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350 THE LIFE OP 



" blifhed beyond all poflibility of doubt, tKat 

 *• I have furrendered myfelf a volunteer to the 

 *' order of Government, and lince that period 

 I have in nothing felt myfelf in cuftody, I 

 venture to pray, that I may be permitted to 

 ■prefent myfelf wherever his Majefty may be 

 •' pleafcd to command ; but lliould there, in 

 your Grace's opinion, exift reafons to confti- 

 tute me, for a time, a prifoner, confident in 

 *' the re<5}-itude of my own condudt, and the 

 juftice of my country, I mod cheerfully fub- 

 ** mit to fuch a deciiion ; but humbly intreat, 

 " that the place of my confinement may be 

 " where it was when I was lefs intitled to in- 

 dulgence — the ftate lide of Newgate — This re- 

 queft will, I hope, appear the more reafon- 

 able to your Grace, that the accufer as I am 

 " of the mutineers, and others more guilty 

 " than they are, I fliould, were I to mingle with 

 " the crowd, be treated by them as it is ufual 

 *' to treat a King's evidence, a character which, 

 " if to (liare in the guilt be a neceflary qualifi- 

 " cation, I cannot be fuppofed to exhibit. 



** I have the honour to be, 



" With the highefl refped, 



" My Lord Duke, &c. &c. &c. 



« J. G. S. LISLE." 



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