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with their wives and children that are often
Christian forver{sic}. I informed him that [being?]
Christian in the United States uneaesed {sic} my request
a very serius {sic} me, and therefore I had [ministies?]
in having a punitive answer to my demand to
send Mr Jewett to me as an independent inquiry,
[since?] given his own viws [views?], and not from the Ports.
He then reviewed his actions in the premises, by
noting, that to secure a judiciary from a friendly
neutral power, he had justified his answer to
the

With their wives and children that are often
Christian forver{sic}. I informed him that [being?]
Christian in the United States uneaesed {sic} my request
a very serius {sic} me, and therefore I had [ministies?]
in having a punitive answer to my demand to
send Mr Jewett to me as an independent inquiry,
[since?] given his own viws [views?], and not from the Ports.
He then reviewed his actions in the premises, by
noting, that to secure a judiciary from a friendly
neutral power, he had justified his answer to
the