I have the Honor of transmitting to your Exy herewith enclosed an Extract of a Letter of the 15 ^of 15 July last^ I have just recd from the Honorable John Adams Esqr.; from which your Excellency will percieve that the Conduct ^Behaviour^ of Capt Stanhope of the Mercury Man of War when at Boston has met with the Censure it merited from the Lords of the british Admiralty, whose Conduct on the Occasion manifests an attention to Justice and Propriety which does them Honor1

This Extract will also inform your Excellency that it was in Contemplation to give Instructions to Sr. Guy Carlton respecting the Eastern Line. and What the nature of those Instructions will be, does not appear to have been mentioned to Mr. Adams; but as it is the Interest of Neighbours to have all Questions of Boundary ^amicably & finally^ settled there is Reason to hope they will be such as may promote that desireable End.—With great Respect & Consideration I have the Honor to be Your Exys most obt. & very hble Servt His Exy James Bowdoin Esqr Governor of Massachusets