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vines might not be ashamed TO nave
"a wife and sister" associate with
Mary, ss. did the Lady SestOn and
other of the purest women of Scotland.
We cannot array all tne proofs against
the genuineness of these letters, but
there are one or two inherent facts
which are utterly inconsistent with their
authenticity.
TIE STORY OF MURRAY
and his sccOrplices as to these papers is,
that they were captured on the TWEEN
tieth of-JuBe, 1861. They profess to es-
tablish the cOmplieity Of Mary in the
murder of her husband, and her adulter-
Gus connection with Boutwell,. These
papers were put into the hands Of the
Scotch priyy council on the twenty-first
OF sme, and on the twenty-sixth Dal-
I gleish WIS inter7ogated. Not a word
was said to him about such papers, nor
any said by him. His examination is
yet eXtant. And on the tWenty-sixth
this privy council Morton, BalfOur and
Dalgleish being ali presently issued a re-
ward of one Thousand crowns for the ar
rest of Boutwell,, "guilty Of having
murdered the king and Of hdUing traitor
OUsly TdUishel. the Queeg.n At the time
VI lAkE AAVllalAAaAAtN-A- AlEN AAANSN Ia 2
evidence in these letters that the queen
had consented with EOthWell, and that
charge of ravishing was false; and more,
too, that Morton Balfour and Dalgleish
knew that it was false. The conclusion
iss irresistible that the forgery had not
then been ConcOcted.
SecOnd-Vhe first public announce
ment of these "casket letters was on
TNr..v,,l.a "a 1foraaA brT Morton
Maitland and BalfOur in an act of cOun-
ell, and in that they charge "that the
seizure of the queen and her imprisOn-
ment at LOchleven were in consequence
of her preUie letter found on her, writ
ten and subscribed in her own hand.
Now, the queen was seized on the fif-
teenth Of June and imprisoned on the
sixteenth, aud when the story of the
letters was afterward detailed in full,
their discovery and capture were fixed
on the twentieth of June; SO thatOn the
| fourth of December the forgery had
been concocted and arranged but the
/ lesson not learned, hence the after in
consistency. Such accidents never hap
pen with truth. Happily they are the
almost inevitable cOncOmitants of crime
and falsehOod, and their sure detectives.
Third-On their presentation TO
| Elizabeth, the commissioners and privy
council they divided equally upon their
sufficiency. But when, afterWard, de-
I cisiOn was reached at Hampton court,
/ Cecil, much TO his dissatisfaction, was
obliged to announce to Murry as the
! conclusion of the commission that
there had been nothing sufficiently pro-
duced nor shown by them against the
| queen, their sovereign
Fourth-The original papers were re-
| fused to the inspection of Mary, who
all the while denounced them as for
geries, and although by her orders
4 Mary's commissioners, Immediately on
I the rendition of the decision on the
| tenth of January, charged Murray and
/ his accOmplices with the forgery, and
also with the murderO Darnley, tO-Wit:
on the eleventh. On the twelfth he was
/ permitted to escape with five thousand
| pounds reward from the English ex-
chequer. HOsack, 49,
Fifth-The unwOrthiness of Hume is
shown in this statement: On page l09,
of his 4th volume, where Scotch
Irish " finds the proof Of Mary's guilt,
he says:
"THEsE PAPERS,
at least translations of them, have
since been published Now this
/ il not an inadvertance, but is the
! insinuatiOn of a lie. The phrase,
I ''these papers, at least a transla-
/ ton Of them, to a casual reader might
well convey the idea of the publication
of the original; and that would seem to
I be the purpose, for there is as wide a
| difference between these papers and a
! translation of them as it is possible to
conceive. Hume well knew that the
originals were carried of by Murray
were never after produced, and he could
never have suggested their publication
except for an evil purpose. If Scotch
Irishn wished to say I furnished Colone
! McRae with the printed communication
of my reply TO his lecture, would ht
state as a historic fact / furnished hin
with the written, at least the printed
article?
Sixth-The unwOrthiness of boil
! Hume and FrOude are shown in this
! Hume says-"Mary did in effect Tatifl
the evidences against her by recoilinl
from the inquiry at the very critiea
moment and refusing to give an answe
to the accusation of her enc
mies.n (VOl. 4th, page 1l0) AnC
Mr.. FrOude says--''She did everything
in her power to prevent them from beinj
examined. Volume 9,page 400.l Where
as, at York, Mary had demanded t
have the letters produced, and L
be confronted with them, on the nine
teenth of December she renewed the de
mand denOuncing them as forgeries
and saying if they are produced "b
Gods grace we shall have such answe
to them that cur innocence shall b
known to ali princes"
THIS DEMAND
was presented by her commissioners {
majority of whom were Protestant:
and some Presbyterians). On the tweI
: ty-second Of November previous she ha
, instructed her commissioners to deman
"that she should be permitted {
appear in person before Elizabetf
in presence of her nobility and a
the foreign ambassadors in LoI
. don, to answer all that may or can
alleged against her by the calumnies {
r our rebels" And on the tenth of Jan
nary, the day before Murray was permit
!, ted TO escape, her commissioners il
formed Cecil that they were expressl
commanded to charge Murray wit
the forgery, and to answer tn
charges against their mistres
if they were furnished even wit
copies of the pretended writing
/, All these now well-authenticated fac
are suppressed both by Hume an
Froude. (See Hosach, 467.)
! No wonder that, Immediately ate
the best nobility Of England-the Ear
Arundel WestmOreland, Pembrok
Northumberland, Sussex and others
espoused her cause, while Cecil, th
: basest intriguer of the age, Leicester
the murderer of Amy RObSart, and Bs
con, the "wisest, greatest, meanest
mankind - and Elizabeth, RENAME
= her prosecutors.
+ Seventh-The nOblest ladies OF SEQ
: land shared the solitude of her prison
fl in token OF their abiding confidence
o her integrity.
y Eighth-The actual murderers {
: Darnley, Paris, Hay, POuFy and Da
: gleish all on the scaffOid attested her II
nOcence.
Ninth--The Lady LennOx, the mott
er of the murdered king, in noble le
e ters, borne to her in her confinement
I full of commiseration, gave assurance
s her entire belief in her innocence,
I WHICH, HAH nABAs ntE1cll ~ OuL MAJ
!, ty's most loving Mother and Aunt"
7 This letter was found among Cecil
e papers.
i Tenth-And finally, Boutwell,, sic
e unto death in the castle Of MalmOe, d
u elared, as he should answer before G,
Dt at the day Of judgment, that the que,
It was Innocent, and he named the a
le thors OF Darnley's murder, Now,
ir
WE WISH TO ASH ONE QUESTION,
y and 70 answer il: Was it just, leg;
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