Stirling peerage

72 TRIAL OF ALEXANDER HUMPHRYS, OR ALEXANDER,
effrontery to say, — that your last title is your own handywork, &c.
— that you have returned to Paris — my answer has been No ! for
/ should have seen him. This Cabal is really infernal, they are
full of spite at the zeal I have shewn to serve you. You will be
much pinched to reach the month of November. A little money
will be given. Contrive so that there may be no farther delay,
for delay would be productive of the most serious consequences —
Assure the Courvtess of my attachment: my compliments to your
Sons. Believe me my Lord with devotedness your devoted.
L. N.
[No 45 of Inventory of Productions.]
Translated Extracts from Mademoiselle Le Normand's Letter
of 26th September, 18.38, to the Earl of Stirling.
' I can no longer understand the diflBculties they oppose to you
' regarding the veracity of your great map. How can we re-ascend
' to the origin of an autograph document which has perhaps passed
' through various hands ! Either it is a legal title, or it is not.
' Your Judges must decide the question ; and it is according to
' the opinion of well-informed people, doing you a remarkable
' injury, as well as myself, to pretend a possible falsification. I
' delivered it up to you in the state in which it was deposited at
' my house. I shall feel happy if this document serve to establish
* your rights. The pleasure of being useful has, at all periods,
' been the honourable mission I have constantly fulfilled. If your
' Judges knew me, they would also know, that whatever partakes
' of intrigue is foreign to my character,' &c.
• I return to my argument. Either the proof is good, or it is a
' forgery. In the first case, you must gain your suit. In the
' second hypothesis, demand an inquiry in France. Let the map
' of Canada be submitted to a jury of artists {^^ des Experts.")
' Let it be deposited in a public place, where every one shall be
' able to judge of it. Let the newspapers repeat an appeal to
' impartial justice. I would oppose myself to a final judgment of
' my equals if I saw their non-conviction of the signatures attached
' to it in France. I would say, " Strike the forger, or declare the
' merit of the document produced on the day of pleading." I
' conceive all your embarrassrnents — others will arise. The will
' of God be done I I am willing to believe that the term of your
' trials is at hand,' &c.
[No. 40 of Inventory of Productions.]
Translated Extracts from M'"° Le Normand's Letter of 17th
October, 1838, to the Earl of Stirling.
' How can the map be acknowledged genuine here while we
' have it not in view I If it were in Paris, indeed, we might appeal,