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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erroneous, that no accomptant upon earth
could fettle a common bill upon them.
In fome places were blanks to be filled up,
and there was a deficiency of articles,
(/. e.) nothing had been inferted in them
from July to September. Beiides, when
Godfroi and his wife were flrit fpoke to,
they remembered nothing of colonel
Stewart or lady Jane Douglas, till A.
Stewart's wine brought thefe to their re-
membrance. Belides, it was impolTible
to convict lady Jane, unlefs me had been
prefent at the examination.
V. The letters of Pierre la Marre were
never ufed bv Sir John ; they were found
in fome indirect manner, perhaps by the
management of A. Stewart ; and if a fu-
perannuated gentleman, whofe fight could
not be affilted by a microfcope, was to
miffake them for the real letters which
had palfed between them, it was no proof
of lady Jane's bringing in an impoftor, or
of Mrs. Hewitt's perjury.
VI. The perjury of Mignon's wife,
the pretended mother of Mr. Douglas,
was notorious, no lefs than the act itfelf
of felling her child to a foreigner. Some-
times 1 would be apt to think that the
creature