K.—I am intirely satisfied with it. I am well acquainted with the difficulties you have encountered, and with the abuse & injury offered you. Nothing could be more cruel than the treatment you met with in betraying your private letters. The K., turning to Lord D.—My Lord, I remember nothing in them to which the least exception could be taken. Lord D.—That appears, Sir, from the report of the Committee of Council, and from your Majesty's orders thereon. H.—The correspondence, Sir, was not of my seeking. It was a meer matter of friendly amusement, chiefly a narrative of occurrences, in relating of which I avoided personalities as much as I could, and endeavoured to treat persons, when they could not be avoided, with tenderness, as much as if my letters were intended to be exposed; whereas I had no reason to suppose they ever would be exposed. K.—Could you ever find Mr. H. how those letters came to New England? H.—Doctor F., may it please your Majesty, has made a publick declaration that he sent them, and the Speaker has acknowledged to me that he received them: I do not remember that he said directly from Doctor F., but it was understood between us that they came from him. I had heard before that they came either direct from him, or that he had sent them through another channel, and that they were to be communicated to six persons only, and then to be returned without suffering any copies to be taken, I sent for the Speaker and let him know what I had heard, which came from one of the six to a friend, and so to me. The Speaker said they were sent to him, and that he was at first restrained from shewing them to any more than six persons. {3211} K.—Did he tell you who were the persons? H.—Yes, sir. There was Mr. Bowdoin, Mr. Pitts, Doctor Winthrop, Doctor Chauncy, Doctor Cooper, and himself. They are not all the same which had been mentioned before. The two Mr. Adamses had been named to me in the room of Mr. Pitts and Doctor Winthrop. K.—Mr. B. I have heard of Lord D.—I think he is father-in-law to Mr. T. [Temple]. K.—Who is Mr. Pitts? H.—He is one of the Council—married Mr. B.'s sister. K.—I have heard of Doctor Ch. and Doctor Cooper, but who is Doctor Winthrop? H.—He is not a Doctor of Divinity, Sir, but of Law; a Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy at the College, and last year was chose of the Council. K.—I have beard of one Mr. Adams, but who is the other? H.—He is a Lawyer, Sir. K.—Brother to the other?