84 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk.III

bound to Maryland some Gentⁿ in a distant part of this Pro-
vince upon Serjeant Halls producing to them a Letter from
Gov^r Popple furnished him as Commander of the Detachment
with sundry necessaries & Cash amounting together with sixty
Dollars which I have myself this Day advanced him to the Sum
of £73 18 3 stg & as I have on the Credit of Your Govern^t
promised to reimburse & satisfy the two Gentⁿ I have taken
from the Sergeant Bills of Excha payable to myself for the
whole Sum, the First of which Bills I now take the Liberty to
inclose to Your Excellency in hopes you will be so kind as to
present them to the Gentⁿ on whom they are respectively
drawn & to remit me as soon as you shall be able to procure
them a Sett or Setts of good Bills on London for the Sum
abovementioned. I am with &c
To His Excell^cy Franc^s Bernard Esq^r Hor^o Sharpe

[Sharpe to Egremont.]

To The Earl of Egremont. Annapolis the 20^th of Feb^y 1763.
My Lord
Having lately had the satisfaction to receive the Letter by
which Your Ldp on the 27^th of November last was pleased
to acquaint me with the fortunate Issue of His Majesty's
Endeavours to put an End to the Calamities of War, & also to
receive a Copy of the preliminary articles which had been
signed at Fontainebleau by His Grace the Duke of Bedford &
the Plenepotentiaries of France & Spain the 3^d of November
& were afterwards ratified & exchanged at Versailles I now do
myself the honour to congratulate Your Ldp on so great &
happy an Event & to inform Your Ldp that in Obedience to
His Majesty's pleasure signified to me by Your Ldp I have by
proclamation notified to all His Loyal & dutiful Subjects under
my Government the most agreeable News & orders contained
in the King's Proclamation of the 26^th of November last rela-
tive to the Cessation of Hostilities to which they will readily
& joyfully pay due Obedience. I am &c.

Original.

[Board of Trade to Sharpe.]

Whitehall March 9^th 1763.
Sir

His Majesty having appointed us His Commissioners for

promoting the Trade of this Kingdom, and for inspecting and
improving His Majesty's foreign Colonies and Plantations.
We take this the earliest opportunity of acquainting you there-
with, and transmitting to you the inclosed Copy of the Order