Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 549

of which I doubt not he sent you a Copy, about the same
time a Piece was published here against him at the Request as
twas said of One of the Parishioners giving a different Account
from what he had done of the Riot at Frederick Town &
laying the whole Blame at his own Door, to this he replied in
the Pennsylvania Chronicle & expressly accused M^r Dulany
of exciting the Mob against him but when on his Return
hither I intimated to him that if he could prove that Fact I
thought he should do so before Me & the Council in order
that proper Cognizance might be taken thereof he waved the
Matter & declined acknowledging himself the Author of the
Piece in question. In Consequence of his Replication a M^r
Clapham & M^r Dakein a School Master here have since
entered the Lists & I dont think it very unlikely that the Rev^d
M^r Love & M^r Edmiston with whom in his Appeal M^r Allen
has made very free will think themselves also obliged in their
own Defence to take up the Pen against him. He is now
gone again to Frederick with a View of making up Matters
with the Vestry & I have reason to think he will not be
altogether unsuccessful. Had my Advice or Opinion weighd
at all with him when he was a Stranger in the Province he
would never have run himself into the Difficulties he has
since experienced but he then seem'd to shun me, to suspect
my good Inclinations to serve him because I did not at once
go into his measures, & to be confident that he could carry his
point in spite of all Opposition that could possibly be made to
the Scheme he had adopted. If any Credit is to be given to
him it was not so much M^r Dulany's giving him free Access
to his Study & not locking up Burn from him that made M^r
Allen press me so earnestly to take a Step I apprehended
would be productive of Mischief, as an opinion that the Measure
on the most mature Consideration had been expressly recom-
mended by both His Ldp & yourself; had not M^r Allen
push't for the Commissary's Office nor M^r W Dulany been a
Vestryman, the closest Intimacy would probably have still
subsisted between the Brother & M^r Allen but it is far from
being clear to me that there would have been then no Clamour
about Pluralities or some other Matter or to use an Expression
M^r Jordan dropt that the Train which had been laid would not
have been set fire to in some other manner. You would see
by my Letter of the 27^th of May that I was apprized of my
having Enemies & was aware of the Impossibility of pleasing
every Body where the Candidates or Competitors for the first
place in his Ldp's Favour & Friendship were so numerous, I
therefore at the time I advised you of what I apprehended was
in Contemplation wrote also to my Brother Phill to the same

purport & added " I have reason to think that at present I

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