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WHEN Mr. Homer declared in the House of Commons, “that the African Inetitution were preparing an answer, point by point, to the misrepresentations contained in my letter to Mr. Wilberforce, I hailed it as the dawn of investigation; but I could have anticipated the extreme gratiﬁcation I received on reading the Special Report of the Directors of the Institution respecting allegations contained in my Letter,” as it has produced from them a confession, where they intended a refutation, and conﬁrmeda statement they had declared to be erroneous.

The Report having forced my character and conduct. before the Public, I esteem the most fortunate circumstance of my life, because in simple vindication, such things must now be unfolded, to the Directors' manifest confusion, as otherwise would hove been concealed, to my irreparable injury.