The Sun.
London, England, 1802-12-15 00:00:00

or how it originated ; but-it was generally credited,
and many will continue to believe it, who have heard
the report, and will not see the refutation.
I have said in a recent Publication; to the person
I address in it—" Those who pretend claims,
threaten to appeal. to .you—those who are indebted
to me, set me at defiance ; Men of rank, men of
honour,-men of no-honour, my very servants, the
lowest people in "society, all threaten me with Lord
***o-"Your name is invoked and conjured with
like One of the infernal spirits appointed to mischief
—every.one.expeas money through your Lordship's
intervention where it is not due, and where it is
owing they hope to elude payment—lf your ani-
mosity was not notorious, why am, I thus menaced:'
Why is this inauspicious name so dreadfully echoed
and re-echoed ? Why is- no judge singled out but
your Lordship ? Is it a stigma on me or on ycu ?
Even the contemptible Solicitor in this cause, anti-
cipated his success—it came in evidence before-you,
that he had assured- his clients " Lord ******
would infallibly decide against his old adversary,"
—" I have to arraign you for a run on the house—
for the devastation of my affairsfor the sudden
sale of my property at a quarter its value, to an_
swer unexpeled calls-=for the defalcation of agents
—the pilfering. of clerks—the desertion of friends
—for universal desolation—for disgrace and dis-
comfiture—for ill-treatment and injustice—for total .
ruin of fame, health and fortune—and yet I am
charged with no crime but that of opposing your
opinions ! !''
Harrassed and tormented for twenty years, en_
,gaged in transaaions that try' the charaEter, and
rouse all the passions, abused by _every one who
meditated fraud on the, slandered by venal prints,
rendered obnoxious to the Courts, no aid or pro-
teelion any where, I am at length made bankrupt ;
but_ though curiosity, and expectation have been so
excited, nothing astonishing or extraordinary has
transpired; my negotiations were' not dishonour-
able, my accounts were accurate, my connedions
were respeftable, whatever injurious rumours my
Commissioners may have heard, the filets do not
confirm them—and how stands the account Avith
the world; after. twenty-five years industry, which
I hoped had' procured a compe!ency for that
period of my days that is no longer fitted for
struggle, and Which' should be a tranquil interval
between- life and death—it stand thus have
lost so,oool. by misplaced confidence in Men of
Fasiiion,and rMerchants—l owe or. Scool. and
have upwards of 80,0001. due to me—if all that is
owing 14 bad, it still further proves that I have
been robbed, and have not been .the robber, as I
have been brutally called.
I have often written, and my conscience does not.
reproach the with want of veracity, but this time-
there can be no question on the subjea—the throng.
that attended my commission must vouch for my as-
sertians, the farts are on tecord, and the proceed=
ings will be perpetual and irrefragable testimonies.
Thus adventitious circumstances may combine to
harrass, or the designs of malevolence may conti-,
nue to torment an individual till he sinks, without
deriving any resource fsom the liberality of his
ry countmen-, or the justice of the laws.
J. KING.
Fleet Prisos7, t3thsPec. 7Soz.