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wherein I sincerely regret having used disrespectful
and unbecoming language, imputing injustice to the
Executive, and reflecting on the Honorable Colonial
Secretary, a gentleman whose estimable qualities,
and public as well as private worth, I have, in
common with every colonist not tinctured with the
most uncharitable malevolence, always known,
and gratefully appreciated. But, may it please
your Excellency, that letter was written in a
moment of bitter disappointment at finding myself
suddenly dicharged from a situation I had filled
with credit for Seven years - when I had just
received from your Excellency's liberality, an aug-
mentation of salary, and had before me the pleasing
prospect of a respectable independence. And, I
solemnly assure your Excellency, that I was not
incited, or encouraged by any individual, to publish
such letter, but adopted the expedient with the sole
view of preventing the public from imputing my
dismissal to misconduct in my clerical capacity.

With regard to my imprudent elopement from
the colony, for which I am now awaiting your Excell-
ency's Judgment, I humbly implore forgiveness
and mercy. I would presume to urge my patient
residence of ten years, holding a conditional pardon,
as a proof, that some extraordinary cause could
alone have induced me to so rash a step. That
cause was, in fact, an unhappy matrimonial
connexion I had formed, the misery arising from
which became, at length, so insupportable, that
I adopted what appeared to me the only means of
dissolving it.

May I humbly presume to hope that your
Excellency will consider my long and useful services
in various public departments - the vicissitudes
and misfortunes of my early life - my advanced
age - and above all, my sincere contrition for
the past, and firm resolution never more to
transgress. The cause of my misery and conse-
quent elopement, is now removed; my wife

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