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but when it came to be copied, he desired teehave it altered ; he said, •• I rill do the thing for you. but it must not be so expressed." flare you any letter, txplai ll il ig these words ?--s Yes, I have one letter, in which he says that he meant a Cadetee, and nut a 11'ntership. Did lie say through whom he was to get it ? Yes, he raid he was to get it through Lord Melville; the estate curt sue 30,000 raid hundred poutols, and I allowed him 30001: for this Writership, nut doubting that I should receive it. Have you any valuation of this estate which you could produce, by which it would appear. accord ing to what estimite the property was taken have an estimate of the whole of the Shaftesbury estate ; here is Mr. Christie's valuation. Was that the valuation, according to which the agreement for the parch:toe was made?—No, Mr. Chriatie valued the two estates together, Bentield's sad mine, at 43,0471. 10s. Colonel Wood gave Go %eminent from 15,0001. to t 17,0001. for Boyd add Beidield'r ; Mr. Christie knocked down mine at 13,0001. Island that was not a fair valuation of my property, as it wax not, fin' I had 110 house* in Shaftesbury ; and this was promised to me to make 1114 Have you ally valuation, according to which the Property Vitisiboll6ht by Sir Mark 1% oud ?—No, I have not any. Have yon any letter or letters, by which it will appear that any abatement of 3,3001. was made from the agreed priee, in considenstiois of a Writer snip being expected for your sou .?—1 t'ea not know whether I have any letter now in my posseasson ; 1 know I had a letter, which was explanatory of that subject. At what time did Sir Mark Wood say that he was engaged only to provide a Cadetship 2—A few days, perhaps six or seveu days after he had signed the agreement ; I found he meant to shuttle about it, and wits not forthcoming to settle the business, for lie was to bring me any discharge the next day, which he did nut : I wrote I a letter, sayi ng, that the things must be fairly settled, and he wrote rue word, that lie only' proposed to get u Ca detship. %Vu. any bode prer.ent during any conversation volatiret to this Writership :—I do not knots whe ther Parsom did net hear hhn say vowething about it ; I think he slid. Was any body present at the conversation after, wards, when Sir Mail Wood raid he was only l oon xt to provide a Cadetship ?—No, but I have that in a letter from him. Did he ever offer you a Cadetship ?—No, he had this iigr,vment in Ins hand» some days before it Was ugnetd ; it was met r thing put in by surplice, or any thing of that kiwi, upon him. On *lint account did you consent to have the word. inserted in the form in which they ore, instead of according to what you state to have been the original draft ?-11ecause he protruded that it ass to violation of the law. Have you signed the conveyance ?—Yes, I sign ed the cooveyonee, at what the property • was knocked down at by Mr. Christie. lr this the only security you had fur reliturish ing 3,5001. part of the purchuse-tneney I had no other security whatever for it. That is an 'agreement stamp ?—Yes, I have here the opinion which I was obliged to take, of Mr. Leach, at Member of this House, respecting the agreement, if dm Committee would wish to sae it. _ _ _ Are You a professional mail•:—l was fur some year, • Did you think this was a valid security for such a sum o f money as 34001. ?—1 was in that sort of situation, I was vary gl id to do any thing to get the thing settled, fOr 1 hurl beau detained by those people nearly urea years ill cousequeuce of this business. Did you believe, that if the agreement had been drawn according to your original understauding, with the iusertion of the word Writership," it would have been More - illegal than statiding in its present form ?—Certainly that was the objectiou ; fur I hail put into the draft of the agreement, 66 as a IVriter, ' and he objected to it himself. • State in what respect the one differs, in point of • legality, front the other?-1 aprehended it was good security to lute when I signed the agreenieilt. Where would have been the additional illegality iu inserting the words 66 as a Writer?"-=There would have been nate, certainly. hot Colouel Wood obierted to it ; I apprehend that the legality or illegality was the same; I have no doubt about that. Then why did you nespiiesce in that alteration of the agreement, if, os account of that stipulation. vim were to abate 3,5001. ?-13reause I wished to Lave the thing settled at any rate in the world ; I did not care what was dome if 1 could get out of custody, for I had been seven yours in custody be cause I would toot sign these deeds. Dal you expect the IVrotership to he grao,trd to yoli at the time yes, I had no doubt of at ; he said in his letter, that Ise would certainly procure the appointment for my son, awl a great deal mote of it. Wissthitt Fetter moLoseguant to the agreement ? No, prior to that; but to c ame at last in a very improper way to get this nerd; he said he had sere a friend of mine. who advised my sag g it. whom he had not seen i in short he had takeu a letter I had written to that gentleman off his table ; the gentleman came to me in an hour afterwards, and I found that it was contrary to his opinion that *honk) have signed it; and that if I had not, it would have been put tutu a different loom. SIR LARK WOOD, OAST. Do yon recollect enteriug 11110 an agreement with Mr. Bryant, relating to au East ludia appoint ment ?—PerfectlY. Whet was the consideration for your eing to procure that appointment for Mr. Bryant? I think it will he necessary to state the transaction which led to it. Sonic time in the year 1801 or 1402, my solicitor contracted with Government for the purchase of Mr. &Wield's property in Shufttm . burr ; they sold it to the as one entire estate, for tilt color 0r3.3,00U1. ; it ( o.snisteil of two propertie4, one WO% the freehold property of Desield, and the other formerly of Mr. Bryant. Bryaut's property bad been mortgaged to a variety of people, and it was necessary for me to may olf those mortgages before I maid get posiressioa of any part of those - estates. Bryant had ton before this tmvigsied his h ~ whole rights in these estates forhiscreelitots;l.ut his wife find not been mirk a patty, whiels was neck:win y to wake good the titles to wine of the copyliold. I was advised, though Bryant had no interest at all, to pay his debts and get him out of gaol, on condition Of Its wife and himself creating all necessary coil %C% itilCell and papers, and I think, altogether the tt hole money that mss panel to Bryant on condition that lie never should pretend to lie the proprietor of my estate* in Shaftesbury, 'illicit lie knew to be the real state of the case, was a i•ouple of thousand pound.; I speak this from recollection. At the time this agr:!eitient was entered into. it was re presented to use that he had a large family. and he begged that I would endeavour to use my influence to get his son out as a Cadet ; but when the agtiv 'two was eittered into he begged that the army might not be mentioned. at it would be likely to alarin the young inim's mother. When - Mr. Bryant called upon me afterwards to perform' my promise, to my great astonishment he asked me tot get his son into the Civil Service, a thing that I had tint the most distant contemplation of, and which 1 do not believe that I could have effected. I explain ed to Mr. Bryant that my purpose never was Huy soils thing, and I believe I have got some of Mr. Bry nut's correspondence that will skew it, that I pro mised to get Isis son out ass cadet; but afterwards, Alr. Bryant, notwithstanding my paying this large stun of money, a hich was deposited in she hands of Mr. Lowtea the attorney, to pay his debts and get hint out of gaol, on condition of kid not interkr- Mg with Shaftesbury, or setting up. a pretence that the property was belonging to hint, went down to Shaftesbury, and went to the differ ent petiole, and endeavoured to impress them with the belies; that lie was still the itroprietor of Shaftesbury. Upon observing such dishonour able conduct ou the part of Bryant, I numethately would not suffer him to come near my privatises. and likewise positively refused to have any thing to do with hint or his son. Some] time ago Mr. Bryant wrote to else, telling sue, that his estate was of much mote value than the money which bud heels paid for it, and asking we to pay to him an additional 4111 U of money, whit Is letter did nut reply to. About a fortnight ago, to my astonish mead, I received a cute from Into. telling we, that lie 'newt to represent my ectudnet before the India Cott 111 l i l tee that was then sitting, of which also I toqk uo notice. Did you boy the property of Mr. Bryant ac cording to any valuation ?—\o, I navel. Ittasw ;my thing at all about the property of Bryant ; t wine clubbed together by Christie, who was one of the busters joined with Lard Romney ; it was an ar rangement made bettet.an Government and Clai3- tir, who, from the purchase money fur the whole, which was to be 33,0001. agreed that i Immo some howbeit pounds should be considered the value of Bryant's estate, that being one-third, and the other two-thirds the value of Lientield's, so that would stand at 23,0001. That arrangement I had uo connection with. Had you any conversation with Bryant previous to your purclihsitig , the whole property do not recolluct ever having been him before; I min pretty certain I never raw him before. Do you recollect any rosi t4 li draft of the agree ment being sheivii to you Lame it was inn upon stamps ■nd executed ?—No, it was quite it *mishit thing ; I never did any thing so precipitate mid tifl wrong in my life. It was just snaking Mr. Bryant a present of so muds money. It was. iii my epi nion, the snort swindling act that ever aos per formed ; his getting me to sign the agreement, or to give him rine penny piece, for he had no interest ut sill in the property. had you, at any time previous to signing that agreement, held wit to Bryant the prospvet of obtaining a Writership for his sou ?--.?Serer in the world. Did any conven.ation pass with Bryant ii i the presence of 11 third prlsoll at the t • poll e‘e. cited the agreciallit thick it most likely there st have liven ',owr present.; therm ass at 1111111 we gait to witiie.s was then hying within the Itulewuf the kine'• und-he used to frequent a bookseller'. shop, and he got that bookseller In witness the a6reenient ; softie friend pf his own. Whist itolaced yon_l2 notice this promise on • stutnpeil pauper?— l4 will not a :•tutesped paper, he tot it Mii:111111tAl lerterilratfle; it was the tuns' ri diculous thing I ever did iu my life. lhd you consider it et all sti part payment to Er, ant ?—Not at all ; be bad uo claims upon me ; it w as merely to get out of hot water that the fel low might not do mischief. Mr. Lauri, was our of the principal promotes of it, and 1 thitsk, not ilo very honourably. Dirl you ever give any Writerships to any persons with whom you had money transactions ?—I never had a %1 ritership in my life. Or Cadetship' ?—I have sent out a great Imlay Cadets., Have you ever given those to persona likely to diaptue of them ?..—No. None• to sttornirs!—No, to relstiona or per. tons connected with me. What bunion of the Codetcies you gave. so far as you cuss revollect ?—The tint year I returned from India, which ie 'sixteen or seventeen years ago, I got four Cadets appointed. three of which I gave to three connections of toy wife's. who are Captains in the stereire ; one to a nephew of Sir Robert Pas try ; I think I sent oust two or three more young men ; I believe I obtained ■nd gave &may one or two more Cadetcies since my return from ; but besides those, I leave never had any ■ppoiut utrnt Did Mr. Lowten make ont any valnation of Bryant's property to induce you to giro a sum of stoney ?—No, lie was only a sort of mediator, wishing to serve Bryant. • Was any rimer anal of the agreement prepared in which yon promisedßry•aut a N•riter►hip for his sun know of mole. he present you any rough draft containing that ?-1 should suppose not, lire:Aube 1 should have not it into the lire if lie hail. Did you Object to the agreement on account of the illegality of the transaction ?—Never in the world ; ! never considered any thing 1 was doing as il;egul. MR. JOIIN SULL/11. (E.rirart fruim his creuainatiam.) Art: t t)u burr that atlvertmtuvia, have not been put into the paper to which you belong. offering J'atronage for sale, without referriug to you r That has been every day's practice. Do you know of your °all knowledge the persons who inserted or alithorised the insertion of any isil vertisements for the sale of such patronage ?duce the period• I am sls'akuug of, I have become ac quainted with the name of one ; 1 understand lees mime I. Sher ; be advertises iu the name of Cal vert, somewhere iu Alaryhone-street. The younger or ilia elder Shee ?—The younger. When I. got to Marybone-street, I was sent some where else ; him 1 raw about three or four tunes. What passed with Mr. Slice upou this subject ? —lie advertised a Writership, and in consequence of that advertisement 1 called upou him one fiords- Mg and fount!' him at honer ; in: told me, yes, he had *etch a thing to dispose of, and I asked I • the prier; he said, either 3,01101. or guineas; his principals were to have 3,0001. and he was to have 1501. that is, the shillings. Was only money deposited for Mr. Shee's use, if he could procure this appointment ?—No ; lie wrote me a note, which 1 lime been trying to find, but 1 cannot, and rather eoneeite I must have de stroyed it, but it was to this effect, thut this mode of dimig business war to introduce the principals together, and that on my depositing such sort of security as would enable him to receive 1501. alien the bmiineits was effected, he could introduce me to the priumpals ; 1 gave halo a chequer, I think ou Sir Matthew Bloxam. for 1501. Cuudrtiuuall ?—Yes, conditionally. What was the result ?—On iny handing was* this cliecque, lie gave cue a letter to a Lady io Hamp ton Court Palace. Who was that Lady I—Her name was Cottin. Was that letter delivered ?—L delivered it my self. What passed in the conversation with Mrs. Cot tin ?—She read this note; Mr. Shee had previously prepared her for my reception ; she put on her hat, took me across Hampton Court Green, mid intro duced rue to a gentleman of the name of Poplett, whit is, I believe, one of the Deputy Lieutenants for the County of Middlesex. here 1 thought 1 had certainly got to the end of my troublesome journey. lo my conversation with Mrs. Count it was stated,• that L was to give her 64101. and 1 was to deposit 9,5001. for the lady in whose pots session the Otronage• was. Captain Poplett in formed me that he had no doubt in the world that he could procure the thing 1 was after; the 'first atep to be taken was, that 1 should satisfy him this sum of money was so depo- • sited ; I went on the following day, to the best of my recollection, and in Kensington's hands depo sited the so ul of money required, and sent him the Boaker's receipts, and on the some day 1 Rent on undertaking to pay Mrs. Cottin her .30n1.; that being done, I was to expect a final answer from Cuptsin Poplett in the course of three weeks, 04 was to be at liberty to mower the money again, 'Nei take sip the securities 1 had deposited. The 1 tilree weeks passed; a month passed; at length 1 m e i r d lied upon Capt. Poplett, and I continued to e applications to him several times, 1 believe eve or six; when he found that he could nut du what he had undertaken, they gave inc back my security for the 14001. Do you tecollect in %drat month this %MS —lt moist have been In the month of November last, • wunewhere between the IJthi and the '_sth, 1 thank. Did Captain Polulett mention to yon It any time in whose pittroliege this appointment was, whteli he expected to have the disposal of?—Ur distinctly suid this, 4 , the lady into whose hands this 24001. is to go,af you knew her history, you would feel for her as much as 1 do." HE men tioned that she was eieherthe widow or daughter of smile very excellent Officer who had been slain' somewhere, but he never said more, nor did 1 ever know who the lady was ; be enjoined me to the most profound secrecy, and nothing should hare wrung it from my bosom but the necessity I pre stune there is for my telling it here. Did he mention in whose patronage the almoint.. ment wits ?—That she had very considerable influ enix with the Duke of Cambridge, who, lit assured we, and 1 believe it most siuceriqly, was perfectly unacquainted with the object of her application ; that the Duke had espreased a very great regard for her ; and of course the young gentleinan, whose name I mentioned, she told him was a friend of hers, and the Duke in consequence wrote her a note, that he would do every thing he could taget • her wishes complied with : I raw the note from the Duke of Cambridge to this Lady, but the super scription was carefully taken Mt that 1 should not know a ho it was. State the contents of it.—That he had received her application, and that lie should certainly make a point of ciidemouring to accommodate her friend, whose character she spoke so highly of; that if lie should fail in our quarter, he would en deavour .to procure the potrounge of tho Queen ; but he did not think he should he able to amotu plish the object this year. though it was very pro bable he might in that which was co g. Was your friend introduced to this lady ? Never ; in short. he is in Seutlaud at thiamosuent; he has never been in town shies; 1 considered my. le If ao secure at first, I sent far him from Si otlaaill. Did this lady communicate to the Duke of Cum " bridge the bean of your friend ?—She must, for he mentioned the' mime in his note. Did Mrs. Cottin inesiti.m the name of any lady to you, through a hien this appointment was to take place I—No, and I believe for the best of all possible reasons, that she did not know the lady ; Captain Ponlett was more commuoicetive to me than to Mrs. Unttiii. Am you certain that you are totalli imacqueint ed with the home ot the lad) ?-1. aims ; her tame was always carefully withheld from me. The Lady herself was never introduced to you? —Never. What ens the name or your friend, whom she rr•e to the Duke of Cumin idge ?—J41311.11 (: rrruhill. Is he a relation to Mr. Greenhill, the Member of Parliament ?-1 do not know ; his fatheri.a mum of very large fortune in the county of Montrose, iu Scotland, and the young man is a very well tilts. cared yelling man. Do you know whether he hiss . obtained any ap poilitenelit Mite ?-11e 1144 not. ' Are you still eudtavouring to obtain such an ap- . ~,. pnintment him ?-1 1111 k.ve not made any other uttriopt *Mr.-Clow ma l'oplett told my this. 1M pmt 1.1111V4 of any utm:r transaction it' which Mr. !Mee y its comerottl, iodating to Fart India Patronage ?—1 do not. 1M on kiiow the rider Mr. Sher ?-1 know him by eight, but I do not know that ever 1 spoke to him. 1 knew him ar au iticorrigible villain. 11aVe you any recollection of any other person who liar edmertieed in the Paprr you conduct, for the rule of Patronage of this description ?—No, I do not. Have vou any means at home of tracing any names daisy persons who have advertised for sale? —No; in the multitude of advertisements which come in, in a place of that sort, all that they have to do is to see that they ale not libellous. Do they always pay ready money, or have un account?—Persons who come with a casual adver tisement, pay ready money ; the Auctioneers, end Tattersall, and such persons, have a runiiiiig ay. coma. Not persons of this description ?—No. Are you acluattited aith Mr. Donovan ?--.1 hate not exchanged a word with him for the last fifteen years. Do you knosi whether he loss been in the habit of advertising in your paper ?—I do not know ; he may, for aught 1 know. Did Mr. Burry state through what Ntronony he could obtain a Writership ?—Yes, he stated, that he was to *Maui hie patronage through the Priace of Wales; and 1 reprc,•rided to my friends, that he asked four thousand g iiiii e:to; they said it was no enormous slum of money ; and when lie Lame again, I told him it ails too largo a sum for my friends to . Uu t;:e following day, thew was a Baronet drove to my door in his carriage, and wanted to horsewhip we, because 1 had thought proper to treat this clergyman with so much disre spect, and would not give him• four thousand &- ores; it was Sir Robert Peat. \Vote there any others who caine in consequence of this atlvertitiemesit, %close names you can recol lect I—None. Ito you know where Mr. Barry lives?—He gave the his address ut some cotter-house in St. James's st reet. 1, there within your own knowledge any other tr. • ,act ion relative to the t.iiying or selling of East India Patronage . ?—None whatever. You do not think that the Duke of Cambridge was at all acquainted with the transaction to which this letter referred ?--Upon toy conscience I have not the least idea of it ; I behove that this lady re presented it as an net of friendship to herself. FOR EWA` IN TE LUG EN C' L. GOTl'k:M3litGli MAILS. Extract of a letter, dated Stockholm, March 24. p. " The King has this afternoon been removed, under a stroug escort, from Dortminghohn to tiripsholin, a palace about forty-lift! English miles from Stockholm. Ile has hitherto been kept closely confined, aced has not been permitted to ace the Queen. " Meout bon Cossacks, At lin had conre ricer from Aland to Gri4ebistroii, bum.; it pint of the army oho had taktu tilt: former island, Dere on their march to Stockholm, ,4 lien they *ere met by a flag of truce, ►n the name or the Duke Charles. An ormiattee *tog imta•-di:telf Nord, to wait the Em peror of Itubsia'a Limo er." (Au FUT4I3I,IMH, MACCtt 3 t. The Emperor of alas gas ea has *auction to the armistice, and the macuutiomof Aland. It iii, however, miderstoud to be only until he re ceive from VIII IS all answer to • communication he • has made to the French Emperor, on the subject. A lout, bus been demanded by the new Covet-mm.lA ; the 'application to the merchants was math , Bout the Cloveraor, who assembled them, yesterdsiy, at the 'Change, for that purpose—and in a few minutes after the subscription wasopened, the sutnol .m a tion bunco dollars was subscribed. _ General Arinfeldt is .appoiimil Commander-in ,Chief for this district, and VlittettlbttrOs 14 to he the head-qtrartem The tronrs that are alseady here, amount to above 3000 men, the thirst in the Swedish service. Perfect tnniquillity exists. Keats was to put to sea yesterday, iii the Nairarb--it is said he is gone to protect the fleet of merchantmen coming from Landserona, which is not supposed to be sufficiently protected. The Charger gun-brig is expected to gu shortly to Eng land. as convoy. The Ranger came into Hos k Hued this inur ll ill g. • Extract from the Gotteohureh newspaper. called the Allehand, of the 29th March : fiTOCICKIKM, MARC!! 21. Yesterday morning, the following Report way received from lien. Yon Doibelu, dated the zAli instant : Si On the 19th, the oat-posts of the army, near Gress!rheum, were attacked, and driven back by the enemy's Ctroaicke, &neon', and eltauseurs.— This van-gaurd was commaisded by the Russian General houluod. In a short time after, a letter came to Major-General Von Doibeln, from the Russian' Comniander-inChief, Ceaeral Kawrt tag, the contents of which were, s that as he was as sured, what had brell I ummuiiivated to hill; by his Royal Iltxhnrs. the Duke mud l'rotector of •th.i Kingdom, that the Swedish Government was pot.eri to enter into etegoettat 44444 s fur peace, and like wise knew that it ronscided with les Royal Master's sentiinents, he nail immediately give., orders for till hostilities to cease, and ordered Geireral•Koulooff to return to A viand, with the troops melee his com mend.' General Knorring also delivered a letter to Lieutenant-General Barclay de Tolley, who was. from %Vasa, to pass (;hearken. to I lin:aut.-1u the event lie had already posi.eil the Gulf, immediately to retort, to the Fittintoi Geheral Knorr:nig mentiosoll that similar orders were seas to Wass, by say of A ribo. t hi the 29th, in the morning. Greslehamm was evacuated by the enemy. All the migraines at that place remained untouched. 'rile same day Colonel Lagerberg, Knight of the Royal Order of the Sword, with the Grand Cross, weld to the Russian hesd-quarters, to proceed from thence with proper passports for the place where His Ros- Wan Majesty may now be."