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as I cannot deny that I did feel and still do feel what I expressed.

I have been placed in a most distressing Situation, and have undergone a Trial which nothing Short of a Sense of higher Duties, an anxious Desire to do Justice to the Station in which it has pleased Providence to place Me, and the Conviction that I was acting Correctly could have enabled My Mind to Support, While My Health is sinking under it. I have sacrificed My private feelings of sincere and long tried Affection for My only remaining underline worthy Brother /underline and His Family, have risked and unfortunately incurred a Breach, of which I should ever have viewed the Possibility with the greatest Grief and dread -- It is no Common Occasion, no light Ground which could produce such exertion, and many