To discredit William Hall's affidavit, (which was taken in Boston, in
June 1825, and without notice to the adverse party,) the Respondent produced
letters of John C. to Ri(;hard C, written from London before his return to
the U. States, in which he spoke with great contempt and harshness of the
character and conduct of the Petitioner — and also a letter written by the Pe-
titioner to C. R. Codman, in 1825, with a postscript also written by the Pe-
titioner, but signed by Hall, requiring C. R. Codman to produce J. Cod-
man's books, &c,

James Dal ton testified that Hall had formerly been a reputable man, and
in the confidence of J. Codman, but had of late years depreciated and fallen
into bad habits, and believed he had been in one of the public houses of
charity or punishment.
The Petit'roner also produced a letter written to him by John Lowell, Esq.
as the agent of the Respondent, dated at Paris in the year 1804, in which he
stated that he had written to the executor of J. Codman, (the Respondent)
advising a liberal compromise with the Petitioner, and had given him (the
Res[)ondent] a dark picture of the Petitioner's delays of justice, and saying
that nmch was not to be expected from the property in France, after pay-
ing all expenses. Also a letter from Mr. Lowell to C. R. Codman, dated
Boston, March 10, 1824, exphiining bis said letter to the petitioner, and de-
nying the construction given to it by the Petitioner, in his publications.
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A letter from R. Codman to the Petitioner was also produced, dated Sept
If 1800, in which, in answer to a complaint made by the Petitioner, that R.
