1690 ANNUAL REGISTER, 
of Messieurs Crofts and Co. in Pall 
Mall. 
ss That your memorialist in the 
execution of this commission, for 
the space of nearly fourteen months, 
defrayed the expences of Abbe 
Hussey’s separate journey into 
Spain, paid all charges incurred by 
him during four months residence 
there, and supplied him wi'¢t :siney 
for his return to Englar 4, ne ‘part 
of which has been repaid to your 
memorialist, 
s¢ That your memorialist with 
his family took two very long and 
expensive journies, (the one by way 
of Lisbon and the other through 
France) no consideration for which 
has been granted to him. 
‘¢ That your memorialist, du- 
ring his residence in Spain, was 
obliged to follow the removals of 
the court to Aranjuez, San Ildefon- 
so the Escurial and Madrid, be- 
sides frequent visits to the Pardo ; 
in all which places, except the Par. 
do, he was obliged to lodge him- 
self, the expence of which can only 
be known to those, who in the ser- 
vice of their court have incurred it. 
‘¢ That every article of necessary 
expence, being inordinately high in 
Madrid, your memorialist, without 
assuming any vain appearance of a 
minister, and with as much domes- 
tic frugality as possible, incurred a 
very heavy charge, 
‘¢ That your memorialist having 
nocourier with him, nor any cy- 
pher, was obliged to employ his 
own servantin that trust, and the 
servant of Abbe Hussey, at his own 
proper cost, no part of which has 
been repaid to him. 
‘¢ That your memorialist did at 
yseonsiderable charge obtain pa- 
‘pers and documents, containing in- 
formation of a very important na- 
1806. 
ture, which need not here be enu- 
merated ; of which charge so incur- 
red no part has been repaid. 
‘¢ That upon the capture of the- 
East and West India ships by the 
enemy, your memorialist was ad- 
dressed by many of the British pri- 
soners, some of whom he relieved — 
with money, and in all cases obs © 
tained the prayer of their memo- 
rials. Your memorialist also, 
through the favour of the bishop of 
Burgos, took with him out of Spain 
some valuable British seamen, and 
restored them to his majesty’s fleet ; 
and this also he did at his own cost. 
‘¢ That your memorialist during 
his residence in Spain was indis- 
pensably obliged to cover these his 
unavoidable expences by several 
drafts upon his banker to the 
amount of 4500/. of which not one 
single bill has been replaced, nor- 
one farthing issued to his support 
during fourteen months expensive 
and laborious duty in the king’s im- 
mediate and most confidential ser- 
vice; the consequence of which un- 
paralleled treatment was, that 
your memorialist was stopped and 
arrested at Bayonne by order from 
his remittancers at Madrid ; in this 
agonizing situation your memo- 
rialist, being then in the height of’ 
a most violent fever, surrounded by 
afamily of helpless women in an 
enemy’s country, and abandoned 
by his employers, on whose faith 
he had relied, found himself incapa- 
ble of proceeding on his journey, 
and destitute of means for subsist- 
ing where he was : under this accu« 
mulated distress he must have sunk 
and expired, had not the genero- 
sity ef an officer in the Spanis 
service, who had accompanied hi 
into France, supplied his necessitie 
with the loan of five hundred) 
pounds) 
