A-- could be supposed at that time
to possess. The notion of perpetual imprisonment, and the certain
ruin they made him believe his cause was threatened with, worked
upon his imagination to such a degree, that he suffered himself to
be led like a lamb to the slaughter by this artful band of villains,
who secreted him at the lodgings of one P--, an intimate of G--'s,
for several days, under colour of his being hunted by bailiffs
employed by Mr. M--, where he was not only obliged by them to change
his name, but even his wife was not suffered to have access to him.
"Their design was to have sold him, or drawn him into a ruinous
compromise with his adversaries, for a valuable consideration to
themselves. But as no ties are binding among such a knot of villains,
the rest of the conspirators were jockeyed by G--, who, in order
to monopolize the advantage to himself, hurried his prize into the
country, and secreted him even from his confederates, in a place of
concealment one hundred miles from London, under the same ridiculous
pretence of M--'s having taken out a writ against him, and of
bailiffs being in pursuit of him everywhere round London.
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