The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-19 00:00:00

DON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, ili4o.

PUBLICATIONS.

PRESENT STA'L'E OF CUBA.

On Friday, Feb. 21, will be published, in Bvo., with Map,
CUBA ; with Notices of PORTO RICO,
and the SLAVE TRADE.

By D. TURNBULI„ Esq.,
Member of the Royal Academy of History at Madrid, and of
_ . . . .

the Royal Patriotic and Economical Sm;ieties at Havana.
*4,4 The above is the first of a series of works, entitled
" Travels in the West," on-Ist. The Spanish West Indies;
2d. The British West Indies. 3d. St. Domingo, and the
French and Danish West Indies. 4th. British America. And
bth. The United States.

London : Longman, Orme, and Co.

NATIONAL WORK ON THE BREEDS OF
CATTLE. Fec.
This day is published, in atlas 4t0., with Four beautifully-
coloured Plates, price 215., Part I. of
riPHE BREEDS of the DOMESTIC
IL ANIMALS of GREAT BRITAIN, Described.
By D. LOW, Esq., Professor of Agriculture in the Univer-

city of Edinburgh.
" One of the most valuable works which has ever appeared in
this country. • • • It is national in its character, and
ought to receive the encouragement and patronage of every
agriculturist and breeder in the kingdom."—Bell's Life in
London.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
TO MR. JAMES TRIMI3EY,
39, QUEEN-STREET, LONDON.

Sir,—l have observed with much surprise, an advertisement
in the London papers with your signature attached, in which
the public are info! mod of my having quitted your service, and
are at the same tSme cautioned against paying any moneys to
me on your account. As I cannot but feel that such an adver-
tisement is calculated to injure me in public estimation as a
Commercial Commission Traveller, by inducing the belief that
I had improperly sought to receive your moneys, I am bound in
justice to my character and to the claims of a wife and nu-
merous family publicly to vindicate myself against such a sup-
position.
Having for some years travelled for you by commission, and
having in the course of that period established a first-rate
connexion, it grieved me much that the limited extent to
whieh the orders of my numerous customers were executed
became so unsatisfactory as to compel me in September
last to give intimation of my intention to tender my resigna-
tion at the termination of my next journey, nevertheless subject,
ai per written agreement, to the three months from the specific
Period of its being tender ed, unless the terms of my engagement
could be altered from a commission of 7i per cent. on the pay-
ments to that of 5 per cent. on all orders taken, and then a 2fr
ea the payments, by which means I hoped to secure the
due execution of my orders, and at the same time advance
your interest as well as my own. I certainly did not in-
tend eply notice to expire at the time you construed it. On
9th of October I paid the balance of my journey account
t,.•.1 left town that day for my then next journey, and from this
nate to the 13th of January, I made no arrangements for future
engagement, nor did I in one instance hint to any customer
any expectation of leaving, as I concluded the difference might
be settled agreeably to both parties when I got home.
On the loth of December I got back to London, and on the
26th called upon you in my usual way, gave in my ledger, and
inquired also if my patterns had arrived, but finding they had
not, I did not regret this circumstance much as I wanted a little
rest, having been out from the Ist of July to the : sth of De-
cember, with only an interval of ten days. On the 28th of De-
cember I was at Queen-street, and gave you a letter order,which
you executed. On the 3d ofJanuary I went \ ith a written order
from you to look out some goods, and upon inquiry found
my journey ledger was made up, and on the following day I
called in and paid the balance due to you of 18/. 125., but got
no receipt, the ledger not being, as you said, at hand. When
my patterns did arrive, which was on the Bth of January, I
said to you that I should be ready to go off on the following
Monday, when I found you had determined not to alter the
terms, and that you considered the notice had terminated. I
was then compelled to look out, which I did, and in a few days
I received a conditional appointment for another house, and im-
mediately started on my journey. I found that most of my old
customers were anxious to continue to do business with me
without regard to the principal, whom they had never seen, and
of whom, except through me, they knew nothing, announcing
through the different towns I passed on to that I did not now
represent you, nor did I use any under means to induce them to
give their orders to me. I could not help telling them how is;
happened, as I had been to many of the same places only flee
preceding month on other business, and had tcld them then, I
should see them at the regular time for you.
In consequence of a letter which 1 received from yo,ve at
Wakefield on the 27th of January, presupposing I had Preju-
diced the mind of a customer at Peterborough against you, I
immediately wrote you that it was incorrect, for I had, not so
much as seen the gentleman. I further said I lame n•Led that
the long connection between us should be severed, and that
upon so minor a matter; that I believed it was intech to your
interest to resume that connection, having turned you over last
year, amidst the distraction of the times, nearly r many thou-
sands as you had hundreds out, on the ground I e .ow take, when
I first took your business in hand ; and to testif
.r my feeling for
your continued prosperity, I stated I was rem' or on my part to
bury all in oblivion, and if it met your approleation by sending
down my patterns, accounts, and ledger ',es Huddersfield, I
would instantly relinquish the engagement I had entered into,
and commence again without further delay eon your account, on
the terms I had before proposed, and for my word's sake I would
not alter. Knowing as I did that the CO anection was mine, it
did strike me to be an offer worthy ye,ur notice. I found also
that no one was on the ground before: me representing you,
nor had any advice letters been rec e ived. With the impres-
sion on my mind that the offer we told be accepted by you, I
passed on to Pontefract, then toDe fisbury, the last town before
I reached Huddersfield, where y' cur answer was to meet me.
A customer there said he wante d no goods, and, as he was
going on a journey, it would be. better for ire to draw upon
him as usual, at two months, d ated the Ist of February, which
acceptance was drawn 231. 11 a, Od., in your name, and, as a
natural inference, no use rhatever to me. This I did, but
with no other object in view than for you to realize a payment,
struck also by the thought hat your representative might have
been taken ill, and all ste.nding still in the country, as I found
(but not by you) he had 'oeen started several days before I ac-
tually knew I was going, to leave. Another person in the same
?lace, who had several pounds to pay me for another house, for
which I also travel, had provided a banker's bill, which more
Cevered both accounts. You only wanted 41.53. Od. of
that tierson 1 therefore, to take this bill of my friend, I received
6/. B.i. Od. of a third customer. You were then entitled to
10/. 13s. Od. ; minus my commission 71,, per cent., and stamp
2s. Id., on 34/. 4s. Od., amounting to 21. 13s. 4d., leaving a
balance due to you in cash of the small sum of 71. 19s. 7d. ; and
the acceptance and this are all the money I received between
London and Huddersfield of yours; and but for the simple
fact of my offer from Wakefield, I would not have received one
penny. If I do not speak the words of truth, disprove it.
When I reached Huddersfield I received a reply to my Wake-
field letter, written in a friendly way, but that you were not
open to a fresh contract, and from that period to now I have
enclosing the 23/. 11s., giving you a statement of the
t
not received one penny. On the Bth inst. I made up a letter
to you,
and telling you the circumstances under which
these accounts were paid, and that I would pay you the balance,
71. 19s. 7d., in any way you pleased when I heard from you
again. After the many large towns I passed through before I
got to Dewsbury, the thousands I have turned over for you,
and that to your advantage, for you have never added one clerk
more to the counting-house, I feel fully persuaded that in your
more deliberate moments you do not entertain the thought
that this small sum of 71. 19s. 7d. was received by me but
with the intention of being regularly accounted for, as, in fact,
it was ; for there must naturally be an open account until I
dl my
attack firm
am paid my commission for my sales up to the time of leaving.
do—furnish
,mlethwinikthyoau
acroep ybooufntdheirlette7 I
That the long standing connexion between us has ceased is
not attributable to me,gnmtlose
rseiatty
September, and the I lth of October.
)c.ootinvhicatvieon: this, how-
on
candour
nade on me,
and that when I was 200 miles off, and
ever, you can
u; 'lst ail events,
waiting for an explanation. By these led"sers I will stand or fall,
and it will be then seen whether left
you or you left me.
That I acted faithfully and lee,,or._
re. musty for your welfare is known
folds wrote
utobhnj the hat
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to all the customers.
bearings s hat I stuck to your interest in all its
, according •
my ability, like the hammer to the beaten
anvil, yen Tr''st admit, not thinking any exertions or pecuniary
sacrifice, too great to prevent bad debts and get in the accounts ;
>s gut if you will look to my last year's business you will find an
average of 15s. paid on all my accounts, and I believe 50/.
covered the bad debts last year made by me; and I can only
add, the notice which you have given so prematurely, by way of
caution, was perfectly unwarranted. Finally, it is important
for me to state, that you hold the commissions due to me on the
whole of my last half-year's account, which, with balances also
unpaid, wilt amount, I expect, to something like 4,000/. The
actual sum you can soon know by reference ,to your ledger.
Had I continued to collect your accounts, my due would
have been 3001. And now, Sir, after the attack you
have made, without even writing me on the subject,
you ought, as one act of reparation, to pay me my commis-
sion in full on the amount outstanding, without delay or deduc-
tion for collecting, and:to send me a check down, after taking off
the 71. 19s. 7d. received by me at Dewsbury, errors, if any,
and any claims you have upon me. Do this, furnish me with
a copy of my letters dated September 24, October 11, and
February 8, and let me have my journey ledger signed, in con-
formity with the balance you claimed and I paid on the 4th of
January, as I have never had the opportunity of examining its
correctness, and then all further connexion between us will
entirely cease. At all events I am anxious, after what has
Islets place, to have the accounts between us finally balanced,
and to effect that I am quite ready to leave any question as to
allowance of the 74 commission to be settled by any respectable
commercial gentleman, to be agreed upon between us.
As it cannot be expected that I should remain here at ex-
pens. and loss of time to await your answer, I have left the
whole matter in the hands of my eolicitor, Mr. Leeman, of this
place, to whom you will be good enough to address any commu-
nication which you may have to make upon the business.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
R. W. WHITFIELD.
Lockwood's Hotel, York, Feb. 13, 1840.

STRATHBOGIE INTERDICT.--yesterday the
Court of Session (first division) pronounced a judgment in this
case, passing the note of suspens►on, at the ►nstance of the ma-
jority of the Presbyterry, who were suspended by the Commis-
sion of Assembly, on 11th Dec. last, and granting the interdict
to the full extent craved by the complainers. The effect of this
decision, in which the Lord President and Lords Gillies and
M'Kenzie concurred—Lord Fullerton dissenting—will be to
supersede entirely the Commission's sentence, and all that has
followed upon it.—Edinburgh Chronicle.
THE ROYAL HUNT.—Her Majesty and hi•
Royal Highness Prince Albert witnessed the hunt in the Great
Park on Thursday last, on which day a deer was uncarted ex-
pressly for the gratification of the distinguished visitors at the
Castle. The place of meeting was at the mansion of the noble
Master (Lord Kinnaird), at Fern-hill, and, at the appointed
hour, Mr. Davis, her Alajesty's huntsman, and whippers-in,
were there, with the splendid pack. In a short time after the
illustrious party also arrived, consisting of his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, on horseback, his father the reigning Duke of
Coburg, in a pony phaeton, accompanied by the Duchess of
Sutherland, his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Saxe Co-
burg, the Earls of Erroll and Uxbridge, Lord Alfred Paget,
&c., on horseback, and a party in a carriage, viz., Lord Albe-
marle, Barons Stockmar, Alvensleben, and Count Kolowrath.
All being ready, the party adjourned to the Great Park, where
a deer was uncarted, and the distinguished persons on horse-
back followed in the Chace, with the exception of Prince Al-
bert, who returned direct to the Castle. On his arrival there,
a pony phaeton was in readiness, and her Majesty and the
Prince entered it, and drove through the Long Walk into the
Park, and, most fortunately, obtained a view of the hunt, the
deer, which had showed a good hour's run, being taken near
the royal carriage. At the termination of the sport, and by
the Queen's command, the noble Master took the hounds close
to her Majesty's carriage, to enable her to have a close inspec-
tion of them, and their beauty excited her highest admiration.
Prince Ernest rode, in gallant style, one of the royal hunters.
The weather was delightfully fine, and the scene one of the
most gratifying description.— Windsor Express.