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3196. FRANKLIN (Benjamin), Defence of.—[continued].

As to the charge of subservience
to France, besides the evidence of
his friendly colleagues [Silas Deane and Mr.
Laurens], two years of my own service with


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him at Paris, daily visits, and the most friendly
and confidential conversation convince me it
had not a shadow of foundation.—
To Robert Walsh. Washington ed. vii, 109. Ford ed., x, 117.
(M. 1818)