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to be tried by a criminal court, I received a Memorial from him against the Judge Advocate, on account of a Bill drawn fifteen years ago upon General Bowyer. It appeared that this bill was for £26-6s and was drawn the 14th Feby. [February] 1793. McArthur had now made it amount to £82-9-5; and Judge Advocate Atkins declared he never heard any thing about it until ten days before, and that the Bill had received no regular Protest, although McArthur, in his Memorial to me, stated that it had been regularly protested; I referred this business however to Mr Atkins who wrote to McArthur and promised to settle the Bill. McArthur requested, that in order to enable him to arrest Mr Atkins and sue him for the debt, I would suspend him for the time; and this suspension appeared to be the object he had in view, to enable him to plead it more powerfully as a reason why he should not sit on his trial in the ensuing criminal Court; for he afterwards wrote to me, requesting I would appoint another Judge Advocate on his Trial which was to take place: to which I answered I could not interfere with the Patent, and the Law must take its course.
16th On the 4th January 1808 Captain Putland of His Majesty's Ship Porpoise died. He was my Son in Law; and on the 9th was buried near the Church, with all
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