This accompanies a Duplicate of my Letter to your Lordship of the 30th. of April last to which I beg Leave to refer, and to the printed Journal herewith sent for the Proceedings of the Assembly therein mentioned: I must also refer yor. Lordship to the Minutes of Council now sent to the Board of Trade for their Resolution touching the recruiting for His Majesty's Service and augmenting the Garrisons last Summer, and to which I have referred your Lordship in my other Letter.

I am now to acknowledge the Receipt of His Majesty's orders relative to the form of Prayer for the Royal Family, which came to hand last week and was immediately published. This Morning I had the Honour of your Lordships Dispatches with the Preliminaries of peace and His Majesty's Proclamation for a Cessation of Hostilities, which I have ordered to be forthwith published. Permit me to felicitate your Lordship upon this Occasion, as well in Regard of the British Empire in general, as of your Lordship's being instrumental from your distinguished Station in bringing about so glorious an Event.