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I therefore sent him a challenge and on the 11th Sept last the meeting took place. I was wounded in the right arm and have not until now been able to use it. I am much recovered altho the ball is not yet extracted there is no apprehension or any inconvenience attending it.
Captain McKellar (the Governors aid de camp) will leave by the first direct conveyance for England, with the Governors Despatches.
As he was my friend in this affair, I shall take the liberty of recommending him to your notice and any information you may wish to have on the subject, he will be happy to give you.
I hope Sir you will excuse my entering into a relation so different to my accustomed correspondence nor should I in this instance had it not been in consequence of Governor Kings taking offence in the paragraph of my Letter to you, by the Albion (as before stated) which was never inferred to injure him in your