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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 351
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hopes of Your being able to procure me such a Commission
as would incline me to quit my Govt which notwithstanding it
has not hitherto proved very lucrative & has by the unhappy
Situation of Affairs been rendered somewhat uneasy it would
not I think be prudent to exchange for any Military Commis-
sion under that of a Colonel indeed I was not entirely with-
out hopes when I wrote to Br John & to you the 2d of May
1756 & would have engaged to raise a Regiment in Case I
could have been supplied with Money from home to do so
that a Commission might have been obtained for me, but as I
am apt to think that two many of our Men have been since
carried out of the Province by Recruiting Parties to leave
enough to form a Regiment willing to enlist under me unless
I had likewise Liberty to appoint all the Captains & Subaltern
Officers, & as there will not in all Probability be much longer
occasion for the Service of so many Troops in this Part of His
Majesty's Dominions as are at present on foot in North
America I do as I have already hinted despair of being
brought back to the Army but shall endeavour to make myself
easy in the Situation where I am placed, which I doubt not
but I shall be able to do & at the same to encrease my For-
tune a little after Peace shall be again restored to these Coun-
tries, if Ld Baltimore does not act an ungenerous Part by me
& forgetting what a Stand I have made for him agst the At-
tempts of his Enemies treat me in the same manner that the
Messrs Penns did Mr Morris whom they removed from his
Government in order to make room for a Man that has lately
thought proper to sacrifice them & their Interest to the As-
sembly of Pensa rather than run the Risk of being recalled to
England with an empty Purse. He has contrary to the Pro-
prietaries Instructions & contrary to the Advice of his Council
assented to the Bill which the Assembly of Pensa have been so
long contending for, by which it is said the Proprietaries will
be obliged to pay more than £40,000 Stg towards sinking the
Bills of Credit which have been struck in Pensa & emitted at
different times to pay & support the Troops which have been
raised in that Province during the present War. he has like-
wise contrary to Instructions passed an Excise Bill to endure
for 16 years by which the Assembly is vested with very con-
siderable Powers & with the sole Disposal of such Excise
which will bring into their Treasury several Thousand Pounds
a Year. I am moreover told by a Gentn who lately left Philaa
that the Assembly are preparing some other Bill of an extra-
ordinary nature to which Mr Denny has likewise it is said for
a good Consideration promised to give his Assent. What
Impressions an Account of such Transactions in a neighbour-
ing Colony will make on His Ldp I cannot tell; I wish he
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