The companions of Pickle: Being a sequel to 'Pickle the spy'Lang, Andrew
History
The companions of Pickle: Being a sequel to 'Pickle the spy'
Lang, Andrew
Jacobites
Keith, George, Earl Marischal of Scotland, his place in contemporary
history, 1;
ancestry, 2;
political views, 2, 3;
personal character, 4;
date of birth, 5;
parentage, 6;
Colonel and disciplinarian, 6;
neglects the chance on Anne’s death of proclaiming King James, 8;
urges James to join his adherents, 9;
induces his brother James to join the Jacobite cause, 10;
at Sheriffmuir, 11;
remains with the defeated army, 13;
ships to France, 13;
in Spain, 14;
legendary romance about Mlle. de Froullay (Créquy), 15;
portrait in 1716, 16;
at the Lewes with a Spanish force, 17;
in Holland, 19;
in Rome, 20;
communicates the Glenshiel fiasco to Alberoni, 20;
vicissitudes, 21;
friendship with the Duchess of Medina Sidonia, 24;
investigates fire-charming, 24;
religious ideas, 25;
receives from James the Order of the Thistle, 27;
dislike of Prince Charles, 5, 27;
finds the Jacobite Court at Rome no place for an honest man, 28;
at Avignon, 28;
modesty of his requirements, 29;
on the hanging of Porteous, 30;
at St. Petersburg, 30;
Turkish captives in his custody, 31;
impatient with Sempil and Balhaldie, 32;
accused of being lukewarm, 33;
appointed General of a diversion in Scotland, 34;
asked by Charles to set forth with him in a sailing boat, 34;
accused of stopping the Dunkirk expedition, 35;
tries to influence Louis XV. for French aid, 36, 37;
at odds with Sempil, 37;
averse from Charles’s unsupported expedition, 38;
disappears from the diplomatic scene, 39;
at Venice, 39;
at Berlin, 40;
in the service of Frederick the Great, 40;
distrust of George Kelly, 40, 41;
Frederick’s ambassador to Versailles, 43;
tolerance of the Elibank Plot, 43;
breaks with Charles, 43, 44;
letter from his brother, Marshal Keith, 45;
Frederick’s generous offers, 46, 47;
Prince Charles appeals to him, 47;
seeks pardon from the English Government, 48;
his judgment of Charles too severe, 49;
death of his brother, 50;
squabble with Keith’s mistress, 50;
sent by Frederick to Spain, 51;
succeeds to Lord Kintore’s estate, 51;
pardoned by George II., 51;
visits England,52;
Provost of Kintore, 52;
dislikes Scotland and returns to Neufchâtel, 53;
acquaintance with J. J. Rousseau, 53;
leaves Neufchâtel and secures Rousseau an asylum in England, 55, 56;
at Potsdam, 58;
disseminates a scandalous anecdote about Charles, 58, 59;
letters to Hume, 59-64;
his life at Berlin, 64;
attachment to Frederick, 65;
character, tastes, and habits, 66;
death, 67;
cited, 208, 223, 234, 236, 238
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