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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    My Lord, IT is not from want of attention to your Lordfhip, that I have hitherto abftained from doing myfelf the honour of writing to you. With great truth I can fay it, you have not been abfent from my thoughts, during any one compleat day, for more than three years paft : but the fubjedt on which I meant to addrefs your Lord¬ fhip, was too interefting, and agitated me too ftrongly, to admit of my commencing this correfpondence foone'r. A long courfe of bad health, increafed perhaps by too much fenlibility in refpedt to certain events, with which your Lordfhip hands deeply connedted, made it impof- hble for me to fatisfy, fo foon as I wifhed, the earneft delire of communicating to you, my genuine fentiments; they relate to a fubjedt very interefting both to your Lordfhip and to me, and in many relpedts interefting to ever lover of juftice or humanity. i . \ Thofe who are injured have a right to complain; and it is the peculiar felicity of the natives of this iiland, that there are no reftraints upon the communication of truth, excepting thofe which the rules of decency, and of attention to that good order which is fo elfential to the well-being of every ftate, may neceftarily require. B Reftraints t