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                            High Wycombe Apl. 21st 1803

My dear Sir Having taken the first moment in my power to state to you by my Letter of the 15th my view of what had passed between us, & to recapitulate the substance of the sentiments I wished to convey, little more can remain for me on any occasion than to refer to that statement. There are however two or three points in your letter of the 18th (which only reached me last night) on which I wish to make some remark. I am hardly aware for what purpose you refer to the short conversation which passed between us in January, but I am confident that you cannot consider any part of it as in any degree weakening the statement, that no proposition on the subject lately in question was ever made by me. That conversation was itself begun on your part, & I understood you to express in it an earnest wish (tho' certainly a vague & indefinite one) that if circumstances shoud appear to require it, I might be induced again to accept my former situation. The substance of what I said in answer, was, I believe, that I considered anything of that sort out of the question at that moment; but that I by no means wished you to suppose that I had determined at all events to decline such a proposal, if any Crisis of