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distant intention to appear in any degree difficult in that respect which is due to the D. of P. - Whatever my future Situation or Circumstances may be, I hope I shall Submit to them with fortitude & resignation, and I shall at all times most Earnestly wish, that every officer whose fortune it may be to hold so honorable an Office as I lately fill'd, may Act his part with no less attention to the Public interest than I have done, & may enjoy a Conscience as pure & unpolluted as I at this Moment feel Mine.
Your goodness Sir induces me to send for your perusal the inclos'd rough Copy of my Letter to His Grace in reply to an Anonimous Letter which been receiv'd at that Office, and on the Authority of which too much faith appeard to be plac'd; You will see from My Answer, what a Melancholy Situation an Officer serving at so great a distance is plac'd in, if his Character is to be branded with Acts which woud disgrace the Meanest Servant under the Crown, & not receive the pleasure of knowing that his defence has been Considerd as Satisfactory, which is strictly the Case in this instance - I know pretty well who this Anonimous attack was made by, the Ostensible Author is one of the Seditionists sent out from hence, but I had strong grounds for believing that some