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with a demand for my pay, to enable me to discharge my debts, and to leave the country with credit. Be that as it will, here I am still unattended to, except in antichamber promises of Justice in general terms, with thirty two months pay due to me, and the embarrassments of my situation daily accumulating.
When I troubled you before with this detail more at large, I concluded with humbly requesting your interest with the Great, for the Recommendation of my case to Mr. Walpole, who was then expected here in quality of Envoy from our Court; but as his coming is not now so much as talk'd of, and as I have said above, my situation grows every day more intolerable, the report of your proposing to undertake a second voyage on descovery has emboldened me, Without withdrawing my first Request, to prefer another, and that is, your interest for my having the honour to attend you; I am informed you are to carry Marines, and know your interest is equal to any thing which, I could Rationally expect in that way, so that my title to the exertion of that interest seems the only point in doubt; and that I implicitly Refer to your
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