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and (as he told me) to others regret that he had drawn me into those affairs. I would further remind His Excellency that, long after anything to which he can possibly refer, had taken place; he writing (without any certified solicitation on my part) that I had been a good and useful Private Secretary to him. I would ask His Excellency therefore to say what I have done since then to merit the treatment he now accords to me, and I would put it to him whether in effect it is not myself who has been left to suffer from the effect of those oral communications.
It was therefore with extreme regret that I found His Excellency refused on such grounds the interview I asked for, and I regret it the more because the attitude which His Excellency has now taken towards me in this letter may eventually compel me to refer officially to other oral communications which will confirm the accuracy and truth of my statements but which I excluded from the observations I was lately called upon to make as I thought them unnecessary for my defence, and as I was unwilling to refer to other persons beside His Excellency.
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