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LETTER TO A R C H I B A L D H A M I L T O N R O W A N , E s q .

PROM A R C H I B A L D H A M IL T O N .

D U B L I N : - INTRODUCTION — — --- To the Creditors of Archibald Hamilton.
GENTLEMEN, F u L L Y fenfible o f the delicacy o f m y prefent fituation, I wifhed to avoid any premature obtrufioa upon the attention o f my Creditors, and I had de­ termined to poftpone, until m y final Examination, # % the public difclofure o f thofe Caufes which firft in­ terrupted my profperity, and finally led to ray pre­ fent fituation; but that reiolution it bccame utterly impoffible for me to perfevere in.
Y o u ( IV ) Y o u all know that Mr. Hamilton R ow an , a gen­ tleman who has proved no D e b t under my Com- miifion, and who, on inveftigation, will ultimately appear a D ebtor to my Eftate j thought proper, at your firil meeting, uncalled for, in my abfence and without any notice to me o f his intention, to make reprefentations to you refpefting me, which I could not, in juilice to myfelf or to you, leave unanfwered longer than was neceflary to prepare my vindication.
T h efe reprefentations, efpecially when made by fuch a public Character as M r. Hamilton Rowan,- were particularly calculated to make an unfavourable im- preffion on your minds concerning me.
Struck, Gentlemen, with this unufual, and it will appear, unjuft interference, and alarmed for the confequence, I took the liberty o f requeuing y o u to fufpend your judgment for a very few days, promifing in that time, to fubmit fuch a ilatement to your confidera- tion, as would prove the aifertions and reprefenta­ tions o f Mr. Row an to be unfounded.
» Gentlemen, ( V ) Gentlemen, I now lay that ilatem ent before you, from which I think it will appear manifeft, that Mr. Hamilton Rowan, contrary to his affertions, has been a principal caufe o f all my misfortunes, and that I embarked in the Bill trade folely for his accommo­ dation ; it will alfo appear, that I did not deceive you, when I led you to believe, that he was bound by every tie o f juilice and o f gratitude, to come forward and give me that fupport which without diitreffing him, would have prevented your interefts and mine from fuiFering the confequences o f B a n k ­ ruptcy ; and it will appear that inftead o f offering to fupport me, he was labouring to convince me o f the neceffity o f Bankruptcy, afiuring at the fame time, third perfons, that after I had fettled my affairs, he would give myfelf that fupport, which I moft earneftly, but in vain, folicited for you ; and it will alfo appear, that had L confented to conceal from your view the true ftate o f the connexion between Mr. Rowan and me, and that I had kept back from your knowledge the weight ( VI ) weight o f fervices I have rendered him, the juil 2nd legal remuneration for which is now your pro- P « 7> >ha, gentleman wouId n cfer havc apptarcd before you in any other manner than as my warm friend.
B ut I difdained aiM ance which could only be obtained b y facrificing your interefts and m y character.

This, GtDticmOTj ^ ^ ^ CaUfe ° f hiS attemPr' ng> in fuch a premature n a n .

M r, to prejudice tne in your opinion.
1 beg to add, that the delay which has taken place in laying this ^ ^ ^ unavoidable; as in order to do m yfeif julB ce, I w a. obliged to arrange that feries „ f i „ c„ „ [rovcrtib|c evidence, the detail o f which has neceffarily en- groiled more time ,h a„ , was a„ arc j( ^ Another c irc u m iU c e which has occaiioned delay, a»d which I did no, forefee, was this, ,hat ,he’ Statem ent, in order t0 bc a[ a„ ^ ^ : ° rud' 3 inconvenient f „ r you to rc, d h ^ lcn8' h lllat " * » * no, only be mdft ^ Utterly C V I I ) utterfy- out o f my power, at prefent, to defray the expence o f tranfcribing a fufficient number o f Copies, ib that I am called upon by the imperative neceffity o f my fituation, to accept o f the oiFer o f a friend, and allow my Vindication to be printed.
T h a t ne­ ceffity is at once the caufe, and my apology, for a Meafure which I refort to with the greateft poffible reluftance.

I have the honor to be, W ith the greateit R efpeft, Gentlem en, Y o u r moil D evoted Servant, A R C H I B A L D H A M I L T O N .

N o.

29, Dominick-Street, Dublin, M a y 14, 1807. .

ERRATA.

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S I R , I H A D prepared my mind for a filent endurance o f your indifference and negleft, and yet was not without hope that you would have at lead felt for m y reverfe o f fortune, however indifpofed you might be to relieve me.
I find myfelf, however, unhappily miitaken ; and I behold you in the firft moment o f my Bankruptcy, not only declining to be my friend, but actively interfering in my affairs, as if I had deferved your enmity.
H o w juftly you adopt fuch a conduit towards the man w h o h a s C H E E R E D YOU I N Y O U R A D V E R S I T Y , w h o f e Credit fupported you in your diftrefs, and whofe Exertions have been for years part, inceifantly and fuccefsfully direfted to your Advantage, I will not de­ cide, for that were perhaps to judge in my own cafe.
But however reluftant I may be to make my con­ nection with you a fubjeft o f public difcuiïïon, your behaviour at the R oyal Exchange, at the two firft meetings A ( 2 ) meetings o f my Creditors, has left me no A lter­ native, but either to fubmit to thofe Charges you then fo publickly made againft me, or as publickly to anfwer them.
O f themfdves thofe Charges de­ manded attention, but fanftioned b y the name and perfonal aiTertion o f M r. 'Hamilton Rowan, they were calculated to make fo ferious and un­ favourable an impreffion on the minds o f my creditors, that I feel myfeif imperatively called upon to refute them withoiit a moments delay ; and to prove, in direct contradi&icn to your ilate- ment, that it was at your initance, and for your accommodation, that I firfl embarked in the Bill T ra d e , that fatal Meafure which has alone occa- fioned my Bankruptcy.
T h e circumftances, Sir, under which you at­ tended at the Exchange are fomewhat peculiar: Y o u know , Sir, that I was not obtruding upon you when you addreffed your note to ray friend Mr. Townfend.
On the fir jl o f this month you wrote to that gentleman, to whofe friendfliip on this occafion I am fo much indebted, “ that M ‘ Dowall the Jailor, (I ufe your own words) had informed you, that he had it from an intimate friend o f mine, that I couid have compounded my debts for feven or eight {hillings in the pound, only you refufed to come forward to guarantee the compofltion.,, A n d you add, “ that the afiertion o f my friend was falfe.” W h eth er you did, or did not refufeor de­ cline to aifiit on this occafion, I ihall prefently coniider \ ( 3 ) confider ; but in the mean time permit me, Sir, to fay, I never communicated on the fubjeft o f my affairs with fuch a man as you give for your au­ thor, nor do I believe that any friend o f mine is in habits o f confidential intercourfe with cc M 'D p w a l the ja ilo r ” I cannot believe that you yourfelf thought fo, .and I muft conclude, you only made that a pretext for adding to your note this remark­ able expreffion, “ I cannot avoid faying, that there feems to be an intention o f throwing the misfor­ tune o f M r. Hamilton’ s bill bufinefs on my back, which if fo, I muft rebutt.” A s I was then abfent from town, M r. Townfend immediately anfwered your note highly to my fa- tisfaclion ; he told you, what I think fliould have fatisfied you, “ that he would communicate the con­ tents o f your note to me, that he was convinced the aflertion o f M cI)owal was untrue, that he never faw the man, and he believed no friend of mine had any communication with him, but that the report might have fpread from the difappoint- ment o f fome o f my creditors, who were taught to expeft a ready interference on your part to re­ lieve me from prefent difficulties ; and he told you, that tho’ I was not anxious to throw the misfor­ tunes o f my Bill Trade on your back, yet that on infpefting my books, and taking a view o f my high profeffionai profpe&s at the time I firit embarked in that unfortunate traffic for your ac­ commodation, it would appear the fource o f my prefent A 2 (
 4 ) prefent misfortunes and difficulties.
M r. Townfend then apologized for the .candour he had ufed, and affured you, that when my mind was more at eafe, I would explain matters more fully to y o u then than he poffibly could.
W h a t there was in this letter that could call for, or juftify your fubfequent conduft, I am utterly at a lofs to conjecture ; however, fo it was, that you went to the public Exchange on the Saturday follow icg, and there, without any previous notice either to M r. Townfend or myfelf, in my abfence, unexpeûed and uncalled f o r , you endeavoured to imprefs on my creditors as a faft, that I was not led into a Bill bufinefs on your account ; that I never had accommodated you in M o n ey or Bill tranfaftions, that except upon three occaiions, when you admitted I was in advance fmall fums, I had in a period, as you ftated o f thirty-three months, from the year 1800 to 1803, always money o f yours in m y hands to a large amount ; and, behind my b ack, you charged me with keeping you in igno­ rance as to the extent o f your Rents, and the periods o f their payment to.
me ; and altho’ you proved no debt on my eftate, you charged me with being in your D e b t to a large amount ; and from the whole o f thofe aflertions, you endeavoured to jmprefs my creditors with an opinion, that you were not called upon to come forward in my favour in any other manner than as* “ amongft the moil liberal o f my Creditors.” i I was ( 5 ) I was naturally very much hurt indeed by this ungenerous ftatement, but flill I was not without hope that upon reflexion you would have feen your error, and beó'i inclined by a full and manly acknowledgment o f it, to make whatever reparation your conduct had left in your power : I met no fuch generous behaviour !
O n the contrary, that very night you fent a notice to my friend Townfend, o f your determination to attend again ou the Monday following at the Royal Exchange, “ to know ■what evidence could be given in fupport o f fuch an inexplicable and erroneous ftatement, as that I had embarked in the Bill traffick for your accom- înodation.’’’ T h a t evidence however was too voluminous and .difperfed through too great a number o f your letters .to be prepared in the ihort interval o f one day ; and you knew that my books o f account were then under the key o f the meffenger, (in whofe cuitody they flill remain) ; I therefore contented myfelf b y writing to M r. Freke, one o f my creditors, requeil- ing that he and his co creditors would fufpend their judgment, and pledging myfelf, in the courfe o f a very few days, to lay before them fu ch proofs as would convince them, that the ftatement you had alluded to was neither “ inexplicable or erroneous.’ On the Monday you attended according to your promife, and again commenced the attack with an activity and addrefs very ingeniouily calculated to infure fuccefs j and not content with declarations to them ( 6 ) them in general, you fought a particular introduc­ tion to each creditor, for the purpofe, no doubt, o f imprinting your fiatement the more deeply on their minds.
In purfuance o f the pledge given in my letter to Mr. Freke, I now, Sir, proceed to the difcuffion o f your afiertions with (I declare in the fincerity o f truth) the greatefl regret, but at the fame tim e, with a firmnefs and confidence proportioned to the abfolute necefiity which you have impofed upon me.
T h e firft efiential point at iffue between us I take to be this, whether I did, or did not, embark in the Bill trade, and progreffively increafe in it, contrary to my wifli, in confequence o f my connec­ tion with you, at your infiance, for your accommo- tion, and with confiant afiurances o f final compen- fation, as well a^ indemnity, whenever it lliould be in your power.
T h is you admitted to my Creditors to be the true fiate o f the queflion between us, and on the ifiue o f it depends much to me, and per­ haps not a little to y o u ; for I aver, and will prove, that but for my connexion with you, I never had, nor ihould have had occafion to accept or negociate Bills on England, or from England, either on the Exchange, or in private j and further, that ( 7 ) .
that your embarraffments, and my zeal for your accommodation, were the means o f leading me into that deftru&ive traffic which I did not underlland, and which has at length ended in my bankruptcy.

T h e evidence I lhall adduce o f this ilatement, and which you fo loudly call for, fhall be f a d s y confirmed b y your own innumerable, explicit, and unequivocal Letters, as well- as your acknowledg- ments to third perfons o f known refpe&abiiity.
In addition .to my general and indefatigable ac­ tivity in your concerns, I íhall in the detail o f that evidence be unavoidably led to ftate particular and important fervices, both of labour and expence per­ formed in connexion with your pecuniary affairs ; fuch as perhaps the greatefl: warmth o f ill-judged zeal, or the wildefl: flights o f romantick fiienafhip never before led one individual to perform for ano­ ther, to whom he was not bound b y any tie either o f confanguinity or perfonal obligation.
A n d I ihall have occafion alfo to allude to particular lofles by the Bill trade, which you exprefsly agreed to pay, and which with the amount of my bill of coils for feven years, and the retribution due to i profeffional man for fuch fervices as mine, will, when the account ihall be made our, not only de- monflrate that I am not in your debt, but that on the contrary, you are yourfelf a debtor to my eftate.
W h e n 8 W hen unfortunately in the year i8 c S , 1 yielded to the felicitations that were made to me to become your agent, I had out o f the fruits o f my own induitry paid the fine o f a houfe and was eftablifhed in a very productive line o f pro- feffiônal bufinefs, and had even at that earlv period o f my life, acquired a chara&er both profeffional and private, which was at once m y pride and my property.
M y profpe&s Sir were at that time bright m proportion as yours w'ere dark and uncertain,— I had therefore I affert no occafion to enter nor did I enter into a bill bufinefs on my own account, I was fcarcely acquainted with it happy, had it been for me had I remained fo !
but having once unfor­ tunately fuffered m yfelf to be led into it, I infen- iibly became more and more entangled, fo that 1 found myfelf inevitably obliged both on your account and my own, to perfcvere : looking for­ ward (through my exertions,) to the expefled ref- loration of your affairs, as the only possible means oi the re-eilabliihment o f mine.

In September i S o c , I fírít became concerned with your affairs, at which time your profpects were truly discouraging.
Even then part o f the fucceeding Novem ber rents had been taken up, a portion o f that gale was alfo to be applied to your Bills from America ; — a cuftodiam for a very large fum had been ferved upon your tenants in the month o f March preceding o f which I was then unapprized.
Immediately after 1 became your agen t ( 9 ) açent that custodiam was renewed and ferved.-*-*- Applications had been made on your behalf îo government to defeat the cuitodiam, .and the anfvver was, that although you would be permitted to receive your rents, yet the g o ­ vernment would not interfere to protect the property as against ' the rights o f Creditors.
M any o f your tenants were actually warned not to pay their rents, and even your most intimate friends and relatives, w ho affifted in the collection o f them, were cautioned b y perfons o f the tirit rank and influence, not to interfere or commit themfelves b y diftraining for or receiving your rents.
Debts to a conllderable amount were eagerly called for by different shop keepers in Dublin, who had been taught to expect that it was I who was to pay them ,— even the fucceeding M a y rents were in part anticipated; the F roil was at that time about to fet in, and it was inti­ mated to me that the freezing o f the E lbe might fo delay your Remittances as ferioufly to incon­ venience and , diitrefs you, fuch in ihort was the extreme embarralTment o f all your concerns, when they firit came into my hands, that it is positively afferted in your letter to me from Altona, dated November 4th, 1800 ; that if the (then current) rents were applied to the difcharge o f the debts pressing for payment, you and your Family (I reluftantly ufe the words of the Letter) muil have “ Jlarved” upon the Continent.
C A s C 10 ) A s to my eonduft under thefe circumitances I can require no more favourable report than the letter which I received from you , dated L u b eck, the 19th January, 1801.

Containing acknowledgements in the following terms, “ you have in every matter ailed as our friend, and while I feel grateful for your having done fo, yet I muil regret that you have been fo unrcafonably called upon.
Y o u have I fee made every exer­ tion, and in juftice w e ought not but do the fame.” A few days previous to this letter, on the 15 th o f the fame month you inclofed me a letter from L u b e ck directed to an eminent Merchant in D ublin, “ to try (according to your own expreiïîon) ( if there was any possibility o f getting money direct from Ireland to H am ­ bu rgh ,” Stating to me that the mode you had adopted until then was moil ruinous, £ 1 0 0 .
Iriih not being £ 7 0 Engliih b y the time it reached L u b e ck , Y et you fay, 1 cannot find any perfon that has direct intercourfe in the w ay o f bufinefs with Ireland, o f courfe I cannot draw upon Ireland, and I fe u r you cannot procure a credit upon Ham burgh, fo that I fee nothing to be done but to fend the money to M r ---------- iff London, and 1 muft requeft you to forward to him as foon as you can get it £ 1 0 0 ; for knowing the fituation o f our affairs in Ireland, I have not, I allure you, applied for a further Remittance until it was not to be avoided and abfolutely neceflary.” T h e Merchant in Dublin to whom the enclofed letter was C «« ) was direfted declined to give you the credit upon H am burgh which you fo earneftly defired, or to have any connection whatever with your money concerns, although you exprefsly made him an offer that your rents ihould be paid by me to him or his Banker in Dublin, This letter to me o f the 15th was written iu ignorance o f a remittance which I had made pre­ vious to the 3d o f January o f £ 1 5 0 .
and which, after paifing through the hands o f your friend in London, and being there negotiated, arrived at L ubeck on the 18 th, and was the principal c a u fe o f the letter o f the 19th.

T h e receipt o f that remittance is thus acknowledged, “ Y ester­ day I received your letter o f the 3d.
instant, and at the fame time a Bill for the money you for­ warded to M r ------- — which makes me take the firft opportunity o f writing, as on Thurfday lad the 15th, I wrote to you to fend me another £ 100 ” Here Sir is an early instance o f my anxiety for your convenience \ whether my fending you ^ 1 5 0 .
when your affairs in Ireland were circum­ stanced as they were, when you yourself urged “ necejfity” as an apology for demanding a fmailer fum, when your rents were already twofold anticipated and it was impoflible as you yourfelf admit to apply them to the payment o f your Debts without endangering your domeftic com­ forts on the Continent, whether this was an Accommodation to you, I know not ; I feel and know it was an Inconvenience to 91e.
On ( 12 ) On the 2Sth o f M arch following, I received a letter dated Lubeck, March 12th, acknow ­ ledging that “ I had indeed done every thing that was possible,” and inclofing a draft drawn upon nae in favour o f your order and endorfed in Blank for £ 1 0 0 dated from Lubeck and paya­ ble at a blank date, leaving it to me to fill up that Blank according to circumftances, and bat­ ing as the reafon for fending it, “ we iliall cer­ tainly want money in the beginning o f M a y .” In two days after I received this draft, I got it difcounted through a friend, and on the firft o f April I purchafed its precife value in Engliih money, and that night remitted it to your friend M r .------ — — in London for your account,— This draft I paid when it became due, and impreiled with your ftatement, “ that you ihould certainly want money in the beginning o f M a y , ” in the courfe o f the month o f April, anxious to anticipate your wants, and not with­ out fome inconvenience to m yfelf I remitted to your friend in London a further fum o f £ 1 0 0 Britifh.
A t this early ftage o f our connexion you thus defcribe the ftate o f your affairs, “ any thing would be better than a flate where one is at the mercy o f every tenant, that wifhes to play the rogue.” T h e remittance o f the firft o f April is ac­ knowledged in the letter o f the 4th o f M a y , which in confçquence o f the interruption o f the intercourfe V ( l3 ) intercourfe then between Hamburgh and thefe Countries, differed fome little delay going from London, and in that letter you fay, “ 1 cannot but thank you for your kind exertions for our comfort” and then you add “ w e are literally without a guinea.
I cannot hope to do without jT i oo in June, another £ \ c o shall want in Auguft, after that I will try if poffible to do with lefs than the fums you mention which are much more than u e ought to take, but I fear I ihall again be forced to call on you in Sep­ tember!

W e have not yet been able to find any perfon who has correfpondents in Ireland, and our prefent mode o f getting money is as inconvenient as ruinous as io o l. Irilh with the two exchanges is not 70I.
Eriglifh when we get if, owing to -the lofs on the two exchanges, which will in fome degree account for our defire for remittances being for fo much more than they ought to be.” T hus Sir you fee T was willing to fend you even more than you yourfelf knew you had any right to call for, fo defirous was I o f promoting your domeftic comforts.
T h e receipt o f the remittance o f io o l. ot the 27th o f April is acknowledged b y your friend and Agent M r------------- - o f London in his letter o f the 5th o f M ay, “ Rating that the amount was that fame day remitted to y o u / ’ I shall next call to your recollcilion that out ( 14 ) o f your then annual income o f 2000I.
I was ob­ liged, by my utter inability to enforce the pay- ment o f the rents and thofe other peculiar circum­ ftances to which I have alluded, to accept o f any fettlement I could procure, fo as to accommo­ date and pleafe the tenants, in order ultimately to fecure about t2 o ol.
a year for y o u ; this faft is verified by your own letter o f the 22nd o f January, 1S 0 1, in thefe words, ci T h e great tenants paid me in BiHs that had long to run, I made them allow me difcount, but it would not be prudent for you to do fo as under the prefent circumflances it is well to make fure o f any thing.” Thefe fettlements were, with very few exceptions made b y Bills at 6 1 , and fome even 9 1 days ; the greater part o f thefe BiHs were on perfons utterly unknown in the Banks or even in D ublin, and I was confequently obliged to have recourfe to my private friends to get them dif- counted and often under a neceffity o f buying articles at a high price from others to induce them to difcount thefe Biils for me ; and here give me leave to lay that only a very fmall proportion o f the difcount even on thefe Bills has as yet appeared in any o f your accounts.
H ow ever diftreffing Sir, thefe difficulties in rai- fing your fupplies may have been to me, they did not induce you to moderate your demands for money— no matter how it was to be raifed, money you must h ave,— month after month,— letter ( *5 ) Jçtter after letter} I rrcrir-d ü é w ëxprefiîons o f gra­ titude for my fervices,but never without an intimation o f a new D raft.

A t that time I had but little ex­ perience.


W h e n I firO: was concerned for you I was but twenty two years o f age, and wanted that knowledge o f mankind, for which, if I owe you no other obligation, I am now fo much your Debtor.
I felt for your fituation in a foreign land, and when every other Perfon, when your Engliili Correfpon- dents and Friends, when even your own Family declined to affift you in raifing money, I became the dupe o f your addrefs, and the vi&im o f my own weaknefs ; no Hazard, no Difficulty, no Lofies de­ terred me, whenever you aiked for money you re­ ceived it— never in any one inftance did I difappoint yo u ; and Sir, whatever erroneous calculations you may have made, (no doubt under the influence o f an over heated Gratitude) it will I affert appear upon infpeftion o f my books, and a feulement o f my accounts, that even at this early period— within a year after I became your agent, I was already drawn pretty far into a Bill Traffick on your account, b y being forced under the circumítances I have menti­ oned to extend a Credit for which I neither had or could have had occafion myfelf, and the application o f which Credit to your accommodation, has laid the foundation o f my fubfequent reverfe o f Fortune.
A n d here, Sir, as I am retracing my progrefs from my former profperity to my prefent fituation, I mud again obtrude upon you r irretentive memory the cuftodiam o f 1800, as one o f the circumflances that completed your embarraffment, and tended to im- pofe ( l b ) pofe upon me the ncceinty either o f abandoning you to diftrefs upon the Continent, or o f extending my credit and embarking in the Bill bufinefs for your relief.
Shortly after I took your affairs into my hands, Cuitodiam orders which had been iffued the M arch preceding, were renewed by a Creditor who had a judgment againft you for a very large amount, with feveral years arrear o f intereft.

T h e confequence o f this proceeding o f your creditor was, (to ufe your own words) “ you had only 6ool.

a year left to live on,” and the payment o f even that 600I.
could not from your then unfortunate fituation be enforced, and even that refidue was threatened to be fequeftered b y other Creditors.

Paufe here, and for a moment contemplate your own fituation at that time.— N o means o f enforcing the payment o f your rents— part o f them a&ually received b y the Cuftodee’ s agent— your Eftate about to be w reiled from you— and you and your family in a remote country, w here you had no C red it, fave w hat you had derived from my punftuality.
D id I then enter into the frigid arithmetical calculation o f a monthly caih account ?

N o , S ir , I had not yet learned the inftru&ive Leffon you have fincc taught me : 1 confulted my H eart and not my head ; and at the peril o f an attachment interpofed my- felf between y o u and that blow , w hich mud: have for ever deprived you o f your eftate.
I in D u blin and went in even left m y bufinefs perfon amongft the tenants to perfuade them tp pay their ren ts: I fucceeded— and let me tell ( *7 ) tell you, Sir, the attempt required no ordinary ad- drefs, and was attended with no common rifquc.
I did more— when a near relation o f yours, who received part o f your rents for you, had been advifed by a very high authority, o f the danger o f receiving, or any way intermedling with them, and when that relative in obedience to that advice had declined in any manner to aft, I became myfelf a perfonal guarantee for thofe rents, and a&ually en­ tered into a written undertaking, binding myfelf to pay into court, for the benefit o f thofe whom it might concern, every íhilling I fliould receive, and upon thofe terms alone could I procure the pay- x ment o f your rents : — the rents were accordingly paid to me, but paid at whatever time, and in whatever manner the tenants pleafed, for compul- fion being impoffible, it would have been the greateft imprudence to have fuggeiîed to the tenants even the idea o f refiftance.
T h e perfonal danger to which I was then expofed on your ac­ count, you may learn to eilimate, when you call to your recolle&ion, that although you were not able with every poflible effort, until the year 1804, to raife the fmall fum o f 200I.
“ to flop (as you yourfelf exprefs it) the mouth o f the cuflodee as to the inter eft*9 I remitted the full amount of your rents, notwithflanding the cuilodium, with­ out retaining one ihilling for myfelf under any pretence ; and that, although I thereby left myfelf liable to be ordered at a moment's notice to iodge their amount in court, or pay it over to the cui- todee D C ) todee or his agent, at the peril even o f my perfonai liberty.
M y refponfibility became every year greater and greater, and while you, fo far from being able to indemnify me in cafe o f any fudden attack, were unable to make any payment to the cuflodee, even on account o f intereft until one thoufand eight hundred and four, I in my unwearied zeal for your accommodation, fuffered m yfelf to re­ main liable for remittances to you to an amount m ore than equivalent to the principal and interest o f his D e b t, amounting to very nearly as much as the fum I lately folicited you to affiil m e with your Security.— T h a t Cuftodiam is not yet paid off, and I mention it here for two reafons— firft becaufe you w ere pleafed to ftipprels it in y o u r communications w ith m y Creditors, and fecondly, becaufe it is relevant to the queilion n o w at iffue between us, whether or not I em barked in the B ill Bufinefs for your accommodation, b y tend­ in g to ihew , that difarranged and diitrafled as your affairs then w ere, you could not have lived without the greateft diflrefs upon the Continent, w ithout the affifiance from fome quarter or ano­ ther, o f a Bill accommodation.
I now call y o u r attention to a f a il, you ad­ mitted to m y Creditors that 1 was in advance for y o u on th e firil o f M ay 1 8 0 1, 160I.

but you pofi- tively afferted that the B lank D raft for l o c i , fent me in M a rc h , was not for your Accom m odation.
Y o u C '9 ) T o u well k n e w when y o u made the afiertion that between the 28th o f M arch, and the ift o f M a y none o f your rents fall due, confequently I could not have received any,— I (hall prove I was then in advance for you.— B u t I think b y your own (hewing the Blank D raft muft neceflarily have been for your accommodation, efpecially as its exa& amount was remitted you two days after it ar­ rived— the concealment and denyal o f this fa<5i was I think unjuft, and entitles m e Jto folicit my Creditors to fufpcnd their ju d g m e n t— as to y o u r other affertions all o f w hich I will fully demon- ftrate to be unfounded.
B u t, Sir, anxious as I was to promote your Intereft,— I had even at that period to which I allude fome indiflinft prefentiment o f the danger a young profeffional man like me would be ex- pofed to by perm itting him felf to be made a party to fuch frequent Bill négociations as about that time became indifpenfably neceffary through the exigency o f your affairs, under this impreffion I wrote to your Agent in London urging him to accept your drafts direft upon him, and at the fame time offering to remit your Rents to him as they ihould become d u e— in the fame regular manner I had before done.
Sir, he was a man o f Bufinefs and knew the world—1 did not ; his anfwer was, I ihall in a little time give you an anfwer to your queres relative to M r. R o w a n 's drawing on m e to be provided for by y o u ,” — the D 2 re.

ful t ( 20 ) refult was that M r .----------did not accede to m y propofal and would not accept your Drafts.
It became then neceffary to refort to fome other arrangement and every attempt having failed to procure a credit direit on London, you at lail (in June, 1 8 0 1 ,) procured a Credit at H am burgh b y Draw ing on m e, but on the terms o f making them payable in London at the H oufe o f-------------- nominated b y yourfelf, and Sir, in the Letter in which you nominated that Houfe you ufe this remarkable expreffion, “ but if you can procure fome friend in London where you could have them paid, I fh o u ld 'lik e it better.” — B ut M r. R ow an you never encouraged m e to enter into a Bill Traffick !
i v V îv < r :v^ ;V In O ctober o f the fame year I dated the abfo- lute neccflity o f your feeking permiflion to return to Ireland, and preifed it to you that it was the only ftep that could ferve you , and received for anfwer “ with refpeit to our returning to Ireland, I am o f your opinion that it would be the m oil ceconomical plan for us and I ihall not delay to m ake application upon this fubjefl,” does this look as if I wilhed the continuance o f a trade that I muft have know n would necefiarily ceafe if you returned to Ireland, does it lo o k as i f I preferred your agency to your profperity, or that it was my wifli to continue in your Bill Bufincfs ?
but the fame letter concludes as every one o f your many former t 21 ) former ones.

<c I am forry to tell y o u I have again drawn for another i ool.

it could not be avoided or it ihould not have been done.” H aving now brought you down to the clofe o f the firft years account, let me remind you o f a very few fafts, the total o f your years income, from the if t o f O & ober, 1800, to the 1ft o f N ovem ber, 18 0 1, on the face o f your Rent- all amounted only to 2,1 ool.
the regular outgoings from which for Head R ent Intereft and Aunuities amounted to upwards o f 700I., in addition to that fum I had to pay in that year on your account, for your American Bills and money raifed in 1800 on the acceptances o f a near and deceafed Relative o f yours, and for the Education o f your Children and Shop A c ­ counts in D ublin, with other matters, a Sum o f 800I.
and there was near io o l. more raifed from the Tenants, o f the rent due at Novem ber, 1800, fo that without deducting one (hilling for L a w or A gen cy, you had a Ballance o f little more than 500I.

Irifh, to fpend in the firft year, this was truly a poor pittance for a large family in Germany.

B ut Sir, recolleft w ho fupplicd the difference; before the i il o f M ay 1 8 0 1, I had a&ually remitted Bank o f England Notes and Bills on London for 462I.

15s.
15s.

and before the lit o f N ovem ber 1801, you had drawn on me and I had remitted to the amount o f 546I.

6s.

more, making in the w hole a Sura o f 1009I.

is.

od.

I never ( 22 ) I never Sir kept monthly calculations, b u t I k n o w w h a t I now ilate to be fait and will prove it to my Creditors, it will be for them to judge o f your conduct and flatemcnts.
T h is Premature D raw in g continuing without inter-miflion or decreafe, my dread o f its con­ f l u e n c e s which you had fo often taught me to expeit, and an anprehenfion o f fome unpleafant application again ft me to the Court o f E xch e­ quer, on the part c f the Cuitodee, added to my anxiety for your Accommodation, all united to force me to look out for additional refources.

Y o u r friend M r .


--------------in London had already declined to accept your Bills the increafe o f which rendered it at leaft very uncertain, that I fhould have funds o f yours or ability o f my own to continue to provide for, and confequently I had no alternative b u t to leave you to your fate on the Continent, or adopt the proceeding to which I reforted.
I applied to a Client o f mine an eminent and ref- peciable Merchant in London, f o r a credit folely on your account, he declined my application, but ufed his influence to procure and did procure a credit on the houfe o f M r .

F ---------- .
F ---------- .

Y o u r Drafts on me continuing afterwards to increafe, mine alfo proportionably increafed, fo that what at firit was but accommodation at length became a trade ; and though you may affeft ignorance now o f the nature o f fuch a traffic,— I believe the faits will con­ vince fome w h o underiland a Bill Bufinefs, that you muft ( 23 ) mud have elfentially conduced to lead me-into it.
T hat I fought that Credit on London on your Account will plainly appear from your own Letters, and the Letter o f your Englifh A gen t— who wrote me thus on the 25th o f Novem ber, ' 18 0 1, “ I received your Letter o f the 14th inftant, inclofmg your D raft on I. F. for 100I.

which is acccpted I have therewith this day paid your acceptance o f Mr. R ow an’ s D ra ft, 100I.
which you will find inclofed & c .” and this Sir, I moil folemnly aiTert was the lirft Accomodation Bill I ever drew on England and as you fo publicly call for it, I beg to fubinit this as fome “ Evidence” that I E m ­ barked in the Englifh as well as the Iriih Bill Bufinefs on your Account and for your Accom ­ m odation— indeed all your Bills were paid in the fame manner till O & ober, 1803, with the excep­ tion o f two or three for which your Englilh, A gent redrew on me.
I now come to the Y e a r 1802, and on the 22nd o f January in that yea r, I am told that “ the Account I had furnifhed prefeats but an unpleafant view.

Indeed you add, cc the iitua- tion o f our property is fuch as to keep me in confiant uneafinefs and the more fo as I fee the very unpleafant circumftances in which it may involve you, yet what ftep can we take ?

The day before yejlerday— I drew on you fo r 1 go/.

B ritifh.
B ritifh.

Indeed the lofs o f getting money here is ruinous, would you wilh me to fend you more promifTary notes ( 24 ) Notes as a mode o f creating a fupply for our Drafts.” — But M r. R ow an, you did not lead me into a Bill Traffic !
A s my Books are not now in my poffelfion, being in the cuilody o f the Meflenger, I was led by that Letter to make a fearch amongit your papers, where I found a copy o f the Account, I fent you the i d January, 1802. to which it alludes, and from which I make the ftatement before inferted, and I am happy to fay this account fully difproves your affertion at the E x ­ change that thofe Drafts, you offered w ere for my accommodation, as at the time you wrote, I had in that A ccount given y o u Credit for every Ihilling o f the preceding N ovem ber Rents, although I had received but a part o f them and that part in Bills not then at maturity, fo that after debit- ting you w ith aftual payments and calculating the Interefl payable on your fecurities, Head R en ts, and other matters which was o f neceffity to be paid immediately after, without introducing any L a w or A gency charge or deducing poundage, I was left with but a very fmall if any fund or refource o f yours, to keep you “ Afloat” till June or July, before which the M ay Rents would not be in Caih.
Notwithftanding this you d rew on me for 400I.

before the i il o f M a y , 200I.

of which I find b y a Memorandum among my papers, I aftualiy remitted before that period.

Refleit then, was it a truth y o u ftated to my Creditors when y 911 aflerted that the Drafts fent ( 2 5 ) for my accommo­ me to raife money on, were dation ?

and fay, did 1 ever ufe any o f the B lank Drafts you fent me ?

did I not on che contrary return March, them all to yourfelf ?
except ihe one I received in i 8 o i , the amount o f which 1 remitted to two days after it arrived in Dublin, and you, that at a time when you yourfelf admit that I was in advance 160I.

In March 1802, you thus write me from A l- tona, 54 T h e ftate o f our finance is my greateft uneaiinefs ; we have lefs than 700I.

Iriih to fpend, and we are drawing on you for 1 ool.

Britiih monthly, nor do I fee a probability o f thefe Drafts leffening.
I beg you will inform ;ne i f in any manner I can leffen the burthen at prefent on your (boulders.

W h ile the Cuftodees are quiet, I hope no unto­ ward circumftance will marr our plans, but I feem in this hope to lean on ftraws and am miserable ; again I requeft your advice and good offices.” B u t, Sir, as my objeft is not to mifreprefent your mean­ ing, I admit the calculation you made was on the idea o f the Cuftodees right to the refidue above the 700I.
but whilft I admit that, I do not leflen the rilk I was running in remitting and accepting for even more than that refidue.
In M ay following you fay, cc I am extremely obliged to my young Friend for his two Letters ; when will a rational plan o f Expenditure allow us to aft properly, as you fay, our fpeedy return to Ireland can alone effeftuate this objeft.” Does this advice E I c « 6 ) advice when coupled with the moil drenuous efforts, to efFeft that return, look, as if I did nor wifh your welfare, and my own deliverance from Bill concerns ?
^ I will not () o u add) repeat how much it hurts me not to be enabled to comply with any thing which could add to your conveni­ ence in the advances you make for us.” — In A u - gufl you fay, ‘ c I want to break our prefent ftile o f living, which however occonomically conducted, is far beyond our refources.” A n d in September you add, “ the fa£t is, my dear Friend, I have always lived in too high a d y le ;” and you continue cc with the moft fincere thanks for your friendly exertions, and reluctance at leaning fo hard on y o u ; I am y et forced to do fo.” — In Novem ber you fay, 44 I am determined not to remain idle ; I lean to returning to America, and trying Agriculture.
I wiih you, my good Friend, to meet this point with any w ho wifh me well, and give me your advice ;— it is evident w e cannot g o on as w e are g o i n g ; — fomeihing mud be d o n e ; y e t y o u , m y F r i e n d , w h o r e a l l y s u f f e r , s a y n o t a w o r d / — And in December, after telling me o f the didreiles o f your mind, and your thoughts o f abandoning all ideas o f returning to Ireland, you afk me, cc W h a t do you think we might allow our- felvcs, fo as to be content, and put all the different claims on me in a date o f progredive payment?” and you add, 44 I fear not above 6 o o l.” / 1 mark now the commencement o f the year 1 8 0 3 ; ( 27 ) 1 8 0 3 ; on- the 30th o f January you thus write— “ From the delicacy o f your mind, my good Friend, you do not ftate ftrongly enough the black part o f our fituation ; I have however Hated to ----- -, that we muft reduce our experces to about 600I.
a year, and devote in order to relieve you from a moil critical fituation, the Cuflodees.” — 1 will make no comment on this paifage, but beg leave the reft to to remind you, that when you wrote that Letter, you had your account and rental in your pof* feffion.

O b the 22nd.
o f February you write, “ my dear Friend, I dread the fituation I have brought you into, for want o f that ftern determination I once thought 1 had ; I have no plan for the future— I have no friend to confult with— I brood over my fituati- on until I know I become foured with every thing,” “ It is,” you juftly add, “ an unreafonable Tcfk fo r a M an of Bufinefs to read, and anfwer fu c h Letters : Fxcufe me, my good Friend, and bear with me a ihort time.” — Mr. Row an I bore with you not a Ihort, but a very long time, O n the 22nd.
o f M arch you fay, “ I enclofe you three more blank Drafts ; indeed it has hurt me much to lean on you fo much, but 1 could not avoid it ; and how w e are to get home without your alM ance I know not.” T hefe Drafts you have alfo aiferted were for my accommodation, al­ though you knew that on our meeting in London in July following, I returned every one o f them to you unufed.— A itrange mode o f ufing accommoda­ tion Bills !
E 2 D uring C 28 ) D uring all this period you were fully aware, that I had no property but what I made b y my profef- lion to enable me to a io rd you thofe advances you fo frequently acknowledged ; you knew it was not poffible for me, circumftanced as I was, even to pay your Bills, without getting into a Bill T rade.
T h a t Bill Trade o f courfe rendered it im praticable for me to attend to my profeffion as I fhould have done: And yet, under all the difadvantages that I laboured, I aik you, did one fingle Bill o f all you drew from the Continent, return diihonoured ?

If there had, what would have become o f you, mud not ruin have enfued to you and yours ?
A t length you quitted the Continent, and on your arrival in England, you wrote me on the 23d o f June 1 803 thus : “ In order to provide for this far­ ther expence, I ihall at any rate, make my firft D raft on my --------- , altho* I ihould be obliged to defire him to refund himfelf by re-drawing on you9 when my draft will become payable, which from his temper, I fear will be neceffary : indeed I do not fee my way at all.
I ihould rejoice at taking you by the hand, if the ftate o f my affairs did not make it neceflary for me to make that requelt o f you.
This fcrole is tolerably confufed, but I hope you will excufe it ; it is a type o f the fituation o f the mind o f your ever affe&ionate and obliged F rien d /’ Y o u then write me, “ that you are at m y command as to time and place and in a fub- fequent letter you fay, “ that when you informed fame perfons high influence, (whom you named) that ( 29 ) that I was coming over to expedite the moil im­ portant objeft o f your life, you were told not to prevent me and you write in July, “ how re­ joiced you are at the profpeft o f meeting and con­ futin g with fo fincere and fo tried a Friend.” In confequence o f thefe and other Letters, I again de- ferted my profeffional Bufmefs, and went over to London, carrying with me legal Opinions to guide your Conduft.
I remained with you an entire month on your general Affairs, and particularly on that great Subjeft, the reftoration o f your P ro.

perty.

Y o u r return to England was very unexpected ; it arofe from peculiar circumilances, which at that moment took place on the Continent.
M y zeal to comply with your wifhes induced me to hurry my departure from Dublin to meet you : the bufinefs of Trinity Term was not then near finiílied ; I had not been able to keep your Account as a Merchant would have done, for I had my L a w bufmefs to at­ tend to, and was without any Agency eilabliihmenf.

I knew I owed you nothing, and rthat I had been always more anxious to procure you Money than to fet down the Loffes.
A t the moment I was very much hurried, and my attention was entirely engrofsed in getting legal Opinions for the regula­ tion o f your Conduft ; under thefe circumilances, I haftily drew out a iketch o f your Account from the commencement to take over to you ; the D if­ count was put in a bulk fum, the Portage the fame, the Stamps the fame, and all thefe appear erroneous ( 3 ° ) erroneous as againit me ; no Charge was inferted for extra Loffes, nor for my Fees as A gen t, and only 10I.
charged on account o f L aw C o i ls ; and you admit in your fubfequent Letters, that the A c ­ count was in many particulars erroneous, but only as againfl: m yfelf; this Account thus made up, and thus furniilied, you now exhibit as againit me, fupprefling moil unjuftly a’l thefe circumftances.

O ne matter in particular becomes neceifiry for me to remind you o f here— On perufmg this Account you yourfelf faw the omiifion o f A g e n t’ s fees ; I had not inl'erted that Charge bccaufe I reafonably ex.
petted that you would have added a handfome fum in addition to my Fees for my extra trouble.

1 received fair but delufive words ; you fpoke o f your inability then to do me juítice ; I begged you might poitpone.

any confideration o f that kind till the final arrangement o f your affairs ihould take place.

Y o u then thanked me for my fervices, and intreated me that I would fo r the prefent infert 50t.
not as payment, but as you exprdïcd it, a fome- thing, until a turn in your affairs would enable you not only to pay me as an A gen t, but liberally to remunerate my fervices ; and this çol.

was in­ ferted in that account in London at your own ex-.

prefs defire.

Having fpent a month with you in the ar­ rangement of your bufmefs, I left London, and at a time when you certainly cannot ailert that you were ignorant o f your affairs.— On the 22nd.
or Auguit you write me, u 1 hope however that matiers will now take a favourable turn, and that we ( 3 1 ) w e may adopt fome mode which may fuit our cir- cumftances.
I am content to adopt any mode, fo that it is within our means— the Infurance office has rejected my propofal, I fhall try another.” O n the io th o f September you frate from authority, “ that all your hopes o f completing the great objeft alluded to, vanifh.” Y o u then add, “ It is fcarcely to be expefted you can procure any loan for me ; i f I had no further profpecte I would embark immediately for America ; but to leave the Killyleagh eilate, as well as all the others f j em- barraiTed, would, I believe, be thought wrong.— 99 B u t even then, M r .
Rowan, when Hope feemed to have fled, did I not continue uphold y ou ?

to encourage and T h a t memory muft be treacherous indeed, that could in fo ihort an interval, fufFer a train o f fuch important fails to efcape from its retention.
D o not confide in it any longer— if you do, it will again betray you, and again expofe y o u — take then the advice o f him whofe advice you have fo often fought and fo greatly profited by, and read attentively the fol­ lowing extraft from your own letter, before you ven­ ture again to affert to the creditors o f 66 your young friend,” that I did not errer into a Bill Buiinefi for your accommodation, and, that I had never ac­ commodated you in money matters.
On the 2 lit o f September, 1803 y ou ^ u s write, “ M y dear Friend, It muft be fome extraordinary cafe indeed, that .

C 3* ) that could authorife the moft disant idea in my mind, that I was negleiled by you, whole* afrs towards me have more than kept pace with your profejfions, and it hurts me to think, I fhould lean on you more than is neceifary,” and then you add, 4C Yefterday I was obliged to draw 011 you for 100I.
difcounting thefe drafts is made a favour, and really is fo, but it can by no means be avoided, this 100!.
is already in a great meafure anticipated, and^ in about a fortnight, I (hall be obliged to draw on you again for io o l. more,— it is owing to your ac­ cepting my drafts, and having them to pay before you have any value o f mine in your hands, that you are obliged to have Bills re-drawn on yourfelf ; when that is the cafe, moil indubitably the lofs íhould be placed to my account, fo r without me the f a f t would not occur, and furely the fa v o u r done me b y accepting fliould not induce a lofs alfo.
I requefl: that in future you will do that which is juft as well as friendly.” — This letter was written in one month after you received the account, on which you fo vauntingly rely, at a time when, according to that account, (admitting it free from errors or omiflions,) there was only fix pounds due to you.
T h e accepting your frequent Drafts under fuch circumftances and “ having them to pay before I had any money o f yours in my hands,” was you admit yourfelf “ a fa v o r done you" but the Creditors o f “ your young friend,” have been affured at their two firft meetings, “ that it was to you no accommodation ; N o afliftance what foe ver, in money C money concerns, that you did not bring vie the B ill Bufinefs 33 ) info On the 4th o f O & ob er you write me, - when I called on our friend Mr.----- -— - to get the money, he told m e that he regretted very much his not being able to pafs the B ill— that he had therefore, fent it without lofs o f time to Mr. H k s .
in D ublin, who would difcount it for him and return him a London Bill, and in the mean time he gave me what I wanted for current ex- pences and to pay the Infurance which I effe&ed,” A n d to prove that you wanted no money A ccom ­ modation, you conclude your Letter, <c as to money matters I do not know what to fay, remit you cannot, live as I am or any way I cannot, which ever w ay I turn ruin and defpair feize me, what am I to d o,” and then you conclude with the pleafing intelligence “ I have it in idea to draw on you through MelTrs- B .
and H .
when I get to tow nv — On the 17th o f O ftober you thus write, cc I do not expert much from that quarter (meaning a near and wealthy relative o f yours who had obtained fome va­ luable leafes from you) and although I cannot but thank you for your kind offers refpeiting the railing the fum we want, for Stopfords (the Cuftodees) Inte- reft yet it gives me great pain to feel that I increafe your embarraffments,” and on the twenty-eighth o f the fame month you fay cc ruin flares me fo complete­ ly in the face that I know not what to do ;— tells me there are but five pounds in the houfe, i F know • ( 34 ) ( know not what to determine upon ; if without much o f danger to yourfelf you can relieve us, I know you will, but I fear we are pail hope, I cannot bear it long, but as I faid before if you can enable us to remove to the houfe w e have taken, I will either be within eight hundred pôunds Britiih per annum, or I will break u p ,” — and then you add the ufual and pleafing intelli­ gence cc I have drawn on you fo r two hundred and fifty pounds'" I cannot for t r y part reconcile your public declarations to my Creditors that you had not brought me into a Bill T rad e or received accommodation at my hands with thefe Letters, furnifliing fuch a Difclofure o f fails, and written after you had received that account on which you fo much rely, nay written after you had been credited with the full amount o f the M a y Rents, and had received 15c!.
Britiih ad­ vanced you in London, and not brought into that accouut, and after you had without a (hilling in my hands drawn on me fo frequently to fuch large amounts— the inconfiftency is your ow n.— Y o u perhaps can by a monthly calculation re­ concile ii.
O n the eighteenth N ovem ber, you write “ I have that curfed— to manage, is there no poilibi- lity o f procuring enough to flop his mouth, he would be contented with two hundred pounds, if I depofit in his hands the title deeds o f the Richmond houfes and give him the A g en cy (the Engliih ( 35 ) Engliih one) but even then he does not promife me one years, relay.

H ave you heard any thing o f Mrs. Y .
(as to the Loan) O r can you again apply with propriety, I have in my letter to niy --------- - -------- mentioned two hundred pounds, and alked him ihould I write to his A gent.— Can you by any acquaintance or friend affiit us ?” This fubjeit is further purfued in your letter o f the eleventh o f December, I fear, you fay, “ I ihall in a day or two be obliged to draw on you for one hundred pounds uniefs I ihould fee a pro­ bability o f felling an annuity for my life for three hundred and fifty pounds, or feven year’s purchafe.
I hope Flood’ s money will not embarrafs us now, w e have for a time got clear o f the other, but I have no other hopes ; I own I had fome from Mrs, Y .

— A nd then in order to clofe this year as you clofed the former ones, you inform me thus in your Letter o f the 30th o f Decem ber, “ I was obliged to D raw on you yefterday for 100I.

at 5 1 days date, the impoffibility o f pafiing any other Bill obliged me to this which I know is dtfagreeabJe to you, did you know my fituation you would pity me.
I am worn out, I am trying to fell an annity o f 50I.
per annum at 6 years purchafe redeemable, this is ruinous in the extreme, but if it fucceeds it will give you fome relay.” — W e are now arrived at the the commencement o f the year 1804, and on 17th o f February after acknowledging “ the innumerable a&s o f kindnefs, which you fay you received from me, you add, “ I cannot but F 2 attribute C 36' attribute to you my friend Mr. L ’ s --------- kind ) expreflions and feeming wiíh to ferve me— once m y very long protrafted------ was obtained., ( i f I can weather the fo r m until then,) my idea would be to take a clear furvey o f my fituation in pecuniary matters, and if in fuch a moment M r. L ’ s — good intentions ihould continue, he might fave us from a fia te 1 dare not look to, I am moil - fincerely and u n a l t e r a b l y yours.” O n the 27th o f M arch you write me on money matters thus : cc T h e torment I have fuf- fered by the repeated delays in the fale o f the annuity, I have fo long announced to you, is inex- preffible and deprives me o f every degree o f energy, 1 know not which w ay to turn, 1 am refolved this day to force a final anfwer from the U furer.” H ere again, Sir, I muil entreat you to fee i f m y 1 aflertion relative to the Bill Bulinefs is inexplicable or erroneous ; you write me on the 1 ith o f April in the following words, “ M y dear friend, I have now paifed fome months o f anxiety about raifing the 3 0 C I .
by annuity, and at lail am dif- appointed, upon finding how much I had been tri­ fled with, I had recource to the temporary plan o f drawing on you, on this I attempted to graft fomething permanent, I ilated to Meflis.

B .

and H .

that my wiih was to be permitted to keep 300I.


Britiih afloat for 18 months— to this I re­ ceived an a^fwer, ftating the inconveniencies and ( 37 ) Ioffes attending Co.mmiffion Stamps, &c. &c. and the impoffibility o f drawing and redrawing for fuch a length o f time, but offering as a temporary refource to pafs my Bill 011 you for 300I.
Britifh, and accept one for the fame fum, when neceffary for you to re-draw to pay mine on you.— This I have accepted and the transition will take place next week, yours with great truth.” This 300I.

Sir, foon encreafed as you well know to 500I.

Britiih and upwards, and never was reduced till the forced loan, which I had procured for you Ihortly prior to my Bankruptcy enabled you to pay it off.— And give me leave to aik was it for my accommodation this money was kept afloat on my Credit ?
or are thefe no fymtoms o f an increafing Bill Traffic for your accommodation, even at a time that each Bill that I accepted might have proved my ruin ?

I now come to acknowledge one act o f your friendiliip for I am unwilling to detrait ought from your liberality, I am ready to afford you that jultice, I have in vain fought at your hands, and if I omit to flate the extent o f your fervices, trufl me it is unwittingly for I would feel pleafure indeed that the whole o f my taik was o f that defcription.
you certainly did at in y requeft draw on me in February for 300I.

Iriih, out o f which you paid Mr. F. (m y Correfpondent in London) s o c l. on my account, the Bill you drew when at maturity fuf- fered the momentary difgrace o f a proieft, but never returned ( ) returned *to England ; I paid it in the hands o f the Reverend Do&or S. o f Molefworth ftreet to whofe politenefs and that o f his fon M r. S. on the occa- fion am much indebted.
I wrote however to you Hating my concern at the fatality that had hap­ pened and my dread left it might injure you.

l o this I received your anfwer dated the 17th o f April in the followimg language which needs no comment, M y dear friend, how unjuftly you do accufe yourfelf in this tranfa&ion, it is I who have dried up the fource from which I had only a right to draw moderately, and alas I am obliged ta continue the fame courfe.
It is I and not you w ho have caufed you this moment o f uneafinefs, I cannot fee any thing but deftruction,” — and then follows the accuf- tomed confolation, 64 Yejierday I drew on you fo r 350I.

for which you will re-draw, but will you be enabled to.

pafs a B ill?

A s to M r. W .


(a very wealthy and refpe&able Tenant of you r’ s in the County o f D onegal) “ I dare fay he \vould do any aft o f friendfhip but that he or any other fliould give their money to a perfon fo lituated is fcarce to be expefted.
your very afl'eftionate and much ob­ liged friend,” H ere Sir, if you had rçally the inte- reft o f your friend at heart, you pught to have flopped all Bill Traffic with him when his credit had fufFered a diihonour which you fo juftly attri­ bute to yourfelf, but fo far from this in the very letter which anfwers the intimation you received o f the proteil, you urge him to a further effort for your accommodation in the w ay o f Bill négociation !
O n ( 39 ) O n the 28th o f April you exprefs your dreacl that I will be unable to fell a Bill 011 London to pay yours, and you add, “ we are for ever calculating, and if we got on as w ell as we write all would go well.

I find a difference in the exchange, charged me by B .

and H .

and that charged to me by M r .

B .” and then in your letter to M r. W .


which you copied to me, fpeaking o f procuring a loan, you fay to that gentleman, “ I dare fay M r. Hamilton to whofe friendfhip I am under infinite obligations has informed you how diftreifingly em- barrafling my fituation is, and the very great fervice a fmall loan would be to me could it be procured.” A n d having copied the letter to Mr. W .
you return to me and add, <c thus my dear friend, you fee I have put every Iron in the fire, but whether I iha-11 produce any w ork or only burn my metal I know not,” .
O n the 8th o f M a y , you fay, “ I am infinitely obliged to you for the arrangement about M r. F ’ s M ortgage (which I perfonally fecured)'but it is abfolutely neceffary that you ihould know our fituation prior to any fa rth er engagements on your part fo r me, which (you add) are too great already,” you then conclude by telling me, “ I have this day drawn on you for io c l. as ufual, and on the ift o f June I ihall be forced to draw again.” O n the 16th o f M a y you again write, “ I fup- pofe there is no fuch thing as your getting me caih for a D raft on a private Gentleman here, or elfe I am ( 40 * ) I am pretty certain M r .
---------- o f --------- - in the county o f W exford, (then in London) would ac­ cept ; in ihort we are completely (hackled, but your’ s, moil affectionately.” M r. Row an is this no 66 Evidence” o f your wiihing me to extend the Bill 1 rallie my Credit, or to continue in for* your accommodation?

B u t, Sir, fuch was my wifh to keep back from the Bill T rade, that I wrote you about this time, that I would not wiih to go on ’ Change to fell my re-drafts on B .
and H. on your account, without a fpecial letter o f advice from them, authorizing me to draw, in order that I might (hew it to thofe to whom I fliould offer to fell the Bill ; for as I told you, however refpected I might be by indivi­ duals, yet, I wifhed to avoid obtruding myfelf on their confidence in money matters.

In confequence o f this, I received a letter from Meffrs.

B .

and H .

dated the 21 it.


of M ay, authorizing m e to draw on them on your account.— But this was alfo no Bill bufinefs, nor was it for your accommodation.

W h atever may be the effeft o f the other Letters, the following one contains, I think, fome “ evidence” o f a Bill Traffic, and for your accommodation.— Y o u rs o f the 27th o f M ay defires me as follows : <c It is faid that now M r. F .— is Chancellor o f the Exchequer, Exchange will foon be at pa r, on which account B .

and H .
and H .

defire me to tell you , not to wait for the time when the Bill is due, but to ( 4» ) to take advaantagé o f the firft high Exchange you can get.” On the 24th o f September you inform me, cc that in confequence o f a Letter you received from two Perfonages o f high diftinftion, (whom you mention) you perceived your hopes were blafted in a matter o f the higheft importance to your future interefts j ” and you add, “ I cannot, I will not remain borne.
I fe a r much I have involved you ; feclufion and retirement, the only thing feafible in my fituation, would not be borne.
For G o d ’ s fake prefs the bufinefs o f the W o o d at RathcofFey, and any other refource I have ; if you can advife me do, and do not difguifc my real fituation.” Y o u then give me the ufual confolatory intelligence, “ I am under the hard neceifity o f drawing on you for i o o l. ” É L ' But, Mr. R o w a n , did I even then fuiFer your fpirits to droop, or your refources to fail, when two of the mod exalted Characters, and poffeffing the greateft - influence, in the Empire, appeared unable to effect the object fo effential to your future welfare ?
N o , Sir ; I told you not to deípaif, and affuredyou of fuc- cefs, on the grounds o f a firm perfeverance ; I pre­ vailed on you to abandon all thoughts o f returning to America ; and I gave you on that occafion, as I had often before given you, wholefome Council.

T h e refult proved that the advice o f your young Friend was as falutary as his Friendihip was fincere, G ( 42 ) and b y following his advice, the meafure fo long fought fo r was at length accompliihed.
In file month o f September all was defpair, on the 20th o f O ito b er all was bright, and you in­ formed me that a perfon in an official fituation had undertaken to * forward the objeít I have alluded to in the mode I had prefcribed, and from that day I became your accredited C( Charges Des Affaires'y and you fealed the appointment with the wilh that “ health peace and happinefs might attend me.” I ihall here refrain from a difclofure o f any thing refpecting your communications to me or mine to M r. M .
on this moil: important tranfaftion, becaufe I will not enhance my fenfes or hurt your feelings; but I could appeal to that gentleman to bear tefti- mony that my fervices and my zeal were not regu­ lated by the ordinary difcharge o f profeffional duty and that my correfpondence with him on your behalf did not difgrace the chara&er in which you placed me— and yet for this fervice alfo I never was offered more than thanks.

I admit that in the month o f October a Bill o f yours for 500I.
drawn on me to accommodate yourfelf, iuitered the difgrace o f a protefl, but the day after the money was fent to the houfe o f Meffrs.

V .

in this city through whole hands all your drafts in favour o f B .

and H .

had till then uniformly ccme ; and ío convinced were the Clerks o f ( 43 ) o f Meflrs.
V ’ s that the Bill, as being your Draft on me in favour o f B. and H. had come through their houfe, that the money was left and the Bill was to be fent over, but the Bill having, paffed through another Houfe and I paid fay that during the returned to England, it with re-exchange, &c. and here 1 feven years o f our connec­ tion, a fingle Bill but itfclf, never returned upon you and what your fituation would have been had the reverfe bsen the cafe— judge you.
O n the 26th o f Ottober, alluding to the return o f that 500I.

Bill, you thus write me, “ very few perfons enter into the friendly motives and fenfa- tions which I am certain we participate, I went to M r .

H .

( o f the houfe of B. and H .)
and after fome converfation he added, that upon the whole it would be fortunate for me as I loft about three per cent in London by thus drawing, I replied it was abfolutely necejfary for me to draw, as my funds were not in your hands and could only be received by partial payments, fometimes long after my Bills fell due ; and added I had rather lofe fiv e per cent, than not to do it ; the faft is, that the redrawing which has for the moment faved my felling the annuity, has become difagreeable to them and they are glad to cut.
Y o u then propofe, by a M r .

---------- , o f ---------- in the county o f W exford , to pafs your Bills on me through a Merchant in London, and you fay “ I have done with all idea o f our expences, I cannot calculate them or our current Bills, which I am aihamed G 2 ( 4 4 ) aihamcd to avow ; if M r.-------- -- (the Merchant M r .
--------- - was to apply to) does not confent, I muil depend on your friendship” — and furely, Sir, you mull have felt fomething very different from the idea o f giving accommodation to me when you wrote me fuch expreifions as thefe, cc I am dread­ fully harrafled with the different ideas which whirl around my mind, without permitting me to reft on one : but that which moil frequently obtrudes itfelf upon me, is the injury I am doing to you, my friend.
” A t this period fome -of your relatives becamc urgent for 300I.

you owed them; a relative o f y o u r s lent you 100I.
to flop their mouths ; but you have perhaps forgotten that he lent it on my perfonal fecurity, payable on demand— this pre­ vented a fuit, and yet this w?as no accommodation, Y q u have aifo no doubt forgotten that at this time I made a bold attempt to recover eight years arrears o f rent from one Tenant who had uni­ formly refufed to pay, on the ground o f your ina­ bility to recover; you forget that even the firft L a w Oiixcer o f the Crown interfered, and on ap­ plication declared that he did not believe you were allowed to receive the Rents.
Bue I perfevered and fucceeded ; and you write me on that fubjeft “ you took bolder fleps about— than I ihould have dared to advife ; • but your fuccefs proves at leaft your addrefs.” Here however I Ihould ilate that but for ( 4 5 ) for the honourable conduit o f P. R'# Efq.

the Barriiter who ' happened to be confnlted by the friends o f trie Tenant, I could not have en­ forced the payment o f the Rent, which on his advice, not to take advautage o f your fituation, they then paid me.
In the letter above quoted you have this remarkable paffage, “ M y dear friend, you have more faith in courtier friend- ihip than Shakefpeare had, and perhaps not as much knowledge o f m an?

'— Sir, I have verified your opinion o f mef O n the 2 j d o f November you fay, <c I have been very remifs in not having particularly ad- yifed you o f the Bill which 1 drew on you.
B ut indeed I am quite beaten down, from feeing the dreadful ftate into which I am fo rapidly plunge ing myfelf and my friend.” On the 18th o f December, alluding to the im­ portant negotiation, 1 was carrying on for you, you write me thus, í; I am aihamed to fee the interelt you take and the trouble you give your­ felf about my affairs and to feel that abfolute non-chalance which I cannot overcome and which abforbs my whole intellect and on the 26th o f December you clofe the year in the fame ftyJe you commenced and clofed the former ones.
Y o u tell me, “ by this you have certainly difcovered that there is nothing to hope and every thing to fear.” — But Mr. R o w a n , the dawn o f a brighter day was at hand.

1 frail ( 4 6 ) I fhali not comment on the year 1804, further than to remind you that you then had not the command of any part o f your property, that your Father was itill alive, that the Cuftodiam itill hung over your head, and in fine, that every thing done for you was in all refpects to me riik and danger.
Y e t at fuch a time in addition to all my former fervices, did I perfonally become bound to Mr. F. for the amount o f his Mortgage and coils in order to prevent the d i f g r a c e , embarraff- ment and further expence o f a foreclofure fuit ; and I beg to remind you that my Bill for half the amount is at prefent oudlanding againft me, and not yet at maturity, nor has it yet been in­ troduced in any o f your accounts ; and give me leave to fay that an engagement to the amount o f between three and four hundred pounds for you, at that day and under fuch circumftances was a much greater exertion o f friendfhip on my part than an accommodation o f aoool.
would have been from you on the late occafion when I foli- cited your aiMance ; and I fubmit, that an increafe o f your Bills, both for your current expences and the extra accommodation o f d r a w i n g and re-draw- ing on me for fuch fums as 3 0 C I .

350I.

500I.

550!.
350I.

500I.

550!.

and 5 7 5 1, which was rapidly increafing, was at any time, under fuch circumftances, a perilous traffick for any perfon— -but neceifarily ruinous, as you yourfcif well knew, to a young man who had no permanent foundation but his profeffion.
Sir, ( 47 ) Sir, I will now call your feeble recollection to the year 1805, (an important one in the prefent difcuJIion) by reminding you o f an inftance o f per- fonal labour and expence for which I have not re­ ceived the fmalleil compenfation, not even my tra­ velling expences.

Sir, 1 left Dublin at half an hour’ s the gth o f notice, from M r .

M .
M .

— fd— n on January, and arrived exprefs in London fo as to be the bearer o f the intelligence I communicated to you, even before the Mail that conveyed the letter I had written in Dublin was delivered, and 1 beg you to remember that fuch was the importance o f my ar­ rival that had it been delayed for a few hours longer I might at this moment be addreffing you in a foreign country.
Y o u know to what I allude; but if in this inftance alfo your memory has difburthened itfelf, perhaps your own letter to meo:.

the fubjeft, while I was on the road to London, will ferve to bring it to your recollection.
Y o u wrote to me on the 11th o f January “ 1 g i v e i t u p e n t i r e l y , ” I beg alfo to call to your recoJIeilion that ou that occalion, I remained only two days in London, hav­ ing in that time effe&ed the objeft on which I went, and then returned with the fame expedition, in order to carry the meafure into full effeft in the Hilary Term that was approaching; and I call on you to recoiled that I returned entrufted by you with your honour and your character, and you cannot but fay that [ preferved the facred depofit unimpaired and fafe by my judgment and my fideJity.
H e r e Sir, again my profeffion was neglefted for your Bufinefs.

( 48 ) I loft the entire o f Hilary Term in endeavouring to effectuate the— defirable and important meafure that occupied our attention and, but for the delays o f office, it would have been compleated that Term.

Y ou Sir, may affeft to be ignorant o f my object in flating this.
But it is this, to (hew that wliilil I was carrying on the deftruftive traflick o f Bills for your prefent fupport and accommodation, I was alfo devoting the entire o f my time to procure you effectual and permanent indépendance ; and that whilft 1 was making thofe exertions for you, which were fofoon crowned with fuccefs, I was negle&ingmy credit, my friends, and my bufinefs, and I fhall fhortly (hew, that by your means, and for your fpecial pur- pofes, I loft the entire o f the year 1805, which with your Bill Traffick, and Bill Negotiations, ne- ceffarily led on to the final confequence that has enfued.
O n the 12th February, after different Letters ex- preffing your fears o f lofing Hilary Term , you write me “ Diftreffes o f different forts furround me, I have been obliged to draw on you for 250I.
Iriih, yours affc&ionately as a nearly broken heart and mind can be and again, on the 9th o f March you teil me— “ I look only to fomc fweeping claufe or fomc unexpected and fortuitous circum- * (lance to change our date.” Having C 49 ) Having thus loft the entire o f Hilary Term I now come to the month o f March when I received a letter from you ftating, “ that a very near relative o f yours and then on a vifit with you was on the point o f death that all his friends declared that his perfonai property wrould be deftroyed and the leafes o f his Eftate embezzled, &c. unlefs fome friend went down and took inflant poffelfion o f every thing for you, and you conclude “ to whom can lloo k un­ der fuch circumftances, but to you my f r i e n d — Y es, Sir, you had no one to look to but me, and you did not look in vain— I received that letter in the evening o f Saturday the 23d o f March, and at four o ’clock the next day, I was at Killyleagh (E ig h ty Miles from Dublin) in full polTeffion o f title deeds, plate and property.
T h e fituation I was at that time placed in, was one o f no common delicacy, I had to protect youf interefts at a time when you could not p r o t ê t them yourfelf, the title deeds o f upwards o f 2000I.
per annum, and above 300c 1. o f Stock Plate, Caih, and Rents, depended upon my firmnefs, your father had not, however, breathed his laft, recovery was within probability,— I cannot, I will not dwell on this fubjeft, I w'as the truftee o f your character as well as your property.— H ow did I execute my truil ?
O n the 28th o f March, you write me, to Killi- leagh, 44 I have received your mod friendly account o f your proceedings, all o f w'hich appear to me H perfe&ly ( 5 ° ) perfectly right, I think I know your heart and that you are one o f the very few whofe actions are in­ fluenced at the fame time by friendihip and by a due regard tojufhice and even to propriety,” again, on the 5th o f April you write me, There muft be thofc \vho will rejoice in any malicious turn they can give to the conduit of a perfon in my fituation* Independant of the ilimulatives o f private intereft I reft fatisfied with my conduit, and only regret, that your friendihip for me and your zeal to ferve me ihould fubje£t your chara^er to afperfion the remainder o f this letter you cannot but re* member, I fhall not here repeat it, On the 18th o f April, you addrefs me thus, cc M y dear friend what a variety o f heavy talks have I impofed upon you in the courfe o f this moil difagreeable bufinefs, Mr. D .
(my Clerk) juft informs me that he has paid my Bill o f 250I.

and a day or two previous I had been obliged to draw on you for 2ool.
mod o f which is fwallowed up,” and again, on the 20th you thus write, “ I am really much pained by the exertions you have been obliged to make ^nd the manner in which you muft have braved calumny or elfe have endangered the deftru&ion o f every thing we wifhed to fave, I am io fatisfied o f your honourable fentiments that I am convinced had it been my wiih to perfecute I muft not have applied to you— and your conduct deferves my warmeft thanks,” — you add in another part o f the fame letter, “ A g a in I beg you to accept at the s 1 the fame time my Warmed thanks for the conduit C ) you have held, and believe mé, I fincerely regret the having been forced to folicit yod to ftand for­ ward,” — on the 23d you write: “ I therefore beg you may remove to Düblin, when you remove which (you add) mult now be done immediately for I have too long trefpafied on voUr time and pleafure and intereji, all the papers you can lay your hands on.” — Y o u then add “ 1 have drawn on you for five hundred pounds which fum Knglifh, B .
and H .

will accept, when it ihall fall due and become neceffary for you to take up,” and on the 30th you fay, “ I write to Dublin as you muil furely have returned ere this.

In my fituation I was moil fortuuate in having fo zealous and fo firm a friend as well as one on whofe good fenfe I can fo implicitly rely, both for advice and : or action.
W h e n you fo much undervalue or fo com­ pletely forget what you have gained by my ex­ ertions— I can fcarcely expeft you to take the trouble o f appreciating what your friend has loft.— I loft however my time, I gave up my law terms ; I negleited my Bufinefs •, I forfeited my clients , I faerificed the feven beft years o f my life,— all in your feruice.
T h e fcene is now changed— you are in opulence and in fplendour-— I have fat beneath the {hade, apd in my declining hour have fuftered the affliftiflg mortification, to fee the man whom I both loved and faved, coming forward in the firft moment o f my diftrefs, the voluntary uncalled fo r ( 5* ) 'obtrtijive accujer o f him who laid down his own fortune, and his credit, to pur chafe for you wealth, and life and liberty.
M y abfence from Dublin at a time when your Bills were thus pouring in upon me in fuch num­ bers, forced me to refort to the expedient o f apply­ ing for the affiitance o f fome perfons at Belfaft, whom I had reafon to think were more or lefs likely to ferve the reprefentative o f the late G .

H .

I met with encouragement and with friendihip, and a Bill negotiation enfued,.
and continued, and which I mufl aiTert was induced and brought on by the circumflances in which you had placed me, and confequently for your accommodation.

T h is continual abfence from Dublin, on your account and increafing Bill Bufinefs rendered it neceifary for me to keep a Clerk for the foie pur- pofe o f accepting Bills and negotiating money tranfaftions.
Many Thoufand Pounds o f your Bills appear accepted b y him during my abfence, and you yourfelf correfponded with him, advifing him o f your Drafts on me, indeed it is apparent that your Bills mufl: have returned both for non- acceptance, and for non-payment, unlefs I kept fuch a Clerk, for it was impoflible for me at the fame time to be protecting your property in the North, and paying or accepting your Bills in Dublin.— I fubmit thefe fails alfo as fome 46 E v i­ dence,” ( 53 ) dence,” o f your leading me infenfibly and deeply into a Bill Bufinefs.
On the 13th o f M ay you fay, “ after deducing your Engliih Bill on my Account out o f the 500!.

Iriih 1 laft drew receive that I was forced to draw as ufual for iool.

for, I had fo few pounds to Irifli.” -'—This however was no Bill Trade nor is there in it any fymptoms o f accommodation to you.
T h e whole o f Eafter Term , I alfo loft in atten­ dances at the Caftle and other places, correfponding with you and urging expedition at this fide o f the water in the important objeft which was to crown all my labor with fuccefs.

T h is I think will appear confirmed by your letters o f the twenty-firft, and and twenty-eighth o f May, in the former o f which you thus write, <c I cannot fee Mr. K .
(the under Secretary in London,) I ihall call daily, but as I fuppofe I could not fave this Term it fignifies the lefs, in the mean time you will confider what you think the moft proper time for me to come next Term ; it would be very agreeable to end it certainly, but I have already fo much broken in upon your Cabinet, and I much fear in confe- quence your interefts, that I am really much grieved,” and in the latter you fay, “ I am ex­ tremely obliged by the various fteps you have taken to facilitate the me^fure indeed, I fear this bufi- nefs has occupied you too m u c h ;” in this letter you add further, cc you fay you have matters ready and C 54 ) and you calculate what great things we may do \ft two or three years.
A las!

my dear fellow, all my calculations have hitherto been abortive and then fpeaking o f fome important matters of a pri­ vate nature you fay, cc I ihall confult only with thofe who feel neither prejudice or paffion !” and you feleft me as fuch a charafler for you fay, 46 caft thofe matters in y o u r mind and we will talk further on the buíinefs; I th in k I dial 1 act ju ftly , and 1 am certain y o u w o u ld n ot, n or ever h a v e a d v ife d a c on tra ry or an y o ther line.
*' I n o w com e to T r i n i t y T e r m , and h a vin g a r ­ ranged matters for y o u r arrival, I offered to meet y o u at the other fide, that y o u m i g h t not com e into Ireland w i t h o u t a friend.
T o this offer I received for anfvver yrours dated the ift o f J une, in w h ich y o u fay, 44 I wall be at the H ead, lo as to fail w ith the P acket o f the 13 th ; no d o u bt I ihould be glad to g o o v e r in com pa n y w i t h fo fincere and fo tried a friend, but confidering e v e r y th in g, I th in k it better to find y o u on the fpot than to have a possibility o f o u r miffing one another, and o f breaking in upon your more neceiTary Bufinefs ; indeed you feem fo think o f no­ thing elfe but my interefi, and y o u are in vain at­ tem pting to fupport a poor difpirited and b r o k e n m inded creature, w h o is neverthelefs, and ever will be, y o u rs m o d affectionately.” — Y o u were r ig h t , Sir, I th o u g h t m ore o f y o u r intereft than I did o f m y o w n .
Y o u ( 55 ) Y o u wrote me again on the 4th o f June, on a matter eflential to your H onor and y o u r C h a rac ­ ter, I had then to exercife m y ow n ju d g m e n t in a pointas critical as it w^as im portant,— w ith refp eft to it you fay, “ h o w can this be done w ith o u t y o u take the matter up before m y arrival, w hat íhall I d o ?
W h a t e v e r can be done I k n o w y o u w ill do, and I am certain I ihall be c on ten t.5’— T h e refu ltw a s, that through m y means y o u w ere at length furniihed w i t h a fecurity for y o u r per- fon w ith lib erty to com e into Ireland, and reiide in private till the form al in fin im e n t o f your * * * * was placed in y o u r hand.
I f h o u ld have m entioned that I was again ob­ liged to leave m y bufinefs and g o d o w n to Killy- leagh in the latter end o f M ay, where I remained for above a fortn ight, on an occaiion on which m y refidence was effentially necefiary.

‘ Y o u a rrived in D u b lin on the 15th June, I ihall not rem in d y o u o f the j o y and fincerity w ith which I t o o k y o u b y the hand on the Q u a y o f D u b lin , w ith w h a t ecftacy I hailed the approach­ in g accompliihment o f all m y Labours.
I afk y o u did I leave you one ho u r ’ till I finally com- pleated y o u r public deliverance, and faw y o u re- ilored to freedom and affluence.

Can m y Creditors believe that the perfon w h o fo obtruiively arraigned my con d uft before them *, w h o ( 5 6 ) w h o attacked m y character, and denied that I had ever accommodated him in money concerns, w as the v e r y man fur w h o m I have done all this ?
A lt h o u g h y o u r legal difability ceafed, m y fervices for y o u w e re not yet at an end ; I b o u g h t y o u up an annuity for t w o years pur- chafe, w h ich y o u w e re p aying u n d er circu'm- ftances injurious to y o u .
and troublefon.e to me ; y o u were now freed from y o u r difficulties, but I was not yet enlarged fro m y o u r fervice ; I was cloietted w i th y o u o n y o u r buhnefs almoft the entire forenoon o f cach d a y , fro m y o u r arrival in Du blin till y o u r departure on the 20th o f July f o llo w i n g ; and I affert, that in confe- quence m y o w n bufinefs was neglected, and T r i n i t y T e r m was w h o lly loft.
I muft here obferve that y o u o m it to carry y o u r m o n th ly calculations farther than July, jS©3j I w ill beg to ftate an annual calculation.

It will appear, that fro m 1800 to 1803, the annual average o f y o u r Drafts was i o o o l. ; w hilft, in the t w o fuccecding years, w ith - o u t any increafe o f in co m e, the annual average w as n o lefs than 2,6ool.
O n y o u r return to E n gla n d , y o u fa vo u re d me w i t h the ufual and o n ly p a y m e n t that e v e r I r e c e iv e d , v i z .

y o u r t h a n k s ; and on the 8th o f A u g u f t I received the f o l lo w i n g , “ I d r e w tw ice OR ( 5 ? )

on you for 100I.

each t i m e ; I have d raw n oft y o u for 150I.

m ore, and before I leave Tow n* w h ich will be in the begin n in g o f n ext w e e k , I muit draw on y o u fo r 1 50I.
m ore ; I dread y o u r being inconvenienced on m y account.” A n d on another fubject y o u fay, “ A s to my Honor, w i t h ­ out the leaft flattery, I can tru ly fay, I k n o w fcarcely any perfon in whofe hands I w o u ld more readily place it ; fo that the object was to a ft ju jlly and honourably, and confidently” .

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y » ■ -- ; In a fu b fe q u e n t L e tter, in confequence o f m y 1.

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telling y o u that 1 had made out an account o f are n e w a l f i n e o f 4I.
am ou n tin g to 1 50I.

and to w hich t h e tenant had aflented, I received for anfwer, “ Y o u aftoniih me b y your calculations o f intereft ; m y dear friend, if m y debt to y o u was thus calcu­ lated, L o r d help the old Caftle (the ancient fa m ily maniion).

A n d on the 20th o f A u g u ft, in confequence o f y o u r m other's executor d e ­ clining to advance me a fum y o u expected, y o u fay, “ T h e intelligence y o u give me c on cern in g W .
diftreffes me e xtr e m e ly , on account o f the e m b a r r a f l m e n t o f p r o c u r in g a fu n d to take up m y former and future Bills.” A n d on the 29th o f the fame m on th , in confequence o f m y reply to y o u rs o f the 20th, y o u fay o f me, “ ^ ou are excellent at keeping up from abfolute defpair.” In addition to all I have m entioned, I once more left Dublin and m y bufinefs, and fpent the entire o f September at Killyleagh, planning, and advan- I C 58 ) advantageoufly fetting a great part o f y o u r fide o f that to w n , in building lotts, w h ic h confidera- bly and permanently enhanced the value o f y o u r to w n parks, and has already c o m m e n ce d the re eftabliihment o f a t o w n , o f w h ic h it is y o u r pride to be fo large a proprietor ; but w hich had been g o i n g to decay for a cen tury.
O n this head y o u fay, <c O n the fetting the lotts, the colouring o f Salvator Rofa has not h ig h er tints than y o u r letters, I hope the landfcape will be as brilliant as y o u r d r a w i n g , ” — and fo r this fervice alfo 1 received thanks.

O n the i ith o f Septemt plication on y o u r part, rcfufals y o u had received, the one f ro m y o u r m o t h e r ’s executors, the other fro m M r .

L. T .
L. T .

and y o u fay, “ Y o u fee o u r hopes in both cafes are blafted, and G o d k n o w s I am miferable ; h o w it will end I k n o w not.” Y e t y o u add, “ I d r e w on y o u for 150I.

; G o d blefs y o u .

” A n d on the 29th o f the fame m o n th y o u tell m e, <c I ihall fcarcely fet foo t in L o n d o n w i t h o u t d r a w i n g on you f o r 500I.

:” and on the 14th O c t o b e r y o u again applied to M r. L .
J. to aflift, b y difcounting m y bill on y o u , w h i c h he po­ litely declined.

W h y d o I in trod uce thefe letters ?


to rem in d y o u , Sir, that while I was d e v o te d to y o u r fer­ vice, no one w h o was acquainted w i th the w o r ld ( 59 ) w o rld w ould g iv e y o u the fmalleft a c c o m m o d a ­ tion ; thefe letters, Sir, ihould alfo rem in d you» that, even in y o u r g r o w i n g profperity, it was b y d r a w in g and re-d raw in g on me alone, that y o u held y o u r head above water.
I n o w come to M ichaelm as T e r m , 1805, an<^ I aflert, y o u could not have got on in m o n e y matters, but that I w e n t at y o u r deiire to W a les, (for y o u could not even then crofs the C h a n ­ nel), on the 12th o f N o v e m b e r , in the middle o f Term, to get a bo n d execu te d by y o u fo r 600I.
; w h ic h fum a refpe&able tenant o f y o u r ’ s ( w h o got a leafe o f his houfe as the terms o f the loan,) paid me on m y return, by cafli and bills at v e r y lo n g dates ; and but for the fale o f a houfe fo r 350I.
the dcedi o f conveyance o f w h ic h y o u execu te d at the fame 'irne, and w h ich fum was alfo paid me on m y return, in cash and bills at 3 and 6 months ; all o f w hich bills I was obliged to get difcounted by m y o w n private friends, and on my o w n credit, by w h ic h means I was enabled once more to meet y o u r bills ; and for this j o u r n e y I alfo received thanks.
Y o u r deiire that I ihould un dertake this j o u r ­ n ey and h u rry on the p rocurin g o f fupplies, is thus exprefled in y o u r letter, “ W a s it not for the difagreeable feafon for a fea v o y a g e , the beft- m ode, as it ftrikes me, w o u ld be for us to pafs 24 hours together at G u i n d v , o r the Head, f o r after 1 2 ( 6o ) after* a fea paffage it w o u ld be m o d unreafonable and even a lofs o f time for y o u to travel farther, particularlyaswe areat prefent circumftanced.” — A n d concerning fome other matters y o u fay, “ I am infinitely obliged to y o u fur y o u r fug» geftions and offers ; but, (y o u ad d ) m y g o o d friend, y o u r anxiety to execute all m y wiilies, induces y o u to acquiefce in m y plans, fome times, I fear, w ith o u t w e ig h in g them as rigidly as you ought, or as y o u w o u ld , w e re y o u one o f the cold blooded generation : B u t y o u are in­ tent on ferving y o u r friend, and you f u t J e lf toe mnch behind,."'
W o u l d that y o u had read over in y o u r letter b o o k this true state o f the cafe between us, be­ fore y o u to o k the ftep that has forced me to do this violence to m y feelings ; furely Sir, if y o u w ere not pleafed to reward me, y o u ihould not have attempted to injure me.

In w h a t, let me k n o w , has m y conduct to y o u merited any other çharad er than that I have quoted.
O n the 27th o f fame month y o u very k indly indeed, and w ith pleafure and gratitude I ac­ k n o w le d g e it, w rote to t w o noblemen high in p o w er, foliciting an exertion o f their influence in procurin g me a profeifional fituation, w hich at that time became vacant ; y o u urged on them as y o u r apology for the application, “ that the man for w h o m y o u applied had gone every ho­ nourable C 6 I ) nourable length to ferve y o u .
” T h o u g h the application failed, I rem em b er y o u r kindnefs in thar inflance w ith g ratitu d e , and I regret that y o u ihould, w ith o u t any caufe, have ceafed to be m y friend.

I was no fooner retu rn ed from W a les, than frefh wants required freih loans, and on the 27th D ecem ber you w r ite me, “ I will not delay a poil.

I advife y o u r acceptance o f the loan o f 1000I.
there is indeed no a v o id in g it, w h e n ar­ ranged, I will do any th in g y o u pleafe to point o u t as to g e tt in g the bills caíhed.
I hope y o u w ill foon be relieved fro m the difagreeable things y o u have been fubject to on m y account, fo foon as w e can m ake a permanent arran gem en t.” T h u s I th in k , Sir, I have given fome evidence o f a bill trade, and o f accom m odation, as well as im portant fervices rendered y o u , and I th in k I have alfo g iv en fome evidence that I loft the en­ tire o f the year 1805 in affording and procurin g y o u not o n ly a te m p ora ry , but an effedual and permanent relief, and re-eftablifliment o f y o u r fortune.
T h is body o f evidence fliail be clofed w it h a f e w quotations from y o u r letters o f the year 1806; on the 2d o f January y o u w rite me, “ M y dear H. ju ft as I fufpected it w o u ld be, fo it has happened Here is the lit o f January, I have ( 62 ) have d ra w n on y o a in the lad t w o months for 850I.

I have not paid above 250I, old debts, and w h e n the bills all appear, they will a m ou n t to about 400I.

m ore, of which 250I.


are preffing, I must either d r a w or difcount in cafe y o u fliould have rem itted, but really under exifting circumflances I think the old plan o f d r a w in g will do as well for the prefent ; previous to the 9th, I m u d d ra w on y o u for replacing the 500I.

this I will arrange to the beft o f m y p o w er, th o u g h I fear B .

and H. having taken the 200I.

at 91 days on their o w n account, as not being faleable, we m ay find this tranfaction the more difficult.
P r a y w rite as foon as y o u can to yours affectionately.” On the 5th o f January y o u w rite me, 66 T h is being the day I have to provide for the Bill on B. and co. for 500I.

B rit iíh , I made three drafts on y o u , one at 45, one at 6 1, and one at 75 days, for 350!.

each, w it h permiffion to redraw for any one o f the three, and 011 my return home I found yours o f the 2d January, cove rin g tw o Bills on Mr. F. for 100I.
Britifh each ; I alfo received y o u r co ve r o f the 3d o f January, w ith the bond, I th in k the term for which the money is lent is to us advantage incalculable ; and I hope it will enable us to fet e v e r y thing ftraight.” O n the 17th y o u returned me the notes f o r 1000I.

indorfed, (being the Loan procured) ad­ d ing, “ I fear they will be o f little fervice, unlefs through ( 6 3 ) .

t h r o u g h our friend M r. L .

’ s kindnefs, we could g e t them difcounted at the B a n k .
” A n d then y o u w rite, “ I fuppofe y o u received the iketch o f Bell’s account, b y w h ic h y o u will have feen that m y Bills for 750I.

produced i c o l .

more than was neceifary to take up the 500I.

draft, and that I requefted and th ey confented to allow* y o u to r e d raw for a n y one o f the three Bills o f 250I.

each, w h ic h I d r e w on y o u for.


I made this requeft in confequence o f finding upon, c o l­ lecting m y debts, that inftead o f 500 guineas, at about which I eflimated them , they w ere v e r y little ihort o f io o o l. out o f w h ic h there was n ot m o r e than 200I.

w hich m igh t be delayed.

T h e fa f t is, and I was always afraid it w o u l d be fo, w e have grafped at too m u c h , and hoped to meet w ith Loans, to meet v e r y beneficial p a y ­ ments, but have been difappointed.
I calculated the L e t t e r I w r o t e y o u w ith the B o n d and Notes entirely fo r Mr. L .

; I fpoke in general terms, and left y o u to explain the e m e rg e n c y and the requeft.

T h e D e b ts abfolutely preiiing, ftili a m ou nt to 350I.
and u p w a r d s ; indeed things are in that fituation that I th in k I ihall come o v e r m y f e l f and fpend a few' days w i th y o u to make the neceffary arrangements, 1 fee n o th in g elfe for it, f o r long Letters and calculations o nly embar- rafs a v e ry plain tale, that w e are 011 the high road to ru in ,” Recollect, ( 64 ) Recollect, Sir, that whilft y o u d r e w for the full am ount o f the L oa n o f io o o l. the dates o f the notes which compofed that L o a n , w ere 15 and 18 m o n t h s ; th ey w e r e , a s you forefaw , “ o f little ufe I paffed one to a friend to w h o m I o w e d 300I.
and fo r w h ich I was not at all preffed ; in order to get the refidue to pay a Bill o f you rs fo r 250I.

I was forced to melt d o w n the fécond, this I did th ro u gh a third perfon, b y p a y in g a P re m iu m o f 20 guineas, and fu b m ittin g to be charged 50 guineas for lefs than half its value in cloth, fo r w h ic h I had not the fmalleft occafion, and part o f w hich lies in m y d raw er ufelefs at this day.

O n the 20th o f February y o u tell me, “ I have d r a w n on y o u for iool.
and ihall continue d r a w ­ i n g for as little as I can ; and do you m y g o o d fellow excufe me i f 1 fhould bear a little hard fome times ; b u t, i f poffible, avoid r e d r a w in g on B .
and I L except 011 em e rg e n cy , and i f it fuits y o u better, leave me to d r a w (initead o f re­ m ittin g ), and I will e x ert m y financial talents:' O n the firft o f March y o u thus w r ite me, “ Y o u will th in k I m ake a bad beginning o f m y financial a r r a n g e m e n t , by d ra w in g on y o u for iool.
; I thin k I m ay affure y o u that the other Bill I threatened y o u w ith will not be d r a w n , and that y o u will al leaft have the n ext month C 6 5 ) month to breathe in, h o w e v e r I m a y m ake y o u fob after.” # O n the i Ith o f the fame m on th y o u w r ite me to ascertain w h eth er I can rem it 8ool.
Britiih, adding, “ l'Ile preparing for a j o u r n e y , and that to a place where we mu/i not appear in a dif­ ferent Jlyle from that we moved in, is infinitely heavier than I could have conceived , and even lometimes puts me o ff the project.

N o w there is one thin g m ore, it w o u l d be v e r y defireable to take over a fécond carriage, but this w e can ­ not do w ith o u t either d r a w in g on y o u , o r other- wife arran gin g fo r 200I.
more.” A n d the 31ft o f M ay y o u tell me “ a certain perfon was in high fpirits w ith the idea o f an Englijh carriage, & c .

but n o w that it is b o u g h t, the perfon alluded to is alarmed at the m o n ey to be paid ; I fay that is y o u r bufinefs and m ine, whilil in fact it reits fo r the prefent all on you.

M y D rafts on y o u will ihortly be v e r y h e a v y .” O n the fécond o f June y o u fay, “ t w o Drafts on y o u , the firfi: for 300I.

the other for 200I.
the other for 200I.

will be fold this d ay on the E x c h a n g e and on the 15th o f t h e ia m e m o n th y o u tell me you have already d raw n on me for 500I.

; and, y o u add, “ I find it impoffible to m o v e w ith o u t 500!.
m ore at lead, w h ic h I muft d r a w f o r : W e ihall, (you fay) it is true, come o ver compleatly and rather elegantly cappariftntd; and as the fir ft imprejjion always goes a great way, 1 hope w e will find ourièlves at our eafe, K and ( 6 6 ) and that afterwards a f e w years o f occonomy fuch as w e m a y J lill practice, will reltore every thing 1 have been fo profufe in g ettin g I w ifh, S ir, you had equally coniidered the efieil of jir ft iniprejfions when y o u misflatcd m y conduct and character to m y creditors.” — O n the 1 8th o f July you w r ite me, T h e am ou nt o f m y e x ­ penditure, including 200 G uineas for the j o u r ­ ney, has am ou n ted to the enoy?nous S u m , lince January laft, o f £ .
4 1 5 9 17/.

od.

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!

!” obferve, the three notes o f admiration are y o u r o w n .

Y o u w r ite me then “ that y o u feared m y bufi- nefs m ult prevent w hat y o u fo m uch defired, that y o u r g o o d friend could meet y o u on y o u r return to Ireland, by Donaghadee ; ” but, Sir, m y buiinefs did not prevent the accomplilhment o f w h a t I had undertaken, y o u r final and compleat re-eftabliíhment.
I did meet y o u , and fpent fome time in arranging matters at Killyleagh, for y o u r advantage, and to y o u r fatisfadion.

A n d n o w M r .
R o w a n I call on y o u for a m oment to think o f the various fenfations w h ich a revie w o f the change you had e x ­ perienced excited in y o u r m ind , on y o u r final return to Ireland : Reflect, Sir, on the hiitory o f the preceding fix years o f y o u r life, d urin g which I was y o u r friend, and let me aik has the recollection ceafed to produce the effe<?t or the gratitude, w h ic h , on the firft entrance into the venerable f e u - o f y o u r forefathers, you exprdled, C 67 ) expreffed when in the D r a w i n g roo m o f the Cas­ tle in the circle o f y o u r Relations and y o u r T e ­ n a n t r y , y o u g a z e d around as i f aftoniihed to find that the fact was really fo,— and after a filent paufe, t u rn in g to m e , y o u clafped both m y hands and faid, “ m y dear friend, it is to y o u that I o w e all this.” O u r correfpondence after y o u r return to Ire­ land, necelTarily became lefs frequent than before, but the f e w Letters y o u have fince favored me w i t h , repeat and confirm in fubftance all that the fo rm er ones eftabliihed: in lefs than t w o m onths after y o u r retu rn , y o u confole me w i th the intel­ ligence that “ n o w y o u w o u l d always have it in y o u r p o w e r to Jlop a gap for m e.” A n d on the 6th o f Septem ber, y o u flatter m e w ith the repe­ tition o f w hat y o u had on fo m a n y other occa- fions declared, namely, “ that y o u w o u ld w ith y o u r Son to accept m y protection in preference” to that o f a N obleman poflefled o f the firft influ­ ence in the G o v e r n m e n t .
A n d then in allufion to the tirne 1 had loft in attending to y o u r affairs, y o u obferve with too great tru th , “ y o u r buiinefs m uft indeed be m u c h in arrear.” A n d again in O d o b e r , w r i t in g to me on the fubjeft o f M o n e y , y o u fay “ it is all one fro m whence I d r a w the needful, and y o u k n o w i f I did not get it here, I d r e w on y o u .
” K 2 In ( 68 ) I n o w com e to the prefent year 1807, and — In F ebruary, y o u lay, 46 1 will be d o d g in g on r ig h t or w r o n g , to attain that k n o w le d g e w hich y o u r friendihip fo k i n d l y , and fo c o n tra ry to y o u r o w n intereft, put fo r w a r d , as an inducement to m y c o m in g to Ireland.

But as to im m ediate fupplies, th ey will foon be w a n t in g ; 1 in tended propofing to y ou , that I ihould d ra w on you for 500I.
T h e r e is a terrible lack in y o u A c co u n t, v iz .

two heavy Items— Agency and L a w ; from both o f w hich, as far as m ay be, g o o d L o rd deliver us.” — L et me aik y o u , did y o u tell m y Creditors o f that lack ?— N o , Sir, that was n ot y o u r object.

H ere, Sir, our correfpondence began to affume a n ew tone ; in a m o n th after this Letter, m y adverfity began, and y o u r repeated pledges w ere no longer attended to.

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In addition to y o u r own w r itte n evidence, continued Poft after Poft th r o u g h a feries o f feven years, I have to add y o u r o w n uninfluenc­ ed declarations to Gentlem en o f refpectability, upon w hofe authority I ftate it : y o u declared, Sir, to thofe different friends o f mine, who waited on y o u relative to m y affairs, “ that y o u confi- dered yourfelf and m y connection w ith y o u as a branch o f m y prefent misfortunes and to thofe friends and m a n y others, y o u declared, 44 that it was to me y o u o w ed e v e r y th in g.” I fhall not {late y o u r o w n innumerable declarations to my- felf,— you k n o w them.
T h efe, ( *9 ) Th efe, S ir, are F a d s w h ic h cannot w ith t r u t h be contradicted— this is a feries o f e v i­ dence w h ich cannot be r e f u te d — thefe are o b ­ ligations w h ich cannot be canceled o r releafed.
I f y o u can by a n y m o n th ly calculation wipe o f f their a m o u n t, then the A cco un tan t y o u e m p loy e d deferves m u c h at y o u r h a n d ; — i f y o u are ftill difpofed to perfecute y o u r deli- v e re r, do fo,— I dread y o u n o t ; on the c o n ­ tra ry , 1 au th o rize y o u to publiih all m y Let­ ters at f u l l length and to ftate e v e r y tranfaction o f m y life that you k n o w ; can I give you a greater latitud e?— I f y o u fhould complain that I have g iv e n o n ly partial extraits fro m y o u r L e t­ ters, recollect, Sir, that it was fro m delicacy to y o u r feelings, and becaufe I w o u ld not allow the feelings and intereits o f third perfons to fuffer by y o u r m ifco nd u ct to me ; if, h o w e v e r, y o u w iih it, y o u have copies o f all, and d o p j b l i i h them ; or i f y o u defire it, and will pay the expence, I will publiih them at full length ; can I fay more?
— B u t w h e n 1 fay fo, let me remind y o u that they will difclofe a l'eries o f additional fervices on m y part, m uch m ore delicate, but not Iefs important than a n y I have m entioned.

I fubmit, Sir, that I have given the “ evidence” y o u fo loudly called fo r , “ that I em b arked in the Bill traffic for y o u r a c co m m o d a tio n ,” and that I had a right from that circumftance alone to e x ­ pert that y o u w o u ld have com e fo r w a r d to m y relief.
I n o w ( 7 ° ) I n o w come to the fécond and o n ly material point remaining, and that is,— w hether y o u did come forw ard as you o u g h t, or h ow far, and under what circumtlanees you did c o m e fo r w a r d at all to m y relief ?

O n this head I ihall be more brief than the la ft, but I hope not lefs explicit.
Y o u have (aid, Sir, that y o u offered to come forward to e x t r i­ cate me ; 1 admit y o u did fo in the preience o f feveral refpeclable Witneffes i and y o u faid but the truth, when y o u obferved to them , “ that no­ thin g was too much for y o u to do for me ; that y o u were boun d to me by no c o m m o n ties o f gratitude, and that y o u looked upon y o u rfe lf and y o u r buiinefs as a branch o f m y ruin but y o u alfo promifed “ that y o u w o u ld do e very thing f or m e— that y o u w o u ld not let me fink— that i ihould ftand m y g r o u n d — and that I fhould be effectually fupported.” Alas !
Sir, faying and doing are t w o things; and i f promifes could have re­ lieved me, I had been n o w free from e v e r y em- barraffment.
Sir, in confirmation o f yrour declaration o f ef­ fectual fupport made to m y friends, y o u wrote m yfelf the follow ing letter: “ M y dear H am ilto n , there is neither occafion nor ufe in recurring to things paft rem ed y ; but o f this be allured, that you poifefs the undiminiihed regard and confidence and t 7 1 ) and may call for every exertion within the fphere o f yours,” &c. I wrote in anfwer, “ that although I found matters would be much worfe than 1 at firit expe£ted or had calculated ; yet that as I never would reft fatisfied without paying my Creditors the full amount o f their Debts, and as any delay would prove deftruc- tive to my views, that 1 faw no mode fo eligible as calling a Meeting o f my Creditors and offering them your fecurity in one and two years for ten ihillings in the pound, and my own at three and four years for the remaining ten ihillings ; I told you that 1 did confidently hope that you would not lofe bv your compliance, however 1 might be kept down by the exertion, for that my profpedts were great and en- creaiing, and my energies remained undiminiihed.— 1 told you, that by getting out o f the Bill trade, I would be enabled to devote my whole time to my profeffional purfuits, which with the decreafe o f outgoings, connected w i th it would enable m e rapidly to retrieve my misfortunes and do jufiice to my Creditors.
I told you the injury o f publicity in fuch a Cafe to a Profeffional Man was fo great, that i f I could not effect a Settle­ ment foon, I mult negleft my Bufinefs and lofe my Clients, and in that event I would not be able to bear up under the weight o f any compofition.

A n d , finally, I told you that there was 710 H e p w ha - fccv er I was not ready to take or fubmit to, rather than become a Bankrupt.
” So certain was I thar my appeal would not be in vain, that I even requeu­ ed ( 72 ) ed you not to lofe a moment in writing a letter to my friend Townfend to the effeit, I have menti­ oned to be ihewn to my Creditors, and I actually wrote to him to prepare the Deed o f Settlement fooliih expectation you may fay, but fo it was ; and I leave it now to my Creditors to judge if I had not a right to expeCt, and to teach them to expert, a ready and cffeflual interference on your part for my relief.
T o this earned application o f your u tried and ini cere friend/’ I received the following anfwer : 46 It appears to me, that every effort to ward oft this curfed buiinefs has been paralifed and muft be delayed or worfe by your abfence.
Y c u r s in hade, for it is late and company coming .” I read and I marked your Letter, and if I did not vent my feelings to you, it was becaufe 1 feared that it might afford a pretext for withholding that fupport, the want o f which would prove injurious to my Credi­ tors.

But I vented them to the Friends to whom you made the profelTions I have ftated.
I faw and predict­ ed from the altered ityle and cold phreafcalogy of yours in my diftrefs, contrafted with thofe 1 had formerly received, that you had already adopted and would purine an evafive line of conduit : my Friends too, who met you on the fubject after this Letter, forefviw the fame, though they were unwilling to break my already depreifed fpirits by a difclofure ot their opinion.

I (hall only add a fact for a com­ ment.

C- 73 ) ment.
I have, Sir, times without number, let my company finiih their Dinner at my table without m y prefence, in order to prepare for the Poil thofe let­ ters o f advice, condolence, and encouragement, which I conceived and happily found were calculat­ ed to cheer your defponding fpirits, and help you to te a r up under affligions never to be difclofed.— Such, Sir, as have made you, in the bitternefs o f your foul, write me fuch expreffions as thofe, “ b y G — d I would rather Delve and Ditch for any one who would hire my Body, than be thus eternally on thorns.” Y o u r letter Rating your opinion o f the impolicy o f my abfence, I anfwercd by faying, M y dear Sir, I have received yours, and will according to your defire, proceed to Dublin to-morrow.
* ’ O n my r e ­ turn to t o w n , you vifited me, I was in my own room, you appeared fenfibly affe&ed, but not one word efcaped your lips on the fubjeft o f my affairs, or on the application I had made to you.— A t laíl, I broke filence inwardly, feeling that all was not right ; I told you I had given up all ideas o f aiking you to g o fo far as I had ; (till you were filent.— I then mentioned what 1 thought would be effectual in re­ lieving me, and what 1 afterwards folicited, and (hall prtfently ftate; I, in vain, waited a reply.— I fpoke o f my profpe&s, and o f the liberal manner in which a diftinguiihed Chara&er had, in fome degree, taken me by the hand, and already cvinced his wiih to ferve me; the confolation you afford me, was a cau- L tion ( 74 ) tion how I trufted public characters, that no depend­ ence was to be placed in them— that they often, ac­ cording to a phrafe you ufed, “ lucked the Orange and left the rind behind — the obiervation (truck me, it forcibly arretled my attention, and though reluftantly, I yet fecretly applied the allufion to my Vifitor— how juilly, let Fafts now declare.
T o my mortification, I at length obferved you in a pofture o f retiring; you told me of .an intended Ball you were to have, as if that was calculated to foothe my forrows; and the only zeal you evinced in my affairs was by faying as you retired, Ci you know you can command me fo f a r as Ican gv," and fo we parted.

Y o u did me the honor o f another interview, but you brought your Son, and nothing was faid on my a f ­ fairs.
In a few days after, on the 7th o f March, you favoured me with an interview, it was in my Office, and as if to roufe me, with the manner peculiar to yourfelf, “ you wiihed me joy o f coming down (lairs after lying-in ; ” you then infpe&ed as to fome items, you wiihed for information on, which appeared in your account, but not a word efcaped o f the loifes on it, or the remuneration for my fervices.

Y o u then alkt d me, had I made any advances ?


my reply was, N o, Sir, not as y et; it will take a long time properly to make out my Colts, and I am at a lofs what to propole to my Creditors; you immediately faid, 44 to be lure, thofe things are not fo eafily ar­ ranged/* and returning to bufinefs, you proceeded in the account as if nothing had happened, and we parted.
Finding ( 75 ) Finding myfelf deeply mortified and fully con­ vinced that you never intended to come forward, I had no refource left but to write, I did fo, and as you have fince accufed me of writing, I tell you Sir, you might have known that the fame delicacy o f mind, “ which you acknowledge I exercifed in beftowing favors would not have been Iefs apparent in foliciting a return, and you iliould have prevented the neceiiity o f fuch a ilep, I ihould not have been fo dragged forward, and it is nie and not you Sir, that has to complain on that head.
I wrote to you on the 9th o f M arch, cc that I ftood in need o f an exertion o f friendíhip.

I told you I had no friend fuffickntly folvent but your­ felf who would come forward and Í told you the reafon becaufe I had no right to aik them, I laid I would rather you ihould fay what you would do than that I fhould aik you to do what you might think too much.
I told you that Ï muft either be indebted through life to your ex­ fuffer life the confequences ertions, or o f the want o f fuch exertions 1 told you I could till I knew make no propofal to my creditors through whether I could get any and what aililtance, that if none, then I would give them all that was left o f property and e,ven my perfon, but that 1 would not endeavour without fome fup­ port to work through, what in that cafe w o u l L 2 prove ( 76 ) prove a mountain o f difficulties not brought on me • by my own extravagance or intentional mifcondud.— I referred you to our converfation, and faid that I was advifed that if I could raife or procure fecurity for 2000I.
I might effedually be relieved by compofition ; I added that my---------- who alfo has profpeds, and myfelf ihould be the counter fecurity for yours, to be repaid by inftallments at diftant dates and I offered to give up as fecurity for the intereft 100I.
per annum, which could not be taken from me under a commiffion o f Bankruptcy, and to m a k e ‘ good the Balance, out of other refources” — I alfo in converfation offered to infure my life and in the letter, I added, tc my cafe requires the aid I folicit, my profpeds are great, nothing is loft yet, but the alternative to me is ruin.” Sir, I (hall not comment on the moderation o f my requeft, but left you ihould avail your­ felf o f it as evidence o f your not being in my debt— recoiled Sir, that I was as much in your power, as if I were in adual dureffe, for on a prefent and prompt fupport from you, depended all that was valuable to me in life.
A n d here, Sir, recoiled the opportunity I had afforded you o f ferving me, and the manner in which you aded ; the f a d is, and you know it, I was willing to let m y claims and my rights lye in the back ground if you had then come forward for my Creditors, and what irritates you now is, that I would not de­ fraud 7 7 fraud my Creditors by concealing thofe claims from C ) their view, and become dependant on your bounty for my future fupport.
I received for reply a note not even dire&ed on the outfide, and after what I knew o f your financial talents, judge what I muft have thought o f your aiTertion when you tell me, “ you know how utterly I am incapable o f tranfafting money négociations, and you know under what Ioffes the fums we have raifed were procured for me.

This would not deter me, but where is the poffibility o f my paying 2000I.

in twelve or eighteen months, which I take to be the mode you adopt.
A s to its being effe&ual, you fay it lhall be fo, but the remainder will furely fo hang upon you as to prevent it.

I do not under- ftand thefe matters fo inftruft me, and I repeat I will do all I can.

I truft to you to ihew me how I can ferve y o u .’ ' T o this I replied on the 1 ith o f M arch, “ I am aware that you could not with any degree o f com­ fort pay 2000I.

in twelve or eighteen months out o f your current income, nor did I mean you ihould be at any lofs for procuration.
I meant to fay that if you would be fo kind as to give me your fecurity for that fum, I would within the twelve or eighteen months procure the money on it.

T h e affiftance I folicit, I repeat, ihall be effectual, or elfe you lhall not be called on for it, can I fay more to fecure the efficiency o f your interference.
I cannot meet my Creditors 7 S Creditors without faying I have tried every and the ( ; only refource left ; I have fo far fucceeded in o b ­ taining fupport, or I have altogether failed o f fuc- cefs.

I entreat your candid anfwer in writing as foon as convenient ; do, I beg o f you, fay what you can or will do.
If you have any feeling for my welfare do evince it, you know 1 would evince it for you were it in my power and your fituation re­ quired it.1’ T h e next day you write me, “ I am fo occupied this day that I cannot write coolly or correftly, fo I muft defer it till to-morrow.
Y o u have evinced your zeal for me on many occafions, and you may be adured I am neither forgetful nor ungrateful.” And on the 13th you write me, and after taking a review o f my fituation you fay, “ the oppofite bal- lance is your effefts, your bills o f cods, (and you here add, what I did not date) and better than all, your integrity ; but thefe are all a neceffary capital .
which mud remain with yourfelf, whild your Debts mud be either paid or compounded.” Oblerve, you knew what the payment mud arife out of, for you date it yourfelf, and yet you tell me plainly I had nothing to pay my creditors, or if that be not your meaning, it mud be that I ought not to pay them any thing, for that all I had was little enough for myfelf.
This language added to what follows, fully demondrates to my mind, that you meant to advife me to nothing but Bankruptcy, to avoid , ( 79 ) avoid which you knew there was nothing I would not do.

“ In any compofition fyou fay) as I underitand it, that fum for which a debt is compounded mufl be paid in negociable ituff; and on the fuppoiition that 2000/.

would clear all that you owe.

I lo w is that fum to be procured ?


Y o u propofe my giving my Securities for that fum, fo as to poitpone the payment for fome years ; but it (trikes me that this mode mult inevitably plunge you into the fame vor­ tex from which it is your wiih and your interejl to be extricated.
I am concerned to be obliged to write on a fubjeft I do not underitand, or to throw objeitions in the way o f any plan o f yours, when I cannot as you defi re, fubjiitu te any other y N o w I appeal to any man if your language did not decifively indicate a wiih that 1 ihould fubmit to Bankruptcy, and a wiih to extricate yourfelf from the claims o f my Creditors ?
And I aik, what reliance was to be placed in the fincerity o f your fuggeftion, that a Profeflional man ihould be made acquainted with my fituationand your defire to ferve me ?” O r what rcliance could 1 place in the equivocal promife “ that if within your abilities you would not ihrink from the mode he ihould point out for my relief.” I aik, was there not a manifeil refufal o f the fum 1 had ailced, and wras there not a fufpicion held forth for the firft time, o f the integrity o f the man, by ( So ) b y whofe exertions and fidelity you were placed in the fituation of being able to ferve him ?
I aik any man could I do more to bring you to a point, or could I do it in a more refpeftful manner, and was there any plan I could follow, but to fubmit as I did to the fate that awaited me ?

T h e Commiilion was not, I aver, iffued to ferve me, and you knew my averfion to the meafure.
I fay if you had then come forward as you ought to have done, no iuch proceeding would have been reforted to by my Creditors, and whatever evils may accrue to me from the meafure, it is to your conduct I muft at­ tribute them.
Y o u have talked o f not getting a State o f my affairs ; it was not a general Statement you wanted ; you wanted it fo as to bear infpeftion as to your own fecurity, or rather you wanted only to exprefs the defire as a pretext for holding back, till Bank­ ruptcy muft as I told you, take place on the approach o f the fucceeding term.

Y o u well knew 1 could not fo fpeedily make out the minute detail o f my affairs in the fhort interval, during which fomething decifive muft have been done.
F o r i will aik my Credi­ tors and I will aik any Attorney whether, when I was daily and hourly applied to for debts, when pro­ ceedings were threatened againft me and when I found that I was deferted by the man who owed me every thing, I could fit down to my deik under fuch circumftances with any energy with any effeft, ( 8i ) cffett, either to unravel a Cafh Account or to draw out a Bill o f C o i ls : — I found it impoflible.
Y o u left town, and on the 20th o f March you wrote me from the Man o f W a r a miftatement of my requeft ; you fay, c« there fcems to be one thing I have omitted, (and obferve it was the only material thing) which was, to fay that I would go the length you defired, viz.

counter-fecuritïg 2000I.


i f that fum would effeélually relieve you, to be fo engaged for, as that I ihould not be called upon, without fome unforefeen misfortune ihould deprive you o f your energies, or what 1 do not look to, your change o f principle.
It was to afcertain the one and ef* fett the other that I made the propofal o f a pro- pofal o f a Profeflional man infpe&ing your affairs, and that is the only mode in which I am uutbsrized to aft : you know my wayward temper io money matters/’ I will here leave it to any perfon o f common un- derftanding to determine whether what you in that Letter mention as my requeft, was really what I fought for, and, whether it is probable that you miitook my meaning :— I did not aJlc for counter, but abfolute lecurities, payable (to fuit your conveni­ ence,) at diftant periods, but to be immediately, or as foon as poffible turned into Cadi, for the benefit o f my Creditors : And 1 propofed (not that in truth I' thought indemnity needful) to indemnify you in the bell manner I was able, by giving you a counter M fecurity, C Jecurity, payable by 82 ) inltallments.
I afked, ’ tis true, as an aft of friendihip, what I might have demanded as a right.

For the benefit of my C re ­ ditors, and in order to procure an inftant increase to their Fund, I was content to become your fup- plicant for juitice, and to receive from your bounty, as a Loan, what I truft it will appear I might have claimed as a Debt.
Did the form of my Addrefs Jefien or invalidate my Claims ?— Lnitead of meeting and anfwering my requefi: dircdly,— inftead of a kind and prompt acquiefcence, or a frank and manly refufal, you affect to mifunderftand me : And, in return for the abfolute fecurity 1 folicited, you offer a “ counter fecurity,” under “ every certainty of not being called up on/’ as “ the only mode in which you are authorized to aft,” and this “ only n o d e ” to be adopted on the exprefs condition of obtaining a fecurity on my prefent aftual property^ which you knew I wifhed to preferve entire for my Creditors.
G iv e me leave to aik, was it thus I aftcd towards you ?— W h en you condefcended to fo- licit my interference, did I require “ every certainty o f not being called upon ” — W h en your relief was the objeft, did I look for an authority to aft, or mock you by evading your requeft, and holding out a barren and fruitlefs meafure as “ the only mode” by which that relief w;as to be obtained ?
no, Sir, I waited not for proof that my afliitance would be effeftual ;— I enquired not into the extent o f the danger 1 was incurring;— I called upon no profeifional perfon to infpeft your Title, or prepare indemnities ( 83 ) indemnities on your Eftate.

Y o ii were á (írangci, in a foreign land, without money, without property, without friends, without credit : Blinded by the impetuofity o f friendfhip, and alive only to yoïn* diftrefs, I ruihed forward to your aid.
I had friends and they were folicited for you ; I had credit, and it became your’ s ; I had energies, and they werd (trenuoufly, and almoft excluiively exerred on your behalf.— Under circumftances the moil difcoti raging, and with obftacles apparently infürmountable* I perfevered ; fatisfied that I was, at leaft, affording you a temporary relief; and after fix years o f in- cefTant labour, fome danger, and no fmail expence $ the ííríl wiih o f my heart was gratified in finding that my exertions had ended in a compleat and e f­ fectu a l restoration o f your property ; and, in the fullnefs o f the j o y I felt at the accomplifhment o f this long fought for objeíí, I paufed r.ot to reflefl: that my friends were alienated, my credit gone, and my energies broken.
But to proceed, I did not anfwer your Letter from the Man o f W a r , becaufe I could fee no ad­ vantage to my Creditors in fo doing, and I felt that I could not anfwer it in a manner likely to gratify you ; I therefore refolved filently to endure your ungenerous treatment.

Shortly after, I re­ ceived another letter from you, in which, you tell 1 did not accede to your fécond .

'Letter, (applying for the 2000I.)
and I will candidly avow, me, ( as a reafon) that I had been told longfince, that M 2 your,* é ( 84 ) your friends had imagined your embarraffinents were occaiioned by mony tranfa&ions on my ac­ count ; I knew you never had fa id Jo, and therefore would not repeat it before, but I thought fuch fe- curities lying in your hands would fan ci ion the report.” Here, Sir, you are for the firft time explicit : I will make but one obfervation on this Letter, it proves in the moil fatisfa&ory manner, that all your prior conduct and profeffions were only intended to deceive me, and amufe my Credi­ tors, and that from the firft you^had determined not to comply with my requeft, left your entering into the propofed fecurity, “ might ianftion the report that my etnbarraíTments had originated with you.” W h e n in exile, was your vanity hurt by any dread left I' ihould be thought your friend in money matters ?
would your character fuffer from its being feen that you were now mine ?

no.

T h e fecret caufe o f your conduit was fimply this— I could no longer ferve you— And in fincerity and generofity you turned bankrupt.
This Letter will alfo ferve as a ftundard b y which to afcertain rhe value o f fome declarations fuble- quently made by you to different perlons, as “ that you owed me every thing ;” but that as I was fo much involved, your afliftance could go but a ihort way amongft my creditors ; but that fo foon as I had got through the bufinefs, (I muft prefume you meant my bankruptcy which you knew, I, o f all things on earth wiihed to avoid.)

Y o u fully in­ tended tended to give me 2000I.


to fee me up again give me leave to afk whether you meant any thing more by thefe expreffions than to difplay your own libera­ lity ? '

Did yon fuppofe that I could liften for a moment to a propofal o f that nature, or accept o f fuch an offer ?

no Sir !

you well knew, that he whofe aft ions yon declared to be regulated by a due regard to juftice,,> would never enter into fuch a difgraceful com prom ife.
If your objeft was, by drawing me into the fnare to injure the character o f the man whofe fortunes you had ruined : I have the fatisfa&ion to tell you that your purpofe has compleatly failed ; and if you pei fuade yourfelf, that the perfons whom you addreffed in that ilrain, gave you credit for the proffered klndnefs, believe me you deceive yourfelf ; they have, ere this, learned duly to appreciate your offers, and, if any doubt yet remains on their minds o f the credit due to fuch profeffions, let them read this Letter and fatisfy themfelves.
W h a t , Sir, would my Creditors have thought had I concealed from them my juft claims on you, and as you wifhed, referved them for my own future occafions ?

Is this the integrity you would affign me to enter with again into life ?

Believe me, Sir, you are greatly miftaken when you think I could be brought to accept your aiiift- ance on fuch term s;— N o .
— W h atever I may fuffer through your means, I truft I ihall never have occa- fion to regret my declining to enter into fuch a diíhonourable compaft : I already feel myfelf fup- ported under my adverfity from a confciouûiefs that o ' ( 86 ) in this in fiance I have preferved my integrity and my character uniuUied.
If, Sir, you really mean to ferve me, I call upon you to enable me now to fatisfy my Creditors ; that is the firil wiih o f my heart, and to fupport my character with them is the only capital I require to begin life with again.
On the 24th o f April you addrefs a note to my apprentice, that “ as you faw my name in Saun­ ders’ s paper, you wiihed to know generally what line o f conduit, under the prefent circumftances, it would be moil advantageous for me that you fhould purfue, that as far as might be confident with your ideas of propriety, you might adopt it aitonilhing liberality !
Y o u were ready to weep for my misfor­ tunes, and equally ready to aíílíl in getting me through my Bankruptcy— any thing but enable me to aft as I wiihed towards my Creditors,— Y o u were then in affluence and prolperity, poffeffed o f 4cocI.

a year, recovered and enjoyed, in a great meafure, by my indefatigable exertions.
I was a declared Bankrupt, without any means o f fupport for myfelf or my family ; were you at a Iofs to know what conduft to adopt towards fuch a perfon, to whom you knew Bankruptcy to be more galling than exile?

W a s that a time to confult your ideas of propriety ?

infulting mockery !
infulting mockery !

One half o f your Income payable at periods when you would not have perceived its departure ; and, fecured by my own and my brother’ s Bonds, befides unqueilionable fe- curity for the iutereft, and an infurance on my life, which C 87 ) which I offered to effeft, would have preferved your “ tried friend” from Bankruptcy, arid reftored him to credit and profperity.
Eut this, it feerns, was not “ confident with your ideas of propriety j ” thofe ideas o f propriety you entertained, were fatisfied by obtruding yourlelf, uncalled fu r , on my Creditors at their firfh and fécond meetings, chal­ lenging enquiry in my abfence, for the foie purpofe o f gratifying your vanity, and endeavouring to lay the whole blame o f my misfortunes at my own door, and, to prove yourfelf, if you could, guiltlefs o f my ruin, I now come to confider fome o f the ftatements made by you at the Exchange, relative to the Accounts and money dealings between us.— Y o u ftated that in 1805, I returned you in my D ebt 546I.
i c s .

whilft I really had in my hands 695I.

9s.

2d.

I do not wiih to fay what you meant by this ftatement, but the effeft was this, my Credi­ tors believed, that the Account I furniihed you, was either grofsly erroneous, as again ft you, or intentionally falfe, and that I had fuppreffçd the receipt o f the latter fum to deceive and defraud y o u ,— N o w Sir, how are the fa&s ?
that account was merely a ftatement o f the receipts o f your own property which you poffeffed prior to your Father’ s Death ; and o f the diiburfements aflually made by me out o f the money I had received; it was not a fettled Account, the fum o f 695I- 9s.

* 2d.
which you mentioned as then in my hands confuted ( 88 ) confided (if that be really the amount) of the broken half-year o f the Rents of your Northern property, which I had faved for you by my exer­ tions ; and though the particulars are not given, the receipt is fpecially noted in the account— this you know to be a fa it; you omitted to date that you had but juft entered on the pofîciîîon o f this property, that no rental exided o f it, that the Rents were received from the tenants in partial payments, and receipts pafTed only on Account, they having no receipts in full for any o f the pre­ ceding gales.
Y o u omitted to ft ate, that no de­ mand was ever made by me of the apparent balance o f 546I.

ics.

that you were duly credited for thofe Rents in your next Account, and that I was then actually under Acceptance for you to a confiderable amount, for which you w'ere not at âll debited or charged in that Account.— But this conduit fuited “ your ideas of propriety.” Y o u next dated, that in the Account o f Sep­ tember, 1806.

I made you debtor for 670I.

6s.

3d.


though I had really at the time received 602L 7s.

2d.
on Account o f that fum o f which you wiihed to imprefs my Creditors with a belief that I intended to defraud you the account, (and I challenge its productions,) purports to be o f Rents received of the Northern Edates prior to May pre­ ceding, part of the May Rents had been received by me in your houfe, and in your prefence, and you t £9 ) ÿoü mention in your letter o f the 6th September, that I might fend you down receipts for the arrear o f what remained then uncolle&ed o f the M a y j half year, and you knew that the perfon who brought you the Account, went to the North for the purpofe o f receiving the Arrears of that half year, and making out the Account in full.
Thefe Sir, were fafts refting without your own knowledge, w h y you omitted to ftate them you can beft deter­ mine— but further you ftated that o f the 670!.

6s.

3d.

with which you are charged, 300I.

remains unpaid.

T h e fait is true, but the inference that I intended any deceit, is falfe.

T h e account was furnifhed in September ;— my Bill to Mr.

Flood for 143I.

15s.

4d.


for part o f his M o r tg a g e debt though due in July preceding, had not been called for till fome time after, and he agreed to renew it, I paying the difcount.— So that when the account was made out, my perfonal fecurity for that fum was aûually due and fettled for b y renewal, this was likewife the cafe as to 25I.

the compen- fation to the Boatmen, thefe two fums with 115I.
due to the City in March 1804, for T y t h e , and which I expefted would be daily called for, was therefore charged in the account, and would have been paid but for my fubfequent failure ; whether this was an unfair or diihoneit tranfaftion ,on my part, I leave thofe to judge on whofe minds you attempted to imprefs that belief.
N Y o u ( 9 ° ) Y o u alfo omitted to date to my Creditors the weight o f my claims, both on your juitice and your gratitude— you never told them that in your ac­ count for feven years there is only 10I.
charged on account for my coils, which in your fituation mull o f neceffity be very confiderable ; you forgot to Hate that you had never paid me even my travell­ ing expences, for the various journeys made in England and Ireland on your account— and you forgot to tell them the fait, that you never would have been in a fituation to appear at tne Royal Exchange, under my Commiffion, had I during your legal difabilities at anyone moment deferred you.— But this conduit accords with your “ Ideas o f propriety.” I have now, Sir, finiihed the detail anJ for the prefent clofed the tranfaftions between us, and you well know the h a lf has not been told— this letter, you mud be aware is addreiled not fo much to you, as to my Creditors.— There needs, I am perfuaded, no arguments to fatisfy your mind, that you have been the primary and almoft the foie caufe o f my prefent embarraffments, and that the ftatement you yourfelf forced me to make on that fubjeót, was neither “ inexplicable or erroneous.” Let me not however be mifunderitood, when I impute to you, as to their author, the difficulties under which I now labour— I do not mean to lay that iuy Bill Dealings have been entirely on y o u r account :— N o — my pofition is this— I en­ tered C 9 l ) tcred into that Traffic botli in England and Ireland at your inftance, and for your foie accommodation, and the fubfequent cxtcnfion o f my credit— my füc* ceeding embarraffments— and my prefent dill refs— are the natural and neceflary confequcnces of my ori­ ginal indifcretion.— A t no period o f my infercourfe with you from its commencement until your return to Ireland in 1 8 0 6 , c o u l d I have .checked or narrowed my Difcounts and my Exchange Dealings, without drying up the very fources o f your Support ; my means you knew were limited— every thing de­ pended on m y punctuality.— T o fupport this, I was obliged, under multiplied difadvantages, and at all events, to procure Cafli for the current Demands of the day.
T h u s circumilanced, one Bill produced many— Lofles b y Difcounts, by Fxchange, by Stamps, and by the failure o f fome, and the tem­ porary embarraflinents o f others enfued ; — thefe again demanded further fupplies, and to eífeCl thefe, a further extenfion o f credit became neceflary, and with it, its concomitant train o f evils was of neceU fity adopted.
A ll profeflional purfuits were in a great meafure neglected, my Bills of Coil r e ­ mained unattended to,— thus my legitimate re- fources became gradually lefs productive, and my whole time and attention was directed to meet the more preffing demands for money, occafi- oned by thefe Bill tranfaCtions.
T o the corroding anxiety and inconvenience arijtng from thefe com­ plicated embarraflments you were in a great meafure a flranger; you were placed at a diitancc from the fcene— you were pledged only to a certain N 2 amount, ( 9 2 ; amount, and that merely for cadi actually received by you, and no further— your credit was notât (lake in endeavouring to keep thofe fums afloat which your wants required— for thefe hazardous fervices, my credit and r ,y character a]OQe was interpofed.
W h e n the death of your relative produced an acceffion to your fortune, and when after an interval of more than a year, you were enabled through me to pro­ cure loans, you found no great difficuly in difcharg- ing the amount of your engagements to me,— and this once done, you concluded the debt of Gratitude you owed me, was alfo difcharged ; — but you forgot that I was then labouring under a load o f debt accumulated in your fcrvice, and which, though you were not perhaps legally bound to pay, you were Confcientioufly bound to aiTift in enabling me to difcharge, But why do I urge thefe topics?— It is jmpoilible you can be ignorant o f them.
W h a t ­ ever furprife you may afFeft at this flatcmcnt, your mind has long lince anticipated it,— you are confcious o f its truth, and under .an indifference, which in tendernefs to your character, I will call affumed, you Hand at this moment felf-accufrd and felf-convifted of my ruin,— and you well know, that if you paid the grofs amount o f my debts, even in that cafe you would not leave me in l u l f lb good a (late as that in which you found me.
Here, Sir, let me remind you that the profeffiona] honours 1 acquired, even at a time I was labouring under iuch diladvantages, may in fome degree ilievv you ( 93 ) you what I might have been but for my connection with you ; and ignorant as you pretend to be o f a Bill trade, you can yet comprehend me when I af- fert, that w7ith clients in England and Ireland, nay, in Scotland, and even on the Continent, I had no necefuty to enter into a Bill trade on my own ac­ count, and had I ufed a portion o f that credit I polTeJTed, for the accommodation o f others, inftead o f devoting it folely to your purpofes, I might have increafed my Clients, and enriched myfelf.
W e r e the matters, however, to reft between you and me, believe me, I would never addrefs a line to you on the fubjeCt ; I am not perfonally your enemy.

I f I wiihed to injure you, I could effeCt fuch an un­ worthy purpofe in another way, and that you well know.
N o , Sir, I did not wiih to bring your name or your conduct to me before the tribunal o f public opinion ; becaufe I felt I never had been a public charafter— my private character I avoided obtruding on my Creditors, becaufe I felt that to obtrude it at fuch a time on their attention, would be to infult them, and degrade my own underftanding ; that you know, was not the mode I intended, or wiihed to pay my Debts, I was content to leave the vindication o f my wrongs to the feelings which fuch conduCt as yours muft one time or other, pro­ duce in a mind not wholly loft to every ho­ norable fcntiment— But you have forced me from my purpofe— and b y publicly araigning my ( 94 ) my condu&, before my Creditors, have called on me as publicly to defend it.
If in doing fo, I have been obliged to ilate F a ils which you might wifh to have been forgotten, I cannot help it— you alone are to blame.— In ilating thofe matters in my own vindication, I have been doing violence to my own feelings; my heart abhors the ta/kyou have impofed on me.

N o , there is nothing in m y prefent fituation calculated to gratify my vanity, or feed my pride— nothing that could induce me, for a moment, to draw upon me the public attention, if an abfolute neceffity did not demand it.
T h e lhade o f obfeurity beft accords with my prefent feelings, and is beft fitted for the full enjoyment o f thofe fenfations which your kind and generous treatment has excited.
But, give me leave to tell you, that in the midlt of adver- fity, I am not wholly without confolation ; I can lay my hand upon my breaft, and, in the fincerity o f truth declare, I have never intentionally wronged, deceived, or oppreffed any one— I have not profejjed a friendfhip to which my heart was a flranger— 1 have not drawn my friend into difficulties, in order to ex­ tricate myfclf— nor having effected my purpofe, have I with an unfeeling indifference abandoned him to his fate— from reproaches fuch as thefe, my mind is, free.
Finally, I call on you to reflect on the fituation you found, and that you have left me in ; you found me and ( 95 ) in eafy circumftances— growing in profperity, and bidding fair for wealth ; you have left me (exhaufted in your fervices; a Bankrupt.— Allow me to call your attention to the contrail.— I found you an alien, def- titute o f legal rights, I have left you a citizen and a freeman— I found you a pauper, overwhelmed in debt, I have left you in affluence and in fplendour— I found you cut off from fociety and domeitic com­ fort, and I have left you reftored to the enjoyment of both— the reward fuch fervices now .meets at your hands, is an endeavour on your part, to reduce your Benefaitor and your Friend, to the fame ftate o f exile, poverty, and legal incapacity under which you yourfelf fo long groaned— for this conduit fo peculi­ arly generous, I thank you, my family may blefs you.
I envy you not your happincfs or your fplen­ d o ur.— T h e re-commencement o f your public career bids fair for Fame and Courtly honours, whilft your conduit to me, affords a fure pledge, that at leaft the iteps o f your declining yeats, will in private life, be marked by all that is great, juft and generous.
I would however at the clofe o f this Letter, deprecate that viciilitude o f human affairs, which within the fphere o f poilibility, may again cc plunge you in that vortex” o f complicated affliiiion from which you have b y my exertions been fo recently de­ livered.

Should that poilibility ever be realized, I you will then find a young friend h a lf as zealous and ( 9« ) and iîncere as I have proved myfelf, and if fo, what­ ever may be my fate— your grey .
hairs will not de- fcend with forrow to the grave.

I am, Sir, &c. &c. A R C H I B A L D H A M I L T O N .

N o.

29, Dominick-street, Dublin, May 14 thy 1807.

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