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.

I have now gone through all the articles in the Petition except the last, which is so extraordinary in itself that I presume nothin g is expected in answer To it. From the whole tenor of the Petition and the number of Falsehoods it contains, it appears to have been the offspring of a very bad Heart and I think there is the greatest reason to apprehend that the head must likewise have been impaired. How else should a Man of one of the lowest and meanest Occupations at once set up for a Statesman

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and from a Notion that the wheels of Government are easily managed and conducted as those of a Waggon, take upon him to direct the King's Ministers in their Departments. As for my Part I have been taught to treat with so much. respect, those whom His Majesty is pleased to honor with his Confidence, that Tam persuaded they will do that which is best for his Service and the good of his People, without standing in need of such able Councellors as either M*. Robinson or myself. I have: the honor to be with the greatest respect My Lord Your Lordship's most Obedient and Rt Honble humble Servant Earl of Shelburne, H. : Moore.