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At one period a very great intimacy & friendship subsisted betw. Mr. Fenwick & me. I certainly felt myself grateful for his favours. I do not think it honourable to betray a friend, on a little quarrel; but I have not done it. I had no other cause of quarrel with Mr. Fenwick than the affront offered me at the time when the 500 Rs. Were sent. We were on terms of intimacy the day before. I do no think that, when he applied to me to carry the letter to Mr. Larkins, he looked on me as his confidential friend, but he certainly did, when he first made a similar application to me. I have not betrayed Mr. Fenwick, until I was forced by his charges to declare all I knew. Those charges were made, I believe, on the 15th June. I did not expose his confidence until I was told on the 13th that I should be