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

Suggest to their correspondents here, is of little import to
his Lordship, no regard with me. respecting the Addresses
of Both Houses by you inclosed with your Speech, his Lord-
ship perused and had Satisfaction in your Endeavours to-
wards his Majesty's Service, the same of the Upper House,
But the obstinate Spirit still continued during the Sessions
of Assembly by yours the 11^th of May; I think is the ninth
Effort of the Assessment Bill Defeated by Cogent Argument
by the Upper House against the Lower House, as a Bill of
dangerous Consequence, Illegal and oppressive; Subjoined
by opinion of his Majesty's Attorney General, Non Obs-
tante. the Lower House adhere without the least Deviation
in Obstruction to His Majesty's Service, tho Bound in Duty
to the King, and defence of themselves and Country; Tis
clear by the Votes and Proceedings of the Lower House their
Alpha and Omega the same, Id Est, the members will not
Comply But cloke their Ill intentions by Subterfuge Base and
weak, calculated as you very justly observe to make the
People Believe that the miscarriage of all the money Bills
offered to the Upper House is owing to some unreasonable
Instruction from his Lordship, a Notion the Faction have
been constantly propagating among their Constituents, tho
they never before took the Liberty to assert, so much in their
Proceedings. His Lordship is obliged to you for your ex-
onerating him by your Answer to the Lower House, their
long Address to you calculated seemingly to confirm the same
opinion, against which your Duty justly Spurn'd at that the
Dispute was not between His Lordship and the People but
between the two Houses of Assembly, or rather between the
People themselves as the Upper House intimated in their
address to you, the People are Divided about it, some adhere
others oppose, the Reflection on the Lord Proprietor, the
obstruction hinted at of the Money Bills to be by the Lord
Proprietor Obstructed is very groundless, evidently witness'd
by the £40000 Bill passed for his Majesty's Service, besides
other Acts passed; under all such Circumstances His Lord-
ship the Lord Proprietor has Chearfully Assented to such
Acts to be Taxed, and has paid in Common for all his Lands
under Occupation on the same footing' as was Assessed on
all Landed Persons in the Province Besides Submitting to
the Appropriation by Bill to his Ordinary and Hawkers and
Pedlars Licences, no small Revenue for that purpose; this is
well known to all by such Assembly Acts Extant and by
him Assented to, tho by Express words by an Act of As-
sembly in 1649. all Burthen by War is by that Act Dis-
burthen'd off from the Lord Proprietors, the Support of War
and the defence of the Province is by that Act to be Dis-