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friend Grenville. He wrote to Capt. Knight (Mathews’ second) 
and gave a copy of the letter to Capt. Paumier (his own second) 
and he intended sending a copy to Mr. Wade, lest “they” 
might suppress it, and he wished this fact, with the copy, to 
be shown about.* But his friend Paumier did not apparently 
act or see matters as he wished, so he in turn came in for 
insult—“I have written for the last time to Paumier in such 
a manner as if he has the smallest pretence to honour or 
feeling will punish him sufficiently for his present mean sacrifice 
of both”t Some one seems to have kept him supplied with 
unfavourable news, as under date 8th December, 1772, he wrote 
that he had an account of the basest, meanest, and most 
disgraceful piece of treachery that ever disgraced human nature, 
and then he charges Mathews with bullying Paumier to sign 
some “infamous falsehoods,” which he was told were credited. 
I shall seek the bottom of this treachery, and if I do not 
revenge it may I live to deserve it. A friend wrote him 
again begging him not to suffer himself to be too much 
enraged. A little later he received letters from Bath, which 
although not quite so satisfactory as he might have wished, 
yet he learned that what he had been previously told was 
“misrepresentation highly exaggerated and malicious.” This 
satisfied him somewhat, but on the 4th January, 1773, he was 
still “very uncertain” about this affair, and was disgusted with 
the “whole set of them” on “ both sides,” and shall grow 
weary of their machinations: “I never now reflect on that 
place but it puts me out of sorts.” Yet he was the first to 
‘ the game, and would have liked it well enough had there 
been but one party, had his own versions been always accepted. 
All trouble now disappeared, Mathews and his party held the 
ground, his veracity had never been doubted. 
~ Moore closed this part of the “Life” with an anecdote which 
* Rae, p. 214. + Rae, p. 244. 
