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[MS 114]

Mr Rowland Hassel
By favour of Brother Crook & recd
the 25th of Nov 1803.

[MS 115]

London Sep. 12. 1803
My Dear Brother
Hearing that 2 ships are soon to sail for
N Holland I embrace the opportunity of writing.
I am sorry to find that you have lost your place,
but trust your representation of it is just & that your
character will not suffer by it. I have confidence in 
you that you would do nothing you believe to be wrong, for
it is of great consequence in your situation, as a religious
man in the midst of [indecipherable] that you [have] yourself a truly
honest man & very accurate & conscientious in all your
dealings. I shall be very glad to hear that you have
recovered your place & hope you may, as by your letter to
Coventry which I have seen, it appears that the Governor's Lady seemed think your cause good.
You perhaps have heard that I have removed
from Coventry & I doubt not will be grieved as well as all
our dear old friends there. But I conceive that the
situation I am called to here, as Secretary to the Missionary Society & Editor of the Magasine, will [afford]
me far more extensive opportunities of usefulness. Indeed I
could no longer endure Coventry, for the [abominable], [wasted]
vicious & cruel behaviour of the people in 2 late Elections
made me greatly dislike my situation, & non religious
people had no small share of blame in that affair.
I hope the Lord will [indecipherable] for West Orchard,
a student from Hoxton was with them & is to go
 

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