Letter – John Wallis to Thomas Richard Beaumont – 18 Apr 1796

							Westgate, 18 April 1796

Sir,

      Yours of the 23rd. of last month came to hand the 28. Your Miners here is content to keep to their work till you can leave your Parliamentary Business, but have had several meetings to draw up a Petition by a committee of 24. I do not hear they have yet begun to sign it.

      Your Agent Emerson has been for some weeks Dangerous ill, but is recovering, I suppose has been the means of stopping their progress.

      The Miners gives you very great credit for what you have done for them, but at the same time believes every thing is kept from you that can be secreted by the Agents.

      Corn falls very little here to what it does in the south owing to the small quantities that comes in at Newcastle.

      Your Pays begins the 11 May is here the 13.

      I have a Tenant who lays very nigh the Mines and who would wish, his Family being a large one, to have some support for so numerous, & small, and as there is several Horses employed in the Mines, such as Levels, Shafts, &c. I beg the Favour you will permit him to have one Horse as he has some Sons that might manage that Employ, will lay me under a Particular obligation as he has Particular large Family and shall esteem it a Favour done to 

      yr. mo. obt. Servt.

      John Wallis



P.S. The general inclose Bill makes a slow progress in the House. It has not been named for some weeks. I hope it is going on well. Since Sir John Eden gave up we would wish to see you placed here if you thought well of it.

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Thomas Richd Beaumont Esqr / MP Portman Square/ London