“Your enemies call you a Pretender, but if you be, you are the worst of your trade I ever saw!”
It is a pleasure to know that when Flora Macdonald paid the penalty of her heroic act, and was brought a prisoner to London, our Prince Frederick obtained her release.[72]
What a different disposition to his brother, the Butcher’s!
“And would not you, Madam,” asked Frederick of his wife, who had spoken against Flora in the fashion of the time, “would not you in like circumstances have done the same? I hope—I am sure you would.”
It is pleasant to think that Flora Macdonald went home from London with a present of fifteen hundred pounds from the Jacobite ladies of that place in her pocket.
FOOTNOTES:
[67] This was also a custom adopted by Prince Frederick.
[68] Mahon’s History of England.
[69] State Paper Office, Scotland, 1745, vol. i., VII.
[70] Chevalier Johnstone’s Memoirs, p. 73, 8vo ed.