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imprisonment, a Petition was presented to his Majesty containing
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not so many lines as falsehoods, and great application was made to
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me to report in his favour. For the real truth of his case as it appeared
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in evidence on his tryal I refer to my report now in your Lordship's
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Office.
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Finding that a Mr Hutton of
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, but whom I remember
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Temple Bar
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had propagated many Falsehoods
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respecting this Marten and his prosecutor, who appeared to have
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acted with caution and behaved with great civility, Finding I say
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this Mr Hutton had thus interfered, I applied to the Office
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meaning to have guarded your Lordship against that deceit
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which I knew would be attempted, but failing of access to your Lordship
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I communicated my Business to Mr Eden, who assured me my
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information should be attended to; the like intimation I at the same
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time left at Lord Rochford's office.
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Marten had lain about five Months under his Sentence
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when I received an order for his Discharge, which I immediately
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obeyed, and in a few days by the newspapers it was proclaimed to the
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World and to all that feared to be arrested, that for this Offence the
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most attrocious of the kind that I have ever tried, and without the
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least palliating circumstance, Marten had received his Majestys
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Pardon
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Upon my calling at your Lordships Office some days after, Mr Fraser was
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so good as to acquaint me with the opinion that the Office entertained
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of this Mans case; and I am left to Suppose that that opinion
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rather than my report, was the ground of his Discharge Mr Fraser
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said "the poor devil having lain a twelve month in prison, and he
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"having been irritated by the indecent behaviour of the Officer to his
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"Wife, it was by the Office thought a hard case to keep him in confine
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"ment under the Sentence, and the rather as he
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must after
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"the pardon remain a Prisoner for debt
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Both of these Suggestions are false, Marten had lain in prison
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under his Sentence no longer than from October to April. As to
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indecent Behaviour of the Officer to Marten's Wife he could have no
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temptation to it Marten was in the room, it was the interest of the
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