loss can be no great, on the contrary, if its safely landed, as the price will be high, the Profitts will be large and in a short time they'll run away with the Trade. Thus I think it evidently appears that in case the present Duty is continued, the Crown can expect no revenue; whereas if the Parliament shoud think fitt to lower the Duty to an half penny or a penny per gallon, there woud be no temptation to run it and the Duty woud be chearfully and universally paid and thereby a considerable revenue accrue.

I fear I shall quite tire you out with writing upon this subject. I have wrote you already by this conveyance, but the ship being detain'd by contrary winds and the few observations foregoing occurring to my mind I thought it woud not be amiss to write again and I hope any light I may be able from time to time to afford relative to this matter will be agreable. I have wrote only as a private person and with entire freedom and presume no use will be made of what I have wrote to my disadvantage; I am with respect Your most humble Servant,

GEORGE R. Whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the First Year of our Reign for enabling us to raise the Sum of One Million for the Uses and Purposes therein mentioned and for further appropriating the Supplies granted in that Session of Parliament It was enacted that out of all or any the Aids or Supplies therein mentioned there should and might be issued and applied any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding Two hundred thousand Pounds upon Account to enable us to give a proper Compensation to the respective Provinces in North Amer

1 Mass. Arch., VI. 275.

ica for the Expences incurred by them in the levying, cloathing and Pay of the Troops raised by the same, according as the active Vigour and strenuous Efforts of the respective Provinces should be thought by us to merit. And whereas we did by Warrants under our Royal Sign Manual, bearing date the 16th day of July, 1762, declare our Resolution that the said full Sum of Two hundred thousand Pounds should be applied for the giving such Compensation to the said Provinces, and did direct the Sum of One hundred and ninety thousand Pounds to be paid in respect thereof, and the remaining Sum of Ten thousand Pounds was reserved to answer a Claim which had been made on the Behalf of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay for a Sum of Money alledged to have been expended by the said Colony at the requisition of General Amherst, Commander in Chief of our Forces in North America, in raising and paying Troops for Garrison at Louisburg and Nova Scotia in the Winter preceeding the Campaign of 1760. And we being given to understand by the Commissioners of our Treasury that upon Examination of the said Claim it appears that the Sum of Three thousand Pounds is due to the said Province for the said Service; therefore to satisfy the said Demand and to make a Distribution of the Residue of the said Sum of Ten thousand Pounds for the use of the said Provinces, according to the Proportion observed in the payment of the said Sum of one hundred and ninety thousand Pounds, our Will and Pleasure is, and we do hereby direct, authorize and command that you do apply the Sum of Ten thousand Pounds which hath been imprested to you for this Service in paying the following Sums of money unto such Person or Persons who is, or are, or shall be duly authorized and impowered to receive the same for and on the behalf of the

respective Provinces herein after mentioned, that is to say, the Sum of Three thousand Pounds for the use of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in full satisfaction of the said Claim; and the further sum of Two thousand one hundred and ninety Pounds Twelve Shillings and six Pence for the Use also of the said Province; the Sum of three hundred and Fifty one Pounds Five Shillings and six Pence for the use of the Province of New Hampshire. The Sum of Four hundred and Twenty Pounds three Shillings for the Use of the Province of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The Sum of one thousand four hundred and ninety-nine Pounds two Shillings for the Use of the Province or Colony of Connecticut in New England. The Sum of One Thousand and Eighty-nine Pounds three Shillings for the Use of the Province of New York. The Sum of Four hundred and twelve Pounds twelve Shillings and six Pence for the Use of the Province of New Jersey or Nova Cesaria. The Sum of Five hundred and ninety-five Pounds, Fifteen Shillings and Six Pence for the Use of the Province of Pensilvania with the other Government of the Counties of New castle, Kent and Sussex or Delaware. And the Sum of Four hundred and Fifty One Pounds Six Shillings for the Use of the Province of Virginia. All which said Sums are to be paid without deduction and without Account. And this shall be as well to you for making such Payment as to ou Auditors and all others concerned in passing your Accounts for allowing the same there upon a sufficient Warrant. Given at our Court of St. James's this 14th day of December, 1763, in the fourth Year of our Reign.

By His Majesty's command. George Grenville
JOHN TURNER
THOS. ORBY HUNTER

To our Right Trusty and well beloved councillor, Henry, Lord Holland, Paymaster General of our Guards, Garrisons and Land Forces.

ORDER OF THE GENERAL COURT

In the House of Representatives, Febr'y 3, 1764.

Ordered, That the Secretary be directed to write to Mr. Agent Mauduit to send an Account of the whole Charge of his Agency at the Court of Great Britain.

Sent up for Concurrence

TIMO. RUGGLES, Spk.

JNO. COTTON, D. Sec.

In Council, Febr'y 3, 1764. Read and Concurred.

Consented to,

FRA. BERNARD

Copy examined. A. OLIVER, Sec.1

1 As a matter of administration such an order would be proper, the originals having been destroyed by fire; but there may have been another reason for adopting it -a decline of confidence in Mauduit. About this time Hollis and Mauduit must have had a difference, for the former wrote to Mayhew, December 6, 1763: "It is my request, that in the future you do not put me into any sort of connection whatsoever, with Mr. Agent Mauduit, or with his Brother once the Reverend Mr. Israel Mauduit." Perhaps the next paragraph of the letter may have some connection with the charge thus laid on Mayhew: "Little can I serve your Cause, the Cause of Liberty in New England; but what I can I will serve it, tho' by ways, at times, unknown to any one." The demands made upon his time and generosity by his American correspondents had more than once led him to request their forbearance, and to assure them that his time was fully occupied by his own concerns. But such an explanation must be rejected in view of Mayhew's reply: "I shall not forget your injunctions as to putting you into any kind of connection with two gentlemen mentioned by you. I am, at least externally, on good terms with them hitherto; but I well know that this world was never free from Janus's and Temporizers, both in religion and politics." Almost immediately Dr. Mayhew did send to Israel Mauduit by the hand of Hollis one of his controversial writings, asking him to overlook this violation of his injunction, and so called out a repetition of the command, “I again request you not to put me into any connection whatsoever with Mr. Israel Mauduit." And he had a fling at him later: "It was, perhaps, the well-timeing of the publication of the last Tract [just before the opening of Parliament], though Tradesman Mauduit wished to have had it published, but abridged, the beginning of the Summer, that drew the Public Eye upon it, shamed Leviathan [Secker], and forced what he called 'An Answer.”

THOMAS HUTCHINSON TO WILLIAM BOLLAN1

BOSTON, 6 February, 1764

The General Court removed to Cambridge, the smallpox being rife in several families in Boston. About 10 days ago some of the members of the House who were dissatisfied with the state of the province affairs in England, moved to chuse an agent to go from hence. Great opposition was made, but it obtained 46 against 40, and the Council concurred. When they came to a choice I had all the votes except 8 of both Houses. I was extremely perplexed and after some days' deliberation I gave my answer that I doubted whether the extraordinary expense of my going from hence would not more than equal any service I could do them, and besides that it was not practicable for me to go under 3 or 4 months. I left it therefore for them either wholly to excuse me for the reasons mentioned, or to admit of my engaging as soon as the obstructions could be removed. The House voted to excuse me for the reasons mentioned in my answer.2. The Board non-concurred, and the affair being in this situation, the Court was prorogued, the other business being finished, and I suppose will not sit again until May. The Governor advised me not to accept without writing to Lord Halifax and this advice fell in with my inclination. Otherwise I could

1 Mass. Arch., xxvi. 76.

2 In another letter, possibly to Jackson, dated February 7, Hutchinson stated that of the eight votes against his selection, three were cast by the members from Boston, being all of that delegation present at the time. When the question of confirming the choice or of excusing him from going to England was presented, many of the distant members had gone home, and Oxenbridge Thacher, a Boston member, who had been absent from the first election, was present, making the party against the agency the stronger. Hutchinson was excused by a vote of 33 to 30, but the Board by a division of its members nonconcurred. In other letters Hutchinson said he was excused by a majority of two votes.

• Not immediately, for he wrote to Jackson: "I must own I never imagined until