 acquired such a valuable
charge, he wrote a letter to one of lord A-y's attornies, offering to betray Mr.
An-ey; provided his lordship would settle his account, and give him a discharge
for eight hundred pounds of the pension, which he had received, and not
accounted for. Mr. M-, informed of this treacherous proposal, immediately
removed his lodger from his house into his own, without assigning his reasons
for so doing, until he was obliged to declare it, in order to free himself from
the importunities of H-n, who earnestly solicited his return. This miscreant
finding himself detected, and disappointed in his villainous design, was so much
enraged at his miscarriage, that, forgetting all the benefits he had received
from M- for a series of years, he practised all the mischief that his malice
could contrive against him; and at length entered into a confederacy with one
G-tr-y, and several other abandoned wretches, who, as before said, under various
pretences of being able to make material discoveries, and otherwise to serve the
cause, had found means to be employed in some extra-business relating to it,
tho' their real intention was to betray the claimant.
    These confederates, in conjunction with some other auxiliaries of infamous
character, being informed that Mr. M-r was on the point of securing a
considerable sum, to enable him to prosecute Mr. An-y's right, and to bring it
to a happy conclusion, contrived a deep laid scheme to disappoint him in it, and
at once to ruin the cause. And previous measures being taken for that wicked
purpose, they imposed upon the young gentleman's inexperience and credulity, by
insinuations equally false, plausible, and malicious; to which they at length
gained his belief, by the mention of some circumstances that gave what they
alleged an air of probability, and even of truth. They swore that Mr. M-- had
taken out an action against him for a very large sum of money; that they had
actually seen the writ; that the intention of it was to throw him into prison
for life, and ruin his cause, in consequence of an agreement made by him with
lord A--ey, and his other enemies, to retrieve the money that he had laid out in
the cause.
    This plausible tale was enforced with such an air of truth, candor, and
earnest concern for his safety, and was strengthened by so many imprecations,
and corroborating circumstances of their invention, as would have staggered one
