If instances of my ungrateful behaviour had been particularized, I would have answered them.

But I have been long convinced that my actions and their motives have been maliciously aggravated." A request that he might be permitted to come to Williamsburg for the settlement of some accounts, which he was desirous of adjusting under the inspection of the Lieutenant Governor, who proposed to leave the province in the following November, was refused in abrupt and disobliging terms.

In answer to the letter containing the refusal, Colonel Washington, after stating the immoveable disposition of the inhabitants to leave the country unless more sufficiently protected, added, "To give a more succinct account of their affairs than I could in writing, was the principal, among many other reasons, that induced me to ask leave to come down.

It was not to enjoy a party of pleasure that I asked leave of absence.

I have indulged with few of those, winter or summer." Mr.Dinwiddie soon afterwards took leave of Virginia, and the government devolved on Mr.Blair, the President of the Council.
Between him and the commander of the colonial troops the utmost cordiality existed.
[Sidenote: General Forbes undertakes the expedition against Fort Du Quesne.] After the close of this campaign, Lord Loudoun returned to England, and General Abercrombie succeeded to the command of the army.