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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clofets, which they pretended always to be full, and
yet in their book it does not appear there were above
three perfons in them during Col. Stewart's pretended
abode ; and what is pretty ftrange, the) had many
women lodgers during that year, and yet they depofe,
they remember none but this lady, whom Andrew
Stewart would have to be Lady Jane Douglas. They
even differ with refpedt to the names of their fervants 5
the council at the bar have acknowledged the inac-
curacy of the books, owing to the avocations of the
man elfewhere, and to the inadvertency of his fpoufe,
continually hurried by a multiplicity of bufinefs.
Befides a poftage in a book, fuch as the Livre d'ln-
fpecteur, which, like a wafte-book, contains things
juft as they occur ; or the Livre d'Depenfe, to which
the articies of the former are transferred, bear no
manner of convincing proof, that the perfons men-
tioned in thefe ftaid at fuch and fuch places, it being
a cuftomary thing to mark <k>wn the name of the
perfon the moment he takes the lodging ; and it is
notorious that many perfons have paid a week, nay,
a month's lodging, without deeping a night in it :
and this is no more than equity, fince the fame was
referved for their ufe.
But here, my Lords, the purfuers in this affair
have deftroyed their own caufe ; they have brought
a fort of proof that Lady Jane Douglas was at Mi-
chelle's houfe, called Le petit hotel d'Anjou, in the
riie Serpente, Fauxbourg, St. Germain ; and this, at
the very time when they would prove her to have
been at the houfe of Godfroi, of whom fo much has
been faid and heard : Michelle and Godfroi difagree
in every thing, except in the irregularity of their
books, and indeed it is hard to fay which of the two
excels