Correspondence of Gov. Horatio Sharpe, 1754-1765. 495

he thinks himself happy in your Administration of his
Province.

I have delivered yours inclosed to Sir Thomas Robinson
Secretary of State & yours to your Brother William. Our
men of War continue making French Reprizals which in
Our Ports are numerable. The French King has released
the Blandford Man of War who is arrived at Plymouth,
She was taken by the French before any Reprizal was made
by our Navy. Invasions are threatened from France. Our,
Forces are Augmenting with Our Navy. The Parliament
is near Meeting, a war is thought unavoidable. M^r Fox
Secretary at War is said will be appointed Secretary of
State in the Room of Sir Thomas Robinson who is to be
removed to another Office; many other Changes in Offices is
talk'd of to be at the Parliament's Meeting.

I am with peculiar Esteem

Your Sincere Friend

& obliged humble Servant

Cecil^s Calvert

Pos^t. To the Balance due to John Emory as p his Ac-
count £59..2..3 I have not at present Opportunity to lay the
same before his Lordship, which I will do so soon as I can &
of which you shall hear of. My Lord is very uneasy at M^r
Lloyd's detention of his Money, he desires you will turn
your thought for another Agent to be appointed; I have
wrote to him it seems of no purpose, I understand from
others he is much out of humour at M^r Charles Goldsborough
not being of the Council as he desiring it. Surely it can't be
the reason nor cause of his not transmitting the money,
thereby laying My Lord under Distress. I have had no Ac-
count from him. If he so goes on It will be impossible for
me to Support him in the Continuance of his Lordship's
favour. I desire you'l frankly tell him of this as from me
who am desirous of being his friend. Though tired of writ-
ing to him on important Affairs from December last to which
he has given me no Answers. I wrote the 9^th of September,
Inclosed were My Lord's Instructions which I hope will
arrive Safe; as it contains his Lordship's Acquiescence to the
Ordinary Licences being further Mortgaged as a Loan for
the present Publick Emergency, he being only moved there--
unto on Account of General Bradock's Defeat. If the In-
structions should fail to come to hand, you may safely pass
such an Act.

I am extreamly obliged & thank you for your return &
paym^t to me by Bills of Ex^a amt^g to £124: 16s. In mine of
the 12^th of June last I return'd you Protest'd Mary Young's