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J.B. to Benson
at least as much as is necessary to enable you to judge
of the temper and character that could dictate two letters
of his copies of which I enclose.
After his reception receipt of my Brother's answer to them
his behaviour as I understand from half a dozen witnesses
was still more than ever you could have seen saw the Dr's.
All the execrations all the terms of reproach the language furnishes ever railed bestowed
against upon me and my Brother & me all the terms of repr My
Brother did not love the smell of powder: he would follow
him & call him to account — he would go to the Prison
and lay his make complaint against him: he would
go to the Empress — he would go then to Mr Pitt to complain
of me & [+] [+] He would publish every thing he knew of both our letters. With all this madness cramming
every thing into his trunks he coul that took his fancy:
refusing to give up things that had been lent him,
and conveying his packages out of the house at
night by stealth Finding obstacles to his
When they had been a whole night at the
Drs then he was ready to have them searched
by any honest man, by which, as he declared
he meant to exclude every one of the English
here.
My Brother all this while you starve on
his journey. I three weeks off at Zadobras. But
from the reports made me I expected for some
time I should have had my life to defend against
a mad beggar to whom I had never given the
shadow of an offence.
The Dr this morning in conversation with my man
Bettie affected to speak slightingly of Benson:
Whether any of the Drs politicks were lurking behind
this language I do not know
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