In this document he professed warm attachment to the Protestant religion, but gave no opinion touching those questions about which Protestants were divided.

He had observed, he said, with great satisfaction that many of the Scottish nobility and gentry with whom he had conferred in London were inclined to an union of the two British kingdoms.

He was sensible how much such an union would conduce to the happiness of both; and he would do all in his power towards the accomplishing of so good a work.
It was necessary that he should allow a large discretion to his confidential agents at Edinburgh.

The private instructions with which he furnished those persons could not be minute, but were highly judicious.
He charged them to ascertain to the best of their power the real sense of the Convention, and to be guided by it.

They must remember that the first object was to settle the government.