Autograph letter signed : London, to an unidentified recipient, [1762] December 5.

Saying that, since he last saw his correspondent, he has "had an attack from some people deputed from a body of West India Merchants which might properly be called so, for they forced into my house in the most indecent manner & tho I did not see them then, made such a noise as if denied hearing that I saw them yesterday: & went through more impertinence than any man in England could bear, except a Secretary of State who must bear any thing"; describing most of their requests as "inadmissible and knavish"; adding that he thinks "to avoid clamour [...] it would be worth while to insert some words to secure their getting home their effects in their own bottoms to avoid the impositions the French might put upon them in point of freight, & also to their easy recovering their debts after the islands are returned into their French hands"; saying that he has agreed to this, "but was sorely grieved at the Counsels scratching out the power of our logwood cutters bringing home the wood in English bottoms, as a chicane of freight might amount almost to a prohibition: & defeat what you got by the treaty"; concluding "[t]he rest of the dispatch is ready, to be circulated & sent away as soon all concerned shall have seen the draughts & alteration your Lordship agreed to: & that explanation made to the East India article."