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Sir Jos: Banks wishes you to peruse the newspaper sent with this & to advise him whether the contents of the advertisement beginning with the word Longitude on the first page are of a nature sufficiently Libelous to render it a Laudable act of Public Justice in him to induct pressure the writer criminally for the offence
Sir Jos: feels himself not a little hurt at being Represented to the Public as an encourager of a combination of watch-makers against an individual & again as having usd an influence (no doubt an undue one is meant) at the head of malicious & envious watch-makers, for Pecuniary damages would be no recompense to him for the impression which such charges must make upon the public if sufferd to Remain unnoticd, but a verdict against the offender if it could be established would at one Rescue his character from the aspersions thrown upon it & serve the cause of Public Justice