cerning them but if you have reason to think it would give
the General any Satisfaction to have Copies of all the Letters
that passed between us since the Earl of Loudoun engaged to
pay the Maryland Forces in Case the Assembly would not I
should be obliged to you for intimating as much to me
& I will send him such Transcripts by the first opportunity.
I should have been glad to pay my Respects to General
Amherst & to have had the Pleasure of seeing Your Excel-
lency this Winter but as that cannot be I have wrote to Dr
Ross & recommended it to him to proceed to Phila without
Delay & to take with him the Muster Rolls, his Accounts, &
every paper which may serve to give Your Excellency & Mr
Kilby entire Satisfaction. —
[Sharpe to Amherst.]
26th Jany 1759.
Sr
I embrace the earliest opportunity to acknowledge my
Receit of the Letter you were pleased to write me the 13th
Decr which came to hand but a few Days ago, I take the
Liberty at the same time to congratulate Your Excellency on
being appointed Commander in Chief of all His Majesty's
Forces in N America & to wish you the greatest Success in
all your Undertakings. As General Forbes informs me in a
Letter which I have just received from Phila that he expected
to have the Satisfaction of seeing Your Excellency the Begin-
ning of this Week I presume he has before this time informed
you how averse the Assembly of this Province has been
especially for more than 12 months past to supporting any
Troops, nor do I doubt but Your Excellency has learnt e'er
this from General Forbes on what Footing those that marched
hence & served on the late Expedition agst Fort Du Quesne
continued & how they have been kept together since the 8th of
Octr 1757 when they received the last of the Money which
had been some time before granted for their Support. Within
the last Year I met the Assembly of this Province at four
several times & used my utmost Endeavours to induce them
to comply with the Requisitions of His Majesty's Generals but
I am sorry to say that all my Endeavours proved fruitless &
that I have little reason to hope the Assembly will be now
prevailed on to act a better part. I shall however convene
them again as soon as all those of them that are well disposed
can conveniently come together by which time it is not I think
improbable that I shall be able to communicate to them some
Instructions or a Letter from His Majesty's Ministers which
together with Your Excellency's might have some Weight &
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