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I obtained but one form of answer, satisfied in my Confeived that I had only done my Duty.
I was convinced that I had exercised the most praiseworthy prudence, and had done my best to uphold the credit of the British name.
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I pray by Care, My Lord, for the sake of much Domestic misery and so far as our prospects in the Government service were concerned, they were apparently in utter ruin;
and it was with the sole ultimate view of finding out reasons which induced your Lordship to treat me so cruelly and unjustly that I became the Proprietor of the Island of Chusan, my Friend
I deemed it my duty to lay the cause before your Lordship, and could not do otherwise.
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