I should have been here sooner, but I have been waiting for the return of the messenger I sent to Lancaster.
"Yesterday morning there was an examination of your father, Charlie, or rather, an examination of the testimony against him.
First the two letters that were discovered were put in.

Without having got them word for word, my informer was able to give me the substance of them.

Both were unsigned, and professed to have been written in France.

The first is dated three months back.

It alludes to a conversation that somebody is supposed to have had with Sir Marmaduke, and states that the agent who had visited him, and who is spoken of as Mr.H, had assured them that your father was perfectly ready to join, in any well-conceived design for putting a stop to the sufferings that afflicted the country, through the wars into which the foreign intruder had plunged it, even though the plan entailed the removal of the usurper.