: London in the Jacobite times Volume II by Doran Dr John - London (England) History 18th century

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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

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