 means of the jealousies
that arose among the conspirators themselves; and was, at the same time,
confirmed to him by a person whom the very agent for an An-ey party had
entrusted with the secret. M-r no sooner detected it than he communicated his
discovery to one of Mr. A-ey's council, a man of great worth; and immediately
thereupon, took proper measures to defeat it. He then found means to lay open to
Mr. A-ey himself, the treacherous scheme that was laid for his destruction: he
was highly sensible of it; and could never afterwards reflect on the snare that
he had so unwarily been drawn into, and had so narrowly escaped, without a
mixture of horror, shame, and gratitude to his deliverer.
    The consummate assurance of the monsters who were engaged in this plot,
after they had been detected, and upbraided with their treachery, is scarce to
be parallelled; for they not only owned the fact of spiriting Mr. A-ey away, in
the manner abovementioned, but justified their doing it, as tending to his
service. They also maintained, that they had actually secured the twenty-five
thousand pounds for him, tho' they never could name any one person who was to
have advanced the money. No man was more active in this scheme than H-n; nor any
man more solicitous to keep Mr. A-ey up in the false impressions he had
received, or in projecting methods to ruin his protector, than he.
    Among many other expedients for that purpose, a most malicious attempt was
made to lodge an information against him, for treasonable practices, with the
secretary of state, notwithstanding the repeated proofs he had given of his
loyalty; and, as a preparatory step to this accusation, a letter, which this
traitor dictated, was copied by another person, and actually sent to the earl of
C--d, importing, that the person who copied the letter had an affair of
consequence to communicate to his lordship, if he would appoint a time for
receiving the information. But that person, upon full conviction of the villany
of the scheme, absolutely refused to proceed further in it; so that his malice
once more proved abortive: and before he had time to execute any other
contrivance of the same nature, he was imprisoned in this very jail for debt.
    Here, finding his creditors inexorable, and himself destitute of all other
resource, he made application to the very man whom he had injured in such an
outrageous manner, set forth his deplorable case in the
