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and afterwards a creature of his uncle's, with whom he was, not without reason,
suspected to be concerned in kidnapping and transporting his nephew. Be that as
it will, his connexions with the usurper were now broke off by a quarrel, in
consequence of which he had thrown up his agency; and he invited the hapless
stranger to his house, with a view of making all possible advantage of such a
guest.
    There he had not long remained, when his treacherous landlord, tampering
with his inexperience, effected a marriage between him and the daughter of one
of his own friends, who lodged in his house at the same time: but afterwards,
seeing no person of consequence willing to espouse his cause, he looked upon him
as an incumbrance, and wanted to rid his hands of him accordingly. He remembered
that Mr. M-r had expressed himself with all the humanity of apprehension, in
favour of the unfortunate young nobleman, before his arrival in England; and
being well acquainted with the generosity of his disposition, he no sooner
understood that he was returned from France, than he waited upon him with an
account of Mr. A-y's being safely arrived. Mr. M--r was sincerely rejoiced to
find, that a person who had been so cruelly injured, and undergone so long and
continued a scene of distress, was restored to a country where he was sure of
obtaining justice, and where every good man (as he imagined) would make the
cause his own: and, being informed that the youth was in want of necessaries, he
gave twenty guineas to H-n for his use, and promised to do him all the service
in his power; but had no intention to take upon himself the whole weight of such
an important affair, or indeed to appear in the cause, until he should be fully
and throughly satisfied that the claimant's pretensions were well founded.
    In the mean time, H-n insinuating that the young gentleman was not safe in
his present lodging, from the machinations of his enemies, M-r accommodated him
with an apartment in his own house; where he was at great pains to remedy the
defect in his education, by rendering him fit to appear as a gentleman in the
world: and having received from him all the intelligence he could give, relating
to his own affair, laid the case before council, and dispatched a person to
Ireland, to make further enquiries upon the same subject; who, on his first
arrival in that kingdom, found the claimant's birth was
