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292 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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ber, and aded that he hoped I was now convinced that I had
got more money than the General ever intended I should, and
that I should see it would not be better for me in the end. I
told him he had no right to make that remark, for he had
gained some knowledge at my expence, since he had resolved
from the difficultys he had seen me entangled with, that Mr
Hoops nor he should advance no more money on account of
the Carriage of provisions and that I did not doubt when the
General and Mr Kilby came to have the whole affair repre-
sented to them in its real light, but that they would join in
opinion with all those to whom I had yet imparted it, that the
greatest men were lyable to be imposed on by partial repre-
sentations, and more especially when they came from men
they had a good opinion of but I desired him to remember
that there was great danger in disguising the truth with such
men for it would always in the end prevail and then their
Resentment was very keen against those who should attempt
to Impose on them; but as the paragraph in the Generals
Letter to you is an Instruction to me, I hope Sir you will give
me a Copy of it, that I may give due attention to it, which
Mr Howel accordingly complyed with as you will see in No 18.
I thought it my duty now to acknowledge the honour of the
Generals Letter to me of the 28th of August No 14, and also
the paragraph just now mentioned, and you will see the answer
I proposed to send in No 19, but as I was waiting on Secretary
Peters to return him thanks for the great kindness and Civility
he had treated me with, I took the Liberty of shewing him the
Generals Letter and also the Copy of the paragraph wrote to
Mr Howel with the answer I intended to send, he observed
that the paragraph to Mr Howell, was much the same with the
Letter to me, that it looked to him as if some body had been
doing me 111 offices with the General, that from comparing
both together, the General seemed to have but an indifferent
opinion of me and that nothing I could say for myself could
have any weight with him, that in the Condition he was in
from Sickness short Letters must be most agreable to him,
and that in his opinion I should trouble him with no more,
than acknowledging the receipt of his of the 28 of August
which would bind me to observe the restriction contained in
it, and which directed me to apply to Governor Sharpe, in
whom the General placed a full confidence, and who only
could have weight enough to represent my situation to the
General under these restrictions, I submitted to his Opinion,
and only wrote to the General in these words a Copy of which
is annexed to N. 19 " Sir I was honoured with yours of the
28th of Augl and was yesterday discharged by Mr Howell from
the Sheriff, I shall apply to Governor Sharpe and am Sir your
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