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simply that he did not know of the use of his name, & of course had not authorised it, but denied that he had impeached the truth of the facts or the purity of my motives. This I have now in my possession. I have shown it to General Nichols & the other Gentlemen present at the prison, but have told the good Doctor that it should go no farther [further] unless it seemed necessary for the purpose of vindicating my honour. I communicate the circumstance to you; with no wish on my own account to conceal it & with less delicacy respecting him because I understand he is resigning his situation under the Board of Sick & Hurt. I have no doubt that he never did intend to impeach my integrity, though in answering the interrogatories there was an appearance of his doing it. This singular circumstance led me to enquire a little farther [further] into the conduct of the Commissioners & their mode of speaking of myself. I shall not trouble you with the result, I shall only repeat that it served to confirm the opinion I had before conceived of their judgment & their candour.
I am sorry & indeed ashamed to say so much of myself, but the strength of Your expression leads me to suspect that the representations made to Government which I presume you have seen, if they allude to me at all, may well represent this Circumstance. In what other sense it can be said that "I had listened to assertions wh. [which] were proved on the examination that took place to be utterly unfounded" I am at a loss to conjecture. Surely the prisoners were naked, or why were they clothed? Surely many