ABSTRACT
Lord Montreville, during the short time he studied at the Temple, became acquainted with Sir Richard, then clerk to an attorney in the city; who, tho’ there was a great difference in their rank, had contrived to gain the regard and esteem of his Lordship and was, when he came to his estate, entrusted with it’s management; a trust which he appeared to execute with such diligence and integrity, that he soon obtained the entire confidence of his patron. He was soon introduced into a higher line of life, and saw himself the companion and friend of those, to whom, at his setting out, he appeared only an humble retainer. Born in Scotland, he boasted of his ancestry, tho’ his immediate predecessors were known to be indigent and obscure: and tho’ he had neither eminent talents, nor any other education than what he had acquired at a free-school.
