Journal of my Transactions with M r White, Solicitor to the Treasury, on the occasion of my Contract with the Treasury for the establishment and management of a Penitentiary House

Monday Aug 18. 1796

Called upon M r White at his Chambers in Lincolns Inn to enquire what had been done in relation to my Contract, understanding revised Draught to have been sent him upwards of a fortnight from the Treasury to be ingrossed.

M r White Nothing can be done in it till the Solicitor General returns to town. There is a passage in it that requires to be explained

M r B. Do you happen toknow, Sir, when he is expected. M r White - Not this fortnight.

M r B. The Soli r Gen l has been so obliging to me on this occasion in the article of dispatchthat if you will have the goodness to allow me to extract the passage that requires explanation, I would take the liberty of writing to him on the subject, and should make no doubt of his dispatching it by letter where he is.

M r White. I will look at it: perhaps we may be able to settle it without the Solicitor

General.