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either of the numerous evidences he has produced, with a view to substantiate the charges insidiously conceived; but I beg to observe that the champion of the commission, warrant, and petty officers, as set forth in his letter, to whom I have behaved in a Tyrannical and oppressive manner, is a man of notorious worthless and profligate manners, and who on various occasions evaded the duty imposed on him, and from my mistaken clemency and humanity is now my ungrateful prosecutor, a man who has treated me, when in the act of performing divine service to the crew of the Warrior, with Sarcastic gestures, and thereby rendering me and the sacred ordinances of our established church, as objects of ridicule and contempt to the surrounding audience: and for my pardoning to reprobate a behaviour, this is his requital. I could adduce numberless instances of his immorality and infamy, but as that will not extenuate my imputed offences, I shall forbear any retaliation by an exposure of his character. These remarks are made with a view to claim the attention of this most honorable Court, and evince how readily such persons are to avail themselves of any opportunity to traduce and vilify the men who oppose their principles. I shall content myself by earnestly calling Your most serious consideration to the important station in which I have the honor to be placed in His Majesty's Service, and am boldly proud to observe, that I have on various and trying