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This gentleman, who is descended from one of the most ancient families in the county, having shortly stated the object of the meeting, Mr. Benett arose, and, after some wriggling and twisting, addressed them. Thomas Grove, Esq. of Fern, one of the gentlemen who called the meeting, having taken the chair, Mr.
Hogg, but permit me to remark that it is more than likely that your protégée has profited greatly by the exchange." "Why do you think so?" "But think of it. What does this ticket represent? One chance in a million of winning." "Yes, one chance in a million. That is very small; it is true, Mr. Benett, very small."
Benett, of Christiania, requesting him to provide the means of making it with the least possible fatigue and delay, which explains the fact that a comfortable carriage was in attendance, with its box well stocked with eatables, thus enabling the party to dispense with the stale eggs and sour milk with which travelers are usually regaled in the hamlets of the Telemark.
"Yes; and consequently such a reaction has followed the late madness that it is said that this Sandgoist who purchased the ticket to speculate upon it has been unable to find a purchaser." "So I have heard." "And yet, if that rascally usurer should win the grand prize, what a shame it would be!" "A shame, most assuredly, Mr. Benett; the word is not too strong a shame, unquestionably."
The following requisition was published in the Salisbury and Winchester Journal, on the 2d of January, 1815, calling a public meeting of the landholders and farmers of the county of Wilts, to be held at Warminster, on the 6th day of January following: Dated this 30th of December, 1814. Thomas Grove. John Benett. James Everard Arundel. George South. J.H. Penruddocke. Alexander Powell. H. Linton.
There is a gentleman in Wiltshire, whose name is Benett, whose speech, at an agricultural meeting, about the Corn Bill, was published in all the London papers, and which speech, as published, drew down on him the execrations of those same papers, and, indeed, of the public in general. He said, that he never uttered such words; that he bad been very grossly misrepresented.
Benett insisted that, as the evidence given before the Corn Committees had never been contradicted, the legislature were bound to afford the agricultural interest their protection; and, enforcing the necessity of Parliamentary interposition in favour of the landed interest, he said, that unless some measure were devised to enable the farmer to pay his present rent and taxes, the landholders would be completely ruined; and he solemnly declared, that, unless this desirable object was carried into immediate execution, he for one would be under the absolute necessity, before that day twelvemonth, of leaving the country with his family, to reside where provisions and all the necessaries of life were to be obtained at a rate within the reach of his fortune.
Ah, well, I will take them all the same. And now I must bid you good-bye, Mr. Benett, though I hope to see you again very soon." Sylvius Hogg now left the establishment, and walked briskly in the direction of the Hotel du Nord. On entering the vestibule his eyes fell upon the words Fiat lux, which are inscribed upon the hall lamp.
John Benett was one of the witnesses who volunteered to be examined at great length before both of these Committees, that of the House of Lords as well as that of the House of Commons.
As the indictment preferred against me by John Benett, Esq. on the part of his gamekeeper, Stone, was intended to be made a serious charge against me, I was prevailed upon to confide the conducting of my defence to counsel. Much against my own inclination and judgment, did I give up this point, to oblige my friends, who were most earnest in their solicitations upon the subject. Mr.
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