This example, I hope, will be followed by as many as may be required.

By the militia law, a mail refusing to march may be fined L5, or confined three months; and although I have assembled the legislature for the express purpose of amending the act, I much fear nothing material will be done.

Your excellency will scarcely believe, that this infatuated house of assembly have refused, by a majority of two, to suspend for a limited time the habeas corpus.
The capture of Michilimakinack may produce great changes to the westward.

The actual invasion of the province justifies every act of hostility on the American territory.
It was not till this morning that I was honored with your excellency's dispatches, dated the 7th and 10th instant.

Their contents, I beg to assure your excellency, have relieved my mind considerably.