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committing these Acts, by publickly [publicly] reasoning on the improbability of his attempting to quarrel with a Person under whose Government he was ultimately to be, and from whom he had to expect advantages : Indeed there seems to be so much propriety in this reasoning that it is difficult to imagine any human Being could have acted contrary to it, particularly when politeness and moderation were only presented against every violent and insulting Act ; nevertheless strange as it is, the Acts complained of have been committed in opposition to great benevolence and unassuming manner on my part, which nothing founded on truth can any way controvert ; yet I lament at feeling it necessary on account of the remoteness of the Colony, I am to preside over, to give the correspondence that