was only
to lay a foundation for a dexterous contrivance to draw Mr. A-- unwarily
into the execution of a deed, relinquishing all his right and title,
under a notion of its being a deed to secure the repayment of that sum.

"G-- having, as he imagined, so far paved the way for the execution of
such a deed, enters into an agreement with an agent, employed for that
purpose by Mr. A--'s adversaries, purporting that in consideration of
the payment of a bond for six thousand pounds, which he, G--, had, as
he pretended, laid out in Mr. A--'s cause, and of an annuity of seven
hundred pounds a year, he was to procure for them from Mr. A-- a deed
ready executed, relinquishing all right and title to the A-- estate and
honours. Everything being prepared for the execution of this infernal
scheme, unknown to Mr. A--, G-- then thought proper to send for him
to town from his retirement, in order, as he pretended, to execute a
security of twenty-five thousand pounds.

"This intended victim to that villain's avarice no sooner arrived in
town, full of hopes of money to carry on his cause, and of agreeably
surprising his friend and protector Mr. M--, with so seasonable and
unexpected a reinforcement, than an unforeseen difficulty arose,
concerning the payment of G--'s six-thousand-pound bond. That money was
to have been raised out of the estate of a lunatic, which could not be
done without the leave of the Court of Chancery, to whom an account must
have been given of the intended application of it. While preparations
were making to rectify this omission, G-- immediately carried Mr. A--
again into the country, lest he should happen to be undeceived by some
means or other.

"In the meantime, this wicked machination was providentially discovered
by Mr. M--, before it could be carried into execution, by means of the
jealousies that arose among the conspirators themselves; and was, at the
same time, confirmed to him by a person whom the very agent for the A--
party had entrusted with the secret. M-- no sooner detected it, than he
communicated his discovery to one of Mr. A--'s counsel, a man of great
worth, and immediately thereupon took proper measures to defeat it. He
then found means to lay open to Mr. A-- himself the treacherous scheme
that was laid for his destruction. He was highly sensible of it, and
could never afterwards reflect on the snare that he had so unwarily been
drawn into, and had so narrowly escaped, without a mixture of ho