| Description | "Renewed application."
35. Highbury Place.
2nd. Jany: 1829.
Gentn.,
I take the liberty after the lapse of a considerable time of again addressing you on the subject of the Accounts still remaining unsettled between Messrs. Boulton & Watt and the Estates of my late father and uncle, and in doing so I feel I should not be doing justice either to myself or those for whom I have to act were I to omit any endeavour to obtain a Settlement of these long standing Accounts.
We have in our possession a multitude of Letters from the late Messrs. Boulton & Watt expressing their great Satisfaction with the manner in which my late father and Uncle conducted the Business entrusted to them by Messrs. B&W., & with the successful Issue of their labours in legally defending the Steam Engine Patents and finally ensuring to Messrs. B&W. the peaceable possession of so valuable a property.
I am aware that at that period Messrs. Boulton & Watt very handsomely presented to my Father & Uncle the Sum of £1000 each as a token of the high Sense they felt of the valuable assistance rendered. At the same time I cannot imagine that Messrs. B&W. ever intended that their voluntary present should be considered as a liquidation of all Sums due from them to Messrs. A&JW. which would virtually destroy the Compliment at that time intended. It also appears from my Uncle's own papers that such was not his idea and that he considered the Accounts between Messrs. B&W. & A&JW. as unsettled, for Messrs. B&W's Account is included in a List of unsettled Accounts drawn out under the Direction of my Uncle after my father's death and in addition to that Circumstance a great deal of the Business included in the Account transmitted by us to you was done Subsequently to the time at which the sum before mentioned was presented.
In a legal point of view perhaps we cannot compel a Settlement of his Account but I trust that you will not allow such a Circumstance to operate to our prejudice and that you will do us the favor of giving your early attention to this matter & of informing me of your decision upon the Subject.
I am, Gentn.
Your most obt. Servt.
Ambrose Weston
Messrs. Boulton & Watt
Soho |