The above is a Copy of my last. On my Return from a little Tour I made thro’ Flanders and Holland, I found a Duplicate of the Papers you sent me, and among them the Address which had before been omitted. Inclos’d is my Letter to the Gentlemen who did me the Honour of recommending that Matter to my Care; by which you will see its present Situation. As your House may probably at their meeting this Winter, think proper to address his Majesty on his happy Nuptials, the Congratulation on his Accession may be blended with it; and the other Matter couch’d in a Memorial or Petition by it self, agreable [to] Mr. Wood’s Advice, which if done, I am persuaded will be attended with good Effects; for at present the Proprietor and Governors Friends have possess’d the Ministry with an Opinion that the Failure of Supplies in your Province was totally owing to the Obstinacy of the Assembly, and their Disinclination to his Majesty’s Service.

I thank you for the Pains you have taken in applying to Mr. Green concerning my old Account. I think he uses me extreamly ill, and makes me very bad Returns for so long Forbearance and Kindness: I shall find myself obliged to sue him at last.

The Retaining of Canada is now become so popular a Point here, that I imagine nothing but some fatal Change in our [Affa]irs can make any Ministry think themselves [justi]fiable or safe in giving it up. I flatter m[yself] that the Pamphlet you are pleas’d to spe[ak of fa]vourably may have had some Share in [producing] this Effect which [remainder missing].