Faithful Copies of All the Letters That Have Appeared in the General Advertiser, Under the Signatures of Scourge, and W. Bennett, Camberwell; And ... of Victualling, and Christopher Atkinson, Esq

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1781. Excerpt: ... C 35-1 ing wheat, grots, bran, &c. till another opportunity, I now return. It is necessary to refer to some extracts of letters, viz. from Mr. Atkinson, and from the Commissioners to the Lords of the Admiralty j and from Mr. Atkinson to the Commissioners of the Victualling; which, if contrasted with what has been set forth, will prove that Mr. Atkinson's appointment, as cornsactor to the Victualling Board, originated entirely from a string of salsehoods. I have no doubt of being joined by many in opinion, that it were a pity but another kind of a firing (I mean, of sacts that are already published, or intended so to be) should, ly bearing a-proper weights prevent such extravagant charges being made in future for grain, by removing him from the eminence on which he stands. In the first extract, Mr. Atkinson says, "the contracts "were chiefly supplied with malt made in the "vicinity of London, which is a sort, in his ap"prehension, very ill suited to his Majesty's scr"vice." It is a known sact, that Mr. Atkinson purchases great quantities of thofe malts he pretends to despise. Therefore, Sir, to stiew it was a direct salshood, I assert, that when Mr. Atkinson has a considerable quantity of ordinary WestCountry malt, that is too baresaced to fend by itself when he is shipping any to the King's brewhouse in the out-ports, he fends about an equal quantity of those malts that he says are so ill-suited G to to his Majesty's service, which are shot Into the ship with the others to prevent their being observed. Thi,s a sact, which I defy Mr. Atkinson and all his dependants to refute. How then does he co ply with the last extract alluded to in his letter to the Commissioners, viz. "Nothing "shall ever induce me to supply a commodity "inferior to the best?" The last...