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^vhich I lay of looking out for employment 

 Somewhere. He, I may venture to fay, in 

 common with every one who really knows my 

 cafe, thought me hardly dealt by, and with a 

 ■franknefs which I very gratefully remember, 

 humanely offered me his good offices. 



I determined to write again to his Grace of 

 Portland, before I refolved to fix myfelf in any 

 iituation whatever, making another offer to 

 came forward, not only to -ckar up the honour 

 End propriety -of my own condu-d:, but to fub- 

 ftantiate thofe charges of fcandalous negligence 

 and imbecile want of fortitude in others, which 

 occafioned the unfortunate lofs of the Lady 

 Shore. This I conceived to be no more than 

 my duty, lince his Majefly's Minifters had al- 

 ready heard from me in the fame flyle, and it 

 was therefore my endeavour to place the mutiny, 

 and theraufe of its fuccei's, in the cleareft point 

 of view, in order that they might not only bring 

 the guilty to condign punifhment, but by point- 

 ing out where the error had been, enable others 

 to proceed with more fafety in future. 



In this letter I affured his Grace that I would 

 endeavour to exift where I was, without con- 

 itrading any obligation ; that, in hopes of rC-r 

 ceiving his commands, I would wait a reafon- 

 able time ; but if I heard nothing from his Ma- 

 icfty's Minifters, I muft, from dire neceffity, 



Y J accept 



