Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 135

land by what I can Learn is most absurd with regard to proffit
to the Judges of the Provincial Court of Judicature, the
supreme Court of Law con^g real Property and the Division
thereof; yeilding hardly a recompence & therefore furnish'd
with Judges mean & of no acquired Abilities, the direful
Event of Ignorance. To prevent this Grand Evil in whose
power But by the Legislature, who can substitute sufficient
Reward: No Doubt what is good for all, All ought to Pay:
His Lord^p is & will be ready to join & consent to the Estab-
lishment of such Judges, 'tis the salvation of Property, if I
was a provincial resident & in Assembly, I wou^d for such
Establishm^t move the Legislature, this is the most powerful
way to rectifye: of what utility is it to be writing invectives
& abuse. I shall here end these important points, something
may be done & ought strictly to be adhered to & put into
execution, that his Lord^ps rights & those of the People may
meet with fair Decision. I therefore on Lord Baltimore's
Behalf do recomend to you & all the Gentel^m of his Lord^ps
Council to seriously consider that the Provincial Court the
Supreme Court of Law by all means be thought upon & taken
to be clear off from contempt in it self & from reflecting any
to the Goverm^t 'tis the stamina, the solids to the Human Body
or like fine Thread & Hairs, w^h grow up within the flower or
Plants encompassing round the style, & on w^ch the Apices
grow at the End. on this subj^t conclude on the Let^r writers
Last Q^re "Addressed to the segacious Adepts in Political
Arithmetick in'Great Britain" if you sho^d meet him to inform
him if he means M^r Wilkes he's expelled the House of
Comons, for Libel, Effrontery & contempt, has an Action by
the House of Lords bro^t ag^t him for a Blasphemous Pamphlet
& is at Paris, (non est inventus) where he & his Manes is
hoped may rest from this Island, for his Infurnal Tracts &
discourses. By the Senate Bearly a No. his Effrontry Base,
he's run grazed by a Pistol Ball in a Duel by M^r Martin Mem-
ber in parliament, whose Father is of the Island of Antigua,
he had a Brush with the Earl of Talbot with Pistols. No
Harm. The Scotch high & Low, he has not only rub'd their
Itch but also has set them in open scorn, with prudence they
have avoided wrangle with him as a matter belonging to the
whole of them, & agreeable to the saying, what is every mans
buisness is None's — Digression often entertain^t I return to
y^r Let^rs
Y^rs the 27^th of Sept^r by Cap^t Love give pleasure by infor-
mation the Indians have not been seen on the frontiers for
months past, that Col: Boquet had defeated them before he
reached Pittsburgh. You also give pleasure of some appear-
ance of M^r Lloyd's obedience to his Lord^ps Inst^ns that he has