Pickle the Spy: Or, The Incognito of Prince CharlesLongmans, Green, 1897 - 342 pages |
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adventure affairs Alastair April Archibald Cameron Archy Cameron Avignon Balhaldie Berlin brother Bulkeley Charles's Chevalier clan Clancarty Cluny Count Brühl Court Culloden D'Argenson Dawkins despatches disguised Earl Marischal Edgar England English Government Europe father February February 24 France Frederick French GORING'S LETTER Grandemain Hanbury Williams Henry Goring Henry Pelham Highland honour Irish Jacobite James's June Kelly King knew lady Loch Arkaig Loch Arkaig treasure Lochgarry London Lord Marischal Lunéville Luze Lyons Macallester Macdonnell Madame d'Aiguillon Madame de Talmond Madame de Vassé Madame du Deffand Mademoiselle Ferrand Mademoiselle Luci Majesty Mann March Marshal Keith Minister Miss Walkinshaw Montesquieu Murray Murray Rose Newton Paris person Pickle Pickle's Poland Pretender's Prince Charles Prince's Princesse de Talmond probably Prussia Puysieux Rome Royal Highness says Scotland secret sent September Sir James Harrington Strasbourg Stuart Papers told Venice writes wrote Young Glengarry Young Pretender
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Page 20 - I had incurred all this danger and trouble for the most unworthy of all mortals ; insomuch that I have been assured, when he went down to Nantz, to embark on his expedition to Scotland, he took fright and refused to go on board ; and his attendants, thinking the matter gone too far, and that they would be affronted for his cowardice, carried him, in the night time, into the ship, pieds et mains lie"s." I asked him, if he meant literally ? " Yes," said he,
Page 68 - G (Charles Goring ?) about a ship that it may arrive at Antwerp, to carry over his brother, and to be there some time in the beginning of August. To visit Mr. P. of D., and to see what he has done in his own and the neighbouring counties, and to agree where the arms, &c., may be most conveniently landed, the grand affair of L. (London) to be attempted at the same time.
Page 153 - ... the King, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of York, from the power and malice of their enemies, to prosper and reward all my friends and benefactors, and to forgive all my enemies, murderers, and false accusers, from the Elector of Hanover and his bloody son, down to Samuel Cameron the basest of their spies, as I freely do from the bottom of my heart.
Page 212 - England as you mention, has told you ad lie. God forgive them ! I would not do the least hurt to my greatest enemy were he in my power, much less to any one that professes to be mine.
Page 195 - Sir, your friend's Mistress is loudly and publickly talked off and all friends look on it as a very dangerous and imprudent step, and conclude reasonably that no Corespondance is to be had in that quarter, without risk of discovery, for we have no opinion in England of female politicians, or of such women's secrecy in general. You are yourself much blamed for not informing...
Page 153 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 99 - Believe me, Sir, such commissions are for the worst of men, and such you will find enough for money, but they will likewise betray you for more. Virtue deserves reward and you treat it ill, I can only lament this unfortunate affair, which if possible to prevent, I would give my life with pleasure. ' You say nothing is to be altered in regard to the plan. Pray Sir reflect on Lady P. [Primrose] who will expect the little man.1 He was introduced to her, and told her name.
Page 125 - Glengary he spoke of; for that he came to him offering his most faithful and zealous service to the Government in any shape they thought proper, as he came from feeling the folly of any further concern with the ungrateful family of Stuart, to whom he and his family had been too long attached, to the absolute ruin of themselves and country.
Page 26 - It will, to be sure, have been represented to you that our religion is a great prejudice to our interest, but that it may in some measure be remedied by a certain free way of thinking and acting.
Page 226 - Pretender has an admirable genius for skulking, and is provided with so many disguises that it is not so much to be wondered at that he has hitherto escaped unobserved. Sometimes he wears a long false nose which they call Nez a la Saxe because Marshal Saxe used to give such to his spies whom he employed.