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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body as his father ; he has been known to be the fon
of Col. Stewart, by perfons who had never feen him
before ; and is fo like his elder brother, the prefent
Sir John Stewart, that, except by their age, it would
be hard to diftinguifh the one from the other.
If Sir John Stewart, the moft artlefs of mankind,
was actor in the enlevement of Mignon and Sanry's
children, he did in a few days what the acuteft genius
could not accomplifh for years. He found two chil-
dren ; the one, the finifhed model of himfelf ; and
the other, the exact picture in miniature of Lady
Jane. It feems nature had implanted in the chil-
dren what is not in the parents $ for it appears in
proof, that in fize, complexion, ftature, attitude,
colour of the hair and eyes, nay and in every other
thing, Mignon and his wife, Sanry and his fpoufe,
were toto celce different from, and unlike to Sir John
Stewart and Lady Jane Douglas. Among eleven
black rabbits there will fcarce be found one to pw
duce a white one.
The refpondent's caufe has been veil fupported by
the ingenuity of its managers, and great ftreis has
been laid upon the not finding out the houfe where
Madam la Brun lived, and where the delivery was
effected ; but this is no way ftriking, if we confider
that houfes are frequently pulled down to make way
for ftreets, and houfes are built upon the ground
where ftreets run before: of this there are daily ex-
amples in this metropolis. However, we need enter
into no arguments of this kind, as there is a pofitive
evidence before us ; nor is it poflible to credit the
witneffes, fome of them of a facred character, when
they fpeak of Lady Jane's virtues, provided we can
believe