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348 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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shall be drawn up as might give you thorough Information of
every thing relative to it, & enable you to give Mr Jackson or
any other Person as particular Advice concerning the Cir-
cumstances of that Mannour as you shall think expedient :
Together with this Account which I shall send by a Gentn who
will sail from Phila in about a month I will likewise transmit
you an Authenticated Copy of the Transcript in my Possession
relative to Talbots Conviction which I hope will do as well as
the Transcript itself which I think it would be too hazardous
to send at a time when the French Privateers threaten so much
to infest the British Coast. I am glad His Ldp & you approve
of my Proposition in favour of Colo Henry & Mr Golds-
borough whenever it shall be in my power to provide for Mr
Young by giving him a Clerkship, it will be time enough I
imagine for me to put your Letter into Colo Tasker's hands
when a Vacancy happens. My Brother William having been
so kind as to promise me that he will endeavour to obtain
Leave from the Duke of Newcastle for Mr Ridout to purchase
the Collectorship of N Potowmack (which is worth about
£150 a year) from Mr William Deacon the present Collector
who is infirm I take the Liberty to mention the same to you
hoping that neither His Ldp nor you will be displeased at his
succeeding in his Application, & permit me to hope likewise
that Mr Ridout's enjoying this Place (should he be so fortunate
as to get it) will not in any wise lessen your good Intentions
towards him nor the hopes which he has hitherto entertained
that he shall be some Day thought worthy to be distinguished
by some mark of His Ldp's Favour which did it depend on
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me he would not long want, & indeed I believe it appears a
little extraordinary to many that in six years time it should
never be in my power to shew my Regard for my Secretary
otherwise than by diminishing my own proper Income, espe-
cially as that has been rendered by the Consequences of this
War much less considerable than I expected it would be at
the time that I left England. The next Sheveralty of Kent
County where Mr Nicholson resides being already engaged I
cannot serve that Gentleman exactly in the manner pointed
out by Your Letter but I will give his eldest Son the next
Sheveralty of Queen Anns which is I believe more lucrative
& this I expect will please the Father as well as the other.
With regard to the Duty on Convicts I would not desire you
to speak to His Ldp again concerning it, the Affair will I
expect be brought to a Tryal before our Provincial Court next
Week & in Case they should be of Opinion that it ought to
be levied & the Contractors thereupon appeal, I shall desire
the Assembly to indemnify the Naval Officers before they
insist on their Collecting the Duty which I am apt to think
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