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it must be understood from the contest that this acknowledge

ment was made to the same three Gentlemen.

The peculiar nature of this transaction renders

it impossible that you should not recollect it in all its parts

and that your own declaration to me at this time contra-

dicts absolutely the construction which the Editor of the

Pamphlet puts upon the affair.

I think myself entitled to ask from your can-

dour and justice a declaration equivalent to that which was

made me at the time in the presence of Mr Wolcott by your-

self and the two other Gentlemen, accompanied by a con-

tradiction of the Representative in the comments cited

above_ And I shall rely upon your delicacy that the

manner of doing it will be such as one Gentleman has

a right to expect from another- especially as you must

be sensible that the present appearance of the Papers is

contrary to the course which was understood between us to

be proper and includes a dishonourable infidelity some-

where_ I am far from attributing it to either of the three

Gentlemen; yet the suspicion naturally falls on some agent

made use of by them.

I send you the copy of a memorandum

of the substance of your declaration made by me the