A memorial and petition to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, on the principles of public faith, common justice, and His own royal promise / [Samuel Lee].

  • Lee, Samuel, active 1743-1800
Date:
[1771]
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Credit: A memorial and petition to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, on the principles of public faith, common justice, and His own royal promise / [Samuel Lee]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    E *5 ] But no fooner was Lord Ligonier ferved with the neceffary procefs of the court than he fent' it to the War Office, and in anfwer was told, that the folicitor to the Treafury fhould be or¬ dered to defend it; he was accordingly employed, but not by Lord Ligonier, for he was too noble and too juft to deny the fa£t. But Lord Barrington ftill tefufing to make out the warrants for the money due, the cafe was at laft laid before Mr. De Grey, your Ma- jefty’s attorney-general, who gave his opinion thereon to this purport: “ That your Petitioner could not in that ac- “ tion recover a compenfation for an annuity for 14 his life upon the evidence then ftated *, but as 44 long as the contrafl and fervice did continue 4C and was in ufe, he was entitled to the ftipu* 44 lated price; and that for as many years as any 44 one man was fent to the hofpital and received, 44 he ought to be allowed the 300 h a-year.” But Lord Barrington being no more content with this opinion than the words in your Ma- jefty’s warrants or Lord Ligonier’s vouchers, no money was paid into court; and the caufe came on to be heard in your Majefty’s court of Com¬ mon Pleas the fittings after Michaelmas-term 1769, when it was fully proved under Lord Ligonier’s hand in his letters to your Majefty’s fecretary at war, that the agreement was three hundred pounds a-year for life,
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