As to Harrissons 2a Trial you have a Trusty hand to informe you concerning it; therefore think it needless for me to touch upon it.

Lord Augustus & his Lady are gone home in Stevens by whom I likewise wrote to Mr Watts & before by Tom: Smith So that 'twil be hard if we fail of hearing this fall fm them

I am, with humble Service to Mr Colden Miss & the Rest of y⚫ Family

Dear Sir

Your Sincere fa & Servant

DAN HORSMANDEN.

I beg you'l make my ComplemTM at
Mathewsfield./

P. S. I have drawn the Declaration of Trust in a concise form. I think tis Suff for the purpose If you don't I will alter it when I see you

I recd yours of the 8th June, I am concerned to see such a Scene of Villany Transacting in America, we have had abundance of such doings with us, but I was in hopes, it had reached no farther than our own Island, I am particularly sorry My old friend Mr Horsmanden, had any share in the publick negotiation of it, though I am perswaded from a long Knowledge of him, it must have bin from an ill impression that was made upon him of that affair; you mention a letter you wrote to me in concert with that Gent" in December last it never came to my hands, neither am I in any sort acquainted with

the contents of it, it must have miscarried; the disturbances in your Government makes a good deal of noise hear & find most people blame M2 Cosby & I should think if you pushed that matter vigourously before y⚫ Council, he would not be able to stand it the story of Lord Hows makeing an exchange with him, I have heard nothing of, but that is no reason why it should not be on the anvil for I am in great disgrace with the present powers & by consequence in none of their secrets though I am inclinable to think there is not much in it, we are here in an ugly difficulty, between peace & Warr, M' Walpole is now at the Hague, trying his Skill, how he can reconcile the Contending parties if he effects his purpose it will be a master peice for in the light I see things, France can never make peace without Stanislaus is fixed in poland which y Elector of Saxony is in possession of nor should I imagine that y Empire would ever consent to part with Italy, which the Spaniards are possessed of, so that the affairs of Europe seem to me to be a good deal perlexed, & what adds to ye difficulty of y' whole the Dutch are become jealous of us, on y Prince of Oranges account & seem resolved to risque everything rather than go into a Warre which they apprehend will be The Establishing him Stadtholder, I do intend If I have time to write to Mr Horsmanden, but least I should not, I desire you will present him my Complements, & believe me your Self to be Very truly

I have yours now before me of the 29 Augt: Last Wherein You Seem to be Very much out of humour that I have taken an Assignment on Yours and Mr Mathews's bond, if I had known that I Could As Well have made

Mr Lindesay pay me down in money, for It was Ready money he had in hands of mine and All my Own fees but Could I Imagin or Any body else that this was not a regard paid by me to y' bond and that you would not be obliged to me for the Same and Could I tell what agreements you and Mr Mathews had With one an other About the pay thereof, and is there Such a mighty difference In the Case of this Spring or this fall of the payt of my note of hand, which I gave you this Spring When We made up our Accounts did I not then also promise to pay you out of Groesbecks money, and that as Soon as I Could, and you are paid Since 20 £ by the governour on my Acct It's true I did promise to pay for you 24 £ to Allexander or Send It Down as Soon as I came up and Could make up the money but will any man Judge me In the Wrong In doing of this Since this bond is payable to you and Mathews both Jointly and Severally, I don't think you Ever had a Deputy that has been So true a friend to you as I have been And such a Slave uppon All Accounts nor has Done more to keep Your favours, but Do assure you I Do not Care to be Wrote to In Such a Manner as you have Done Nether Am I conscious to myself that I Deserve It however shall Write to Mr Alexander about the Affair and if he'll Accept of me for the money payable In 14 Day or 3 Weeks I shall Send It and Also tell him the Mistake happend between me and you but not tell him that I have used You ill As you Intimate I Should Do but I shall make him Easey and When we meet if you can give me any just reason for being So much out of humour With me, and you think You can meet With Any other In Our County, that Will Show you more regard and Acknowledge the favours you done Me With more Sincerity than I have Done, you may depute him and I Shall Fling up, and give you a Just acct of the warrants now before me, for I fear not having All the Employmt In this County relateing to the Sureyors Office Except Warrants and then what I get is my own and the fouth part of that which I now give you I belive Will do me more good than the benefit of ye Warrants, But I Do not think I Deserve to be used So, or Do I Desire

that you Should but, if It Cannot othewise be then It must be so

I am S Your Very humbl

Alb y 5 Sep 1734

Sevt

ED COLLINS.

Enclosed is a Copy of what I Write to Mr Alexander and I begg y' Answer Signifying the R hereof but hope It Will be more Agreeable to him who has Alwais Endeavoured to pleas and Serve You and is Still So

[Indorsed]

TO CADWALADER COLDEN Esq Surveyor
Generall of the province of New York
at Coldinham or N. York

Sir,

From Alured Popple.

WHITEHALL, Nov 1st 1734.

My acknowledging your Letter to me of the 4th of December last, will I fear give you Reason to believe, either, that I am very negligent of my Friends, or that I do not care for your Correspondance, for you cannot think, that I have not, since your last, had time to write to you: I must therefore Speak Truth, & leave you to make your own Judgement. In the first Place, my time is realy chiefly taken up at the Office, and when that is over, I am glad of a little Country Retirement, where I go every Night; But this has not been the Reason of my Silence: The true one is, that having heard from other Hands the same Account that you sent me, altho' not so Succinct, having likewise receiv'd Letters from the Governor upon the same Subject, And knowing at the same time that those matters lay before the Council as Complaints against the Governor, I was willing in my Answer to Yours, to have sent you, what were the Resolutions of the Council, upon those Complaints: But as I find that Matter may yet draw into Length I chose

rather to write, altho' not in direct Answer to your Letter, than to waite any longer.

I will not at present enter into the Merrits of the Complaints agains the Governor because as he has given his Answer to them, the Complainants will soon press for some Resolution upon them: But so far I will venture to Say, that upon Account of my Friendship to him, when he went to New York, I desir'd of all things, that He would create an intimate Friendship with you, because I knew he had much to expect from the Friendship of a Man, with your Knowledge of the Nature of the Government, and of the Temper, and different Inclinations of the People he was to govern. As I judg'd this, to be the most effectual Way to prevent Complaints, I wish he had follow'd my Advice, because I am well assur'd you would have led him into no Scrape.

A Governor has at first a pretty difficult Lesson to learn, and if he falls into right Hands, he may certainly pave the way for a peaceable, and an agreeable Way of making his Fortune; But otherwise he opens the Door to Complaints, & it may be, some cannot easily be wiped off.

You see S I avoid giveing any Opinion upon what you have said, concerning the Complaints against Col Cosby, as I am sure you would do, in my Case, had you not heard very minutely what each Side had to Offer: But notwithstanding that, I am very much oblig'd to you for the Confidence you have plac'd in me, by writeing so freely upon the Subject, And as I beg you will always beleive that no Inducement will ever tempt me to give up a Friend, So upon this Consideration, I must desire You will not discontinue your open way of writeing upon a proper Occasion, it may be of Service to you, and always is so, to me. I am very Sincerely,