London in the Jacobite times, Volume II

CHAPTER VII.

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(1746.)

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