Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 51

case all the Officers & Men to whom such Arrears of Pay
became due or Persons properly authorized to receive for
such as may be absent should not attend at the times & places
mentioned in this Advertisement farther notice will be given
them to make proper Application.
I am very sorry Your Excellency did not think Yourself at
Liberty to take any notice of that part of the Report made to
the Lds Commissioners of the Treasury by the Earl of Lou-
doun General Abercrombie & Gen^l Stanwix which relates to
myself, for indeed if I am to depend on our Assembly for a
Reimbursement of the Money which these Generals Report
to be due to me & which in fact is far short of what I really
expended on the occasions mentioned in the Letter I had the
honour to address to you the 13^th of March the Debt is
become a desperate one : I had before I troubled the Secre-
tary of State about the Matter made Application to the
Assembly for a Reimbursement but they would not make me
any Allowance the Leading Members alledging that as I had
undertaken the several Journies mentioned in my Account at
the Instance of His Majesty's Generals & been detained by
them both at N York & Philad^a I ought to apply to His Maj-
esty's Generals for payment of my Expences as well as for the
money I had been obliged to disburse for Letters received or
Expresses sent by me on His Majesty's Service. As I did not
imagine Your Excellency would think it necessary to retain
those several Letters from the Earl of Loudoun & the
Generals Abercrombie Forbes & Stanwix which I put into D^r
Ross's hands when he was about to wait on you I kept no
Copies of them but as I should be willing to have it in my
power on any occasion to shew what passed between those
Generals & myself relative to the Maryland Troops & other
things mentioned in those Letters I must desire the favour
of Your Excell^cy in case you are averse to parting with the
original Letters of which I take the Liberty to inclose you a
List to let me at least have Copies of them. I am &

Letter Bk. III

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Copy of110^th Letter to M^r Calvert Dated Annapolis the 11^th
of May 1762 Transmitted by M^r Carlyle.
Sir
In my Letter dated the 15^th of April I advised you of our
Assembly's being then sitting in consequence of Letters I had
received from the Earl of Egremont & S^r Jeffery Amherst &
that the Lower House seemed determined to adhere to their
favourite Assessment Bill. Such having been the Case as you
will see by the inclosed Copy of their Votes, they broke up

Letter Bk. IV