loaded with Provisions to Pittsburg he was attacked by a con-
siderable Body of French & Indians who killed or took 35 of
the Party together with all the Provisions, which Loss I am
afraid was severely felt by the Garrison of Pittsburg who by
all Accounts have never been well supplied with Provisions
since they have been in Possession of that place — We learn
from the Boston Gazette dated the 14th of May that all the
Troops as well Provincials as Regulars which were to go from
that Colony to serve under Genl Wolfe or to garrison the
Forts in Nova Scotia & Cape Breton were then embarked: &
the N York Paper of the 21st Ult tells us that almost all the
men who were to compose Genl Amherst's Army had reached
Albany before that time & that the Rest would follow in a
few Days, which makes us entertain hopes that they have now
all joined & are not far on this Side Lake George from which
Quarter I hope to send Your Ldp agreeable Intelligence the
next time I have an Opportunity of assuring Your Ldp that I
am with the utmost Respect Your Ldps devd & most humb.
Servt
[Sharpe to Calvert.]
Annapolis the 4th June 1759 transmitted by.
Sir
Having been informed that there is a Vessel about to sail
from Choptank for London I embrace the Opportunity to send
you the three last Journals of the Upper House one of which
viz. the Journal that begins the 22o of Novr will shew you that
on the 29th of that month a Bill came from the Lower House
entituled " an Act for the Security of Purchasers & others
claiming by or from Protestant Aliens, a Copy of which Bill
(marked A) I shall herewith transmit for Your Perusal. As it
appeared to me to be of a new & extraordinary Nature I
intimated to the Gentln of the Upper House (or rather to
those few who attended the House) that I should be unwilling
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