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THE JACOBITE ATTEMPT OF 1719
cannot be too much publish’d. Adieu. I send this open to
Dutton that it may Serve for you both. I stay here till I see
what becomes of the affair of my Marriage. Horsly Scap’d
worse usage by being treated only as a follower of Andrews,
and tis not known or not minded that he belongs to me.—Truely
Yours.
No. 8.
JAMES TO THE DUKE of ORMONDE
{Stuart Papers. Answer to Letter I.)
Rome, Nover 27th, 1718.
You will easily believe what a surprize it was to me to find
by yours of the 4th the jurney you were going to begin, and
your saying so little on the subject did the more embarrasse me
that I received att the same time the enclosed note from Cardinal
Aquaviva which I here send you, and by the contents of which
you will see it was impossible for me to avoid declaring that
you had made that jurney without my precise order. But I
turned the matter att the same time in such a manner, and
the present conjuncture is such that I cannot but hope that
this jurney of yours will turn to account. You have been all
along acquainted with all my proceedings in relation to Spain,
and that you may have a clearer insight into those matters, I
send you the very copie of the letter I write to Cardinal Aqua-
viva to be sent to Spain, which may indeed serve as a sorte of
Instruction for your self [and the Memoire also mentioned in it
shall also be sent you as soon as it is finished].1 On the whole
’tis certain I am very much in the dark as to the King of
Spains resolutions, but I hope you will be able to see clearer
into them, and even to determine them on the right side. After
this you cannot certainly keep your self too private in Spain,
and on the footing I am with Cardinal Alberoni, you must in
great measure be guided by his advice. He is a man that must
be taken in his own way, and tis in vain to think one can force
him to do what he will not do of himself. In fine I heartily
wish you success where you are, and as I am sure your zeal for
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THE JACOBITE ATTEMPT OF 1719
cannot be too much publish’d. Adieu. I send this open to
Dutton that it may Serve for you both. I stay here till I see
what becomes of the affair of my Marriage. Horsly Scap’d
worse usage by being treated only as a follower of Andrews,
and tis not known or not minded that he belongs to me.—Truely
Yours.
No. 8.
JAMES TO THE DUKE of ORMONDE
{Stuart Papers. Answer to Letter I.)
Rome, Nover 27th, 1718.
You will easily believe what a surprize it was to me to find
by yours of the 4th the jurney you were going to begin, and
your saying so little on the subject did the more embarrasse me
that I received att the same time the enclosed note from Cardinal
Aquaviva which I here send you, and by the contents of which
you will see it was impossible for me to avoid declaring that
you had made that jurney without my precise order. But I
turned the matter att the same time in such a manner, and
the present conjuncture is such that I cannot but hope that
this jurney of yours will turn to account. You have been all
along acquainted with all my proceedings in relation to Spain,
and that you may have a clearer insight into those matters, I
send you the very copie of the letter I write to Cardinal Aqua-
viva to be sent to Spain, which may indeed serve as a sorte of
Instruction for your self [and the Memoire also mentioned in it
shall also be sent you as soon as it is finished].1 On the whole
’tis certain I am very much in the dark as to the King of
Spains resolutions, but I hope you will be able to see clearer
into them, and even to determine them on the right side. After
this you cannot certainly keep your self too private in Spain,
and on the footing I am with Cardinal Alberoni, you must in
great measure be guided by his advice. He is a man that must
be taken in his own way, and tis in vain to think one can force
him to do what he will not do of himself. In fine I heartily
wish you success where you are, and as I am sure your zeal for
The passage in brackets is deleted.
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| Description | Letters of James Butler, second Duke of Ormonde, relating to Cardinal Alberoni's project for the invasion of Great Britain on behalf of the Stuarts. Edited, with an introduction, notes and an appendix of original documents, by William Kirk Dickson. [With a portrait.] |
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