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be taken in the Choice of its members who ought at least for
the most part to be Gentn of good Abilities, acquainted with
the nature of the Government & not Strangers to publick
Business, otherwise they will not be able to give good Reasons
for their own Conduct, or oppose the measures that will at
times be pursued by the Lower House of Assembly in order
to extend their own Power & render the other Branches of the
Legislature of little Consequence, Great Care should as you
observe be also taken that no Person be advanced to a Seat
there of whose Attachment to the Proprietary & his Governr
there is the least Room to doubt; which two Maxims or
Rules I hope you are convinced that I have always endeav-
oured most strictly to observe when I first mentioned Mr
Dulany as a proper Person to succeed his Father, which I did
the 10th of Decr 1753, I had all the reason in the world to
believe I should never have Cause to repent of my Recom-
mendation; His Abilities to serve His Ldp were notorious,
he had always manifested an Inclination to do so, & in the
Lower House of Assembly had during more Sessions than one
defended the measures of Governl & opposed the Violence of
a popular Faction, besides I had Room to hope that if he
should ever seem inclined to act a different part a Hint from
his Father in Law Mr Tasker for whose Family His Ldp &
his Ancestor have done such great Things would restrain him
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within the Bounds of his Duty. What were His Ldp's Objec-
tions to promoting him at that time I cannot tell but you know
I was required to recommend some other Person which I
accordingly did; however as I was still in hopes that Mr
Dulany tho he was chagrined at another's being preferred
before him; might be secured in His Ldp's Interest I took
the Liberty, to mention him in more than one Letter after-
wards, of which he had Intimations given him, but from your
telling him in your Lett" of March 1756 "that he was to
address me as the Way to advance to Favour from My Ld "
I suppose he concluded that I had been amusing him with
Stories when I had assured him that I had upon his Father's
Decease & afterwards wrote to His Ldp & Yourself in his
Favour & it is undoubtedly owing to his being thus confirmed
in an Opinion that His Ldp had never promoted him but thro
fear of him, & that either you or I or both of us dealt treach-
erously with him on that Occasion that his Conduct hath not
been at all times since quite agreeable to my Wishes; & as
neither Mr Tasker, The Colonel, Mr Dulany himself nor his
Brother Dennis the Clerk of Kent Coty received their Offices
& Preferment immediately from me or thro my means but by
a direct Application to His Ldp or Yourself if they pay me
only common Respect it is as much as I can reasonably expect
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