Letter to a noble lord: or, a faithful representation of the Douglas cause; AND Second letter to a noble Lord, or, The speeches of the Lord Chancellor, and of Lord Mansfield on the Douglas cause

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" one of them muft be confiderably oldef
(C than the other."
A bad tale is fooner believed than a
good one. The duke was impofed on ;
and the friends of A.Stuart, who vvere
numerous indeed, heipedto propagate the
plots and contrivances of colonel Stuart and
lady Jane. According to my information,
his mother, his aunts, his lifters, and all
connected with him, loudly proclaimed
the cheat ; only Sir Robert Henderfon
declined fpeaking upon the fubjecfc; he
either kept filent, or, whenever it was
mentioned, he inilantly withdrew.
Of all lady Jane's enemies, Thomas
Cochran, now E— — of D— , was
the mcfl mifchievous; for he not only
communicated the fuppofed difcovery by
the countefs of Stair, but when that lady
interceded with him to mollify the duke
of Douglas, and incline him to relieve the
neceflities of lady Jane, he excufed him-
felf, by telling her, that fuch'a thing was
impra&icable, for that his Grace had re-
ceived a letter from Count Douglas, a
French nobleman, informing, that lady
Jane had bought thefe children out of an
fcofpital for eight Shillings, and would not
hear