Sender: John Hanson
Recipient: Thomas Sim Lee

Dear Sir

I am honored with your Excellencys favour of the 15th for which I am
obliged to you. If you have leisure Should be obliged to your
Excellency to inform Whether the whole of the £4 allowance is to
be discharged in specie, if not the whole, what part – if the half of
that Allowance only is to be paid in specie, I presume the other half
will be paid either in red money at par, or Settled by Certificate. I
Should prefer the former, and upon your Excellencys favouring me with
the information requested Shall be under the necessity of asking your
assistance in procuring for me the money that may be due. I
Congratulate you on the Surrender of Brimstone hill and the whole
Island of St Kitts to the French, the Capitulation is inserted in the
inclosed paper. A person in New York writes to a Gentleman in this
City, that a Change has taken place in the British Ministry. Lord
Shelbourn, Colo Barre and Lord How are in, this last Gentleman at the
Head of the Treasury in the room of Lord Sandwich – that General Howe
was appointed to the Command of the Forces in Ireland and that Sr. Guy
Carlton is to take the Command in America in the room of Sr Harry. A
Vessel arrived here yesterday in a short passage from St Thomas’s. The
Capt Informs, that Count de Grasse had been joined by some Spanish
Ships of the line, that the whole fleet amounted to 40 Sail, and that
he had blocked up the British fleet at Antigua. This you will observe
is Ship news.