[Calvert to Sharpe.]
[First part missing. Indorsed Dec. 16, 1756.]
Suppose Speaking of Mr Stephen Boardly I never had any
Personal Difference wth the Gentleman you are so kind as to
recomend to my reguard, tho' it has happned when we were
Members together of Assembly that some little misunder-
standing were occasionedly produced by a Contrariety of
Opinion in Pollitical Matters, and I dare Say is Easily Excused
by one of his Good Sense from the Consideration of his having
been formerly mistaken in his Opposition to those Measures
wch I defended and Especially Since his Mistake has been so
Easily forgiven that an Acknowledgment of it has been
rewarded by an Appointment to which a Series of Seven or
Eight years, faithfull Service Could only have produced Very
Slight and Questionable pretentions.
To all which, I make no doubt to his Presentment; however, it
is Certain there are many Propositions in Theory that differ when
put into Practice for had the Charge of his Objections a been
an unforgiven Rule against his father, he had never been Com-
missary General; besides Transgression is to be forgiven on
Repentance. I knew not Abt Boardly's faults on his Promotion,
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