| Description | With autograph draft of proposed petition to the House of Commons by the town of Birmingham, has attended the meeting of merchants and endeavoured to prevent them petitioning Parliament at present but without success, so he and several others in the town considered it their duty "to sign and to promote the signing of a petition which tended first to take of that stigma theirs would carry with it, and secondly to promote perminance in the execution of our laws and consequently better security of their American debts", desires [Dartmouth's] opinion of this petition which is given at the end of the letter |