I never had the honor to be above six times in your company in my life • one of those times was when I delivered the public seals of the province of New Jersey to you on your coming to that government ; another, on one of the public days, to drink the King's health ; a third, at your desire, to wait on my Lord Augustus Fitz Roy, with the body of the laws, to tell him we were glad to see him at New York; and except the first time, I never was above a quarter of an hour together in your company at any one time ; and all the VN-ords I ever spoke to you, except at the first time, may be contained on a quarto side of paper. I mi^ht possibly have been impertinent, for old men are too often so ; but as to treating you with rudeness and disrespect, either in your public or private capacity, it is ■what 1 cannot accu.NC myself of doing or iutcDdingto do, at any one of the times

a rriuiiug his ar<jument aaj letter.

THE TOWN- O;- \VEST FAFLM3, 477

I «n.* with you. If a hovr, awkardly made, or anything of tbat kiml, or some ^iifn I, ill the ccreniouiiil of addrLSsiiig you, has occasioucd tliat iCiTiark, I beg it :: iV Ic attributed to the want of a courtly and poliit! education, or to aaytliing tin.', r.ither than the want of respect to hi3 majesty's representative. As to my l:;:»'^rity, I have given you no occasion to call it in question. I have been in this (itlice, almost twenty 3-ears. 3Iy hands were never soiled with a bribe ; ;!jr am 1 conscious to myself, that power or poverty- hath been able to induce me to be partial in the favor of either of them ; and as I have no reason to expect liAj favor from you, so I am neither afraid nor ashamed to stand the test of the strictest inquiry you can make concerning my conduct.