The Assembly looked upon my entering into the first part of the engagement as an essential service to the province, since it secured the credit of the paper money then spread over all the country. They gave me their thanks in form when I returned. But the proprietaries were enraged at Governor Denny for having passed the act, and turned him out with threats of suing him for breach of instructions which he had given bond to observe. He, however, having done it at the instance of the general, and for his Majesty's service, and having some powerful interest at court, despised the threats, and they were never put in execution.
Footnotes
[191] A vessel starting at some set time and conveying letters and passengers from country to country.
[192] Between ourselves.
[193] William Pitt (1708–78). See Macaulay's Essay on the Earl of Chatham (Eclectic English Classics, American Book Company).
[194] A possession of the French in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. It was taken by the English in 1758.
[195] A prohibition to prevent ships leaving port.
[196] The worm which eats into the wood bottoms of ships.
[197] "Ensign staff," i.e., flagstaff.