| Content Description | Sends report on the debates in the House of Commons concerning the South Sea Company led by Sir Joseph Jekyll and Mr Walpole; relates story told to the Prince [of Wales?] of a member during the debate saying 'when there was no Law at Rome against Paricide and one was found guilty of it they ordered the Malefactor to be sowed in a sack and some savage creatures with him it and to be thrown into the River adding that ye doing yt to the Directors would satisfy him'; reports that Mr Thomas Palmer and Sergeant Meade, the lawyer spoke, but that Mr Jeffries Winnington did not speak; describes dispute at Powis House between Lord Londonderry and Lord Montgomery over a debt.
Addressed on reverse to 'The Right Honoble. The Lord Harley at Wimple near Royston, Cambridgeshire' and also marked 'Frank' 'E Harley Auder.' |