The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

410 COMMONS JOURNAL, JULY 2, 1759–JULY 14, 1759Wednesday the 4th Day of July 1759.The House adjourned till To-morrow Morning Ten of the Clock.Thursday the 5th Day of July 1759.A Message from the Governor by Mr. Bassnett.Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen,Since the conclusion of your last Session, I have received from the RightHonorable William Pitt Esqr.; one of His Majesty’s principal Secretaries ofState, the Letters of which I now transmit Copies to you; by which you willperceive in how urgent a manner His Majesty is pleased to ask Supplies fromYou, for raising at least as large a Body of Men as you did for the last Campaignand even as many more as the Number and Situation of the Inhabitantsof this Province will allow, and also what gracious Promises accompanyHis Majesty’s demand, of a speedy compensation for the Expences you havealready incurr’d. The Letters are conceived in such clear and comprehensiveTerms as leave me little more to add than to express my most earnestWishes that you may exert your utmost Efforts to comply with the expectationsof the Crown in this most important Juncture: And I am induced tohope that if you will furnish the necessary Aids for keeping the Regimentof this Province in Pay upon it’s present Establishment of Seven HundredMen until the First Day of January next, it may be found satisfactory. By thismeans, shou’d that Corps be wanted for any Southern Operations (whichmay be of peculiar benefit to this Province) it will be in readiness to act, butshou’d the Services of the Campaign be confined to such Parts as to renderthe employment of it unnecessary, I give you my word of honour I will gladlyseize the first moment to proceed to such a Reduction of it, as shall in themost Oeconomical view of Things be found consistent with your internalSecurity. I send you herewith an Estimate of the Charge that will be incurredby the Measure I propose, which I recommend to you the rather, because Iam truly desirous your Conduct should be such, that you may appear to HisMajesty’s Ministers worthy, not only of an ample Compensation for what youhave already done, but of an encrease of Royal Favor and Munificence forthe Time to come; but shou’d you slight His Majesty’s repeated Requisitions,contained in the Letters I now lay before You, I fear it may prove detrimentalto such ulterior Operations of this Campaign as may be in view, and affectthe Reputation you have justly maintain’d of a Province dutiful andaffectionate to The King and zealous for his Service. While I say this, I amthoroughly sensible, that, since the commencement of the present War yourTaxes have been much greater than usual; and I lament the Condition of the