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No. 18
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Sept 3d. 1783.
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Sir
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Your return (for which I have impatiently waited ) gives
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me at last an opportunity of expressing my astonishment at the purport
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of your Letter dated the 20th. of June, wherein you a second time deny me
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that satisfaction which as an injured person I have a right to expect at
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your hands I am equally surprised at Your again making use of the
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expression (this late hour) when you must be sensible that the hour on which
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I called upon you, was that which Your sir had appointed; (Vict. When I had
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proved to the World, that your original accusation was ill grounded ) I
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delayed making farther applications on this subject till a General Court Martial
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had Fully, and Honorably acquitted me; and till I had made my Obeisance to
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His Majesty for the Gracious mark of his favour I had lately received Looking
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then upon every objection as removed, I requested You to
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your promise,
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which You thought proper to decline. I am now sir under the necessity of acquanit
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ing You, that Your must either resolve to meet me at Six O'Clock tomorrow
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morning with Pistols, at the King in
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Hyde Park
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, accompanied by a Friend;
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or submit to be held up to the World in a most dishonorable light
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With regard to what you mentioned of defending your person if attacked,
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I can only observe, that while thore are other modes by which Gentlemen may
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deside their differences, I shall never adopt that of an Assassin
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I am Sir
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Your obedient
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Servant
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Pasmo Gordon
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Lt. Calonel I Thomas }
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