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 ¬that Scotchmen flocked daily into London, and became intelligible by degrees. — To cut the matter short, I had set my mind, at last, upon the plan, and which was only defeated by a conspiracy against me of the most extraordinary description — Many witnesses having started up, and declared themselves ready to prove that I had practised there many years, and for some reason or other had been expelled from the bar. — I was astonished at this attempt, but what could be done to resist it? they were persons whose credit I had no means of impeaching, and I could prove no alibi without witnesses from the earth. ¬I consulted their great chief justice, who wished much to help me, but said he could give me no relief — and that he would tell me the reason the first time he saw me, which he soon afterwards did — but the conversation was private. ¬I now proceeded to examine the police of this -immense ¬