I see, in truth, that the Lord God is just, and never abandons his own.

I have never spared myself in the service of my country, and I would have sacrificed my life, a thousand times, had it been possible, in her cause.

Now, I am receiving for all this a guerdon of blame and calumny, which is cast upon me in order to cover up faults which have been committed by others in past days.

I hope, however, to come soon to give you welcome, and to speak more particularly to you of all these things.

Meantime demanding my justification before these gentlemen, who ought to have known me better than to have added faith to such villanous imputations, I will entreat you that my definite justification, or condemnation, if I have merited it, may be reserved till the arrival of Lord Leicester." This certainly was not the language of a culprit, Nevertheless, his words did not immediately make a deep impression on the hearts of those who heard him.