Volume 1

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

  • Stuart, Andrew, 1725-1801
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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    / [ 39 ] to excite others to employ their talents in your defence, the world will be at no lofs to penetrate your motives. t I have little doubt, that in the elevated and powerful lituation you enjoy, furrounded by fuch numbers of friends or dependants, there will be found, amongft thole who either have or wifh to have your prote&ion, fome perfons abundantly ready to enter the lifts for you upon this occalion. To thefe gentlemen, if any fuch lliould appear, I beg leave to addrefs myfelf once for all, and to allure them, that every production on their part fhall on mine remain unanfwered, and be totally difregarded. It is from your Lordfhip alone that I can receive the fatisfaClion which is due to me ; I am bound to anfwer every thing that comes dire&ly from yourfelf, and equal¬ ly bound to difregard what proceeds from others. I cannot think of concluding without declaring the genuine ftate of my mind with regard to your Lordfhip : Neither malice, nor faClion, nor deep-rooted perfonal diflike, have with me had any lhare in producing this adrefs : On the contraty, it has not been without a large mixture of concern and regret, that I have myfelf per¬ ceived, or found it necelfary to make others perceive, any real defe&s in your character or conduCh Where nature has been lo bountiful in bellowing her richelt gifs of genius and of eloquence, it mull affeCl every lover of humanity with regret to fee thefe qualities degraded