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relate that in 1854.-7. he
successively advised two secretaria
ar
an
state, that " to protect himself","
and compelled by his experience "of my infirmities _ he had
" Confined communications with
" me to written documents"
!
His Excellency : "memory
in this instance has deceived kim
Undoubtedly the arrangement
he mentions whereby no
business with
should be transacted but
hemself
in writing, has existed for very, Marly
the period described
But I won sorry to say that it
am
was adopted at the request, not
of
His Excellency, but of those transacting
T
business with him; - misunderland.
-
And mistakes being pretty frequent
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long
as His Excellency's
instructions were orally conosiped_
I was one of
those persons.
The Colour at Secret cry,
was another. I have known him to
rmined the Governor of the
arrangement, when the latter,
forgetting it, was proecoding to
Mistract him orally.
I have had to do the sauce,
But Huse
minor matters.
It is impossible for me to rest
day or night whilst I think of the principal mvolved, and the back
my
precedent established, mi