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go reached friendly adjustment, and its solution produced results beneficial to the whole country, and of which both states are proud. The event alluded to, which revived this colonial feud, was the capture by Virginia of letters from Lord George Germaine, the English secretary of state, addressed to Robert Eden, Esq., deputy governor of Maryland. Governor Eden was the brother-in-law of the last proprietor of Maryland. （Maryland, William Hand Brown.) The sixth Lord Baltimore, dying in 1771, leaving no legitimate issue, bequeathed Maryland to his natural son, Henry Harford. After the beginning of the Revolutionary war, Governor Eden occupied a peculiar position. He remained as governor of Maryland, and exercised his functions as the representative of the proprietary interest, with the concurrence of the convention, and enjoyed a high degree of confidence and popularity, although making no secret of his attachment to the interests of England. The exemption of Maryland from Bri