Jacobite Gleanings From State Manuscripts - Short Sketches of Jacobites; The Transportations in 1745 #266351

Petitions for mercy — Accompany afidavits — Attempts at extenuation — Plea of being commandeered Hard swearing — Plea of youth — Hops of escaping death — Memorials on behalf of prisoners indicative of humanity of the period — Hobbes' elfish idea of origin of sympathy — Attitude of Collins, Fielding, and Thomson of The Seasons to the Rebellion Dr. Samuel J ohnson — Anecdote of his Jacobite leanings — How Boswell became a loyalist — Dr. Johnson at Derby — His opinion of the Rising of l745 — Advises Boswell to write its history — Johnson on the taking of Cape Breton — The Union of the Crowns — The War Office preparations to meet Prince Charles — Expectation of his march into Wales.