The parties concerned, who, in the present Infant State.of this controversy, may now listen to the Royal Voice and overtures, will in a very short time, look only to the Law, for a settlement of their disputes, and when strengthened by numbers, impoverished by Law suits and animated by a concourse of Banditti, whose interest it is to flock to such troubled quarters, the Law itself will loose the authority, and the whole Country become a scene of the wildest confusion, equally destructive to the felicity of the subject, and the interest of the Crown.

But tho' I conceive the restoration of the common tranquility, practicable with some liberality to the N. Hampshire Grantees, yet nothing but a sense of duty prompts me to urge it, forseeing as I do, that in the execution of the trust, much must be left to His Majty's servants in this Prove®, and that the jealousies of avarice and ignorance of the Petitioning Claimants will render the service neither desirable nor easy.

Before I conclude, and for your Lordp's more ready comprehension of my idea of the State of the Country in dispute, the condition and situation of the Claimants, and-what general principles will best suit the exigency of those affairs, I shall with the utmost deference offer several propositions for your Lordp's attention, to which I confess myself a Convert.

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That some more easterly line be substituted instead of the Curve line proposed ; be it a continuation of the line agreed upon at Hartford, or the western boundary lines of the Counties of Cumberland and Gloucester, dividing them from Albany and Charlotte as established by an Act of our last Session either of which will reduce the object of the Report from that degree of liberality to New Hampshire, so alarming to the Proprietors under New York.