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Letter Bk. III
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when they had themselves encouraged, nay ordered the
Officers to continue in the Service, by doing which those of
them who survived the Campaign were entirely or almost
ruined. If you should happily obtain an Order for the Money
I hope you or Br Philip will be so kind as to advise me without
Delay how it is to be got hither: If the Sterling Money is
lodged in yours or any other Person's hands so that I may
have power to draw for it, the Excha at this time would be so
much in favour of those who are to receive it here that there
would be a handsome Surplus to defray any Charges which
may have or shall attend the Negotiation or Transaction of
this Business. Having lately received a Letter from Mr Kilby
(one of the late Contractors for Victualling His Majesty's
Forces on this Continent & who as You may have seen by the
accounts I transmitted to you advanced Mr Ross £1500 Stg
to enable him to Victual the Maryland Troops) wherein, being
anxious I suppose about the Money he advanced he desires
me to let him Know what Measures have been taken in order
to procure Payment of the Money still due to Mr Ross & the
Troops offers in case I would transmit the Accounts to second
any Person that might act as Sollicitor in the Affair I have
taken the Liberty to tell him what has been already done in
consequence of which he may possibly wait on You; & as he
advanced the abovementioned Sum to Mr Ross purely to sup-
port that Gentleman's Credit & not with any View of Advan-
tage to himself I am inclined to believe he would be ready to
do both him & the Officers any farther Service in his power —
I have no news to communicate to you from this Continent
unless that Gem Amherst is drawing several Regiments (it is
said at least twelve) from Canada towards New York in order
that they may embark there the Beginning of next Month as
it is supposed for Martinico. I have desired Br Phill to reim-
burse you the money you paid for those Instructions to Ld
Baltimore from the Board of Trade. &c.
[Sharpe to Philip Sharpe.]
[Augt. 1761]
Dr Br
Thomas Pearce having waited on me with the Letter You
were pleased to give him the 10th of March (which is the only
one that I have had the Satisfaction to receive from You since
Your Letter dated the 7th of Iune 1760) I sent for Capt Daw-
son to speak to him about setting the Lad at Liberty as you
had intimated to me that his Father had paid for his Passage
but according to the Captain's Account that was not the Case,
the Father having only given Capt Dawson a present upon
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