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N. 1. (Copy) Queen Square Place Westminster
N. 1. (Copy)

Queen Square Place Westminster 28 th Mar. 1801.

Sir

With the privity of Mr. Nepean, I consult, by this private address,

the peace and honor of your office.

It is to you , Sir, and to the return of those virtues which, as far as my

experience goes, have so long been strangers to it, that I am indebted for a late

Letter, though perhaps without your knowing it. I say to you Sir; for though (as I

learnt by the merest accident) it is some six or seven months, since it was settled,

that a letter to some such effect should eventually be written, the communication

of it to me was too great a favor, and would have been so to the day of my death,

if seven years experience can afford any ground for inference.

What I have now to pray, Sir, is — the liberty of leaving that letter unanswered,

till the retreat of those, against whom, were I to answer it, I could no

otherwise avoid standing forth, in the character of an accuser, that by the abandonement

of reputation -property- every claim, and every hope, I have been pursuing

for more than ten years, out of the three and fifty I have lived.

Meantime, by your seeing Mr Nepean upon the subject at your leisure, the

substance of the case might be learnt at any time in a few words, from the only

unbiassed person who is able (not to speak of willingness) to give any correct account of it.

By one honest hour of his time the business was brought one evening in

August 1793, to a point, to which it has not in all this time been suffered to be

dragged up again - by all my solicitacions, backed as they have been by his representations,

in other hands.

Ask him, Sir, whether the business has any real difficulties: -whether it has

ever had any, that have not been made - by design - negligence - incapacity - or a mixture

of all three.

Ask him, Sir, by what private influences, one after another, the public faith has

thus been kept in a state of continually-repeated violation, for above these seven years,

ask
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