Tho' in truth they can boast of no superiority if the members of the Church, The Foreign Protestants, Quakers &c. are taken together as they may be for these havs no design agt us, Do not in fact Joyn them in opinion or , entertain any apprehensions so Injurious to the Chh of England, so that as I formerly observed this artfull false representation should be enlarged on at home, and Eradicated for untill that is done I do not see much prospect of encouragement, and I believe the great are so much afraid of the imputation of being priest ridden, that they dare not give the,Church that Countenance, or the injoyment of all its rights and Ceremonies, which is so highly necessary & reasdnable in a Land of Liberty accords to the Dissenters own arguments, if the members of our Church are allowed to have any Conscience at all.

I have already wrote to Lord Hillsborough (to whom my Correspondence is now Confined) & have fully stated my opinion on the Relig' wants and desires of the Inds and I believe it would be deemed out of my way to urge it farther by sending him a plan before he answers that part of my Letter tho' rather than it shod fail thro' any neglect of mine I would do it.

I cannot think that the plan can be in better hands, or prepared so well by any other than a Gentleman of your abilities and zeal, and therefore I hope you'll frame it yourself :--as to the motives to be enlarged on that should Induce Govt to Countenance it, I think (amst others) That it will have a happy Effect in removs many Circumstances of Jealousy & displays his Majestys tender regard for their future happiness, and this I assure you even those Inds are capable of seeing who have never been Christianized :--In the next place It will make them Members of a Church which teaches an obedience to Supreme Authority & a reverence for Government. which are principles much Wanting among them, and as it will finally prove the means of their becoming members of Civil Society, so their being of the National Church will strengthen the Tye & add Weight to that Religion which In Justice & policy ought here to be promoted.' Besides which It would, soon prove a means of alienating them