# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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Laid before the House of Commons
taking for granted that your Answer
will or may be made Publick it
seems proper & wise. Make no Com:
plaint of the Letter & dont find any
fault with it. whatever may come out
to be M^r Grenville's Design. keep y^r
Temper & stick to the Plan of his
Answer. the only thing wanting which
occurs to me, is, that I think you
should have wrote a private Letter
to M^r Grenville & inclosed to Him
your Ans^r. to the Lords of the Treasury.

I really think you had better do
so still, especially as the Board is ad:
journed & the rest of Town. & you may
give that as a Reason for not answe
:ring immediately. Write a civil
Letter to M^r Grenville, relying upon
his honour & Justice you will treat
with Him with the Frankness &
confidence the late Duke did with
S^r R. W. M^r Pelham & the D. of
Newcastle.
As I send