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Reply
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Sir
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My Letter, extraordinary as it may seem to you, contains
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nothing but facts from your censure of it as impertinent, it is
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most evident to me that you know not the meaning of the Words,
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the contents of it as they relate to the Publick so do they nearly
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concern me and my Office, and are therefore in the only true
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Sense of the
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; pertinent to both.
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I shall not take upon meto vindicate either the Letter or
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myself against your charge of uncandidness, till I have better
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evidence of your discretion and manners than is contained
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in your answer; which thought brief is not so sententious as
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Saucy: To others I am able and ready to justify the contents
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of it, I therefore leave your to your own opinion of that and
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Your humble Servant
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John Hawkins
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Hatton Street
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27th July 1774}
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