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that case have avoided Capt Colnett's insults here and his calumnious invective in England. But, after declining (as my bounden duty required me) to comply with his unwarrantable & improper request; which if granted must have subjected me to the severest censure and disapprobation, and have drawn on me the merited reproach of those deserving objects to whom that last mark of His Majestys mercy is so continuously extended. I must repeat that from that period, his correspondence will evidently shew that no artifice or means was neglected by Capt Colnet [Colnett] to Insult not only myself as Governor in discharging my duty but the Military and Capt Kent of the Buffalo to whom his conduct was gross & insulting beyond discription in the face of all the officers of his Ship & several belonging to the Colony so improper & Insulting was it that at a Public dinner onboard the Glatton he compelled Capt Kent rise up from dinner before it was half over, & leave the Ship. I do not advance these circumstances with a view of my sentiments of of Capt. Colnets infamous