TJiat your Petitioner's wi/e, tlioogh one of the best tmd most
aocompU^bed of women, did, under the continued inAuenee of panic
and droad, trust tbe settlement of his affiurs to peo{)k* who bad no
iuierest whatever in his welfare, and wrojle letters to Canada, giving
assurance that;lll was managed lor tbe best:— that your Petitioner^
/being unavoidaUy detained in Canada six monlhs after bis stock and
farm liad htea iu tlie possession of bis successor, and after this
person bad commenced the operat ions of a second year, beiag de-
Juded with reports sent from home^ Jipd stiU more with an assignmeBt
subscribed by his solicitor, did, without suspicion or due .considera^
4ioii, put his name to tbe same, by which his lease was conditionally
•made over to the person tn possession of tiie farm : — thai, after this,
he was forcibly detained abrcMul, and did not ^et borne till December,
3819, when be discovered, for the first time, thai his lease, which he
^iid valued at three thonsaud pouuds, liad been given away for
nothing ; that his stock had been valued at half its worth, and that
half put into bond for the security of his successor in the farm : — that
Jiis lease bad been assigned away while it was not yet settled by the
Master in Chancery : — that the Duke of Somerset had objected to
the assignment, and had further resumed the suit in Chaucery by an
appeal from the judgement of tbe Master of tbe Rolls to Uie Chan-
ceiJor, — in short, that his affairs were not only in the nwost 4readfnl
state of coixfusion, but that he had not a penny left in tbe world at
his disposaU-r-That, in this sfituation-, your Petitioner sutSsred hJs
housetiold-furniture to be sold to pay law-expenses in meeting the
X>uke of Somerset's appeal: — that, the cause coming on for a lieariog
in 1821, fees for pleading were paid out of this fund, hut without
^avaii, tbe Duke 434 SoVnerset futhng to a))pear in ecnirt, and after-
wards, fimling excuse for not appearing, got liberty to go on with the
iuil for a niere deposit of ten poands, and wlneu your Pdiiioner's
uionied oieans of opposing him were exhausted.
