Detection of infamy

THE APPEAL
OF
CHARLES EDWARD, Duke of Melfort,&c.
HEIR-MALE, AND CHIEF REPRESENTATIVE
OF THE
f£)ou$e of gstttmmottt of ^ertfj,
SUBMITTED TO THE CONSIDERATION OF
The Two Houses of Parliament of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain.
MY LORDS and GENTLEMEN,
J-N soliciting- your attention to this Appeal, the great
object is to induce you to render so much justice to an
unfortunate Individual, as to cause an Investigation to
be made into the nature of his case, wheiefrom it may
be collected whether he has not been deprived of his
legal inheritance by the substitution of a spurious person
to wrest it from him; and whether Patliament itself
has not been imposed upon, and thereby made the un-
intentional instrument to inflict upon him so severe a
stroke of injustice ?
The circumstances in which this case stands involved
are certainly of rather an intricate nature; but not so in-
tricate as to recmire any thing more than a serious in-
quiry, to ascertain the truth.
The degree of criminality which may attach to the
conduct of a distinguished Nobleman, now no more may
appear of a deep and flagitious dye; but when it shall
be considered, that in his life-time he was impeacned
for certain High Crimes and Misdemeanors, and that on