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Cumberland, yet, if the Measures mentioned in Captain Beall's Letter
of the Second of December, inclosed in your Message of the Seventh,
should put it out of your's and all the King's Officers Power, to
supply any Troops the King may leave at that Fort with Provisions,
or should compel his Garrison to abandon that Place, with it's Ar-
tillery and Stores, to his Majesty's Enemies, it would give us equal
Concern with your Excellency.
If any Member of our House has done any unwarrantable Act in
Frederick County, to prejudice his Majesty's Service, we don't
doubt but that your Excellency, who is invested with the executive
Power in this Government, will take Care that every legal Step is
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L. HI. J.
Liber No. 49
Dec. 9
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taken to bring him to condign Punishment.
The ample Provision we have this Session endeavoured to make
for his Majesty's Service, by a Bill sent to the Upper House, will,
we hope, convince every impartial Man, that your Excellency could
not have the least Reason to suspect, that any Thing done by a
Member of our House, to obstruct his Majesty's Service, could
be with our Approbation; and that the groundless Insinuation implied
in the Words (" not with your Approbation I hope ") thrown into
your Excellency's Message, could proceed from nothing but an
ungenerous Disposition in you to propagate an Opinion, that the
Conduct of this House has afforded Room for a Suspicion of our
being Disaffected to his Majesty. It will give us as great Concern,
as it possibly can your Excellency, to find any Measures have been
taken by the Back Inhabitants to obstruct his Majesty's Service;
and our Proceedings will manifest to the World, that we have always
hitherto used our utmost Endeavours to avert the Evils that have
more immediately threatened those People, and we are Resolved
still to pursue the same Conduct : We are under the greatest Anxiety
for them, and have already used our best Endeavours for their
Relief by a Bill for that Purpose sent to the Upper House; in which
such Rates were settled for Waggon Hire, as would have made them
easy, and prevented their taking any ill-advised Steps, that might
lay you under Difficulties, or bring Ruin on themselves.
We hope we shall not be answerable for what Col. Cresap may
have told the People, in Relation to his Majesty's Fort: Our Re-
solves are public, and we don't doubt but we shall be able to justify
them. We hope the Publick on the Frontiers will be better advised
than to continue to detain any Waggons that have been legally
pressed from them for his Majesty's Service: If they should not,
we are persuaded your Excellency will think it your Duty to have
the Laws put in Execution against them.
Whatever Steps the Earl of Loudoun, or the Officer appointed
under his Lordship to command the Forces that have been raised &
supported for the Defence of This and the Two Neighbouring
Colonies, may think proper to take on this Occasion, we fully depend
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