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my misfortunes. But their recollection is not therefore the less terrible; they have left an impression upon my mind which nothing can efface. Having served my country, and suffered for it, I see it torn and annihilated, and, after so many calamities, sufferings, and treasons, indifferent to every thing, I desire only tranquillity. My life cannot now be long; no matter in what part of the earth my ashes find a tomb.

Finished, May the 10th 1800, at Elizabeth-Town, New Jersey, United States of America.



J. THOMSON, PRINTER, MILNE SQUARE.