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he has rec 4 • his intelligence from FEMALES, the only females with whom he was known to be in the habits of intimacy have declared most solemnly that they never heard me say any thing at all relative to Pilcher and that they never communicated anything to him the females I allude to are Mrs R- Mrs C. and :Miss F--. Sometime last winter Pilcher observed that he expected I in- tended to court Miss F. I assured him on my honor that I did not and some time after-wards he repeated the same thing and I aguin nssured him that I did not and asked him if [he] had any Such inte11ti011s-he [said] no I have not- My belief as to the cause of Pilcher conduct is this-I think that he suspected thnt I was courting Miss F. and therefore had de- ceived him in saying that [I] was not-and I think that he then be- cnme jealous and suspected that I had used some unfair means to sup- plant him with Miss F-- gealousy I believe is the sole and only cause, and that the most unfounded for I never in my life had any designs of courting the Girl he was then addressing, nor did I ever in my life give her or any of her friends the least reason to suppose that I intended to address her. And were they the last words I ever expected to utter in the world I would say that I never did in any manner, at any time, nor under any circumstances say or do any- thing to injure that man or to wound his feelings- as to what the Lodge have done I consider their conduct to be every thing but what Masonic duties inculcate. they have accused me of refusing to submit the cause of dispute to them which is .absolutely false. I did submit to their committee and in open lodge • all and everythi,ng I knew on the subject their conduct merits the severest investigation and I require and injoin it on my friends that the[y] Make a full statement of this transaction and send it to the Grand lodge-
7, REPORT OF COM:MI'ITEE OF ARBITRATION
Saint Louis June 7 th 1817 The undersigned to whom has been refer'd the matters of difference between Mr Austin and Mr Pilcher having heard from Mr P the causes why he had adopted that distant reserve and coolness of man- ner towards Mr A. "viz". An impression that Mr A. had violated the confidence which he had repos'd in him; And that he was under the impression that Mr A. was aware of the ,cause, even at the time he ask'd for explanations, that with such impressions, he consider'd Mr A's. demand for an explanation as adding to the injury par- ticularly as that injury had not been complain'd of. he (Mr P) re- fus'd to give any, that during the conversation between Mr Austin and himself he observed to Mr A. " that he had on a certain occasion
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