The unreasonableness of obliging a very large Tract of Country to pay a Second Time the immense sum of thirty three thousand pounds in Fees according to the allegations of this Petition for no other reason than its being found necessary to settle the Line of Boundary between the Colonies in question is So unjustifiable thdt his Majesty is not only determined to have the strictest Enquiry made into the Circumstances of the Charge, but expects the clearest and fullest answer to every part of it.

I am &e. Sir Henry Moore Bart SHELBURNE.

GOVERNOR MOORE TO LORD SHELBURNE.

[ Lond. Doc. xl. } Fort George New York 9th June 1767. My Lord,

It is impossible for me to express the concern and astonishment I was under on receiving your Lordship's letter of the 11th of April inclosing the copies of two Petitions, one from the Society for propagating the Gospel, and the other from Samuel Robinson and his associates. Although some people have often made free with the characters of his Majesty's*Governors in

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America in common conversation, and have frequently misrepresented 'their actions, yet I always thought that so much decency would constantly be preserved in an address to the Crown, that it should contain no assertions of Facts but what were incontestable ; I beg leave to assure your Lordship that this is very far from being the case at present, and that it gave me the highest satisfaction to find that His Majesty was determined not only to have the strictest enquiry made into the circumstances of the charges in the Petition, but that he expected the clearest and fullest answers to every part of it. As Iam persuaded that when the truth is laid open it will fully appear that I have neither perverted the Power lodged in my hands, nor acted in any manner derogatory to my station, and that so far from deserving the least imputation of oppression, I have made disinterestedness the characteristic of my administration as I thought it Incumbent on me to support in every shape the dignity of the commission with which His Majesty had been pleased to honor me.