MAJQR SEhl?Lf. LlSLt, |^^ 



(COPY,) 



From the Right Honourdhlt Edmukd Burke^ 

 3l9 Jo H N King, Efq. Under Secretary ofStatt^ 



" My DEAR King, 



** I SEND you ^ letter I received juft 

 ■* now, which is written to a very much refpedl- 

 " ed friend pf mine, by the unfortunate Major 

 " Semple ; ip is attended with feveral documents 

 '' tending to fliew, what I believe is extremely 

 ^* true, that this unhappy gentleman fo condud:- 

 " ed himfelf aibroad as to obtain no fmall degree 

 " of conndcration. You will be {q good as to 

 " prefent thofe papers with my moft refpeclful 

 " and affedionate compliments to the Duke of 

 ** Portland ; and you will, I am fare, yourfelf 

 ^' warmly recommend them to his Grace's moft 

 ^* ferious confideration, fo as to obtain a refpite 

 '' of thefentence'till the next embarkation, and 

 " until the full extent and true nature of the of- 

 f* fences are afcertaincd, and compared with the 

 . ** rigour of the fentence. If one great objecl: 

 '* of criminal juftice, chat is, the removal of the 

 " offender from the fphere of his oifences, his 

 habits, and his temptations, is obtained, every 

 rational as well as every humane perfon would 

 " wifh him every means of becoming of ufe in 

 ** fome quarter of the globe, where, far from 



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