Stirling peerage

STYLING HIMSELF EARL OF STIRLING. QQ
also shewn him, and marked as aforesaid, declares, That he knows
it to be in the handwriting of Mademoiselle Le Normand. And
all tliis he declares to be truth.
(Signed) Stirling.
G. Tait.
Arch". Scott.
Rich". J. Moxey.
Ja*. Mackenzie.
SECOND DECLARATION.
At Edinburgh, the eighteenth day of February eighteen
hundred and thirty-nine years,
In presence of George Tait, Esquire, Sheriff-substitute of
Edinburghshire,
COMPEARED Alexander Earl of Stirling ; and the cau-
tion at the commencement of the declaration emitted by him in
presence of the sheriff-substitute on the fourteenth current, being
repeated, and that declaration being read over to him, and he being
interrogated, declares'. That he adheres thereto. Interrogated,
declares, That when he was in Paris he did not correspond with
his law-agents : That he received letters from his sons, mentioning
in a general way the nature of Lord Cockburn's judgment ; but he
does not know whether any of those letters are preserved : That .
he got no distinct information as to the judgment, until March or
April of eighteen hundred and thirty-seven ; and until then he had
no idea of the extent to which Lord Cockburn's judgment was un-
favourable ; and in particular, he was not aware that Lord Cock-
burn had pointed out any links in the propinquity as being awant-
ing : That he was engaged at Paris in literary pursuits ; and, in
particular, he was concerned in supplying information with regard
to the state of society in England, to a friend who is engaged in
publishing a work upon England, which has not yet been announced;
and he was also engaged in writing a memoir of his own life : That
he declines to mention the persons concerned in the publication of
the work first alluded to. Interrogated, declares, That a few daj's
before Mademoiselle Le Normand shewed him the map, she asked
him to look in upon her soon, as she used often to do, and at that
time he was in daily expectation of hearing from his family in
Scotland ; and he was altogether unprepared for the discovery of
the map ; and he was completely taken by surprise : That he had
called upon her occasional!}', but not often, and generally in conse-
quence of letters from his family, whose welfare he wished to com-
municate to Mademoiselle Le Normand : That he called for her
sometimes in the mornin<r and sometimes in the evening: That, at