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Recent conferences with Secretary of State, Lord Shelburne: "He was pleas'd to assure me that he was of Opinion Mr Penn ought to part with the Government voluntarily, and said he had often told him so." Remarks on a plan for a general currency in America. Reflection on a proposal Franklin suggested to [George] Grenville as an alternative to the Stamp Act: a General Loan Office in America, the interest of which would provide the government with revenue. Franklin did not promote the Loan Office plan after the repeal of the Stamp Act. "With this Bill among my Papers I find the inclos'd Draft of a Petition I gave Mr Jackson to present against the Bill for extending to Scotland the Act for transporting Felons to America" ... "he show'd it among the Members, and it occasion'd some Laughing; but it was said, the way to get the Transportation of Felons abolish'd, would be for all the Colonies to remonstrate against it."