th the transaction of this day; the
town was again in uproar on the Sunday following, when it was known that
Mr. A-- intended to come thither from Dunmain to church; they went
out to meet him as before, and conducted him to the church door with
acclamations, which terrified his uncle to such a degree, that he fled
with precipitation in a boat, and soon after entirely quitted the place.

"It would be almost an endless task to enumerate the particular steps
that were taken by one side to promote, and by the other to delay, the
trial. The young gentleman's adversaries finding that they could not, by
all the subterfuges and arts they had used, evade it, repeated attempts
were made to assassinate him and his protector; and every obstruction
thrown in the way of his cause which craft could invent, villainy
execute, and undue influence confirm. But all these difficulties were
surmounted by the vigilance, constancy, courage, and sagacity of M--;
and, at last, the affair was brought to a very solemn trial at bar,
which being continued, by several adjournments, from the eleventh to the
twenty-fifth day of November, a verdict was found for the claimant by a
jury of gentlemen, which, in point of reputation and property, cannot
be easily paralleled in the annals of that or any other country; a jury,
that could by no means be suspected of prepossessions in favour of Mr.
A--, to whose person they were absolute strangers; especially if we
consider, that a gentleman in their neighbourhood, who was nephew to
the foreman, and nearly related to some of the rest of their number,
forfeited a considerable estate by their decision.

"This verdict," said the parson, "gave the highest satisfaction to all
impartial persons that were within reach of being duly informed of their
proceedings, and of the different genius and conduct of the parties
engaged in the contest, but more especially to such as were in court, as
I was, at the trial, and had an opportunity of observing the characters
and behaviour of the persons who appeared there to give evidence. To
such it was very apparent, that all the witnesses produced there on the
part of the uncle, were either his tenants, dependents, pot-companions,
or persons some way or other interested in the issue of the suit, and
remarkable for a low kind of cunning; that many of them were persons
of profligate lives, who deserved no credit; that, independent of
the levity of their characters, those of them who w