70 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

next Letters to His Ldp take the Liberty to mention once
more old M^r Key as a Person worthy & proper to be appointed
in case of another Vacancy a Member of the Council & hope
you will second my Application. With regard to Your propo-
sition relative to D^r Scott I shall only say that if His Lordship
will be pleased to approve thereof I will speak to M^r Ross &
him & with the Formers Consent make the Alteration : After
what I have already wrote I need not tell you again how
anxious I am to give him some convincing Proof of my
Regard & Friendship, I am sure he will merit it from His
Lordship & I believe there is no Person in the Province more
esteemed by the Gentlemen of the Council in general than
himself. I presume you have long before this time received
an Account of the Enemy's having taken possession of New-
foundland, of which Conquest however we hope they will be
soon dispossessed as Troops have sailed from Hallifax for that
purpose, & I doubt not but you will also receive authentic
Accounts in a very few Days of the entire Reduction of Cuba
as a Vessel which arrived the I^st Inst at Phila^a brought an
Account of the Havanna's being surrendered to the Earl of
Albermarle the 14^th of last Month, on which glorious Event I
most heartily congratulate you & am —
P. S. M^r Ridout having desired me to pay you £1.5 on
his Acco^t I now remit you a Bill for £125 15 81/2 which with
the 9^s 31/2 ^d overremitted last time makes £126 5.

Letter Bk. III

[Sharpe to Amherst.]

To Sir Jeffery Amherst. Ann⁸ 14^th Sept^r 1762.
Sir
The Accounts given in the last Phila^a Gazette of the Gos-
ports being sailed from Hallifax for Newfoundland having
made the Merchants & Gentlemen of this Province who are
concerned with Shipping very uneasy lest Capt Jervis should
not return to Virg^a to convoy home the Tob^o Trade agreable
to an Advertisement he caused to be published before he
sailed for N York they thereupon drew up & presented me
the inclosed Petition pressing me at the same time in the
strongest Terms to write to Your Excellency ; I have taken
the Liberty to do so, & shall be very glad if you will be so
kind as to order any man of War that may arrive to the
Northward to proceed to Virg^a & convoy to Europe the Ships
which are now assembled in York River & will be there ready
in pursuance of Capt Jervis's Notification. At the same time
that I beg Your Excellency's Pardon for the trouble I give
Yon permit me to acknowledge the favour of Your Letter of
the 6^th Inst & heartily to congratulate you on the great &