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REQUIRING HIM A3 SUCH, To do the Author Juftice, in paying, Or feeing it done by others, fomc Back Salary that he cfaims, as heretofore Attorney General, and Judge of Common Pleas, in Canada, And fuhnltttngto hts Conftderathri', Whether fome Tax Bills modelled on the Plan pointed out, would not produce much more to the State,i than what they at prefent do, and fo be a means of lowering the Tax on Wine, that the Author may drink it again at a reafonable price. [printed for the Author, and Sold by his Appointment, at at Fentum's Mufic Shop, No. 78, in the Strand, and at Wood's News-Shop, at the Royal Exchange, London, K.t^ ^- '■'^'^'■*^^-:'::'r^.'f'">:\.:.;^^- ?9^ AS thinking 1 fhould have a great deal of jollity in celebra- ting Mr. Fox's Birth-day, with great difficulty I got up the Hairs, about half pafl three o'clock, but the grand rooni was filled with creatures of their own kidney, fo in order to get a dinner for my 8s. 6d. I went among the crops, in the three table room, and got a tolerable good place) and a toler- able good dinner, value twenty pence. The Chairman of that room being as dull as Momus, and myfelf as gay as a lark, I was foon voted in the chair at my own table where I gave the fong of True Blue, and Toalls that per- feflly fatified them, and told my Lord Lauderdale that however pleafed I was with his public ipeeches, when in the Houfe of Lords laft parliament, I was thorougly difpleafed with him, a man of fuch high birth to offer himfclf for a Sheriff of Lon- don ! only the mcffeagcr of my Lord Mayor ; and fo I made jny cen^f'e and away I went. 3 73 0.5 celebra- t up the td room order to IS, in the d a toler- LETTER, &c. jmus, and at my own ;sthat per- at however e Houfe of rith him, a iff of Lon- i fo I mad^ London, January 22, 1798. SIR, After treating me, and what I fuggefted to you (when I requefted the honor of your attending the Trtafur) Board, at a time I expelled that my memorial, fetting forth my claim, (and I hope well founded) for back fa- lary, due to me as Attorney General of the province of Quebec, and as one of His Ma- jefty's Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, for the diftrid of Montreal in that province, as I fliall in a more diftant part of this letter the fuller enlarge upon) refpe£ling how much more might accrue to the nation by new- B modelling i \l ( ^ ) modelling the a6ls of parliament, rcfpeding the duty on licences to wear hair powder, and the tax on windows, with fuch con- tempt, by neither anfwering the feveral let- ters I wrote you on the bulinels, and the rc- quell that 1 made to have a pcrfonal inter- view (to explain more fully than a letter might be agreeable to you to read could do) I thought it would anfwer very little pur- pole, previous to your opening your budget and mode for raifing the new taxes, for me either to trouble myfclf or you with any further letter on the occafion, for I was then in the country, fuperintending a fmall build- ing I am erefting in the neighbourhood of Briflol, for my future reildence, in which I have made every convenient and necefTary room for a family of eight to ten to live in decency, and with a little fpice of gentility, and have every iifcful hgHt, which I liave the mortification to fav I canimt l)iinp; within the compafs I at firft intended; for as I call it a cottage, fo it fhould Jiavc but the light af- figned by the legiflature for the accommoda- tion of the cottager, namely fix; but if a ikylight is to be confidered as a window, it mufl extend to feven, elfe I mufl fpoil my fitting ( 3 ) fitting room, where I love to have, at my time of life, the fun from its early rifing to its late fettlng, to have three large promi- nent v/indows in that room of twenty feet fquarc, and confequently a great deal of light, which I can fhut out by gauze curtains when I pleafe. Now, Sir, clrcumftanccd as I am in this new dwelling, the window light bill, as it now ftands, will but very little affedl me, fiippofiiig my Ikyliglu docs not efcape the eye of the window peeper, but fuppofuig it does, then I Ihall pay no tax at all for my lights, which, as I laid before, from all the glafs, through which it ifilies, I enjoy a great quantity of, and juft as much as a family like my own, of about eight or ten wants. And had you. Sir, adopted what 1 had pointed out to you for your confideratlon and improve- ment on the tax as it now flands, you would have me like many others in fomewhat of the like predicament, contributed i^^ood deal to the exigencies of the flate, Inftead of my now fcarce contributing any thing ; for you jnuft remember, Sir, I mentioned in my let- ter (and once read my propofal to your friend Mr. Pybus, for him to tell it to you as my fuggeftlon ; and as he feemed pleafingly B 2 flruck ( 4 ) {Iruck with mv idea, I thonc;ht he feemed to (hv lie would npen 'he matter to you) ; for 1 t:ll you frankly, th^t hearing by fome friencK that the Trealury B.>ard were very bountltu! to fuch men as did propofe taxes, that woul'' hear the leafl" hard on His Ma- jey*s laborious fubje^ts, and be produ6live from the higher and wealthier part of them, I did fancy a prefent of at leaft £. 500 might be the reward of my fuggeftion, and tho* having been a judge ; yet as 1 retired on my oiium cum cUgmtate^ without either penfion or any income from government, in lieu of what I had given up, I Ihould not have been above receiving whatever you had thougbt proper to have allotted me (which was, that inftead of its being a tax upon windows, it fhould be a tax upon glafs ufcd by all and every His Majefty's fubjecfls in and about his, her, or their houfes, warchoufes, hot-houfes, and green-houfes (cottagers from yT. 3 per annum and under, and cucumber frames onlv ex- cepted) at fuch fmall fum per foot, as you from your fagacity and wifdom as Cliancellor of the Exchequer Ihould fuggefl, would be adequate to the purpofes wanted, by which you would have brought into taxation (what oujiht I \ US. ht ( 5 ) ought to have been many years ago as pro- cUkSIIvc of feveral articles of luxury, and of the highed: nature) the hot and green-houfes, and which have not yet had the notice, cither of you or the former Chancellors of the Exchequer of this reign, and indeed Ihould have begun in George the lid. as in that reign fcarce a member of the Houfc of Commons, and almofl: every peer of any confcqucnce had his hot and green-houfe, and the common freemen's palate were gra- tified now and then with a (lice of pine-apple, and an o^f^iagonal part of a Melon, but fee now, Sir, who keep hot-houfes ? why every body who keep (I doubt not--what you fuffer to keep carts, of which more hereafter) car- riages, a hot-houfe, a green-houfe, and a carriage, are coeval, not only yourfelf, and the Lonls of yours and every other board under his Majcfly's government, but all and every the fquire clerks keep them, upon the "Ication tho- 'cry grati] roughly praifc- worthy ; but yet it is a luxu- ry, and ihould yield fomething as a luxury to government, which I believe fave from the duty that comes from the glafs as glafs they never have paid a farthing, which they fhoulddo in feme way or other, to fay, but a bagatelle ( 6 ) bngnf-^lle of a prod'i*fl, and not a very great fum would arife would be arguing on falfe promiles, for look every where round this metropolis, and ahnofl: every large city, market town, and low villages, you Icarcc fee a houfc, wliofe rent may be from ^. 25 to /^ ^o, and fo on, up to ^, 2 or £, 300 a year ; but has either a hot or grten-hpult^^ it is an arnufement not onlv for the p;entlemcn, ^vlien at home, but the ladies who are moftly I0, and te d greatly to plealurc of various fuits ; but yet it is a luxury, and fhould be taxed, the fmaller the one, confeqiiently the lefTer quantity of glafs, folikcwife the fmaller the tax paid for it. All cucumber frames I would have go free, inafmuch as they tend to raife what are very neceilary for the ufe and benefit of the middling and lower orders of the people, then, Sir, by putting the tax on the glafs ufed for admitting light into the honfe, f fair- ing to I carry not bt* >errons ^er do >^ gigs 1 con- at find r from juftice amily, calioii- lorles, vy oil train ate ill which d any great iulVice 1 vet :arcer, arte is water, (houkl rinces, and ( 17 ) uiid taking from others what they have no juft pretcnfion3 to (as cafes arc circumftanced nowjfo I hope you will (^s 1 do imagine you to be a mail ot' buliix^ls, t!iar is to expedite matters, though I am afraiU b/ your not rifitig until after nine in the mornm^'; 1^2 nd which by accident I fuund out, and in tii.s manner having often called at your houfc for nn aufwer to the fevcral liters I addreflcd to you, either to give me back the Poems ). had publifhcd, or what you thought thev vvere worth, and your porrer having gjixi na- turedly (for a -great man*s porter, as you know they are in general, as rough as bull dogs; faid, that if I would call in a few days, he would get me the aiilwer required; fo happening to call at a late hour for me, but an early one at yourhoufe, namely, at nine, (the time when the maid was mopping the fteps,) I alk'd if you was in town, (he faid, yes, but was not up. Said I, in fome fur- prize, what ! our guardian, the protedor of our land, and every thing that is dear to us, in bed now ; when ten to one but the Jack Tars had ran away with the Fleet from the Nore to France ; and the maid being amazed at fuch language at your door, went D down, i / { '8 ) down, fcnt up the porter, who came up with a very iralclble face, told me he had no anfwcr, nor could one like me, behavnig fo, cxpe£l one, and pofltivcly turned me out of your door, and fliut it rudely upon me, which occafioned my writing to you the lad Letter I ever troubled you with, complaining of his rudenefs to me, for only refle<5llng on you, as I thought, laying too long in bed for a great miniflcr : for how much better would it have become you, if you had had nothing clfe to do, but liad been up to have had my cafe, and confidered the juftnefs of my claim there flated, and Inftead of fending it from your board, to the Duke of Port- land, who could know nothing of the con« tents, have done mc the juftice to have given me a hearing thereon, and if my claim was well founded in your mind, as Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, for it was to the equity in you, and you only 1 appealed to order the paltry fum to be paid me, and not let it linger out another twenty years with- out my receiving any thing, for as to fending it to the Duke of Portland for his anfwer thereon (as I underftood by my worthy friend, Mr. Remus, in July lad, it went from The ( I'; ) tlie Trcafury Board, to that new Secretary of State, for him to whom fomc (as I could never find out what) anfwer thereon, wliich in facl, was only fending it to die away, and have nothing done thereon, though it has not heen for want of often waiting on his Grace, in Piccadilly) for as to the office, he is not like my late worthy friend. Lord George Germaine that is dead, and gone always in his place to do his duty where he ought to do, and where he did do his duty in fuch a manner, that none flnce his time, have done it equal to himfelf, open and ac- ceffible to all fuitors; but now though I have gone to the office, numberlefs times, both in Lord Grenville's, Mr. Dundas, and the prefent Secretary of State's time, could I ever meet with one in thofe lofty moun- tainous apartments, I wilh for the benefit of ns old fellows, you would give the Secretary for the American department a fuit of rooms on the ground floor, it would be great- ly to the cafe of our inflated bad lungs. So not finding his Grace tliere, I was aJ- vifed to go to Burlington Houfe, and there, by good luck met lilm at home, and was ordered to walk lip to the houfe, no fniali di (lance to D z one [ 20 ) i^iic, linlf tired with wnU.ing brtbre ; but I hobbled on, was Ihcwcd into a fine parlour, and dcHrcd to fend in mv nan:c and bufinefs, which I did. The anfwer, to my great mortification, was, that his Ciracc knew nothing about it, and that 1 mnfl: go to the office. I defired his valet to fay there I had been, and was come from, and had often been before, but got no other (Iitisfadion, than that my Memorial lay before the Duke, and 1 knev/ that if I did comply with the Duke*s deiire in returning to the office, I fhould get no forwarder by that, and I re- qucfted to get his Grace's anfwer to my Me- morial ere I quitted town ; but all wouKl not do, and the reply was, I miiH: go to tlia office. So to the office, and up thofe vilt rafcally 89 fleps, which halfburftcd me to get to it, did I go, and when I got there, Mr. King, and all the Clerks were out. So I wrote to his Grace, of what 1 had fur- mifed was true, and I confidered his fending me there, but a kind of a fubblng me oil from him, which I did not cxpcd from a man of the fublimity of character as he was, as liQ had not been brought up to the law, as his conforts were, who by means of being initiated but r irlour, fiMcfs, great knew ro the I had often i6lion, Duke, h the fice, I 1 re- V Mc- would to the. fe vile me to there, t. So d fur- iJiiding me oft rom li e was, t law, ■ being itiated ( «« J initiated in the fun(Slion, knew all tlie ways and arts of fubblng, to get rid of mc, but I would wait on him, on Monday morning next; lb accoi'lingly T went, but at that time was nur peimiued to go further than the hall ; I tent in my name, and the Duke fcnt me out a mtflnge, that he was very bufy, and foon going out, I infl:antly replied, that I am firft oars for his Grace's attention, and I fhould flay there if I flaid for a fort- night, until I got his anfwcr one way or the otlier, as to the fate of my Memorial, and as I was rather more vociferous on the oc- cafion, than others might be, and the hall from the fublimity of genius difplayed by the late noble architecTt, the builder thereof was rather vociferous, on my voice, brought down to me a large big-bcllicd man, which at a ciiftance appeared like the Duke*s coach- man, and who fliould it be, but an ac- quaintance of mine in former days, and whom 1 had not {^t\\ for many years, but his Grace's Law Secretary, CounfcUor Bakl- wyn, who alked me what was the matter that occafioneJ my being ^o very noily ; as the vulgar fay, I up and told him, that his Grace had fubbcd mc off laft Saturday from i gect ui qr ( 22 ) jrcttins: an nnfwcr to a Mtmorlal before him, (mentioning it) by telling me to go to the offiCc, where in ohedience to his t»race's di- re£tionS; I had been, but like the dull feats in the Six Clerk's Office in long vacation, found no one, and had now come again to his Grace, to give an anfwer to my Me- morial, and begged he wcjuld do it, he faid his Grace was very indifferent, and could not be (poke with. I told him that his being fb was nothing to me, the Memorial was, and had been referred by the Board of Tre.uury (where I had taken abundance of pains to have it read at the Board) to the Duke, and it was with him to return it there, with furh anfwer as his Grace thought proper to make thereon. So Baldwyn pleaded his Grace's infirmities, which af- fuagcd my rage, when he faid, come to the Office on WedncPJay next, and you lliall have an anfwer thereto, i happened that day to be at Maidflone Aflizes, but went on Saturday morning, where by the greateft chance in the world, I faw IVIr. Baldwyn, who faid the matter was not with him, but was with King, and to King I muft go ; that 1 did not like, for that gentleman had given him, to the s*s di- 1 feats :atioii, all! to r Me- :ie faid could ; being d was, )ard of mce of to the turn it bought Idwyn ch af- to the III iLall that cut on reateft dwyn, n, but ft go; n had given ( 23 ) given me many inftances of fubbing me off, as no one, I will fay that for his honour and credit, knows more the ways of fubbing off an unwelcome attendant on that office than himfelf ; but however, I tried to get at a fight of him early and late, both at the office and his own houfe. At laft it was reported he was gone out of town for the fummer, fb I went out of town for the fum- mer, wifhing all the Secretaries of State, and their underlings did their bufinefs as well, and in the fame manner, as it was done in my late patron, and worthy friend, Lord George Germaine's time. And what. Sir, is all this mighty matter, that this great Duke will o\vQ no anfvver to ? but as I have be- fore ftatcd to you, that on Mr. Heys, the late Chief Juflice of Quebec, and Mr. Knel- ler, the Attorney-General of the Province, abdicating the fime, on Arnold's going againft it in 1786. And coming to England, Kneller caught an Englifli difordcr, and died here, in March 1776. I hearuig of-.it, ap- plied to my friend, Lord George, to fucceed thereto ; his Lordfhlp did not at firft oblige me with the rcqueft, but rcmonftrated with (as knowing n:ie) on the abfurdity of my leaving ( H ) leaving this to fettle in fuch a country, with io large a family, and faid, he had been ap- plied to on behalf of a Mr. Grant (the pre- fent Welch Judge of that name) who was over there, but if 1 thought that it was for my advantage, I fhould have it. I thought it fo, and prelTed for it ; fo on a levee day, about the beginning of May, he called Mr. Pownall, the then Secretary to the Board of Trade, and faid to him, you are to prepare a mandamus for this gentleman's fucceeding Mr. Kneller, as Attorney-General of the Providence of Quebec, and let it be worded fo (as he has loft time in not getting it before) i/j^i he may have [alary from the death of that gentleman, tt will enable him to pay his French mafler. And on my receiving the mandamus, I faid, iil. 5s. for the fame. You know, Sir, in one of my letters, I put it to your juftlce, as Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, whether I was not retained and hired here, from that inflant, in my coun- try's employ, from thofe words ifluing from the mouth of my Royal Sovereign's Secre- tary of State ; and I do aver, I was, and .considered myfelf, as fuch. If the Spring fhips had not all failed for Canada, at that time. itry, with I been ap- t (the pre- who was it was for I thought levee day, called Mr. e Board of to prepare fucceedins; ral of the worded fo ; it before) le death of to pay his jiving the the fame, ers, I put f the Ex- ined and my coun- liing from n's Secre- was, and le Spring a, at that time. ( H ) time, I fhould have gone out immediately, but as it was too late to get pafTage, I was forced to wait till the next fleet wl t; but confidering myfelf in Governaicnt employ, I often attended Lord Gco^^y*, leveca, as be- ing a Colonial Attorncy-G 'neral. About the latter crid of June, my friend laid to me, that he had received letters from the Gover- nor of Quebec, faying, all is peace there again, and there was an end of martial law ; the Governor wanted to have the law offi- cers over, meaning Hey and Kneller not knowing the latter was dead, it was foon after, at another time, I attended. Lord George faid, he had heard Mr. H(iy was not to return, Lord North meant to put him m as a Commiliioncr of theCuftoms, which if he accepted, the Kitig intended Mr. Livius (at that time a Judge of the Common Pleas there) as his fucceffor ; and If I liked that judgeflilp better than the Attorney -Gcneiaifliip, I might have that, and gave me a fortnight to conlider ; which offer 1 embraced ; then faid hislordfhip, get out with all expedition, and your commiflion (hall be lint after you. No fhip failing till September, I, with my wife and four of my nine children, emba;ked In a E crowded *! ( 26 ) ciowcied tranfport, efcortcd by the Rich- mond Frigate, which unfortunately parting with, by means of a violent gale of wind, we at laft were picked up, or made an eafy prize of by the famous Paul Jones, and in December carried into Bofton, where we re- mained till we got to Halifax in a cartel the beginning of May, and from thence to Que- bec in another crowded fhip the latter end of that month ; and on my going to the prefent Lord Dorchefler, then Governor of Canada, to afk for my back falary, aG Attorney-Ge- neral for fome time, and fince that as Judge of C. P. to pay various fums I owed (in- curred as debts at Bofton (for as I was not put into prifon, but fuffered by the Council, there, to walk about the town unno- ticed, and not knowing the cuftomary way of applying for provlfions, I, for want of that knowledge, made no application for the fame ; and having brought out no mo- ney, was obliged to fell part of my houfe- hold furniture, cloth and blankets, I had with me, for fublifting myfelf and family) the Go- vernor anfwered, he could take no notice of me as to pay ; but on my arrival in the Province, I told him every thing that was fiiid by Lord Rich- parting nd, we 11 eafy and ill we re- rtel the o Que- r end of prefent Canada, ley-Ge- s Judge fed (in- was not Council, unno- ary way ^vant of ion for no mo- Y houfe- lad with the Go* ceof me rovince^ fl\id by Lord { 27 ) Lord George to Mr. Pownall, as to my having falary even from the dnv of Mr. Kneller's death ; he faid, as he had received no orders about it; and nothing appearing in that mandamus to warrant his paying It, and only in the ufual and cuOomary words of all pay, falaries, perquifites, to the faid office belonging, I failed in my endeavours. He told me, I fhould memorial the Treafurv, and he would reprefent my cafe; as to what was infertedin my new commifTion as Judge, I knew not, for I had never feen it. So, now, Sir, for a moment's digreflion licrc, from the narrative, as to Sir Gny Carleton's condudl:. He faid, he could not warrant paying me any thing biit from my arrival in the Province ; fure the mandamus warranted him to pay the falary, &c. as Attorney-Ge- neral, at leaft from the date ; and if he had paid It to any one elfe, he was paying to another what was mv property. Hal I loitered, and not come out with all expedi- tion, he might have alledged that, as an ex- cufe, for not giving me what I Ihould have had to another; but I was prevented by cap- ture, and embraced the firll: opportunity of getting exchanged, even for an officer of a E 2 Privateer, ( ^8 ) privatrf,r, which Mr. RfJaile, Attorney- G.i.:.^\ -:M St Vincent's, (who had been tak II 2nd carr'iLd into Hofton, I'ome time be- fore i h;!d the tnifhnp to join him, refufed belt.*; exchanged, as he laid, for any fuch rnrcaily fcf, and wondered I would do it. But the \vorthy Governor adviltrd me to mcQiorial the Trralury, and he would re- preU nt it) How 1 know not, but probably m the ^.48o> for as to the intereft which has been accruing for upwards of 20 years, I fubfcribe that, in thefe neceffitous times, for the benefit of the State, being a thoiough well-wi(her thereto, and have the honour to fubfcribe myielf. With all due refpecl, Sir, Your friend or no friend, jufl as your public condudl at- taches me, but the humble fervant of no one (except that of a beautiful, amiable, well-bred woman) E. SOUTHOUSE. ill lii imonv JF POST. < J4 ) POSTSCRIPT. /'. S. When you wrlto to the Emperor, be Co kind as to tell iiim, lie has put mc las one of the creditors of the three inillions anil u halt loan) to a very great incon- venience, and fome cxpcnc e, by not remitting the mo- ney to pay the half year's intcrelt, that became payable the firrt of November lafl:. But I mud tell you how I came to be a creditor of, or intcrcHcd in that loan. Lall funimcr, I fold my lands in H^ dfordlhirc, to one 'Squire Sowerby, in the Country, but an Infurance Broker here in London; b- rauff he (althoutib as I thought I had got a pretty high rent for them) offered to give me money entnigh, that bought Into the (locks would double the income ; from the eftatc, to tell you the truth, egad, I wiis afraid of venturing my land in the flocks, bccaufcy f(jme of the Crops told me there muft come a fponge foon ; but 1 not being of that opinion, and to convince the Crops I was not fo, let S. have thcEUate. I was to make him a good title, and he be at the cxpcnce of his cwn conveyance, fo as he would not employ a perfon jiamcd by mc as the attorney to pafs the title, thmking it would fave expcnce tolet his attorney's agent, one Town- fend, In Staple'sinn, though I Ihonld have dreaded that fnn, as there lived that rafcally Irifh attorney, who on my calling on him about getting Hamilton Rowen arrefted at my fuit, had afked me to dine with him, I then up and told him about one Ri!cy's taking me in, and fwind- ling me out of nine guineas for a glandcred poncy ; and that Irifli attorney knowing Riley, laid lie would en- iiuire and find him out for me, that 1 mi^^lit profecute him ; which he never cfft(n.ed, and though 1 did not em- ploy or delirehim to do any thing in the matter, bccaufe he could not make out a bil! large enough to take all the money he recovered from II. R. he charged two guineas for his endeavouring to find Riley, fo I might well fay I got my debt, but I fpent all or more than the money for tl.e recovery of it. Townfend -♦ i Ml ;r!| ( 35 ) kind itors of i neon- he mo- payable how I 1. Lart 'Squire ker here 1 1 ad got money )uble the egad, I becaufe, 1 fpongc convince I was to ce of his a perfon nking it Town- thatTnn, 10 on my arrefted then up d fwlnd- ncy ; and vould en- irofecute not ein- bccaufe ke all the o guineas t well fay le money fownfend Townfcnd wa.i employed on both, !>ut one l(<)garih as clever a fellow, a knowmg one in tlic l.\w as tlic grrat man of that name was in his ./ay, did the 'Milincfs; now at the end of the matter, what with one attorney and another, upwards of One hundred Pounds, went out of the purchafe money, that galled me to the quick, to think that for nothing at all the citate having been for all th' s century and years before in the polli Hi on of my anceliors, on my grandmother's Hdc, and no incum- brance thereon ; but Mr. Wiltfliire, the purchafer's law- yer deemed it neceffary to liavc copies of a bill, and anfwer in Chancery, about a partition, (though I was at the expence of near four pounds for an atteilcd copy ol a decree, wherein the bill and anfwer were recited) which coll roc upwards o{ £2']. So Townfend's bill being near £lOy I did take the trouble of reading over and conimentmg on it, and faid fcveral articles were highly charged, and others fliould not be charged to me, and among others, fomc articles amoimting to near;^3, for Hating a cafe for Mr. Butter's opinion whether the purchafcr might purchafe under the title as it appeared on the abflraft. I told T. ihat could not belong to me to pay, but fliould be put t > Mr. S. but he was oneof thofe lawyers called mides, he vvonld have his own way, and as S. would not pay me the pur- chafe money 'tillT's bill was paid, I wasjufl: on the point to give up my opinion, when in came Mafler Hogarth, and as he had altogether tranfadlcd the matter with mc, 1 told him of the difputed articles in the bill, and that the fellow faid thofe article were not intended to be charged to mc but to Mr. S. So by looking over the bill, and knowing what 1 fliouId pay as appurtenant to the title and what not, 1 faved myfelf near £'^. which an ignorant man would not have done, fo the purchafe: money was paid, and mofl part of it laid out in the pur- chafe of the (lock called the Imperials, becaufc at that time it was 3 per cent lower than other funds. Being about three months ago a little (hort of cafh, I called In at T's and allied him to lend mc two guin-as, and he fhoitld have them again when I received my divi- dends, which with much to do he advanced it. I went 1^ ( :$6 ) I went into the country to look after my building, and with the wages I gave the workmen, I gave them good beer twice a day, that occaiioned me betore the end of October to contra6l a debt of near ;/'i6. witii one Snel- ling, a brewer, at Briftol; he fent me in his bill, and a letter, wiflimg to have the amount ; I told him, when the interert on the Imperials v\as pa'd, he fhould have;^io. in part, and I underflanding from a very fmart man, a gentleman iii the 4 per Cent oflice, in the Bank, Mr. Ripp I hnd employed as my broker to buy my Im- perials, and Vvas To kind as to become my attorney for receiving my div'dends, that it would be paid very foon ; but to accommodate Snclling, I offered, if he would be contented with £10. in part, I would give him my bill of exchange on the fmart man, nammghim, (who I did not doubt, would accept it for /.39- payable three weeks after, if he would give m.c change out of it irj cafh; as he faid nothing againll miy propofal, I went away, left my bill that he might fend it to London ancl get it accepted, and mentioned when I f]iould call for the retnainder of the cafhj but when I came next time, 1 found this dealer in grains had made out the account, and only given me change as taking the whole of his bill of ^16. inflead ot ;^io. I had agreed he Ihould take in part of his bill. I wrote toadvife my friend in the Bank of m.y drawing on him for ^^30. and hoped he would accept to pay it out of my Dividends he was foon to receive He an- fwered that as the Emperor had failed in remittmg mo- ney to pay that interelt, it would not be paid till late in January; he was put to great difficulties, as he had laid out his money in the fame fund, and he could not ac- cept my bill. This put me in a terrible rage, both "With the Emperor and my fmart jemmy friend, and wrote to him again to defire he would accept my draft, faying, if I could not raife money to fend him in cafli to pay it when due, I would fell fome part of my Stock, but all would not do, my hard-hearted friend would not, fo I was forced to have recourfe to borrow the money elfewhcre to take up the unaccepted bill, and fave my honour, for which no doubt I paid au intered, though no douceur thanks to Sykes and Snaith for that iavour. So, ng, and I in good I end of ie Snel- I, and a , when {h(niM ry fmait c Bank, my I m- rney for y foon ; ; would him my m, (who )le three 3f it in I went don ana call for :xt time, pccoiint, his bill take in drawing pay it He an- ing mo- 1 late in lad laid not ac- ?, both nd, and draft, cafli to f Stock, would row the ind fave intereft, or that So ( 37 ) So coming to town laft Sunday, and walking dow^ ■Chancery Lane, about Thurfday laft, who (hould I fee Jbut Mr. Hogarth, who faid Mr. T expected I would call and pay him the two guineas ; tell him, faid I, fwhich was a fa6lj I had not yet received the diviiljiid out.of which I was to pay him, bcfides he had charged enough, he might well wait, and I had fom? tho i^hts of getting his bill taxed, fori always projeded againd that heavy article of £ 27. for the copy of the pleadings in Chancery, and which honeft Hogarth allowed might have been cjifpenfed with, as I had offered to covenant, that fliould there be occafion for them, I would bear the expence, by the money verted in S , and my joint names, as an indemnity, till a fine I had been at the ex- pence of levying, could operate againft every claim, not on that eflate in particular, but on others not legally di- vided, (and yet will, if poflible have taxed) which I fnp- pofe fo difpleafed that hard hearted lawyer T — ; when 1 came to my lodgings, about three o'clock on Saturday, I found a note from that lath of a lawyer T. deliiing in a civil manner, ?nd as became him, to pay the two guineas. Almofl before I could ,^et into the city to get my money from my jemmy jefl'imy friend who had received it, comes a young man, afked if I was Mr. S. vcs, *' Oh hc:e's a letter for you, and here's the original," and off he hopped ; ou opening it, found it what was called an attachment of priviledge, as an attorney of the Com- mon Pleas, for which I hope the Lord Chief Judice, and otiier worthies, my breihicn (d the Conunon Pleas bench will take the piiviledge, liberty and licence to ortler tliat fellow 1\ to be (truck off the roll for fuch haily proceed- ing ; as bad pretty near, as the foot-pad, who jud alter he tells you to flandand deliver your money, knocks you down before you can do it. Now I ftippofe if I do not pay the two guineas before Tucfday, the tint day of term, over and above twenty-five ihillings, the colls ol this nt- tachment of priviledge, I ihull have forty or tiity Ihdl !,.j^s to pay for a declaration. Now, Sir, you fee by my long P. S how I have fuf- ferrcd in my pocket and credit, by the Kmperor not paying the interelt of the loan, and probably wher;- I h ,e fufFcicd II ( 38 ) fi'ffered forty niii^ings, others may have /"loO. fo pray dc'i. him tr» ])(' a little more pii:i(flu.il (as you, I will fa\ that for yon, are very pundiial in the payment of the in*(rH(t on the other funds) in his next payment, tmlefs his Emperorftilp means (which is a matter feriouily to he Wilhed; to pay off that loan out of what he may fnack with the French, from the rich Hamhurgcrs. And fo Sir, boH foir, for the bell toils for vefpers, and having been a naughty boy in not having gone to church to day, I am going there, liking the apparent folemnity of a lighted church to go to in Winter, and the matins juft as day breaks in the morning. iV. B. I aiTi not for your abol idling in toto, the tax on watches and clocks, for all perfons (not apprentices or journeymen to handicraftfmen and maflers or lodgers, &c. renting any tenement above ;^5. per annum, or of more than five (hillings per week for his or their lodging) I would have continue to pay, but I do moft humbly be- fcech vou totakc off onehalf of the laft tax you laid on that dear charming hon vivant circling glafs of port wine, ib as wri may drink it at home for half a crown a bottle, and no: at three fhillings and fix-pence, confldering the icantv meafurel get from Snook a taylor looking wine- merchant at Briflol, and then I will ccafe finging the following fong, and adopt fome lines vice, in praife of •you : A SONG. -Tut!£, Vicsr of Bray. IN George the Second's golden days, Port wine we had in plenty, Twelve quarts a day a man might raife, With (hillings lefs than twenty. And this is Law, I ivill maintain ^ Unto tny dying day, Sir, Tfjat whatfoever King may reign, I'll have viy hoftlr a day^ Sir, Whea ( 39 ) . Co pray .', I will 2nt of the It, iinlefs ufTy to he ay Ihack And fo d having :h to day, lity of a us juft as the tax :ntices or gers, &c. of more Iging) I mbly be- laid on )rt wine, I bottle, the wine- ging the praife of •ing y 3 When George was dead, George Gr-nv-e came, America to plund r, And all men fiid he vva? to blame. He parted us afunder. Great Britain's empire (till may rue, Tiie burthens ail men fharc, Sir, How to lay taxes N-rtli well knew, He did not Port wine fpare. Sir. Bui ihis is law, i^c. Next P-tt with vile perfidious France, Form'd a commercial treaty, Thofe dogs have led us many a dance, They play their tricks fo neatly. This treaty fcrved but to deceive. It made us drink the deeper. And all were dupes that did believe. We fliould have wine the cheaper. But this is law, i^c. Pitt's Port tax is a bitter pill. It is a tax indeed, Sir, Fill what you will, and nothing fpill, 'Twill make your pocket bleed. Sir. May Pitt like Tantalus be fct, With wine up to his chin. Sir And never may his lips be wet, Nor take one drop within. Sir. But this is law, bV. But now 'tis time my fong to end, I'm fure I mean no harm in't. To Pitt I was a generous friend. And never fought preferment. Then let us ling, God blefs the King, Long health from year to year. Sir, So fill your bumpers gaily round, Tho' Port wine is fo dear, Sir. For this is law, ^c. When if ■! ( 40 ) If I mortgage my old (liocs and boots to my printer, lentil fomc profus arife by this letter, I mnft add a little yet to the P. S. and tell you, Sir, that although Sir Guy was fo callous, ah ! as callous as my royal mafter to my j;rievances complained of in my .nemorial Iprefented lo him about four years ago^ fetting forth, that his fecretary of ftate Mr. Dundas was juft as idle and inattentive to mv folicitations as the Duke of Portland fince, and t'he King was gracioully pleafed to give that, my memorial to his equerry Colonel Somebody, who put it in hii? pocket, and dcpofitcd it no doubt, with the other long memorials to his Majefty, too long for his gracious rea- ding, when fom.cbody fells them lor wrapping up can- dles in, to my neceflities yet the bonne hommc Frafer, (a Very worthy Scotchman, for among all I know of man- kind, I have not known better than among thofe of «!iat part of our coimtry) favc and except the prefent Lord Elihank, who after paying me an aimuity of ;^5o. per annum, (for which on his fceking me by public ad- vertifemcnt, and not I bin), I gave him more than a ■valuable confidtrations for, and which by his bond he is hound) to continue to me and my executors, &c. while be lives U.- fcvcral years and up to Chriltmas 1793. ^" my writing in January 1795, to put him in mind of a year being due, he had the hard-heartednefs (as he knew it was part of the little matters that I had feleded for iuflaining mc and mine on my Ot'ium cum Dtgnitate) to write to me that he had afiigned his cltate to truflecs for the benefit of his creditors, and I mufl go for further payments under that, but as his Lordfliip had never prcvi- oully afked me to come in under that deed \ I wrote to him that 1 would not, nor will I, but that I meant to bring my felt and family to live with him at Darn-Hall, till we have the i^w/V for the .^;/(? he owes me; fo my Lord have at your beef and mutton and Scotch claret next year, and I am told Darn-Hall is a very pleafant piace, and bcfides his Lordfhip will teach me and my Daughter the Art of Archery, which we are at prefent novices in. In confequence of a letter of introdudlion from a ftranger to me at Portfmouth had given nic this Bonne Homme il s . )r inter; I little ir Guy to my ited \o cretary itive to and t^e emorial in his/ cr long Dus rea- Lip can- rafer, (a of man- [hofe of prefent Df £so- iblic aci- e than a )nd he is c. while 93. On nd of a he knew £ted for tale) to ecs for further r prcvi- vrotc to leant to n-Hall, fo my h claret pleafant and my prefent I from a Bonne lomme ( 4' ) Hornmc, and who by the bye t r k thf' Ponnc Homme in for /"^o. lent lnm ac Q. before his depnrtnrc t'n Eng- land, not only given me the ufc of his houfe for me and all mine, but provided tne with money not only to pay the expence of the Vf)y;«ge from Hilifax to Q. but to get to Montreal (for which I gave him my thanksj u ,' was afterwards very kind to :nc and my wife, wl^en I accom- panied her to Q. in her way to Eiiglana s fiiT- wanted to fee her younger children) as by being fo h)ng on the fea to get to Canada, minded (although war time) the crofling the Atlantic, no more than a bold woman vi )es the Thames, for there are fome timid creatures ot both fexes are really afraid of venturing their carcafes even on the fmooth water, as ufelefs bemgs in their way (as I have found his Grace of P. in his way to me) and infilied on being the bearer of my memorial, being a matter of fuch importance to us, knowing what I had borrowed in England to fit us out for the voyage 1 in Bolton too for fubfirtancc, when wc had ft)ld all we could fpare, and could fell no more) to Lord George to prefent to the Treaftiry, but in that liis Lordlhip would not move a peg, (for which I ever did, and ever will think him juft as blameable as he w^as at the battle of Minden, in not underdanding what I underllood as clear as day-light, that he fhould move forward with the cavalry to fuitain the brave infantry then in ad'on, but he would not, be- caufe Prince Ferdinand knowing 1 fuppofe that he w'an- t«d good fpurnng up, fent one after another, two or three ai-' du camps, all tantamount to the lame melfr-ge, but to gc different ways, fo he thought proper not to move at all, but Hand (till, by which he lolt an oppor- tunity, as many other great and high blooded commanders before and fince have done, of gaining a complete vic- tory) fo becaufe Lord George would not fpeak to my Lord North on my behalt, what he ought to have done or indeed done any thing in that matter for me, who fr:m my honefty at the famous conteltat Hythe m 1767, and 8, as to who fhould have that Borough, Govern- ment or the Sackville fainiliy, and I thinking that they got it originally from the firll Duke of Dorfet's being fo long Lord Warden, and not from any other right, I G told ( A^ ) toKi him, if he was to fpcnd /"rOjCoo he would never gft5 It; fo his Lord fliip liRcncd to what I faid, und at the rilk of looling the regard of his liigh friends, not the friendf of the new Lord Warden, gave up the conteR» fending mc however for his honor's fake, with liis purfe to reward every freeman, ftaunch in his interell, which I did, and confidering the few hundreds I paid, to what 1 might have paid fuppofing I had faid nothing about his not going on with the contcft, I thereby favcd his Lordfhip many thoufand pounds, and I muft remark here, that there were more mei of integritry among the Jower orders of freemen at Hythe, by fticking clofe to the Sackville family, who had as they faid, been kind to them when they wanted their alTiftance ; it wouki be hard then to leave the family, when they wanted to make ufo of their votes, being contented with a very fmall fiim from mc, when they could have hundreds from the other fide; and it hurt me much the other day, when I went to hone(t James Higham, a barber, at Hythe (whom I know had been difplaced by Lord Holdernefs, as a gun- ner at one of the neighbouring callles, for llicking ilaunch to the old Sackville intereft, and for which he was pro- mifed he fhould receive an annuity equivalent to the fa- lary loft, till he was replaced, which had not fmcc the death of Lord Sackville been paid him, and he had then a fick wife, and had been fo almofl ever fince that famous contefl, having been by fome pei'fon or other frightened into fits, and remained a dead burthen upon his hands for only a barber's ihop to maintain. I men- tion this circumftance, hoping fome of Lord Sackville's defcendannts may come to the knowledge of that man's claim, and now give him fomething for his and his wife's maintenance in their old age) So his Lordfliip not moving as I faid before, a peg for mc, occafioned my wife only to obtain a letter from the Treafury-board, as before mentioned to the Governor in Canada, which produced nothing. But her voyage pro- duced the molt difagreeable to me of all difagrecable things, the lofs of that wife to me, and the lofs of a mother to her children ; and the money borrowed for my voyage, \-c. laid on mortgage, which the fale of fome part ver gft5 at the not the :onteR» > purfe which what ^ about ivcd his remark )ng the re to the kind to be hard lake ufc all fiim he other I went [whom I s a gun- y ftaunch was pro- to the fa- lot fmcc and he ;ver fince ; or other hen upon I men- lackville's liat man's is wile's I a peg for from the (^ernor in ^age pro- [agrecable Ilofs of a \d for my of fomc part ( 43 ) part of the mortgaged premifes, fincc I quitted Canada went to pay. 1 was forry while I was at Q. to ohfervewlut Nutt.s it were to the Carltonian Friends, when they heard of Bur^oyne's difafter, he and the Artillery had experienced in their march towards Albany, thinking, and I believe true, that if their general had his command, he would not like him have loitered fo lonp:, or taken half the time, in dining off Plate for him and his ladies, nor have taken lialf the artillery with him, that Philips was en- trufted with as General, and knew well there was no- thing to bombard, and 'twas pity he did not advifc the other General of Lord George's nomination for the ex- pedition againft Fort Stanwix to take fomcthing of a field-piece with him againll that Fort, as for want of fomething of that kind there, and the Indians coming up and telling a lie of thedefpcratc Arnold's being near them, frightened them and that army to run away from that place, (which Sir John Johnlbn, next in command to St. Ledger, wanted him to rally and attack the Fort next day, ah ! even with his own regiment only, but St. Jy. would not confent, faying the men were too much har- ralTed with yefterday's work ; fo from the want of artil- lery with St. L. and too much of it with B. I impute the mifcarriage and lofs of thofe two armies from M. in 1777. You know, Sir General C. was fo difplcafed with LordG. at not having that command to afFe6l a junction with Gen. Howe, at Albany, that he refigncd his employ- ment. O ! what pains at M. were taken to get many to fign (as I thought) a fulfome addrefs to his Excellency on the tranfcendancy of his government while there ; it was brought to me, and I ptoperly pleaded an excufe, for I faid as 1 had been fo fhort a lime in the Province, I had had no opportunity of feeing his great exploits as a civil governor, fo would not fign ; had it been any thing refpedling him en tfti/itairc, as he was always in boots, and looked fo much like the picture of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden, 1 would have figned any thing ad- tcJ}ifu-andHm of my thorough approbation of him there. And when 1 palled to England in 1781, 1 wai: not unmindful of our quondam I ( 44 ) qu«ndim governor, fthoiigb be had never ft-rve^ mc \a anv th'.riL;) but i :^.1!e'.l on to pay my rt- fpcfls to him, (and w'uhvifit, as I MMsaJud^e, then be politily returned) wben beafked me it I bad b^'en a Detroit yet, fflicwing by that as if be had remained Ijovcrnor, he wouUi have fcT.t mc there uith as good or better falary than mine at ^'] for every one mu(l allovi^ that however parfimonioiis he may have been in the economy of his own honlliold, he recommended bountiliil falanes to the civil officers of h s ;Vjajefties <;"ve!nment in Canada, to prevent them from looking to iee'^ from other matters with which they had no concern. So yon know, Sir, he refted here as Commiflloner of Accoi'nts (and an excellent good one I doubt not but be wasj till your iime, when you made a Lord of hitTi, and what do you think St. L. faid of that a6t when he heard it : wliv, though the King might make a Lord, be never could make a Gentleman of him, which was certainly very fe\cre, for though the Governor had not politenefs, he was always looked upon to be a wor- thy honeit man, but brought out, with him a fometning of a polite popinjay ol a Major, that did the etiquette ot politenefs for him m full force on all occafions, and is now Governor ot a place where I fliould like to be, and I fliould think jult as well qualified for it as he) and fent him out to us again in 1786 ; my brethren, like many others, hurried do'vvn on his arrival, to congratulate his return to that country ; it happening to be in 0£lober, one of the worif months in the year for travelling, I did not go, fo I flaid till next Spring, and then went down, and when there was fomething of a clear fun even at Q. I took my fon, a Midfliipman in the Royal Navy with me, and went as u'ual to the levee to pay my refpccls to his excellency, we both were as ukial, aiked to his dinner and fo being minded tf) flay over my Royal Mafler's birth day, and at chapel to hear an Englilh clergyman perform the fervicc (which was fcldom the cafe, as the chaplains to the three garrifons of Q. three rivers and M. were all foreigners, and an Engliihman could fcarce underfland what they faid) fo his Lordfhips popinjay came tripping after me, and faid Lord D expected the honour of my co'.jTiany at the Chateau, 0:1 Thurfday hext the King's birth III n, (and ^turned) flicwing Id have nine at nonioiis )iilhold, Hcers of It them ch they here as )d one I made a I of that ht make I, which nor had a wor- metning ^uette of ( is now i and I nd fent ce many ate his 3dober, I did t down, n at Q. vy v/ith Dccls to dinner s birth perform aplains 1. Were derftand tripping r ot my King's birth ( 45 ) birth-day, but as to the young gentleman, my fon, who was then in the 24th year of his age, and 7th year of his ferv'ice in the Royal Navy, there would be no room at the table, who as I have heard fay, has a great fum al- lowed him for a dinner on that day, was deprived of drinking his royal Sovereign's health, bccaufc it was faid there was no room.- But I am fare, that when I went there at the time ap- pointed, I found there was room fufficient, if it had pleafeil the Governor it (hould be fo, and a place (hould nave been allotted for him, and others in hisftation, if any there were, inftead of a parcel of Roman Catholic pricft's mufti's of merchants, and a brewer of fpruce beer. I was foon tired of my feat, for the King's name was not once mentioned, till long after the cloth was taken away, when the popinjay of a Major, in a little kind of fimpcr- ing way, faid, gentlemen, the King, as if he was afraid his excellency might be ditbirbed. That is the manner of keeping ihe King's birth-day at the Chateau ; and I fuppofc with the grandees, at their public dinners in England. (Save that 1 do imagine from the jovial coun- tenance of Dimdas, that he toafts his Majcfty as I would do, in a half pint bumper, immediately on the cloth being taken away on that day) So I foon popped off, and told all at the cofFcc-houfe of our fober-fided enter- tainment, and drank the King's health at ni) own ex- pence there, in lime punch, and kept it up till the day was paired. So in the enfuing autumn, his Highnefs, Prince Henry came among us, and by means of him wc had a ball and a fuppcr, and grand doings at M. and I had the honour ot handing down to fupper, the very good kind (though not very beautiful) lady, our SheiifF's, that is the ferver of our procefs, Grey's wife, by the appointment of the popningjay to that grand fefe, where his High nefs was difpc .ed to be very merry, and to make us all laugh. I was a little difconccrted a day or two before, by my not being fuffered to read the Englilh addrefs which my brother Frafer read, (as 1 thought, too much in the Scotch accent, and if I have any talents at all, I con- <:eive it to be in the art of reading) to his Highnefs, alter going \i i ( 46 ) going to fee tlic Indians of Cocnawagah, tiic prince dc- paited from iis, vviih I doubt nor, tlic harts of aU the young ladi's ho had hon^urf-d i'y tlancMng with, as nobody can but fay he dances as lively and gay, und kitps up a convcrfati'^'i as any oi c can do, and becoming the Ion of my late Royal iVlaiUr. So in the year 1788, having fome buHnefs in England, I appled to his Excellency for leave to t;o there, telling him wha^ 't 'vas upon, and that I would be out acain by the Spring (hips, fo his good natured Lorddrp gave mc that pciin'Hlcn, on conditioH, if there was a third ludge wanted at M. m my abfence, one of my half brethren at Q. tnurt at my ex pence go to fupply my place. It fo happened, which it never happened before, and probably may never happen again, that there had been a caufe inrtitutcd by Madam F. (the fpoufe of my whole brother F.; fo he could not a6l, and a very diftant relation of my other brother, the French judge, fo he would not a(^, fo one Monileur Sanguinct was made a judge, prt hacvlce, to decide with me on the matter, againfl the eflatc of her father (which in facl was an infolvent one) for her, as the primo gcnitu of a noblclTe to be paid fomething conlklerable out of his cffedls, for her para- phcralia, which the law, and all the advocates at the bar, faid fhc n.uH have, and was entitled to. I won- dered at it, as the '.v.atter was arguing, before I quitted in 1788, it fcems the demandrci's wanted the judgment of the court in my abfence, and no doubt, \yiflied to avail hcrfelf of the great abilities of one of the judges at Q. (as 1 had fhcvvn a difpofition to ride rufly to her de- mand) fo the worthy Mr. Dunn flood firft on the roftra ''or that journey, and up he went, in March term, 1789, but when he came there, fomething or other (as there is always fouicthi>ig or other iu the French caufes to delay an adjudication; prevented the judemento being given; hut when 1 returned in Spring, I found I had ^^2 9 or fome fuch fum.. to pay for his journey, for doing nothing in my abfence, as when I came to M. I found this com- plicated cuufc remained jull as t had lett it, fo being preflcd in the next Jtily term for judgment, and Mon- Ofiir S. afTurirtg me, however abftrufc it might be in m/ opuiion. [nc.c dc- )ra'l the > nob'idy i'j)s lip a the Ion Lii^Iand, , telling iysLxn by gave me rd ludge :thren at . It fo probably a caiife I brother lation of )iild not :lge, pn liiifl the ent one) be paid r para- ; at the I won- qiiitted idgment iflicd to idgcs at her de- roftra here is D delay given ; £29 or othing s com- being Mon- in my pinion, n ( 47 ) opinion, it was very clear by the French law, the lady's demand was right, and I confcnted to his pronoiincingthe decree as he had drawn it I'p, which when recorded, I told the Court that after finilhing what was before me, to giveajudgment in, I (hould rcfignmyfiin(l\ion,and wrote to Lord D. on my intention of fo doing ; I was induced thereto, not only from that, but from other ou/rc matters in the Court, and befides, from the effedls of the inveftiga- tion into the Judges condudl, as to what law they deter- mined on, and my brethcn leaving M. to attend that in- Yeftigation, as fummoned fo to do, by and before the Chief Jufticc at Q: it had left fuch a heap ofcufcs, like the Augean ftablcs, that as I thought it required more than a man of my abilities to clear, for F. being infirm, could not attend fuch extraordinary matters, and R. from being offended at what Monk, the Attorney General had faid againll him at the inveftigation, he would not work more than thcufnal hours, and withall being as I thought I had reafon to be, a little otFended with Lord D. for having given away, during ray abfence, thcChief Juftice- iliipof Detroit, to a Yankey, who, when I failed, vvas one of the mofl impudent and overbearing of our Council at M. bar, and lo ! behold was above me, both in falary and confequencc, as being at Detroit as a Judge in criminal rr.itters, at a falary of 1,750. per annum, {o I came over to my own country, prcfcring to live here in peace and quietnefs, without noife and burtle, (as much you may naturally conceive there was, in fo largo a diftridl as Montreal then was, extending from three rivers up to Detroit, near 700 miles, and the inliabitants eompofed of French, Germans, Scotch. Irifh, Yankies and li^ng- lilh, and in whofe refpe^live 1 nguages, as no interpreter was allowed by Government to the Court, each Judge Ihould feverally know their rcfpedlive diakdls, as I con- ceive the Judges appointed for the Welch circuits (liould know thai of tjic Welch.} Confiderlni* i 'S ( 48 ) ConCdrrin^ myfclf in the full aenltli ofmy nbilitics, and in excellent health, I did not at Ard aik Lord D. to recom- mend me for a penfion, but at the i:lligation of very par- ticular friends, at M. I did in about a week after write to his Lordlhip on that head, but the wary old governor treated my application as it deferved. by not choofing tu do any thing in the matter, for I expeiked he would have fdid, what I think became my late royal Mailer to have faid to that great in abilitirs Lord Chancellor T— w when he refigncd ; go man and do thy functions where thou gived fatisfadtion in both capacities, and I have not a man of the law belonging to me, that looks at the C'liancellor and the Speaker as you do. As to your no; ngreeing with my favourite young man in politics, i wiil difpenfe with your council there, and when the gout has .aken fuch poircflion of your toes and hands,, that you cannot perform your fundion, and that you and Nk6 Humphries may live as you have hitherto done with ceco* nomy and comfort ; it will be time enough then to have a t(rllerfhip> or pcnfion, but that I will have you do your duty as long as you can ; and I could heartily wiih, that his Ma- jelly would be p!cafed to make all his Ibte officers do their duty ; for inftanci', make that proud fhy duke my old ac- «[uaintancc D. do his duty, by attending each day at the fideboard, and giving out the wine his Majefty thinks pro- per to drink ; and evtry one in that and every other depart- ment, and particularly the Mailer of the Plorfe, was I King» wonld I make attend me in all my rides (hunting only ex- cepted) and as the King is growing in years, now I ihould ]ike before I die to fee him have Sion Houfe (if he could agree With the Duke of Northumberland for it) which whea enlarged, would make a noble palace, and look well from the river, aud a convenient didancc from London to go in ftafe in his Coach and Eight, ai his Grand father did, at- tended by the Mailer of the Horfe in his chariot ; and to unite Richmond Gardens, fo as to make thofc the pleafure grounds for the palace, I would recommend the King to tncourage the Iron.Manufadlory, by throwing a light iron bridge over the Thames, which the King may ufe when- ever he likes, and fo go to London over Kew Bridge, inilead of through Brentford, to the affrighting of all the old women in their market carts who mull get out of the way when the King is coming, and many a draoi of gin do fuch affrights caufe them for their fpirits fake to take ; then would his Majeily by travelling in Hate, like his royal grandfather^ look like^ a monarch, and we 1: ( 49 ) :s, and rccom- !ry par- vrlte to treated ly thing what! at great cd; go Ition in longing - as you Rg roan id when ids,, that nd M^ ith oeco- have a ur duty his Ma- do their \' old ac- ' at the )ks pro- depart- 1 Kingt jonly ex- 1 fliould e could h when ell from o go in id, at- and to leafure ing to ht iron whcn- |B ridge, of all tet out [a dram Its fake ilate, and we wc hia fubJ€ 'he date. In confidcrution of his gord fcrvicfs in the city, when Montgomery and Arnold attacked Quebec, he was, when the Court was eftablifhed at M. appointed ono of the Judges thereof, as was a Monfieur Tafchcreau the like, by the Governor to fupply the vacant feats of the Bench of F. and R. fent into the Colonics, and with thefe Judges it remained all 1776 (when I on the prefumpti n of Mr. Hcys having vacated his Chief Jufticeihip, and Mr. Livius ap- pointed thereto, was appointed the Judge cf C. P. in L's ilead, and all thofe (except m) felf) as I'll a^er, were receiving falary as Judges thereof, and I believe at Z^. 500 per annum, when I came from Bofton to Halifax, in Kjay 1777, I found many tranfports there waiting for convoy tr- Q^ and in one of the (hips were what were afterwards my brethren of the Bench, and very worthy men they were (as I ever will fpeak of them with the greateft eftimaiion and regard) MeflVs. F. and R, and we all arrived at Q^ at the fame time, and Mr. I,. afTuming the Chief J ufticefhip of Q^ in confequence of the mandamus arriving at that time, and not before, only on ac- count of adverfe winds, as it left England the September be- fore I took my feat on the Bench in his iUad, Mr. K. inllco I H ( 5'^ ) cf Mr. Tafchere.iu, but poor F. was left out, the Governor not liking, as 1 heard, that the gentleman of his noininatioix Mr. Owen the Judge protcmporary fliouldbc removed, but in the end he w^s, for Mr. F. went to England in the Autumn, told hi? cafe to the Board of Trade, got reinftated, and as I have heard fiy, an order for all his falary, and Mr, Owen was obliged to quit the Bench, but the Governor got him, as I underftood, half-pay, either as Judge of C, P. or Chief Juflice of one of the Floridas, Owen having been Att, Ge- ncral in that country, which half-pay he lived on with Mr, Crnmate, the Deputy Governor of Canada, for feveral years (but are now both dead) near Exeter, You ft-e, Sir, I have made it out, that all thofe Judges were paid the full amount of their falaries as well thofe doing the duty, as thofe fcnt prifoners in the States, Here it ne- ceflary to add, that Gov. Haldimand received back falalry as Govencr of the Province for ten months, from the date of his commillion in September 1777, to July 1778, when he arrived in the Province j^. 1700 odd Now I come to fumming up the matter, and to tell you. Sir, that imagining neither you or his filent Grace will think me cf confequence enough, to interfere in my long dillant V iaim ; I hereby appeal to the decifion (of what I eftcem far beyond any opinion of council) of the honeft, candid, upright authors of the Monthly, and other Reviews, requelling they will honour my Pamphlet with their perufal, and taking for fa^s what are certainly as ftated, give me their ingenious opi- nion, whether I have net an equitable claim on my country for falary on my refpeftive appointments, from the time the firft was, by order cf the King's Secretary of State, to take place up to the time the other did take place, and on that from its date to May 1, 1777, the time the Governor faid I fhould be confidered as put on falary, and if you are of opinion 1 fhould be paid ihofc falaries, my next ftcp (liall be to petition my country, (not thofe before I have done, without efleft) this is Parliament, well hoping to find a belter advocate for me than my old acquaintance Mr. Hufley, whom I mentioned the matter to about four ycar.s ego, and would have done it then, but being no citizen of Saiilbury, he pre- tended to have matters of too great concerns on his hands to attend to my grievance, howevcver I may fet him down as an indepenUant man, 1 do not that of a philanihropilk. FINIS. ' Governor lominatiotx red, but in : Autumn, , and as I Mr. Owea got him, '. or Chief ti Att. Ge- with Mr. kreral years ofe Judpes hofe doing ere it ne- : falalry as le date of when he ^^ tell you, will think mg dillant ?ftcem far L upright 4ling they a king for niousopi- Y country time the to take d on that lor faid I 3U are of 3 (liall be ve done, a better whom would he pre- ands to down as M t«