 be looked upon in that place with the utmost
detestation and contempt.
    This his intention was no sooner known to the adverse party, than their
agents and friends, from all quarters, repaired to that place with all possible
dispatch, and used all their influence with the people, in remonstrances,
threats, and all the other arts they could devise, not only to discountenance
the claimant upon his arrival, but even to spirit up a mob to insult him.
Notwithstanding these precautions, and the servile awe and subjection in which
tenants are kept by their landlords in that part of the country, as soon as it
was known that Mr. A--y approached the town, the inhabitants crowded out in
great multitudes to receive and welcome him, and accompanied him into town with
acclamations and other expressions of joy, insomuch that the agents of his
adversary durst not shew their faces. The sovereign of the corporation, who was
a particular creature and favourite of the usurper, and whose all depended upon
the issue of the cause, was so conscious of the stranger's right, and so much
awed by the behaviour of the people, who knew that consciousness, that he did
not think it safe, even to preserve the appearance of neutrality upon this
occasion, but actually held the stirrup while Mr. A--y dismounted from his
horse.
    This sense of conviction in the people, manifested itself still more
powerfully, when he returned to the same place in the year 1744, about which
time lord A--a being informed of his resolution, determined again to be
before-hand with him, and set out in person with his agents and friends, some of
whom were detached before him, to prepare for his reception, and induce the
people to meet him in a body, and accompany him to town, with such expressions
of welcome as they had before bestowed on his nephew: but in spite of all their
art and interest, he was suffered to pass through the street in a mournful
silence; and though several barrels of beer were produced, to court the favour
of the populace, they had no other effect than that of drawing their ridicule
upon the donor; whereas, when Mr. A--y, two days afterwards, appeared, all the
inhabitants, with garlands, streamers, music, and other ensigns of joy, crowded
out to meet him, and ushered him into town with such demonstrations of pleasure
and good-will, that the noble peer found it convenient to hide himself from the
resentment of his own tenants, the effects of which he must have severely
