Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of John George Christian Fischer, of Helfenberg, in the kingdom of Saxony : formerly secretary to the deceased James, Earl of Findlater and Seafield, and for Messrs Rucker, Brothers, of Crutched-Friars, London, his factors; and for David Cleghorn, writer to the Signet, mandatory for Messrs Rucker, - pursuers ...
Fischer, Johann Georg Christian,1773-1860.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
1822]
In 1803 Fischer purchased Helfenberg Manor located in the Dresden Elbe Valley, on behalf of his employer and partner, James Ogilvie, 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield. When Findlater died in 1811 he bequeathed the Dresden property to Fischer who lived at Helfenberg Manor until his own death in 1860. The Scottish heirs to Findlater's estate, including his cousin Sir Lewis Alexander Grant, who became Earl of Seafield, protested in court on the ground that the bequests to Fischer had been made for an immoral consideration (i.e. "ob turpem causa"). This petition records the arrival in Edinburgh of German documents from the University of Leipzig in support of Fischer's case. The documents are listed in a three-page appendix at the end.
Caption title, dated January 19. 1822.
Signed at foot of p. 4: F. Jeffrey.
Ogilvie, James, Earl of Seafield, 1750-1811.
Scotland Edinburgh.