Not having had a convenient opportunity to talk with Lord Hyde until this morning, on the subject I mentioned when I had, my worthy friend, the pleasure to see you last, I now give you the earliest information of his Lordships Sentiments upon my proposition.

He declares he has no personal Objections And that he is always desirous of the conversation of Men of Knowledge. Consequently in that respect, would have a pleasure in yours. But he apprehends, that on the present American contest, your principles and his, or rather those of Parliament, are as yet so wide from each other, that a meeting meerly to discuss them, might give you unnecessary trouble. Should you think otherwise; Or should any propitious circumstances approximate such distant sentiments, he would be happy to be used as a channel to convey what might tend to harmony, from a Person of credit, to those is power.

And I will venture to advance from my knowledge of his Lordships opinion of Men and things, that nothing of that nature would suffer in the passage. I am with a sincere regard Your most Obedient servant