Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 21

Letter thinking it will save Your Ldp a considerable Sum in
Insurance if not in Freight to send it by Col^o Lloyds which
Your Ldp may depend I will not fail to do.

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Copy of 108^th Letter to M^r Calvert Dated the 15^th of Feb^y 1762.
transmitted by Capt Gowland.
Sir
Having received His Ldp's several Instructions dated the
8^th of Oct^r last, also the Letter you were pleased to address to
me the same Day with a Postscript added the 19^th of that
month & another short Letter dated the 26^th of Oct^r I embrace
the earliest opportunity to answer such parts thereof as were
not written by way of Reply to my former Letters. I dis-
patched your Packet to Col^o Lloyd & your Letter to M^r Bacon
hath been delivered but as it appeared when I had closed your
Letter to M^r Bordley as if the Seal had been broken & the
Lett^r opened I declined delivering it lest such Appearance
should have induced him to entertain Suspicions of its having
been opened out of Curiosity; however upon finding that His
Ldp was absolutely averse to M^r Ridout's acting any longer
as Com^y Gen^l I have again solicited & at length persuaded
M^r Bordley to accept that Office which tho more lucrative is
not for the Reasons that he heretofore gave me & which I
then communicated to you so agreeable to him as the Office he
now resigns to M^r Ridout who I believe is by no means dis-
pleased with the Exchange for altho by having since his
Appointment strenuously applied himself to the Study of that
Branch of the Law which relates to Testamentary Affairs, the
Duty of Executors & Administrators he had acquired a suffi-
cient Share of Knowledge & Experience to discharge with
Credit to himself the Duties of his Office, he is sensible there
are some among us who would rejoice at his Committing an
Error & therefore as I have already intimated resigns without
the least Reluctance an Office that exposed him more than
any other he can hold to the Malevolence of such as may have
look't on him with an evil Eye. As I did myself apprehend
that M^r Bordley was the most proper Person to fill the Com-
missary's Office I was not a little displeased as you must have
seen by my Letter dated the 19^th of April last at his Refusing
to succeed M^r Dulany & was inclined to attribute his Refusal
to a different Motive from what he himself assigned however
the Readiness he shewed to assist M^r Ridout lessened my
Chagrine & as he hath now by accepting the Commissary's
Office made every thing easy I will endeavour to forget all
that hath past & hope I shall never again have such reason as

Letter Bk. IV