Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles

For reasons already given, namely, that Madame de Vassé was the only daughter of her father by his wife, and that Mademoiselle Ferrand was her great friend, while the Prince addresses Mademoiselle Luci by a name derived from an estate of the Ferrands, I have identified Mademoiselle Ferrand with Mademoiselle Luci. This, however, is only an hypothesis.

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Some of Pickle’s letters were published by Mr. Murray Rose in an essay called ‘An Infamous Spy, James Mohr Macgregor,’ in the Scotsman, March 15, 1895. This article was brought to my notice on June 22, 1896. As the author identifies Pickle with James Mohr Macgregor, though Pickle began to communicate with the English Government while James was a prisoner in Edinburgh Castle, and continued to do so for years after James’s death, it is plain that he is in error, and that the transactions need a fresh examination. Mr. Murray Rose, in the article cited, does not indicate the provenance of the documents which he publishes. When used in this work they are copied from the originals in the British Museum, among the papers of the Pelham Administration. The transcripts have been for several years in my hands, but I desire to acknowledge Mr. Murray Rose’s priority in printing some of the documents, which, in my opinion, he wholly misunderstood, at least on March 15, 1895. How many he printed, if any, besides those in the Scotsman, and in what periodicals, I am not informed.

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The portrait, now at Balgownie, was long in the possession of the Threiplands of Fingask. I have only seen a photograph, in the Scottish Museum of Antiquities.

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MS. in Laing Collection, Edinburgh University Library.

117

A note of Craigie’s communicated by Mr. Omond.

118

Cope to Forbes of Culloden, August 24, 1745. Culloden Papers, p. 384.

119

Culloden Papers, p. 405.

120

Young Glengarry to Edgar. Rome, September 16, 1750. In the Stuart Papers.

121

Chambers’s The Rebellion, v. 24. Edinburgh, 1829.

122

Letter of Warren to James, October 10, 1746. Browne, iii. 463.

123

Stuart Papers. Browne, iv. 100.

124

Ibid. iv. 22, 23.

125

Browne, iv. 51.

126

Browne, iv. 61, 62.

127

I presume the first beautiful Mrs. Murray is in question. The second is ‘another story.’ See the original letter in Browne, iv. 90–101.

128

State Papers, Domestic, No. 87.

129

Stuart Papers.

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Browne, iv. 60.

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Browne, iv. 117.

132

Correspondence of the Duke of Bedford, ii. 39.

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Paris, February 14, 1752. Stuart Papers.

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iv. 84.

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Rome, September 4, 1750. In Browne.

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Browne, iv. 102.

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Journal, February 14, 1826.

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