George III: August 1771 | British History Online

Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III): 1770-2. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1881.

'George III: August 1771', in Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III): 1770-2, (London, 1881) pp. 282-292. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/home-office-geo3/1770-2/pp282-292 [accessed 19 April 2024]

August 1771



1 Aug. Criml. Papers, v. 14, 1770–75, p. 80.	783. Earl of Suffolk to Mr. Recorder.
	In regard to the petition of Frances Allen, asks whether he, the Recorder, is of opinion that said Allen is an object of His Majesty's mercy, or whether he only transmitted the petition, having omitted to put it into his Lordship's hand when making his report to the King yesterday.
	" Answer, that he only transmitted it, as he had by mistake " omitted to deliver it when he made his report."—Margin.
1 Aug. Dom.Entry Bk., v. 25, p.301.	784. Earl of Rochford to the Lord Bishop of Exeter.
	The licences obtained by so many of the Poor Knights of Windsor for dispensing with their residence there, having occasioned several inconveniences, and prevented the proper observance of the regulations of the Order, are to be recalled, and directions given to each of the Poor Knights who have obtained dispensations to state their particular circumstances, &c., for report to be made to His Majesty.—St. James's.
1 Aug. Irel. Entry Bk., 1770–75, p. 56.	785. The Same to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
	His Excellency is permitted by His Majesty to grant leave to Lieut.-Col. Richard Rochford Mervyn, of the 39th Regiment, now stationed at Gibraltar, to remain in Ireland till after the next Session of Parliament, but it is expected that he should immediately afterwards join his regiment at Gibraltar.—St. James's.
2 Aug. Ireland, v. 440, No. 8 a, b, c.	786. The Same to the Same.
	In accordance with the letter of the Lords of the Admiralty (copy enclosed) relative to recruiting in Ireland for the Marine forces, his Excellency is to give orders, upon application of the authorised recruiting officers, to beat up only in the provinces of Leinster, Connaught, and Munster, for the reasons mentioned in the letter to his Excellency of the 11th Jan. last. (See No. 472.)—St. James's. A draft.
	The letter from the Lords of the Admiralty, a copy of which was enclosed in the above, and also a copy of a letter from the same to the Lord Lieutenant, dated 11 July, giving the names of the marine officers to be employed in this service, &c. 4 pp.
5 Aug. Dom. Geo. III.,pcl. 84, No. 20 a, b, c, and No. 21.	787. Earl of Holdernesse to the Earl of Rochford.
	Encloses a copy of a letter received from the Mayor of Dover as Speaker of the Brotherhood and Guestling or General Assembly of the Cinque Ports. Asks him to apprise His Majesty of its contents. Will attend the levée on Wednesday, and be ready to give any explanation necessary.—Sion Hill. "Private."
	The enclosure, dated at Dover, 29 July 1771, and signed "Thos. Bateman Lane." It contains an account of the proceedings of the Assembly, which lasted two days, and was held at Romney on the Tuesday and Wednesday before. It was resolved to present a petition to His Majesty on the subject of the intrusion of the French fishermen, on complaint made by the fishermen of Hastings, Rye, and Folkestone. Great complaints also came before the Brotherhood respecting the destruction of fish under size, as also of the spawn and fry of fish. Proceedings were taken for the better promulgation of the laws on this subject. The members that composed the court were the mayor, two jurats, and two commoners from each port, ancient town, and member corporate. The members from Dover were Mr. Bateman, Messrs. Hammond and Farbrace, jurats, and Messrs. Stringer and Robert Broadley, commoners.
	Annexed is a copy of the petition above referred to, and next following these papers is the original of the same. 7 pp. and 1 skin of parchment.
5 Aug. Let. Bk.; Sec.'s, 1771–75, p. 5.	788. Anthy. Todd, Secretary, to J. P[ownall].
	Packet boats for New York and Carolina respectively ready to sail with the mails to be made up on Wednesday next, but no boat on this side for Jamaica and the Leeward Islands.—Genl. Post Office.
5 Aug. Scotland, v. 47, No. 23 a, b.	789. M. Cardonnel to the Earl of Suffolk.
	Stating that, in accordance with a recommendation of the Commissioners for managing the Annexed Estates in Scotland, he had transmitted their report to Mr. Rowe, their agent, to be delivered to his Lordship, and asking him to lay it before His Majesty.—Annexed Estates Office, Edinburgh.
	The report referred to, with schedules annexed. The Commissioners had during the year laid out various sums of money in enclosing and planting suitable portions of the Annexed Estates, forming a nursery garden near Callander in the annexed estate of Perth, surveying and valuing farms, building bridges, paying schoolmasters, promoting the linen and woollen manufactures, educating such of the sons of the tenants "as should discover " the greatest genius for farming and other useful arts," giving aids for encouragement of artificers settled in villages of Crieff and Callander, and for the erection of saltworks in the county of Sutherland, making an annual allowance to a young man educated by the Royal Professor of Botany in Edinburgh, and employed by him in searching for useful medical plants and simples in the Highlands; also in making mineral surveys and trials in various places on the Annexed Estates, completing Dr. Walker's tour, &c. &c. The schedules contain particulars of the expenditure, amounting in the whole to 6,096l. 7s. 8d., leaving a balance of 355l. 4s. 1 8/12d. The names, &c. of the persons assisted in various ways are given. 18 pp.
6 Aug. Criml. Papers, v. 14, 1770–75, p. 80.	790. Earl of Suffolk to Mr. Recorder.
	Has this moment received the enclosed letters in behalf of Frances Allen, under sentence of death, and ordered for execution to-morrow morning. Asks whether, in case a respite is sent for this unhappy woman, he can report anything in her favour ?
	"Answer. Can report nothing in her favour." Margin.
6 Aug. Dom. Geo. III., pcl. 84, No. 22.	791. W. Kelynge to S. P[orten].
	Has taken the examination upon oath of the constables John Child and Joseph Seward, relative to the attack upon the [French] Ambassador's servants. They deny the statement of Little, the Ambassador's English servant, and say they did all in their power as peace officers to protect them from the fury of the mob, who were greatly irritated against them for the damages they had done.—" At your Office, Tuesday, 3 o'clock." 1 p.
7 Aug. Dom. Geo. III., v. 9, No. 75; and Let. Bk., See.'s, 1771–75, p. 4.	792. The Postmasters General (Le Despencer and H. F. Thynne) to the Earl of Hillsborough.
	Asking that orders may be given to the several Governors at Jamaica, Pensacola, and Charlestown to pay the commanders of the packet-boats between these places at the rate of two pounds a day for demurrage, when they find it necessary to detain them. They (the Postmasters General) are confined by the Treasury warrant to pay by the voyage only. The boats are able to per form four voyages every year, and are paid at the rate of 150l. a voyage; hence their detention by the Governors is a real hardship upon the commanders.—General Post Office. 2 pp.
8 Aug. Ireland, v.440, No. 14; and (but there dated 9 Aug.) Irel. Entry Bk., 1770–75, p. 57.	793. Earl of Rochford to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
	H.M.'s letters for removing the Earl of Westmeath and Mr. Poole from the Privy Council, and for appointing Viscount Loftus, the Earl of Granard, and Viscount Sudley thereon, will be laid to-day or to-morrow before His Majesty for his Royal signature. Hopes in a very short time to signify H.M.'s commands in regard to the several advances to peerages and the appointment of Lieut.-Col. Hull to be Lieut.-Governor of Cork.—St. James's. A draft. 1½ pp.
9 Aug. Irel. Entry Bk., 1770–75, p. 57.	794. The Same to the Same.
	Signifying the appointment by His Majesty of Lord Ligonier to succeed to the command of the 9th Regiment, now in Ireland.—St. James's.
10 June to 10 Aug. Dom. Geo. III., pcl. 84, No. 23 a, b.	795. Two papers; the first entitled "Minutes of Jaques's pro"ceedings," the second endorsed "Minn's Report." They are the reports of persons set to watch the daily movements, &c. of one Jaques and a certain Dr. Perreau, who were apparently under suspicion. Jaques was closely watched and followed to the coffee houses, especially the Salopian and Garraway's, and other places. He often took water for Deptford, and on one occasion one of the men who followed him went down by the same boat to Deptford, and discovered he had been brought up to the sea. He was supposed to have been at Portsmouth between 22 and 26 July. He seems to have had some communication with the French Ambassador. The second paper is concerned chiefly with a Mr. (not Dr.) Perreau's movements from 7 to 10 Aug. The result of the first day's observation is thus given: "Wednesday, August " 7th, one o'clock. I see a boy in black lean against the iron rails " of Pall Mall Court near half an hour, and then went up Pall " Mall. I did not see anything more particular this day." 8 pp., and 8 pp. of a smaller size.
10 Aug. Dom. Entry Bk., v. 25, p. 302.	796. Earl of Rochford to Sir Peter Denis.
	The King does not approve of his having credentials to the Barbary States, there being no particular necessity for it at present, and it would be putting Government to the expense of 2,000l. in presents. As for credentials to the republic of Genoa, neither Mr. Spry (fn. 1) nor Mr. Proby had them, and it is thought unnecessary to give them at present, as there is no particular negotiation carrying on that requires them.—St. James's.
10 Aug. Ireland, v. 440, No. 16.	797. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Townshend) to the Earl of Rochford.
	Acknowledging receipt of letter of 1st inst. relative to raising recruits for the marine forces, &c.—Dublin Castle. 1 p.
14 & 15 Aug. Dom. Geo. III., pcl. 84, No. 24 a, b, c.	798. Thomas Tillsley.
	a. Sir John Fielding to Mr. Porten. A matter has arisen in the course of an examination, which he thinks ought to be communicated to Lord Rochford, as it relates to the Royal Family. Would communicate it if informed when and where.—Bow Street, Wednesday, 6 o'clock.
	b. " Note brought to the office by Sir John Fielding's clerk, at " ten at night, 14 August 1771." It contains an account of a Thomas Tillsley, a labourer in trust under Mr. Robinson, of the Board of Trade, and engine keeper at the Queen's house, who had for several years cohabited with one Mrs. Brooks, and was through her connected with persons who had been convicted of several crimes. This connection Sir John Fielding considered a very dangerous one, as Tillsley, from his office, had free ingress and egress at the Queen's house. But it did not appear that he had been criminally concerned in any of the practices of Mrs. Brooks' relations.
	c. Sir John Fielding to Mr. Porten. Relative to the time when he could wait on him about Tillsley. Asks him to observe, from the paper his clerk left last night, that Tillsley is not charged on proof of any criminal proceedings with these people, and therefore might be removed from the station where he is to a more distant one without ruining him absolutely. His friend is Mr. Worsley, of the Board of Works.—Bow Street, August 15. 4 pp.
15 Aug. Admiralty, v. 163, No. 44.	799. Earl of Sandwich to the Earl of Rochford.
	His Majesty has accepted his recommendation of Admiral Sir Chas. Hardy to be Master or Governor of the Hospital at Greenwich, in the room of Admiral Holburne, deceased, and of ViceAdmiral Sir George Brydges to be Rear-Admiral of England, in the room also of the late Admiral Holburne. Asks him to lay before His Majesty the usual warrants.—Admiralty. 1½ pp.
15 Aug. Dom. Geo. III., v. 11, p. 33.	800. Thos. Hutchinson, Governor of [Massachusetts Bay], to J. P[ownall].
	Must not suffer Commodore Gambier to leave without a letter stating the assistance received from him in the administration of government. As he was ordered here for a purpose far from agreeable to the people, thinks it much to his honour that he has been able to acquire so general an esteem without conceding to any of their irregularities.—Boston. "R. 29th Oct."
15 Aug. Ireland, v. 440, No. 18 a, b.	801. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Townshend) to the Earl of Rochford.
	Transmits a memorial from the Earl of Drogheda, Master General of the Ordnance in Ireland, relative to the establishment of a provision for the widows of the officers of the Royal Irish Regiment of Artillery, the only corps in H.M.'s service unprovided with such a fund.—Dublin Castle.
	The memorial. Received the 20th, from Sir R. Wilmot. 3½ pp.
15 Aug. Irel. Entry Bk., 1770–75, p. 58.	802. Earl of Rochford to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
	Acquainting him of H.M.'s approbation of Dr. Crosbie to be Dean of Limerick. As it appears that a King's letter was signed on the 7th January last, and transmitted, appointing Dr. George Berkeley to that preferment, asks him to return that letter, in order to its being cancelled, before he acquaints him officially of Dr. Crosbic's appointment.—St. James's. Marked "Private."
16 Aug. Channel Islands, v. 15, No. 25. Channel Islands Entry Bk., 1761–98, p. 39.	803. [Lord Rochford] to Mr. Lempriere.
	In answer to letter of 20 June. which has been laid before the King. On reflection, he must be sensible of the impropriety of his demanding an examination of his conduct when no charge has been exhibited against him, and at the same time in effect calling upon His Majesty and the Privy Council to give an explanation of their reasons for prohibiting the exportation of corn from the Island. The reward promised for discovery of the rioters, having been only for such informations as Government should judge fit to be proceeded upon to convict the offenders, falls of course by the general pardon. Asks for particulars of Messrs. Hardy and Pipon's attendances and charges.—St. James's.
16 Aug. Channel Islands, v. 15, No. 26. Channel Islands Entry Bk., 1761–98, p. 40.	804. The Same to the Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey.
	In answer to his letter of 20^th of last month relative to the importation of rags. Finds it has been usual in applications for the taking off quarantine to have petitions of the merchants addressed to the King in Council. Asks him to transmit such a petition. A draft. 1 p.
19 Aug. Law Officers Entry Bk., 1762–95, p. 187.	805. French Ambassador's Servants.
	Report of the Attorney General Thurlow on the case of Salmon, the French Ambassador's domestic, who had been arrested in the Ambassador's antechamber by Thomas Vere, of Southampton Buildings, Holborn, a sheriff's officer. The Attorney General discovered that Vere had violated the privilege of the French Ambassador; but having been informed that the latter had been satisfied with the submissions made to him by Vere, forbore to prosecute.
20 Aug. Isle of Man, v. 1, 1761–74, No. 90.	806. John Wood, Governor of the Isle of Man, to Lord—.
	Refers to a letter which he wrote to the late Earl of Halifax on the 23rd March relative to the jurisdiction and office of water bailiff of the Isle of Man. As there are now litigations in that court which may become cognisable before him as Governor, he will be greatly at a loss how to act upon such an occasion, — whether to preserve the mode of procedure in the civil department, its ancient constitutional channel, or whether to consider that court of judicature to be for the future within the Revenue department, as the judges and officers thereof now act under Revenue powers, by constitutions or appointments not enrolled in the Isle, and without taking the oaths for the due administration of justice, or receiving any other sanction or qualification from the Governor as had ever been accustomed.—Isle of Man.
	Received the 28^th. 2 pp.
18 to 22 Aug. Dom. Geo. III. pcl. 84, No. 25 a to g.	807. John Morris.
	Papers relative to one John Morris, sentenced to death at Sarum assizes for returning from transportation before his time.
	From Fisherton gaol Morris wrote (25 c) to " Madam Guns, in "Dorsin Street, widow of Counsellor Gun, Dublin," appealing to her to write to several persons to inform them that he was the man that worked at the Castle in Dublin at flint cutting, and received several premiums from the Dublin Society, and that he had lived in good credit in Dublin, and carried on the branch with success, and had had great encouragement from all the nobility; and also to mention that he had served all the regular troops and militia with gun flints at the invasion in the North of Ireland against Thurat at his own expense, and himself headed a company of militia. He affirms that his life had been sworn away by one of Sir John Fielding's men of the name of Noakes, for the sake of the reward allowed by Act of Parliament, as Noakes declared to several persons that he would take Morris's life if he, Morris, did not give him twenty pounds. Having received this letter, Sarah Gun (apparently the daughter) applied (25b) to Lady St. Leger, confirming the man's statements as to his residence in Ireland, &c., and by Lady St. Leger (25 a) both letters were forwarded, on 18 August, to Lord Rochford, and an appeal made on the man's behalf.
	These papers were apparently sent on to Sir John Fielding, who on 19 August replied (25d), giving an account of Morris. He had been with another man, committed on suspicion of having stolen money from a dwelling-house; and their behaviour giving rise to suspicions that they were old offenders, their names and descriptions, and the descriptions of their horses, were transmitted to Sir John Fielding, according to a plan which had been practised for several years by the acting magistrates in the country, and which had been the " effectual means of detecting many notorious villains that had fled from London to escape justice." One of the men proved to be well known as an old offender, and a short inquiry proved that Morris had returned from transportation. In furtherance of public justice, therefore, John Noakes, a constable of St. Margaret's, Westminster, who was present at the conviction of Morris at the Old Bailey in May 1769, was sent to Salisbury, and by this means Morris was identified and convicted. Morris also stood charged with another felony, and, in short, was considered as a very dangerous and desperate offender. As to the constable, Noakes, Sir John Fielding says he had been appointed one of the constables of St. Margaret's, Westminster, for seven or eight years, and was incapable of falsehood and of making any proposition to defeat public justice.
	On the 20th Aug. Edward Younge, a justice of the peace for Wilts, wrote (25e) to ask for a fortnight's respite for Morris on the application of Morris's wife; the under sheriff, by what means Mr. Younge knew not, having already respited him for one additional week. On the 22nd Aug. (25f), Lady St. Leger wrote to Lord Rochford a second time, upon the receipt of some letters from Ireland from persons much to be depended on, that Morris had been falsely accused, as there were proofs that he was in Dublin and the neighbourhood part of the summer of 1770, also begging for a reprieve; to which Lord Rochford replied the same day (25 g), that he could only repeat what he had said to her ladyship the Monday before, viz., that the report of the judge before whom Morris had been tried was quite unfavourable; that, besides his return from transportation, he stood charged with a considerable robbery, and was considered a very old and desperate offender, and that it appeared no advantage could be drawn in his favour by proving that he was in Ireland in the summer of 1770, as that time was subsequent to his trial at the Old Bailey in 1769, and only proved that he returned from transportation sooner than 7 June, when he was convicted at Salisbury. 14 pp.
22 Aug. Ireland, v. 440, No. 19 a to e.	808. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Townshend) to the Earl of Rochford.
	Having this day transmitted to the Lords of the Treasury a draft of a letter for H.M.'s signature, to establish the companies of light infantry to be added to the several regiments of foot on the Irish establishment, encloses herewith:—
	1. A general list of the officers recommended to be appointed to the said companies;
	2. A list of the several officers now seconded upon the several regiments in which they are to be appointed to the additional light companies;
	3. A list of the officers of the late tenth companies reduced in Ireland, now to be appointed to the additional light companies; and
	4. A list of officers recommended in their several regiments, and of officers from the Irish establishment of half pay.
	Asks that commissions, to date from 1 Sept. next, may be signed accordingly.—Dublin Castle.
	The enclosures. Received the 26th, from Sir R. Wilmot. 12 pp.
23 Aug. Dom. Entry Bk., v. 25, p. 303.	809. Earl of Rochford to the Master and Elder Brethren of the Trinity House.
	Asking for information as to the amount of the light duties paid by Portuguese ships trading to England, which have been complained of as very burthensome, and whether they are higher than those paid by other foreign nations, or by British ships, His Majesty's commands having been received to furnish Mr. Walpole, H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Portugal, with every information possible with regard to the state of trade between the two kingdoms.—St. James's.
25 Aug. Dom. Geo. III., v. 11, pp. 31–33.	810. Thos. Hutchinson, Governor of [Massachusetts Bay], to [Lord Hillsborough].
	Mr. Henry Barnes, who lately arrived from England, has requested him, the Governor, to cover a letter from him to his Lordship, and to represent his sufferings and services in the cause of Government. Has not been made acquainted with the contents of the letter. Mr. Barnes has certainly suffered greatly by refusing to comply with the scheme of non-importation, and by his endeavours to support the authority of the magistrate; but in his solicitations for compensation he shows more impatience than could be wished. Is willing to attribute it to a mind chafed with his troubles, and impressed with a strong sense of his merit, which he supposes to exceed that of many others who have received the favours of Government. He complains of his, the Governor's neglecting him, in not particularly recommending his case when he went to England. Though he did not ask it, he yet concluded it had been done in the course of public correspondence. He, the Governor, transmitted an account of the incendiary letters, and would have been more particular had he been requested. Thought that for his general character, which is very good, he depended on Sir Francis Barnard, who held him in esteem, and to whom he was more particularly known. If there were anything in the province in his, the Governor's disposal worth accepting, would give it him, but there is not.
	Makes his grateful acknowledgments to his Lordship for H.M.'s warrant to the Commissioners of the Customs for the payment of his salary. The fund on which the warrant is charged would rise to a very large sum if the illicit trade with Holland could be prevented.
	The consumption of tea in America exceeds what anybody in England imagines. Some suppose five-sixths of the consumption in the last two years has been smuggled, and in Philadelphia and New York it is judged nine-tenths. The traders make such an extravagant profit that it will require more frequent seizures to discourage them than there is any reason to hope for. If the India Company had continued the sale of their teas at 2s. 2d. to 2s. 4d., as they sold them two years ago, the Dutch trade would have been over by this time; but now that teas are 3s. and upwards in England, the illicit trader can afford to lose one chest in three, whereas not one in a hundred has been seized. The custom-house officers on shore have strong inducements to do their duty, being entitled to a proportion of one-third or more, but they are really afraid of the rage of the people. The sea officers have of late been more active, and Admiral Montague appears disposed to keep out his cruisers. Doubts, however, whether this trade will ever be discouraged in any other way than by reducing the price in England to the exporter very near the price it is at in Holland. For want of this, the revenue has lost, the last and present years, at least 60,000l. sterling, from the 3d. duty only. Believes the cruisers are capable of doing more. Suggests that a greater proportion is necessary for the particular officer who makes the seizure under a commission from the Customs than what he is now entitled to. Has discovered, when he has sworn some of the Navy officers to qualify them for their commissions from the Customs, a great indifference and disinclination to make themselves obnoxious to the people without any great advantage to themselves.—Boston. "R. 29th Oct."
26 Aug. Ireland, v. 440, No. 20.	811. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Townshend) to the Earl of Rochford.
	Has received his Lordship's private letter of the 15th as to Dr. Crosbie, and desiring that H.M.'s letter appointing Dr. George Berkeley should be returned to be cancelled. Encloses the said letter accordingly.—Dublin Castle. "Private." Received 2 Sept. 1 p.
27 Aug. Law Reports, 1766–86, No. 4.	812. Town-Clerkship of Sudbury.
	Report of the Attorney General (Thurlow), in answer to reference of 10 July, as to the grant of H.M.'s approbation of Mr. Danzie Carter's appointment as town-clerk of Sudbury until Mr. Clarke, his predecessor, shall show a better title to the office. Upon the several papers he formerly received he observed that the amotion was in the manner of it illegal. But whether that assembly, which seems by their charter to be but part of the corporation, was competent either to amove or elect a town-clerk, he was not apprized. However, if it be true, as suggested, that two terms have elapsed without any step having been taken to assert the right of Stockdell Clarke, he, the Attorney General, thinks that great neglect, and sees no reason to advise His Majesty longer to withhold his approbation. 2 pp.
28 Aug. Dom. Geo. III., pcl. 83, No. 26.	813. Lord Rochford to Sir John Fielding.
	Encloses a description of a French gentleman and gentlewoman supposed to be in London. There is nothing charged against them, but the French ambassador has desired his Lordship to make enquiries where they may be found. Mr. Garnier, the French Ambassador's secretary, has the picture of the gentlewoman.—St. James's.
	There is no enclosure. 1 p.
29 Aug. Dom. Geo. III., pcl. 83, No. 27.	814. Sir John Fielding to Lord Rochford.
	Relative to John Dodson. (See Reports of the Judges.) Also in respect of Mons. Troyes and his pretended spouse. As they are not charged with any offence, they cannot be an object of magistracy. However, as a gentleman, out of politesse to the French Ambassador, should accident bring them within knowledge, immediate notice of it shall be given.—Bow Street. 3 pp.
30 Aug. Dom. Entry Bk., v. 25, p. 305.	815. Jer. Sneyd to Mr. Kenton Cowse.
	Relativeot other whitewashing and ainting of some rooms in Lord Rochford's office.—St. James's.
31 Aug. Dom. Geo. III., v. 10, No. 16.	816. Wm. Tryon, Governor of New York, to Lord [HillsBorough ?]
	Detailing he reasons why he was not able to comply with he warm solicitations of the Earl of Dunmore to make an exchange of governments with him. Exclusive of public reasons, he assured his Lordship he was in too crazy a habit of body voluntairly to return to the southward climates without first going over to England to reestablish his health. His family and baggage were also with him, and Mrs. Tryon in a weak state of health. These circumstances did not seem to carry conviction with Lord Dunmore of the impossibility of an exchange of governments. Owns he was sorry to see his Lordship's disappointment. Will be satisfied here if he can carry on the King's and the country's business. As yet can make no judgment but from the public addresses, which, however, give him encouragement. Lord Dunmore has made a trip up Hudson's River. Understands that he very shortly sets out by land for his government of Virginia. Is sorry to have been the innocent means of his disappointment, and heartily wishes he may meet with as much happiness in his new government as he experienced in this. Is induced to give this detail on the rather awkward manner in which he entered upon his administration, as it was the prevailing opinion here that the then next packet would bring orders for his removal.—New York. "Private." "R. 9th November." 4 pp.