Accot of Pragues being invested by the King of Prussia & that
Admiral Bing is lodged in the Tower. As Governor Denny
mentions nothing of it in a Lettr that he sent me by this Person
I know not what Credit is to be given to the Report. Our
Gentn were pleased to tell me in Answer to what I said to
them in favour of a Light House that it was a new matter to
them & therefore not hastily to be determined on & I beleive
they never will make any such Act as you desire & as I recom-
mended to them.
I am &c.
[Sharpe to John Sharpe.]
10th of Octr 1756.
Dr Br
In my last dated the 13th Septr I informed you that in Con-
sequence of a Lettr from the Earl of Loudoun I had issued
a proclamation for the Assembly to meet the next Day, being
unwilling to give them any room to begin Disputes or protract
the Session I only recommended it to them in a short & simple
Speech to appropriate part of the money that was already
raised to such uses as the Secretary of State & Lord Loudoun
required; had they been disposed to promote His Majesty's
Service they may have framed a Bill for that purpose in a Day
or two at farthest, but notwithstanding the Alarming Situation
of Affairs at that time & the Importunity of His Ldp for Men,
our cool & circumspect Gentn sat a fortnight persuading each
other that Oswego could not have fallen into the hands of the
French as His Ldp had represented & consequently that there
was not an absolute necessity for their making such provision
as I had desired, however as the Gazette Writers have since
convinced them that their wise Conjectures were really without
any Foundation, they have at length proceeded to frame a Bill
for appropriating £3000 to raise 300 Men for the Royal Ameri-
cans, £2000 to purchase & transport provision to the Army &
another Sum for finishing Fort Frederick & Augmenting the
Garrison with 100 Men. The Bill received my Assent yester-
day & I have rid myself of a Parcel of wretches whose
Company I begin sincerely to detest. The Virga Assembly
met a few Days after ours & having granted £8000 for raising
500 Men for the Royal American Regiment & a pretty large
Sum for the Support & Encouragement of a Body of Cherokees
that they expect will join them broke up within a week while
we have to our Reproach sat five times as long doing less
Business. The Pensilvanians have also I find with much Diffi-
culty been prevailed on to wave their Disputes & to grant
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