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I look upon it some professional disgrace is attached to those who are of such a Standing - I beg your pardon for thus Troubling you with my Concerns - but I know your Goodness & humanity will excuse that & many other Libertys that are daily taken with you & which your Philantrophy & Urbanity has drawn in you -
The Ship to relieve the Reliance & Supply are not yet Launched when they are & Comissioned by the Admiralty I shall know my doom - But in Confidence I was told by One Great Man then another had said that he did not see any Objection to my getting the [indecipherable] in those Ships but that he apprehend a professional Objection from the Circumstance of my having been so long in what is called a Civil Service - But if it is so - Why require the Services of a Naval Officer on it? In this my pretensions & success will hang - Having had some busines the other day with Mr. Riou I mentioned the Circumstance about [Hordons?] Charts &c - which he had so far forgotten that he scarcely remembered the Application that had been made to him - & expressed much concern that the then pressure of public Affaires made him not pay that attention to it which the subject appeared to deserve - & after expressing a great desire to Obtain this I informed that the Charts & drawings of Natural History