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354 SECRET SERVICE UNDER PITT

servants wore examined, my Louse and storerooms explored, but
not any such trunk had arrived nor been heard of, and orders
were left that when it did, wlicro.it was to be sent to. Some
English letters that were directed to him at my house were
conveyed to Mr. !Marsden.* They were opened to show their
contents. One was from a Mr. Maddox, who, I think, is married to
Lord Craven's sister ^ (better known by being the daughter of the
Margravine) ; another from a young man going to India, and not
conveying a trace of injury to him. I wrote to a person who was
employed to execute the warrant that I could not be blind to the
afifront intended to be cast upon me ; that, if such intimation had
been given of a trunk then sent, the person that communicated the
intelHgence was able and would certainly inform by what coach it
went, and consequently they might have had it seized when Mr.
Jones was arrested. That time had now suflSciently elapsed to
have had another key made for the trunk and to place in it what-
ever papers, &c., might be recTconed convenient. That if any trunk
did come, the lock and the binges should be well examined, before
credible witnesses, before it went out of my house ; and that I neither
was awed, nor capable of being frightened, by so mean and paltry
a contrivance. Thus they had taken up McCan,' but, I find, have
liberated him, and given out that, as he was connected with Mr.
