l return to the colonies, and that if his lawsuit proceed, his
witness or witnesses shall be indicted for conspiracy and perjury. Make
your mind easy so far. For the rest, I own to you that I think what he
says probable enough: but my object in setting Sharp to watch him is
to learn what other parties he sees. And if there be really anything
formidable in his proofs or witnesses, it is with those other parties I
advise you to deal. Never transact business with the go between, if you
can with the principal. Remember, the two young men are the persons to
arrange with after all. They must be poor, and therefore easily dealt
with. For, if poor, they will think a bird in the hand worth two in the
bush of a lawsuit.

"If, through Mr. Spencer, you can learn anything of either of the young
men, do so; and try and open some channel, through which you can always
establish a communication with them, if necessary. Perhaps, by learning
their early history, you may learn something to put them into your
power.

"I have had a twinge of the gout this morning, and am likely, I fear, to
be laid up for some weeks.

"Yours truly,

"LILBURNE.

"P.S.--Sharp has just been here. He followed the man who calls himself
'Captain Smith' to a house in Lambeth, where he lodges, and from which
he did not stir till midnight, when Sharp ceased his watch. On renewing
it this morning, he found that the captain had gone off, to what place
Sharp has not yet discovered.

"Burn this immediately."

From ROBERT BEAUFORT, ESQ., M.P., to the LORD LILBURNE.

"DEAR, LILBURNE,--Accept my warmest thanks for your kindness; you
have done admirably, and I do not see that I have anything further to
apprehend. I suspect that it was an entire fabrication on that man's
part, and your firmness has foiled his wicked designs. Only think,
I have discovered--I am sure of it--one of the Mortons; and he, too,
though the younger, yet, in all probability, the sole pretender the
fellow could set up. You remember that the child Sidney had disappeared
mysteriously,--you remember also, how much that Mr. Spencer had
interested himself in finding out the same Sidney. Well,--this gentleman
at the Lakes is, as we suspected, the identical Mr. Spencer, and his
soi-disant nephew, Camilla's suitor, is assuredly no other than the lost
Sidney. The moment I saw the young man I recognised him, for he is very
little altered, and has a great look of his mother into the bargain.
Concealing