1788-07-30 (static/transcriptions/1788/07/456.jpg)

obliged to me, if I could prevail on Mr. Williams not to proceed. Mr. Jones Mackenzie of Cheringhi also called upon me & made the same request. I was then totally unacquainted with the defendant; I had no kind of intercourse with him, nor was he I believe, on the part degree privy to, the solicitations [ILL] had been made to me: but his brother had been for some years [ILL] Mr. Fergusson: the family were persons of some consequence and property, and if we [ILL] thought not fortunate, that the name of the family should be brought to digrace. I wrote to Mr. Williams on the same wubject: he answered that he could not drop the business. [ILL] these three days I saw Mr. Williams, who had in the interval told me that he would have nothing more, to do with it. I then [ILL] family, without having spoken to the prisoner, expressed concern that the business went on, and requested him to drop it: he said that he was bound to prosecute & must proceed that he had been at [expense?] before, and his recog— [ILL] was for a thousand rupees; but he added, that, if his former expenses, which were two thousand rupees and the of the recognizance were reimbursed to him, he should not he be unwilling