Your Letr. of the 11th. Currt. I recd. I shall be glad if You can find out a good Channell to help yr. Navigatn. which will be of great Service to Yr. Colony. I wrote You the 30th. Apr. which hope You rec’d. & refer You to it. The Messenger brot. me a Letter from Mr. Glen after detaining him three Weeks as usual and truly he might have wrote his Letter the Day the Man arrived for there is Nothing essential in it but that his Assembly was to meet the end of last Mo. when he thinks they will grant 70,000 their Currcy. for HMy's Service & on such Principles that he can give his Consent to it. But in the mean Time desires me to send him 3000 Stg to build a Fort among the Cherokees, I formerly sent him 1,000£ & by a Calculatn. he sent to the Bd. of Trade he says the Charge wd. amo. to 2500 Stg. is not their own Colony qualified by their great Riches to answer that Sum? however if I had ten Times the Money sent me from Home I shd. have great Occasion for it on the Expeditn. so that I think it not very modest in him to desire such a Sum, but surely he is wrong in his Head. I pay Your Messenger 10 Pistoles which with what he had of Glen I conceive he is well satisfied, if not write me. I have no News from Engld. since my last or from the Camp so that I cannot write You any Thing material. Yr. son left this last Friday his Compa. went from Hampton to Alexa[ndri]a. the Tuesday before, I supplied them with Powder & Shott, & what Clothg. he may want he will be supplied at Alexaa. from the Clothg. I had from Engld. I shall be much obliged if You can send 5 or 600 Beeves to W. Creek, the Beging. or Middle of next Mo. pray send them with careful People that they may not be over drove. I depend upon them, & the Forces will then want them, the Price I canot ascertain but You no doubt will make the best Bargain You can I had 400 last Year under 3£ ⅌ [Psa] our Currcy. & this Fall they were delivered at the Camp at 2d. ⅌ lb. All Accts. from Engld. agree in the great Preparats. makg. 35 Ships of the Line in Como. & more daily expected that I think we are in earnest, & they say our Ministry insist strongly in havg. the Treaty of Utrecht properly comply'd with. The Fr. proposed the Lands now in dispute shd. lie neuter till the Boundaries were ascertained but this was rejected with great Indignatn. mentiong. the neuter Islands in the W. Indes which they have settled contrary to that Treaty. Yr. Son shall always have my Advice, & I think Co. Hunter gave him 100 for the prest. The enclosed Lets. please to forwd. ⅌ first Oppty. but not by Express, it has cost yr. Cotry. at least 100 in Messages to So. Car. & to no Purpose. I send You my Speech to the Assembly their Addresses & my Answers, I fear I shall not be able to rouse them to a further Supply, but shall do all in my Power. I heartily wish You Health & Happiness & am