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506 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. IV
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tion. I am not at all surprized at Mr Plater's desiring you to
constitute him Your Deputy but should have been sorry had
you complied with his Request for tho I have a very good
opinion of his Disposition & was well satisfied with his Con-
duct during the Session or two he appeared in the Lower
House yet as he is not thought a person of extraordinary Abili-
ties & is very young & inexperienced being I suppose scarcely
24 years old, I am of opinion it would not be good Policy so early
to confer on him such extraordinary Marks of Favour as you
mention, but if he gets into the Lower House again as I sup-
pose he rnay & continues to act as he begun You need not
doubt my Readiness to serve him as far as may be in my
power consistent with good Policy, for I really have a Regard
for him. T am glad to hear that Mr Key who was also in the
Lower House two or three Sessions (having been elected at
the same time with Mr Plater by the Inhabitants of St Mary's
County) behaves in such a manner as inclines His Lordship to
entertain a. favourable opinion of him, for I have a peculiar
Regard for his Father as well as for the Young Gentleman,
who has I think good natural Abilities & if he attends closely
to his Studies I doubt not but he will some years hence make
a good Figure in this province. As I have been already very
prolix & am afraid lest the Ship by which I intend to transmit
this from Potowmack to Scotland should sail before my packett
can be put on board I must for the present defer giving a par-
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ticular Answer to Your Letter about Mr Goldsborough, con-
cerning whom I will take the Liberty to write more fully the
first Opportunity, in the mean time I would not have you
entertain the worse opinion of him for not being with Dr
Steuart on that Vote which was put by those in the Opposi-
tion on purpose to gain an Advantage over the Moderate
Party in hopes that such Members by being against the propo-
sition would render themselves liable to be censured or con-
demned by their Constituents, but as Dr Steuart does not
depend for his Election on such Sort of people as compose
the Majority in every County he was not under the like neces-
sity to appear on that Vote as Mr Goldsborough did with
people whom he has strenuously opposed (as you may see by
the Journalls) in the Lower House for several years, & if no
Argument could be urged against Mr Goldsborough's being
preferred but what can be drawn from his Conduct in the As-
sembly he would I believe stand in a very fair Light. With the
greatest Regard I am &c.
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