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tracted large debts during the progresa of the agreement,
for the purpose of including the same among the debts to
which the agreement related." Now, with respect tol h •
annuity, neither Sir HERBERT TAYLOR ncr Mr. WEST-
NAcorT has deposed to the payment of one single shil-
ling on that account, nor even to the completion i f th
deed by which it was to be secured ; although in on^
n onth afterwards— in the middle of December, W LAT -
Acorn went down to Melton Mowbray, if not by/the
cle,iro, at least with the sanction, of Sir H. TA YOR ; End
did tli,m and there, by the express desire of Sir H en-
BE RT TA v Lon, offer an augmentation of the annuity,
kind an increase of the sum for the liquidation of debts
o the very persen who, Sir HERBERT was " fully per-
gimlet', never intended to perform the agreement !
!"
And the additions so proffered had no reference to any
breach of the agreement on his part, nor were they ac-
companied by any stipulation for the delivery of the
copies which GARTH is sow charges' with having caused
to be taken of the mysterious papers; nor was
there one word of reproach uttered by Sir HER-
BERT Or WESTM A COTT •but it BMA simply required
that GA RTII should retire for a short time to the
Continent, whilst arrangements were net& to satisfy
his creditors, " wi:liout compromising his honour"—
for such were the totals in which Mr. WEATMACOrr
urged his compliance with the wishes of those who, is
Sir HERBERT'S; words, were " willing to save hint f:o n
deitruction."—With respect to the reduction of his debts,
it should not be farg:citten that GARTH under-
took to make that reduction, as far as he possili.y could;
and Mr. WESTMACOTT swear. that some of the diffi-
culty he encountered in, the arrangement of his affairs,
arose from GA BTU'S having disputed several of the
debts. Beside, it was expressly stipulated that
whatever sum, exceeding 8,0001. was a Ivancad for
the purpose of discharging his debts, should be
deducted from the amount of the annuity; so that
Oman, •so far from benefiting by. any such spe-
cies of extravagance, 'would only be anticipating his
annual income.-1 find there are so many point:.—and
points of great importance—yet to be considered, eat I
must defer the further discus.don of the subject till to-
morrow. I ant, Sir, your obedient servant,
Nov. 23, 1829. JOIN OLDHAM.

THE KING AYD THE COMMON SER-

GEA NT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Si a—A fortnight has now elapsed since, in conse-
quence of Mr. RECORDER'S indisposition, the Council
appointed to be held at Windsor, at which the KING was
to receive the Report of convicts under sentence of death,
was postponed; and ,no intimation has yet been given,
either of that officer's being so far restored to health as to
be able to perform his important duty ; or of the plea-
sure of HIS MAJESTY to receive that Report at the
bands of Mr. Comm); SERG EAR T, upon whom the
duty should devolve. In the mean time the wretched
convicts are left to epdure a state of the most horrible sus-
pense, their minds distracted between hope and fear,
and unable, whilst the chance of prolonged existence re-
mains, to devote their thoughts with calmness and resig-
nation to the awful contemplation of that eternity upon
the verge of which they stand. On such an occasion,
your contemporaries—who owe their very existence to
popular favour—aye, from the profligate and prostrate
" Times," down to " the authority that never deceives,"
—the demi-official Courier—have laboured