mony thereof we have caused the seal of our said province to be hereunto affixed Witness our trusty and well beloved FRANCIS BERNARD Esq captain general and governor in chief in and over our province of New Jersey and territories thereon depending in America chancellor and vice admiral in the same &c at our city of Perth Amboy the thirty first day of March in the thirty third year of our reign annoqe Domini one thousand seven hundred and sixty.

Letter from Thomas Boone, resident of South Carolina, to the Lords of Trade, acquainting them with his intention to embark in a few days in order to assume the government of New Jersey.

[From P. R. O. B. T. New Jersey, Vol. 8, I. 95.]

CHARLES TOWN S Carolina March 24th 1760

My Lords

In Obedience to your Lordships Commands, Communicated to me by letter bearing date Nov 14th, the receipt of which by two different Merchant Ships I have acknowledged, I have made all Convenient Dispatch, and shall Embark in a very few days for New York in a Vessell I have hired, no other speedy opportunity Presenting itself.

I make no doubt of Arriving Sufficiently Early as by a Letter from Mr Bernard of the 18th last past from Amboy, I understand the Packet Just there from Falmouth in 38 days had not brought him my Commission, I shall trouble your Lordships no further at this juncture but have the honour to be

My Lords Your Lordships most

Obedient and most Humble Servant

THO BOONE

Letter from Governor Bernard to Secretary Pitt-enclosing his address to the Council and Assembly, together with the answer of the Assembly.

I had the honour to receive your letter of the 7th of January on the 23 of febry & in pursuance of his Majesty's commands, I immediately called the general Assembly & communicated to them his Majesty's pleasure. They with their usual unanimity & dispatch prepared a bill for raising the same number of Men as they did for last campaign, so that I passed it yesterday & am now preparing to recruit the Regiment with all possible expedition.

As the People of this Province particularly desire & truly deserve to be seen in a favorable light by his Majesty & his Ministers, I take the liberty to enclose a copy of the Assembly's address upon this occasion with my Speech as introductory thereto; & to assure your honour that this province will always be ready to contribute its full share to his Majestys Service I have the honour to be, with great esteem S

Your most humble and most obedient Servant
FRA. BERNARD

The Speech of His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq Captain General and Governour in chief in and over the Province of New Jer

sey, and Territories thereon depending in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral in the Same, &c.

To the General Assembly of the said Province, met at Perth Amboy, on Thursday the 13th of March, 1760.

Gentlemen of the Council, and

Gentlemen of the House of Representatives

I am honoured with his Majesty's Commands to the same Purpose with those which I communicated to you last year; to induce you to raise with all possible dispatch, within this Government, at least as large a Body of Men as you did for the last Campaign, and as many more as the Number of its Inhabitants may allow, to act in Conjunction with his Majesty's British Troops, under the Command of his Commander in chief in America, for the further Reduction of Canada. I have called you together with all possible Expedition, that you may lose no Time of showing your Gratitude to his Majesty, by a most ready and hearty Obedience to his gracious Commands, which are Wholly dictated by his fatherly Care for the Preservation of his Subjects on this Continent.

At the Opening of the last Session, I had great Occasion to congratulate you on the Success of his Majestys Arms: But how rapid has the Progress of them been since? Victories and Acquisitions have followed one another so close, that we not been able to keep pace with them in our Thanksgivings: We have been lost in Amazement at the great things God hath done for us, and have found our Hearts too full to express our Sense of his Mercies.

The Time is now come, which a few years ago was the Object of our Wishes more than our Hopes. The exorbitant, and heretofore formidable Power of France,

is humbled to the dust; her Trade lost; her Credit sunk; her Treasury exhausted; and her fleets destroyed, even to what she owned to be her last Resource-Canada, the inveterate and implacable Enemy of these Provinces, is hunted down; and waits only for the March of the British army to surrender the yet unreduced Parts of it. These are (under God) the Effects of the Wisdom and Steadiness of his Majestys Councils, and the Conduct and Bravery of his Forces; These are the fruits of those Armaments to which you have contributed your proportional, tho' small Share; and these are the Encouragements, which will induce you to continue the same Efforts till the whole Work shall be compleated.

Gentlemen of the House of Representatives.

I shall order the Letter I have received from M Secretary Pitt, and also one from Major General Amherst, to be laid before you; from whence you will see the Necessity of furnishing your full Complement of men for the Service of this Year: Two Provinces on this Continent have already set the Example. I am also to inform you, that the Lords of the Treasury have, out of the money granted by the Parliament of Great Britain for that Purpose, allotted to this Province near Ten Thousand Pounds Sterling for its Service in the Year 1758, which is to be paid to the order of the Whole Legislature. It will therefore be proper, either by a concurrent Resolve, or by a Clause in the Act, to give the Treasurers a Special Power to receive this money, and place it to the publick Account.

Gentlemen,

I shall have occasion to speak to you again', when

When he transmitted to the Assembly his final address he said, "I do assure you that I shall leave this province with regret. Your good disposition toward his Majesty's government, and your kind acceptance of my services, had given me the fairest prospect of an easy and creditable administration. I had flattered myself

the important Business I now commit to you, has had your full Consideration. At present I have nothing more to add, but to desire you would Maintain the Credit you have acquired in the Prosecution of this War, by your Earnestness, Unanimity and Dispatch, in providing for the Speedy Ending of it.

FRA: BERNARD

To His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq! Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over his Majesty's Province of New Jersey, and Territories thereon depending in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral in the same &c

The humble address of the House of Representatives of said Colony, in General Assembly met.

May it please your Excellency

We his Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Representatives of the Colony of New Jersey, in General Assembly conven'd. beg leave to return your

that I might have done lasting service to this province in assisting to compose the differences that still prevail in it, to remove the few fears and jealousies, if any, that now remain, to rectify the little errors in policy which have inadvertently crept into the administration, and above all, to establish a perfect harmony in the general government, upon the surest foundation, an exact balance of the several political powers which compose it."

The Assembly in their answer, appear to have been aware of his merits. Say they: "Your Excellency's leaving this government, we esteem as a public loss, having in our minds anticipated the happiness we had the greatest probability of enjoying under your administration. Your knowledge in the profession you exercised antecedent to his Majesty's appointment of you to preside here, flattered us with hopes of a speedy and equitable decision of the only litigation of consequence which exists in the Colony [an allusion to the land question, involving the titles and rights of the Proprietors], and your general conduct will remain gratefully impressed on the minds of the people, who will ever consider themselves in a manner interested in your future care and happiness."

He started for his government of Massachusetts Bay about the 1st of July, destined to be far less agreeable to him than the one he was leaving.-New American Magazine, published at Woodbridge.-ED.