Mr. Cranstoun about this time received a Bill of L60 from Scotland, payable in London, which Mr. R——­ went privately to London with, and got the Money for:  which was all the Remittances Cranstoun ever had to the Time of his Death, from Great Britain.

Mr. R——­ being returned to Bologne with the Cash in July, and not being able to satisfy his Part of the Arret of the Parliament of Paris, to the Captain, and dreading the fatal Consequence thereof, privately absconded, as is related before, with his Wife and Cranstoun, to Ostend in the Queen of Hungary’s Territories, as a Sanctuary from the Arret of the French Parliament:  where they continued only about fourteen Days, and then removed to Furnes, and took up their Abode at the House known by the Sign of the Burgundy Cross, where Mr. R——­ died in September, and Cranstoun the 30th of November following.

  During the Time of his living at Furnes, he always went by the Name
  of Dunbar, and first Cousin to Mrs. R——.

Capt.  P——­w, on the Credit of this Arret of Parliament, put up for a great Man:  who being known too well at Bologne to live there, either with Respect or Honour, removed to a Town in France, call’d Somers, nine Miles from Bologne, in the Road to Paris, where he took the grandest House in the Place:  but his Fortune being only outside Shew, as it was when in England, in September he absconded from thence:  and was obliged to fly into the Queen of Hungary’s Country for Protection, having contracted large Debts in France.

The Captain now began his old Tricks; for at Brussels, going for a London Merchant, he obtained a Parcel of fine Lace, some Pieces of Velvets, and other Things, to the Amount of near L200, for which he gave the Gentleman of Brussels a pretended Bill for L321 8s. 6d. of a Banker’s in London:  and on the Payment of the said Bill, he was to have another large Parcel of Goods.

The Bill was sent to England for Payment, but the Captain had fled before the Return of a Letter, which informed the Tradesman that it was a counterfeit Bill:  whereupon they pursued him, and soon found that the Goods he had obtained were shipped on Board a Vessel for England, at Flushing, a Sea-Port in Zealand, belonging to the States of Holland, from which Place the Captain had been gone three Days:  that was the last Account that Mrs. R——­ and Cranstoun ever heard of him.

I shall now proceed to the Account given by Captain Cranstoun, concerning the poisoning of Mr. Blandy:  in which I shall insert three Letters, bearing Date the 30th of June, the 16th of July, and the 18th of August, 1751:  all directed for the Honourable William Henry Cranstoun, Esq., which were found among his Papers at his Death:  all being judged by the near Similitude of the Writings to have been wrote by one Person:  and tho’