Through  your  dealings  with  my  father,  you  cannot
lay  but  that  he  paid  the  price  you  afked  for  your  eflays
and  fomc  other  works  which  he  hired  you  to  do;  and,
perhaps,  it  might  be  made  to  appear  you  got  fomething
more ;   but,  the  principle  bufinefs^  your   confcience
(if  you  have  any)  told  you,   mould  be  accounted  for
was  that  of  the  Congrefs  Gallery.     This,  in  converfa-
tion  was  ftarted  by  you  or  my  father  it  matters  not
which  -,    but,  on  conclufion,  he  aiked  you  what  you
would  have  for  the  work.  Your  anfwer  was,  one  quar-
ter of  a  dollar  per  page.     This  he  agreed  to  give  you,
and,  accordingly,  iflued  propofals  for  fubfcription,  as
it  was  intended  to  be  a   large  work,    and   continued
through  the   feflion  5   but,  B»  Davis,  the  Boekfeller,
who  came  frequently  to  our  (lore,  one  day,  by  popping
in,  as  your  were  mentioning  the  Bloody   Buoy,  dif-
covered  you ;  and,  my  father  not  being  over-anxious
to  publifh  it  he  contracted  with  you  for  it.      While
writing  this,    you  were  feveral   times  applied  to  for
the  fecond  number  of  the  Congrefs  Gallery — you  made
various  excufes  to  put  it  off;  but,  my  fether,  finding


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y<Mi  meant  to  publifh  the  work  under  another  title,
called  on  you,  and  aflted  you  for  the  work  ;  you  denied
•writing,  tho'  it  was,  then,  nearly  ready  for  the  prefs,
and,  being  prefled,  you  faid,  that  if  you  did  write,  no
other  than  he  mould  have  it.
