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, SIR,,

IPRIcE SIXPENCE:

THE LATE DUKE OF BEDFORD.

[Printed from the M.S. in Possession of Mr. ADAM.]

TN-consequence of a Pamphlet 'written by Mr.
JOHN BowLEs, and of some paragraphs obviously
originating in that pamphlet, the present Duke of
13tb-FoRD expressed to Mr.. ADAM the great uneasi.
rness he felt from the attacks snide on his Brothet's
memory on the subject of ReligiOn, in the said pus.
lioationS. •

The Duke particularly mentioned a note in page
36-of Mr. BowLts's pamphlet, in which' Matters,
t6?ally without pandation, Are scat ed.as rtsicive•aokt
well known fats these his Grace conceived to be
calculated to • corilirm sl,:nder, if they were
allowed 'to paqs-.uncolvradifted.• Mr. ADAMS, in
order to obtain Buch contrad'aioo; had an interview
v.,irh. Mr. Bowt.s.sl out of wide: the following
Correspondence arose. •
The :Letters and, othc.r. Documents are pri lred
without auy. ca:ument or Obsi“valion, except what
is nedessary-lo spew their conntaion. • ,
The passage; to which the letters and exautina.:
tions relate, is as tbllows :-,----Pages 35 ;old 36.

" In the parish where this doarine was delivered, A was
" Mischidvous in a 'peen-flat Uegi-eq. The ,birants 'of
"that parish had a personal krvikiiled4ct of the deceised
". Duke Ctliav knew that he 'had never joined with the:rri iri
" public worship ; —they knew. that he had pissed his Sal)-
" baths, like his othenlays, in wor!dly-. occupations and
" amtisemen ; bee", t& means of preepenting.
" fnqny othetri Irom , keeping :hat day Until this see-
" mOn Was delivered, much as they might respell uit for
" hiS amiable qualities, tOr his liberality and mithiticelfce,
" which certainly were entitled to thcrr respeci, th,:v
" must have felt that all itasputright, for want of religion,
" They could nof;"whon
~was at IVobnm M , have hea the
bell ringing for church, without 5,4-ris: misgivings in their
minds on account of his const*ut nct,lect of the sup-
" mons," • • •

" * 7th well known that Ks Grace has frequently Con-
" tributed to keep' his laboures from' church; by. paying
" them their wages on a Sunday ; and one occasion he ern
" plpyed sot= hundreds of them, on that day, in emptying
" the Great Pond at the Abbey."

(Indorsed, " Mitten in CO'rceeenet of a .e9nversation which I
" had with altr.Bo3.Vi.ts, at
,Aliee's carry
April.") - • • in
- . - Lincoln's rex, istb April, 1803.
sit,
I am sorry that my engagements have postponed my sub_
mitting to you so -very interesting a matter, as the result of
my enquiry respecting the late Duke of Bedford's-religions
principles. •-
I can answer for. the truth of the information ;-and I am
sure that you will have the greatest satistUCtion in making it
public,.in the manner that was settled between us:
I have the honour to.bc,
Sir,
Your most humble servant,
WILLIAM ADAM.;
Yob's Bov;les,.Esq; Office cif rornmix-
sioners of Dutch Claims, Broad- _ •
street •

Statement Irastm up by Mr. ADAM, ;ft Cof2teipt/Itt4
of his c9uversation with Mr. Bow L ES, Oa trans..
rnitted to Mr. BowL ES, forth? purpose of. being
.inserted in the Anti-lacoliin Review,. and in the

tiext Edition of his i-amphlit.
i. With resped to ,employing the workmen at
Woburn to empty the fish-pond on a Sunday, all the
agents and superintendants employed by the Duke
of Bedfosd, at the dint., give the most positive eon.
tradittion to the performance of that or any other
work by his Grace's, workmen on Sundays, at any
time.

z. The report resr6ling the system of paying
the work,men on Sunday, :ind keeping them by that
means from divine service, is equally without founda.
Lion.

It is 'possible of the -great number of workmen
employed by his Giace, that sortie of them, who
might by accident be unable to attend on the Satur-
day night, might call to receive their payment an
the Sunday : but even this Must have been unknown
to the Duke, and must have been both rare and
accidental ; as the arrangements for paying Ift'e
workmen • were particularly calculated to guard
against any irregularity and necessity for paying
wages on -a Sunday.
3. The effect of the allegation that 'he dirl_not
attend divine worship at his Parish Church will be
completely removed when it is known, that the
Church of Woburn had-been long in . such a state
as to render-ii unfit for the reception of a decent
congregation—that his Grace ordered it to be re-
paired at his own expence—that it was considerably
adVanced at his death—and that the nature of the
repair and accommodation. shews that he meant it
to be calculated for his own attendance on divine
worship. • .
The Duke Ofl3c UFO R neglea-of -religion be.
ing founded on the propagation of .fans, to whiet
the foregoing statements afford ample contratlidion,
his memorywill be sufficiently rescued from that obit..
quy 1w what is already stated; -but the natural.anxie.
ty which those who were nearest to him, and-who
knew hiS sentiments .on that subject best, has fur-
nished thetiers of adding, that in manKinstances
Which clid not meet the public eye lie sheaved a
most serious regard to religion.
.His deirout condUtt on the loss of a near arid
dear relation, and his Itkvino-fdesired the present
Doke'of .BEDFortn to"-accompany him to the corn-
inunion.table, :where he partoOk of the sacrament,
are powerful-Manifestations of this disposition.

Brighton, May lc), 1803.,:,

sholild sooner have replied to your communi-
cation had I been able entirely to make up my mind
on all the points to which it referred. When I had
the:...hdhotir of conversing with you on the same
subjeft, I observed that, in the last edition of the
Pamphlct t which you allude, I had 'dropped the
:two allegarions-respediag the, payment of the wages
of labourers and the emptying of a hand on a Sunday.
The former was suppressed, because thongli I found
upn further inquiry“bat the faB had is some ix-

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stances at least existed, yeti ha& reason to believe
that it was without his Grace's privity. As to the
latter, I omitted it merely because a strong doubt
had been thrown upon its authenticity. Respeding
this pm of mysoriginal statement you will allow
me to say, Sir, that the contradinion of it, which
your paper c,ntains, does nut seetn to me to be so
complete as to warrant a positive retraction : for that
cantradiftinn anv,unts only Ma general declaration on
she part of his Grace's agents and superintendants
4' at the time.," that no such occurrence took place.
The precis time when it was supposed to.kave taken
place
°does not appear, and it may have been pre-
viously to the employment of the agents and super.
intendants in question. I have made another effort
to obtain either a refutation or a ctinfirtnation of the
statement, from the quarter whence I originally re.
ceived it ; and -I assure you, Sir, that I shall be'
very happy to find, by clear, precise, and indisput-
able e,vidence, that tea such fait eq;et existed.

Respeaing the nonattendance at .church, I beg
you to recolleEt that this circumstance was not
.brought forward by. me as a substantive charge, but
incidentally, in consequence of the Duke's eulogists
'holding him up as a perfeft charaCter, and omitting
in their enumeration of the qualities which rendered
him so all m.ntion of seligion : a kind of descrip-
tion which I am sure you Will admit to have a very
injurious tendency. Should I go into a new edition,'
I shall be happy to give all the erica I cats to your
statement 'on this, as well as on the other subjefts
which,statement:l have, in the mean time, commu-
nicated" to the Editor of the. Anti.-Jacobin . Re-
view, fot him to make what the of it he may think
proper.

I have Honour to Le, Sir,
Your most faithful Servant,
JOHN BOWLES.

Adion, Esq.
Lincoln's Inri.

,Lincoln'; Int!, 14. th 1114 y, 1803.

SIR,

I have received your's of the loth : after what
passed in our conversation, it by no means answers
the expeaati,ln which I had formed.
The refutation as to emptying the pondi,-seems
to me as precise as the charge would admit ; but if
You will state to me the time when it is ailedged to
have ,k,„ place, as I know from my examina_
lion into ir that it io wjthout foundation, • I shall by
referring to bates render the refutation complete.
With respca to the non-attendance in church, 'it
is important to destroy .the, impression which was
produced by your publication, and in that light
my tatemegt should be communicated by you to the
Public.

- I. onderstool from our conversation that you
would I,ave direded its insertion, in the Anti-Jaco-
bin- t).,...view, as your publishing another edition is
uncertain, and if certain, distant.: when I learn
from you the time to which I am to refer, as to
emptying the fiih_ponds, I will send you the ref-u.
tation, in perfed confidence that you will order it
to be inserted in the Anti-Jacobin Review. •
..
I am, Sir,..
Your most obedient Servant,
• WILLIAM ADAM.
_ _

.7cbr Rattles,
cOI74,4ISS;GIIerI Cia;erro,
,Bread. street.

Lincoln's Mg, juize 13, 1803.

' 6- . 51w,•
thrreweeks have elapsed since I wrote to
you in reply to your Letter concerning the cunver.
sation which we had, and the Paper which I sent
_
4,,::y0u above a month before, on the subject of your
_publications relating to the. late Duke of Bsovo R
It is possible that the Letter may have miscar,.
lied, it was, put into the P.mny.post 4ddressed (as
you desired} to the Office of Commissioners of Dutch
Cairns, Broad-street.
I wish to know from you whether the Letter has
,been received, if it has not I will supply the defeel
as :soon as you. inform me that it has not teached
you, .hut if it has, I have just reaton to complain that
" I have no answer ; and. I shall consider myself as
justified,, unless what .was arranged is adopted, in
taking.other measures to attain the ohjea expressefl
in my conversation and correspondence with you. •
I am, Sir
•

_ .
Yoy most obedient Servant,
WILLIAM ADAM.

;obi: Boviles, Esq.
05c. e of .Commissionei-s of Usstch.

Broad-ftreet.

Dutch Commisiioncre gji;e, lune 14.

OR.

The chief cause of.my silence hasbeeri the even.
sion of my- stay at Brighton, where I received your
last Lester hut one. Since my return, ',have been
endeavouring to ascertain the authenticity of my
original information respeding .the emptying of the
pond. I hope this day or tchinorrow toreceive a
communication on that subjeti;, and
,indetd I was
waiting for this communication 'to write to
you the moment it arrives you shall heat from me,
and I send this in the mean time illat I may not ape
pear inattentive.

I remain, Sir,
Your most obedient and humble Servapr,
JOHN BOWLES.
You seem to think by your former Letter that I
have'some controul over the Anti-Jacobin Review;
which is not the case.
William Adam, Es?. Lincoln's Inn.'

Dutch CoNvnitsiourre Ofc4, june.24, 1803,
SIR,

I 'Live at length
,received the letter of which in
my last I stated Mysellto be in expedation, and I
am sorry to say that it does not contain the desired
information. Noi being enabled either to confirm
or retral my statement respeding the pod, I think
it incumbent upon ine to give you the authority .jn
which that statement was founded.

My. worthy friend the ev. WlLLrdnt AGlrr-
TER, of the Asylum, bei7g at Woburn in i 797;
ceived the information which I have communic.ired
to the Pliblic'from the parish cltrk of that
U,OIT the repi-iseltatitor Aott did me the ho.
sour to lake, I, of course, applied 1.,0 Mr.

TER, who immediately wrote to the parish . clerk
desiring him to confirm his narrative, or to contra_.
digit if not true. Noanswer wars received hy„Mr.
A. Upon the receipt of your letter at Brighton,'
again wrote to this Gentleman, requesting him. to
renew his application; this he- did after my return
to town, and I waited for his communication of the
result to reply to you. lie now.infouns me that his
second letter, like the first, is unanswered.
Under these circumstances, desirous as I am to do
justice to the memory of the deceased, and to the
feelings of the living Duke,..l cannot considet the
faCt respetaing the pond as refuted. To the expla.
nation With-which you 'Lye favoured me resp:6l-
- the two oilier fads, I, should be happy to be the
means of giving publicity ; and I refer it to you,
Sir, to decide whether, this shall be done, as expedi.
tiously as possible, by sending an article to the Edi.
tor of the Anti-Jacobin Review, or whether ,the
whole shall wait for more precise
.information. re.
spthing the emptying of the pond.
I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant,-
William Adam, Esq. JOE-IN BOWLES.
•
'Lincoln's Inn.

SIR, Lincoln's bill, 24th June, 1803.
I shall be able, I hope, in a few days, to ascer.
rain beyond a doubt, the state of the fait said to
have taken place in 1797, and I wish any publica.
tion to be. suspended till I shall have made that
clear ; as it will be much mote satisfa,Aory, that the
pUblication-shOulktake place altogether.
Yo'ir obedient humble servant,
7ahn Bowles, Esq. WILLIAM ADAM.
.
Office of Commissioners of Dutch
Claims, Braad.stteet.

(No date. Igdorsed" Re4.eived ja1y,1803.1)
;SIR,
Having a ;fiery pressing %Inntnons to attend the
Lord Lieutenant of Surrey tomorrow, at Epsom, I
shall be prevenred (torn corning to town; and ; va-
riety of business elsewhere will hinder my being at
this office till Tuesday, perhaps till Wednesday
next; but if you will favour mewith any 'commit.
nication, I will attend to it immediately.
I am, Sir, your most obecli,nt servant,
William Adam, Eq. JOHN BOWLES.
Lb:coin's hiri.

; t
(Mr. Bowles's objection to make all the reparation required
of him to the character•of the cleceatectDuke of Bcdtbrd, ap-
peared to be reduced to the ascertainment of one tact ; tht
truth or falsehood of which was capable of direet proof, by a'
reference to Mr. Agutter's visit to .Woburn, and his'converl
`cation with the parish clerk there, inthe year 1797.
Mr. Adam, in order to obtain the necessary information on
that subject, wrote to Woburn, and received copies of the
following letters, in the hand-writing of Mr. Cartwright's
clerk.)

ASYLUM, JANUARY 4111; 1803.
" SIR,

- " I do nut know whether you recolletl,- four or
five years ago, a clergyman and a lady coming wirh
Mrs. HADLipN, Mr. Ft?..K.ES'S house-keeper, to see
the parish church at Woburn, and haying'some-con-
versation with you about the late Duke. I wish
to rtcolleft some particulars, and not to assert any
thing but on good ground. It was said then, that
he had never been at his parish church I find that
he was there once since, ana that was on an Easter
as the Dule was in the curnaliSSlOn for
the peace, perhaps he received the sacrament on'that
day; as a qualification for 'his office ; perhaps YoU
can easily ascertain this.

‘. I was informed, either by• Mrs. HADDON or
by you, of a large pond being emptied'on a Sunday.;
ardof labourersbeing.paid their wages on a Sunday;
if ybu can either confirm or refute these charges,-you
will very much oblige me,• while you do an ad-of
justice.

4! I am, &c•
WILLIAM AGUTTER,"
To the Parish Clerk of 1142"""

" stR,

Asylum, 3.upm, 2, 1805.

I did myself the pleasure of writing to you some
trhinths ago, to state, that I was the Gtllliermn to
whom you were shewing the parish church of -Wo-
burn, about five or-Six years ago, When you men-
tioned, among other circurnstaike's, of the late Duke
of BEDFORD not attending his.liarish church ; that
the great -pond was emptied on a Sunday : to that let-
ter I-have not been favoured with an answer ; but
may I particularly, request an answer to this, that
you will, to, the best of jour' memory, 'recolle& 'the
circumstance, and the _information given ? If it
was true, you can have no °Net:firm to confirM die
1;10; and if it were nvt true, my worthy friend
who, on my assertion, has publlshed it, -•will be
ready to retra& what he has advanced.
"J request, again, Sir, as due to yourself; and
the cause of justice and truth, that you will give
every explanation you are able, by a 'speedy 'an-
swer to this.

" am, ecc. •
. WILLIAM AGUTTER."
To the Pqrish Clerk of Woburn.

U SIR,

.
" Your letters being given to the present Clerk
of the parish of Woburn, they were not slew q to
me, whti was Clerk at the time you speak. of till
this morning.
" 1 shall kfisweryoUr enquiries according to the
. best of my recolledion. Ido not remember the cir,
cumstance of any body' coming to see the cLurch.
along with Mr. FtltEs's house-keeper : I never
recoiled seeing the late Duke of BEDFORD after,
his return front France at church, but -once.'; hut
that was neither on Easter Sunday, nor on any
Sunday on which the sacrinvtnt :vas administered.
" The story of. a 4ornber of people being ern-
ployed.in emplying 'out the great pond-at the Ab-
bey, and of the Dues paying his labourers on 'a
'Sunday; you could not possibly r have had from me,
nor from any person who wished to speak the
troth ; both stinks being scandalous falsehoods.—
The regular pay-day of the labourers was, and still
is, every Saturday fortnight, none of whom, as far
as I can learnt *ere ever employed on the Sabliatil,
daY, except those who 'must necessarily .attend
morning and evening to feed the cattle.
"J am,- 4.c.
•
EDWARD MAN-SELL."
Rev, Mr. 4,ga:ter, dis,ylam. •

• (On the sth of August, Mr- AnAm sheaved the Copies of
the Letters of Mr: Agutter, and Mr. MA N ELL to Mr.
BowLEs.)

SIR,

Dulwich Common, Aug. 6, 1803.

In our conversation yesterday, I •think you aa.
mitted, that the letter received by Mr. AtUTTER,
.and purporting to be written by the Parish Clerk
of Woburn, was mot, in. reality,....writteo by. that
person ; of this indeed, I was before convinced, and
I cannot help observing, that this circumstance
very much invalidates, in my mind, the effect of the
testimony which it is the objea of that letter to
give. At best, that testimony, as I observed to
you; would.amount only to a denial in 18,03, of a
fad which the WitneSi is proved to have asserted
in 1797. But as the letter is. not- aElually ,written
by the person whose letter it purports to be,. its.
tired is, at least, munch diminished by that circum-
stance. Could not that person write ? Should it
be said that he diClated -the letter, and only Wrote
by an amanuensis, I must observe, that the letter
bears internal evidence that it is not of his dicta_
tion t moreover, thc copy of • The Correspondence,
which you produ:ed to me, was evidently in the
same hand-writing .as the letter received by Mr.
AGUTTER. This I cannot help considering as a
remarkable circumstance., I cannot doubt, Sir,
.your wish to treat MC with the utmost candour, but
what I have stated has strongly the appearance of
duplicity. Notwithstanding my wish to consult
the feelings of a. Noble Family, whom I much re-
speCt, as far as may be consistent with truth and
justice, the same openness which. I have hitherto
displayed through Out my communicatiops with you,
induces we to trouble you with these observations.
I ani,'Sir; •

Yew most obedient Servant,
Wm. Adam, Esq. JOHN BOWLES,
.4; s

SIR,

Woburn Abbej,,Aug, z ztb, 1803!

_ .
As I was leaving/ town yesterday evening, I re.
ceived a letter from ydu, dated the 6th inst. 4ut
haviag the post-mark of two o'clock, loth August.
You say in it, that I adinitted in our conversation
of the sth, '' that the letter received by Mr.
AGUTTF,R, and purporting to he written by the
Parish clerk Of Woburn, was not in reality written
by that •pers.on." To which I answer that I did
not make any such admission ; 'and it was impossi-
ble I should, as all that I knew, or yet know of
the letter arises from the copy sent me': your rea:-
soning therefore, as faras it rests on this atitriis,
sion by me, is without foundation. Nor do I admit
the other parts of your reasoning : • I do not titink
the letter aff„.4ds ipternal evidence to prove that it
is not Mr. Mansell's, nor " that, it amounts only to a
deni4l in 180•3 of a-fad which the Witness is prov-
ed to have asserted in 1797 the letter only puts
the matter in this situation-Mr. AGUTTER asserts
that Mr. MANSELL related the stories to him 'in
1797, and Mr. MANSELL denies., that he could do
so, as they are " scandalous falsehoods:" •

. Myobservation to.you in our last. conversation
was, that things thus circu.nstanced, the fats could
only
_be decided by the evidence of those Who were
•emploYed by the Duke of Bedford at the time : I
said I would Obtain their declarations, anti that then
the whole might be published together ; to. this I
understood you to 'assent.
• Jam, Sir,
' • Your most otraient Servant,
• WILLIAA ADAM.
• •
Yohn Bowles, Eli.

examined Mr. MA and various
iierrNr
ifi.s- AilA
in the
service of the. late
Duke of liEuyoa'n, to all
the points of circinnstance+and title to which Mr. llowLLs!s.
original charges could possibly refLr, transmitted Copies of
their Exatninations,to,Mr. tows.F.s with the following Let-
tpr . .
_ ' • Woburn, Abbey, Aug.
3 xBo3.

wasNsEtt.'s Letter
written. •I
When .I wrote to you from, hence, on Thursday
last; I had not had time to get information respea-
hwi naagysettlin:keo
ewnmeadxno:wicanri
,nienoar. whichtilab7
whomM
circumstance in the obser.
vation signed .with my name- annexed to MA,NsELL's
Narrative.

Upon the perusal of those Narratives'(the origi-
nals of which Ihave retained in my possession, and
which I shall be ready
.at any time,, on my. return
to. town, to submit to your inspe*Etion), have ino
doubt that you will, without farther hesitation,
publish the short statement which I sent to you in
it Letter dated the 15th of April last. I likewise
havt. no doubt that, in conformity ta what passed
between us.at the. India. Howie on the sth instant, ,
you will publish Mr. AGLITTER'S two Letters to
the Clerk of the Parish of Woburn, Mr. MANE L's
Answer, 'and all the Narratives which I now enclose,
by which it appears. that the short statement which.
I sent to you is correEt in the stri4est sense of the
word. It will appear---hut if nor, -I am suie you,
will not hesitate to state it .in the publication-that
the delay, since the tsth"of April,: in lay'Vng my
Statement before the Public did not rest with ine„
but arose in" the main from'your situation and.de.
sire to inquire rendering delay inevitable, Troth my
desire to satisfy You by minute examination, and
in parr from-my engagements interfering with some
appointments to meet 'you.

- When this, publication is made by yoth it is all
that is required or wished upon the part of the
Duke of lIEDFoRb, whose anxiety to- rescue his.
brother's memory from the obloquy cast upon
without foundation, by your publication, is equally.
just and natural but in case you decline still to,
publish what I haVe here suggested, I must beg to
be informed -without, drby, that I -m;ty lay the.
whole before the..Public,,io order-to counterad what
has bek.'n published in the last and in a former Num-
ber of the Anti.jitcobin Review, as well as to re.
move the prejudice raised by what you have pub.

I am, Six,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
WILLIAM. ADAM.
Any Letter or Packet addressed to Lincoln'4lknn
will be sent to me.
John Esz. •

THE EXAMINATIONS OF WHICH* COPIES WERE

TRANSMITTED TO. MR. BOWLES WITH THE LAST

LETTER.
yoreph flarrvue'll, fisherman at Woburn Park.—He says he
has been seventeen years in the Duke of /3 v. a vo a o's service—
That he succeeded 'to be fisherman at -Sparks's going away,
and worked under hint live years before lie went away—That
during all that time he must have known-every thing that was
done at the ponds, as he visited them daily, and does so now—
That, during all that period, he can take upoh. hiMself to
say,' that no pond was ever emptied or ftshed'on a Sunday by
any./11Imberof men—That he hirrp,elfnever fished on a Sun- •.
day in the large ponds, unless to take out trimmers which
:have been laid on a iYeek-day—That he takes the fish out of
the store-ponds for-the table sbinclitnes.6n a Sunday. bin' this
he does "alone—That•he never remembers, in all the time he
has served the Duke of 13Feq.oitp, any number of labourers,
or any labourers, being employed in clearing the fish=ponds
of mud, oc. taking fish. 'from any erriptied'pond to a firltone,
on a Sunday,- and he is sure no such thing ever was •d(!ne, as -
he must have seen it if it hid, being -conifintly o'CCupied
about the ponds, and nothing else---Ile says; the only work
that has ever been done on a Sunday at the ponds has' been
its casefof floods, .that he and two or three men have gone to
let the water oil, to prevent tha floods from destroying the
banks..•

He remdmbers the emptying of Cowhill pond—he does not
remember the year, but it was in the spring of the year—it
was in April lie thinks—it was the year of the mutiny iri the
fleet—he.remembers there ,were many Gentlemen, at Woburn
Abbey at the time— That he is sure the fishing,it was nut on;
a Sunday, ;And that there was. no work or hibout perfumed in,
that pond on a Sunday at any time. 'After pond was
tilled again, Drakelow pond was emptied, in the spring
about ;Our years ago; and he is positive that no labour of
fishing or clearing away, the mud was perturthed thete on a
Sunday.:
. .
Joseph Hartwell says he cannot read or write. This was
takert,doWn by 'me from his narration, and read over to ;Urn'
in the yresenee.of the Rev. Mr. Cartwright and'M r. Platt;
who both attest. the same, as Joseph Hartwell does by put-
ting.his Mark to this paper.
WILLIAM ADAM.
EDMVND CARTWRIGHT, his
Eni.v.Nin PLATT. JOSEPH HARTWULL.
i!lark.

Wchrn Abby, Aag. I;, 1803.

William Fogarty. Has been here under Salmon and looking
after, the men who worked under Salmon in the Duke of
Bedford's work ever 'since 1795. Was here in 1797 %viler;
.Cowhill pond • was emptied ; it was the only pond emptied
that year.; the great pond rigar the Abbey was not emptied in
i 797, but is now empty, and was emptied in 1802. • '-
lie kept a book of the men's time; they began to empty
Cowhillon a Monday, the 17th of April, as appears from the
book : tie, is sure that the labourers were not employ4l in
emptying the pond on a Sunday, but that the labour began ork
;a ;Monday
.and ended.- on, the Wednesday : he sat up with
another may to watch on the night between Tuesday.and
,Wedneday, as the pond was not completely emptied on the
.Tuesday, but on the Wedne4day it vmS, and the fish carried
by thelabouttrs on those two days to the other ponds.
WILLIAM FOGARTY.
Taken down from Fogarty's (talon, and read over to him.
by rrier • ' W 11.1.1 AM ADAM.
igeUrn 40bey, Sunday, gib ifugusr, 1563.

, ...
Ill'illlant Dcidron, Wobut4 Town. Worked in the Park fo the Duke Of, Bedford for seven sears ; worked at Cowhil •
pond at taking the tpud out, front the beginning to the en" -..--
of; tiritjob, cutting drains its it and helping to clear it of mud. -.
Never worked there on a Sunday ; never saw any body else
wink there on a Sunday. ..
___

•
' Was not present at emptying the pond of water or at f 5111;
ingot' it.
WILLIAM .t11)41.X.:••
Read over, as.in the other cases. his
>4 POULTON'.
in the preseni.eOf WILLIAM
inat
4.
EDMUNDCARTNV!tLCILT,
EDWARD PLATT. , ; 4:

. .
:yaw Gurnfy. Tool; cars of .the horses in the paddocks, ire .
the centre df ',which the Cowhill pond is, of course he was
on the spot-on Sundays. Been sixteen years. in the bu!te of
-13edfOrdtsseryice, and seldom absent irons Woburn..
butißt
oentticeemembeorstitel(tie
ienntplitiysintgimoct cowhill pond i it never was
. Never absent at all for tho
last sevcrt years, even with the horses,till last / , ..., .....a,y-uay...
Helped to carry the fish away, and carried twice up to the
bason ; thinks it was on a Wednesday, but quite sure it was.
not on Sunday. Never saw .any labour pectormed on the
who w allsacnedr least,sp supper,
0:::
,ro: on
eGva reet
idr ponds
th 4 ()inn
eaa
~,sSunday.
wo thhi. ei; rbr
was'i se t,t
onei).a( nui
by one
ceotynt,isen:ac off
course
ati4gt:ipleehtare;i:tteiaii :::.
Who is now in Hampshire,
of this meadows. It was
.his
at hseo;phoeniddsaeyvse,rysodbaryeatichfrca
sett, tidnierisnaetr:
s4w. any body employed in the ponds except ;hat one mail.
letitns of the water.
VIA read over to john gurney in the satne thanker as that:
to Joseph 1-lactwell; A:Ain down by me
... .
„. .
TQIIN CURVEy,
In the presence of; Ice. as before.
th6firsz Abey p.th August, tSo3.• • . .

Chance of Eversholt. Worked for the Duke ofßed•.
foal in'the Park of Woburn for twelve yc:.rs, first und4
Collier, then tinder Mr. Farey ; commenced with_ Mr,
Farey in March, iSoo : Cowhill pond was emptied while
he was working under Collier, but not cleaned out does
not remember the year. The-labour of emptying it was not
on a Sunday ;•• he never knew Mr. employ- spy men •
to work on a Sunday, except once When OA snow fell on
then top of Woburn Abbey, and wasted so tact ;hat tiv
pipes could not carry:it oft; and it run into tile rooms : tiOe
not know that any body was employed in taking the Nit out
on 3.-Sintda '
y - is sure they were nut. When he 'helped to
take out the fish of Cowhill pond it was not or a Sunday ;
never was employed in clearing the pon. I of mu‘coti t Sun,.
day, or saw any body else employed ::trout that or any other.
business except lifting up the floating gates, that was done
by Joseph Still, under Dowdeswell's direction.
Read over as in Gurney's case.
WILLIANI A,DAM.
OHN' CHAN E.
JVsburn Abbey, ivh Angus, lgoj'.

Edward Mandl, aged eighty. He was 'parish clerk _Ad
Woburn tier thirty years ; •appointed in 1770 ; resided in
Woburn all the time i doeS nut rceollea any ticrsoriin 1797.
a clergyman to whom he shewedthe church of Woburn, or
with whom he had any particular conversation ; but ate
-denies that •he ever said to any one that the lat,f; Luke of
Bedford employed some hundreds of labOurers in tinptying
the Great pond at the Abbey on a Sunday, or ever made
Iris labourers work ou a Sunday at all; tlot no suLli tact.
existed; and therefore he never could have said so, because it_
wiis not true ; and whoever said so is a villain tor brnibing
his name up with so infamous a ialsehood. • -
EDWARD MANSELL.
Read over to Edward Mansell in the
presence of L-DMUND CARTWRIGIrr•

Edward lylansell who sig is a distinci man,
iied the above, •
his'memory and intellect petteet, ht. body shake„ Dv ass
and the asthma. I put down the words as hear his.didia"
as possible, oecause it was objeded by Mr. Bowles that the
diction of the letter to .`lr. Agutter adorded internal evi—
deni:e of its not being the letter of Mansell I examitud,
hurt as to the accoullt contained iti the letter, arid I learnt
from him, as I had before from Mr. Cartwright, that he
told his story to Mr. Cartwright, who put it in writing in '
substance, made his clerk copy it, and then Mansell signed
it as he has done this paper:
i1;40-4 Toithr, 13th August, 18,4.

WILLIAM ADAM.

Not being 'at Woburn Town at the time Mr. Adam saw
Mansell; I took this paper to Mansell and read that part of
it which is signed by him, which lid declared to be the
saMe, that Mr. Adain had taken down trom what he
said in presence of Mr. Cartwright, and he declared.to
that kic never had held any such conversation and that he
cot&kl'not, for that nothing of the kind had ever happened.
130 August, 1203, EDWARD PLATT.

07Iliam Whitbread resides at .Ridgemont ; came to work 25
the Du!:e's service about seven years agui was under. Collier,
but.not ernployed in emptying C.:ownill pond, not being con,
cerned, that. time an the out-door work ; about five years.
been employed in the out-door business,. and superintended
men in the out-door work under Collier till 'Soo, and was
then turned Over to Mr. Parer: in nioo was employed in. •
superintending, the men in clearing the mud out of Drake-,
low, from.the beginning to the end of that job; never diet
any part of shat work on a Sunday, except setting a man to'
watch at half wages, to see that no mischief was done ; ani
sometimes, when heavy rains were, was obliged to take •
than. with him to let off the water, but never employed men
t) tabour on a. Sunday in,
that or any other work, and never
.

`,

a•-•
L1;17 ray jabsaiers ent15.13) el on a aunctay tri IVorittrig oi
bburirig, or any.thihx dune by tun on a Sunday, except what
absolute net,esSity required lin' the safety cit the ponds arid
cattle%

WILLIAM,WHITIIRF.AD,
Read over, as it the other cases WI. LUAM ADAM.
Mburn 46hcy. Lzth ,So 3.

Robert Siiipt-on declares that about the yar 1797, and for
seven years preceding that period, Ni well as up to thelime
of the decease of the late Duke of Bedford, he was in•the
babii or employing. under his inspeCtion a great number of
Workmen, and .of carrying on various works for his Grace the
• Duke of Bedford, an t paying for the same to the amount. of
10,0001. per annum ;, during this period he has at various
times been much troubled to complete. works in the times
Ordered by the late: Duk6:. but - knowing hi;; Grace's reason
and moderation, in very few instances ever thought. it
site to detain a single Man on the Sunday to tbrward such
Works: never had occasion to retain any number; and to the'
besfofhiiknowlcdgc, remembrance, and belief, was never
reciuired by hisG.tace to retain or employ any one. • During-
lifts period; the men were regularly -paid on the Saturday
not at a public-house, but at the office. to the year
1797, and several years previous 'he tizliev.es, no pond was
emptied,' or .fished, or • other extraordinary' work clone in 'or
about the Park without the same coming under his diredion
and superintendance, or having notice from his Grace to pre=
pare therefore. On the ieth or'i6th of April, 1797,- received
nis Grace's instructions that Cowhill pond should be emptied
and ready for fishing on Tuesday, the :Bth. In pursuance of
his Grace's instructions, the sluice was set running from the
kond on the 15th in the evening, or 'l6th in toe morning.
n examining the state of the'pond on Sunday evening 'the
16th, he observed the water was nOt:sunk so much' aS he ex-
petted, and, on searchiriginto-the canse, fotincl that a'stone
or brick had got into the sluice.holge : lie then, being anxious
to forward the running otrof the water, exerted himself foran.
hour or more with an iron bar, attempting to remove the ob..
41acle, but without circa. On the next morning, Monday
(hut not at all on the Sunday, which his' accounts of the time
and
-- pay the then received, will prove) he set MO men, Win.
rogarty and j. Gurney, to cut a chasm and let the
above-ground ; to effea this he. found no time was to he lost,
en the subject, was very anxious, and midi. everY .eXectiPn.;-as
the water became' lower, fresh ello,rts were made, to
,remove the.,
Obstruelion, which he thinks was nut (Ali:deft till the 'Nada),
Morning. On this morning his Grace with several Gentle_
nen attended ; when, moth to the mortification Of this be.
laohent, the water was not got so low as it should-have been;
tt was however soon after lowered and fished, and before.that
flay not a lish-waslook out unit:6s clandeStinely. can clear.
leg t he sluiee.hole, immense num hers c)t. fish on the Tuesday-
Went
down the same, .and the -tkrain being in different l p aces
'broke into, was for some distance found literally filled. up
wirti small and some large.tish :i.part of these were took out
(as also some eels- and ,other fish that had colleaed in --the
Mond) on the Wednesday morning.
H.G6Urn, Aug. 'l3, 1810'3. ROBERT SALMON.

(4 Coky of the falowing.ient to 117 e. Bow1(s on the sth of No.
'','onher--k'vorn the Person's having quitted the Deuce qt. 3ed-
,t'N's Jervire, his LvaininatiOn could ?lot betake:: Loner).
Lintaln's Inn, Nov. s,
Ntr. Adam -having' read to Charles Collier the passage in
the 45th and,36thpages oft be second edition of Mr. Bowles's
Vampiilek gip,t tlitliztte to it, in the presence of Mr. Thomas
earce Ihowim, of Noliolk street, Strand, 'asked him as to.
the truzli of it. Ile declared bott charges to ht absolutely
false S that, no v.ucli•thing as paying the men on a Sunday, or,
cfiptyilig the fishpond on a. Sunday, ever took place ; that 21e entered into the Puke of:l3edfortt's scrvice its 1788, and
continued till Michaelmas tSoa, when he left the,_,service pf
the present Duke. He resides now at No. 91, coeett Ann.
street, East he Was head gardener in thz pleasure-ground. ,
Taken down by
(SignNv it it Ast
AP A:\t.ed) • CHA RLLS COLLIER.
In the presence.of Titom S PEA O 4 BROWN.

nt, . Dulwich C.-onmot,, ;lug. 20, 28*3. • '
h, I have received and
desirous
the Rapers .which you sentine
irl• ‘V • urn - and, of doing justice to the memory
11 (-)te '
without for
.7.4 at is thee to mfielf,
tlf the'deeased Duke,
I propose that an,arttc le shalt be sent to the Anti-jacobin Re-
view, contal.riug the objettions which have been made to my
statement respeding the late Duke, the manner in which I re-
tcived the in torthittioll on which that Statement was fountdlz
toy,et;)er with the documents which I have just received.
firs!,
points on which my statement is controverted are three :tirt
.s,
the nonattendance at Church. On this subject indeed i 1
tl'ther the dectuCtion than the, statement itself that is denied,
---"/
ar" ex-cge'lnlgi y disposed to give full effed to the cireutni-
~
stance ot- the repair of the Church by the Noble Duke, an,.
: lipie. that had !ILI
the
, ivine Worthi Grace's life been spated, his attetldauci.
p would have been more frequent.—Mito
_ tiament of:labourers on. a Sunday; . I am equally. dis--
rvnlttclu to all that, in the caSes where this was done, it w?.5
t thetiilotlllle privity °lbis C race. Respic:ting the emptying
the docurnrie; a better course cannot be pursued than to- let
nts speak'for they —1 but • mong those doeu-
rnents I think the CorresponCliesi;:eesbe;tviee;'-i Mr. Agutter and
the Parish Clerk must appear .
' the-supposed original source of thy intbrraition : and I must
agaihs in candour c)hseive;: Particularly as the latter is
that the circumstance of the letter
'teemed- by M.r. Aglitter, ant urporting to be written 14. ,
Mr. Minsell, though hi point Pot tact .it was not written by
him, is a substantive fa Point
Which cannot be suppressed. In
the papers last cooltnunicated, an expla ;
nat.on of that cll.-
cuitalice; ivhether satisfa.tory or not, is contained- Mr.
Agnfier also wrote two letters, at the interval of about six
‘veett' or two
first or mrintlis between then:, to Mr. Mansell,
,the
burn. I which was unnoticed. - As these' letters are at Wo-
'
ot course wilr thaiik You fora' copy,cif them. • The answer,
, I can command.
Manserl.denies ilt:di-c
As it does not appear wc .
to 4ave taken
, ils tato; the conversation which is stated
place.between Mr. A ..and him in 197, I think
lie should be interrogated on that subjed.
inys,tll; I trust it will appear that,. With regard
.to,
considering the manner,
inivhich I recd qi,,e intorrnation on-which my statement i
was founded; I dia' -40. t rashly make that statement.: indeed.:
shoiikr qpiit .tiiv'e.,tten otisposed to publish one word re-..
~,llqting ilie':1:11(041ke,61 Bedford, if I had not felt that the.
eqUlitiecl-AuXcigie Which were passed upon him had a tenr;y
~,,en to corrirpt the public sentiment, by holding forth as a
-ve.4e4l character a Nobleman who; whatever his excellencies
Tlght be, was known to be deficient in his attendance on
lie Worship. ' I Sir, '
AM, ,
"Your most obedient Servant, ,
101-IN BOWLES..
I need not apprise
.you, Sir, that I suppressed my State-
?tient on the topic's int question. when I knew that it. was
controverted ; and, accordie4;ly, the note respecting the pay-
, .of lah,tUrers on Sundays, and the emptying of, the
l'ond, was omitted in my last edition.
PPilliam .641.2 m, Esq. Lin.. n's Inn.

--_--,._
SIR',
Tavislock, 2g:h o:s7,bcr, tSz.l.
, W!'ien I saw you at the Quarter Sessions in Surrey, early
1"
this thenth; I told you that I had rec.:cived your letter of
the Unh of August, and that I would pyrite to you soon.. it
reached rne in cot a . September, but Constant employ_ineot then . d Sincell "I
t• • an has made it impossible for -me, to reply
G It till nc),.
It has all al° .
Torte., that th.ng-be the ranxionswish Of the nuke of Fl'in-
the
charo
ot
irxiikl4eation of his Brother's cliarader trout
be conducted ‘,.,e,itiTur;ilttwllich You triad:: against him, should
that tite Area test cart. utmost tc,nper and iotettea?nilinng, andl
ecoo:rTnuincating the fullest inwfouritn(kal?t7osnliceinwntiensubjeet. Ac-
. maTITY., when it appeared from your letter of the loth of;
wh ciii
ist_,that you
to the al legation in the paper
cthattion
1r poritive'r,tlZtted to you for publication as.' mar warranting
tkelaratiwi E, (because it amounted only to a general
occurrence aS,emplt)nke's agents " at the time," that no such
and that it rniglit „?.!_li.g the fish-pond on Syn Jay took Pl.ace,
ment)t / imimedia"t:livyt• tai ken place previous to z:licroellitsi.p.leorYed-
the refutation to be as parelselv::d' that although, I. . 1"
ou would
state to me the time at whicl '
s the charge; Yet 1' ii,ve taken
piacei i w„,,L,
.1 it was alleriged to .
r.
-,.."'t by eXarnining to that cute render the ~
font ' 0,1 complete. To this 1 never 'keel received a dired answer
;roin you, and I,onlv discovered rhe :Life -bv your men-tient-
tr% the year tn.? ineidedt.q.y; this 'en.ibled me. to examine
~,roarrcious persons who had b...:en employed by the Ouke 01. ped-,
r I persons
year I transmitted their narratives to vou, in a
Later nfilte ksth'of An ust ; by l.-Iliti poears, that I did
tiot eentfrie nay exaniinagtion to:tlwletic '1..; - but carried it
year 1, ),,
back to a . '
period !on antecedent, and brought it down to a
period long subsequent I touts upon nie, without hesita-
tion the burthen of proving the rlegative ~f' your assertion,
which was, " ttutt some hundreds. of labourers had been ern •
eloyed in emptying the great pond ::• t the Abbey on a Sun.
ay ;" and I have p;oved, beyond all questient, that the as-
sertion. published by you is ter•oiyila' v fvu.tdatiros.
}laving thus sat .;desk the (Airy doubt sit4gested by you in
Your letter of th....toth of Ma 1
Y; 4* consi,tered myself as en.
titled to call upon you for a publication of the statement
which I sent to you in April.
Cit appears however by'your letter of the 25th of August,
ontra ou. decline to adopt that plain and simple -mode of
dicting the skin ,:r and that you wish to accompany
11 with exylahatorjr tri,itter to vihdicate the publication,

LONDO,.IY, JANUARY z.i.,.1804.

THE fixing..heard on Wednesday and Thursday
mornings. iii-the. quarter of .Boulogne; proceeded,
we find, from the French Batteries
.opening upon
some of our Vessels which hai stood very close in
daring the night,- for the purpose of intercepting ;
the Enemy'S craft creeping along shore, and which
were becalmed ir; the morning. Notwithstanding
a continued and heavy fire, our: Ships sustained no .1
Other damage than a few shot through, their sails. s'

Dutch jot/ruts to the trth hare reached town,
which contain Paria news to the 6th instant. The
CH tE F Corzstm, it seems, reached 80/ dog''' on the
31st in . the afternoon, so that he irilist have
travelled post from Paris. On the
.following
day he inspeCted his Naval Preparations, and.
on the 2d was to review The. Troops. He was
afterwards, it was. expeded,. to take. the route
of Dairkirk, Bruges, ands OsleNd. Troops are.
stated, in. articles from-G/4;74 4isler and Dunkiri,:
to be still joining the Army of England, and the
Arsenals and Magazines at Lisle have been nearly
emptied by the immense consumption of the Army:
on the Coast. AU the accounts lately received,
from Holland seem. to concur in stating, that the
attempt will certainly be made in the course of the
present month.

The Italian Troops are on their march to the
Northern Coast, as is also said to he. the Army un-
der General AVG•FRE.II7, that was isEentbled at
Bayonne. BONAPARTE having gained,the objea
for which, that. Army was assembled, via, drawing
large supplies from Spain and Portugal, under the
pretext of a purchise fur their Neutrality, will now
employ that Army in adding to the force to be elm.
ployed against us.

If these accounts from Holland are to be cre-
dited, BONAPARTE seems very- seriously to medi-
tate a speedy essay of his favourite project of In-

tasion. We, kncivir that ,all the Military Mne
about him speak with enthusiasm on the sub-
je4—an enthuilasni kindled by hitriself ; but the
Naval Men,in his service have very different feel-
ings orithe subject. .They see nothing but destruc-
tion before them, the niornent they issUe.froni their

Ports. The more sober and experienced judgments,
however, we have .no right to suppose that BONA-
PARTE will regard ; and it is only, probably, by the
i.total defeat of his scheme, that he will become con.
,vinced of its folly and absurdity. His present visit to

the Coast, we should suppose,-musobe decisive of the
execution of his plan—if it is not speedily executed,
we shall begin,t9,2think that he wavers in his, opi-
nion respeEting it.
A Dutch Admiral, YEAH EUL, has hoisted his
Flag at Flushing. He is destined to command, we
suppose, that Division of the Armament. Admiral
LETOUCTIE TREVILLE is said to be gorie on a
secret mission to Brest.

•The KING of SPAIN was seized with a fit of
apoplexy on the gth of December, and continued in
a dangerous way. •
The new Dock at Boulogne i said to be coni.
pleted, and. the Gunboats lie in it in felled secu-
rity. .T 4'la-iv-matter of great congratulation with
the
_French ; but they should recollea afsa; that to
keep their Boats in security, they. must let them re_
main in their nefty Pack !
Letters from Vienna of 2..4/11 Dec.. say, " Within
these. few. .days,.several.Couriers have arrived from
Paris to the FienchNinister CHA*MPAGNY. ;:. and it
is remarked, that` on each arrival the French Am*-
.
basSador has immediatelymy long conferences with
our Minister for Poreign Affairs,• Count COBENT.
ZEL. Our difrdences with the Bavarian Court were
_on the point of bs...iog,adjusted,but the le4'tor has just
taken possession of SOlDC.Ecclesiastical
Dtstri s.—
'Our Minister at the Bavarian Court has received

orde6 ia make rep'resentations againot that tranpe-
tion:" . .
The French Funds Were 53. 'So;

Four 'Gotteabulb Mails arrived this morning,
but the intelligence they•bring has been anticipated
by the Dutch, Papers. -

The ROYAL FAMILY Leave Windiof foi the Win_
ter season oil. Monday next.

,
We stated two days ago that Sir EVAN NEFt AN.
is to succeed Mr, WICICHikM,as Secretary of State
for • Ireland. Mr. A ormidToN, we understand,
intended that Office either- for his Brother,- Mr.:
HILEY ADDINGTON, 'or his Brother-in-law, Mr.
PRAGGE,. but.EirlST. VrNCENT's wish to remove
Sir EVAN NEPEAN from the .Admiralty, to make
room for his owii over-ruled the Minister's
determination, we believe, in this; as it has in many
other instances ;.and_in consequence,.we learn, , that
.Capt., MARKHAM, .at present one of the Lords of
~the Admiralty, to be appointed First Secretary
in the room of Sir EVAN NEPEAN, and Mr. Tucit-
•Eß, at,' present one..of the, .Commissioners:of the
Navy, is to SUCceed. I\ar. IVIARsDEN, the Second
SecFetary, who .is lilise,,,y4eto retire. The .Navy
will much regret the departure of Sir Ey AN NE fEAN
from his situatiq' a 4 the, Admiralty. these are
changes calculated only to accommocke individuals,
and gratify unwarrantable: caprice, and, by which
the Public Service is moce likely to suffer than to be
benefited in the smallest. degree.

• COURT MARTI AL.-7-'lle Trial of Lieut. Colonel
-BOYC F., Inspeding Field Officer' of the Marlborough
District, commpnced yesterday, at Chelsea; Capt.
HUGH-LLOYD, Adjutant of the 'same Distrid, is the
Prosecutor, and Geni:BnßßA-it ip;'is President of the
.-Court. The charges.-against idle Colonel are : rsr,
For employing Non-commissioned Officers, Privates
and Recruits, in his domestic •concein : 2d, For
'making talse Returns..

Private information liMng lieeti received by Mr.
BoNb., that -Syl.,.:;ester 'Godlia, one of the persons
Concerned in the late Krgery on the B.ink of Pcr-
togaj,. who was sent thither its custody a few
-months ago,. with- Gillington and Farrell, against
• ivhorn he was a principal witness, had:, escaped" out
the prison at Lisbon, and had been seen. in the
Tieighbourhooci of Bethnall-green, two of die Offi.
cers ~ were yesterday: morning 'sent in search of
him, who apprehended -and brought him before
Mr. BOND and Sir'SVfi.r.tAm PARSON'3, at Bow-
street, , when he tnadb:a—lull confession Of the
means used for hii -eicaPe out of the prison at
Lisbon, which he effe6ted by an 'old nail he found In
his cell, and a chair with which he forced up a plank
in the floor, and made his way, through,it. to.another:
dungeon,Where he found a cutlass, which enabled him•
to open a door, and having- previously engaged the
sentinel placed near the door in his favour, they
both went, off' together that. he was seven, weeks
in making the aperture in the floor, as he was forced
to a6t with, the greatest caution to elude the obser-
vation of. the guard that brought him his vietuals ;
when putting his cloak OVC.r, the spot, and sweeping
the dungeon himself, having; contrived the piece of
the plank cut out to fix in at the time ; he concealed
himself in the hOuse of an Englishwoman, at a pllce
called BJnisiras, and then went on board the Lord
Nelson Privateer, and after cruizing about ten days,
was cast away at VigohSpain,; and remained.eight
hours in the, sea'. The Cramp taking him, he clung to
,piece of wood, and in that situation, almost senseless,
ty.as taken up by a Portuguese vessel, whichalso saved
the rest of the crew of the Privateer, except four
who were drowned, and who landed them at Vigo.
• Undergoing many hardships by land, he got to
Bilboa, and from thence to England, 'by a Spanish
vessel, bound for Cork, but which, on account of
the damage she had sustained at sea, put in at Ma-
coni!,e, in Devonshire. Lie was committed to Tut-
hill-fields Bride