Craftsman Or Say's Weekly Journal (Newspaper) - June 17, 1775, London, Middlesex yarded it be done without being by bis that he was irv t- As well T can it was abaut this that Mrs. Rudd produced a letter from Mr. William I would procure of money upon It was to in a private ad Mr. William Adair woOld by no means have it appear that he was The was given to row it only from fuch as had great in and the of this was faU to arife from the preparation making to fix me in the banking it was I would provide a bond or in the fame manner I had done when the joint bond for 5000!. was At this of S time I cannor positively fay for what fums the bonds were drawn all I can recoiled that J got Mr. Wilfon payable to and that I gave them to Mrs. who J carried them to Mr. William them back executed by that and that my borrowed on them of and 4000I. from Mr. a banker in which he gave as I carried the Mr. William Adair for his I well before the bonds became bought by Mrs. Rudd from William as ihe and delivered to repay Mr. which was accordingly bonds returned to Mrs. Ji was alfo about this that my brother letter brought by Rudd from Mr. William to procure a further fum of upon like bond from Sir Thomas which was done the money was given to as my brother and carried by her to Mr. William and brought back by Mrs. Rudd before the tine and to my brother to repay Sir Thomas which well as I can in the to department a pre- I was vious favour qf Mr. W however Mattered with the hopes of for fome other place it was that money might be and that Mr. William Adair would not break into the fum he had provided for the ' A letter was foon after thought me from Mr. William ine to provide a bond and I accordingly made Wilfon fill updone for 3000V.. pay able to and gave it to Ms. Rudd to take to Mr. William Adair to fhe returned it to me the day with nature of Mr. William as the joint bond from and William Adair had Both my brother and endeavoured to borrow 3000!. opon this bat could as the borough could not be the money was not and I returned the bond to Mrs. as I carried it back to Mr. William who I imagined would it. In November I was directed by letter from Mr. W. Adair to treat with Gregg and Lavie f Pall-mall for our in ban but Mr. Adair not approving of the the treaty My broiher had been Rodd td entertain great expectations from Mr. Adair's A compliment of 500K was particularly to his and he as has-been t0 be admitted a partner in the bank which was Mrs. Rudd faid J told had them converted into ij i i I 4 r as the beginning of June 1774, Mrs. Rudd told that of 800I. per annum from Mr. Adair was now to and Adair bad fixed it at 1500!. per as fhe was 12ool. for our general and 30cd. for the expences of Mrs. Rudd's and the This allowance the of that that to be a third a gentleman I a particular friend of Mr. William name was Mr. Edward Payne that Mr. Adair and Mr. Payne had chafed the houfe of Mr. John Douglas in Pall-mall for that vAbout the month of November 1774, my brother was applied to by a from Mr. delivered by Mrs. to borrow of Sir Thomas Frankland 5600I. 4000I. of which Rudi faid was to pay for the houfe in it was inconvenient for t Mr. William Adair to pay the money for the houfe at that My brother wrote to Sir Thomas then in and by the return 0 Mrs. Rudd had been &c. which fum determined be given and charged upon the of Mr. William for which fum he would allow us an at the rate of 5I. per cent. This of but I conceived it to be the joint benevolence of both the and as Ihe had given fo many of the uncommon of Mr. Limes I did hot her veracity in this and as Ihe told me that Mr. like Mr. Jamesr was admit of no interview until bur whole was I forbore to urge the point of paying rry acknowledgments to and I it will hardly be that any other had been led on by degrees of artful deception to fuch a would have And as I found afterwards was reguli 1 y paid to Mrs. and by her to I had every to the mod implicit confidence in thing fhe told the country Mrs. Rudd produced letter from Mr. dittoing me to a houfe near limiting the price not to exceed 2600I. I came to town times on this but not find a houfe in the I by another 10 a houfe in from Mr. a price of which to be 4000K Mrs. Rudd to be to go to town to meet Mr. William and on Ihe me with a letter from a draft for 19,000!. on in this ihe was to make part of the capital intended for the banking and I was ordered receive the and that as Mr. William Adair would be town at the time it would become of before the draft did become fhe informed Mr. Adair was giving roc a letter wherein be the be Ihe at the feme time This vras in the month 4raft might informed an in the county of which was intended fdr a qualification for my feat in The name of this faid was with other minute and that it had 13,000!. On the the letter Mrs. Rudd the which I ihe returned to William During our in the Mrs. Rodd - ' Mr. William of poll received a Utter from Sir go to Co. in and they would pay him the his leaving his note of hard and Adair's for the My brother communicated the to Mrs. who faid fhe informed Mr. Adair and that he requeued my brother would provide a bond for the This my brother and gave it to Rudd to carry to Mr. Adair for him to execute The next day returned this bond to my brother duly and he went and received the 50004. which I faw him to Mrs. and flie went as I to Mr. William The next day Rudd brought me 800I. ' which ihe William given her for the of paying our houfe fuch of the furniture for the new houfe we were to in as was to paid for in ready Some time Rudd told that William Adair required her to let him have which I gave back to Rudd when fhe carried the 5000I. to Mr. William that he gave as a why he the houfe was not and he did to pay Mr. Collins until he fulfilled his contract About the month of December Mrs. Rudd gave me a letter from Mr. William as J wherein he me to procure 2000I. for a few weeks upon a which informed me he had given to Mrs. that it was Mrs. Rudd's that Dr. Brooke would money for fo a I was much when the bond was to Qnd it was the fame which had been prepared to if for the borough I conceived that Mr. Adair had it. It was alfo tome to { afk the Doctor to lend the brother before borrowed fome money from Dr. Brooke for Mr. which he had not been in the payment of. I gave this as a for my to afk Dr. Brooke this and told that I conceived the fum wanted was more than the had to * F Mrs. Rudd then Ihe had many Air bank bonds by and that he 1 r i J I brought me Frequent letters f he informed me I be fixed in the of a banker in Pall and my brother admitted as a partner that & have a feat in and that he if in obtaining the title of Baronet for fortune to much than 30,0001. lathe month of September 1774, we removed William Adair's and at the time of the of the lafi Parliament gave me a letter ftom Mr. William me he was going to to treat with Lord that I might of Huntingdon in the new fortnight paged without my Jng any thing more of this when Mrs. Rudd another letter Mr. William he told he 7 have no to lend upon Adair's As I could not felf to I. of her to an apology to Adair for my Mrs. Rudd afterwards urged me to it of fome other mentioning the names of gentlemen with whom fhe I was acquainted but J days Mrs. Rudd faying on the after which brought a note from urging my to Dr. and me. with inattention to his This compelled me to this if wherefore I went to Dr. and him to lend me 2OO0L. He had not any I mentioned Air bank he would and they be returned very foon that I Mr. William Adair the money for no more than eight or ten I alfo repeated the that I exceedingly unhappy in being to aik but Mrs. Rudd had urged ft To at that I was not at liberty to alluring I that I knew not the money was ' Dr. Brooke now very willingly lent in Air bank for which I gave him my and left with him Mr. Adair's I save the bonds to Mrs. as which to Mr. When I gave this bond to Dr. it was very near bsing and it remained in his hands two months after it was Soon after I was by Mrs. that the money which Mr. Adair bad my brother to borrow from had been employed in making up a fum of 60,000!. which the King to borrow from him to pay the Duke of Gloucester's She alio that Adair introduced to his on the of obtaining the of Baronet for and had had conferences with the King on the She declared that his had been to to Lord and Lady Gower concerning the family Mr. Adair to and that Lord had Mr. Adair on the At this time two cards were me by Mrs. which fhe faid had been left by Lord and Lady who had made their to us and lbe me two more in the names of Lord and Lady The houfe in being now quite the payment could not be delayed and Mr. Adair had employed the money in the way already he my brother would borrow 4063d. more upon bond from my brother bond to be filled and gave it. to Mrs. to carry it to Mr. Adair for him to and ihe fome time it duly My brother then went to Sir and having received his draught for the 4000I. brought and gave it to Mrs. as told carried it to Mr. William from whom brought it with to pay Mr. Collins for the This was the 24th of and the Monday following being fixed for the payment of the I went early into the and received the money from and Co. in and from thence went to Mr. in St. where the was to but it being inconvenient to Mr. who had from I lodged the money and at till after the when Mr. Collins made the and his About the middle of 1775, we went into our New houfe in Rudd ibon after brought me a letter from William giving fome as to the plan of my and that as foon as we were both James and Adair would me but charged me not to introduce the of or make my acknowledgments for their as they had both and the that this might not be done until my in was finally In a time after I was told by Mrs. that Mr. William Adair had been to that he had feen the and approved of the manner in which I had and that he in a time me without my ferrants alfo told me that Mr. William Adair had but not finding me at he flaid a little time in the with the and then went Mrs. as I have fince frequently ordered her to out of company to Mr. and ordered them to deliver to in my fictitious letters and from that I have alfo that my by her frequently told Mr. William Adair had been at my and I was made to that he often ordered the M 1 f I r 11 i were might be paid out of ike 5^0^ My brother at la A- by procured a bond for 7500I. for Mr. Adair to which bond my broth my and in the of his wife and of Mr. his there's your affair fhe put it into her pocket without any Mrs. Rudd and returned aboat ten o'clock at but no concerning this bond that night nor the following when Dr. Dr. my brother and dined with On Monday the 6th, I rode out between ten and eleven returned at half paft from which time I was employed in until the arrival of Mr. his wife and Mr. fifter and who with my brother and dined with and till near eleven o'clock at This was the hight Rudd has I compelled her to fign the name of Mr. &c. to the bond the Immediately after the departure of the Rudd went to her to prepare for and I went into my for the fame When I went up to going into Mrs. Rudd's I a letter on the table on enquiry what it ihe faid it contained the bond for 7500I. payable to my which Mr. Adair had and that been brought to her by her to whom it had been delivered by Francis who received it from Mr. this was all that then palled concerning it. The next morning Mrs. Rudd about eight a very hour for who was up before The fhe gave for getting up fo early that fhe a I came down about an hour when fhe had a for my who came foon after Rudd delivered to him the in -a of paper my brother took it and read This is a very I Mr. Adair would not trouble me with or words to that I it was but Mr. Drummond would not fuch then put the bond in his and the After I rode and three when I Lund Mrs. Rudd niy Captain Ellys and my brother dined when they went away Mrs. Rudd told that my brother had been with Mr. concerning the money Mr. Adair him to advance on the bond that Mr. Drummond fome concerning the to the bond being of Mr. W. that this had made my brother very tout that fhe had fince feen Mr. Adair on that who great on the and had given her a which fhe fhe had delivered to my and that kis mind was On 11 1 i 1 My brother it i * 1 I I 1. now my brother called the draft for f dren to be brought to fee him all which I now find were artful contrivances to on me. In the beginning of February lafi Mr. James Adair made me a This was the time I had feen him at my houfe and it did the violence to my I refrained from making acknowledgments with my grateful heart 1 I looked on him at this time with affectionate and thought indebted to him for all I already and was about to derive from his When I my in having at feen our great Rudd W. Adair would me the following which however he did ' About the 3d of March Mrs. Rudd and dined at my brother's and flayed till ten when we came we engaged to dine there the following day as foon as I came Mrs. Rudd's brought her a which was in the fame of all the other which Mrs. had ufed tc deliver to me as from Mr. She the maid what time the letter was who About nine I Mrs. Rudd what were cS this letter I She told that Mr. Adair my brother would procure him 5000L his and that Mr. Adair had a that the money be of Mr. Henry When brother called at our houfe the next Mrs. Rudd communicated the contents of this letter to him both my brother and on the impropriety of this application and my brother declaring his determination not to to Evans on fo a fne from urging the at that But in the of the fame day Ihe renewed the fhe had fince feen Mr. William t if 1 who my to do apy which might painful to but to him to borrow the and to obviate the made to this Mr. Adair that the 14001. for which thf writings ot my jf wg u fet Mr. morning at my and 5000I. Mr. William on Mr. that as Bis had called him into the kd called now for that if he - he might fave the trouble of coming Mrs. Rudd told him that Adair had not fent but that Ihe would upon my brother to know if Mr. wanted and in that cafe would go to Mr. Adair for it. I had not yet heard any thing of this wherefore I enquired of Mrs. in the of my fhe told that in the letter given to my Mr. Adair had that if any further difficulty he would fend Mrs. Rudd a draft on Mr. Crofts for the fum wanted that Mr. Adair was inconvenient for him to the money wife than by the yet rather my brother be made further lie would io fettle it with Mr. that his draft upon the fum wanted This is all The knowledge I had concerning this I believed to be valid and I fent for to Mr. William I found the two Mr. my and Mr. William who denied having given the and ail or connexion with Mrs. Ir is to my at this Mrs. Rudd for an I could get than her to declare the innocence of my She urgently entreated 3 private audience with Mr. Drummond or which but at length When Mr. Drummond returned from the room Mrs. Rudd and he had he his intention of troubling no farther in tbc ufing words to this That if brother innocent had been made very My brother Drummond's dropping the while a of his guilt that as he was innocent of every intention of he could by no means be he had the done him to bo thought Mr. Drummond then the money upon the of my might he and he would fet his foot upon the Wc then left Mr. William and when f urged Mrs. Rudd to let me know the a flu red mc that the bond was really given by William As in I determined to wait upon Mr. James to afk concerning but Mrs. Rudd prevailed on me to fuffer her to wait on the gentleman declare that in her with Mr. fhe had him the bond was given to her by Mr. William and that fhe believed Mr. Adair only Drummond had been for the money in a manner which might make u appear he was t f 1
