Tho’ I am an entire Stranger to You, Yet I am not so to General Washington nor to General Gates nor to Mr. Sam: Adams Nor to Qr. Ma. Ga. Mifflin that was but who is now President of the Congress; And to whom I have wrote on the same Subject I have now to you.

Those I have mention’d I am sure have not the least Doubt of my sincere good Wishes for the Prosperity of the British Colonies beyond the Atlantic—And the King has been appriz’d thereof; And yet after knowing that, permitted Me to be presented to the Prince of Wales, and directed that I should be treated with all Manner of Civilities at the Queen’s Palace.

I have ever allmost since my Infancy been an Aposter [Asserter?] of Colonies Rights to all the Priviliges of the Mother State; Such as Freedom of Trade, Freedom from Taxation and Freedom of Debate; that is: that no Govr. should have a Power to stop the Proceedings of Assemblys by Prorogations or Dissolutions.

With all this I am not very much a Republican; and therefore undertook to refute Mr. Payne’s Work of Common Sense, Which I look upon to be quite inconsistent with any Government this Day upon Earth, except perhaps the Grisons—Let any one read the 17th. of Dantes: 14 and following Verses, and then say Whether God does not approve of hereditary Monarchy.

I therefore utterly dislike the present Constitution of the 13 Colonies: It is formd on the Plan of Holland; which is the most confus’d, and of Course the very worst in Europe. And theyr present Contests with Respect to the Stadholdership proves it so; and which will probably end in the Dissolution of theyr Republic; Which was so many Years agoe foretold, that ’tis a Wonder They have still subsisted.

That Rhode Island the Delawares Georgia should have votes equal to Carolina Virginia Pensylvania! what Absurdity! And that New York should centre its’ Government at that City at the very Extremity of the State, and above 300 Miles from the other End; and refuse the Green Mountains to become a distinct State; and to begin now an open War with Them, When the whole might be adjusted by removing the Metropolis to near Albany.

My Plan was a very different one, It was to unite all America in one State; To subdivide Them equaly into Provinces: In which all East of Hudson’s River to be one as far as Nova Scotia—All from Hudson’s River to Potowmack to be a second—all South of Potomack a third—Georgia with East Florida a fourth and N Scotia a fifth—All Canada to make five more; and the rest to the Mississippi divided into three—All to be represented in Congress in respect to theyr several Populousness—And thro out to have but one Code of Laws One Rate of Coyns Weights and Measures, And then all Jealousys about Jurisdiction except with Regard to some few ambitions would cease.

I communicated this to Numbers of all Stations Govr. Dep. Govr. Councils Merchants Tradesmen Labourers Clergymen especially—They all likd it, all wishd it,   however dispaird of it.

I carryd my Plea further Namely that British America (the West Indies included) and whatever Acquisitions might be purchas’d by the Cession of Gibralter should be united in one State if a Republic; then that the present Stadholder of Holland should be at the Head thereof—The Stadholdership to be annexd to the Crown of England as in K: Williams Time as a Recompance to Britain; and much of Hanover given in Exchange for Flanders to be united to Holland: The House of Wolfenbuttel however to be satisfy’d.

If the Colonies were erected into a Kingdom or Empire the K: of Danemark to be K or Empr. and to give Danemark and Norweigh to England in Return.

Those may be thought idle Projects; but I affirm the Exchanges made between France and Spain about Hispaniola originated from Me and my Conversation with the French Secretary—And the Exchanges in the House of Holstein     I gave the first Hint toward.

As Things are now I would have the sixth secular Electorate by the Extinction of the House of Bavaria given to France, to unite that state to the Empire—The Stadholder to have all British America—England to have Holland and Flanders with that Scrap of Picardyn running excentricaly up between Flanders and the Channel—Jersey and Guernsey with the Title of K: of France given up—The Arch Treasureship given to France and England to have the Arch Admiralship of the Empire—France to relinquish all its Possessions in America, and to keep no Fleet of Force. It would be too dangerous to Europe that the most powerful State by Land should be likewise by Sea; besides the Necessity of preventing Disputes between the Imperial   and that of the Arch Admiral—But I would not have France loose any Territory in Europe without an Equivalent: If They resign Alsace and a little of Lorrain She may have Luxemburg Limburg and Juliess with Part of Lieza and Na   in Lieu thereof—There can be no Warr when Flanders and Luxemburgh &c are both Members of the same Empire—I shall pursue this Scheme and by the Time this comes to your Hands the same shall be laid before the King; and if possible before the Stadholder.

Tho I am in this remote Place by mere Accident, Yet I shall continue here till towards November—In which Time I shall be glad to hear any Steps are taking towards the Execution of this Plan—In which I mean not to appear—I choose to keep Silence and the most perfect Privacy—only by my Prayers supplicating Almighty God to bless my Wishes for the Peace of the World which and not satisfying Ambition is all I aim at. I am Sir your Excellency’s most humble Servant