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Hon:d Sir,
Our last post brought me a letter from Mr Wilson,
inclosing one from you to him of the 15th of April. The pleasure
which the sight of a line or two of your hand-writing would have
afforded under other circumstances could not but be much allay'd
not to say destroy'd, by the proof it afforded me that the silence under
which your sons have been so long suffering, is not owing to any
disinclination to writing in general, but to some other cause which
it would be to no purpose of no use for me to pretend attempt to guess at. I derive
from it however this intelligence which to me is very material and
decisive, viz: that what inclination you appear to have to publish
my letters on the Inspection-house is grounded is grounded not
on any personal satisfaction it would afford you on your own account
to see them published, but on the anxiety you conceive to
subsist on my part to see that event take place for some purpose or
other respecting us or one of us. In my last, which went from hence
this day fortnight by way of Petersburgh through Mr Pleschijeff, I
told you that the hopes of their giving you pleasure was one of the
main objects I had in view in writing those letters. Whether those hopes
have been fulfilled in any degree respect is more than I have any means of
knowing. I have however learnt enough to extinguish most perfectly whatever
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