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THE SECOND VOLUME.

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Loyal and Disloyal Printers--Sacheverel--His Death--A new Toast--Bolingbroke--Bolingbroke's Adversaries--In the Lords' House--Denunciations against him--An Epigram-- Fresh Intrigues--Political Writers--Wharton, Boasting-- Prince William, Duke of Cumberland--In Kensington Gardens--Seaforth's Pardon--Robert Macgregor Campbell-- Rob Roy's Letter to Wade--Rob Roy in Newgate--Rob Roy in London--A Note of Alarm--Patriotic Jacobites-- Voltaire--The New Reign--Coronation--Prince Frederick 1

Approaching Storm--Wyndham in Parliament--Political Sermon-- Stormy Debates--The Young Chevalier--Lord Duffus--The Calves' Head Club--The Calves' Head Riot--The '30th of January'--Objectionable Toasts--Foster, in the Old Jewry-- The Queen and the Artist--Chesterfield's Wit--Scene in Westminster Hall--Jacobites and Gin-Drinkers--The Stage fettered--Fear of the Pretender--Walpole, on Jacobites-- Curious Discussion--Safety of the Royal Family--'Agamemnon'-- The King, in Public--Political Drama--Henry Pelham and the Jacobites--Jacobite Prospects--Death of Wyndham 55

Incidents in Parliament--Party Characteristics--On Hounslow Heath--Tories not Jacobites--Condition of Parties--In Leicester Fields--Awaking of Jacobites--Chesterfield's Opinions--King and Elector--Highland Regiment in London-- Desertion of the Men--March of the Deserters--The Highlanders at Oundle--Military Execution--Threatened Invasion--Confusion--Preparations--Declaration of War-- Letter from Hurd--Public Feeling--Lady M. W. Montague-- Carte, the Nonjuror--Carte's History of England--Various Incidents--Lady Nithsdale 82

'Tancred and Sigismunda'--Political Drama--The young Chevalier-- Feeling in London--Hopes and Fears--Horace Walpole's Ideas-- Divisions in Families--Court and City--Varying Opinions-- London Wit--The Parliament--The Radcliffes--The London Jacobites--The Venetian Ambassador--Monarch and Ministers-- News in private Letters--The London Trainbands--Scenes at Court--The King's Speech to the Guards--Aspects of Society-- French News of London--Anxiety and Confidence--Johnson and Lord Gower--Bolingbroke 108

War Criticism--Breaking an Officer--Rebel Prisoners--London Mobs--Ambassadors' Chapels--The Havoc of War--Flying Reports--News of Culloden--A popular Holiday--Carlyle and Smollett--'Tears of Scotland'--Indignation Verses 133

The Players--Sadler's Wells and the New Wells--Culloden on the Stage--Mrs. Woffington--The Press, on Culloden--Savagery and Satire--The Caricaturists--Pseudo-Portrait of Charles Edward--The Duke of Ormond--Burial of Ormond--The Question of Inhumanity--Instigators of Cruelty--The Prisoners in London--The Duke in Aberdeen--Looting--The Duke and his Plunder--A Human Head--'Sweet William'--Flattery 146

Colonel Towneley--King's Evidence--Towneley's Trial--Conviction-- Captain Fletcher--The Manchester Officers--'Jemmy Dawson'-- The Jacobite Press--The Condemned Jacobites--Painful Partings--Within Prison Walls--The Last Morning--Via Dolorosa--At Kennington Common--Behaviour--Execution--Heads and Bodies--Other Trials--A Mad Jacobite--Sir John Wedderburn 'Bishop' Coppock 166

At the Whipping Posts--In Westminster Hall--Preparations for the new Trials--The Lord High Steward--The Spectators' Gallery--Kilmarnock and Cromartie--Balmerino--The Prosecution--Balmerino and Murray--'Guilty, upon my Honour!'--Kilmarnock's Apology--Cromartie's Plea-- Balmerino's Defence--Balmerino's Conduct--George Selwyn-- Kilmarnock's Principles--The Principles of Balmerino-- Leniency of the Government 188

The Duke at Vauxhall--Opinion in the City--In the Tower--Lord Cromartie--Lord Kilmarnock--On Tower Hill--The Executions-- Charles Radcliffe--The Trial--Mr. Justice Foster--Conduct of Radcliffe--To Kennington Common--Cibber's 'Refusal'-- Execution of Radcliffe--Lovat's Progress--Hogarth's Portrait of Lovat--Arrival at the Tower--Rebels and Witnesses--Tilbury Fort--French Idea--A London Elector's Wit--Trial of Lovat--Scene in Westminster Hall--Father and Son--The Frasers--Murray of Boughton--Murray's Evidence--Cross Examination--The Verdict--Gentleman Harry--The Death Warrant--Execution--George Selwyn--Lovat's Body--The White Horse, Piccadilly--Jacobite Toasts--The Earl of Traquair--Plotting and Pardoning--AEneas Macdonald-- The Countess of Derwentwater--Sergeant Smith--The Jacobite's Journal--Carte's History of England--Hume's 'History'--Jacobite Johnson--Johnson's Sympathies--Flora Macdonald--Flora's Sons 207

Depreciation of the Stuarts--The Government and the Jacobites-- Enlargement of Prisoners--In the Park and on the Mall--The Statue in Leicester Square--An Eccentric Jacobite--Gloomy Reports--The Haymarket Theatre--Treasonable Pamphlets-- Murray and Lord Traquair--Political Meeting--Dr. King's Oration--The Earl of Bath--The Laureate's Ode--The Jacobite Muse--Prisons and Prisoners--'Defender of the Faith'--News for London 256

Death of Great Personages--The New Heir to the Throne--Lord Egmont on Jacobites--In both Houses--Jacobite Healths--The Royal Family--Parliamentary Anecdotes--Attempt to make 'Perverts'--Dr. Archibald Cameron--Before the Council--Trial of Cameron--The Doctor's Jacobitism--Charles Edward, a Protestant--Cameron's Creed--The Last Victim--In the Savoy--A Scene at Richardson's--Cameron's Case--A Minor Offender--Suspicion against the Duke--The Anti-Jacobite Press--The City Gates 275

Charles Edward in Manchester--Miss Byrom's Diary--The Visit in 1748--The Visit in 1750--Dr. King and the Chevalier-- Memoranda--Further Memoranda--Charles Edward's Statement-- The Visit in 1752-3--Credibility of the Stories--Conflicting Statements--At the Coronation--At the Banquet--George and Charles Edward--A Disqualification--The Protestantism of Charles Edward--Foundation of the Story 310

A Plebiscite for the Stuarts--The Last of the Nonjuring Bishops--The Jacobite Muse--Jacobite Johnson--Boswell on Allegiance--A Jacobite Actress--Burns's 'Dream'--Burns on the Stuarts--The Count of Albany--Robert Strange-- Strange's Adventures--Strange in London--New Hopes--Strange at St. James's--The Jacobite Knighted--Sir Robert and Lady Strange--Death of Charles Edward--The Countess of Albany at Court--In the House of Lords--The Countess, on English Society--Hanoverian Jacobites--Jacobite Ballads--'Henry the Ninth'--Hume's History of the Rebellion--A Jacobite Drama--The Drama Revised--Satirical Ballad--Reversal of Attainders--Debate in the Commons--A Transpontine Play-- The Body of James the Second--Ceremony at St. Germain-- Something New 351

VICTORIA.

Old Jacobite Titles--More Restorations--The Cromartie Title-- Titles under Attainder--Fitz-Pretenders--Admiral Allen's Son and Grandsons--Working through Literature--The Romance of the Story--'Red Eagle'--'Tales of the Last Century'--The Lever of Poetry--Poetical Politics--The Black Cockade--The Allens in Edinburgh--The Succession to the Crown--A Derwentwater at Dilston--Descent of the Claimant--Obstacles in Pedigrees--John Sobieski Stuart-- The elder Son of 'Red Eagle'--Stuart Alliances--Fuller Particulars--The Stuart-d'Albanies--Jacobite Lord Campbell-- Lord Campbell, on old Judgments--Time's Changes--At Chelsea and Balmoral 385

LONDON

THE JACOBITE TIMES.

singular illustration of the still partially troubled times which followed is furnished by a proceeding of Samuel Negus, printer. In 1724 he published a list of all the printers then exercising their craft in London, and he most humbly laid it before Lord Viscount Townshend; no doubt, for his guidance. The list is divided into four parts. The first consists of those 'known to be well affected to King George.' There are thirty-four of these ultra-loyal fellows, with Negus, of course, among them. The second list is headed 'Nonjurors;' in this, three names are entered, one of which is 'Bowyer.' In the third list, headed, 'said to be High Flyers,' there are two and thirty names; among them are found Alderman Barber , Richardson , and Mist . The fourth list consists of three names, 'Roman Catholics.' Negus was probably a malicious though loyal busy-body. His list harmed neither Nonjuror nor High Flyer. When, in 1729, Mr. Speaker Onslow was instrumental in procuring for Bowyer the printing of the votes of the House of Commons, an alarmed and loyal Whig asked Mr. Speaker if he was aware that he was employing a Nonjuror. 'I am quite sure of this,' said Onslow, 'I am employing a truly honest man.' There was no lack of them among Nonjurors, and it is pleasant to find that even the High Flyers came soon to be looked upon by reasonable Whigs as honourable men. In 1732 Alderman Barber was elected by his fellow citizens Lord Mayor of London; and he was the first printer who enjoyed that dignity. This is the more remarkable, as poor Mrs. Manley, mistress of the alderman's house and of the alderman, had bitterly satirised the Whig Ministry in her 'New Atalantis.' But the lady was now dead, and the High-Flying Barber lost nothing by his old Jacobite opinions.

The 30th of January sermons before the Lords, in the Abbey, and the Commons, in St. Margaret's, had now almost ceased to be political. The former was preached by Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle, from the Book of Chronicles; the latter, by the Rev. Dr. Lupton, from 1 Samuel xii. 25, a text which had been much preached on by expounders on both sides: 'If ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.'

But the especial attention of Londoners was drawn to more important matters. Whigs and Jacobites looked with equal interest to the attempt made by Bolingbroke's friends to enable him to succeed to his father's estates, notwithstanding the Act of Attainder to the contrary. Leave to bring in a Bill, with this object, was asked by Lord Finch, in the Commons, on April 20th, with the sanction of king and Government, whom Bolingbroke had petitioned to that effect. Lord Finch explained that the petitioner had been pardoned by his Majesty, for past treason, but that even a royal pardon could not ride over an Act of Attainder, to the extent asked, without an Act of Parliament. The petitioner had fully acknowledged his former great guilt, and had made promises, on which his Majesty confidently relied, of inviolable fidelity for the future. Walpole gave great significance to the words uttered in support by saying, 'He has sufficiently atoned for all past offences,' Then Mr. Methuen, of Corsham, Wilts, sprang to his feet to oppose the motion and denounce the traitor. He did both in the most violent and unmeasured terms. He lost no point that could tell against Bolingbroke, from the earliest moment of his political career,--ever hostile to true English interests,--down to that of the asking leave to absolve the traitor from the too mild penalties with which his treason had been visited. No expiation could atone for his crimes; and no trust could be placed in his promises. ?? One after the other, Lord William Paulet, Arthur Onslow, Sir Thomas Pengelly and Gybbon smote Bolingbroke with phrases that bruised his reputation like blows on mail from battle-axes. They were all, however, surpassed in fierceness and argument by Serjeant Miller, who branded Bolingbroke as a traitor to the king, country, and Government; a villain who, if favoured as he now asked to be, would betray again those whom he had betrayed before, if he found advantage in doing so. Serjeant Miller said that he loved the king, country, and ministry more than he loved himself, and that he hated their enemies more than they did. To loosen the restraints on Bolingbroke was only to facilitate his evil action, and so forth; but Jacobite Dr. Freind, who had tasted of the Tower, extolled the royal clemency to Bolingbroke; and the assurance of Walpole that the traitor had rendered services which expiated all by-gone treason, weighed with the House, and the condoning Bill was ultimately passed, by 231 to 113.

Public interest in London was only diverted for a moment from this measure, by the debate in the House of Lords, in May, on another Bill for disarming the Highlanders in Scotland, which ended in the Bill being carried. Five peers signed a protest against it, partly on the ground that England now enjoyed 'that invaluable blessing--a perfect calm and tranquility;' that the Highlanders now manifested no spirit of disorder, and that it became all good patriots 'to endeavour rather to keep them quiet than to make them so.' The comment in all the Whig circles of London, as they heard of the protest, was to repeat the names of those who subscribed it,--Wharton, Scarsdale, Lichfield, Gower, and Orrery. Of them, the first was almost openly in the Chevalier's service, and the other four were thorough Jacobites. But the interest in this Bill was as nothing compared with that renewed by the Bill which passed the House of Lords on May 24th, 1725, by 75 to 25, for restoring Bolingbroke to his estates. The protest against the Act was signed by the Earls of Coventry and Bristol, Lords Clinton, Onslow, and Lechmere. The articles of the protest are among the most explicit and interesting ever issued from Westminster, and are to this effect:--

The lands and other property of 'the late Viscount Bolingbroke' had been forfeited through his treason, and had been appropriated to public uses; therefore, say the protesters, it would be 'unjust to all the subjects of this kingdom, who have borne many heavy taxes, occasioned, as we believe, in great measure by the treasons committed, and the rebellion which was encouraged by this person, to take from the public the benefit of his forfeiture.'

The treasons he committed were of 'the most flagrant and dangerous nature'; they were 'fully confessed by his flight from the justice of Parliament,' and they were indisputably demonstrated by his new treasons when he 'entered publicly into the counsels and services of the Pretender, who was then fomenting and carrying on a rebellion within these kingdoms for the dethroning his Majesty, into which Rebellion many subjects of his Majesty, Peers and Commoners, were drawn, as we believe, by the example or influence of the late Lord Bolingbroke, and for which reason many Peers and Commoners have since been attainted and some of them executed, and their estates become forfeited by their attainder.'

What services Bolingbroke had rendered to King George, since he was a convicted traitor, were not publicly known, but might justly be suspected. He had never expressed the slightest sorrow for his treason; and there was no security that he might not again betray the king and country, for no trust could be placed in his most solemn assurances. Supposing recent services justified reward, it was not such reward as could not be recalled. Persons who had rendered similar services had been rendered dependent on the Government for the continuance of those rewards, and so it should be, they thought, with Bolingbroke. The five peers further remarked that no pardon under the Great Seal could be pleadable to an impeachment by the Commons, and that Bolingbroke had, in fact, no right or title to the benefits conferred upon him by a Bill which restored him to his estates, in spite of the Act of the Attainder.

Wesley, if Wesley 'tis they mean, They say, on Pope would fall, Would his best patron let his pen Discharge his inward gall.

What patron this, a doubt must be, Which none but you can clear, Or Father Francis 'cross the sea, Or else Earl Edward here.

That both were good, must be confest, And much to both he owes, But, which to him will be the best, The Lord knows.

The king's speech, on opening Parliament in January, 1726, rather alarmed London , by assurances that in the City and in foreign Courts intrigues were then being carried on for the restoration of the Pretender. Additions to the armed force of the realm were suggested as advisable. A suspicion arose that in this suggestion the defence of Hanover from foreign aggression was more thought of than that of England against the Chevalier. However, the Lords dutifully replied:--

'We can easily believe that at such a juncture, new schemes and solicitations are daily making by the most profligate and abandoned of them , to revive the expiring cause of the Pretender; all which, we assure ourselves, can have no other effect than to hasten his destruction and the utter ruin of all his perjured adherents.'

The majority in the Commons, not a whit less loyal, used similar terms, adding, with reference to traitors near St. James's: 'The disaffected and discontented here have not been less industrious by false rumours and suggestions to fill the minds of the people with groundless fears and alarms, in order to affect the public credit, and, by distressing the government, give encouragement to the enemies of our peace.'

Ridpath was a sort of public intelligencer for the Government. It is certain, on the other hand, that not only was the Government in London well served by its own private 'Intelligencers,' but it was equally well supplied through the folly of Jacobites at foreign Courts. From the British Envoys at those Courts dispatches reached London, which must have often made the Cockpit, where the Cabinet Ministers met, joyous with laughter. For example, towards the end of April, Mr. Robinson was reading a dispatch from Mr. Keen at Madrid, in which the latter described the Duke of Wharton, then a fugitive, as ever drinking and smoking; and such a talker in his cups as to betray himself, his party, and their designs. Keen encouraged his visits, accordingly. 'The evening he was with me he declared himself the Pretender's Prime Minister and Duke of Wharton and Northumberland. "Hitherto," says he, "my master's interest has been managed by the Duchess of Perth and three or four other old women who meet under the portal of St. Germain. He wanted a Whig and a brick van to put them in the right train, and I am the man. You may now look upon me, Sir Philip Wharton, Knight of the Garter, and Sir Robert Walpole, Knight of the Bath, running a course, and by God, he shall be hard pressed. He bought my family pictures, but they will not be long in his possession; that account is still open. Neither he nor King George shall be six months at ease, as long as I have the honour to serve in the employ I am in."' Wharton was telling the Duke of Ormond that his master did not love foxhunting, but that he promised to go to Newmarket. To which Ormond answered, 'he saw no great probability of it on a sudden, but wished the Pretender might take such care of his affairs that he might be able to keep his word.'

Besides a promise to go to Newmarket, there was shadowed forth another promise this year, which was, or was not, performed some years later--namely, the adhesion of the young Chevalier to the Church of England. Probably from some follower of the exiled family was derived the information, which was put into London newspaper shape in the following fashion, in the month of July:--

'The Chevalier de St. George is at his last shifts, for now his eldest son is to be brought up in the principles of the Church of England. To give a proof of which he was led by a Church at Rome, by his Governor, who did not stop to let him kneel at the singing of the Ave Maria.'

This announcement was made, probably, to keep warm the interest of the Protestant Jacobites in the Stuart family generally, and in the person, particularly, of young Charles Edward, of whose equivocal Church-of-Englandism this is the equally equivocal foreshadowing. In the same month, little Prince William was created Duke of Cumberland. The future victor at Culloden was then five years old. The papers had at an earlier period recorded how he had cut his teeth, and they now noticed his military tendencies; but none could have conjectured how these were to be applied subsequently, at Fontenoy, and on the field near Inverness.

A simple act on the part of his father, the Prince of Wales, awoke the Whig muse to sing his praise. During the absence of the king in Hanover, a fire broke out in Spring Gardens. The Prince went down to it, not as an idle spectator in the way of the firemen, but as an active helper. This help was so effectively given as to induce a Whig poet to put the popular feeling in rhyme:--

When the king was this year in town, he risked his popularity among the Whig mobile, by adding a considerable portion of Hyde Park to the pretty but confined grounds--Kensington Gardens. There was an outcry, but grumblers were informed that they should rather rejoice, seeing that the whole would be laid out 'after the fashion of the Elector of Hanover's famous gardens at Herrenhausen.' The Jacobites wished the Elector had never quitted that ancestral home of beauty. The present generation may be congratulated that the King of England created such another home of beauty here. It was, indeed, for himself and family: the public were not thought of. A few peers and peeresses, with other great personages, were allowed to have keys, in the absence of the royal family; but, at the present time, the gardens have become the inheritance of the nation; and the national heir may be proud of such a possession.

It was there, in the autumn of the year, that two pleasant acts of grace occurred. The Earl of Seaforth, attainted for his share in the rebellion of 1715, was there, by arrangement, presented to the king. The Jacobite peer went on his knees and confessed his treason. The king granted him his pardon, and gave him his hand to kiss; but the great Scottish earldom has never been restored to the noble house of Mackenzie. A similar scene took place when Sir Hugh Paterson, of Bannockburn, received the royal pardon.

The above acts of grace increased the general goodwill which was entertained towards the royal family. The Prince of Wales showed especial tact in obtaining popular suffrage. When the water-pageant of the Lord Mayor, Sir John Eyles, Bart., passed along the river, the Prince and Princess of Wales, with the little Duke of Cumberland, stood in the river-side gardens of old Somerset House, to see the procession pass. It was not pre-arranged; but when the family group was seen, the state barges pulled in towards the garden-terrace, and there the chief magistrate offered wine to the prince who, taking it, drank to 'The Prosperity of the City of London.' Colonel Exelbe, Chief Bailiff of the Weavers, brought up the company's state barge, as the others were pulling out to the middle stream, and, say the daily chroniclers, 'in a manly, hearty voice, drank to the health of the Prince, the Princess, and the little Duke.' The prince delighted the weavers by drinking to them 'out of the same bottle.'

The autumn brought pleasant news to London, namely, that the disarmament of the Highlands had been successfully accomplished by General Wade. This brings, in connection with London, a well-known personage on the stage.

On the 3rd of June, the royal and imperial courts having become reconciled, and peace seeming established among nations, the king set out for Hanover. That day week he was lying dead on a sofa at Osnaburg. A heavy supper and much cold melon, the night before, had done the work which, as some thought, might prove a Jacobite opportunity. It proved otherwise. A paragraph of a few lines in the newspapers, unencumbered by any mourning border, told the people that a new reign had begun. The old king was soon forgotten. The younger one and his queen, Caroline, mourned officially, but they inaugurated their own accession, joyously. It may be added, 'wisely,' too. Their water-pageants made the then silver Thames glad and glorious. They went afloat in state, followed by gay Court barges full of high-born ladies and gallant gentlemen. The royal musicians in another vessel played the last new opera airs. According to the tide, these great folk went up the river to Chelsea or down to Shadwell. They received warm welcome whithersoever they went; more particularly when the royal barge pulled in near the shore, and the pleased occupants graciously took the flowers offered to them by good people, who might be hanged before the month was out, for stealing half of one of the nosegays. On these occasions, the broad river could hardly be seen for the compact mass of boats, fearfully laden, that drifted or were rowed upon it. As in the first George's time, these popular pageants continued afloat long after the moon was up. Often on these occasions, the king and queen did not land at Whitehall, till after ten had struck. There, the sedan chairs were in waiting, and with one individual in each, gentlemen of the chamber and maids of honour being carried in the rear, and torchbearers, if need were, flanking the procession, the whole party were daintily lifted through the park to St. James's palace.

The coronation was to have taken place on the 4th of October. It was put off for a week. At this postponement, people speculated on the possibility of some Jacobite daring to take up the Champion's gage. The Jacobite that was really feared was named Spring Tide. An invasion of Westminster Hall was both possible and probable; and thence, the postponement for a week. On the 11th the ceremony was performed with somewhat of maimed rites. The queen went in a close sedan to Westminster, with the Lord Chamberlain and a Maid of Honour in hack chairs; and they returned in the same unroyal fashion. There was no interruption in Abbey or Hall, as timid people anticipated, and at night all London was drunk, or nearly so, according to custom.

On the king's birthday in October, there was a singular sort of rejoicing in one part of the metropolis. There were Jacobite and other prisoners in Newgate who 'lay there for their fines,'--in fact, could not be discharged for lack of cash to pay their fees. They celebrated the day 'by illuminating the windows of the gaol with candles;' they drank the health of their Majesties who would do nothing to deliver them, the Judges who had condemned, and the Magistrates who had previously committed them. They forgave everybody, and went to bed almost as drunk as their keepers. It is due to the king however to say that when he with the queen and royal family dined with the Mayor and chief citizens in the Guildhall, he left a thousand pounds for the relief of poor debtors. Some 'state prisoners' in Newgate were also liberated on their recognizances.

In December, Frederick, Prince of Wales, in obedience to his father's commands, left Hanover suddenly in the night. He travelled to the coast, and embarked on board an ordinary packet-boat from Holland to Harwich. Thence, he went on his way posting to Whitechapel; there he hired a hackney-coach, drove to St. James's, and walked by the back stairs to the queen's room, where he was decently welcomed, though the greeting was neither affectionate nor enthusiastic.

Walpole, however, had never experienced any difficulty in getting any information he required from the Jacobite duchess, whom he duped and flattered.

A much more honourable Jacobite than any of the above, was this year pardoned, namely, Lockhart of Carnwath; but, he was required by the English Government to pass through London, and present himself to the king. His return from exile was permitted only in case of his obedience. On the other hand, Lockhart stipulated that he should be asked no questions, and that he should be at full liberty to proceed home, unmolested. Sir Robert Walpole agreed to these terms. Lockhart left Rotterdam in May, and arrived safely in London.

King George seems to have had a curiosity to see a man who had been plotting to set another in his place. 'It was the more remarkable,' says Lockhart, 'in that he could not be persuaded or prevailed on to extend it' 'to others, particularly my Lady Southesk, whose case was more favourable than mine; and so, to gratify him by my appearing in his Court, I was obliged to come to London. This was what did not go well down with me, and what I would gladly have avoided, but there was no eviting it; and as others, whose sincere attachment to the king' 'had often preceded me on such like occasions, I was under a necessity of bowing my knee to Baal, now that I was in the house of Rimmon.'

Lockhart was kept waiting more than a fortnight for the interview. During the whole of that time, he was ordered to keep himself shut up in his house. Imagining he was to be put off, he boldly wrote to Walpole that he might be sent back to Rotterdam. 'Whereupon, he sent for me next day, and introduced me to King George in his closet. After a little speech of thanks, he told me with some heat in his looks that I had been long in a bad way, and he'd judge, how far I deserved the favour he had now shown me, by my future conduct. I made a bow and went off and determined never to trust to his mercy, which did not seem to abound.'

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