the attempts to divest him of all assistance
to ascertain his right, by endeavouring so solicitously to prevail on
Mr. M-- to abandon him in the beginning? of retaining an army of counsel
before any suit had been commenced? of the many sinister attempts to
prevent the trial at bar? of the various arts made use of to terrify any
one from appearing as witness for the claimant, and to seduce those who
had appeared? of the shameless, unprecedented, low tricks now practised,
to keep him out of the possession of that estate for which he had
obtained the verdict, thereby to disable him from bringing his cause to
a further hearing; and of the attempts made to buy up Mr. M--'s debts,
and to spirit up suits against him? Is it not obvious from all these
circumstances, as well as from the obstruction they have given to the
attorney-general's proceeding to make a report to his majesty on the
claimant's petition to the king for the peerage, which was referred
by his majesty to that gentleman, so far back as 1743, that all their
efforts are bent to that one point, of stifling, rather than suffering
the merits of this cause to come to a fair and candid hearing; and that
the sole consideration at present between them and this unfortunate man
is not whether he is right or wrong, but whether he shall or shall not
find money to bring this cause to a final determination?

"Lord A-- and his confederates, not thinking themselves safe with all
these expedients, while there was a possibility of their antagonist's
obtaining any assistance from such as humanity, compassion, generosity,
or a love of justice, might induce to lay open their purses to his
assistance in ascertaining his right, have, by themselves and their
numerous emissaries, employed all the arts of calumny, slander, and
detraction against him, by traducing his cause, vilifying his person,
and most basely and cruelly tearing his character to pieces, by a
thousand misrepresentations, purposely invented and industriously
propagated in all places of resort, which is a kind of cowardly
assassination that there is no guarding against; yet, in spite of all
these machinations, and the shameful indifference of mankind, who
stand aloof unconcerned, and see this unhappy gentleman most inhumanly
oppressed by the weight of lawless power and faction, M--, far from
suffering himself to be dejected by the multiplying difficulties
that crowd upon him, still exerts himself with amazing fortitude and