vania.-Besides, a People unused to the Necessary Subordinations of Government, are in danger of falling into Levilling and Democratical Principles, And I am too Sensible of the Mischievious Tendency of such a Spirit, to be led into measures that might encourage it; And which, by weakening the Administration must destroy the Peace and Happiness of the Provinces.

Upon the whole Sir as I know you have nothing so much at Heart, as to maintain the Dignity of the Crown and promote the Prosperity of the Province, I beg Leave to Assure your Excellency, That whatever the Issue of this Affair may be, you will find me ever ready to Concurr in every measure Conducive to those Salutary Ends. I have the Honor to be with Great Respect Sir

Your Excellency's Most Obed' and

Most Humble Serv!

Aoth Morry

To. H. E. Gov! Boone

Letter from Governor Boone to the Lords of Trade-transmitting the foregoing letter from R. H. Morris.

My Lords

[From P. R. O. B. T., New Jersey, Vol. 9, K. 2.]

PERTH AMBOY Sept 3 1760

Since I had the honour of writing to your Lordships the 13th of July, nothing of the least Consequence has happened in this Province.

The Papers which I now take the liberty to Enclose

to your Lordships, have been transmitted me by Mr Morris, who from an apprehension that a Particular and Satisfactory Account of his Opposition to Mr Jones had never reached your Lordships, Proposed to me to Convey the Enclosed; I assented without hesitation, & the rather, because in your Lordships Letter to Gov Barnard of the 14th of December you appear to me desirous of all Possible Information on this head, and because, I am a perfect Stranger to the Representation that Gov Barnard may have given your Lordships of this Matter, for though I requested a Sight of his Letter to your Lordships, in order to Know fully, & fix more strongly the Circumstances in my memory than the common recital in conversation which he did give me could Possibly do, (for in this Respect Mr Morris is mistaken) Yet from hurry or Accident he Omitted it I cannot therefore think the Trouble I now give your Lordships unnecessary

I have the honour to be My Lords

with the utmost Respect Your Lordships most Obedient & most Humble Servant THO. BOONE.

Order from Secretary Pitt to continue the use of the former Seal of New Jersey.

[From Book AAA of Commissions, in the Secretary of State's Office Trenton, N. J., fol. 345.]

GEORGE R.

Our Will & Pleasure is and We do hereby Authorize and Impower you to make Use of the Publick Seal made use of within our province of New Jersey, in America during the Life Time of our Dearest Grand Father the late Deceased King for Sealing all things Whatsoever that are Used to be Sealed therewith un

till Another Seal shall be prepared & Transmitted to our said Province duly Authorized by Us And for so doing this shall be your Warrant Given at our Court at Saville House the 20th day of October 1760 in the first year of our Reign.

Superscribed.

By His Majestys Command.

W. PITT.

To our trusty and Well beloved Thomas Boone Esq. our Captain General & Governor in Chief in and over our Province of Nova Ceesarea or New Jersey in America And in his absence to the Commander in Chief or to the President of our Council of our said Province for the Time being.

Letter from Governor Boone to Secretary Pitt in regard to the imputed illegal Trade in New Jersey.

Sir

[From P. R. O., America and West Indies, Vol. 72.]

PERTH AMBOY New Jersey Oct: 239 1760

I yesterday only had the Honour of Receiving your Letter of the 23 of August, relating to the Illegal Trade that has so generally Prevailed in these parts of his Majesty's Dominions; I beg leave to assure you Sir that since my Arrival in this Province, nothing of the Kind has been Connived at, nor I believe practised, and Indeed by the late Assiduity of the Cruizers in the West Indies, & the Kind of Civil war that has been waged by Privateers on these Traders belonging to different Provinces, the Risks are become too considerable to allow of its being pursued so universally or successfully as formerly: Upon this Sir, & all other Occa

sions I shall Pay the Strictest Obedience to his Majesty's Commands, and as I shall be diligent in Informing myself, so shall I have the honour of Communicating to you the Result of my Enquiries into this Iniquitous Commerce. I have the honour to be

Sir with the utmost Respect & Deference

your most Obedient & most

Humble Servant

THO: BOONE.

Representation from the Lords of Trade to the King, inclosing a draft of a proclamation for proclaiming him in the American Plantations.

[From P. R. O. B. T., Plantations General, Vol. 41, page 3.]

To the Kings most Excell! Maj

May it please Your Majesty,

In obedience to Your Majesty's Order in Council dated the 27th instant, inclosing to Us the Draught of a Proclamation for proclaiming Your Majesty in your respective Plantations in America, and directing Us to prepare as many Draughts properly fill'd up for the several & respective Colonies & Plantations there, as shall be necessary for that purpose; We have prepared the same accordingly, and herewith humbly lay them before Your Majesty, having added to those Proclamations prepared in the year 1727 upon the Accession of his late Majesty, the proper Ones for proclaiming Your Majesty in the Colony of Georgia, the Islands of Cape Breton and Gaudaloupe, and in Canada, the former which has been since erected into a Colony under the immediate Government of the Crown, and Canada, Cape Breton & Gaudaloupe subjected to Your Majesty's Sovereignty & Dominion.

Upon this occasion We beg Leave most humbly to submit to Your Majesty, whether, for the more certain and speedy Conveyance of the said Proclamations, and of such Directions as may be sent with them, it may not be adviseable, that two small Vessels be dispatched on purpose, the one to New York, which will serve for all the Provinces on the Continent, and from thence to Cape Breton and Placentia in Newfoundland, and the other to Barbadoes, and any one of the Leeward Islands, Gaudaloupe, Jamaica and Bahamas.

Which is most humbly submitted

DUNK HALIFAX

W. G. HAMILTON

ANDREW STONE

W SLOPER

WHEREAS it hath pleased Almighty God to call to his Mercy Our late Sovereign Lord King George the Second of blessed and glorious Memory, by whose Decease the Imperial Crown of Great Britain, France and Ireland, as also the supreme Dominion and Sovereign Right of the

are solely and rightfully come to the High and Mighty Prince George Prince of Wales; We therefore the

do now hereby with one full Voice and Consent of Tongue & Heart publish and proclaim, that the High and Mighty Prince George Prince of Wales is, now by the Death of Our late Sovereign of happy and glorious Memory, become our only lawful and and rightfull Liege Lord George the Third, by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Supreme Lord of

and all other His late Majesty's Territories and Dominions in America; To whom We do acknowledge