Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Part 26

{183a} Hay to Edgar, October 1752. In Browne, iv. 106.

{183b} 'Mildmay' to 'Green,' January 24, 1753.

{184} S. P. Poland. No. 81.

{196a} Carlyle's Frederick, iv. 467. Compare, for the views of political circles, Horace Walpole's Reign of George II. i. 333, 353, and his Letters to Horace Mann for 1753.

{196b} Reign of George II. i. 290.

{197} Add MSS. British Museum, 33,847, f. 271. 'Private and most secret.'

{198a} Politische Correspondenz Friederichs des Grossen. Duncker.

Berlin, 1879, ix. 356.

{198b} Can the Earl and the Doctor have approved of renewing the infamous Elibank plot?

{201} Many historians, such as Lord Campbell in his Lives of the Chancellors, condemn as cruel the execution of Cameron. But the Government was well informed.

{202} The Active Testimony of the Presbyterians of Scotland, 1749.

{203} xix. 742.

{208} French service. He seems to think that Archy was betrayed by French means. He perhaps suspected Dumont, who had been in the French army.

{213} Glengarry had been a captain in the French service.

{219} Brother of d'Argenson of the Memoires.

{222a} Pol. Corr. No. 5,933.

{222b} As early as 1748 Dawkins was in Paris, drinking with Townley, who calls him un bon garcon. Townley's letters to a friend in Rome were regularly sent to Pelham.

{223} Pol. Corr. ix. 417. No. 5,923.

{224a} Droysen, iv. 357. Note 1.

{224b} S. P. France. 462.

{227} Browne, iv. p. 111.

{231a} In his article on James Mohr (Scotsman, March 15, 1896), Mr.

Murray Rose cites some papers concerning James's early treacheries.

For unfathomable reasons, Mr. Murray Rose does not mention the source of these papers. This is of the less importance, as Mr. George Omond, in Macmillan's Magazine, May 1890, had exposed James's early foibles, from doc.u.ments in the Record Office.

{231b} Trials of Rob Roy's Sons (Edinburgh, 1818), p. 3.

{232a} The reader may remember that Pickle's earliest dated letter is from Boulogne, November 2, 1752. As on that day James Mohr was a prisoner in Edinburgh Castle, the absurdity of identifying Pickle with James Mohr becomes peculiarly glaring.

{232b} Trial, &c. p. 119.

{232c} According to Mr. Murray Rose, James Mohr applied to the King for money on May 22, 1753. This letter I have not observed among the Stuart Papers, but, from information given by Pickle to his English employers, I believe James Mohr to have been in France as early as May 1753. Pickle, being consulted as to James's value, contemns him as a spy distrusted by both sides.

{234} Add. MSS. 32,846.

{235} He HAD been, as a spy!

{236} How worthy of our friend!

{238} As James was not in France till May 1753, he cannot have written Pickle's letters from France of March in that year.

{239} Balhaldie's papers, not treasonable, belong to Sir Arthur Halkett of Pitfirrane, who also possesses a charming portrait of pretty Mrs. Macfarlane. Sir Arthur's ancestor, Sir Peter, fought on the Hanoverian side in the Forty-five, was taken prisoner, and released on parole, which he refused to break at the command of the Butcher c.u.mberland.

{240} MSS. Add. 33,050, f. 369.

{241} Nothing of all this in the Stuart Papers.

{242} Observe James's Celtic memory.

{243} Mr. Savage, according to James Mohr, was the chief of the Macgregors in Ireland.

{245} These are transparent falsehoods. The Earl Marischal, if we may believe Pickle, had no mind to resign his comfortable Emba.s.sy.

{246} He was really at Avignon.

{250} Add. MSS. 33,050, f. 409.

{251} In 'Memoire Historique et Genealogique sur la Famille de Wogan,' par le Comte Alph. O'Kelly de Galway (Paris, 1896) we read (p. 33) that, in 1776, Charles was 'entertained at Cross Green House, in Cork.' The authority given is a vague reference to the Hibernian Magazine.

{254} Stuart Papers.

{256} Probably Glengarry.

{259} This too well confirms Dr. King's charges.

{261} Goring must mean a clansman--a Cameron.

{263} Goring was probably at the Convent of St. Joseph, with Madame de Va.s.se.

{265} See Memoires of Madame Hausset, and the De Goncourts on Madame de Pompadour.

{267} These letters have been printed in full by Mr. Murray Rose (Scotsman, March 15, 1895). Mr. Murray Rose attributes them to James Mohr Macgregor, wrongly, of course.

{268} That is, seats for Jacobites should be purchased at the General Election.

{271} The surgeon of Luneville, with whom Charles had resided secretly.

{273} 'Women' refers to Miss Walkinshaw. It is clear that Charles had rejected MacNamara's request for her dismissal, described by Dr.

King.