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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Read, Lucas & Read – 9 Sep 1803

Mess. Read Lucas & Reads Sheffield Newcastle Sept. 9th. 1803 Gent. I have this day sent you p[er] the Leeds Waggon a ps. fine Silver containing Nine Hundred and Seventy Three Ounces which I desire you will place to Acct. with Col. Beaumont as below & advise me on your receipt of the same. I am &c. j.E.B. For a ps. fine Silver qu. 973 Ounces & 6/- p[er] Oz £291 – 10 – P.S. I have been advised that Mess. <Shaw & Rothmans draft> on Mess. Thomas &a

Letter – Diana Beaumont to John Erasmus Blackett – 14 Sep 1803

J. E. Blackett Esq. Newcastle upon Tyne Portman Square Sep[tembe]r 14th Dear Sir Colonel Beaumont arrived here on Monday& requests I will say he was Yesterday favor’d with your Letter of Sep[tembe]r 10th – Mr C. Blackett call’d upon us early this Morn[in]g & found Col. Beaumont & myself at Home, he told us he was authorized by the London Houses to make a proposal to you respecting a Sale of Lead, we informed him that we should be perfectly satisfied wit

Letter – Diana Beaumont to John Erasmus Blackett – 17 Sep 1803

Portman Square Sep[tembe]r 17th 1803 Dear Sir As Col. Beaumont & I have seen Mr Burdon I think it right to inform you what we have been able to collect from his Conversation on Thursday, he call’d when I was out, & sat an Hour with Col. B- & left him the Statement of the Bank Acct signed by Black, for us to look over, & return to him when he w[oul]d call the Next Day at Eleven, w[hic]h he did, & we had much Conversation on the Subject, what I say to you is

Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Messrs Drummond – 19 Sep 1803

Messrs. Drummond Newcastle Septemr. 19th. 1803. Bankers London Gentn. Inclosed you will receive a Bill drawn by Sir Wm. Loraine Bt. Baker & Co. on Messrs. Veres & Co at forty days dated this day, for Two Hundred & thirty-one Pounds, five Shillings to pay one Quarters Composition for the Lot Ore of Weardale Leadmines due to the Lord Bishop of Durham from Coln. Beaumt. the 26th. Ulto. & Please to acknowledge the Receipt of this Sum for that Purpose to yours &c. J.E

Letter – Thomas Crawhall to Read, Lucas & Read – 19 Sep 1803

Messrs. Read Lucas & Reads Newcastle 19th. Sepr. 1803.- Sheffield Gentn Your Favour of the 17th. has come to hand covering eight Bills amount Two Hundred & ninety-five Pounds Fourteen Shillings & four Pence as you advise, which Sum is placed to the Credit of your Accounbt with Coln. Beaumont for fine Silver sent you. We can now furnish you with another ps. fine Silver if you are much in Want with which you will be pleased to advise us by Return of Post as we have Applic

Letter – Diana Beaumont to John Erasmus Blackett – 21 Sep 1803

J.E. Blackett Esq. Newcastle upon Tyne Portman Square Sep[tembe]r 21st Dear Sir We are favor’d with yours of the 17th & are perfectly satisfied with your reasons for acting as you have done, possibly at this moment they are depended on our being in want of Money; - it has been represented to us that Mr Ellill is not supposed to be a Man of fair Character, he was a Friend of Astlett who is now in Newgate, & it is said Astlett & Hall met at Ellills office 3 times a Week regu

Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Diana Beaumont – 21 Sep 1803

Newcastle 21st Sept. 1803 Dear Madam I wrote to you the <18th > Inst. to which I beg leave to refer you. I have since been favoured with your letter of the 17th Inst. & I observe the discourse which you & Col: Beaumont had with Mr Burdon on the affairs of the Bank, which I am concerned to find is in a worse situation than had at first been represented, with little prospect of their being soon settled; it is astonishing to me that Mr Burdon

Letter – Diana Beaumont to John Erasmus Blackett – 23 Sep 1803

Portman Square Sep[tembe]r 23rd 1803 Dear Sir Colonel Beaumont has been in the City, & was informed of some particulars which we think it right to communicate to you in confidence, & you will draw your own conclusions, Mr Ellill has been playing a deep Game, he has offer’d Lead to the India Company at so much lower a price than any others, that his offer was of course accepted, it was under £25 pr Fodr w[hic]h will in a short

Letter – Diana Beaumont to John Erasmus Blackett – 24 Sep 1803

J. E. Blackett Esq, Newcastle upon Tyne Portman Square Sep[tembe]r 24th Dear Sir I am this Day favor’d with yours of the 21st, in the mean time you will have rec’d my Letter with the Account of Mr Ellills famous transactions, which in a short time I do hope will be defeated; I think the Eyes of the Committee will be opened to the Conduct of the Halls and their Confederates, Ellills offer[in]g Lead at £24 19s pr Fod: w[hic]h we now find was the Price proves his Motive, as the

Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Diana Beaumont – 24 Sep 1803

Newcastle 24th Sep[tembe]r 1803 Dear Madam I am favoured with your Letters of the 21st Inst. & am happy to find that you are satisfied with my Reasons for declining the Proposition made to me. You have no doubt heard that Mr Ellills Offer of 2000 Tons of Lead to the India Compy. at £24,19, ,, the London Fother equal to £26, 17, 6 the Newcastle For. was accepted of; another Company agreed with the India Company for the remaining Quantity 300 Tons at the same Price;

Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Charles Bowns – 25 Sep 1803

Charles Bowns Esq Newcastle 25th. Sepr. 1803.- Darley Hall Barnsley, Yorkshire Sir I duly received your Favour of the 12th. Inst. & delayed answering it until I had an Answer from Sir Wm. Loraine & Co. to the Proposition that you offered them, which I have not yet obtained; they wish to know if the Deposit of £5,000 – is understood to be a full Compensation for the discounting such Bills as I may pay into their Bank, should they be at two, three, or four Mon

Letter – Bolam to Thomas Richard Beaumont – 3 Oct 1803

Sir Mr Bulmer has desired the Gentlemen who compose the Committee of the Exchange Bank to communicate to you the arrangements made on Saturday last relative to the Tyne Iron Co. Engagements and to state their opinion of them I am directed to assure you that they have the Gentlemen's approbation and that Mr Bulmer's conduct on the trying occasion appears to them to be strictly proper and deserving of the forbearance of the Creditors Mr Bulmer has become the Purch

Letter – Peter Bulman to Thomas Richard Beaumont – 3 Oct 1803

Sir                                             NewCastle 3rd Oct. 1803 As the most efficient means of giving relief to the Creditors of the Tyne Iron Co. I am recommended to become the Sole Proprietor of the works and for this purpose an arrangement is now making for my taking an assignment from my Patrons Mess. A & I Surtees Fishwick & Gibson of the whole concern and likewise taking upon me the responsibility of the payment of all the

Letter – Thomas Crawhall to Charles Bowns – 3 Oct 1803

Newcastle 13th Oct. 1803 Dr. Sir The inclosed three letters on the subject of the Tyne IronCo. I have reced from Mr. Blackett to inclose for your approbation as the only Bill we hold of theirs, is the one for £1,500 which was left here by you some time ago.  The Tyne Iron Co. not being able to carry their former engagement into execution, it has been thought adviseable by many of the Creditors to agree to the proposals of Mr. Bulman, though less advantageous to them than the former o

Letter – Colonel Thomas Richard Beaumont to John Erasmus Blackett – 4 Oct 1803

Tuesday 4th Oct[obe]r My dear Sir Mrs Beaumont & myself are much obliged by your kind congratulations and am happy to say that She & the Child are going on as well as I could wish, we are indebted to You for several letters during her confinement and are much pleased to hear of the Sales you have made I hope to hear of others soon. I thank you for the Statement of the Intrest, I <observe> to Bills in Bank due Dec[embe]r 4454£.11s.11d. which I <imagine> is the Bill

Letter – Peter Bulman to Thomas Richard Beaumont – 4 Oct 1803

Sir Having this Day completed the Arrangement of the Tyne Iron Co's. Affairs which I mentioned in my Letter of yesterday by the Parties having signed a Dissolution of Partnership and expected an Assignment of their Shares in the Iron Works. I hope I shall succeed in asking your Indulgence to the following Proposals, viz, to pay immediately on the Creditors agreeing to my Letters of Licence 5/ in the £  5/ more the 5th April   5/ the 5th July & 5/ the 5th October.

Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Richard Beaumont – 6 Oct 1803

Coln. Beaumont Newcastle 6th. Octr. 1803. Portman Square London Dear Sir I have been favoured with your Letter of the 4th. Inst. & am happy in hearing so pleasing an Account of Mrs. Beaumont & her little one. The Bill of £4,454 -11 -11 was received from Walkers & Co. & remitted to Ransom, Morland & Co. the 22d. Augt. & will become due the 22d. Inst. The Bank Committee have made a fresh Arrangement for the Payment of the Bills &c. of

Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Charles Bowns – 8 Oct 1803

Charles Bowns Esq Newcastle 8th. Octr. 1803. Darley Hall near Barnsley, Yorkshire Sir I am favoured with your Letter of the 1st. Inst. and observe the Contents. The Bank of Sir Wm. Loraine & Co. have agreed to transact Coln. Beaumont’s local Business on the Terms that you proposed, but there is not a Probability that the Deposit of £5,000 can possibly be made for several Months; they have not at present quite £200 – of Coln. Beaumonts in their Hands bes

Letter – Diana Beaumont to John Erasmus Blackett – 11 Oct 1803

J.E. Blackett Esq, Newcastle upon Tyne Portman Square Octr. 11th Dear Sir I am much obliged by your kind enquiries after myself & little Girl, we are both as well as can be expected; - Mr Davison has been here this Morng. & left a Mem[orand]um wh[ic]h Col: Beaumont will enclose you a Copy with this Letter, & will send another to Mr Bowns, we will be glad to receive your opinion, & will then do as was mentioned in a former Letter with Mr Morland & open

Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Diana Beaumont – 14 Oct 1803

Copy of Letter to Mrs Beaumont Morpeth 14 Octr. 1803 Dear Madam I have been favoured with your letter of the 11th inst. enclosing the Mem[orand]um from Mr Davidson, in which I think that he has too far consulted the interest of his bank; In case we make a considerable sale of Lead during the remainder of the Year. I do not at present see that it will be necessary for Mr D’s Bank to advance £50,000 or near one half that amount for the sum which they possibly may advance they

Letter – Diana Beaumont to John Erasmus Blackett – 15 Oct 1803

J.E. Blackett Esq. Newcastle upon Tyne Portman Square Octr. 15th 1803 Dear Sir Col: Beaumont & I have this Morng. had an Interview with Mr Morland, preparatory [single word missing] intended to closing our Account with them, provided you & Mr Bowns approved of the terms proposed to us in the Mem[orand]um given us by Mr Davison, but which Mr Bowns in a Letter this Morng recd does not think favorable to us, he wrote only a few lines in haste, & said we should hear fully

Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Gosling & Sharpe – 26 Oct 1803

Messrs. Goslings Newcastle 26th. Octr. 1803 Bankers London Gentn. Inclosed you will receive a Bill drawn by Sir Wm. Loraine Bt. Baker & Co. on Messrs. Veres, Lucadou, & Co. at Forty Days dated this Day, for three Hundred & seventy-five Pounds, to pay one Quarter’s Composition for the Tithe Ore of Weardale Leadmines due the 15th. Inst. to the Revd. Henry Hardinge from Col: Beaumont. Please to acknowledge the Receipt of the Bill and advise Mr. Hardinge of the same. I

Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Diana Beaumont – 29 Oct 1803

Mrs. Beaumont: under Cover to Newcastle 29th. Oct. 1803 Colonel Beaumont M.P. Portman Square London. Dr. Madam I wrote to you the 13th, 14th, 15th, & 16th. Inst. to none of which I have received an Answer, which has alarmed me, least you, or some part of your Family may be ill; I wrote again the 25th. inst. to which I expect an Answer by Tomorrow’s Post, which I hope may relieve me from my Apprehensions. – I shall go t

Letter – Diana Beaumont to John Erasmus Blackett – 31 Oct 1803

J.E. Blackett Esq. Newcastle upon Tyne Portman Square Oct. 31st 1803 Dear Sir My little Infant has been so much Indisposed that my time has been completely occupied attending on her both Day & Night, w[hic]h is the reason of my not being so punctual as I hope you have in general found me to be in the Answering of Letters, & Col: Beaumont has every Day defer’d writing in hopes his Child would be better & that I should have leisure, she is now recovering & my Mind

Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Charles Bowns – 3 Nov 1803

Charles Bowns Esq Newcastle 3d. Novr. 1803.- Darley Hall Barnsley, Yorkshire Sir I have received your several Letters of the 15th. & 29th. Ulto.. I delayed answering the former until some Agreement had be entered into with the Bank of Davidson & Co. which by a Letter that I received from Mrs. Beaumont yesterday I find to have been comcluded with them; it appears to me, to be on much more favourable Terms to Col: & Mrs. Beaumont, than those which had formerly made
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