“It appears, Milord, that you have misunderstood my meaning.
Please feel quite assured that I asked your help only in my
dispute with Cooper. If I had supposed for one moment that you
were to be helpful to me in my delicate affair, I should have
well deserved the mortification of being refused.
“But I thought I ought to have recourse to you to obtain
justice in a scandalous dispute arisen between two subjects of
the monarch whose representative you are.
“Is it possible, Milord, that you should regard my complaints
with indifference, and that you should refuse me the help you
so generously bestow on all those who implore it?…”
Thus ended my correspondence with the noble gentleman, and I refrain from
saying anything about his subsequent behaviour.