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are but probability still. Why need I name to your Lordship the two Harrisons recorded by Dr. Howel, who both suffered upon circumstances, because of the sudden disappearance of their lodger, who was in credit, had contracted debts, borrowed money, and went off unseen, and returned a great many years after their execution? Why name the intricate affair of Jaques du Moulin under King Charles 2d, related by a gentleman who was counsel for the crown? and why the unhappy Coleman who suffered innocent, though convicted upon positive evidence, and whose children perished for want, because the world uncharitably believed the father guilty? Why mention the perjury of Smith, incautiously admitted king's evidence, who to screen himself equally accused Faircloth and Loveday of the murder of Dun, the first of whom in 1749 was executed at Winchester, and Loveday was about to suffer at Reading, had not Smith been proved perjured to the satisfaction of the court, by the Surgeon of Gosport hospital. Now, my Lord, having endeavoured to shew that the whole of this process is altogether repugnant to every part of my life, that it is inconsistent with my condition of health about that time, that no rational inference can be drawn, that a person is dead who suddenly disappears, that hermitages were the constant repositories of the bones of the recluse, that the revolutions in religion or the fortune of war, has mangled or buried the dead; the conclusion remains perhaps no less reasonably than impatiently wished for. I at last, after a year's confinement equal to either fortune, put myself upon the candour, the justice, and the humanity of your Lordship, and upon yours, my countrymen, gentlemen of the jury."

FINIS.

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