Letter from the Earl of Dartmouth to Governour Penn

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Whitehall, July 6, 1774.

SIR: I have received your letters of the 3d and 31st of May, and have laid them before the King, and I have the satisfaction to acquaint you that his Majesty is graciously pleased to acquiesce in the apology you make for having omitted to transmit to me an account of the proceedings at Philadelphia upon the arrival of the tea ship.

By the account contained in your letter of the 31st of May, of the reception given to the proposal that came from the town of Boston, there did not appear then to be any strong inclination to adopt it. What has since passed in Virginia may perhaps, as in other like instances, become an example to the neighbouring Colonies, and should this be the case it will be your duty to exert every power which the Constitution has placed into your hands to defeat any attempt to trample upon and insult the authority of this Kingdom. I am, sir, your most obedient and humble servant, DARTMOUTH.

Deputy Governour Penn.