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and returning briefly to London in 1791 was a staunch, though not completely uncritical, defender of the
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to live with a nephew she had helped raise. However, she was unhappy in
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British possession, and accumulated enough personal property that his widow and daughters lived comfortably on the income from his estate and pension. They moved to
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