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and it appears from the depofitions of clergymen and
gentlemen, of the firft rank in that country, that they
were women worthy to be believed, (fee Letter I:
page 25.) He even went in perfon to vifit Mrs.
Hewitt, converfed with her in prefence of his gentle-
man, Mr. Greenfheils, concerning his- lifter's delivery;
and the accounts given by thefe, like the radii of a
circle, all pointing toward one and the fame centre,
confirming the reality of Lady Jane being the mother
of the young gentleman ; he was fatisfied, acknow-
ledged him for his nephew, and left him his heir.
If the Duke of Douglas, after fo ferious an enquiry,
was convinced, why Ihould not we ? 'Tis true, his
Grace has fometimes exprefTed himfelf warmly againft
the fur-name of Hamilton, even in Lady Jane's life
time, but never fo warmly as to prefer a fuppofitious
child to the Duke of that name * ; for he only de-
clares,
* From Mr. Greenfheil's memorandum, in page 897 of the
defenders proof, it appears, that White of Stockbrigg's, a crea-
ture of Archibald Stewart's, afiured the Duke of Douglas, that
Lady Jane, had hired a mob to gather about his lodging, at
Edinburgh ; that on the firft news of Lady Jane's having borne
two fons, feveral people in the intereft of the Hamilton family, af-
fured his Grace, that the thing was impofiible at her time of life;
that thefe children were bought out of an hofpital ; that Stock-
briggs frequently infilled in this manner ; that Duke Hamilton
and Major Cockran confirmed the fame to be true, (fee page 1 3,
and 20 of firft Letter) ; that his Grace " often declared that it
** was pity that his eftate ihould go to people who would not
" thank him for it ; and if they had the fame in their hands,
*' they did not care if he was hanged, dead, and damned." His
Grace bore the higheft perfonal regard for that Duke of Hamilton
who died at Bath anno 1743, and who was one of the fineft men
of the age ; jbnit he had not the fame regard for that Duke's fon ;
for after the rebellion, his averfion was fo vifible, that he would
not receive a vifit from him except when he pleafed. The dif-
guft arofe from Duke Hamilton's going over to Lifbon, at the
time when the Pretender's ftandard was fet up, and never return-
ing