London in the Jacobite times, Volume II

Loyal and Disloyal Printers――Sacheverel――His Death――A new Toast――Bolingbroke――Bolingbroke’s Adversaries――In the Lords’ House――Denunciations against him――An Epigram―― Fresh Intri...

Mist’s Journal――Lockhart of Carnwath――George II. and Lockhart―― The Jacobite Cause――Character of the House of Commons――The King and Queen――Atterbury weary of Exile――The Prince o...

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...

Incidents in Parliament――Party Characteristics――On Hounslow Heath――Tories not Jacobites――Condition of Parties――In Leicester Fields――Awaking of Jacobites――Chesterfield’s Opinions...

‘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 Opin...

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 Smolle...

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...

Colonel Towneley――King’s Evidence――Towneley’s Trial――Conviction―― Captain Fletcher――The Manchester Officers――‘Jemmy Dawson’―― The Jacobite Press――The Condemned Jacobites――Painfu...

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...

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――Condu...

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――Glo...

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 ‘Pe...

The old Chevalier and the Cardinal――Roman News in London Papers――A Son of Rob Roy――Jacobite Paragraphs――Hume’s ‘History’――At Rome――Hopes and Interests――Illness of the old Cheval...

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―― T...

State of London――Good Feeling――A Jacobite Funeral――Dr. Johnson’s Pension――Johnson’s View of it――His Definition of a Jacobite―― Death of the Duke of Cumberland――Death of the old...

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 St...

Old Jacobite Titles――More Restorations――The Cromartie Title―― Titles under Attainder――Fitz-Pretenders――Admiral Allen’s Son and Grandsons――Working through Literature――The Romance...

In the year 1724, the Nonjurors lost one who had been their foremost man till he took the oath of allegiance; namely Sacheverel. That act of homage to Brunswick was never forgot...

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 Londo...

the celebrated Tom Paget, who attend upon the Duke of Argyle all day, and dance with the pretty ladies at night. Here are, besides, hundreds of Yorkshire beaux, who play the inf...

The royal speech on opening Parliament was of a peaceful character. The Lords re-echoed it in their address, but in the Commons, both Sir John Barnard and Shippen moved amendmen...

This was not the only incident of the debate. Mr. Edward Harley, uncle of the Earl of Oxford, was one of the speakers. Walpole had borne hardly against the earl as an enemy to t...

During the remainder of the tragedy the love-woes of _Tancred_, and _Sigismunda_ absorbed the sympathies of the audience, though Thomson laid a clap-trap or two, in a passage wh...

Carlisle being recaptured, London breathed again, and considered its past perils and future prospects. The fire-side critics of the war concluded, as the Earl of Shaftesbury did...

‘As the Proprietors of Sadler’s Wells have diligently embraced every opportunity of giving their audiences satisfaction, they would have thought themselves guilty of the highest...

Macdonald’s fellow in iniquity, Maddox, succeeded. He was nominally an ensign, but he held no commission, and Towneley was his colonel. In the retreat, northward, Maddox stated...

All military sights did not go off so pleasantly as the above. There is record of a soldier being shot by an undiscovered comrade in the new Culloden exercise. There is also the...

About this time Walpole offers, with questionable alacrity, evidence against the character of the Duke of Cumberland. The duke had fixed an evening for giving a ball at Vauxhall...

Within a month, however, the Government were referring to the Jacobites, as if the rebellion had not been stamped out at Culloden. The special occasion on which the Jacobites we...

The other death was that of Viscount Bolingbroke, which occurred in the last month of the year 1751. Bubb Dodington reflected the general indifference, by the simple entry in hi...

All the honours conferred on the Cardinal of York in Rome, and all the royal and solemn ceremonies which took place on the occasion, were duly reported in the London papers. The...

A foot-note states that the prince was the guest of Sir Oswald for several weeks, ‘no doubt, to see the inhabitants of Manchester and its vicinity, who were attached to the inte...

There were no Jacobites at Oxford now, but there was a new sect of Methodists there. Six of its members, students of Edmund Hall, were expelled for praying and expounding the Sc...

In the last week of November 1779, reverential groups were assembled in Theobald’s Road, to witness the passing to the grave of the last nonjuring bishop of the _regular_ succes...

In a way something similar was another restoration of a Jacobite title effected in London. Of all the lords who were tried for their lives (1716 and 1746 included), there was no...