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Man is Capable of bearing. Be assur'd Sir Joseph that whatever my feeling may have been, I never have Conceivd a thought disrespectfull to the Nobleman holding the office of Chief in the department under which I was Serving - It is & will be allowd to be a Cruel Case, whatever Causes might have occasiond the Neglect I have mentiond, that I shoud become the Sacrifice - I have Solicited in the Strongest manner since I arrivd an investigation of my Conduct, and at a time when there were many well informd Evidences on the Spot - but Sir my hopes were not allowd that gratification, & if I had been one of the Meanest Characters in His Majesty's Service I coud not have been treated with more Contempt, I never coud receive any reply or information why I coud not be indulg'd, this seemd to Strengthen a Suspicion in some of my acquaintance, that I must have Conceald from them some Cause or ground on my part for this most Extraordinary treatment; I coud not therefore fall upon any way of demonstrating to them how unmerited this treatment had been, but by a fair state of those facts which had Cost me so much pain & Anxiety; still Sir Joseph I beg leave to repeat my declaration, That in defending my own Conduct to my friends, I never had the most