430 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. V

doubt but Justice will be done & their Claims & pretensions
be duly considered. I sometime ago received a Letter from
Ld Shelburns Secretary about that Sawyer you mention who
was thereupon released & carried back to Bristol. It has
been usual for Merchants losing at Sea Tobacco exported
from this Province to obtain such an Order from His Ldp as
you mention but the granting it was altogether a Matter of
Favour the Act of 1704 under which the One Shilling p^r Hhd
is now collected being altogether Silent with respect to such
Re-shipping Duty free. The Trial about My Lady's Mannour
claimed by Brerewood is put off till May, the Attorney General
havipg by a very severe Sickness been rendered unable to
bring it on at the last Court or to argue a Cause of such
Importance, having taken Notice of All the Material Parts of
your Letter that seemed to require an immediate Answer I
shall at this time only add that with sincere Regard & Esteem
I am &c.

Original.

[Hamersley to Sharpe.]

Serj^ts Inn London 10^th Nov^r 1767.
Hon^d S^r
I now return to your Excellency's Letter of 9^th June and am
at the same time to acknowledge your subsequent favor of
27^th July.
I have had the honor to Confer fully with Lord Baltimore,
upon the Affair of M^r Robert Goldsborough, and his Lordship
is so fully convinced of the falsehood and wickedness of the
representations made against him, and so thoroughly satisfyed
in his honor, Zeal, and Attachment, that I have it in particular
Command from his Lordship to desire he may be directly
called to the Council Board, as of his Lordships own imme-
diate appointment, with every mark of regard and Confi-
dence, and Contempt of the Scandalous Misrepresentations
so Villainously Propagated against him, which you will please
to assure him his Lordship never did, nor will Pay the least
regard to. Could they have been Credited, M^r Goldsborough
was equally unfit for the Office of Attorney General, as that
of a Counsellor of State.
His Lordship likewise approves of M^r Bordley's succession
to Coll. Hooper's Seat at the Council Board, and you will
please to Call him up accordingly. I do not know whether
what I write is always sufficient upon these occasions, but, If
you would at any time have a more immediate appointment
by his Lordship to be forwarded from hence, you will please
to Intimate as much, and it shall be duly sent.
The Escheat upon the Death of an Alien is a Sufficient