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little occasion to introduce in his Speech that Strange, Preposterous, Ridiculous Affidavit which Sir Paul Jodrell has publish’d in the Madras Courier, in which Sir Paul Jodrell undertakes to swear positively to a fact which few Men undertake to know certainly. [Meaning that Paulina aged about Eight years, is the Daughter of Lady Jodrell, begotten by Sir Paul Jodrell.] I might with the like propriety allude to another part of the same Madras Paper in which it is said, that even if the Chance of War should take off the Witness of the Criminality, yet proof would not be wanting, for “Litera
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