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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fcended lineally from a fecond.fon of the
marquis of Douglas, and the heirefs of
Hamilton. I am only forry, that in his
non-age he mould have been treated fo
cruelly, as to be involved in a law-fuit,
on which immenfe fums have been ex-
pended, and which at laft has ended fo
much to his difadvantage. Sure his mo-
ther, a lady of remarkable fweetnefs of
temper, could not be the promoter there-
of, being a ftranger in the country, and,
like other ladies, unacquainted with law.
I am afraid that the ambition of fome of
the firname of Hamilton, with theafTum-
ing temper of Andrew Stewart, have been
the principal caufe ; and if it be true that
thofe of that name did, from the time of
the death of the marquis of Douglas, fix
their eyes upon the eltate, and did what
in them lay to hinder the duke of Dou-
glas and his filler from marrying, it was
a finking inftance of the fuperintendency .
of Providence, that their ichemes mould
be baffled, and their expectations fruf-
trated. Sure I am, from the known
character of the duke of Argyle, and of
his fon the marquis ot Lorn, who is mar-
ried to the dutchefs of Hamilton, that
neither the one nor the other of thefe had
any hand in what was tranfacted ; both of
them