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 protection, some alternative from the cutting disappointment I have experienced, through the prevention to compleat the task I had undertaken.

Many of your Worships, and more especially the reverend members of your bench, will know the moral maxim, that "out of evil often cometh good." And that, therefore, the prohibition of your Worships, no doubt for the best and gravest of purposes, may, though undesignedly, produce to me even more of advantage than your continued permission and promised protection could have effected.

I shall, in such case, consider myself, however, indirectly indebted to you, for every advantage. I am not without hopes, even yet, of finding you reluctant for what is past, making me liberal amends, amongst the number of my subscribers; and I beg leave to subscribe myself, with the profoundest veneration,

GEORGE WILSON.