9. Many words I hope are not necessary between you
and me, to convince you what gratitude is excited in my heart by the
Chancellor's liberality, and your kind offices. . . .
'I have enclosed a letter to the Chancellor, which, when you have read
it, you will be pleased to seal with a head, or any other general seal,
and convey it to him: had I sent it directly to him, I should have
seemed to overlook the favour of your intervention.'
'TO THE LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR.
'MY LORD,--After a long and not inattentive observation of mankind, the
generosity of your Lordship's offer raises in me not less wonder than
gratitude. Bounty, so liberally bestowed, I should gladly receive, if my
condition made it necessary; for, to such a mind, who would not be proud
to own his obligations? But it has pleased GOD to restore me to so
great a measure of health, that if I should now appropriate so much of
a fortune destined to do good, I could not escape from myself the charge
of advancing a false claim.
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