| Description | (Dated Monday morning. Includes a transcript of a letter from Thomas Nettleshipp to Garbett, 4 Feb.)
Dear Friend,
My last letter to Mr. Hog will not be copied before noon. I will send it with some others in the evening. Yesterday, after Miss Boulton was here, I received a letter acquainting me with what the Chancellor had ordered upon Fairholme's petition to receive a dividend upon £26,862. 18. 8, copy as under. When I receive Gurney's notes you shall see them.
I am ever gratefully and affectionately yours,
Samuel Garbett
(Copy.) Mr. Nettleshipp to S. Garbett, February 4, 1797.
"Dear Sir,
"I returned late from Westminster Hall to day, and I have since been so much engaged that I have only time to inform you that our petition came on this day, and after a long debate the Chancellor ordered that the petitioner should be at liberty to call a meeting of the commissioners at his own expence and lay before them such evidence as he should think proper in support of his debt, and that each party should present statements of their respective cases to the commissioners, and that the commissioners should report to the court thereon.
"This order will in its effect prevent the proof of the debt till a more full disclosure of all the transactions is procured; and after such disclosure the case will remain for further argument.
"Having employed Mr. Gurney the short hand writer to take notes, we shall be able to inform you in a few days correctly of all that has passed.
"Mr. Nicholls desires his best compliments. I am, &c. &c.,
(signed) Thos. Nettleshipp."
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