Being advised not to content myself with talking but to hand in a Memorial which could fix the attention of the Office on the subject of

my demand, I presented, in March 1764 the one below, (Letter A.) Every day I visited all the Lords of this office who individually gave me to hope a prompt conclusion but who when assembled decided Finally, seeing each of them prepared to retire to the country, I represented with all the nothing. force I was master of to Milord the Earl of Hills-borough the injustice I had already sustained by so

long a sojourn, and if he left London without my being informed of my lot, I was irremediably ruined,

not only by the heavy loans I was obliged to, contract, but by perceiving myself arrested in all my He then told me, for the affairs which it was moreover of the last importance to me to prosecute. first time, that he had

over three months ago addressed several questions to the King's Attorney

General, without the decision of which nothing could be determined for me.

he would allow me to use Ins name to urge an answer, and he permitted me. I forthwith prepared the Memorial to be seen below, (under Letter B.) which I presented next morning to the said Attorney General, and in the evening I addressed him the note copy of which is under Letter C. I was informed ten or twelve days after, that his answer had reached the Bureau. On the first day of July I was sent for to the office when Milord the Earl of Hills-borough informed me, in presence'of all the Lords assembled and on their part " That I might return home as soon as I pleased without entertaining the least uneasiness regarding mytwo Seigniories beyond the limits of the Government of I requested that