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" ces, you fhall command my mite in the con-- 

 " tribution ; and I fhall ufe my beft intereft with 

 ** Mr. King, that Mr. Semple may be recom- 

 *^ mended to the Governor of the Colony, for 

 ** every fort of attention to his perfon and his 

 •^ eftablifliment. I wait your commands. 



" And am. &c." - 



After the receipt of this, I laid my creden- 

 tials of fervice before this great and good man, 

 and thefe foon infpired him with far other fen-. 

 timents. He now no longer confidered me as 

 the defperate depredator, but as (if I know my- 

 felf, I really am) a man mifguided by violent 

 paflions, who had done wrong, but who never 

 laid any premeditated fchemes to deceive. 



Imprefled with thefe fentiments, he wrote a 

 very warm letter to John King, Efq. one of his 

 Majefty's Under Secretaries of State ; which he 

 had the politenefs to fend to me under a flying 

 feal lo perufe, and to forward. I nov/ lay it 

 before my readers ; and if the former exhibits 

 all the placed benevolence, this latter glows 

 with all the fire of Burke, 



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