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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Ipoke for three hoars the firft day, as long
the next; and on January 26th, Mr.
\y -_n pleaded about four hours 5
after which the Lords adjourned till Wed-
riefday the ill of February, on which
day he like ways appeared. Then Mr.
j> 1 — g defired to be heard upon the
fame fide, which, notwithstanding it was
uhufual to hear three on one fide, and but
two on another, yet was granted ; and he
fpoke two feveral days, for three hours at
each of the traps'; and then. the reply
was appointed to be given pn the 20th,
when Sir F r N n fpoke rirft for
three hours, and next day he finifhedy
after a reafoning of three hours and an
half.
Indeed he had a large field for argu-
mentation, the reafons infifted on by the
oppofite fide being in themlelves ground-
lels and inconclusive. 'Ihus, faid Mr.
W" , can icbe fuppofed that a gentle-
man and lady mould come from Rheims
to Paris with but a guinea, in order that
(he might lye in ? Equally abfurd, as if a
man was to go and buy black cattle with-
out money in his pocket. Every thing
with him was an abfurdity. Ci Lady
•* Jane and Mr?. Hewitt were the hafeit
G suad