fmile upon her face, and has faid, that was well done of you, John, just now you have fav'd your maller being angry with me, and there's half a crown for you. Mr. Robert Perreau was often at Mr. Daniel Perreau's at these times; I don't recollect whether any letters were delivered to Mr. Daniel Perreau in Mr, Robert Perreau's prefence: Mrs. Rudd has frequently come down to the foot of the parlour ftairs and call'd me up, and bid me go when I had an opportunity and give a double rap at the door, and then come up to the drawing room to her and fay, a gentleman wanted to speak with her; then fhe would come down and write these notes, which were in the fame hand I have observed her to be writing when he would not fuffer me to be in the room, and the has bid me carry thofe notes up as if they came from Mr. William Adair.

Q. Do you remember carrying any mellage to either of the Adairs from Mrs. Rudd?

Moody. Yes, I was fent to Mrs. James Adair's with a prefent of fonie French pears, and I once carried a meffage, I believe it was a card inclosed, importing that Mrs. Perreau, as fhe was then called, intended to pay her a vifit. I think, I brought back another card inclofed; and Mrs. James Adair called once to pay her lying-in vifit.

Q. You had never feen Mr. William Adair at the house?

Moody. No. Mrs. Rudd once fent me to enquire if he was in town. I was told he was not.

Sufanna Perreau. I am a fifier to the prifoner. I was backward and forward at Mill Hill, and Mr. Robert Perreau's in Golden-Square, from the middle of May, to the middle of July, 1774. I often faw them and Mrs. Rudd together. I have often heard Mr. William Adair fpoken of by Mrs. Rudd, before both my brothers: fhe has faid, that he would be a great friend to her and her children. I faw a note delivered, once by Mrs. Rudd to Daniel Perreau, for nineteen thousand pounds, drawn upon Mr. Croft the banker in favour of Mr. Daniel Perreau, by Mr. William Adair.

Elizabeth Perkins. I was fervant to Mr. Daniel Perreau from the 7th of June till this affair happened. Mrs. Daniel Perreau defired me once to tell my master, that there had been a letter for him, but the did not fay from whom. The last week before this affair happened, Mrs. Rudd delivered me a letter, and bid me bring it to her in a quarter of an hour, and

fay, Mr. Coverly, a man who had been a fervant to Mr. Daniel Perreau, brought it a quarter after nine. I do not know who the letter was directed to. I knocked at the door, and then I delivered the letter to my miftrefs; my mafter imme diately broke the seal, and I left the room. I have been often fent by the footman to tell Mrs. Rudd, that Mr. William Adair was there, when Mr. Perreau was not present. Once, when I was dreffing her, the went down with one ruffle on, and faid, I will attend Mr. Adair directly; but I never faw Mr. Adair there that I know of, and this happened two or three times.

Daniel Perreau. Upon the night of the 3d of March, when we came home from my brother's, Mrs. Rudd retired from the parlour we first went into; fhe came in again in a few minutes, and then the waiting-maid brought a letter and delivered it to her in my prefence. She afked the maid how long it had been brought; the maid said about nine o'clock, by Francis Coverley, who is the perfon Mrs. Rudd ufually employed to go upon meffages to Mr. Adair; when the fervant was gone, Mrs. Rudd faid, the purport of the letter was, that Mr. Adair defired her to apply to my brother, the prifoner, to procure him five thousand pounds upon his, Mr. Adair's bond, in the fame manner he had done before. The next day, Saturday the 4th of March, we were at my brother Robert's house, Mrs. Rudd took my brother afide, and in my prefence, faid, I have seen Mr. Adair this morning; he by no means would have you to do any thing painful to yourself, and if you do not like to apply to Mr. Evans for the money, he defires you would endeavour to get it of Mr. Drummonds, and in order to obviate an objection my brother made to going to Mr. Drummond, Mrs. Rudd faid, it was Mr, Adair's defire that he fhould pay Mr. Drummond the fourteen hundred pounds, for which the papers of my houfe were mortgaged to Mr. Drummond, out of the five thousand pounds fo borrowed. My brother, after a great unwillingness, at last agreed to it, and faid he would get a bond filled up. My brother went out in the afternoon, and came in again just a we were at tea; and, in the prefence of his wife, the gentleman that af fifts him in business, and myself, hé delivered her the bond, faying, madam, I have brought you the affair; fhe took it, put it in her pocket, and no farther converfation paffed upon it till Monday the 6th, when I came home and was prepa

ring to go to bed, I faw a letter lying on the table directed to herself; I atked what it was; she said it was the bond Mr. Adair had returned executed for my brother to get the money of Meff. Drum monds. She got up earlier than ufual the next morning; the fent for my brother Robert, and gave him the bond, and defired him to go with it to Meff. Drummonds, and endeavour to get the money for Mr. Adair, with the fame privacy that he had done upon other occafions. That Mr. Adair was unwilling to have it appear that the money was raised for him, and therefore my brother was defired to lodge the bond with fome confidential friend that would not defire an affignment of it. My brother fhewed a valt deal of reluctancy, and faid it was very unpleasant work. And I faid, I thought it was fo. But as Mr. Drummund had a perfonal knowledge of Mr. Adair, I thought he could have no objection; upon which he put the boud into his pocket.

Q. Did it appear to you, that your brother believed Mrs. Rudd's reprefentation of her connection with Mr. Adair ? Perreau. Certainly he did.

QI need hardly afk you if you belie ved the fame?

Perreau. I did to my misfortune.
Crofs Examination.

Q. Dil the ever apply to you to get the bond filled up?

Perreau. No, never.

Q. Did the never defire you to apply to a scrivener?

Perreau. No, but fue defired that five thoufand pounds might be borrowed upon a bond of feven thousand five hundred pounds.

Counsel for the profecution.

Was any thing said about the dates? Perreau. No, I do not know that there was; it was to be made payable to my brother.

Q. Did you fay, when you was at Mr. Adair's, that you was a perfect Stranger to the bond?

Perreau. I faid, I had never feen the bond before, I never had, upon my oath, a perfect knowledge of the bond before I faw it in Mr. Adair's hand.

Q. Did you not tell them, or convey the idea, that you was a perfect stranger to the whole transaction.

Perreau. I did not.

Q. Did you tell them the story you have told now?

Perreau, When I came into the room, and faw them in fuch a state of confufion, I hardly knew what I said, when Mr.

Drummond told me it was a forged bond, I was fhocked and amazed, knowing it had been managed by Mrs. Rudd. She faid, make yourself quiet, your brother is clearly innocent. I told Mr. Drummond, I knew Mrs. Rudd had given a bond to my brother.

Q. Did you tell Mr, Drummond that it was that bond?

Perreau. Mr. Drummond was in that degree of warmth, that I did not know how to speak to him.

Q. Did you tell Mr. Drummond that the bond was for feven thousand five hundred pounds?

Perreau. I told Mr. Drummond at that time, that I knew there was a bond given by Mrs. Rudd to my brother, upon which my brother was defired to borrow of him five thousand pounds. Mr. Drummond afked me, if I knew my houfe was mortgaged to him? I told him it was, and I understood it was to be paid out of this five thousand pounds, if it was borrowed of him.

David Caffaday. I have been an assistant to Mr. Robert Perreau, in the bufinefs of an apothecary for two years. Upon the Saturday before, this Mrs. Rudd drank tea at Mr. Robert Perreau's, the waited for Mr. Perreau as he was not at home; when Mr. Robert Perreau came in, I faw him give Mrs. Rudd fomething wrapp'd up in a bit of whity brown paper, and said, madam, there is your affair; I never faw the contents of that paper.

Q. Had you any reason to think there was any diforder or embarraffment in Mr. Robert Perreau's circumstances, or any diffipation in his manner of living?

Caffaday. None, he was remarkably athduous and attentive in his bufinefs except when his health was bad. I imagine he lived much within the profits of his profeffion; I apprehend the profits of much bufinefs would have warranted a much greater expence than he appeared to allow himfelf in his way of living. I remember talk of a fcheme being in agitation to put him in the banking business. I remember Mr. Perreau was fent for by Mrs. Rudd, on Tuesday the 7th of March, about nine o'clock in the morning, upon urgent business.

John Leigh, clerk to Sir John Fielding, depofed that the prifoner came voluntary to their office, and gave an ioformation that a forgery had been committed in confequence of which Mrs. Rudd was taken into cuftody. He was afked whether the ever charged the prifoner with any knowledge of the tran

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action, till the juftices were hearing evidence to prove her confeffion of the fast. His answer was, that he could not recollect that circumftance, but that The did not accufe the prifoner upon her firft examination.

"Mr. Henry Partington was likewife examined by the counfel for the prifoner to the fame fact, but he did not recollect the circumftance."

Council for the Crown.

Q. Mr. Henry Drummond, did Mr. Daniel Perreau fay at Mr. Adair's, that Mrs. Rudd had given a bond to his brother to carry to you?

Drummond. I do not think he did; all that I recollect that paffed relative to the business, was, my afking Robert Perreau whether or not thofe deeds that were left with us for fourteen hundred pounds were not alfo forged; he faid, they were not; and Mr. Daniel Perreau confirmed it, and faid they were left with his confent, but I do not remember his faying a fingle word that the bond was given Robert Perreau by his fifter Mrs. Daniel Perreau.

Q. Did he fay any thing about the fum? Drummond. No, in general terms he expreffed great furprize at the affair.

Q. Mr. Robert Drummond. What did Daniel Perreau fay at Mr. Adair's ?

Drummond. He feemed greatly amazed, and fhrugged up his thoulders. I do not believe he faid ten words while I was in the room: the two rooms lye together, and we were backwards and forwards fo often, I cannot tell all that paffed. He feemed to be totally ignorant of the mat

ter.

Q. Did you hear him fay that Mrs. Rudd delivered the bond to his brother? Drummond. No.

Q. Did he mention any thing of the fum the bond was for?

Drummond. He did not.

Captain Charles Ellis. I have known Mr. Robert Perreau almost from my infancy; his brother and I went into the public service together; I have been intimate with his family for twenty years; I ever understood him, and thought him the most upright young man I ever was acquainted with. So far, that I would have trusted him with my life and fortune; I always thought him the best father, the best husband, and the molt upright man in his business I ever heard of. I have been acquainted with him a great number of years, and I never knew him fpend an idle bour though I have been fo often with him. I always looked upon him to be in very affluent circumftan

ces.

William Watts, Efq. I have known Mr. Robert Perreau ten years and upwards. I always looked upon him in a very refpectable light, he always appeared to me to be in good cireumftances.

Mr. Grindal. I have known Mr. Perreau fome years. I always looked upon him as a very upright man; and if he had asked me to lend him money the day before this affair broke out, I fhould have done it with the greatest readiness.

Q. If any body told you he was fufpećted-of fuch a tranfaction as this, you would not have been easily induced to believe it?

Grindal. Indeed, I fhould not.

Mrs. Tribe. I have known Mr. Robert Perreau twenty-eight years. He ferved his apprenticeship with my husband: he performed his fervice greatly to my hufband's fatisfaction, and has borne a molt excellent character.

Q. Have you had occasion to observe whether he has been attentive to his bufinefs?

Tribe. Always very diligent. I do not think it poffible he fhould have ever been guilty of fuch an action as this.

Mr. Churchill. I have known Mr. Perreau twenty three years; he has bore a remarkable good character. I always underflood he applied himself clofely to business. I never was so much astonished, as upon hearing of this affair: there is not a man I had a better opinion of, than I had of Mr. Robert Perreau.

Sir John Moore. I have known Mr. Robert Perreau fixteen or eighteen years: he bears an exceeding good character.

Q. Could you have imagined that he was a man likely to be guilty of such a charge?

Sir John Moore. He is one of the latt men I fhould have thought of.

The Rt. Hon. Lady Lyttleton. Q. How long have you known the prifoner Robert Perreau ?

Lady Lyttleton. Perfonally from the year 1771, by his character still, much longer.

From that general character and the knowledge you had of him, what kind of a man have you efteem'd him to be?

Lady Lyttleton. One of the best men I ever met with; one of the most upright, humane, and benevolent.

Q. I believe, it has fo happened that you have had very fingular inftances of his integrity?

Lady Lyttleton. In many transactions, he had four thousand pounds of mine in his poffeffion, he brought it to me and

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