386 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 28-Dec. 16, 1757.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 49
Dec. 16

them; and if those Judgments are Erroneous, I am in Hopes you will
not think it unreasonable, that he should not be obliged to pay the
Money under them.

Hor.^o Sharpe.
16^th December, 1757.

Which said Message was Read, and Referred for Consideration
of the next Assembly.

His Excellency the Governor communicated to Mr. Speaker, the
following Message, viz.

Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
As the Address which you were pleased to present to me Yesterday
Morning, seems to be designed as an Answer to the Earl of Loudoun's
Letter, more than to any Message of mine, you may depend upon my
sending it to him according to your Desire. It can serve no Purpose,
I apprehend, to lay before his Lordship a Copy of the whole Bill that
you framed this Session: Those Clauses of it that were, in your

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Opinion, calculated to make ample Provision for the Accommodation
of such of his Majesty's Forces as are or may be ordered hither for
Winter Quarters, and that were to have provided for the Support of
300 Men on the Frontiers of this Province, are, I conceive, as much
of the Bill as the Earl of Loudoun would have any Curiosity to read,
and of these Parts I have already sent his Lordship a Transcript.

Your humble Advice to his Lordship, to order all his Majesty's
Artillery and Stores from Fort Cumberland, or in other Words, to
abandon it, and your Intimation afterwards, that if his Majesty's
Service in general does make it necessary that a Garrison should be
supported near that Place, you are not the People thai might be ex-
pected to provide for it's support, will not, I am afraid, have any
good Effect.
But since you are of Opinion, that this Address, together with a
Sight of your Bill, will justify your Conduct to the Earl of Loudoun,
I shall forbear to make any Remarks thereupon, lest you should say
my Design was to persuade his Lordship, or to propagate an Opinion,
that there is Room for a Suspicion of your being disaffected to his
Majesty. His Lordship will judge for himself, and I assure you I
will neither say nor do any Thing to biass him. If he shall be con-
vinced by your Conduct this Sessions, that you are the loyal People
you profess yourselves, it will be well, and I shall be satisfied: But
should your Proceedings incline him to entertain a different Opinion,
you will not, I hope, lay the Blame upon me. There is only one Part
of that Address that I shall take particular Notice of, and it is that
where you say you have been told, Fort Cumberland was first begun
by some Gentlemen of the Ohio Company as a Store-House. Who-
ever gave you that Information told you a Falsehood, not that it is