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 SAgent reproach me with having received em-
 riolating the c..n titution, and breaking the law.
 Shave been the reason ot' the continual blame
IWved from him in regard to conduct in which I
tg to reproach m)-e-ll with. 1 could not ascertain
persuaded that, from the moment I lost his confi-
itd expect no more good, I asked of you my dis-
ppy would it have been if it had reached me prior
Itare I le would then have learnt that ambition
imy master, and especially he would not have done
ry to publish that I desired to terminate my services
by a crime toowari which I was drawn by the men
Pwho were sold to the English.
~'r those may haie been of whom I was obliged to
10 assist me in my important occupations, and with-
,iven with all the nmani given by education which I
imeeived, I could not have performed my functions,
day prove that no one Iess than myself merits the
Id at my door by my adversaries, namely, that I
felf to be governed.
k be laid to my large that I directed toward the
hsts, that I emplky :ed r the advantage of the
hity, talent, and genius? And when my secreta-
i'onds too, shared unite to their mother country to
aent's doult of' their attachment to her, are the sole
i\of my secrt-ts, the sole confidantl of the projects
bld not confine within my own breast, why cast on
1jl never influence me the blame of the ridiculous
bigpnted to me, and which, never having entered my
-prove that I do not allow mysell' to be governed
~ais of others' If those passions had directed my
lid not have forI sen the event which has ju4t taken
talking like a blindly man on my political course, I
i asked you lbr my dismissal.
L"tstep which prunid.nce breed me to take, the only
iipuld dissipate the storm with which I was threat-
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