The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-06-25 00:00:00

TO THE RIGHT HON E-

MY Lone,--I have a piece of land adjoininz your
estate in Leicestershire, the occupation of w!,14, I
believe, your Lordship will think very desirt de. and
I shall send my agent to negociate with your Lord-
ship respecting it. There is a piec., of water at the
corner of it, which Is round very useful (not to
indispeusibly necessary) to the occupier of the land;
but as it is well stocked with trout and gudgeons. and
I now accommodate some very particular friputh
with it, who are very fond of these fish, I am on
that and other account,' very unwilling to take it
away from them: nevertheless, as I wish the affair
to be conducted on " the most liberal basis," I have
made " no limitations or restrictions whatever to
the authority with which I have invested" my agent,
but have declared to him most feelingly and
tragically, that " no sacrifice on my part will
cost me a moment's uneasiness ;" and that he
may " let you take the whole of itir land, pond,
and all. It may sot be amiss to observe, that
it is possible, when the treaty with your Lord.
ship is nearly arranged, my agent may say, that
notwithstanding he has full power to treat for all, it
will be most consistent with my honour and interest
(of which he is the best judge) to reserve the water;
and that to remove the present occupants would be
disgraceful to me, 'and cast a stigma on my appoint-
ment of them. If the negociation should be broken
off upon this, anti your Lordship's common sense
should suggest to you that it is a concerted plan be-
tween me and my agent, and you should feel
astonished we should not state at once the water
was to be reserved, instead of attempting to impose
this farce upon you or the world, I beg your Lord-
ship not to attend to such a monitor, but rather con-
fide in the assertions of my agent, who will give you
every possible assurance upon his honour, and who
is the Most honourable man, which I have his own
oft repeated authority for saying.

It will be for your interest to close the bargain on
such terms as you can get—for if it goes off, the re-
lations of the present occupiers will assist us with
plain lying, and will assert, that you demanded they
should be discharged without due notice, and should be
insulted while they were removing their effects.
I am, my Lord, &c. &c. &c.

S. T.

The LATE MIKE of QUEEAITURY'S WILL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.

Sin,--11. is now nearly one year and three quar.
ters since the decease of the Duke of Qt:Etv-at
aqd it must he still frc,h in the public mind, that in
his will, the Duke bequeathed a -reat number of le-
gacies and annuities, to different persons. Now I
conceive that the motive of the departed Noble was,
to assist those persons in whatever pursuits they might
be engaged in with money : and particularly thoseia
middling circumstances, by his annuities of 100.
2001: and 5001. per annum. But the Duke's genero.
sity has been perverted and abused most scandalously,
by some person or persons, who have, by one ex-
cuse or another, kept those of the poorer sort
out .of their money. I can assure you, Sir, that
although there are nineteen months in arrears to
the -claimants, not one penny has yet been paid;
and if a person feels uneasy for his money
(which I *may call his due), he is told that the
will is in Chancery, but it will soon be paid.—
This story has been told over and over again,
till
three persons, who had claims on the property, WI
died. I should like to know how many more cl,llm-
ants are to die, before the money is brought forth ?
and when the honest treasesrers mean to fulfil their
duty (which has been unfortunately entrusted to
them) by paying the arrears of the annuitants and
legatees, accgrding to the last will and testament of
the late Duke ?—I hope the peiusal of this he
the spur to excite some of these who are %tell
cumstanced to take up the cudgels in behalf of tliJ
parties injured by this system of perversion, and he
taking legal means, force these individual, !o
pay the chtimants their due, and not let another
! month go over, as the last nineteen have passed.

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