every tie of social union.