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of having disclosed part of a letter from Mr. Larkins to the Board on the business of Diamond Harbour.
Mr. Phayre had endeavoured to exculpate himself from 21st to 31st March: he lived in my house on a plan of mutual advantage to us both: in consequence of his being in my house, I perceived his dejection from Mr. L’s suspicions not being removed by any thing done by Phaire himself; &, looking on myself as the cause of his misfortune, I waited on Mr. Larkins. Previously to this going to him, on that morning, I called upon Mr. Fenwick, & told him the express purpose of my going to Mr. Larkins was to remove his suspicions of Mr. Phaire. Fenwick & I had often conversed concerning the propriety or impropriety of his letters to Mr. Larkins, which I condemned (as far as he apprized me of them) from the beginning. When he