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that I expected a piece of service from him which 

 I sliould be certain of receiving from the meanest 

 oi fellahs, that of sending the rcis to Farschout, 

 whither I intended to proceed. I added, that I 

 would not fail to make known in Europe the 

 shameful indignity of his conduct toward me, and 

 to confirm the bad opinion which Mr. Bruce had 

 ah-eady disseminated there respecting their house. 

 My letter was written in Latin ;. he replied to me 

 in the same language ; but in that tone of insipi- 

 dity, of baseness and perfidy, which is the true cha- 

 racteristic of monks. His reply was conceived in 

 these terms -, 



^* Achminiy die ']mo. Junii, 



. *' Cum venerit conductor navis, ilHco mittam 

 ^'^ Farschutum, quia servire suae illustrissim^e do- 

 '' minationi, non servitutem dico, sed honorem. 

 " Qucd autem sua illustrissima dominatio non 

 " fucrit reccpta illo honore, qui dcbebatur suas 

 ** condition!, non fuit ex parte mea inurbanitas, 

 " sed casus et error, de quo errore veniam petii 

 *' coram interprete illustrissimae suae dominiatio- 

 *' uis ; quam. quod impetraveriu), speiare me ju- 

 *' bent sua innata dementia, cl generositas; quod 

 l'- aatem non adierim in propria persona suan> 



" illustrisbimani 



