"These confederates having held several consultations against their
common enemy, and finding that his cause gathered daily strength
since the trial, by the accession of many witnesses of figure and
reputation, who had not been heard of before, and that the only
chance they had to prevent the speedy establishment of his right,
and their own destruction, was by stripping Mr. M-- of the little
money that yet remained, and by stopping all further resources
whereby he might be enabled to proceed; they therefore came to a
determined resolution to carry that hopeful scheme into execution;
and, in pursuance thereof, they have left no expedient or stratagem,
how extraordinary or scandalous soever, unpractised, to distress
Mr. A-- and that gentleman. For that end, all the oppressive arts
and dilatory expensive contrivances that the fertile invention of
the lowest pettifoggers of the law could possibly devise, have with
dexterity been played off against them, in fruitless quibbling,
and malicious suits, entirely foreign to the merits of the cause.
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