My Lord, [Duke of Bedford]

I have been engaged in a very laborious work for these fifteen years by past, in civilizing a wild barbarous people and endeavouring at least to bring them on a par with our neighbouring colonies. The reason of my small success is owing to the inequality of their Representatives in Assembly. When that is redressed I hope matters will go smoothly. In the meantime I have employed myself in attempting to raise and produce such commodities as Great Britain imports from countries of a parallel latitude, and I can with pleasure inform your grace that I have brought wine and raw silk to a good degree of perfection and if I had my arrears paid I don't doubt but to turn the minds of the people of this province pretty universally this way.