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 30 LETTERS OF John A.NDBEW8.

adopted to thai end, and ;t Bincere wish thai they may have the deair'd effecl I sign mj self your'- &c.

August 17///. Mr. Glover, who left town this morning, was kind enough to take charge of a letter to you of the 6th and L6th instant, which he inform'd me he should be able to deliver you in uine days.

Yesterday a Committee from the Cadet Company waited upon his Excellency al Salem, consisting of Gabriel Johonnot, Foster*

and Samuel Pitts, attended by the Company's servant bearing the Standard. He received them and their address with politeness, but was somewhal nettled al the contents, as his answer evidently shews, being very laconic, and expressive of chagrin and disappoint- ment. He accepted their colour, and told them Mr. Hancock had used him ill by personally affronting him (though Col. Hancock dont recollect that ever he did, and is sure he never meant to do it. nor can he conceive the reason why he should charge him with it. other than that his ill state of health would not admit of his personally paying his compliments to him when he came to the chair) and that he would not receive an affronl from any man in the province, and had he previously known their intentions, should have disbanded them himself.

August ISth. I herewith inclose you an additional list of Councel- lors who have taken an Oath, virtually, to enforce all arbitrary Acts of Parliament upon us, and it wont be for want of their endeavors it' they dont make slaves of the whole Continent. The inhabitants of the country towns (where many of them belong) are prodigiously vex'd and its my opinion (if we may judge from the tenor of all their conduct) that they wont suffer any one to live among 'em.

August X'Mh. Am told this morning that Col. -Murray's son of Rutland has sent express down to his father to beg him by no means to return home, as his life would he in imminent danger if he should: am excessive glad your uncle has declin'd.

August 20th. When I seriously refleel on the unhappy situation we are in, I cant hut he uneasy least x' trade of the town should never he reinstated again: hut on the other hand, when I consider that our future welfare depends altogether upon a Steady and linn adherence to the common cause. 1 console myself with the thoughts that if, after using every effort in our power, we are finally oblig'd to submit, we shall Leave this testimony behind us, that, not being able to stem the stream, we were of necessity borne down by the torrent. You can

1 lie < Ihristian name prefixed in the manuscript to Foster is illegible to me.

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