Lord Palmerston, in his speech on Sir James Graham's motion,
called particular attention to the signature of one of the firm of Sanderson, Frs•s, Fox, and Company, to the letter conveying the approbation of the " British merchants of the proceedings of Government ; hut it ap- pears from the following letter in the 7 imcs from that respectable firm, that Mr. Rigge, the partner who signed the letter, did not on that occasion represent his partners as well as himself. " Sir-1n the Times report of the debate on Sir dames Grnham's motioo, Loal Palmerston is represented to have said that the let ter which he bad re- ceived from certain lirms in the City, in fiwour of' the nwasures of Government iii r: hrenee to the war with China, was signed by a person on the part of Sanderson, Fry's and Co • the well-1.1mm; opinilms of' which tirm,' the noble lord remarked, would in'tlece them to look u it ileum upon star, exce.pt BY the last resource in unavoidable neeessity,'—convc;ing the idca that the signa- ture alluded to represented the eplition t tom taituti by our lit mum : hereas dia memorial in question teas signed by one nu naiadr of our house, hi Ids individual name and on his own behalf exclusively, and not as representiag the opinion of the firm, who distinctly ohjected to sigt: it. " NV'e shall esteem the insertion oi this letter in the next number of the Times as a great thvour ; and we rsinaio 11spect fully, " Sssommos, Piers, FOX, AND Co. " 6, Old Jewry, 4th month Ilth, 1840."
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