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H M Ship Gorgon Portsmth [Portsmouth] Harbr.

January 26 1791

I am exceedingly sorry for again troubling you, but what you said to my Brother has given me so much uneasyness that it is necessary I shou'd vindicate myself.  If I took as much liberty in writing to you in Lincolnshire for advice I beg you will impute it to the great desire I had of going to New South Wales & the fear of losing the Opportunity.

With respect to the report which you say I have made that you ill treated me I in truth deny and am sorry that I know not the malicious person that told you, as to enable me to

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