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 accounted for. As to changing the letters, not only would this have been no charge whatever; for what should hinder my altering my writings in a new edition, but though Mr. N. made this a public charge, among his own party at the meetings he held, that I had accused him of it after an authorized denial, and this was spread far and wide, he did not think of making it to me. I have his written authorised complaint, presented at his request by four of his friends, and there is not a word of that; but only of what I have stated, the absence of the two last letters; the other, so publicly charged and widely circulated, was not ventured on in the account he gave of the charges he complained of, in the communication with me on the subject. Being now fairly out, and Mr. Harris having declined further ministry, I received a letter from Mr. L. Potter, urging me to assemble a number of the leading brethren to see into it before I broke bread elsewhere. At the same time I received a letter from Capt. Hall, pressing on me the misery of a second table. I wrote two letters to Mr. Potter, stating, in general, what led me to it, and saying, that, if he felt as he said, he had better come himself: I wrote to Capt. Hall to say I felt as sorrowfully about a second table as he could do, but it was a question with me of having any not of a second; and further, that I did not ask him to come as he had been considered hostile to Mr. Newton’s views, but that if Humfry, or any of the brethren they thought right at Hereford, came, they could judge of the grounds. No one came thence. I communicated to Lord Congleton what I had done, and said I did not ask Wigram as he was considered an adversary to Mr. Newton. I communicated it also to Sir. A. Campbell. Mr. Potter, who brought with him Code, Lord Congleton, and Sir A. Campbell, with whom was Mr. Mc’Adam, came.

Mr. N. or Mr. Soltau sent for Mr. N.’s friends.

In result there were Messrs. Mc'Adam, Code, Potter, Wigram, Rhind, Rickards, Morris, Naylor, who arrived from Jersey at that time to let his house, Mr. Mosely, Lord Congleton, and Mr. Walker, who left early before the enquiry, I understood through the illness of his