' Ctedv -( Ireland.) S U P P L E M E N T to the Ninth Report of the [ Appendix, Permit me to acknowledge, through you, the many and essential favours conferred on me • by Sir John Lees, and to lay that 1 bring with me into retirement a heart full of gratitude ^ towards him, and a full fenfe of your condescending kindness shewn to me upon all occasions, and that with my laft breath I shall wish for the prosperity and happiness of the Postmasters General, and all employed under their Lordships. 1 am, Sir, with the higheft refpeCt, ^ our moft obedient and very humble fervant, James Twigg ( A.) No. 26. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Maturin to Edward S. Lees, Esq. Sir, As it may feem extraordinary to their Lordships the Postmasters General, that I fhould not - caft up my " calh book, 1 beg you will reprefent to them what I before ftated to you, and what was in truth the faCt, that 1 never confidered that book in any other light than as a check between me and my Correfpondents, to afcertain the payments of their refpeCtive fubfcriptions as they became due; the particular entries, therefore, and not the general amount, was my object, and to which 1 folely adverted. 1 have the honour to be, Sir, 3d November, 1809. Your m0st faithful and obedient servant, Wm Maturin. ( A.) No. 27. " Sir, I HAVE received the dreadful fentenee of the Postmasters General. The surplus due to Government can be nothing like the fum ftated, as during the three first years, and till the eftablifhment of The Correfpondent, the real produce of the Road was far short of the Eftimate of <£. 376. If the demand is immediately enforced, nothing remains for me but to fly the country, or fpend the lhort refidue of my life in jail, as if ail 1 have was to be fold it would not pay the debt; the only fum I am worth is a bond for ^. 400, which I will call in and pay, and the reft by inftalments of 200. or even ^. 300. per annum, if the Poftmafters General will be gracioufly pleafed to continue me in my employment. 1 will not complain of my fentence, though lurely it is hard I should repay what I had the right to receive from Government by their own agreement, for at least three years of the seven, and be reduced to beggary after near fifty years fervice; but I submit, and only implore the clemency of the Poftmafters General to retain my fituation, as the only means to make the restitution required; if this is denied, banifhment or imprifonment is all that remains for me. 1 entreat an . immediate anfwcr, for 1 am in a ftate of agony little lhort of diltraCtion. I am, Sir, your distressed servant, Wm Maturin. ( A.) No. 28. Extract of a Letter from the Right Honourable the Postmaster General to Edward S. Lees, Esq. IF you possess, as you say you do, in the Office, Documents of sufficient authenticity, with the means of proving them, whereby we lhould be enabled to ascertain and recover the whole of the fums which the Revenue has loft by the mifconduCt of the Clerks of Roads, 110 time ought to be loft, from thefe Documents, in making out the respeCtive amount of sums improperly taken from the public puri'e by each of the Clerks of Roads ; and as soon as this fhall be done, and that I receive Lord O'Neill's opinion upon this subject, which I daily expect, if he shall agree with me, what I fhould propofe doing, as I formerly mentioned, would be to give Messrs. Maturin and Twigg the option of withdrawing from their Situations, upon payment by them of thefe fums, and alfo to make a similar proposal to the Representatives of the late Mr. Harrison; or else to render the matter public, by directing a prosecution to be commenced against them. The matter you mention relative to Messrs. Clarke and Hill, having originated subsequent to the 25th of September, the date of the notification of my resignation, you will reserve to be decided upon by my Lord O'Neill, either singly or in conjunction with whoever may be my Succelfor. In the mean time, however, without giving any opinion whatever upon the cafe ilfel£ I may be allowed to exprefs the Satisfaction I feel, that the public possesses an Officer of