140 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

of Cumberland, who I knew had spoken & had recomended
you in Council to His Late Majesty in a Military Capacity
fitting, & was the cause of much Honour done to you. That
of his Majesty's Comissⁿ & Comd^r of His Majestys Forces in
America, w^h Hon^ble Post you held, until the arrival of Gen^l
Bradock) He ask'd how Long you had been Gov^r? I reply'd
ab^l Eight years (I ought to a said ab^t Ten But by awe confus'^d)
His Majesty on Little pause: was most graciously pleased to
say, " you give me pleasure your character of him & I well
approve of him": this Testimony of his Majesty Approbation
of you is Fact. And of this Approbation & of his own Lord
Baltimore holds firm to you & my sincerity attends you, y^r
ways are Hon^ble what can hurt y^r scituation, y^r superiors obli-
gation is to you. I here inclose you his Lord^ps Let^r from
Constantinople from his residence in the suburbs of that city
& from whence his Lord^ps to me hints of his return home, he
having real Benevolence for his Province & being informed
from me by y^r intelligence of the Calamities his province is
exposed & subject to by the Invasion of the Indians, touched
with commiseration thereunto moved, has directed me & of
his own peculiar Gratuity has ordered me to transmit to you,
value laid out on his Acc^t sum of £200 ster^g in Gun-Powder
& Ball, as means the Better to enable you to defend & to
repel by force off of so cruel an Enemy from intelligence of
America the rupture with the Indians seems to abate & that
Peace is or will be concluded soon. Reports not being to be
depended upon & as to laying out the money by me as pre-
scribed by His Lord^p a Job for the merch^t & calling to mind
that his Lord^ps last £200 for the same purpose he rec^d no
provincial thanks nor Credit, & that as matters are like to
subside in peace bet. us & the Indians I opine it Best, to order
the sum to be paid you for such use & purpose in relief &
expulsion of the Indians & for the protection of the Back pro-
vincial Settlers described by his Lord^p w^h I am certain will be
Hon^bly done if necessary. I have therefore Noted in my Let^r
to M^r Lloyd " To pay you on Demand the sum of £200 sterl^g
By his Lord^p'^s order for Public Service with^t account to any
but to his Lord^p & you are to pay unto him accordingly."
since writing this his Lord^p by Let^r has ordered precisely the
Gun Powder & Bullets w^h I sent by Cap^t Love to M^r Lloyd
contradicted my order pay^t £200 to you.
Here has been By the Lords of Trade & Plantation many
consultations held also references to the Lords of the Council
con^g America Paper Currency, the determination of such con-
sultations By Both Boards is to make report to his Majesty
for permission of an Act of Parliament to stop all coin of Cur-
rency thro'out America in value not to be offered as good