Middlesex
to wit}

The Informations of John Clark< no role > of Bow Street Gentleman
and Hugh Ferguson< no role > of the Post Office London Gentleman
taken on Oath before me this 10th. day of August 1789.

Who being on Oath severally say and first the said John
Clark< no role > for himself says that on Tuesday last the 4th. of August instant
he found in the Lodging of the Prisoner now present who calls himself
Thomas Girling< no role > in Lascelles Place in the Parish of Saint Giles in
the Fields the thirteen Foreign Letters now produced at which
time the said Thomas Girling< no role > was present, that this Informant
at the same time asked said Girling for a Particular Seal who
Replied that he had none, but afterwards acknowledged that
the said Seal was in a Drawer at his fathers the Rose & Crown
Broad Street Saint Giles's in which Drawer Informant found
said Seal and is the same now produced by him And the
said Hugh Ferguson< no role > for himself says that the said Thomas Girling< no role >
is employed as a Letter Carrier in the General Post Office And
that the thirteen Foreign, Letters now produced he would either Receive
from the Parties Sending them or by the Channel of other Letter
Carriers and therewith would receive the foreign Postage And
Which said Letters said Girling ought to have delivered
at the General Post Office and to have paid the Postage so Received
with them.

Sworn before me the day
and Year first above Written}

N Bond

J Clark
H Ferguson