Sir James again wishes to address Washington on "one of these very affecting instances of private distress which deeply warm the heart; and excite all our tenderness in favour of the unhappy Sufferers." In this case, the object of Sir James's concern in Captain Asgill, who has been imprisoned. Sir James tells of the critical illness of Asgill's father, Sir Charles; how Sir Charles' wife, in order t o keep the news from her husband, "dare not see him, lest her behaviour might betray the secret, which would probably put an end to his existence. His Daughter, a lovely young Lady of great delicacy of mind and person, has ever since been delirious, raving almost perpetually about her brother, his execution and death."
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United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829