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<p n="2017">February 1799.</p>
<p n="2018">"Open manner for the future I may attempt to Alleviate<lb></lb>
"the difficulties of my Situation yet I will disdain to<lb></lb>
"use Artifice to accomplish my design I am not aware<lb></lb>
"<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55611_occ778">Sir</rs>
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of any impropriety in the enclosed Letter to my<lb></lb>
"Counsel, if there should, if you would have the Candour<lb></lb>
"to point it out I will very readily alter it and Remain<lb></lb>
"<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55611_occ779">Sir</rs>
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with the Greatest Respect</p>
<p n="2019">"Your much Obliged, humble Servant<lb></lb>
"<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55611_n2019-1">Joseph Burks</rs>
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."</p>
<p n="2020">"<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55611_occ780">Aris</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55611_occ781">Esqr</rs>
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. Governor of<lb></lb>
"the House of Correction Cold<lb></lb>
"Bath fields}</p>
<p n="2021">"Could you Sir, sent the Books if Convenient<lb></lb>
"to Day, as I shall have leisure to Read."</p>
<p n="2022">"Mr.. Aris then stated that since Burk's<lb></lb>
"Discharge he had seen him in Court during the time of<lb></lb>
"the Session Vizt. "on Tuesday the Eighth day of January<lb></lb>
"last when he had some Conversation with him and<lb></lb>
"a Mr.. Hussey an Attorney in the Court being near them<lb></lb>
"at the time heard the Conversation and had put down<lb></lb>
"what passed which he delivered to the Committee and<lb></lb>
"is as follows, - "On the Tuesday in the Epiphany Session<lb></lb>
"held at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55611_geo1373">Clerkenwell</rs>
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I sat by Mr.. Aris at his seat in the<lb></lb>
"Court Mr.. Aris turned round and entered into a<lb></lb>
"Conversation with a Man who was standing at the<lb></lb>
"back of his seat during the Conversation heard the Person<lb></lb>
"say to Mr.. Aris that under the Carpet which was in<lb></lb>
"his Cell there was a Dampness to which Mr.. Aris replied<lb></lb>
"that that Gathered it look at this pointing to the Pillars<lb></lb>
"of the Court it runs down here in Consequence of the<lb></lb>
"heat and the heat of your feet Causes that dampness<lb></lb>
"to which Burk said very likely it had Mr.. Aris then<lb></lb>
"said to the Person Burke upon the whole what is your<lb></lb>
"Opinion of our Prison he answered if there was<lb></lb>
"Liberty for the Friends to bring a little more provisions<lb></lb>
"and they could have more access to their Friends it</p>
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