Volume 1

Letters to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield. From Andrew Stuart, esq. [On the Douglas Peerage Cause.] / [Andrew Stuart].

  • Andrew Stuart
Date:
[1773]
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Credit: Letters to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield. From Andrew Stuart, esq. [On the Douglas Peerage Cause.] / [Andrew Stuart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    L 3« ] If, in the courfe of thefe letters I have fometimes mixed with the defence of myfelf, an attack upon your Lordfhip, it has been fuch only as was infeparably con¬ nected with the fubjeCL I have not permitted myfelf to adopt the fentiments, or to follow the example of thofe, who declaim againft you upon general or upon faCtious topics* / The faCls and arguments upon which any charge has here been made againft your Lordfhip, have been fo fully prefented to view, that it will be in vain for you ever to hatter yourfelf, that you are not called upon in the moll prefling manner to refute me if that is in your power. Attention to your own character, as well as to the fa« tisfaClion due to me, and to the public, require, that your Lordfhip fhould dedicate fome of your vacant hours to the difcuflion of the fubjeCls of thefe letters. If you are able to prove, that they contain mifreprefentations of you, or if you can fhew that there is error in the faCls, or fallacy in the arguments employed by me, there can be little doubt that my wifh of receiving an anfwer will be gratified. If the multiplicity of your other affairs be afllgned as an excufe for your avoiding to give any anfwer, there is yet one other method which may lerve to afford me fatis- faClion, and may poflibly do juftice to yourfelf without confuming much of your time : It is to publijh to the world your fpeech or argument in the Douglas caufea If, after all, your Lordfhip, inflead of adopting either of thefe plans, fhall chufe to wrap yourfelf up in filence, or to