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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 545
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Sister to the Duke of Meclenburg Sterlitz and His and the
Queens Coronation, the Splendour and Brillient Magnificence
is beyond my discription —
From the Armys in Germany not much action, having
rested mostly on the Defensive. His Majesty on the West
coast of France has Bellisle in hand and in Possession of Pon-
dichery in the East Indies and the Isle of St Domingo in the
West Indies of such part as belongs to France these are con-
siderable conquests, besides the Capture of some men of War.
Inclosed are Magazines and Public News Papers of Intelligence,
concludes me with the greatest Esteem and in reality
Your's.
Caecils Calvert
Octr 19th
Post Your Letter to his Lordp of the 25th of May with yr
inclosed Accts to him of 1759 and 1760 gives him Satisfaction
But observes the War by Capture of Ships is of great Loss to
him. By this opportunity you have a Theodlite and hope the
Sector and large Spying glass is with you.
Observing from you the appropriation of Ordinary Lycences
towards the support of a Colledge in Annapolis has been At-
tempted, his Lordp will not allow such a Strip of his Right or
from his Secy Office and thereof he depends you will follow
his Instns I cannot help signifying to you from Letrs from the
Province, productions of great Agitation and Concussion of
the Brain, resulting from discontent, Pretence and hope of
Success, and who name things not According to their Truth
but call Right and Wrong according to their Passions and
commonly is of Self Interest. The reasoning in these Letrsare
informing of, "What a Ferment the People are in, upon the
strange unaccountable unprecedent Advancement of John
Ridout to a Seat in the Council, and as if there was to be no
End to the Indignities Offered to his Lordps Government and
the People of this Province, the same R —— t is actually put
into the Office of ComissyGenl a place of the Highest Honour
and Trust in the gift of his Lordp the most interesting to the
People and which requires a Considerable Knowledge of the
Laws of England as well as a thorough sight into the Consti-
tution of the Province; to how Low a state his Lordps Govern-
ment is reduced by such a Promotion Why this mark of
favour to him against rank and fortune of others and a long
course of important services to his Lordp Why so many Gen-
tlemen in the Council and so many others out of it, who have
fifty times his Capacity to support the Rights of the Proprietor
and to serve the people in the Execution of Offices, thus
insultingly trampled upon to make Way for this Obscure
Child of Fortune? and to show how obnoxious he is, there
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