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of the court of ſeſſion and the houſe of peers, c. &c. &c. that have been deviſed and perpetrated with impunity in this caſe, which may poſſibly fall under the review of his majeſty and the privy council: but God forbid that I ſhould form my own judgement, or with the world to form their judgement of the general character of the gentlemen concerned, from this marvellous ſpecimen, more than the character of the devout King of Iſrael, from his murder and adultery in the caſe of Uriah and his wife.

The trial of the caſe before this court is adjourned to the 15th of January, and, at the deſire of many concerned, the ſecond printed edition of the Statement before the king and council ſhall be ſo long compaſſionately ſuppreſſed.

Edinburgh, 3d Jan. 1777.

To the Reverend Mr Webſter Dean of the Chapel Royal, &c.

My very Dear Sir,

I have ſeriouſly reviſed every line of the preceeding petition, which is certainly the moſt ſingular hiſtory that ever occurred in this age or kingdom, and cannot be believed without demonſtrative evidence. It is diſagreeable, but it is abſolutely neceſſary, to require your teſtimony to prove that Lord Chief Baron, or his accomplices, not by your inattention, but my own ſimplicity, found means to carry off a diſpoſition depoſited in your hands, to my whole eſtate, in favour of a tribe of perjured thieves, upon his Lordſhip’s ſolemn