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" did fend^Word by a Friend to the Deputy-Governor,
" that if I might be admitted to the Tranfporting my-
" felf to the Ifland of Jamaica, to end my Days
" there, I would make a full Difcovery of the whole
" Fraud, and impeach a Perfon criminally concern'd
" with me ; my Friend brought me Word, the De-
" puty Governor's Anfwer was, That if I luas the frft
" that imfeach'd it might be the better for me, hut thai
" he 'vjas but one amongfl Je-veral others, and therefore
" could make no ahfihte Promife ; upon which, my
" Friend advifing me to make the free Confeffion I had
" ofter'd, and the Deputy-Governor fending for ffle by
" the Keeper the fame Evening, I was brought before
" him at the Bank, and making the fame Requeft to
" him myfelf, as my Friend had done, I receiv'd the
" like Anfwer, which both my Friend and myfelf, un-
" happily underftanding as a I'romife of Recommenda-
" tion to the Court of Direftors, for the Mercy of
" Tranfportation ; and I believing that the Deputy-
" Governor would not accept my Confeffion and Im-
" peachment, without having an Intention of procu-
" ring me the Mercy I implor'd for, and I being very
" defirous to clear the innocent Perfons that were con-
" fined on Sufpicion, I did thereupon impeach a Perfon
" that was guilty, and made a full Difcovery of the
" whole Fraud, and fign'd m.y Confeffion, and making
" Oath againft the Perfon I had impeached, he was the
" next Day taken and committed to Neivgate, (but I
" hear is fmce difcharg'd). The firft Note'l was indi-
" aed upon was a Bank Note of 50/. with which,
" and about 57/. more in Money, I had procur'd to
" be bought a South-Sea Bond, which Bond I returned
" to the Bank the Day after I had made my Confcf-
" fion ; and I alfo return'd with it another Bank Note^
" of 50 /. which had had two Indorfements taken oft*
" from it, and which was all that I had, and upon
" which the fecond Indiftment was founded ; thus
" having fully confefled my Crime, and throwing my-
" felf entirely upon the Mercy of the Honourable
^ " Court