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creature never had acted a part fg unnatu-
ral ; but if (lie did, the time when, the
people to whom me fold him, and a
variety of other circumftances, among
which his complexion and age, put it be-
yond doubt, that the child fhe fold could
not be Mr. Douglas. The fame might be
faid of Sanry's child. Both Mignon and
Sanry's children could fpeak, whereas
neither Archibald nor Sholto could utter
a word in December 1749.
It has been, faid Sir F r N n,
roundly afferted, that the child Sholto had
a rupture, in order to prove him to have
been the fon of Sanry the rope-dancer ;
but I can produce evidence at your lord-
mips bar, that the child was as found as
any perfon within thefe walls. " I have a
" letter from a gentleman of character
" upon the fubjecV
Your lordfhip will be pleafed to know ?
that a note was given to Sir F r, inti-
mating, that Mr.- Murray, a gentleman
formerly named, was fhocked to hear the
aflertion, and iignihed his willingnefs to
make affidavit, that, to his certain know-
ledge, the child Sholto * (/. c. behold) had
* That was the name of the hril Douglas, (/'. t»
black and grey) anno 767.
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