Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 243

[Gage to Sharpe.]

New York December 9^th 1765
Sir,
The Commandant for His most Christian Majesty, and
the Chief Judge of the Province of Louissianna having lately
transmitted Me, an Account of a most horrid Murder com-
mitted by some English Men, on One M^r Denoyer, in His
Passage from Samana, to Cape Francois: And requested Me
to use such means as I should Judge best, to discover these
Villians.
In Conformity to their desire, and having much at heart, as
every Man must, the bringing such Execrable Monsters to
Punishment: I take the Liberty of Inclosing you a Translation,
of the Declaration made by the Widow of the Deceased,
relative to the Murder of Her Husband, and the abandoning
Her and her Children in a small Canoe to the Mercy of the
Waves.
Your Humanity will readily engage You to use every
necessary Measure for the discovery of these Villians, should
chance conduct them, tho' not very likely, to any Port in Your
Government. I Am
Sir
Your Most Obedient
Humble Servant
Hon^ble Governor Sharpe Tho^s Gage
Maryland.

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[Hamersley to Sharpe.]
D^r S^r
As I think it my Duty, so it shall be my Endeavour, to give
the best and earliest Information, in my Power, of every thing
that Passes in this Country relative to the Colonys Especially
where Maryland is the least concerned. I shall Paint accord-
ing to Life and, at the same time I preserve my Candour,
hope you will not suspect my zeal, or good wishes for the
Province
I Presume you are already Possessed of the Kings Speech
and the addresses following upon it.
The 17^th being appointed for the King to meet his Parlia-
ment, & a day of some expectation I thought it Incumbent to
give my Attendance at the House of Peers foreseeing that the
Kings Speech, (or to Speak more Parliamentarily the Minis-
ters) by touching either too much, or too little, upon the
Colonies, would produce a Discussion, from whence some
Conjectures might be formed of the Sentiments of the
different Partys upon the late Capital measure respecting

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