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Lordships. I hope that I have been understood in this respect; though I am not without anxiety on the subject, since your letter mentions nothing of the circumstance: Should those two gentlemen be arrived, I beg them to accept of my friendly remembrances; as also my friend governor King, to whom I am under considerable obligations for the zeal with which he assisted me in the prosecution of our voyage, and his personal kindness to me
Since my residence in this district, I have not had the least communication with general De Caër; but the liberty I now enjoy is a sufficient proof that he has ceased to consider me as a spy; and I firmly believe, that if he had not said to the French government, during the time of his unjust suspicions of me, that he should detain me here until he received their orders, he would have gladly suffered me to depart long since: for he has the character of having a good heart, though too hasty and violent
With the most anxious wishes, that when I shall be so happy as to revisit England and may find you, my most powerful friend, in perfect health, and that you may not find me unworthy of