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The Virginia Gazette
Williamsburg, Virginia
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Lord Holland writes to the Lord-Mayor of London on July 9, 1769, questioning if a petition he presented to the King accuses him of being a defaulter Paymaster. The Lord-Mayor replies on July 10, denying involvement in the petition's contents and claiming only to have delivered it.
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To the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor,
My Lord,
In a petition, presented by your Lordship it is mentioned as a grievance—Instead of punishing, conferring honours on a Paymaster, the public defaulter of unaccounted millions. I am told that I am the Paymaster here censured: May I beg to know of your Lordship if it is so? If it is, I am sure Mr. Beckford must have been against it, because he knows, and could have shewn your Lordship in writing, the utter falsehood of what is there insinuated.
I have not the honour to know your Lordship, so I cannot tell what you may have heard to induce you to carry to our Sovereign a complaint of so atrocious a nature.
Your Lordship, by your speech made to the King, at delivering the petition, has adopted the contents of it: and I don't know of whom to enquire but of your Lordship concerning this injury done to an innocent man, who am, by this means (if I am the person meant) hung out as an object of public hatred and resentment.
You have too much honour and justice not to tell me whether I am the person meant; and if I am, the grounds upon which I am thus charged, that I may vindicate myself, which truth will enable me to do to the conviction of the bitterest enemy: and therefore I may boldly say, to your Lordship's entire satisfaction, whom I certainly have never offended,
I am, with the greatest respect,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient,
And most humble servant,
HOLLAND.
Holland-House, Kensington,
July 9, 1769.
The Lord-Mayor's Answer.
The Lord-Mayor presents his compliments to Lord Holland, and in answer to the honour of his Lordship's letter, delivered to him by Mr. Selwyn, he begs leave to say, that he had no concern in drawing up the petition from the Livery of London to his Majesty; that he looks on himself only as the carrier, together with other Gentlemen charged by the Livery with the delivery of it; that he does not, nor ever did, hold himself accountable for the contents of it, and is a stranger to the nature of the supposed charge against his Lordship.
Mansion-House, July 10, 1769.
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London
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July 9, 1769 July 10, 1769
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lord-mayor denies responsibility for petition contents and knowledge of charge against lord holland.
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Lord Holland inquires if a petition presented by the Lord-Mayor to the King accuses him of being a defaulter Paymaster with unaccounted millions, seeking clarification to vindicate himself. The Lord-Mayor responds that he only delivered the petition from the Livery of London, had no role in its drafting, and is unaware of any charge against Lord Holland.