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hardship with^t aggravating it, by Preferring or even putting
the first Comer upon an equal footing with his Family, and
therefore his Lordship much Commends the Stop put by your
Excellency to the Proceeding in the Case of the Poor German,
and desires you will put the finishing hand to the good work
already begun, by directing the preference to be immediately
given to his Heirs Caeteris paribus.
His Lordship's Inclinations are still the same as ever they
were to favor aliens Children of every Denomination, upon
the same Liberality of Principle, which so Wisely and Politi-
cally, as well as humanely, actuated the upper House, when
the intended Law miscarried. I have not at present sent out
any New Instruction upon this Head, as rather wishing to
have it first Considered and sketched out by your Excellency.
But should not the Preference to be given to the Heirs of
Aliens be Conditional, on their applying within a Limited
time, and upon the same terms as any Indifferent Person. As
to the Caution Money his Lordship does not think himself at
present sufficiently Informed to give any directions about it,
But desires your Excellency will immediately give the neces-
sary Orders in the Principal Affair, and any Temporary direc-
tions you think proper as to the Caution Money in the case of
Aliens.
His Lordship by no means wishes to see an Episcopal
Palace rise in America, or to have S^t Peter's Chair Trans-
ferred to Maryland : But is Determined to Support his
Charter Rights, by what ever Body of men attacked, and
hopes no branch of the Legislature of the Province will be
wanting to him or themselves in the day of Tryal, Especially
to resist all Church attacks, and much approves your refusal
to Convene the Body of the Clergy for that or any such pur-
pose, But thinks you may as well suspend for the present
Communicating the Business to either the Council or the
Assembly, as it may possibly come under the Consideration of
Government here, & If it does I am very Inclined to think the
Colonys will be as unanimous as ever they were upon any
former Occasion, and therefore Let these Schemers Lay what
they have to Offer before the Assembly in their own Names,
which may be better taken than for his Lordship to Interfere
Officiously. Should you be Blessed w^th a Bishop will he not
want your Excellencys Perquisites arising from Marriage
Licences?
M^r Garth still continues quiet, and I hear no talk of an
Agency Bill, or any thing else from that Quarter at present.
It gives me great pleasure to find the Papers for suffering
the Recovery are Safely Arrived, and that the Recovery has
been since suffered ; and Lord Baltimore has just given me