Stuart dynasty

Appendix I. 275
Paper CI.
Lord BolingbroJce's last letter to Earl of Mar.
*** At last James Francis Edward gave way to the clamour at Lis mock
court, and dismisssd the man paramount alike in the conduct of affairs
and in the graces of a style whereon Chatham moulded himself, and which
has influenced all the great political writers and speakers who have since
flourished in England.
" My Lord, " March 27, 1716.
" I have ye honour of y r Grace's without any date, and I
wish yon most heartily a good journey. If I had imagined
that y r departure would have been so precipitate, I should
have used my best endeavours to have seen and taken leave
of you.
" I cannot indeed tell what will be said by friends, for one
cannot be at a loss to know what your enemy will say,
concerning the residence you are going to ; for my own part
I shall say and write nothing. I have said little in answer
even to all ye vile and groundless calumnys which have been
thrown about concerning me.
" I have liv d long enough and acted well enough in ye
world not to pass either for a knave or a driveler, and have
therefore as little regarded the calumny as I deserved the
treatment which encouraged it.
" Your Grace may be assured that when I receive any
answer from Spain — I expect none from any other place — to
ye instances made in } T e King's name, you shall have an
account thereof.
" I am, my Lord, &c.
" BOLINGBROKE."
PAFER CII.
Earl of Mar to Lord Kilsyth. (Extract.) Written from
Avignon, June 1G, 1716, giving an account of Jacobite
distresses after the Hebellion.
*** The Marquess of Tullibardine mentioned here was one of the first
noblemen to proclaim the Chevalier in 1715, afterwards joining in the
abortive insurrection of 1719, which came to a close in Glenskiel, while
his Jacobite career did not end until after Culloden in 1745. Captured
during flight, the Marquess was taken in failing health to the Tower of
London, where he died in July 1746. His brother, Lord George Murray,
ancestor of the present Duke of Athole, after evincing great military skill
as Charles Edward's lieutenant - general, finished life abroad, being
one of the Chevalier's favoured adherents. Another brother, Charles,
taken prisoner at Preston in 1715, was sentenced to be shot, but received
a reprieve.
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