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home & of your Intention to leave Virga sometime in Novemr
I desire you will also accept my grateful Acknowledgments
for your kind offer & Promise to serve me if after your Return
to Great Britain you shall at any time find it in your Power.
I must beg the favour of you to let me know what time you
will certainly embark that I may get such Letters as I shall
beg leave to trouble you with ready. I suppose I shall be
able to judge before that time whether our Assembly will be
prevailed on to do any thing more for our security, at present
they talk of disbanding all our Troops & leaving it to the
Frontier Inhabitants to defend themselves. They are as I
supposed they would be much chagrined that most of our
Men have been ordered to garrison Fort Cumberland & insist
that the Frontier Inhabitants could not receive the least pro-
tection from Troops so employed. I am sorry to inform you
that a Gentleman who came hither this Day from Phila" brings
an Accot of Sr Iohn St Clair's having died at Albany last
Thursday Se'n night.
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[Sharpe to Baltimore.]
6th Octr 1756. [1757]
My Ld
In my Letter dated the 5th Septr I informed Your Ldp that
I had by the Advice of the Council dissolved the late Assembly
and issued Writs for the Election of a New One which met
here the 28th of last Month when I opened the Session as usual
with a Speech of which I inclose Your Ldp a Copy together
with Copies of the Addresses that were presented to Me by
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both Houses in Answer thereto. As I had Nothing to ask of
them but what the least Regard for the Safety & Ease of the
People would induce them to grant I thought it unnecessary
to be so importunate as I have been on former Occasions &
the rather because the Conduct of all our Assemblies manifest
that the more earnest or anxious a Governor seems to obtain
Supplies the more the Representatives of the People clog the
Bills whereby Provision is to be made for the Service that is
recommended to them. So much time has been spent by
them since they met in determining contested Elections, ap-
pointing. Committees & sounding each others Inclinations
that little or no Business has been yet done, neither is it yet
easy to guess what will be the Issue of their Deliberations,
tho indeed I am apprehensive that they are in general very
averse to keeping up so great Number of Men as have been
supported this last Summer for the Protection of the Frontier
Inhabitants. I have not heard any thing of the Earl of Lou-
doun's Motions since I last addressed Myself to Your Ldp, nor
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