card-house

— Unimportant as this confirmation is to the proof of a design and intention to depose the King, let us see whether in any part Adams's evidence "is supported, and I think you will find it falls to the ground like the card-house of a baby, directly the finger of a human being is applied to it — there is not a thing that can stand on this testimony, and there is this, curious circumstance attending it, which would alone destroy that which is much better combined that this with is, that no two of the witnesses ever saw one another.