96 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe,

Letter Bk. IV

9

General, You may judge from what I sometime ago wrote
concerning him that he does not want my good Opinion. I
shall be very glad to receive His Ldp's Consent to the pro-
posal I made with regard to M^r Ross & D^r Scott & am well
pleased to find that you think His Ldp will not hesitate to
comply with my Request. As the Earl of Egremont in his
Letter dated the10^th of June seems to have wrote on purpose
that His Majesty's Sentiments of their Proceedings may be
communicated to the Assembly & in the latter End of it
directs me to make the same known to them I do not think I
can take the Liberty to keep the Contents of it secret, but to
avoid the Evil you seem to apprehend I shall with the Advice
of the Council delay doing so till they are about to be pro-
rogued at the End of next Session which will probably be the
only Session they will have before a new Election, the
Assembly now stands prorogued to October next when as
our Inspection Law expires the December following there
will I conceive be a necessity for my meeting them. I read &
delivered your Letter to M^r Ridout who has since stated an
Account by which it seems to me that he has by Payment
made by your Order to M^r Tasker & by Bills of Exchange
remitted directly to yourself paid all that you were pleased to
require from him by your Letter of the 24^th of April 1762 out
of the Fees which accrued from the Secretary's Office during
his Continuance therein viz. from the 18^th of October 1760 to
the 24^th of June following, & also that in case the Bill for Fifty
Pounds which he remitted to you in a Letter dated the 14^th of
February & which you now return protested had been duly
paid that Bill together with the £2184 which he paid M^r
Bordley for your use (imagining such a Step would have
been rather more agreeable than for him to have remitted a
Bill to yourself for the broken time) would have fully satisfied
your Claim against him on account of the Commissary's
Office : to make up for that protested Bill the Goodness of
which we had not the least Reason to doubt he will now
inclose you others so as to ballance the Account agreeable to
your Intentions, if it does not you will be pleased to signify
to me what should have been farther done & I am satisfied
he will readily comply with your Requisition. I have for-
warded your Letter to M^r Calvert & delivered that which
came directed to D^r Steuart whenever the former chooses to
go to England he will have my Consent to do so, but I under-
stand he has drop't all thoughts of taking such a Voyage this
Summer. The Parchments containing Matters relative to the
Settlement of this Province pursuant to Marriage Articles
together with His Ldp's Instructions concerning them shall
be recorded in the Council Records agreeable to Your Direc-