dmiralty
AGEN
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Law
Officers
Fore
to determine how far this right be derived from the ceremony performed by (apt Beecheyy.
may
l'ont there are matters only to be discussed by
our respective Goods, and I refer to them now merely in explanation - of our conscivation of yesterday
with respect to my purchase of a piece of ground from - Nathaniel Savny, though conceiving myself in
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no
bound to explain sach. anaugement, I do not hesitate in all due (ounters to say that
The transaction was one
ofas stuctly
strictly private character.
In acquiring the pee of the land, I had not the slightest idea of personal profit, but made the purchase for a legitimate objet
and to withold the on
suitable position in
ly
the
hachour for a coal depôt, from the veuality of unprincipled speculators who might otherwise have gained possession of it, for purposes of extortion
And now.
let me
assme,
YE that the cause puurned
by
me,
has been influenced
solely by a
a rettled conviction_
of