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Thank you kindly, Sir, for your history of Mr Horne: it is
a curious one, and one that I wanted much to be informed about.
Tomorrow I shall resume my punishments: and I hope to finish
the subject of the Sanctions by Saturday or Monday next, when I
expect Mr Wilson to come and fetch me. He has taken a most
generous as well as active part in the late distresses. As for
Sam and me, our language has been that of the Apostle — "Silver
"and Gold have we none, but what we have, that give
"we unto ye".

As to that part of your letter which relates to Sam, I
am sorry to see it at all, and I think I have reason to complain
of it's being inserted in a letter addressed to me. Your
own supposition that I never saw it, as it happens, was most
strictly true: upon that supposition, as there was nothing for me to
do or to forbear in consequence of what I was told, the speaking to me
of it in terms so harsh as those I have the misfortune to see employ'd,
could have no effect but that of making me suffer for an offence
in which, be it what it may, I bore no part. I have shewn him
your letter, and questioned him about his: but all I can get from
him is, that he has at no time been less conscious of any intention
of giving offence. If this be the case, he is very unfortunate either
in his expressions or in the construction that has been put upon
them. But I hope, Sir, and dare believe, that the dissatisfaction
you testify at his expressions was owing in great measure
to some cause as transient as that to which you attribute those
expressions themselves, and that ere long you will relieve him from
the concern he can not but feel under a sentence of condemnation
which makes it as difficult for him to know what to write to
you as how to see you. Meantime, that I may keep him as
clear from my offences, if this letter should unfortunately be reckoned

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Identifier: | JB/538/145/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1777-11-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	145	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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