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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 rosit4li 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 iii 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 soul 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
meirdlied 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-

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pnintment him ?-11111k.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. • ,action 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 3t.

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 .mation 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."