my engaging for him, perhaps at the very moment, he was refolving to avail
iiimfeif of rriy good nature and humanity fbWiifdS' Mm, to do an if reparable
injury to j . Banks ¿nd rtlyfelf.
'I entreated him, if he had any regard for his own intereft and reputation*
that he would immediately defiii from a projeftj- which would be ruinous in
all probability to himfelf, and leave me expofed to reproaches, on my part
Wholly urideferved. The reader Will much more eaiily conceive than I can
exprefs, what I felt on. this OteafiOh.
I urged him to lay afide an intention-, which, if carried into .execution*
might involve us both in an imputation of notorious treachery.— Entreated
him to recoiled: in what manner I had behaved to his brother, and himfelf,
ever finCe I had kn'owfi them • the ails of kindnefs I had repeatedly done to
himfelf, and his family.— That it would be forfeiting, not only my future
friendihip, blit the fCgafd - Of ev'ery one-who ihould be made acquainted with
this fignal a£t of ingratitude.— That his conduct would be a reproach to the
whole fociety we belonged to, and that J. Banks, i f he was not generous,
enough to think the incapable of it, might accufe me as a party in his
guilt. He then promifed to defiit, upon my engaging to pay the expenses he
had incurred, fOr tianfcribirig and engraving. I ordered him to bring me
the amount of his expences, he did fo, juft’as I was preparing to fet out for
Cheihire— I Offered him a draft for the moHey • but he chofe to ftay for it
till my return from the country. At which time, when I ferit for him to
hniih the affair, I was informed the Work was advaficingj and that the tx>-
perices were at lead £
In vain I reprefented to him this double aggravation of' his criminal conduit.
All that I could urge was received with an obftina-te refolution. to
perfevere.
He faid that J. Banks had ufed him ill, by retaining #1 the articles lent to
him, fofne-of which ought to have been returned to him* and were of as much
value
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value as the fum he had received and that he was therefore determined to do
himfelf juftice, by puhliihing hiy brother’s papers, and informing the publick
of his reafons.
This complaint I told him ought firff to have been made to me, as I ftpod
guarantee to J. Banks, that no fuch ufe ihould be made of his papers as was
then intended * if J. Banks had withheld any thing that was juftly due to
him, I was obliged to fee juftice done him, and ihould do it, either by application
to J. Banks, or ,out o f my own pocket. But all was in vain.- Can
the reader think, as S. Parkinfon has infinuated, that bepaufe I declared this
conduct ungrateful, therefore, my friendihip till now was “ meer pretence ?”
Finding all my endeavours to put a flop to this unexpected treacherous behaviour
ineffectual, I prevailed upon a reputable fenfible perfon, of our perfuafion,
and a member of the fame meeting, to meet Parkinfon at my houfe, to
endeavour,' i f poflible, to put an end to this molt difagreeable bufinefs; we
met accordingly. What palled amongit' us on this occafiop, will probably
appear moit fatisfaCtorily to the reader, from the mediator’s own account of it,
which I copied from his memorandum.
“ Subitanceof what.palled at Dr. Fothergill’s houle, November the 22d,
between Stanfield Parkinfon and Dr. Fothergill, in the prefeqce o f John
“ Hatch, who, a few days after, put it down in writing, to aifiil his memory*
“ if he ihould be called upon as an evidence in the cafe.,
« J. Fothergill requefted J. Hatch would meet Stanfield Parkinfon, at
“ J. F .’s houfe, which he did Nov, 22» I772.
J* P* then informed J. Hatch, with the occafion of this appointment,
“ The following is the purport of what palled between J. F, Parkinfon,
“ and John Hatch, on this occafion.
That