uttered after speaking three
hours, and obtaining a slight pause to recruit his strength.

Issue of Montague Bramleigh being proved, issue of that issue was also
established, and your father's letters were given in evidence to show
how he had treated with these claimants and given largely in money to
suppress or silence their demands. Thos. Bolton, of the house of Parker
and Bolton, bankers, Naples, proved the receipt of various sums
from Montague Bramleigh in favor of A. B. C, for so the claimant was
designated, private confidential letters to Bolton showing that these
initials were used to indicate one who went under many aliases, and
needed every precaution to escape the police. Bolton proved the journal
of Giacomo Lami, which he had often had in his own possession. In
fact this wit ness damaged us more than all the rest; his station and
position in life, and the mode in which he behaved under examination,
having great effect on the jury, and affording Lawson a favorable
opportunity of showing what confidence was felt in the claimant's
pretensions by a man of wealth and character, even when the
complications of political conspiracy had served to exhibit him as a
dangerous adventurer.

Waller's reply was able, but not equal to his best efforts. It is but
fair to him, however, to state that he complained of our instructions,
and declared that your determination not to urge anything on a point of
law, nor tender opposition on grounds merely technical, left him almost
powerless in the case. He devoted his attention almost entirely to
disprove the first marriage, that of Mr. B. with Enrichetta Lami;
he declared that, the relative rank of the parties considered, the
situation in which they were placed towards each other, and all the
probabilities of the case duly weighed, there was every reason to
believe the connection was illicit. This view was greatly strengthened
by Mr. B.'s subsequent conduct; his refusal to go over to the
christening, and the utter indifference he displayed to the almost
menacing tone of old Lami's letters; and when he indignantly asked the
jury "if a man were likely to treat in this manner his wife and the
mother of his first-born, the heir to his vast fortune and estates,"
there was a subdued murmur in the court that showed how strongly this
point had told.

He argued that when a case broke down at its very outset, it would be
a mere trifling with the time of the court to go further to disprove