I Had Written To Lord Monck To Ask The Duke's
Leave For Communicating To Me In No Confidential Manner The Despatch Of
The Duke, In Order To Give Me An Opportunity To Answer It.
I never had
any answer from Lord Monck to that request.
To my great
surprise, at the end of December last, I received from Lord Monck a
note, accompanied by the copy of a despatch from the Duke, informing me
that a mode had been found to meet my wishes and those of Galt,
which consisted in the publication in the 'London Gazette' of a
'notification' omitting our names, and such notification to be
substituted for the former one of July last.
"The reading of this last despatch more than astonished me, and my
astonishment was greater when I saw by the 'London Gazette' that it was
carried into effect by the notification above alluded
to. I have had no more opportunity to answer the second despatch of
the Duke than the first one, which was marked 'confidential.'
Allow me to add, that the 'Duke' expressed in his 'first communication'
that he did not like to suggest that my name should be struck off the
roll, because an ungenerous construction now and hereafter might be
made against me by those not acquainted with the facts. Now, by
the course followed, as explained in his second despatch, I feel as
badly treated as if the first course had been adopted. In one case my
name would have been ordered to be struck off the roll, and by the
second course followed up, my name was ordered to be omitted in the
second notification.
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