Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 175

Philadelphia May 2^d 1758
Sir
I have the Honour of yours of the 27^th of April yesterday
morning, but as I could not by any means interfere with the
Embargo: I sent your Letter with the Memorial to General
Abercromby by an Express, and make no doubt, but by the
Return of the Express I shall have the pleasure to acquaint
you, of the Embargo being taken off; as I hear that all our
Troops and Transports are sailed from New York.
I am extremely sorry that the annimositys betwixt your
upper and lower House shou'd prove of so fatal a consequence,
as to obstruct the Kings measures at this so critical a time for
the whole Continent of North America. Can the Gentlemen
that compose these Houses, imagine that His Majesty and the
whole people of Great Britain will be blind to their Behaviour
upon this so urgent and pressing an occasion. And can they
imagine that a great nation drained to the last in the protec-
tion and Defence of those Provinces and Collonys will for-
give and forgett the being abandoned by any of them, in this
critical time of publick Calamity and distress: If every indi-
vidual was honestly to examine his own Heart, I am per-
swaded he wou'd be stung with a just and laudable Spirit of
resentment, at the proceedings of the collected Representa-
tives of the People of Maryland. For my own part I shall be
very much difficulted, how I ought to behave my self, if the
Province of Maryland does not (in consequence of His Maj-
estys Pleasure communicated to them in the strongest manner
by M^r Pitt His Majestys Principal Secretary of State) come
to a speedy determination, as one days delay is of infinite
consequence. I shall be sorry to let it enter my thoughts,
that they are not, to act as good and Loyall Subjects ought to
do, because it wou'd grieve me much to think we had ever
cherished and protected concealed Ennemys, infinitely more
dangerous than the most open and declared ones.
I must beg you will let me know, as soon as possible the