King’s Bench, Aug. 18th, 1814.
SIR,—I take the earliest opportunity which the pressure of my affairs
afforded me of conveying to my much-respected friends of Culross my
heartfelt thanks for the interest they take in my character and
welfare, and for the truly gratifying manner in which they have
demonstrated their feelings, which are at once an honour to themselves
and to me. You may, with great truth, assure our respectable townsmen
that their unfeigned congratulations on my re-election add greatly to
the satisfaction which I derive from that triumphant event; and that
whatever may be the value of my actions, the motives in which they
originate ever have been, and ever shall be, such as may claim the
reward of their good opinion. I send you a newspaper containing the
letter of De Berenger, by which you will perceive that my enemies have
now an agent even within the confines of my prison. But I shall
eventually triumph over all their machinations.
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