Narrative of the oppressive law proceedings, and other measures, resorted to by the British government, and numerous private individuals, to overpower the Earl of Stirling, and subvert his lawful rights

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visors and othors he put in requisition. Justice, hori ever, is not to be thus dis regat ded. I de ny, in the must peremptory ternas, both the Crown's titie to interfere With me in re-iation to tho laniis in question, and that there is any right os properi y in the laniis rem uining in the Crown, in any character of Superior, SoVere ign, Or Othor i Se.

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vitii advice foresaid, yc. os ne v give, grant anil dispone to the sor0said Sir William Alexander, his heirs and assignees, heri tably, sor ever ; renounciny aud ea onera inutho sume simpliciter, mith ali action orid inflance hereto fore competent fo, und in fui our of the suid Sir milliam Alexander, and his heirs and assisenees, as mollior non payment of the dulies contained in the orsinal in infimenis, as for non er-

sinu the sanie simpliciter, with ali tille, action, instance and inferest heroi ore com V petent, or that may be competent to VS, and Dur heses aud Successors, renoun ins

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ullo ed to continue uia molested for Si X Or eight monilis aster the completion of my legaltilles 3 Supposing, fur a m0ment, the right of the Crown t0 intersere, Was it proper, vas it correet 0r humane, to let me consume So many years, and Spend Such large sumsos money, Without any hint being given, or pretensi0n os right tu oppose being asserted by ministers and agents of the S0vereigit 3 Who can assii in that I might not have been deterred fr0m exposing myself to the danger and expense of pursu ing an objeci, Whicli, under sueti circumstances of inevitabie contest and litigation With the supreme p0Wer, I should have considered one of d0ubiful issue 3 What have the advocates of the right of the Crown who attacked me, aster nil my labo ur and eXpense had been incurred, to

and the instruments of seisin of the lorilship and barony of Ν0va Seotia, and of thel 0rd sh ip 0f Canada, on thd Sth day of tho fame monili of July 1831. This d0ne, I am persuaded a litile consideration Will bring such person to the fame conclusion, that Ιhave been illegat ly and unwarran tably intersered with, persecuted, and hept out of my

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the Κing's ministers, as by a large portion of the nobili ty and genti y in England and

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been, by their siluati0ns, the natural pr0teetors 0s my legat righis, preferred the c0ui se of injustice and inhumanity. In other colintries, When any thing of this hi nil happens, the oppressed subject is permitted t0 appeal to the magnanimi ty and p0wer of the S0verdigii ; and it is weli lino via h0w osten in Austria, in H0llanii, in Prussia, &e. the statuments of injured individuals, on the days When ali are allowed to approach the thronosor that pui pose, have satissed the royal minit, and 8t0ppud the ruthless proceu lings of

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tiane.

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NARRATIVE OF OPPRESSIVE PROCE EDINGA succedit in depriving me of the Stirling peerage, they W0uid not enj0y the po0r triumph of

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come the caution of many nobtemen and genti emen bes re my time, Under nearly Similar circumstances, that Was the state of minit most favoti rabie to their Sinister vieius. Perhaps the m Ost atroci ous means, adoptod by the schemers in question to dra v me in-t0 their 8nares, may be considered by the attentive reader to be the successive introducti0ns os intriguing and uia principieti men and women, Who, lay their c0nnexi On Withn0ble families and 0ther persons os influende, and their admission into good 80ciety, Were able, each sor a time, to conceat their plans, and malle me and my fami ly belleve them our devoted si iuniis. But, happily, sueti persons have been stam ped by the haud of Providelice On their perverted miniis, Whieli invariably leails them, 800ner or later, to betray their true characters and dispositions ; and thus it has happendii, that beingiliseovered and indignantly shunned by us, those p00ple n0w seel ait the ruge of di Sappo inted villan y. I have no intenti0n of disgusting my readers, by entering into fui ther explanations On sueti a subjeci. It would be improper besides to do SO, since there aretribunals to Whicli I can hereaster appeal. What I have mentioned is mei ely for the purp0se of elucidas ing the conduet anil motives of ille lea ling individuals, Wh0 have alWays hept as much as possibio bellind the curtain, While their disreputabie agenis have been made the instruments of evit, discredit, and sussering to me, their eli 0sen pre .

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sion, and whil e struggling almost alone against a host os foes, I have been made thebuit sor every fo0l tu uim at. This urinatural state of things cannot last for ever. Atristing occurrende in the life of man osten leails to great evenis, and tO changes as sortunate as they vere uiaeXpected a Shori time bes ore. I venture tu hope that sueti a de-