Letter from John Coates, Darlington to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton-upon-Tees

Coates informs Raisbeck that he wrote to Mr Mewburn requesting him to delay going into a Committee on the Bill for two days, but that Edward Pease has written to Francis Mewburn insisting him not to delay. Coates mentions that as ‘Leo R has requested to proceed with as much dispatch as he could to London and endeavour to persuade Lord Shaftsbury to allow the Bill to pass’ he thought it right to tell him that ‘in making his arrangements he need not calculate upon having two days grace’.