they endeavored to reassure me but not with that positive answer I should desire.

Not wishing to expose myself to any difficulty with any one, I decided to wait patiently. Meanwhile, the Earl of Shelburne, the President of the Board of Trade and Plantations, offered to present me to the King.

I observed to him

that in

my quality as immediate Vassal of the King for all the Fiefs

which I held, depending from His Majesty, it appeared to me that I ought to begin by rendering him

my Fealty & Homage and I prayed him to have me received at once. He replied, that could not be as yet, some previous arrangement being necessary.

I since offered myself ; I was

always put off

under the same pretext.

At the moment so to speak, when his Lordship was promising me entire satisfaction regarding the object of my sojourn, he suddenly resigned and was succeeded by

My lord Hills-borough.

I renewed

my original proceedings with the new President who appeared to listen to me with complaisance and feel perfectly the Equity of my case but would decide nothing, doubtless until he saw every all

thing established elsewhere in a perfect equilibrium.

Being advised not to content myself with talking but to hand in a Memorial which could fix the attention of the Office on the subject of

my demand, I presented, in March 1764 the one below, (Letter A.) Every day I visited all the Lords of this office who individually gave me to hope a prompt conclusion but who when assembled decided Finally, seeing each of them prepared to retire to the country, I represented with all the nothing. force I was master of to Milord the Earl of Hills-borough the injustice I had already sustained by so