Mr. Ewald’s dates, as to the Prince’s English jaunt, are wrong. He has adopted those concerning the lady’s movements, ii. 201.
89
Charles himself (S. P. Tuscany, December 16, 1783) told these facts. But Hume is responsible for the visit to Lady Primrose, dating it in 1753; wrongly, I think.
90
Private Memorandum concerning the Pretender’s eldest son. Brit. Mus. Additional MSS.
91
A medal of 1750 bears a profile of Charles, as does one of September 1752.
92
This may be of 1752–1753, and the ‘Channoine’ may be Miss Walkinshaw, who was a canoness of a noble order.
93
Montesquieu to the Abbé de Guasco, March 7, 1749.
94
The sequel of the chivalrous attempt to catch Keith’s mistress may he found in letters of Newcastle to Colonel Guy Dickens (February 12, 1751), and of Dickens (St. Petersburg, March 27, 30, May 4, 1751) to the Duke of Newcastle. (State Papers.)
95
Correspondence of the Duke of Bedford, ii. 69.
96
Letters, ii. 116.
97
Spence’s Anecdotes, p. 168.
98
Browne, iv. 17.
99
Stuart Papers.
100
Ibid.
101
Potzdam, August 24, 1751. Œuvres, xxxviii. 307. Edition of 1880.
102
Newcastle to Lord Chancellor, September 6, 1751. Life of Lord Hardwicke, ii. 404.
103
Anecdotes.
104
Stuart Papers. Lady Montagu was Barbara, third daughter of Sir John Webbe of Hathorp, county Gloucester. In July 1720 she married Anthony Brown, sixth Viscount Montagu.
105
Walton’s Life of Wotton.
106
Browne, iv. 89–90.
107
S. P. France, 455.
108
S. P. Poland, No. 79.
109
Angleterre, 81, f. 94, 1774.
110
Pichot, in his Vie de Charles Edouard, obviously cites this document, which is quoted from him by the Sobieski Stuarts in Tales of the Century. But Pichot does not name the source of his statements.
111
A French agent, Beson probably, whom Charles desired to dismiss, because a Frenchman.
112
Scott’s Letters, ii. 208. June 29, 1824.
113