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 with you who can doubt your abilities. All the world bears witness of them, and the learned in Europe, who must be allowed to be the best judges, have given ample testimony by the honours they have heaped upon you. While you exercise your great talents for the benefit of those entrusted to your care, your country will honour you, and posterity will do you justice; even though Dr. S, when you chance to meet, should refuse to give you precedence." In another private letter to him, the Secretary says, "As to rank and precedence, and all that nonsense, there is nothing in the Journals to establish it."

His unjust dismissal from the post of Director-General doomed him to temporary disesteem, and this, to a man like Morgan, highly educated and possessed of great sensibility of character, prostrated him, and from its benumbing influence he never fully recovered. After the publication of his "Vindication" and subsequent honourable acquittal by the Congress of all of the charges which had been brought against him, he withdrew in a great measure from the public eye, and passed his days mostly in retirement and study, which a still sufficient, though shattered estate, allowed him happily the means of indulging in. He continued, however, his services to the