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LETTERS OF

your utmost influence to promote, on the part of the highest court of judicature, a positive denial of justice to the nation.

JUNIUS.



LETTER LXIX.


TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD CAMDEN.


MY LORD,

I TURN with pleasure, from that barren waste, in which no salutary plant takes root, no verdure quickens, to a character fertile, as I willingly believe, in every great and good qualification. I call upon you, in the name of the English nation, to stand forth in defence of the laws of your country, and to exert, in the cause of truth and justice, those great abilities with which you were entrusted for the benefit of mankind. To ascertain the facts, set forth in the preceding paper, it may be necessary to call the persons, mentioned in the mittimus, to the bar of the house of lords. If a motion for that purpose should be rejected, we shall know