COWPER--Have you any more letters?
MR. MARSHALL--Yes, I have another letter here, but before it is
read, I think it will be proper to give the court an account of
the occasion of its being writ. I waited on Mrs. Stout one
evening at her lodgings in Houndsditch, and at our parting she
appointed to meet me the next day; and to excuse her not coming
according to that appointment, she sent me this letter.
CLERK OF ARRAIGNS--It is directed to Mr. Thomas Marshall; it is
without date.
'MR. MARSHALL,
I met unexpected with one that came from H----d last
night, who detained me so long with relating the most
notorious inventions and lyes that are now extant
amongst those people, that I could not possible come
till it was late; and this day was appointed for
business, that I am uncertain when it will be finished;
so that I believe I cannot see you whilst I am in town.
I have no more at present, but that I am