27. VII. Received a Letter from A. J. Dallas Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States, being in answer to mine of the 4th. and 23d: of
August, and of 1st. and 15th. of December last to him. It is dated the
13th. of June, and encloses a copy of a
Letter from him to James Simpson,
Consul at Tangier disapproving of his drafts upon the Treasury
Department— I left home shortly after breakfast, walked to Hammersmith;
there, near the third Mile-stone, went into a Stage, and rode to 42St Paul’s Church-yard
where it stopp’d—thence I walked to Cattley and Stephenson’s, Brabant Court, Philpot-Lane,
Fenchurch Street, and presented for acceptance the Bill of Exchange,
remitted by L. Harris from St Petersburg, drawn by Cattley and Forrester, in
favour of Meyer &
Brüxner; and endorsed by them; for 1600 Rubles, at ten
pence per Ruble— It was accepted for £66:13:4 payable at Barnard Dimsdale and Co. the
28th. of September— From thence I went
to Mr. S.
Williams’s, Finsbury Square. Left with him a check for
£500 to be passed to my credit; and the first and second of the Bill of
Exchange for 100 dollars drawn, by John
Cook, upon Thomas
Storey of New-York, on the 17th. of June, in my favour; and which I now endorsed— It was
for money which I lent Mr Cook— I then
walked to the Office in Craven Street, where I found J. A. Smith, deeply affected by the
information of his father’s
Death— Received a Packet of Newspapers from the Department of State—the
National Intelligencer, from 1. to 13. June— A card from Mr
Disbrowe, (the Queen’s
Vice-Chamberlain) inviting by her Majesty’s Command the American
Minister and Mrs Adams to the Queen’s House
on Monday 12. August at 9. O’Clock, and requesting an Answer.— A
Circular printed Note from the Duke of
Rutland, Chairman of the Committee of the Association for
the Relief of the Manufacturing and labouring Poor, enclosing the
Resolutions of a Meeting of the Association, in the hope of obtaining my
Attendance and Support, at a General Meeting, to be held at the City of
London Tavern, on Monday the 29th. instant,
at One O’Clock, when His Royal Highness the Duke of York will take the Chair.—
The Resolutions for convening the General Meeting were passed at the
Meeting of the Committee on the 15th.
instant. And one of them was that the Duke of York should be requested
to take the Chair— Between five and six O’Clock Mrs Adams came with the Carriage— We dined with Mr Prince
Sanders, at his lodgings in Everett-Street— The company at
dinner, were the Countess Dowager of
Cork, Lady
Mexborough, Mrs Crewe, General Doyle, Mr Penn, and
the young Mr
Cowell who dined with us last week— In the Evening there
was a large party, among whom were Sir
William Abdy, his two Sisters, and his Mother, Mrs Cowell and her daughter, Mr and Mrs.
Somerville, Mr Leslie, Professor of
Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, and several others— Miss
Cowell played on the Piano, and sung, several of Moore’s Melodies—
Sanders told me he had not been able to go to Mr
Clarkson’s at Purfleet— He was obliged to stay in town to
correct the Press, for the publication of the Haytian Documents— On our
return from the dinner table to the drawing Room we found a Portrait of
Mr Sanders, in a splendid fancy dress,
or the Court dress of the kingdom of Hayti, hung up over the Sopha. It
had been brought home from the Painters while we were at dinner.— Mrs Cowell invited us to dine at her house
next Monday week— Mr Sanders is to embark
for Hayti the tenth of next Month; but is to return here again next
Winter— We came away between eleven and twelve, and got home at one in
the Morning.
