that, in the event of your declining to sanction it, Your Excellency would at least have reconsidered your decision as to Grandpa. I am deceived in either hope. But I do not understand that it is my duty to allow myself to be made the victim tomorrow of a policy in which I embarked at the express request of your Excellency conveyed at the earliest conversations with which I was honored after my arrival. I continue to think it a right policy to examine and report all complaints against the magistracy: - But I must tell your Excellency that I do not consent to abide without a murmur an action of slander, a verdict of guilty, and the payment of damages for the faithfulness with which I have performed my promise. I am not rich