The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

174 COMMONS JOURNAL, APRIL 17, 1758–MAY 19, 1758Resolved That this House will make Provission for paying the SaidDaniel Pepper fifty Six Shillings Proclamation Money per Diem, for his Servicesas Agent to the Creek Nation with two Servants to attend him as theLaw directs, when it Shall be made appear to the House, the Time he wasActually in that Service.The 8th, No. 472, on a third Account of Commissary Pinckneys &The 9th, No. 473, On a List of the officer’s who had no Quarters assign’dthem, were Severally agreed to by the House.The Last Article of the Report was Agreed to by the House.Ordered That a Message be prepared to be sent humbly to acquaint hisExcellency the Governor with the purport of the Said Last Article of the saidReport.A Message from his Excellency the Governor by Mr. Bassnett.Mr. Speaker & Gentlemen,I have received a Letter from the Right Honorable William Pitt Esqr.,one of his Majestys Principal Secretaries of State, dated the 30th day of DecemberLast, wherein he is pleas’d to Express himself in the following terms. 15“His Majesty having nothing more at heart than to repair the Losses anddisappointments of the Last inactive & Unhappy Campaign and by the mostvigorus & Extensive Efforts to Avert by the Blessing of God on his Arms, theDangers depending on North America, And not doubting That all hisfaithfull & brave Subjects there will chearfully Co-operate with, and Secondto the utmost the Large Expence & Extraordinary Succours supply’d by thisKingdom for their Preservation & Defence, And his Majesty Considering thatthe Several Provinces from Pensylvania inclusive to the Southward are wellable with proper Encouragements to furnish a body of Several ThousandMen, to Join the Kings Forces in those Parts for Some Offensive Operationsagainst the Enemy, and His Majesty not Judging it Expedient to Limit theZeal & Ardor of any of his Provinces by making a Repartition of the Forcesto be rais’d by Each respectively for this most important Service, I am Commandedto signify to You the Kings Pleasure, That You do forthwith use yourUtmost Endeavours and Influence with the Council & assembly of your Provinceto Induce them to raise with all Possible Dispatch as Large a Body ofMen within Your Government as the Number & Situation of Its Inhabitantsmay allow, And Forming the Same Into Regiments as far as Shall be foundConvenient; that You do direct them to hold themselves in Readiness as earlyas may be to March to the Rendezvous at Such Place or Places as may be15Cf. William Pitt, Original Correspondence of William Pitt when Secretary of State with Colonial Governorsand Military and Naval Commissioners in America, ed. Gertrude Selwyn Kimball (1906; reprint ed., New York:Kraus Reprint Co., 1969), 1: 136–43.