The Lyon in Mourning, Vol. 1: or a collection of speeches, letters, journals, etc. relative to the affairs of Prince Charles Edward StuartForbes, Robert
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The Lyon in Mourning, Vol. 1: or a collection of speeches, letters, journals, etc. relative to the affairs of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
Forbes, Robert
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788; Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 -- Sources
Mr. Æneas MacDonald, a banker in Paris, surrendred himself to General
Campbell upon terms which, however, were not [Sidenote: _fol._ 494.]
performed. He was committed to Dumbarton Castle, whence he was
conducted to Edinburgh Castle under a strong guard the latter end of
August 1746; and the week after, in the same manner, was conveyed to
the Duke of Newcastle's office at Whitehall, London, and immediately
committed into the custody of a messenger. One day when he was
concerting a jaunt to Windsor with Miss Flora MacDonald, he was by
order taken out of the messenger's hands and committed to Newgate,
and thence to new prison in Southwark. All the time the Prince was in
Paris he lodged at Mr. Æneas MacDonald's house.
Mr. Strickland died at Carlisle when it was possessed by the Prince's
army.
Mr. Buchanan, Sir Thomas Sheridan, Mr. O'Sullivan, and Mr. Kelly made
their escape into France.
The first of these, Mr. Buchanan, upon the intended invasion
at Dunkirk in 1743 was sent into England, and upon his return,
in attempting to get to Calais or Dunkirk, was taken prisoner.
[Sidenote: _fol._ 495.] He made a plausible story, and going by a
feigned name, pretending great loyalty, etc., he artfully imposed
upon one Captain Aires, who was then going into Flanders with some
orders from the government, a person who has signalized himself
very much upon a late occasion, though not in his profession as a
soldier, yet as an evidence at St. Margaret's Hill in Southwark, etc.
etc. etc. This very man, perceiving Mr. Buchanan understood French,
and knew several of the French officers, proposed making use of him
as a spy in Flanders, which Mr. Buchanan readily embraced, as it gave
him a safe conveyance out of British dominions. Accordingly he was
conducted to Ostend by Captain Aires, who was greatly surprized and
no less chagrin'd to find his fellow-traveller so well known there,
and to be the very man he had particular orders to find out, if
possible, and to secure him, at the time when Mr. Buchanan had the
address to deceive him. After this discovery Aires [Sidenote: _fol._
496.] never offered to make any farther use of Mr. Buchanan, neither
could he detain him there. Mr. Buchanan was many years assistant to
Mr. Æneas MacDonald at Paris.
The second of these, Sir Thomas Sheridan, was tutor to the young
hero, whom he attended through most of his travels. His master had
a real and, I may say, filial affection for him, which indeed was
mutual, no man having his pupil's interest more at heart than Sir
Thomas. He got safe to France. From that he went to Rome, where he
waited upon his pupil's father, who reprimanded him for persuading
his son to undertake such an expedition without better grounds. This
reproof so far affected Sir Thomas that he fell ill and died of grief.
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