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1780. 4 Term. [Thursday] Nov. 16.

about Eighteen Miles South West from Fort William, and in that place, and the neighborhood. Mr. Hodgson has the Direction of above Five Thousand Men.
Mr. Touchet said, that for the Protection of these, against People who acted or pretended to Act from the Authority of Government, Mr. H. was often obliged to interpose to prevent oppressions. Mr. Touchet was call’d on the part of the Plaintiff to prove the Defendant to be a Man of considerable property, but he said he hoped Mr. Hodgson would become a Man of large property in time, though at present he was worth little or nothing.
The Plaintiff was