May 4, 1753. Stuart Papers. To old Edgar.
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His father’s name was John. One of Pickle’s aliases.
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This identifies ‘Pickle’ with ‘Jeanson.’
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Cypher names.
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That is, probably, Pickle said to Jacobite friends that his money came from Major Kennedy.
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Lord Elcho knew it, probably from his brother.
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Elcho says he was in London, at Lady Primrose’s. We have seen that Charles had had a difficulty with this lady.
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To this illness Glengarry often refers, when writing as Pickle.
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Hay to Edgar, October 1752. In Browne, iv. 106.
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‘Mildmay’ to ‘Green,’ January 24, 1753.
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S. P. Poland. No. 81.
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Carlyle’s Frederick, iv. 467. Compare, for the views of political circles, Horace Walpole’s Reign of George II. i. 333, 353, and his Letters to Horace Mann for 1753.
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Reign of George II. i. 290.
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Add MSS. British Museum, 33,847, f. 271. ‘Private and most secret.’
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Politische Correspondenz Friederichs des Grossen. Duncker. Berlin, 1879, ix. 356.
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Can the Earl and the Doctor have approved of renewing the infamous Elibank plot?
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Many historians, such as Lord Campbell in his Lives of the Chancellors, condemn as cruel the execution of Cameron. But the Government was well informed.
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The Active Testimony of the Presbyterians of Scotland, 1749.
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xix. 742.
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French service. He seems to think that Archy was betrayed by French means. He perhaps suspected Dumont, who had been in the French army.
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Glengarry had been a captain in the French service.
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Brother of d’Argenson of the Mémoires.
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Pol. Corr. No. 5,933.
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As early as 1748 Dawkins was in Paris, drinking with Townley, who calls him un bon garçon. Townley’s letters to a friend in Rome were regularly sent to Pelham.
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Pol. Corr. ix. 417. No. 5,923.
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