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1711198 distinctly heard frequent allegations, that night to the Chief Justice, and his condition such as I have described in
It had not escaped however your Excellency's observation. When I was about to depart with those who followed out the Chief Justice's carriage door, your Excellency was pleased
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detain me in order to express your resentment of his behavior at dinner; you specified the want of respect and deference in daring, at your own official table, the removal of the lights that were upon it, you described the scene over a game, on my endeavoring to evade your Excellency's querying as to what I myself had witnessed; and declared your opinion to be, that he was
intoxicated.
I quite concur in that opinion. But I deeply lament that he has compelled me to produce my evidence. I should have had no consideration on
in support of it. But for the Chief Justice's appeal to your Excellency, I should not have ventured to put pen to paper or to articulate one word for the circulating or recording of the story, in quarters where it will do him prejudice.
My bona fides in this unfortunate affair can be attested to those who know the facts. I advise that all the
the guests, or at least those who were sitting right and left of the Chief Justice, and immediately opposite, be asked to state how...
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