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to Lord Hobart, as I mentioned this subject in my letter of Augst. last by the Albion, I shall only observe that had I on his repeated importunities committed myself by the most flagrant abuse of the prerogative delegated to the Governor of this Colony, By granting a Free pardon to a Female convict for life who had never left the Glatton or the Captains Cabbin, I might in that case have avoided his Insults here & his Foul Slander in England; But, after declining that, and other unaccountable requests which must have drawn on me the severest Censure from my Superiors, & the reproach of those deserving objects, to whom that Clemency is so cautiously extended. From that period no artifice of Capt Colnets was wanting to insult not only myself, but every other officer in the Colony. His conduct to Capt Kent was of the most degrading nature, and every dirty invention was used by him to provoke and Irritate, until he asserted such untruths which he meant to make use of, that it was Impossible for my Secretary Mr Chapman