92 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

was well so lately & I most heartily congratulate you on the
happy Consequences of His Majesty's Endeavours to bring
about a glorious & lasting Peace. With the greatest Reg^d.

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Copy of the 120^th Letter to M^r Calvert dated 4^th June 1763
Sir
The 29^th of last Month I wrote by an Officer who was going
for England in answer to the Letter you had addressed to me
the 28^thof Feb^y last ; by a Ship which I am told is just about to
sail from Choptank River for London I now transmit you a
Duplicate & embrace the same Opportunity to acknowledge
my Receipt of the Letter you were pleased to favour me with
the I^st of March with several Postscripts added thereto the 5^th
21^st & 22^d of that Month which Letter was brought me last
Wednesday morning from on board a Vessel of M^r Hanbury's
that is arrived in Potuxent River. I am glad to find that the
answer I gave to the Assembly's long Address last Session is
approved of & that you are satisfied with all my Proceedings.
A Letter which the Earl of Egremont lately sent Governor
Hamilton in order to be laid before the Assembly of Penn-
sylvania whose Conduct he severely blames gives us great
Reason to believe that the Ministry will not again enjoin us to
apply to our respective Assemblies for Supplies so that I hope
all our Squabbles & Contentions about money Bills are at an
End. Should I be disappointed in such hope & be again
directed to call on them for Aids you may depend on my
paying due Regard to what you have wrote to me relative to
those matters. Having already transmitted you in my Letters
dated the 10^th of July 1758, 26^th of May 1760 & my last Letter
of which I now send you a Duplicate all that occurred to me
when I have been considering by what means or ways Money
might be most easily raised here lor the Support of Troops 1
cannot really think of any other Scheme to communicate to
you, but if the Ministry's Plan is to raise the Money by a Poll-
Tax (which you know is what the People of this Province have
been most accustomed to You may give in our Number as
follows viz. White Inhabitants 114322 Black 49675 ; together
are 164007 which is agreeable to the Constables Lists return' d
about two years ago. We have a Report here that the Ministry
have some thoughts of raising the Money that may be wanted
to support Ten thousand American Troops by a Duty to
be imposed on every Species of Goods whatever that might
be imported from all Places except Great Britain & that such
Duties may be the more considerable & His Majesty's Sub-
jects in America may have all the Advantages which can be