Sii- -- I am afraid' you will think tliat I make too ample amends at tliis time for the short & imperfect liints which the perplexity of affairs on this side permitted me only to give you until now neither did I think there was any thing amiss in the conduct of oui' Missionarys tliat time & good advice might not rectify for I had not altered my opinion of them as to the generahty they are men of piety & industry and whilst tiiey keep themselves within the sphere of their mission & function unexceptionable as sucli I have ever treated them & hved with them as I thought in the most perfect friendship and confidence, This serves for prologue to a story which will not less surprise you than it startled me-^

Coll: Heathcott told me that he was privately informed that there had been a representation against me carried about to some of the Clergy for subscriptions I could not believe it being conscious to myself of nothing that I had done left undone or intended with relation to the Chui'ch's Interest that the most consummate malice could ground a representation upon. That worthy Gentleman was of the same opinion but positive that there was sucli a representation for wliicli reason he in conjunction with Coll Morris as members of the Society thought fit to wi'ite a letter to M*' Vesey and M' Henderson in whose hands they understood this paper to be and who were the principal contrivers and promoters of it Signifying tliat they had been made acquainted with the designs and desired to know the meaning of it that if anything were wanting for the Church's Interest they might join witli them in proper measures to procure it & redress what was amiss; all the eflect that this letter had upon these two Gentlemen was a deep concern for the discovery and some sharp reproaches on one another as the discoverers neither could the Rev^ M-- Sharp obtain a sight of it tho' he solemnly promised to join with them in representing anything for the Churcli's Interest provided it did not contain