CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| (1724-’25-’26-’27.) | |
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| Loyal and Disloyal Printers—Sacheverel—His Death—A new Toast—Bolingbroke—Bolingbroke’sAdversaries—In the Lords’ House—Denunciationsagainst him—An Epigram—Fresh Intrigues—PoliticalWriters—Wharton, Boasting—Prince William, Dukeof Cumberland—In Kensington Gardens—Seaforth’s Pardon—RobertMacgregor Campbell—Rob Roy’s Letter to Wade—RobRoy in Newgate—Rob Roy in London—A Note of Alarm—PatrioticJacobites—Voltaire—The New Reign—Coronation—PrinceFrederick | [1] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| (1728 to 1732.) | |
| Mist’s Journal—Lockhart of Carnwath—George II. and Lockhart—TheJacobite Cause—Character of the House of Commons—TheKing and Queen—Atterbury weary of Exile—The Prince ofWales at Church—The Morals and Manners of the Time—Atterbury,on Mist—Thomson’s ‘Sophonisba’—Cibber made Poet Laureate—JacobiteHearne—A Jacobite Threat—Difficulties in ProfessionalLife—Death of Defoe—‘Fall of Mortimer’—Duels andSermons—Young Lord Derwentwater—A Standing Army—TheDuke’s Grenadiers—General Roguery—Death of Atterbury—Burialof Atterbury—At Scarborough—Notorious Jacobites—TheEarl of Derwentwater | [27] |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| (1733 to 1740.) | |
| Approaching Storm—Wyndham in Parliament—Political Sermon—StormyDebates—The Young Chevalier—Lord Duffus—TheCalves’ Head Club—The Calves’ Head Riot—The ‘30th ofJanuary’—Objectionable Toasts—Foster, in the Old Jewry—TheQueen and the Artist—Chesterfield’s Wit—Scene in WestminsterHall—Jacobites and Gin-Drinkers—The Stage fettered—Fear ofthe Pretender—Walpole, on Jacobites—Curious Discussion—Safetyof the Royal Family—‘Agamemnon’—The King, in Public—PoliticalDrama—Henry Pelham and the Jacobites—JacobiteProspects—Death of Wyndham | [55] |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| (1741 to 1744.) | |
| Incidents in Parliament—Party Characteristics—On Hounslow Heath—Toriesnot Jacobites—Condition of Parties—In Leicester Fields—Awakingof Jacobites—Chesterfield’s Opinions—King andElector—Highland Regiment in London—Desertion of the Men—Marchof the Deserters—The Highlanders at Oundle—MilitaryExecution—Threatened Invasion—Confusion—Preparations—Declarationof War—Letter from Hurd—Public Feeling—LadyM. W. Montague—Carte, the Nonjuror—Carte’s History of England—VariousIncidents—Lady Nithsdale | [82] |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| (1745.) | |
| ‘Tancred and Sigismunda’—Political Drama—The young Chevalier—Feelingin London—Hopes and Fears—Horace Walpole’sIdeas—Divisions in Families—Court and City—Varying Opinions—LondonWit—The Parliament—The Radcliffes—The LondonJacobites—The Venetian Ambassador—Monarch and Ministers—Newsin private Letters—The London Trainbands—Scenes atCourt—The King’s Speech to the Guards—Aspects of Society—FrenchNews of London—Anxiety and Confidence—Johnsonand Lord Gower—Bolingbroke | [108] |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| (1746.) | |
| War Criticism—Breaking an Officer—Rebel Prisoners—LondonMobs—Ambassadors’ Chapels—The Havoc of War—FlyingReports—News of Culloden—A popular Holiday—Carlyle andSmollett—‘Tears of Scotland’—Indignation Verses | [133] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| (1746.) | |
| The Players—Sadler’s Wells and the New Wells—Culloden on theStage—Mrs. Woffington—The Press, on Culloden—Savageryand Satire—The Caricaturists—Pseudo-Portrait of Charles Edward—TheDuke of Ormond—Burial of Ormond—The Questionof Inhumanity—Instigators of Cruelty—The Prisoners in London—TheDuke in Aberdeen—Looting—The Duke and hisPlunder—A Human Head—‘Sweet William’—Flattery | [146] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| (1746.) | |
| Colonel Towneley—King’s Evidence—Towneley’s Trial—Conviction—CaptainFletcher—The Manchester Officers—‘Jemmy Dawson’—TheJacobite Press—The Condemned Jacobites—Painful Partings—WithinPrison Walls—The Last Morning—Via Dolorosa—AtKennington Common—Behaviour—Execution—Heads andBodies—Other Trials—A Mad Jacobite—Sir John Wedderburn‘Bishop’ Coppock | [166] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| (1746.) | |
| At the Whipping Posts—In Westminster Hall—Preparations forthe new Trials—The Lord High Steward—The Spectators’Gallery—Kilmarnock and Cromartie—Balmerino—The Prosecution—Balmerinoand Murray—‘Guilty, upon my Honour!’—Kilmarnock’sApology—Cromartie’s Plea—Balmerino’s Defence—Balmerino’sConduct—George Selwyn—Kilmarnock’s Principles—ThePrinciples of Balmerino—Leniency of the Government | [188] |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| (1746.) | |
| The Duke at Vauxhall—Opinion in the City—In the Tower—LordCromartie—Lord Kilmarnock—On Tower Hill—The Executions—CharlesRadcliffe—The Trial—Mr. Justice Foster—Conductof Radcliffe—To Kennington Common—Cibber’s ‘Refusal’—Executionof Radcliffe—Lovat’s Progress—Hogarth’s Portrait ofLovat—Arrival at the Tower—Rebels and Witnesses—TilburyFort—French Idea—A London Elector’s Wit—Trial of Lovat—Scenein Westminster Hall—Father and Son—The Frasers—Murrayof Boughton—Murray’s Evidence—Cross Examination—TheVerdict—Gentleman Harry—The Death Warrant—Execution—GeorgeSelwyn—Lovat’s Body—The White Horse, Piccadilly—JacobiteToasts—The Earl of Traquair—Plotting andPardoning—Æneas Macdonald—The Countess of Derwentwater—SergeantSmith—The Jacobite’s Journal—Carte’s History ofEngland—Hume’s ‘History’—Jacobite Johnson—Johnson’sSympathies—Flora Macdonald—Flora’s Sons | [207] |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| (1748 to 1750.) | |
| Depreciation of the Stuarts—The Government and the Jacobites—Enlargementof Prisoners—In the Park and on the Mall—TheStatue in Leicester Square—An Eccentric Jacobite—GloomyReports—The Haymarket Theatre—Treasonable Pamphlets—Murrayand Lord Traquair—Political Meeting—Dr. King’s Oration—TheEarl of Bath—The Laureate’s Ode—The JacobiteMuse—Prisons and Prisoners—‘Defender of the Faith’—Newsfor London | [256] |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| (1751 to 1761.) | |
| Death of Great Personages—The New Heir to the Throne—LordEgmont on Jacobites—In both Houses—Jacobite Healths—TheRoyal Family—Parliamentary Anecdotes—Attempt to make‘Perverts’—Dr. Archibald Cameron—Before the Council—Trialof Cameron—The Doctor’s Jacobitism—Charles Edward, a Protestant—Cameron’sCreed—The Last Victim—In the Savoy—AScene at Richardson’s—Cameron’s Case—A Minor Offender—Suspicionagainst the Duke—The Anti-Jacobite Press—The CityGates | [275] |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| (1751 to 1761.) | |
| The old Chevalier and the Cardinal—Roman News in LondonPapers—A Son of Rob Roy—Jacobite Paragraphs—Hume’s‘History’—At Rome—Hopes and Interests—Illness of the oldChevalier—Accession of George III.—King and People—CharlesEdward at Westminster | [298] |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| (1744 to 1761.) | |
| Charles Edward in Manchester—Miss Byrom’s Diary—The Visit in1748—The Visit in 1750—Dr. King and the Chevalier—Memoranda—FurtherMemoranda—Charles Edward’s Statement—TheVisit in 1752-3—Credibility of the Stories—Conflicting Statements—Atthe Coronation—At the Banquet—George andCharles Edward—A Disqualification—The Protestantism ofCharles Edward—Foundation of the Story | [310] |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| (1761 to 1775.) | |
| State of London—Good Feeling—A Jacobite Funeral—Dr. Johnson’sPension—Johnson’s View of it—His Definition of a Jacobite—Deathof the Duke of Cumberland—Death of the old Chevalier—FuneralRites—George III. and Dr. Johnson—Johnson,on George III.—Johnson’s Pension opposed—A 30th of JanuarySermon—Debate on the Sermon—Marriage of Charles Edward—Walpole,on the Marriage—The Last Heads on Temple Bar—Dalrymple’s‘Memoirs’—Walpole’s Anti-Jacobitism—Anti-Ultramontanism—‘TheHappy Establishment’—Garrick’s Macbeth | [328] |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| (1776 to 1826.) | |
| A Plebiscite for the Stuarts—The Last of the Nonjuring Bishops—TheJacobite Muse—Jacobite Johnson—Boswell on Allegiance—AJacobite Actress—Burns’s ‘Dream’—Burns on the Stuarts—TheCount of Albany—Robert Strange—Strange’s Adventures—Strangein London—New Hopes—Strange at St. James’s—TheJacobite Knighted—Sir Robert and Lady Strange—Deathof Charles Edward—The Countess of Albany at Court—In theHouse of Lords—The Countess, on English Society—HanoverianJacobites—Jacobite Ballads—‘Henry the Ninth’—Hume’s Historyof the Rebellion—A Jacobite Drama—The Drama Revised—SatiricalBallad—Reversal of Attainders—Debate in the Commons—ATranspontine Play—The Body of James the Second—Ceremonyat St. Germain—Something New | [351] |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| VICTORIA. | |
| Old Jacobite Titles—More Restorations—The Cromartie Title—Titlesunder Attainder—Fitz-Pretenders—Admiral Allen’s Sonand Grandsons—Working through Literature—The Romanceof the Story—‘Red Eagle’—‘Tales of the Last Century’—TheLever of Poetry—Poetical Politics—The Black Cockade—TheAllens in Edinburgh—The Succession to the Crown—ADerwentwater at Dilston—Descent of the Claimant—Obstaclesin Pedigrees—John Sobieski Stuart—The elder Son of ‘RedEagle’—Stuart Alliances—Fuller Particulars—The Stuart-d’Albanies—JacobiteLord Campbell—Lord Campbell, on old Judgments—Time’sChanges—At Chelsea and Balmoral | [385] |
LONDON
IN
THE JACOBITE TIMES.