256 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769.

Lib. C. B.
No. 20

at the last Assizes held in and for the said County, which
issued accordingly.

At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Wednesday
the 26^th Day of October in the Eighteenth Year of his Lord-
ship's Dominion Anno Domini 1768.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor.

Daniel Dulany Esq^r John Beale Bordley Esq^r
The Honble John Ridout Esq^r

This day being appointed for a Hearing on the Complaint
of Edward Talbot against William Ireland the same is Or-
dered to be postponed.
His Excellency was pleased to lay before this Board a
Letter, dated the 20^th of July last, which he had received from
M^r Hugh Hamersley, and also another Letter dated the 30^th
of the same Month from his Lordship the Right honourable
the Lord Proprietary, which said two Letters were Ordered
to be Entered.

Serj^ts Inn London 20^th July 1768.
D^r S^r
It is with equal reluctance Lord Baltimore dictates, and
my Pen transmits his present Commands. His early Con-
nection with your Excellency from his first Stepping into
Manhood, The Attention and regard you have Constantly
paid him, your unwearied Zeal to promote the Welfare of his
Province, the Uninterrupted harmony which has ever Sub-
sisted, not only between you and him, but between you and
every Branch of his Government, and the very acceptable
light in which your Services have been constantly receiv'd
by your King and Country here, all Concur to make his Lord-
ship wish that Connection might have been Co-extensive with
your Lives, unless your own better fortune had first inclined
you to dissolve the Union. But Your Excellency is no
Stranger to the Alliance some time since made by his Lord-
ships Sister with M^r Eden, a Lieu^t in the Coldstream Regiment
of Guards, and a Younger Brother of S^{t
John Eden an Antient
Baronet in the County of Durham. A Similitude of Pursuits,
joined to his Lordship's Partiality for his Sister, naturally led
him to Entertain hopes of one Day succeeding your Excel-
lency; hitherto his Lordship has resisted every temptation,
Except that Superior one which has so attach'd him to you.
But the workings of Nature, the Merits of his Brother in}