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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 281
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Mr Kilbys of the 14. I persuaded him to be moderate and
consider the thing cooly, and begged he might read all Mr
Kilbys last Letter for that it was impossible to form any
Iudgement, from only reading parts of it and as we had con-
versed from the time of my coming to Town with great free-
dom and intimacy, I took the liberty of asking him, to allow
me to read it over; but he told me there were some parts of
it improper for me to see, to which I made no answer as I saw
he was violently agitated by passion, but walked in the store
till he should have time to compare that letter with the other
with more attention than he seemed to me to have given to it.
some time after, he came to me and insisted with great warmth
that I should imediately return him all the Bills, I told him
that it seemed to be a point that would require a little time to
think on, and the only way for us both to form a true Judge-
ment of what was proper for each of us to do, was to divest
ourselves of all heat and warmth, that I was very certain from
the Character I had always heard of Mr Kilby that he misun-
derstood him, that men in his Station and figure in life, were
incapable of writing any thing with ah Intention to lay people
they had to do with under difficulties, that such a conduct
would not be consistent with the character of probity neces-
sary in much Inferior Stations, and that I could not apprehend
that any thing Mr Kilby could write relating to the affair need
be keept a Secret from me he then offered to pay me the £1500
that Mr Kilby had engaged for by his letter of the 19 of June,
and that I should instantly deliver the rest for he was resolved
to have nothing more to do with it. I told him that I could
form no ludgement what I should do, till I had some time to
think of it, and if he would not allow me to see Mr Kilbys
letter, that he would be so kind to write out such paragraphs
as he thought might be communicated to me, and I would by
myself compare them with the Copy of his letter to you of the
19 of June and give him then my answer, he insisted before
he would agree to do it, that I should give him my promise to
bring and deliver up all the money and Bills except £1500
Sterling, I told him that I would not lay myself under any such
Obligation, that as he had paid me the Bills on the Orders
and taken my recipts for them, I could not see any way he
could get them, but by informing and convincing my under-
standing to give up the very point in dispute. On which he
went and directed his Clerk to Copy out N 5, but laid me
under a promise that I should make no use of it in shewing it
to any body without his consent, and that I should not men-
tion the" affair to any person till we should both have time to
think of what was necessary to be done. I went to the Coffee
house to go from thence to Reese Merediths, before dinner
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