A Detection of the falshood, abuse, and misrepresentations in a late libel, intitled, The life of Sir Robert Cochran, Prime Minister in Scotland to James the Third
Norman MacDougall in his work, James III a political history (p. 290), suggests that the aim of this pamphlet is to exonerate Lord Hume from remarks made in The life of Sir Robt. Cochran, Prime-Minister to King James III of Scotland.