Copy of a letter from Henry Seymour Conway, Charles Frederick, William Rawlison Earle, Charles Cocks, and Andrew Wilkinson, Office of Ordnance, London, to Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough, 1770 November 30, enclosed in Hillsborough to Gage, 1771 January 2

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Office of Orderance 30th. Novr: 1770
My Lord
We are honored with your Letter of the
Mr: Passan on the Diffect of May boundless in
which your Lordship is pleased to signify had
if upon full Consideration of the nature &
purpose of so extensive a plan of Portification, &
of the different objects for which it is represented
to be necessary, We shall be of opinion that is
would be of advantage to begin immediately
with the fortified Battery for defending the
Entrance of the Harbour, & to build Barracks upon
the Spot, where the Fort is proposed, it is the
King's Pleasure that We should in such Case
take the proper Sips for carrying those Services
into Execution without delay, insecting in Our
Estimate to Parliament the Sum which we
state in our Letter to be necessary for those purposed
On which We beg leave to represent to your
Lordship that We are by no means able to
form any opinion upon the purposes of
the intended extensive Plan of Fortification, &
the different objects for which it is represented
to be necessary, being Matters as We apprehend
of which those concerned in the Commercial &
Naval Branches of His Majesty's Service are
the proper Judges
But with respect to the nature of
the proposed Fort & is Situation, We have, in all
that related to our Departreal, fully stated
our opinion to your Lordship in our Report
of the 25th. of May 1770 as will as of the Expence
that would attend the works respectively
In receipt of your Lordship's Letter,
however We thought it necessary to call upon Capt
Debbie
Earl of Hillsborough
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