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and fortune, rank, or connexions, what can I hope for. Should this dread misfortune then befal me, I have taken my resolution. "The world forgetting, by the world forgot," I will retire into a corner, and place my happiness in domestic relations.This melancholy thought has struck me more forcibly since I had a report sent me of your having paid the great debt of nature, but I have fortunately been able to trace its origin to a date anterior to June 1805, when you did me the honour of addressing a letter here, which arrived in October following.

That you may long live, the widely - honoured patron of science and of such of its followers as need your assistance, is the most fervent desire of,

Sir Joseph

Your most obliged, faithful, and

obedient humble servant

Mattw Flinders

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Wilhems Plains in the

Isle of France July 28. 1805

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