Nay, he even appeared in person
upon the bench at the trial, in order to intimidate the evidence,
and browbeat the unfortunate prisoner at the bar, and expended above
a thousand pounds in that prosecution. In spite of all his wicked
efforts, however, which were defeated by the spirit and indefatigable
industry of Mr. M--, the young gentleman was honourably acquitted,
to the evident satisfaction of all the impartial; the misfortune,
that gave a handle for that unnatural prosecution, appearing to a
demonstration to have been a mere accident.
"In a few months, his protector, who had now openly espoused his
cause, taking with him two gentlemen to witness his transactions,
conducted him to his native country, with a view to be better
informed of the strength of his pretensions, than he could be by
the intelligence he had hitherto received, or by the claimant's
own dark and almost obliterated remembrance of the facts which were
essential to be known. Upon their arrival in Dublin, application was
made to those persons whom Mr. A-- had named as his schoolmasters
and companions, together with the servants and neighbours of his
father.
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