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Barfleur Port Royal June 10th. 1782

my dear General

Ten thousand thanks for your affectionate letter by the April Pacquet, which afforded me the most heart felt pleasure and satisfaction, as you most obligingly assured me, that our gracious master was pleased to approve my conduct nothing could be more flattering to me, for to be thought well of by His Majesty, is my highest ambition--Sir George Rodney, declining all kind of business from want of Health, has thrown a weight indeed upon my shoulders, as not only the refitting the fleet, but every thing belonging to it, is under my direction, the Rear Admirals Rowley & Graves being at Sea--this you must imagine employs every moment of my time. I am in the dock yard every morning, at dawn of day, and tarry some hours, and return

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