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Rh (we will) puppet yho also,’ and brainsay, ‘We will actuate Erkine Monroish, yet.’. I mentioned their pretexts and sent out a memorandum thereupon, stating that, though they were active to prevent my perceiving all their drift, I feared they intended to make Lord Erskine mad ; for they often asserted, that with but half stress on the fluid with which he was impregnated, he would become weak in intellect ; and as it was to my wife, I could not help saying, ‘Notwithstanding the readiness to act as Counsel for me in 1797, which Mr. Erskine professed, yet, when you called upon him to ask him from me to mention my case and imprisonment in Bedlam in the House of Commons, he would not do so ; and for which the assassins boasted once they stagnated him in the House of Commons, by an air-loom warp, attaining him from no great distance ; and would have killed him afterwards there as an example in their