Any person or Stranger to things that read this and the foregoing parts of his letter would conclude that lie had presented several memorials & petitions witliout any effect but as it is phuhi by whuit goes before he could not, so really he did net, ai;d notliing is more untrue th.an what he asserts far tlie Govejiior protests he never had any ot! er papers petitions or memorials from him or any body else relating to the Chnrcli of Jamaica thnn the Copy N" ( ) and that N" ( ) tlic first a loose ScjIo of paper signed by nobody & wrote in such a manner as I should have been ashamed to h.ave given to an equal the other a Copy

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of a Record of Coiu-t signed by the Clerks but if men will give themselves leave to say anytliing who can be safe.

M'" Vesey who had and still makes a tool of that weak man Poyer with liira prevailed upon M'" Evans of Pliiladelphia and M Talbot as I am UAd by some of themselves to sign a Representation in direct terms against the Governor ; this representation was not made (ms all representations ought to be) at a general meeting oi' the Clergy but drawn up in private and so sentabuut to get the subscrij)tions of as many as they could for this end they brought it to M'" Makenzie on Staten Island who no sooner read it but discovered the filsehood & wickedness of it and convinced Mr. Talbot who I believe signed without reading of it on the credit of M^" Vesey Henderson and Poyer for he exclaims very- much against Vesey for sui-prising him into the signing of a paper just as he was taking Boat : this Representation by the unanimous consent of these that Avere tliere present was destroyed but however a representation running in their heads and they a Gogg to be dabbling in politics (an inclination which I wish our missionarys had less of) a representation was resolved upon to be made to my Lord of London of. the state of the Church of Jamaica.