| Description | Dear Friend,
I heartily rejoyced in receiving accounts of the good effects of the medical discipline you underwent, and hope as the spring advances your health will be established.
Since I wrote to you the 8th instant I receive the enclosed letter from Mr. Hog, and herewith send you copy of my answer. Please to return me Mr. Hog's letter, but keep the copy of my answer. The error which he states amounts to £443. 7. 6½ is an error of his own, which I intimated in the letter I wrote to him 26th May last year, when I sent three sketches relative to the accounts of Glyn & Hallifax, of which you have copy. But he don't mention a word of the omissions in the account he received from Sir R. C. Glyn (thro' the hands of Carron Company) which amount to £10,050. 16. 5 except that he hath put the accounts into the hands of a Mr. Fraser to settle, which is merely a go by, for no true balance can be made without records from Glyn & Hallifax as a proof of their claim being distinctly founded, but my opinion is that they have been paid more than they can prove a right to; it appears that they have received upwards of £65,000.
Pray return me (the book of) Mr. Hog's answer in the Court of Session to the claim for my creditors, after reading the pages 28 to 31, and I beg you will briefly write to Mr. Mackenzie upon what is there said, and take notice that you have seen copies of the letters wrote by my creditors upon my character when the gentlemen in Scotland desired a trustee might be chose for them.
Enclosed I send an original letter wrote by Samuel Barker and signed by his father, and also a copy of it; pray return the original, as I very much value it, and therefore will send the bearer for it to morrow afternoon, but pray keep the copy.
Mr. Selkrig has not brought to trial the attempt he makes to get my Carron stock from under the influence of the commission of bankruptcy against me in England.
God bless and preserve you many years, for the sake of hundreds. I am ever gratefully and affectionately yours,
Samuel Garbett
Please also to return me to morrow Mr. Mackenzie's book of reply to Mr. Hog's answer, and a parcel, I believe, of eleven pages of my writing upon such paper as this letter.
With this I send a sheet containing material inconsistencies of Mr. Hog.
With the letter is the following:
Copy letter. Samuel Garbett [Birmingham] to Walter Hog [Edinburgh]. 16 Mar. 1802. |