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Were I to apply to the Secretary of State, he would send
me to the Treasury:
it is by the Treasury (he would say)
and not by me - that every thing is to be done.
Whom it may be proper for the Treasury to consult
with, is not a question for me to presume to think about:
the Law is all that is open to me, and under that law
they are not bound to consult with any body, nor am
I authorized to address myself any where else.—
What I have to pray, is — that things may proceed
on the footing they were place upon by the late of Secretary
of State's first letter to the Treasury, written after six
months deliberation: and that what was done afterwards
in contradiction to it may be set aside for irregularities,
which I should be very sorry to find it necessary for me
to enter into the proof of. —
There remains the relieving my character from the
official imputations already complained of: but, if the above
restitutis in integrum be performed, the imputations drop of
course. —
In a letter, which can hardly be a secret to you, I
mentioned
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copies of letters 1661 and 1663, vol. 6 |
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