Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 355

13^th of Aug^st 1759
My Lord
I embrace an opportunity that offers by a Vessel sailing
from Phil^a to transmit a Duplicate of a Letter I had the honour
of addressing to your Ldp the 13^th of July & it is with great
Pleasure I at the same time communicate to your Ldp the
agreeable News which we have just received concerning the
Reduction of Niagara & the Enemy's having been obliged to
abandon both Ticonderoga & Crown Point. Of the opera-
tions at Niagara I have not seen any Account besides those
which are inserted in the last Phila^a Gazette & as this Gazette
contains likewise a more particular Account of the Affair at
Ticonderoga than General Amherst has given me in his Letter
of the 27^th Ult I will not trouble Your Ldp with any tedious
Repetition but only add that I am Y^r Ldps —

13^th Aug^st 1759.
Sir
Herewith you will receive by a Vessel from Phila^a Dupli-
cates of the Letters that I addressed to you the 4^th of June &
13^th of Iuly last & also an authenticated Copy of the Tran-
script that I brought from England relative to the Attainder
of Rob^t Talbot who was supposed to have been in possession
of Talbot Mannour but by a Case which M^r Tasker put into
my hands some time ago & which I shall herewith transmit,
it appears that the Name of him who was in the Rebellion in
1715 was not Robert but James. I was in hopes that before

this time I should have received such particular Information
from the Steward relative to the Situation & Circumstances of
that Mannour, (I mean who do at this time occupy the several