Transcribed from the 1826 Wooler edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org Statement of Facts, ON THE _INJURIOUS TREATMENT_ OF J. ELSEE, ESQ. _Late Tenant of a considerable Portion of Havering Park Farm_, _in the Forest of Hainault_, IN CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS WITH THE Commissioners of Woods and Forests, AND THEIR AGENTS. * * * * * _Compiled in support of_ A RENEWED MEMORIAL TO THE COMMISSIONERS, AND PETITIONS TO PARLIAMENT. * * * * * TO WHICH ARE ADDED _NOTES_, _In Illustration of the Gross Abuses of the Forest Laws_. * * * * * WOOLER, PRINTER, GOUGH SQUARE. 1826. * * * * * STATEMENT, &c. THE statements which will be found in this pamphlet, will probably startle the minds of most persons who may give them a perusal; reflecting as they do upon the administration of justice, and the conduct of an official board, which is invested with the power of transacting certain business in the name of the crown, and on behalf of the nation. In such cases, the highest degree of liberality might reasonably be expected. Those petty interests that sow dissentions between individuals _ought not_ to exist in transactions between individuals and the representatives of the national authority; and, certainly, no _prejudiced motives_, or _personal feeling_, should be permitted to operate to the prejudice of the weaker party. Unfortunately, however, persons who ought to rise infinitely superior to all paltry hostility, and mean jealousies, do not always separate their prejudices from their duties; and they are also often led by the nose by impertinent and interested servants, who, in reality, become the masters of their nominal superiors, and dictators to those whom it is their business to obey.