London in the Jacobite times, Volume IIDoran, Dr. (John)
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London in the Jacobite times, Volume II
Doran, Dr. (John)
London (England) -- History -- 18th century
to perpetual exile.’ As it was, Jacobite plots continued to ‘rise and
burst like bubbles on a fountain.’ An affectionate memory of Cameron
was also transmitted through the hearts of his descendants. In the
reign of Victoria, his grandson restored honour to a name which, in a
political point of view, had never been dishonoured.
In the royal chapel of the Savoy, the following inscription is to
be read on the wall beneath a painted glass window:――_In memory of
Archibald Cameron, brother of Donald Cameron of Lochiel, who having
been attainted after the battle of Culloden in 1746, escaped to France,
but returning to Scotland in 1753, was apprehended and executed. He was
buried beneath the Altar of this Chapel. This window is inserted by Her
Majesty’s permission in place of a sculptured tablet which was erected
by his grandson, Charles Hay Cameron, in 1846, and consumed by the fire
which partially destroyed the Chapel in 1864._
The window above referred to has six lights, and each light now
contains figures representing _St. Peter_, _St. Philip_, _St. Paul_,
_St. John_, _St. James_, and _St. Andrew_.
[Sidenote: _A MINOR OFFENDER._]
As a sample of how minor offences on the part of unquiet Jacobites
were punished, the case may be cited of the Rev. James Taylor, who was
not allowed to indulge his Jacobitism even in a compassionate form. A
beggar was arrested in his progress from house to house. He was found
to be the bearer of a recommendatory letter from the Nonjuror Taylor,
in which it was stated that the bearer had fought on the right side
at Preston Pans and Culloden. For this offence Mr. Taylor was tried,
convicted, and heavily sentenced;――namely, to two years’ imprisonment,
a fine of 300_l._, and to find sureties for his good behaviour during
the next seven years, himself in 1000_l._, and two others in 500_l._
each.
All this time, Parliament was perfectly tranquil. There was no flash
of anti-Jacobitism. There was nothing in the debates but what partook
of the lightest of summer-lightning. In the whole session of 1755,
there is but one allusion to Jacobites, and that took the form of a
wish that, ten years before, Scotland had been as heavily oppressed
as England was,――in that and many a succeeding year,――in one special
respect. Mr. Robert Dundas, in the Commons’ debate on speedily manning
the Navy, insisted on the legality and propriety of pressing seamen,
and remarked: ‘How happy it would have been for Scotland, in 1745,
if all her seamen had been pressed into the public service, in order
to man a few guard-ships, to prevent the landing of those who, at
that time, raised such a flame in the country; and yet I believe that
a press could not then have been carried on without the aid of the
military.’
[Sidenote: _SUSPICION AGAINST THE DUKE._]
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