I wish you to see it, that you may read G.'s statement, and be enabled, if the affair should ever be mentioned in your hearing, to correct the errors which they must have fallen into who have taken their ideas from the newspaper accounts.

I have dwelt long, too long I fear, upon this subject, but I could not write to you upon any thing else, till I had unburthened my heart.

We have great consolations from the sources you allude to; but, alas! we have much yet to endure.

Time only can give us regular tranquillity.

We neither murmur nor repine, but sorrow we must; we should be senseless else.[54] [54] _Memoirs_, i.