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charge is what will come with a much better grace from
you than from myself. What I expect from you
in that view then is simply this: not that you should
make any acknowledgment about the matter in a
newspaper — that would be preposterous: but only that
when you come to publish the letters altogether in form
of a pamphlet you should insert a note to this effect. viz.
that the idea you found occasion to give of Liberty
you took from a person who has not permitted you
to name him give his name.
Time was when I knew no distinctions of property
where you were concerned: that time you have chosen
should be at an end. I have still the same opinion
of your honour that I ever had: and to that
honour I trust for your doing what is necessary to save
mine.
As to any hints that it may lie within my capacity
to afford you without prejudice to myself, you have more
convincing proofs, I hope, than mere assurances of my
readiness to give such as they are to
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