264 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



1 have invariably heard your 

 royal highness regret that any 

 person should attempt to do jus- 

 tice to your own character at the 

 expense of that of the Duke of 

 York, or any other member of 

 your family. 



(Signed T. Dodd.) 

 -Durir 



Qiiery — During the ten years 

 youhave been my privatesecretary, 

 when, in the most confidential mo- 

 ments, I have given vent to ray 

 woundedfeelingsupon professional 

 subjects, did you ever hear me 

 express myself inimical to the 

 Duke of York, or that I enter- 

 tained an expectation of raising 

 myself by his fall? — A. Never: 

 on the contrary, I have frequently 

 heard your royal highness express 

 yourself very differently. 



(Signed T. Dodd.) 



The above questions, written in 

 Col. Vesey's hand, were all dictat- 

 ed by me. 



(Signed) Edward. 

 Inthepresencecf lord Harrington. 

 (Signed) Harrington. 

 J. A. Vesey. 



6. A court of common council 

 of the city of London held, " to 

 consider the extraordinary and 

 alarming power lately assumed by 

 the House of Commons, of im- 

 prisoning the people of England 

 for offences cognizable in the 

 courts of law, and to adopt such 

 measures as may be deemed ne- 

 cessary for oJJtaining a redress of 

 grievances, and to reform the cor- 

 rupt and inadequate representa- 

 tion of the people in parliament. 



8. A meeting of the freehold- 

 ers of Middlesex, at the Mermaid, 

 Hackney, at which a petition, was 

 agreed to, justifying the former 

 petition, which had been rejected 

 by the House of Commons on the 

 2nd of May ; and praying for a 



reform in parliament, and the re- 

 lease of sir F. Burdett. 



12. General Sarazin arrived in 

 London, having effected his es- 

 cape from Bologne. 



14. Persian ambassador made a 

 freemason, at the ThatcUed-house 

 Tavern. 



At the close of the Old Bailey 

 Sessions, eleven prisoners receiv- 

 ed sentence of death, nine were 

 ordered to be transported for life, 

 and thirty for seven years. 



15. Mr. W. Cobbett, was tried 

 in the Court of King's-bench, and 

 convicted of a libel, respecting the 

 German legion. — Sec Appendix. 



19. Jeffery the Seaman. — The 

 following deposition was this day 

 received by government : — "This 

 is to certify, that personally ap- 

 peared before me, John Adams, 

 master of the American schooner 

 Adams, belonging to Marblehead, 

 in the state of Massachusets, and 

 voluntarily made oath, that in the 

 month of December, 1809, lie 

 did, whilst passing the island of 

 Sombrero, in the Sombrero pas- 

 sage, in the West Indies, discover 

 from his vessel a man waving his 

 hand on the said island ; where- 

 upon the said deponent hove his 

 vessel to, and sent his boat on 

 shore with the mate, who found a 

 man on tlic said island extremely 

 reduced arid exhausted, so as not 

 to be able to speak. That the man 

 having been brought on board the 

 schooner, and somewhat recover- 

 ed, declared that his name was Ro- 

 bert Jeffery, a seaman, belonging 

 to his majesty's brig of war Re- 

 cruit, commanded by captain 

 Warwick Lake, and that he had 

 been eight days on the said island. 

 This deponent further said,thatthe 

 said Robert Jeft'ery became quite 

 recovered, and went to Beverly, 



