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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    [ 5* ] The inferences arifing from an uniform continued train of conduct, I hold to be a fpecies of evidence far fuperior to the affertions cr verbal teffimony of wit- neffes ;—It is the fubftantial evidence of things and actions themfelves, not the fallible teffimony of men. The condudf of Sir John Stewart and Lady Jane Douglas, in abffaining from ever mentioning Delamarre of Paris, or obtaining genuine letters or certificates from him: The arguments founded on the intriniic J O evidence of the forged letters themfelves ; And their condudt in fabricating falfe letters/ at the very time when Delamarre was alive, and had his fixed refidence at Paris, afford folid ground on which to found argu¬ ments that no power of eloquence can deftroy, no ar¬ tifice or chicanery can elude. What credit then can be due to the fingle teffimony of Menager, in oppofition to Evidence fo powerful, and fo firmly effablifhed ? ######## P A j R T IV. That the Credit given to Menager’* hear fay Evidence would not have been due to the Evidence Delamarre hitnfelf. LET us now confider, my Lord, what credit would have been due to Louis Pierre Delamarre himfelf, if he had been examined in this caufe, and had given, at firff-hand, the fame fort of evidence which Menager at fecond-hand has attempted. This, it muff be allowed, would be a much ffronger cafe in favour of the caufe you fupported, than the real one \