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warming with the subject, and stung with 

 the injury that surely awaited me, ap- 

 pealed to him to be my witness on the 

 great day of judgment, when I would 

 arraign that man as being the author of 

 all the evil that would befall my family. 



I might have expressed myself a little 

 too warmly, perhaps indiscreetly, nay, un- 

 justly, on this occasion; but I could not 

 restrain the poignancy of my feelings at 

 thus being deliberately handed over to 

 destitution, without pity and without a 

 thought, by a gentleman with a family 

 of his own, that, when young, I fre- 

 quently had charge of (one of them has, 

 deservedly, risen to almost the highest 

 dignity in the Church). He evidently 

 had it in his power, by holding out his 

 hand, to save me from going down with 

 the wreck he had been the principal 

 means of creating. 



Let not the reader suppose that from 

 the amount of injury I received it being 



