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kirby’s wonderful Museum.
Blight’s intention was to concern himself no farther, but that
he took this very active partner into the business, in all human
probability, for the purpose of taking from himself a great
part of the labour of the business ; so that notwithstanding
Mr. Blight’s death, if he had died a natural death, it did not
necessarily follow that the business should be broken up ; but
that Mrs. Blight, or he, or some other persons for them,
might carry on the business : then he says, the dispute about
the tithes was the cause of his selling an estate which he had
in the west of England.—We have no evidence of any such
thing: he still insists upon the advances he made to Mr.
Blight; and he insists further, that Mrs. Blight knew of
these advances.—Mrs. Blight tells you she knows of no such
thing, but conceives the prisoner owes 1000/. He insists
upon an actual assignment, but Mrs. Blight says those papers
were only to be made use of in case the creditors became
pressing; that they were never to be delivered up to him but
upon that occasion; and that they continued in the same
tin box where they had been placed by Mr. Blight, till the
27th of September. Indeed, he says, the 1250/. com-
posed no part of the capital at all; it was mere cash that
had no connection with the business; it had no connection
with the trade: on the contrary, it appears from all the
rest of the evidence, that 1250/. was the exact sum that
was to be paid for a share of the profits, of which 1000/.
had not been paid, and of which only 250/. had been paid,
except 50/. more, which was paid afterwards. He says, that
the check was known to Mr. Blight to be a fabrication; and
he persists in it as a matter done merely to keep up appear-
ances ; that it never was considered as a valid note at all; that
this was known to Mrs. Blight, and that it was a concerted
scheme between them. Then there are called to his charac-
ter two or three witnesses, who have known him for the last
two or three years, or thereabout. Mr. Slee says, he never
heard any thing amiss of him : the second says, he has known
kirby’s wonderful Museum.
Blight’s intention was to concern himself no farther, but that
he took this very active partner into the business, in all human
probability, for the purpose of taking from himself a great
part of the labour of the business ; so that notwithstanding
Mr. Blight’s death, if he had died a natural death, it did not
necessarily follow that the business should be broken up ; but
that Mrs. Blight, or he, or some other persons for them,
might carry on the business : then he says, the dispute about
the tithes was the cause of his selling an estate which he had
in the west of England.—We have no evidence of any such
thing: he still insists upon the advances he made to Mr.
Blight; and he insists further, that Mrs. Blight knew of
these advances.—Mrs. Blight tells you she knows of no such
thing, but conceives the prisoner owes 1000/. He insists
upon an actual assignment, but Mrs. Blight says those papers
were only to be made use of in case the creditors became
pressing; that they were never to be delivered up to him but
upon that occasion; and that they continued in the same
tin box where they had been placed by Mr. Blight, till the
27th of September. Indeed, he says, the 1250/. com-
posed no part of the capital at all; it was mere cash that
had no connection with the business; it had no connection
with the trade: on the contrary, it appears from all the
rest of the evidence, that 1250/. was the exact sum that
was to be paid for a share of the profits, of which 1000/.
had not been paid, and of which only 250/. had been paid,
except 50/. more, which was paid afterwards. He says, that
the check was known to Mr. Blight to be a fabrication; and
he persists in it as a matter done merely to keep up appear-
ances ; that it never was considered as a valid note at all; that
this was known to Mrs. Blight, and that it was a concerted
scheme between them. Then there are called to his charac-
ter two or three witnesses, who have known him for the last
two or three years, or thereabout. Mr. Slee says, he never
heard any thing amiss of him : the second says, he has known