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.

THE SAME TO THE SAME, [Lond. Doe. x1]

Fort George, New. York, 10 June 1767.

My Lord

After so long a letter as I have already addressed to your Lordship in answer to Robinsons Petition, it is a matter of concern to me that the Petition which accompanied it from the Society for propagating the Gospel puts me under the necessity of saying anything more on the same Subject. That a man of so notorious a Character as Robinson should deviate from Truth in any representation of Facts, is no kind of Surprize to those who know him here, but that so respectable a Society as that for propagating the Gospel should present a Petition supposed to be grounded on Facts which are not true in themselves has astonished every one here who has been informed of it. By some similar expressions to those in the Petition of Robinson, I apprehend they both came from the same quarter, and that the Society has been first imposed upon and afterwards engaged to present a Petition of the same kind with that relative to the New Hampshire Grants with no other intent than to be a more effectual means to impose on his Maty's Ministers.