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Justice, however, which he said weighed with him beyond all private or political interest, demanded a public inquiry, and he would assist me to the utmost of his power in my attempts towards it.
From this time he became a zealous and active coadjutor in the cause, and continued so to the end of his valuable life. The next person, to whom I gave my work with a like view, was Dr.Baker, a clergyman of the Establishment, and with whom I had been in habits of intimacy for some time.
Dr.Baker was a learned and pious man.
He had performed the duties of his profession, from the time of his initiation into the church, in an exemplary manner; not only by paying a proper attention to the customary services, but by the frequent visitation of the sick and the instruction of the poor.
This he had done, too, to admiration in a particularly extensive parish.
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