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RICHARD PATCH.
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was that share of the business to me, in the event of his
death: how could 1 expect, without him, to obtain the cre-
dit that was necessary to enable me to purchase ships ; or how
was I to hope for connection with persons to whom I could
-Sell again the property which I had bought. The life and
friendship of Mr. Blight secured to me those advantages
by his death I was deprived of them, and rendered incapable
of carrying on the business. Let it not be supposed that my
interest in this trade cordd have been enlarged by his death.
His representatives would have been entitled to his share of
the capital under the will, and as the whole capital was ne-
cessary for carrying on the trade, their share of it would have
given them the same proportion of the profits which Mr.
Blight himself would have received, while the whole profits
would have been lessened by the want of his assistance. So
far, therefore, from his death affording me any expectation of
advantage, it presented to me the certain ruin of all my pros-
pects in life. It has been suggested against me, that I was
driven from my native place by poverty and distress: it is
true, I was involved in a suit, about the tithes of my estate,
which subjected me to some temporary embarrassment, but
it is not true that I was reduced to a state of ruin, or that I
had not property sufficient to establish myself again in busi-
ness. I had an estate in land, and I had a well-stocked farm
■when I left the country. I went down into the country after
I first came up to Mr. Blight’s and sold my stock, and last
spring I sold the ©state, the money for which was remitted to
me; but I have suffered a long imprisonment; the expenses
of myself and my children, of which I have four, together
with the necessary expenses of my trial, have disabled me
from bringing up a number of witnesses from Devonshire,
who could have proved that I had property, which has been
long since converted into money, and which I have, at differ-
ent times advanced to Mr. Blight. With this property in my
pocket, I determined io acquire a knowledge of the business
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51
was that share of the business to me, in the event of his
death: how could 1 expect, without him, to obtain the cre-
dit that was necessary to enable me to purchase ships ; or how
was I to hope for connection with persons to whom I could
-Sell again the property which I had bought. The life and
friendship of Mr. Blight secured to me those advantages
by his death I was deprived of them, and rendered incapable
of carrying on the business. Let it not be supposed that my
interest in this trade cordd have been enlarged by his death.
His representatives would have been entitled to his share of
the capital under the will, and as the whole capital was ne-
cessary for carrying on the trade, their share of it would have
given them the same proportion of the profits which Mr.
Blight himself would have received, while the whole profits
would have been lessened by the want of his assistance. So
far, therefore, from his death affording me any expectation of
advantage, it presented to me the certain ruin of all my pros-
pects in life. It has been suggested against me, that I was
driven from my native place by poverty and distress: it is
true, I was involved in a suit, about the tithes of my estate,
which subjected me to some temporary embarrassment, but
it is not true that I was reduced to a state of ruin, or that I
had not property sufficient to establish myself again in busi-
ness. I had an estate in land, and I had a well-stocked farm
■when I left the country. I went down into the country after
I first came up to Mr. Blight’s and sold my stock, and last
spring I sold the ©state, the money for which was remitted to
me; but I have suffered a long imprisonment; the expenses
of myself and my children, of which I have four, together
with the necessary expenses of my trial, have disabled me
from bringing up a number of witnesses from Devonshire,
who could have proved that I had property, which has been
long since converted into money, and which I have, at differ-
ent times advanced to Mr. Blight. With this property in my
pocket, I determined io acquire a knowledge of the business
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