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Rh  Clingman, Reynolds or his wife would have betrayed a disposition towards me which if it appeared exist would merit epithets the severest that I could apply.

James Monroe, Esq.

Philadelphia, July 21, 1797.
 * Sir

Your favour of yesterday (to use your own language) gives an indelicate and improper colouring to the topic to which it refers. I will endeavour in a few words to place the points in discussion where they ought to stand.

It was never our intention other than to fulfill our duty to the public, in our inquiry into your conduct, and with delicacy and propriety to yourself nor have we done otherwise.

To this truth, in respect to the inquiry, as to our conduct upon that occasion, you have so often