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himself in Office. The Night ended in a great scene of Drunkenness, during which altho' [although] some horrid act was every hour expected to happen, yet it did not take place notwithstanding McArthur indirectly recommended it in his address to the People, and the time was so propitious to his Plans.
101 - It will appear in my dispatches by the Duke of Portland that I suspended Mr Darcy Wentworth assistant Surgeon and gave my reasons for so doing. The Rebels who had seized my Papers and read my representation concerning him, sent him a copy; and in order to clear him of the accusation these contained, contrived that he should be tried on those Charges by a Court Martial. On this occasion Major Johnston applied to me on the 9th of February to know if I had any other evidence besides Oakes and Beldon whom they discovered, by my Papers, to have given me the private information I had concerning him. To this I replied that my Letter to His Majesty's Secretary of State contained the Charges I preferred against him nevertheless, they presumed to bring him
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