1 79 1. DEFECTS IN THE LAWS OF G. BRITAIN. lOl 



The publication confifts chiefly of papers which 

 Mr. S. had written in vindication of his chanifter, or 

 to obtain redrefs, and which he has hers colfetled to- 

 gether, with an evident intention, in the Grft place, to 

 preferve the memory of himfelf from public blame j 

 and, in the next place, to operate as a preventative to 

 fimilar ills in future, by roufing the attention of the 

 public to the circumftances that drove him to defpair. 



The nrft paper that occurs in this colleclion is the 

 copy of a petition from Mr S. to tbe King, dated 21 ft 

 April 1785, ftating that he had already addreiTed Lord 

 Sydney, one of the principal fecretaries of State, but 

 that he htul not been honoured with any anfwer, and 

 praying for immediate relief. 



The fecond is the copy of a humble memorial to his 

 Majefty. In this he Hates the circumftance of his fuf- 

 penfjon by General Murray in 1780 ; his two actions 

 brought agaiiift that gentleman, in each of which he 

 obtained a verdict in his favour, isfc. i^c. 



The third io a letter to Lord Sydney, recapitulating 

 his fpvcific claims for money expended in the fervice 

 of government, requefting a remuneration of his loiTes 

 and expcnces, ^c. 



A variety of petitions and memorials, prefented to 

 th* King at St. James's, Kew, and Windfor, in 1785, 

 1786, and 1789, follow in fuccefuon. Ail of thefe 

 p-oving inefFcftual, Mr Pitt, Mr Rofe, Mr Steele, Dr 

 I'rettyman, Mr Smith, and Mr Nepsan v/cre applied to 

 in fuccelhrin : fome of thefc gentlemen fe-cm to have 

 heard him with a frigid apathy, and others never con- 

 defcended to take the Icaft notice of his acpiications. 

 In this ficuation Mr S. had recourf; to Mr Alderman 

 Sawbridge, who, in the lafl feffion of parliament, was 

 about to prcfent his petition to the Houfe of Commons, 

 but withheld it en being informed by the Chancellor 

 of the Exchequer that he would enquire into the na- 

 ture of his pretenfions, and, if well founded, recom- 

 mend him, in his Majefty's name, to the confuleration 

 of the Houfe. Relying nov/ on the merits of his. 



