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kirby’s wonderful museum,
ment should awaken a spirit of enquiry too powerful to be
resisted or eluded ? That this spirit is now reviving, we have
a sufficient earnest in the unanimous zeal you have shewn for
the appointment of a county meeting. In such a conjunc-
ture, to -withhold from you so important a truth, would no
longer be prudence—it would be to disgrace my former con-
duct—it would shew that I had been actuated by some tem-
porary motives, and not by a steady and uniform regard to
national good. Indeed, the declared purpose of your meet-
ing is in itself a call to every freeholder to disclose whatever
you are concerned to know. I obey this call without hesita-
tion, submitting the prosecution of the affair to your judg-
ment, in full confidence that the result of your deliberations
will do honour at the same time to your prudence, candour,
and patriotism.
“ Plymouth,
“ August 12, 1769-’*
This address drew the following letter from the Chevalief
to Dr. Musgrave.
“ SIR,
“ You will permit me to believe that you never knew any
more of me than I have the honour of knowing of you; and
if in your letter of the 12th of August, you had not made a
wrong use of my name, I should not now find myself obliged
to enter into a correspondence with you.
“ You pretend that, ‘ in the summer of the year 1/64,
overtures were made in my name to several members of par-
liament, importing that I was ready to impeach three persons,
tw o of whom were peers, and members of the privy council,
of having sold peace to the French.’ And you seem to found
thereupon, the evidence of a charge which you say you car-
ried yourself to Lord Halifax. I declare, therefore, here,
Sir, that I never made, nor caused to be made any such over-
ture, either in the winter, or the summer of the year 1764,
kirby’s wonderful museum,
ment should awaken a spirit of enquiry too powerful to be
resisted or eluded ? That this spirit is now reviving, we have
a sufficient earnest in the unanimous zeal you have shewn for
the appointment of a county meeting. In such a conjunc-
ture, to -withhold from you so important a truth, would no
longer be prudence—it would be to disgrace my former con-
duct—it would shew that I had been actuated by some tem-
porary motives, and not by a steady and uniform regard to
national good. Indeed, the declared purpose of your meet-
ing is in itself a call to every freeholder to disclose whatever
you are concerned to know. I obey this call without hesita-
tion, submitting the prosecution of the affair to your judg-
ment, in full confidence that the result of your deliberations
will do honour at the same time to your prudence, candour,
and patriotism.
“ Plymouth,
“ August 12, 1769-’*
This address drew the following letter from the Chevalief
to Dr. Musgrave.
“ SIR,
“ You will permit me to believe that you never knew any
more of me than I have the honour of knowing of you; and
if in your letter of the 12th of August, you had not made a
wrong use of my name, I should not now find myself obliged
to enter into a correspondence with you.
“ You pretend that, ‘ in the summer of the year 1/64,
overtures were made in my name to several members of par-
liament, importing that I was ready to impeach three persons,
tw o of whom were peers, and members of the privy council,
of having sold peace to the French.’ And you seem to found
thereupon, the evidence of a charge which you say you car-
ried yourself to Lord Halifax. I declare, therefore, here,
Sir, that I never made, nor caused to be made any such over-
ture, either in the winter, or the summer of the year 1764,