The merits of 28 have been already-examined before the Council and am assured are not concerned in this Petition, four of which have passed the Great Seal, three more are ready but were stopped on this occasion and the rest are surveying and laying out as fast as the Surveyor Gen! can find proper men to execute his orders so that it should seem as if the only persons who had. not complyed with their engagements with the Crown should think they were most aggrieved, and expect to obtain particular marks of Hig Majestys Favor by Fraud and Imposition ; neither Robinson nor his Associates who under a pretended Hampshire right settled upon some of the old Patents in this Province have ever thought proper to make use of that indulgence which this government had shew to them by confirming their settlements' to them, as is already mentioned in this Letter, or have ever applyed to their Grants on the contrary they have madea merit of their Stubborn-- ness, in order to disquiet the minds of their Neighbours, and stir upa seditious spirit among them trom whence they are in expectation of reaping some Benefit.

The Complaint in the 10 Paragraph of the distance from the Capital has been already Answered by what has been related of the new County of Cumberland, which was erected on purpose to serve that part of the Country, but even in such a trifling circumstance as this they have not confined themselves to Truth, for it will appear on inspecting the Map, that they have exaggerated the distance at least one quarter.