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ter ; and we postponed a final determination until we had 



again looked through the papers - - - - 13 4 



May 2. — Attending at Mr. Rush's in long conference as to the 

 application of Mr. Batut, when it was decided that we could 

 not offer any pledge that attention would be paid to his ap- 

 plication, but that we must procure from him such informa- 

 tion as he could give, and, if it appeared he had any just 

 claim, we would ofler no technical or unnecessary delay 

 to it - 13 4 



May 4. — Attending Mr. Gardner, conferring very fully again 

 hereon ; Avhen he stated that Mr. Smithson possessed himself 

 of the property of the late Mr. Dickinson, and never render- 

 ed an account; and that he (Mr. Gardner) considered that 

 a bill should now be filed against the defendant, (Drum- 

 mond,) as executor of the testator in this cause, for such 

 account ; and that it was expected a larger sum would be 

 found to have been received ; but that at all events a claim 

 would be established to a life interest in a sum equal to 

 that stated in the will to be the nephew's property, viz : 

 £260 per annum, which, in point of fact, had been the 

 amount of allowances made to Mrs. Batut by the testator, 

 as she could prove ; and we urged that filing a bill would 

 be useless, as it was impossible to furnish an account, but 

 Avould search through all the documents in the plaintiff's 

 custody or power, and give them every facility to settle the 

 matter in the master's office - - - - 13 4 



May 5. — Attending Mons. Batut for upwards of two hours, 

 when we told him the only chance for his obtaining any 

 remuneration from the plaintiff was to furnish him with 

 every information in his power relatii^e to the death of Mr. 

 Hungerford, which he seemed very unwilling to do, without 

 a pledge that something should be done ; and we assured him 

 that no party here could give such pledge ; and that if he 



[ was really disposed to sell his information, he must put his 

 terms into writing ; when he stated that he Avould consider the 

 course to adopt ; and advising him to give us the informa- 

 tion, and informing him, if he did not, we should resist Mad- 

 ame Batut's claim in every possible way - - - 1 1 



May 6. — Attending at Mr. Deacon's ; going through and pe- 

 rusing the documents deposited in the boxes, &c., to answer 

 Mr. Gardner's inquiry, but could find nothing ; engaged 

 several hours - - - - - -110 



May 11. — Attending Mr. Gardner as to Mr. Batut's claim, 

 when he required to be furnished with an account of the 

 payments made by Mr. Smithson in his lifetime to Madame 

 de la Batut, which we promised to procure, as evidence of 

 the fund she might claim under the will of Dickinson - 13 4 



Attending Mr. Deacon, making inquiry as to the foreign pa- 

 pers, when he handed us several French ones, and promised 

 to write for the Italian - - - - - 6 8 



May 18. — Attending Mr. Batut on his furnishing us with the 



