Opis: Notes and Queries - Author Unknown

Excerpt from Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc

"On the verso of the card are some memoranda of money matters, and the date 'ye 21rst March, 1751.'

"The letter now to be given contains neither date nor signature; but I think the name of the writer (evidently a Scotchman) will be ascertained from a comparison of the writing and with other papers of the same period. The date is approximately determinable as 1769 or 1770, from the references to the death of the Chevalier de St. George (the Old Pretender) and to the flight of Miss Walkinshaw with their child. The proposal to repudiate the National Debt is very curious and amusing: -

"It was most certainly a very great affront and Injury done to the Prince to carry from him his Daughter, that behoved to be a fine amusement to Him in his solitary way of liveing, while still expecting better Times.

"When He Discovers Him that acted it, or had a share in the Crime, He or they should be punised, tho' with much goodness, to imitate our great Creator. In the meantime it should not be resented to His own Disadvantage, or that of his most sincere Weal Wishers, but a proper time waited when it can be done more effectualy. If his Majesty had any share in it, It can be imputed to nothing else than a wrong principle in his Religion, and ought therefore to be heartyly forgiven, and a good Understanding fully reestablish'd. It must be a great Loss to His Royal Highness and all true subjects to have the intercourse betwixt Him and them intirely cutt off by his Resolution of so strict a Retirement which they most earnestly wish and beg He would change to their Vast Comfort; and it is the greatest Glory of a man to forgive ane Injury. I hear'd more than three years ago, That the Prince (upon the King's Death) was resolved to goe to Rome, of which I took no notice, haveing hear'd long before, That he said That He would never return to Rome. It is most earnestly Wished That He would be so good as Change his intention of goeing there, if He ever had it. It may happen That his Affairs in Britain might be at the Crisis in his favours at the time he was there, which could not faill to make a very bad turn, even with his friends upon hearing it. But hou would his Enemies Triumph and be Overjoyed. Yea, his best Wishers might justly belive. That he was not fully settled in his principles of religion, which being the same with their Own, gave them the best grounds to believe, That they would get Him safely settled on the Throne of his Fathers, as there was no other possible objection against Him But upon his being there, they might suspect; That He was resolved at the bottom to continue in his Father's Principles of Religion. Besides if He should go there and retain his present Opinion He might be exposed to great Hazards amidst a People so bigotted to a different way of thinking, and Its not to be Doubted but they would contrive something against Him, at least to disappoint Him of the Desine he had for goeing, and whatever View He has, It is not to be compared with the gaining the Crowns of Scotland, England, and Ireland; But not to pry into what the Desine of his Journey may be He is sure to Obtain it more easiely when he is possessed of these Crowns. [turn over

"The Present State of Britain is in a very Unsettled way, Their Vast Load of Debt must Ruin them, And they have no other way to get Clear of it but by settleing the Royal Family on the Throne, When One Act of Parliament will Discharge It, As haveing been contracted to Exclude and keep them from their Just Right, and Those who suffer will have themselves only to blame, tho' These who shall be reduced to great Indigence by this Act, can from time to time, be provided so as to live, they and their Familys in a Comfortable Way. Every Reasonable Man would aprove of this Conduct, as the most effectual Beacon against new Usurpation; But If the Debts should b

Szczegóły: Notes and Queries - Author Unknown

Nazwa: Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Author Unknown
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781331450252
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 554
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

Recenzje: Notes and Queries - Author Unknown