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drawn for less than the Sum and that he would give no
receipts to Mr Neilson for he was positively resolved his name
should not appear in the whole transaction. I told him that
whatever the sum was Short would fall on me, that I could
expect no more than the General thought proper to advance
and that giving the Receipts to Mr Neilson was a meer matter
of form I apprehended, and that obliging me to send again to
the General would teize him too much in the Condition he was
in as to his Health, and that I hoped out of regard to the
General he would get over these points even if he was resolved
to plague me. he on this expressed himself with more
warmth than he had ever done, and said there was other
punctilios to be setled before I should finger the money, and
left me very abruptly
As I observed Mr Peters had that evening some conversa-
tion with him in the street before Mr Howel came in to the
Coffee House, I got a Copy the next morning of the Warrant
and Receipts required from Mr Neilson, and waited on Sec-
retary Peters with them, and told him what had passed the
Evening before betwixt Mr Howel and me, and that I had
offered Mr Howel to leave every thing to him to adjust, and
begged as he had already taken so much trouble on my
Account he would help to put every thing right at last,
he informed me that Mr Howel had told him the Evening
before that the General had sent his Warrant for the money,
but there was a punctilio to Settle with me first, which he did
not explain to him, but that he would call on Mr Howel to
get the affair finished, in consequence of this I wrote to your
Excellency the same day No 13. Mr Peters I understood did
apply to Mr Howel, but the Express coming in that forenoon
from General Amherst upon the Surrender of Louisburgh
prevented my knowing what was the Event, I saw Mr Howel
that Evening at the Coffee House but he took no notice of
me. next day I waited on Mr Peters, but he was 111 and con-
fined to his Room and I believe he wrote or sent for Mr Howel
to come to him, but still I heard nothing from Mr Howel, and
as I understood the affair was now publickly talked of and
that several Reports which had formerly been spread with
regard to my character in negotiating the affair gained ground
with the Quakers in particular, I bethought myself of applying
to Israel Pemberton and went to wait on him that afternoon,
at first he seemed averse to looking into the Affair and told
me that Mr Howel had informed him of it lately as he had
observed us both talking together with great earnestness at
the Coffee House. I told him I was very glad to hear it, and
if he pleased to look into my papers he would be master of
both sides of the affair, and that it would be an Act of
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