being a false witness and those other charges which you are pleased to
alledge against me. If favoured with this information, I have no doubt of being able to prove in
the most satisfactory manner that such accusations are wholly unfounded. I have hitherto, my Lord,
said very little, nor could I have deemed myself of sufficient importance to have any weight in the
scale of public opinion where your Lordship was concerned, had you not yourself attached importance
to what you call falsehoods devised by me. The little I have said is strictly
true, and what more I may be compelled to say, shall be equally so,
and my name will always be added to whatever I may write hereafter, as it has been to whatever I
have written heretofore.1
