 the candid determination of an honest jury. What
else could be the motives of kidnapping the claimant, and transporting him when
an infant? of the various attempts made upon his life since his return? of the
attempts to divest him of all assistance to ascertain his right, by endeavouring
so solicitously to prevail on Mr. M-r to abandon him in the beginning? of
retaining an army of counsel, before any suit had been commenced? of the many
sinister attempts to prevent the trial at bar? of the various arts made use of
to terrify any one from appearing as witness for the claimant, and to seduce
those who had appeared? of the shameless, unprecedented, low tricks now
practised, to keep him out of the possession of that estate for which he had
obtained the verdict, thereby to disable him from bringing his cause to a
further hearing, and of the attempts made to buy up Mr. M--'s debts, and to
spirit up suits against him? Is it not obvious from all these circumstances, as
well as from the obstruction they have given to the attorney-general's
proceeding to make a report to his majesty, on the claimant's petition to the
King for the peerage, which was referred by his majesty to that gentleman, so
far back as 1743; that all their efforts are bent to that one point of stifling,
rather than suffering the merits of this cause to come to a fair and candid
hearing; and that the sole consideration at present between them and this
unfortunate man is not, whether he is right or wrong, but whether he shall or
shall not find money to bring this cause to a final determination.
    Lord A--a and his confederates not thinking themselves safe with all these
expedients, while there was a possibility of their antagonist's obtaining any
assistance from such as humanity, compassion, generosity, or a love of justice
might induce to lay open their purses to his assistance, in ascertaining his
right, have, by themselves and their numerous emissaries, employed all the arts
of calumny, slander and detraction against him, by traducing his cause,
vilifying his person, and most basely and cruelly tearing his character to
pieces, by a thousand misrepresentations, purposely invented and industriously
propagated in all places of resort, which is a kind of cowardly assassination
that there is no guarding against: yet, in spite of all these machinations, and
the shameful indifference of mankind, who stand aloof unconcerned, and see this
unhappy gentleman most inhumanely oppressed by the weight of lawless power and
faction, M--r,
