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Liverpool
13 June 1801
Dear Sir
I take your reprehensions in good part because I am confident they are meant kindly & proceed from the best of motives. At the same time I must express my sorrow that on the subject to which they refer our judgments to not coincide.
On an occasion of this nature it is my wish to avoid all personal considerations, and it is with much reluctance that I advert to topics of this nature. Suffer me however to observe that the examination respecting the allowance to the prisoners as were made in the beginning of the Year was not so satisfactory to me as it appears to have been to you; that the reports made by the Commissioners who were here, I never saw; and that there were circumstances attending their conduct not calculated to beget in me any very profound respect for their talents or any implicit confidence in their candour.
When I heard of their expected visit I prepared some documents for them, and on hearing of their arrival I sent to offer a visit to Dr. Johnstone by whom I was politely received. It was my purpose to explain to them my conduct; to justify Dr. Cochrane whose communications with me I found by Dr. Blane's letter to you had given offence; to inform them what I knew respecting the objects of their interesting mission; and to offer any services or civilities that might be acceptable. But I soon found that my