Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Jacobite Gleanings From State Manuscripts: Short Sketches of Jacobites; The Transportations in 1745
Petitions for mercy - Accompany afidavits - Attempts at extenuation - Plea of being commandeered Hard swearing - Plea of youth - Hope of escaping death - Memorials on behalf of prisoners indicative of humanity of the period - Hobbes' selfish 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.
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