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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 439
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tioned in his Lettr will have a good Effect & convince at least
some of my Enemies here who will see it & know from whom
it came that all Attempts to prejudice me in His Ldp's
Opinion have been very unsuccessful. I cannot help thinking
whatever Mr Calvert might have at times dropped, that His
Ldp is too well satisfied of the Impropriety & ill Policy of
changing Governors without very good Cause ever to have
thought seriously of Superseding me. I flatter myself he will
not choose to run the Risk of being Sacrificed as the Proprie-
taries of Pensa have been more than once which they richly
deserved because they had behaved in such a manner as con-
vinced every Body that no Governor ought to put the least
Trust or Confidence in them, & after trying many Expedients
seeking Rest but finding none they have been at last obliged
to reinstate a man who has it is said made it a Condition of
his Acceptance that it shall be left entirely to himself to act on
all Occasions as he shall think fit, & accordingly he hath this
Spring given his Assent to an Act for Raising another hun-
dred thousand Pounds by the same mode that was so much
complained of by the Proprietaries last Year. So that in short
the Assembly of Pens3 are now satisfied that by Perseverance
they can at any time carry whatever Points they may think fit
to insist on; The Proprietaries & their Govern' are become
odious to the People & I believe some of the Dirt which has
been thrown on them during the Contention will stick as long
as their Names are had in remembrance; Hath His Ldp the
same Reasons to be uneasy? I think not. the Province is
indeed brought into some Sort of Disgrace with the Ministry
but I do not know that they lay any blame at his Door, or that
anyone hath thence taken Occasion publickly to insinuate any
thing to his Disadvantage except the Author of the Queries
wch were some time ago inserted in the London Chronicle &
as the Querist's assertions or Intimations were void of Truth
(as you would be convinced were you to see Mr Ridout's
answers to those queries which I some time ago transmitted
to Mr Calvert & which I should have sent him long before had
he not told me that he thought the queries unworthy notice)
His Ldp would do well to disregard the Calumny of an anony-
mous scribler especially as not even the Assembly themselves
have presumed to alledge in their Journal whatever they may
have privately insinuated to their Constituents that His Lclp's
Aversion to Contributing towards the Expences of the War has
been the Reason that no Supplies have been lately granted
here for His Majesty's Service, tho in fact I am persuaded that
if His Ldp had at first sent me Instructions to give up the
Ordinary Lycences which he yielded up afterwards (if a Person
might be said to yield up what he was not possessed of nor
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