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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761
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 148 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
Letter Bk. I. any Rate rather than the next should prove an inactive Cam-
paign — I learn from Pensilvania that the Inhabitants of that
Province & those of the City of Phila in particular continue
still in the utmost Confusion on Account of the Assembly's
having committed One Mr More a Magistrate & Mr Smith
Provost of their College to the Common Jail for a supposed
Breach of Priviledge. What will be the Event or when they
will be released no Body pretends to say, but this is certain
that if the Assembly's Conduct on this Occasion is not cen-
sured all the Magistrates will from this time be apt to look
upon themselves as dependant on that Branch of the Legis-
lature & to make the sense of that House the sole Rule of
their Conduct. About 300 of the Men that were raised here
last Summer continue at Fort Cumberland tho they have not
received any Pay since the 8th of October & there are a few
still at Fort Frederick, but as it cannot be conceived that they
will be prevailed on to serve on such Conditions much longer
p. 332 I shall write to Colo Stanwix & press him to send a Company
or two of Regular Troops to Fort Cumberland as soon as
possible unless he can give those that are there some assur-
ance of being paid.

[Sharpe to Calvert]

10th of March 1758 transmitted by Capt. in the
Cunliff.
Sir
In my Letter dated the 26th of Decemr I advised you of the
Assemblys having broke up the 16th of that month without
making any Provision for the Support of the Troops that had
been raised here the preceeding Summer for His Majestys
Service & the more immediate Defence & Protection of our
Frontier Inhabitants. I am now to inform you that we have
had another Session since that time wch ended Yesterday
after the same manner. They were to have met the 6th of
Febv but a sufficient Number of Members to make a House
could not be got together before the 13th On that Day I laid
before them a Letter which I had received from the Earl of
Loudoun in Answer to one that I had sent him with a Copy
of the Supply Bill which the Lower House desired me to
transmit to His Ldp in Confidence that he would be thereby
induced to entertain a favourable opinion of their Conduct.
After they had perused this Letter a Vote was passed for
supporting 400 Men instead of 500 which you may remember
was the Number setled last Spring as the reasonable Quota
of this Province but the next Day this Vote was reassumed &
then they resolved that 300 Men were as many as this Prov-



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