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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    [ 46 ] « But Menager’s Delamarre never was at Naples, or in any part of Italy \ From the known hiftory of this poor mean furgeon, it would be too ridiculous to fuppofe him making excurfions of this fort, either for pleafure or for health *, It is clearly eftablifhed by the proof, and the fact is nor contefted, that Louis Pierre Delamarre never was either at Liege or at Naples, or at any place out of France, in the courfe of his life. Having thus ftated in Sir John Stewart’s own words the precife and circumftantial account very folemnly given by him concerning the perfon who affifted at the delivery of his wife Lady Jane Douglas, and having compared that account with the known fadts and hiftory of Menager’s Delamarre, let me now afk your Lordfhip, Whether it would be meant ferioufly, when, upon the faith of Menager’s veracity, and of his tingle hearfay te-ftimony, you exhibited to the Houfe of Lords this Louis Pierre Delamarre, as the true and genuine accou¬ cheur of Lady Jane Douglas ? ~Regv.lt of the Comp argon between Sir “Johns La Mar and Menager'% Delamarre. There are, my Lord, fome things fo oppofite and in- confiftent, that no human art can reconcile them ; and it will not be thought a bold affertion, when I venture to affirm, that it is an affront to human reafon to attempt to identify two perfons fo very different and incompa¬ tible in every refpedt, as are thefe two perfons, Louis Pierre Delamarre, the friend of Menager, and Pier La Mar, afcertained and defcribed on different occafions by Sir John Stewart as the accoucheur of Lady Jane Douglas, It is not poffible to convince any man in his fenfes, that Pier La Mar, Walloon, whom Sir John had feen at Liege in the year 1721, With whom he was at that time intimately acquainted, Who before that time