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EING long convinced of the genuine goodneſs of your Lordſhip’s heart, and the purity of all your intentions; eſpecially in that high and important office you fill with ſuch diſtinguiſhed reputation; and ſatisfied that you are deſirous to poſſeſs every information which may forward the great purpoſes of Juſtice; I am emboldened to lay before you a few remarks on the ſubject of the cauſe, Boulton and Wart, verſus Hornblower and Maberley, which came before your Lordſhip, on Friday, 16th Dec. 1796, at Guildhall, London.

The ſubſtance of theſe remarks I deſigned to relate during the courſe of my evidence on that Trial; although much incapacitated by indiſpoſition, and thoſe alkaleſcent and morbific exhalations, ever a conſequence of large and cloſe aſſemblies; had not your Lordſhip, aware the