CONCLUSION, [Chap. 



I mean a sum which I have actually PAID to 

 THE KING ; and the like of which, upon such 

 ground no Englishman ever paid before ; and 

 I am satisfied that no Englishman will ever pay 

 again. I allude, as my readers must have anti- 

 cipated, to the thousand of hard pounds, which 

 I paid in the year 1812, under the name of a 

 fine, after two years of monstrous expenses and 

 of imprisonment, for that length of time, in a 

 felon's jail. This money I have demanded back 

 tlirough the hands of the present ministry ; I 

 will demand it again and again as long as I have 

 life ; and I never will, while that life lasts, be 

 satisfied until I have obtained it. Since the 

 present ministry has been in power, I have peti- 

 tioned the King to give me back my money ; 

 and that those who are too young to have wit- 

 nessed the transaction, or to have had such a 

 knowledge of it as to be enabled to remember 

 it, shall upon this occasion hear the whole story, 

 that they may be able to form a judgment upon 

 it. They shall hear it, too, in a copy of that 

 petition itself, which I have recently presented 

 to the King, through the hands of the Secretary 

 of State. 



