Correspondence of Gov. Horatio Sharps, 1754-1765. 547

Liberty & Property! down with Excise & 1/2 on Porter,
Down with Bootes. Huzza! these are the chimes of the
Times.

May the 9^th on closing I have a Let^r from his Lord^p at
Naples, he approves of y^r appointment of M^r Key to be of
his Council & a Member of His Upper House of Assembly
in Maryland He likewise approves of your placing M^r Scott
as Clerk of the Council on the footing & in the same manner
as been usual Practiced by his predecessors the Lord Pro-
prietors £ you are to Act Accordingly. I know not how you
have expressed on this Latter matter of Appointment to
him i: e. of M^r Scott, he terminates the appointm^t to be
without discourse to be with the Up^r House, as to their liking
thereon, w^h would be giving them a precedent to consider of
what they have nothing to do with, that being so he forbids
y^r desiring any such thing says tis his undoubted right to
appoint

To His Excell^y Gov^r Sharpe in Maryland.

[Cecilius Calvert to Horatio Sharpe]

Woodcote June 20^th 1763
Sir

I have the pleasure of y^rs April the 26^th Hope e'r this my
Let^r the I^st of March is with you, transmitted in a Box with
Deeds, Let" & other provincial Papers. Since, I've write
By M^r Kay & By M^r Dulany; By the last to you My Lord's
approbation of M^r Kay the Elder to be of the Council & M^r
Ross as Clerk of the Council. Y^r Let^rs have had Loss & ob-
structions & mine in their passage by Winds & the Enemy.
By the Latter Now not Subject, from a Glorious Peace & of
which I give you Joy; the Happy Event is prosperity to
Maryland & his Majesty's Realm in America; & must tend
much to the improvement of his Lord^ps Revenues under the
happiness of y^r Attention. By his Lord^p Naples the 2^d of
May his departure was for the Levant to Constantinople &
the Islands by Greece, at the first he designs to winter, so
barr expectation of his return till ab^t Mich^mas twelve months.

From Rome is arrived a Large drawing of the Trans-
figuration of Our Saviour taken from Raphel's most famous
Picture the Alter piece of S^t Peter's, the Copy is Excellent,
sent by my Lord a present to the King. Some few days past,
I had the Honour personally to deliver it to His Majesty,
who received it Graciously. I was near an Hour with him
alone, he spoke much of Maryland; Int^r Als: Ask'd if the
Province was Quiet^r I reply'd yes, says he Quite Quiet? I
answ^d Save Sir, such Persons as are in all Govern^t of Dis-