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 encumbrance, and wanted to rid
his hands of him accordingly. He remembered that Mr. M-- 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--'s being safely arrived. Mr. M-- 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--
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 thoroughly satisfied that the claimant's pretensions were well
founded.

"In the meantime, H-- insinuating that the young gentleman was not
safe in his present lodging from the machinations of his enemies, M--
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. Having received from him all the
intelligence he could give relating to his own affair, he laid the case
before counsel, and despatched a person to Ireland, to make further
inquiries upon the same subject; who, in his first arrival in that
kingdom, found the claimant's birth was as publicly known as any
circumstance of that kind could possibly be, at so great a distance of
time.

"The usurper and his friends gave all the interruption in their power to
any researches concerning that affair; and had recourse to every art
and expedient that could be invented, to prevent its being brought to
a legal discussion. Privilege, bills in ch