worth upwards of £50 to him. The Officers that I have ap-
pointed to raise the Additional Companies recruit with so
good Success that I flatter myself our Forces will be aug-
mented to 400 very shortly. I hear that S^r I S^t Clair is so
much recovered as to be able to go on the Expedition, & that
His Ldp was to sail from N York last Sunday the Troops
being all embarked two Days before. &c.

[Sharpe to Loudoun.]

4^th of Iune 1757.
My Ld
In my Letter of the 13^th of May I just acknowledged the
Receipt of one from Your Ldp dated the 30^th of April whereby
you was pleased to inform me that upon its being represented
to you that there were when the Embargo was laid a Number
of Vessels in the several Provinces that were actually loaded
& cleared You had as the Transports were in great forward-
ness consented to such Vessels being permitted to sail on
Friday the 6^th of last month. In answer to this part of Y^r
Ldp's Lett" I beg leave to acquaint you that altho there were
many Vessels in the ports of this Province that were actually
loaded & several others that had taken in the greatest part of
their Cargoes when the Embargo was laid yet none of their
owners could receive any Benefit from that Order of Y^r Ldp
as they had not actually cleared before I received Your Ldp's
orders for laying an Embargo. As soon as the Merchants
who were interested in these Vessels were advised by their
Correspondents of the Liberty that had been given by Your
Ldp they applied to me severally & in a Body representing
the hardships that they laboured under from its not being the
Custom in this Province for any Vessels to be cleared till they
are just about to weigh Anchor which Rule I am informed is
not strictly observed in some of the other Colonies where the
Poduce exported does not come under the Denomination
of Enumerated Commodities as Tobacco the Staple of this
Colony does. Tho I could not help thinking that if the Case
of the Merchants who made Application to me on this occasion
had been represented to Your Ldp before you issued the
Orders that were contained in Your Letter of the 30^th of April
You would have included them therein yet as they were not
exactly circumstanced as the owners of the Ships that had
been permitted to sail from N York & Phila^a were I put the
Gentlemen off by assuring them that I was not at Liberty to
comply with their Request but that as the Transports were in
great forwardness I expected to receive Instructions from
Your Ldp to take off the Embargo entirely before the End of