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be glad to have the pleasure of waiting upon you being with
great regard
Sir Yr most hum & most
obt Servt
Jo: fforbes
Govr Sharp.
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[Sharpe to Baltimore.]
14th of May, 1758—
My Ld
I am sorry to inform Your Ldp that the Apprehensions I
was under when I wrote to Your Ldp the 20th of March & to
Mr Calvert the 20th of April were too well grounded & that
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all my Endeavours to obtain a Sum of Money from the
Assembly for the Service of the ensuing Campaign & for the
immediate Defence of our Frontiers have been without
Effect. Inclosed I send Your Ldp a Copy of the Speech that
I made to both Houses at the opening of the Session together
with the Addresses that they were pleased to present to me in
Answer thereto. After a few Days the Gentlemen of the
Lower House passed a Vote for raising & supporting 1200
Men including those that were then in Garrison at Fort
Cumberland & Fort Frederick, they proposed that 1000 of
these should march & act in Conjunction with such other
Forces as might be employed in an Expedition to the west-
ward of these Colonies while the other 200 remained on our
Frontiers for the immediate Protection of the Inhabitants & a
Bill was soon after prepared agreeable to such Proposition.
As this Bill was formed on the same Plan that those two were
which the Upper House had rejected in the Months of
Decemr & March preceeding, they did not hesitate to refuse
it a third time being thorowly convinced that it manifestly
tended to deprive the Government of all Power & to throw it
entirely into the hands of the People as it is in Pensilvania.
For the particular objections that the Upper House thought
fit to make to the Bill I must take the Liberty to refer Your
Ldp to the Messages that passed between the two Houses
during the Session, Copies of which I shall transmit to Mr
Calvert by this opportunity together with a Copy of the said
Bill & Copies of some Messages that passed between the
Gentn of the Lower House & myself on another Subject, by
which if Your Ldp will be pleased to give them a Perusal I am
persuaded you will be convinced that those Gentlemen are
actuated by a very different Motive from that of a Desire to
promote His Majesty's Service & to provide for the Security
of the Province. The Truth is that their Minds are infected
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