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your Members and since I cannot be supposed to have at that Time
an Oppertunity of being present and hearing what they then De-
clared to the House it is not to be imagined but that I might en-
deavour to be informed of what they said by way of Evidence
without any (ever supposed) Breach of Priviledge and upon the best
Account I Can get I find two Members declared themselves on the
Subject: One of them remembered I should say that Mr Smith was
an ungreatful sorry Fellow or a sorry ungreatful Fellow the Other
declared I said he was a sorry Fellow: As to the last Member I
must in my Own Vindication observe that he is so linked with Mr
Smith in more then one respect that without a Supposition of a
Wilful misrepresentation he might have easily led into an Opinion
of such words being spoken as Mr Smith might thro Warmth of
Temper (of which if I am not mistaken he is very susceptible) be-
lieve I really spoke. But the first member couples the word sorry
with the word ungreatful, and that is more likely of the Two for I
am certain I never called him sorry Fellow only as expressed in the
Remonstrance I confess I did Call him ungreatful Fellow for which
I gave you my Reasons in my Answer and in my Opinion that Vice
contains not only the Idea of a sorry Fellow but more however I
cannot help taking notice that tho the Appellation of ungreatful was
used by me yet Mr Smith did not think proper to make that Expres-
sion part of his Complaint for what Reasons he knows Best
Thus far I have Considered what I am told was Declared in
favour of Mr Smith's Varacity in your House but pray Gentlemen
did you Examine the other Members who were said to be present
at the same Time If you did I doubt not but you found from them
that they did not hear me say the words which I have denyed and
they have declared so to me nor did Mr Smith mention any such
words to the first Company he went into after the Affair hapened
when his Heart was full of it and his memory least likely to deceive
him And then why may not I without much Presumption lay claim
to (at least) as Good Credit as Mr Smith I am not a Stranger to
his Violence against Governors I suppose from mistaken Principles
But what I pray Could Influence me to deny any Words much less
sorry Fellow on that Occation when I acknowledge much stronger
and which yet with any other words Mr Smith Can fancy I did then
say can have no relation to your Privileges which are in the second
place to be considered
And now Gentlemen I must observe that tho this Conversation
with Mr Smith gave rise to your Complaint of a Violation of your
Privilege by me which was at first my own Case yet by your Re-
monstrance you Sufficiently shewed what you aimed at and by the
Paper lately presented to me have put the matter which I Charged
you with in my Answer in Relation to your Electors Beyond all
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