Letter from Henry Seymour Conway, St. James's, London, to Thomas Gage, 1766 May 20

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St. James's, 20th. May 1766.
Sir
I am favourd with your Letters
the 28th: March, giving an Account of
several Military Transactions in with
America, As to the Civil, I find they
then remained in your Province particu
larly) much in the same State, as when
you wrote before. The News, you will
since have heard, of the repeal of the
Stamp Act, will probably have made
a considerable Alteration in the
Tempers of People: And I hope, they will
have the good Sense not to abuse or be
unmendful of the great Lenity and
Indulgence, shown them by the
Legislature & Government here on this
important Occasion; but will make
Return of Duty & Cordiality equal to the
Excess of that Heat & Intemperance, which
have of late too generally shewn themselves
in the Colonies.
The new Disposition, you propose
for His Majesty's Troops, will in many
respects be very advantagious, particularly
in that very necessary one of saving -
Major Genl. Gage.