The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

500 COMMONS JOURNAL, FEBRUARY 4, 1760–AUGUST 6, 1760The Residue of the Address, being read a second time, was agreed toby the House.Resolved that the said Address be presented to the Lieutenant Governorby the whole House.Ordered, That Mr. Wragg and Mr. Guerard do wait upon the LieutenantGovernor, and humbly know his pleasure when he will be attended bythe House.Mr. Manigault reported from the Committee who were appointed to auditthe Public Accounts that they had examin’d several of the Accounts whichwere referred to their consideration and had come to several Resolutions thereupon,which they had directed him to report to the House, and he read theReport in his Place and afterward delivered it in at the Clerk’s Table.A Message from the Lieutenant Governor by Mr. Bassnett.Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen,His Excellency General Amherst in consequence of an application fromGovernor Lyttelton, having sent a body of chosen Troops under the commandof the Honorable Colonel Montgomery to chastize the Cherokees fortheir perfidy, outrages and Murders, They arrived here the 1st of this Month,and to avoid carrying any suspicion of infection from the Small-Pox weredebarked about seven Miles from hence, and march’d to Monck’s Corner,where they have been encamp’d ever since, waiting with great reluctance andimpatience at losing so much of this Season, so favorable for Action, until asufficient number of Carriages can be collected there to convey their Provisionsand Baggage; the latter being retrench’d to the last degree of militaryOeconomy to lighten them. We are now at the 17th of April, it is with thegreatest concern for the honour of this Government and for the detrimentwhich the most important service these Troops are sent upon must suffer,that I acquaint you with the insufficient Progress made by the Agents whoare collecting these Waggons, notwithstanding they engage to pay readyMoney for them, and altho’ I am persuaded they have exerted themselveson the occasion with great diligence: I therefore recommend it, in the strongestmanner to your immediate consideration as hath been practised in theNorthern Colonies thro’ which The King’s Troops have marched, to enableme, by the effectual Power of Law to assist in expediting this most necessaryArticle of Waggons without which it is impossible for the Army to march tothe Cherokees. Further I take notice to you, that Colonel Montgomery hathrepresented to me how inconvenient it was to General Amherst’s Plan ofOperations to detach so large a Body of his best Troops at the present timewhich he only cou’d consent to spare to the pressing request and necessitiesof this Province; that as soon as ever the Service was perform’d, or, what