| Title: | James Moty, Quebec, [Canada?], to W.J. Alexander, London. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1905 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Moty, James/35 |
| Year | 1858 |
| Sender | Moty, James |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | barrister |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Quebec, Canada |
| Destination | London, England |
| Recipient | Alexander, William J |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | business |
| Source | D 2433/B/20/36: Deposited by the Trustees of the Caledon Estate. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9601098 |
| Date | 20/03/1858 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 05:01:96. |
| Word Count | 768 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | 19 Esplanade Quebec 20th March 1858. Sir, I duly received your favor of 2nd March instant together with six letters of Lord Caledon's which I had the honour of sending to your address on the 29th January last. The letter from you to his Lordship you say you retain of course, "as it is indeed your own property." upon that point, however, I beg most respectfully to differ from you when it left your possession it became Lord Caledons property, and I, as custodian am now the proprietor. I shall, in the meantime, be but too happy if you will please to keep it in your possession until the unpleasant affair be terminated upon condition that should I require it, you will restore it to me: should I not, I can have no wish to take it out of your possession. By the last mail I received a letter from Mr.Smyly, as you will no doubt, have heard by my note to you of 13th inst and as that gentleman says in his letter "I have requested Mr. Alexander, in whose honour you may have perfect confidence, to dispose of your application according to the justice of the case, and he has kindly consented to do so [Viz?]" I had hoped that by this time, this matter would have been happily terminated but, I am afraid, if I must consult [Messrs?] Bischoff in the business, it may prove to be very unpleasant. I am aware of the difficulty which might arise to prevent me from recovering my claim by law, but, as this matter was considered both by his Lordship and myself an affair of honour, I trust you, Sir, of whom he has sometimes spoken to me so favourably, will view it in that light, to the contrary of the duty of executors notwithstanding what, if I now speak hypothetically of course, would be the consequences if I were to advise the mother of those children to sue Lord Caledons estate for œ200 a year, which his Lordship told me was the sum he intended to allow her for their maintenance until they attained the age of 23 years You have no doubt, but that she could recover upwards of œ4000 from the executors. [That?], however, is not my intention. I only demand what money I paid to oblige his Lordship; in one of his letters you saw he promised to send me over œ500. You can easily ascertain he never fulfilled that promise, but for no other reason I am convinced then that I did not allude to his indebtedness to me, because as his Lordship lives with me in Quebec after the Guards mess was broken up, so the Honourable Fred Savile, a relation of his, then a Captain in the Royal Artillery, can certify, and as he made me promise to go over and spend a year with him in Europe, I thought, as such was then my intention that then we could settle our accounts. I had no idea that the law suit before the Privy Council which [Messrs?] Bischoff Cox & Bompas are now conducting for me, and which I foresaw would have to be carried to England, would take all the time in this Country that it did. Six years, and consequently I wished to go over as well for the purpose of seeing his Lordship as of attending to my business, but his death, which only reached my ears long after it had taken place, has given rise to this most unpleasant correspondence. I have only to add that I am prepared and willing to give my affidavit that His Lordship is indebted onto me in the sum I demand, [viz?] œ420 and that if I wanted to charge him interest and professional services it would be nearer œ1000. I can have no objection that you mention the matter to [Messrs?] Bischoff Cox and Co. and if you do, you may, if you please show them my letters. For my part, I do not wish to speak to them on the subject, unless you have made up your mind not to pay my claim without litigation, and then of course, I shall consider myself at liberty to bring any action that I may consider [conducive?] to my interests. But, I trust, such an unpleasant alternative will be prevented by one whom I have every reason to think so highly of as your self. I have the honour to be Your very obedient James Moty W.J.Alexander Esq. Atty. [Attorney?] Genl [General?] to the Prince of Wales London. Please pardon this scrawl, I have been writing 8 hours. |
