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Show FIND UNKNOWN LETTER OF WASHINGTON'S IN LONDON tluence In a constitutional way exten l they shall he employed to the utmost of my ability to effect It. Should there be an.v occasion let me conjure you then. If you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself, or respect re-spect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, and never communl-. cats as from yourself or any one else a sentiment of the like nature. "I have acquainted Gen. Iiraddock with the gist of your letter. Irs. In sorrow. O Washington." The letter Is going to America, where It will be placed on exhibition temporarily at various museums of history. It will probably be offered for sale later, either to the government, govern-ment, historical societies, or private individuals. course of this war has given me more painful sensation than your Informs tion of there being such Ideas existing In the army as you huve expresse-l and which I may view with abhor rence and reprehend with severity For the present the communication of them will rist in my own bosom un less some further agitation of the mutter ehall make 8 disclosure. I am much at loss to conceive what part of my conduct could have given encourngemeni to an address which to me seems big with the greatest mischief thai can befall my country. If I am not deceived In the knowl edge of myself you could not have found a person to whom your schemes re more disagreeable. "At the same time in Justice to m own feelings I must add that no man pos-espes a more. serious wish to see :uiple Justice done to the army than I tla ; and as far as my power and In j Interesting Missive Discovered In Attic of Old Boarding House Near British Museum. l.ondon.-After lying neglected for years covered with dust, In the ottic of an old London boarding house In the neighborhood of the British museum a hliherto unknown letter ot ieorge Washington has been disco era I here. Yellow with age and worn almost through Mt the creases, the strong liandu riling of the first American President and his Tamous signature ere si ill dearly decipherable. Addressed to Mnjor Ewan and d.ited Georgetown, Oct 4, l"Sl. the Mler reads: "Sir: W'th a mixture of great sur pdse and usi nMimcnt I have read x 1th attention the aenrlment? you i.ive xtihmited to m perusal. "lit; assumed hlr, no oru;-io; in the |