98 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

some hint of having left behind him in England a Letter you
had been pleased to write to me relative to himself, I have
scarcely seen him twice since his Arrival, as he does not visit
any Person with whom I am acquainted & indeed is said to be
much given to drinking. When the Gentlemen of the Council
meet I shall communicate to them the Contents of the Letter

you favoured me with the 9^th of March & wherein you advise

me of the Steps you took to have our Addresses on occa-
sion of the Prince of Wales's Birth presented to their Majesties
for which we are much obliged to you. I am &c.

Letter Bk.III

[Sharpe to Egremont.]

To The Earl of Egremont. Annapolis the 8^th of June 1763.
My Lord
I now do myself the honour to acknowledge the Receipt of
Your Ldp's Letter dated the 18^th of Feb^ylast with a Postscript
added the 16^th of March by which Your Ldp was pleased to
inform me that M^r Nevill Secretary to His Majesty's Embassy
to the Court of France had arrived at London the 15^th of Feb^y
with the Definitive Treaty of Peace between His Majesty &
the most Christian & Catholick Kings & that the Ratifications
of the Treaty were exchanged on the 10^th of March, which
important Event I did not fail to have communicated to His
Majesty's Subjects in this Province, an Event on which I most
heartily congratulate Your Ldp & am with the utmost
Respect.

[Sharpe to Board of Trade.]
To The Lords of Trade. Annapolis the 8^th June 1763.

My T.ds.

I do myself the honour to acknowledge the Receipt of Your
Lordships Letter of the 9 of March last, with which were
inclosed Copies of an Order of His late Majesty in Council
dated the 11 March 1752 of a Letter from the Earl of Holder-
nesse at that time Secretary of State to the then Lords of
Trade & Plantations & of an Instruction that was given the
same Year to the several Governors of His Majesty's Colonies
in America relative to & prescribing the manner in which they
were thence forward to correspond with the Board which
Your Ldps at present compose to which Instructions & all
such others as Your Ldps may be pleased to send me I shall
at all times endeavour to pay due Obedience, & shall not fail
to send Your Ldps the earliest Information of it should any
thing material happen within this Province. I am &c.