552 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. V

[Sharpe to Hamersley.]

Copy of Letter to M^r Hamersley Dated Talbot County
Nov^r 10^th 1768
Sir
Being informed that a Ship will sail within these few Days
from Wye River for London I shall herewith leave to be
delivered to the Master a Box containing a Plan of the
Boundary Lines lately run annexed to one Copy of the Report
in which the Commissioners have joined & agreed to transmit
to their respective Constituents. I am now on my Return
from the Meeting & shall write to you again immediately on
my Arrival at Annapolis. You may expect to receive a Dupli-
cate of the Report by a Ship that is to sail from Potuxent the
first of next Month & the Pennsylvania Gentlemen will
transmit two others by the earliest Opportunities from Phila-
delphia. I am &c.

Original.

[Hillsborough to Sharpe.]

Whitehall 15^th Nov^r 1768
Sir,
I have received, and laid before the King, your several
Letters to me from N^o 1 to N^o 11, & have the satisfaction to
express to you His Majesty's approbation of the attention you
have in general shewn to all His commands, and more par-
ticularly to those communicated to you in my Letter of the
21^st of April.
It is a great concern to His Majesty to find, that the
Assembly of Maryland has, in the business of the circular
Letter from the Speaker of the House of Representatives of
Massachusetts Bay, acted with so little respect to His Majesty's
sentiments upon that unwarrantable proceeding, and that they
have thought fit to decline sending their Petition to his
Majesty on the subject of the late Acts of Parliament, either
through the Proprietor, or his Deputy in the Government
there, which His Majesty considers as the only proper and
constitutional channel.
These circumstances of disrespect to the Crown and undu-
tiful behaviour on the part of the Assembly, have not however
inclined His Majesty to shew the least disregard to the peti-
tion which has been delivered to me by M^r Montagu ; on the
contrary His Majesty has considered it with attention, and
having well weighed the purport and tenor thereof, has com-
manded me to signify to you, that He does disapprove this
petition, as containing assertions and setting up claims, incon-
sistent with the Constitution, and tending to deny and draw