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was discussed immediately in my defence; and by the decision of the Court you will see that I could not do them all away.
Long as this Trial was pending, yet with all I could do, I could not discover how it was that on the 9th Octr, at Night I should bestow such epithets on the Prosecutor as he stated, or how in any shape I had behaved Tyrannically or oppressively, and by what means I had abused officers & ill treated them as the Charge expressed, until the Prosecutor opened upon me. Therefore I went armed with no defence, but a consciousness of my Innocence, and honorable Evidence of my Zeal for the public service, my great humanity, & my moral character. I thought in that too to have been supported by all the Lieunt.s, who to the last day dined with me with all the friendship I could expect, & who I had no suspicion of, they on the contrary, except my First Officer, turned out to be the worst of Serpents, but there fortunately being a doubt on the truth of what they declared, and my Evidences still increased it, and did away the Venom of the Bite altho not totally, the mark of it; as the sentence was " to be reprimanded & admonished to be in future more circumspect & correct in his language".
When I heard the kind of evidence given against me, and that what I had said through Zeal for the service to the Men to sense them to execute their duty, was applied to the Officers; I was so shocked as to lose all recollection,