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(AOYERTisiimv.NT.)
Liverpool, 30t/i Jely,
cErrt.EmE7,--4 Yesterday received your kind present of an
• elegant shyer ,snriff-tiox, and your grateful acknowledgments
for What v.ar are pleased to call my kind attention .to your com-
' forts a-nd. welfare.
Allow toe to state:that on the Ist Ari 803, I was sworn in
as a lairdirig-Waier for the port of . yerpool, apd on the 34,,
when • VegnoolNrced the business e quays, the, theh collet ,
tor, the liite'liithur Onsliity, Egli,
" Sir, you are now entering upon :an important Office as
lending-waiter or the poit of Liverpool.
"Sir, yourlirstAttention is, that hi Majesty the King shall
receive. no injury, and that all his duties shall be regularly
discharged.
Your next attention is equally as binding as the first—that
you give every accommodation tattle merchant cousistent with
your duty to ihe crown."
To which address I replied-
-4-;Sir, my rittnost attention shall be giyea,to your most exeel--
.Itqrtintctructit-tus, and I hope by so doing to merit your kind
pprohation." •
Collector.— and trust vou will."
These excellent :instructions, to the utmost of .my abilities,
were my'gilide and ride fp.i,%tbe three years that I was a landing-
waiter ;'and I received the-.approbation of the collector and
controller, by their recommendation to the Honourable Board
of Customs, on my being appointed to. the Situation of jerquer
of the customs for theport. of Liverpool.
On the Gth March, IMO 41,.1.iyerpool for London to go
tinder instructions nsa jerquer. ()a the 26th of the same month
I t-etti ruled to Liverpool, and on the 27,th was Sworn. into, and
took possession of the, jerquers:oftice, which I am very sorry to
siiy.was in dreadful confusion. .'There were ten thensand ships'
Mite hooks without a single warrant. in them,. and there were
nearly one Inindwd Ilit.usand warrants heaped together Which
it was4possibleio assort. (The warrants belonging to each
blue book might tohave been tied tog Other. and kept inside the
blue took.) After two years' great exertions, by which my
health was severely injured; the
.office was brought into order
and regularity, and. has continued such until the day I left it,
the 14th AprillBls.
The number of vessels from foreign parts, English as well as
foteOrn,., arriving at the .port of Liverpool were, in 18j6, 1226;
in 1516:1477 ;. and in 1831 3411.
Eighteen years since, when the, number of vessels, from fo-
reign.parts were only 1477 per year, I; bad four clerks; andwhen
thiorumber was more than double, four clerks only have I had.
will it Le believed, that on, the 29th March, 1831, the present
inspector7general, Alexander. Ross, Esq., came into thy office,
'When the following conyer,satioutook place:-
11r. Aciss.--Sir, I am coming to take one of your clerks from
you.
I hope in Godyou will not, for youwill rain my
Alec 4E.ypu do.
..,
11r: Boss.—l shall, give you ; but he is not worth
Ruch..
Mr..13.—1f, sir, he is not worth much, what shall I do with
him?
hedoes not suit you, report him to me, and I
will break him.
' Rlr. B.—l thank: God, sir, I mever broke, but one brother
offiCer, and then by.tlie command of the late controller, Edmund
.Righy,Esq.,.aod that was poor Jack 'Wright, and he deserved
it alit:ye twenty times.
you,.sir, (stretching out his hand;) 'lave
bieke.i,iriarry an officer, and I hope in Gist to break many.ntore!
'The inspector-general then left my ,oflice.
Surely, 'surely a. most gentlemanly and ehristian-like expression!
April Ist, 1831.—The inspector,geoet'al took - from me Mr.
,William Every,-who had been my clerk for eighteen years; and
before the 10th September, 1834:he had-given me ten different
eler'ks. ,
,SePt.lo,.lB3l.—lle came into my office and said, " I am
conic to inspect your office;" and in a little time he said, " I
And it greatly inarrears."
"'Sir,"•l replied, "Itjs. you I have to thankf)r it. You took
away oueeftny confidential clerks, and in lessthau five months
you have,giyen me ten differentelerks."
7Mr.l.liiss.—Sir, I will look . no. further. I :will come again
. .
irfterqtiarter-day (the' Kith October); and:if you and your clerks
'have not got,up your arreals by
-That, time, I • have the power,
and I will make yhu and your clerks come everv.morning at
eighto'clock,und,make them irrulyou stay until ;light o'clock,
at night!
Mr. 13.—Sir, unless you give 11344-ssistance, it is impossible to
bring up the arrears. But you wilt do as you please.
Oct. 17. IS3 I.—This fatal day.carne, and William Southgate,
surveyorbpf the.eas.tenis,, as shot in the Custom-house-
yard, and live I only two days afterwards—a melancholy event
indeed !

Gentlemen, following those excellent instructions given me
by our former collector, Arthur Onslow, Esq., I have 'ty the
best of my abilities paid every attention. (ns was Mr duty) that
the crown did. not •suffer from the 'entries being delayed;
and, 'that every ,accommodation should be 'given to the mer-
chant, I employed my oldest clerk,- Mr. I talsal Latham, entirely
in eXamining.and romparinglhe copies Of the ships' reports and
the tide-waiters' blue boots, -that, tf-possible,'no delay'Should
.be caused in the jerquer's-otfice; and, I catywith confidence ap-
peal to every merchant. in Liverpool if such has not been "the
ease for the twenty-nine years last past when I held that re-
sponsible office.
I have mentioned only a few of the acts 'of your present in-
spector-general to shOw 'that.you are not the only persons in his
Maiesty's Customs who have fallen under his'yentlemcinly
snout.

I am now addressing, a memorial to our sovereign Lord King
Willia►u the Fourth, sl4mring forth the many
„gentlemanly actions
which your present inspector general (which we will suppose)
has pleasingly performed; and and trust his Majesty
mllia-greatkiudness to thewelfare of his brotherfieemen of
Liverpool,' most handsoiriely rewar,l the same high,minded,gen-
tlenian according to his great deserts.—Wishing you and your
families health and comfort in this life,

I beg to reruititt,:gentlemen,
sitour'sint•ere
BRYAN BLUNDELL,
Te the Members of the 'Weighers' Funeral SociCty of
his Majesty's Customs, Liverpool.