London in the Jacobite times, Volume IDoran, Dr. (John)
History
London in the Jacobite times, Volume I
Doran, Dr. (John)
London (England) -- History -- 18th century
to compensate for their own carelessness, and to manifest their good
will for the Government.
[Sidenote: _PURSUIT._]
There was a very prevalent idea that only the richest men had escaped.
Seven of the fifteen who got into the street, but who were not so lucky
as to disappear from pursuit as quickly as Mackintosh and his son, took
a wrong turning into Warwick Court, which had no thoroughfare. As they
were returning, all bewildered, yet eager and furious, they were met by
an armed force, were driven into a corner, and there bound tightly and
escorted back to dark dungeons, heavy fetters, and a certainty of the
halter.
Mackintosh took his own method of enlargement so coolly as to lead to
the conviction that if he was helped from without, he was unobstructed
from within. Four of his companions in flight turned down Newgate
Street and were soon lost in Cheapside. The brigadier and two others
turned in an opposite direction. They ‘went softly and boldly,’ so
contemporary prints record, ‘through the Gates of Newgate, where the
Watch and Guards were set, and passed without any examination.’ It is
added that this occurred because the ‘Constables were not come to
the Watch.’ The Dogberrys were the questioners. The military guard
took into their keeping such suspicious persons as Dogberry and Verges
consigned to their ward.
[Sidenote: _HUE AND CRY._]
Who had got clear off was hardly known till the Lord Mayor and Aldermen
had come down, affrighted, to the gaol, and called over the names.
No answer of ‘here’ came from Brigadier William Mackintosh, from his
son, nor from his brother, John Mackintosh; nor from Robert Hepburn,
Charles Wogan, William Dalmahoy, Alexander Dalmahoy, John Turner, and
James Talbot. There were some others who were of minor importance, and
the deputy keeper (Pitt being a prisoner, under suspicion of favouring
the escape of Forster) took the first step towards repairing a serious
fault, by offering money for the recapture of the brigadier especially,
whose escape, it was thought, was the purchased consequence of money
cautiously invested. The brigadier, or ‘William Mackintosh, commonly
called Brigadier Mackintosh,’ was so well described in the placards set
up, in, and about London by the chief turnkey of Newgate, that we seem
to see the man clearly before us:――‘A tall, raw-boned man, about 60
Years of age, fair Complexioned, Beetle-browed, Grey Eyed, speaks broad
Scotch.’ For his recapture the sum of 200_l._ was offered by Bodenham
Rowse, the turnkey.
[Sidenote: _DOMICILIARY VISITS._]
Old Mackintosh and his son safely reached the Thames, where a boat
received them, and took them on board a vessel, from which they were
landed on the French coast. The brigadier’s brother lost his way,
and after some time, was retaken. The Jacobite bards expressed their
feelings in the words,――
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