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my
of the
Gravelater, did not give
exceptional position, and if I had Muown that 11⁄2 Government considered. position as being like one many lower offices of the Count, and my Jerivate time is under the conted of the bourt, I would ever have
that
...
accepted this new office of - Paperisor of Iutupulers and Translator, which I new pind daccepted under
a
unitaker impression
I further beg to point out, is my defence, that the fact that In Wotton, who sent me the work and
the fee in quection, is himself in centam respects an ofpeer of the Court,- tended to confirm
my belief
une in
theat
that there was no
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wrong whatever in my accepting the fee the sent me.
With regard to the statement
in your letter of today's date that when attending the Caut at the tual, I tok part in the proccedings, Ibey to point out that the very facto
there alluded to show that I was
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there simply as a literary warmly interested in the subjects connected with the paper Shad translated and which were unded of
an edra
intra ordinary interest throwning a most nunmal light on questions of Chinese family rites. The facts there alluded to further show how m undefined my position.
in Court
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