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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, saying,
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 loonxt
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 of 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 came 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