Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 473

London Decr. 20^th 1 760
Sir I acknowledge yours March the 27^th the 10^th & 14^th of
April, the 26^th of May the 7^th of July the 4^th of Aug^t & 17 of
October. You had by me his Lordships Consent for M^r Ridout
your Secretary to be of the Council on the death of M^r William
Goldsborough and again Confirmed by Duplicate; this I men-
tion particular by reason of the Note in yours the 26^th of May.
On Apprehension of Objection to his promotion You say "Let
me Intreat it as a favour of you to acquaint me with the Cause
of your Disapprobation." Your request was the 27^th of March,
His Lordships Compliance by mine the 20^th of June, the earliest
Opportunity by the New York Packet, sent a few days after
the receipt of yours. I am not mindful of having given
Objection of him. He has his Lordship's good Opinion, alike
as mine, and I think he merits Esteem from Extracts of Affairs
received from him, and valuable under your Approbation, a
real Stamp of worth of Persons you recommend for favour, of
him and others. You have herewith inclosed his Lordships
Instructions, who Approves of your proposition of Establish-
ment of New Members in the Council as Counter Ballance to
the Family you hint, whose Voices generally determine every
point at that Board by their Attendance always at hand, of
Consequence to be watched.
It is a Melancholy concern the Continued Obdurate reluc-
tance of the Lo: H —se non-compliance of a Supply to his
Majestys Service, set forth by M^r Secretary Pitt's Letter to
you, requiring their Duty to his Majesty and themselves, tis
Strange! that they still insist on a supply Bill so often after
attentive Consideration rejected by the Upper H — from the
Manifest injustice of some parts, from the impropriety of some
of the Objects of Tax and from the injustice offered the Pro-
prietor in his property as Individual and in his Prerogative as
Governor, and from the manner in which the Tax is Offered
and the Application of the Money, whereby the Bill is the real