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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    [ 33 ] declare who the perfon was that had delivered Lady Jane9 and to give to their friends every facility of converfmg with him, but to preferve feme evidence of the faCt, and an accurate recollection of perfons, places, and dates, eflentially connected with this extraordinary and fufpeCted event. Sir John Stewart, and Lady Jane Douglas, both of them remarkable for their abilities and knowlege of the world, had too much penetration not to forefee, that an event fo unexpected as that of Lady Janev%s delivery of two Tons at a birth, in the 51ft year of her age, and in a foreign country, removed from the obfervation of her Friends or Enemies, would produce much fpeculation in Britain, and probably not meet with complete credit from the world until men were better informed of par~ ticuiars* The natural conduCt, therefore, even from the be¬ ginning, mu ft have been to diffufe, as much as poffible, amongft their friends and acquaintance abroad, the knowlege of fuch particulars of this amazing fortun¬ ate event, as might eftablifh the truth of it on a folid foundation. If Delam&rre, who had his conftant refidence at Paris, had been the perfon who really delivered Lady Jane, would they not have declared this to their friends and to all the world ? Would they not have defired their friends and acquaintance at Paris ( for many fuch they had there at the very time, as appears from the proof ) to meet with this man, and to receive from him juft in¬ formation, that upon his authority, confirmed alfo by their feeing the child under his care, they might declare and propagate the true ftate of faCts. t Not only fo, my Lord, but They would certainly have obtained from that perfon, fome genuine evi¬ dence in writing of the delivery performed by him, as well as fome writing on the part of the wit- nefTes %