Whitehall July 8th 1761.
Sir;
The King having been pleased, this Day, to declare in full Council, His Resolution of demanding in Marriage the Princess Charlotte, Sister of the Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, I send you herewith, by His Majesty's Order, an Extraordinary Gazette; which has been publish'd, this Evening, in Order to make known this joyful Event to all His Majesty's Subjects, and I have the greatest Pleasure in congratulating you upon the same, as I doubt not but you will receive it with the utmost Joy & Satisfaction.
I am &ca.
W. Pitt.
P.S. I have recd. your Dispatches of the 4th. & 5th. May, with the Duplicate of That of the 27th. Febry.
Like Letters to the following Governors, Governor of Quebec, Montreal, Trois Rivieres, Virginia, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Governor of New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusets Bay, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Deputy Governor of Pensilvania, Do. Maryland, Govr. & Compy. of Rhode Island, Do. Connecticut, Governor of New York, Jamaica, Dominica, Senegal, Govr. of Barbados, Leeward Islands, Guadalupe, Bermuda, Bahama Islands, Genl. Hodgson, Commodore Keppel, Govr. of Belleisle, Major Genl. Whitemore.
