Transcribed from the 1826 Wooler edition , email
LateTenant of a considerable Portion of Havering ParkFarm,
in the Forest ofHainault,
IN
CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS
WITH THE
Commissioners of Woods and Forests,
AND THEIR AGENTS.
Compiledin support of
A RENEWED MEMORIAL TO THECOMMISSIONERS,
AND
PETITIONS TO PARLIAMENT.
TO WHICH AREADDED
NOTES,
In Illustration of the Gross Abuses ofthe Forest Laws.
WOOLER, PRINTER, GOUGH SQUARE.
1826.
The statements which will be foundin this pamphlet, will probably startle the minds of most personswho may give them a perusal; reflecting as they do upon theadministration of justice, and the conduct of an official board,which is invested with the power of transacting certain businessin the name of the crown, and on behalf of the nation. Insuch cases, the highest degree of liberality might reasonably beexpected. Those petty interests that sow dissentionsbetween individuals ought not to exist in transactionsbetween individuals and the representatives of the nationalauthority; and, certainly, no prejudiced motives, orpersonal feeling, should be permitted to operate to theprejudice of the weaker party. Unfortunately, however,persons who ought to rise p. 6infinitely superior to all paltryhostility, and mean jealousies, do not always separate theirprejudices from their duties; and they are also often led by thenose by impertinent and interested servants, who, in reality,become the masters of their nominal superiors, and dictators tothose whom it is their business to obey.
Much injustice is frequently occasioned in such manner; butafter a perusal of our narrative, we think we may fairlychallenge the production of any instance in which so muchpecuniary injury has been sustained, accompanied by so muchoutrage to the feelings of a respectable, unoffending, and highlymeritorious individual;—upon one, who, during a long andactive life, in public and private, has conducted himself in themost exemplary manner; against whose reputation no one has everdared to point the finger of reproach, and who having gained aconsiderable fortune by his own unaided exertions, the mostpersevering industry, and the most scrupulous integrity in hisdealings, had an undoubted right to expect p. 7the protectionof his interests by persons who were acting as trustees for thenation; instead of being insulted, and entrapped into legaldifficulties by their agents, and plundered of a large sum ofmoney, without the slightest pretence for, or justice in, such anoutrageous attack upon the sacred right of private property.
And when, in addition to this, the reader shall reflect, thatth