If there is no hope of a decision from the Legislative authority, the only prospect of a speedy restoration of the common tranquility, must depend upon Govern'® prevailing with one or -- other of the contending parties, to make voluntary cession of their claims. For reasons to be mentioned in the sequel, I am

not to expect that the N. York grantees will come into such a measure; but I do not despair that this event may be effected on the other side, if the present opportunity is speedily embraced. I believe, My Lord, that the claimants under New Hampshire may be induced to throw up their Charters wpon terms.

The discontented inhabitants of Bennington have declared their readiness to submit to the Royal opinion in this controversy upon an apprehension, that it must one day come before His Maj'y in a Court of Error. The point they hold is, that the order of 1764 settled the Jurisdiction only from that time, and that a prior grant under N. Hampshire is valid. |

As these are the most tenacious asserters of that Doctrine and Claim, I cannot help wishing for some new declaration of his Majty's miad upon this subject, for if their title should be deemed void, and an immediate submission take place in this quarter it will doubtless prevail throughout the whole extent of the controverted Territory. And even upon the supposition that this desirable end should require compensations from equitable con- 'siderations, towards the N. Hampshire claimants yet if proper distinctions are attended to, it may be effected without any Tragical consequences to the settlers as persons at a distance and unacquainted with their real state and condition may imagine.