146 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

from you: other Corespondents & Merch^ts here say it was a
Warm meeting. Men here, as ab^l you are mischevious &
fresh Ministers are very inquisitive. British America is under
Embarasement, Quiet Disposition her only Cure. Brag's a
Good Dog, But holdfast's a Better. Especially the English
Lyon. Inclosed are to Let^rs from his Lord^p to you. March
the 30^th
April 3^d upon closing & delivery to Cap^t Love have y^rs
Dec^r 28^th & wherein you acknowledge y^r rec^t of my last Let^rs
wrote you to Sept^r I shall not take much time in answ^r to y^rs
my answ^r being almost remarked as to suit the contents of
y^r Let^r now rec^d with regard to the Lo. H-s's Conduct &
Spirit, the same perverseness by you & by others I hear con-
tinues. The Fortitude join'd to y^r resolutions, that you could
not pass the Tobacco Inspection Law unless they complyed to
submit to their Superiors Directions joined with Interest
pecuniary Respecting & touching the whole Public & Staple
temporized them to yeild consent, yet their complyance fail'd
you (contrary to Law) to yeild just consent to y^r requisitions
for paym^t of the Malitia, you had with Hon^ble Care & the
Malitia done for the security of their Lives & fortunes, in
short they reject all that can redoun to the Proprietor & his
Administration, slur his rights & attempt ag^t Rule to Lurch
his Honour & rights, is the attempt better, lately by Bill than
requiring his concessions to their rights and casting his Alien-
ation Fine as a stray. As to M^r Dulany's say, " that for his
part he had no Idea of a right with^t a Remedy & that he
could not see how his Lordship could support any claim of
pretensions to such an Emolum^t" id est the Ordinary Lycences
such Denotation & he may denote it publickly as a Mark of
his Popularity to the unthinking & by plausibility gain esteem.
As to pretentious Vide 1664. 1674 & vide Acts of Assembly
in 1717 (23 & 26) before cited, allow'd his right enjoyed &
rec^d shall or can or is it just, reasonable, that his Lord^ps Benev-
olence to his Province in time of Danger, be a Bar to his claim
of right acknowledged on Record, & shall any Power, can they
constitutionaly do it, to take his Lord^ps Property given with
Generosity & a sufficient tract of Land whereon the House
Governor's & Proprietors House stands by their request,
yeilded to & given & not finished by them from contumely,
have they any Plea to shittlecock his Lord^ps Property when
or How they Please ? feign Charity, a school Academy, an
unnessary expence during the Infancy of the Colony, before
Ignorance in Gen^l by foundations to improve by Grammar &
comon Arithmetick: And this their claims with Effrontry with^t
any Remonstrance to yield his complyance their Lord Para-
mount, send to him for his right, subscribe to it, ad Libitum