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Excerpt from A State of the Expedition From Canada: As Laid Before the House of Commons
When it becomes nece¿iary for men who have acted critical parts in public fiations to make an appeal to the world in their own jufiificatiou, there are many prudential confiderations which might lead them to commit the care of it to friends, or, which is in many, refpeé'ts the fame thing, to defend themfelves under an a¿iimed charaf'ter. The charge of vanity ufually made on egotifm is thus eluded a fuller Qope may'be given to felf-'love and parti-a cular refentment: even the lower vexations which attend an author are to a! Great degree avoided the ill-nature of criticifm is feldom awakened by anonymous writings, and the venal pens oftparty loife half their-gall when the Object of it is not perfonally and direétly in quef'tion.
But there are fituations, in which, not only general aiient {items to jufiify a manin fpeaking of himfelf, but in which alfo no little confideration ought. To be admitted to the mind. Such will be the cafe, if Iam' not. Deceived, when the interefis of the public are blended with thofe of the individual; and when his very errors may ferve. As infiruéiionr to others. Misfortunes which awaken {enfibility will be a further, and a perfuafive call,' upon the attention of the public; and in will amount to a claim upon their jag/fire, if he can Ihew-that he has been injuriou¿y treated.
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