 were defeated by the spirit and indefatigable industry
of Mr. M--r, the young gentleman was honourably acquitted, to the evident
satisfaction of all the impartial; the misfortune that gave a handle for that
unnatural prosecution, appearing to a demonstration to have been a mere
accident.
    In a few months, his protector, who had now openly espoused his cause,
(taking with him two gentlemen to witness his transactions) conducted him to his
native country, with a view to be better informed of the strength of his
pretensions, than he could be by the intelligences he had hitherto received, or
by the claimant's own dark and almost obliterated remembrance of the facts which
were essential to be known. Upon their arrival in Dublin, application was made
to those persons whom Mr. A--y had named as his schoolmasters and companions,
together with the servants and neighbours of his father. These, though examined
separately, without having the least previous intimation of what the claimant
had reported, agreed in their accounts with him, as well as with one another,
and mentioned many other people as acquainted with the same facts to whom Mr.
M--r had recourse, and still met with the same unvaried information. By these
means, he made such progress in his inquiries, that in less than two months no
fewer than one hundred persons, from different quarters of the kingdom, either
personally, or by letters, communicated their knowledge of the claimant, in
declarations consonant with one another, as well as with the accounts he gave of
himself. Several servants who had lived with his father, and been deceived with
the story of his death, so industriously propagated by his uncle, no sooner
heard of his being in Dublin, than they came from different parts of the country
to see him; and though great pains were taken to deceive them, they,
nevertheless, knew him at first sight; some of them fell upon their knees, to
thank heaven for his preservation, embraced his legs, and shed tears of joy for
his return.
    Although the conduct of his adversary, particularly in the above-mentioned
prosecution, together with the evidence that already appeared, were sufficient
to convince all mankind of the truth of the claimant's pretensions, Mr. M--r, in
order to be further satisfied, resolved to see how he would be received upon the
spot where he was born; justly concluding, that if he was really an impostor,
the bastard of a kitchen-wench, produced in a country intirely possessed by his
enemy and his allies, he must
