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Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746
ISBN : NYPL:33433067366025
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746
ISBN : 9781465601032
Subject of this book - The last rally of Jacobitism hitherto obscure - Nature of the new materials - Information from spies, unpublished Stuart Papers, &c. - The chief spy - Probably known to Sir Walter Scott - ÔRedgauntletÕ cited - ÔPickle the SpyÕ - His position and services - The hidden gold of Loch Arkaig - Consequent treacheries - Character of Pickle - PickleÕs nephew - PickleÕs portrait - Pickle detected and denounced - To no purpose - Historical summary - Incognito of Prince Charles - Plan of this work. The latest rally of Jacobitism, with its last romance, so faded and so tarnished, has hitherto remained obscure. The facts on which ÔWaverleyÕ is based are familiar to all the world: those on which ÔRedgauntletÕ rests were but imperfectly known even to Sir Walter Scott. The story of the Forty-five is the tale of Highland loyalty: the story of 1750-1763 is the record of Highland treachery, or rather of the treachery of some Highlanders. That story, now for the first time to be told, is founded on documents never hither to published, or never previously pieced together. The Additional Manuscripts of the British Museum, with relics of the government of Henry Pelham and his brother, the Duke of Newcastle, have yielded their secrets, and given the information of the spies. The Stuart Papers at Windsor (partly published in BrowneÕs ÔHistory of the Highland ClansÕ and by Lord Stanhope, but mainly virginal of type) fill up the interstices in the Pelham Papers like pieces in a mosaic, and reveal the general design. The letters of British ambassadors at Paris, Dresden, Berlin, Hanover, Leipzig, Florence, St. Petersburg, lend colour and coherence. The political correspondence of Frederick the Great contributes to the effect. A trifle of information comes from the French Foreign Office Archives; French printed ÔMŽmoiresÕ and letters, neglected by previous English writers on the subject, offer some valuable, indeed essential, hints, and illustrate CharlesÕs relations with the wits and beauties of the reign of Louis XV. By combining information from these and other sources in print, manuscript, and tradition, we reach various results. We can now follow and understand the changes in the singular and wretched development of the character of Prince Charles Edward Stuart. We get a curious view of the manners, and a lurid light on the diplomacy of the middle of the eighteenth century. We go behind the scenes of many conspiracies. Above all, we encounter an extraordinary personage, the great, highborn Highland chief who sold himself as a spy to the English Government. His existence was suspected by Scott, if not clearly known and understood.
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X030786902
He admits that he acted as a mouton, or prison spy, and gives a dreadful account of the horrors of Galbanon, where men lay in the dark and dirt for half a lifetime. Macallester next proses endlessly on the alleged Jesuit connection with Damien's attack on Lous XV., and insists that the Jesuits, nobody knows why, meant to assassinate Prince Charles. He was in very little danger from Jesuits!
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783849606954
The book: This is the peculiar title of a book that is making something of a literary sensation. This brilliant study of the betrayal and extinction of Jacobitism has triumphantly solved a mystery which once baffled all Europe. History has so far sought in vain to follow the wanderings and intrigues of Prince Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, after his expulsion from France in the last days of 1748. "From this time forward," says Lord Stanhope, writing of the time when the Prince quitted Avignon early in 1749, "his proceedings during many years are wrapped in mystery; all his correspondence passed through the hands of Mr. Walters"-—according to Mr. Lang the name should be Waters—"his banker at Paris, even his warmest partisans were seldom made acquainted with his place of abode, and though he still continued to write to his father at intervals, his letters were never dated. Neither friends nor enemies at that time could obtain any certain information of his movements or designs. Now, however, it is known that he visited Venice and Germany, that he resided secretly for some time at Paris, that he undertook a mysterious journey to England in 1750, and perhaps another in 1752 or 1753; but his principal residence was in the territory of his friend the Dukede Bouillon, where, surrounded by the wide and lonely forest of Ardennes, his active spirit sought in the dangerous chase of boars and wolves an image of the warlike enterprise which was denied him. It was not till the death of his father in 1766 that he returned to Rome and became reconciled to his brother. But his character had darkened with his fortunes." By a patient study of documents still preserved in the British Museum, the Royal Library at Windsor, and elsewhere, and still for the most part unpublished, and by a laborious collation of these new materials with others more accessible, Mr. Lang has succeeded in amplifying, correcting, and supplementing, and in rendering both interesting and intelligible the very meagre information with which Lord Stanhope and other historians have been content. "By combining information," he says, "from these and other sources in print, manuscript, and tradition, we reach various results. We can now follow and understand the changes in the singular and wretched development of the character of Prince Charles Edward Stuart. We get a curious view of the manners and a lurid light on the diplomacy of the middle of the eighteenth century. Above all, we encounter an extraordinary personage, the great, highborn Highland chief who sold himself as a spy to the English Government. This book is annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer.
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798545970940
Subject of this book--The last rally of Jacobitism hitherto obscure--Nature of the new materials--Information from spies, unpublished Stuart Papers, &c.--The chief spy--Probably known to Sir Walter Scott--'Redgauntlet' cited--'Pickle the Spy'--His position and services--The hidden gold of Loch Arkaig--Consequent treacheries--Character of Pickle--Pickle's nephew--Pickle's portrait--Pickle detected and denounced--To no purpose--Historical summary--Incognito of Prince Charles--Plan of this work.
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368358105
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1437848613
The story of the Forty-five is the tale of Highland loyalty: the story of 1750-1763 is the record of Highland treachery or rather of the treachery of some Highlanders. That story now for the first time to be told is founded on documents never hither to published or never previously pieced together.
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1331372224
Excerpt from Pickle the Spy: Or the Incognito of Prince Charles As was to be expected, some Highlanders have declined to believe that Pickle was Young Glengarry. Probably these gentleman do believe in the authenticity of Macpherson's Ossian. I ought perhaps to have said before that I did what I could, before publication, to obtain rebutting evidence, from the best source known to me, but without success. I may here sum up the evidence against Glengarry. 1. Pickle and Glengarry have both been officers in the French service. 2. both, and no other Highland chief, are to take an active part in the Elibank plot in London (1752). Both are intimate with the Earl Marischal, in Paris. 3. Both declare that no rising in the Highlands can take place without them. 4. Both are sons and heirs of the chief of the greatest Jacobite clan. Pickle says that whatever the Macdonnells do must be known, first, to him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Lang Andrew
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318776228
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Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Jacobite Rebellion, 1715
ISBN : NYPL:33433067366033
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z338776306
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1358270333
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Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1985593858
Excerpt: The plan of our narrative, therefore, will be arranged in the following manner. First, we sketch the character of Prince Charles in boyhood, during his Scottish expedition, and as it developed in cruelly thwarting circumstances between 1746 and 1749. In illustrating his character the hostile parties within the Jacobite camp must be described and defined. From February 1749 to September 1750 (when he visited London), we must try to pierce the darkness that has been more than Egyptian. We can, at least, display the total ignorance of Courts and diplomatists as to Charles's movements before Pickle came to their assistance, and we discover a secret which they ought to have known. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author : Andrew 1844-1912 Lang
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1361648317
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Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0331879867
Excerpt from The Companions of Pickle: Being a Sequel to "Pickle the Spy" Indeed I cannot overestimate my debt to the research and acuteness of this lady. To General Macdonald I have to repeat my thanks for the use of his papers, and the Duke of Atholl has kindly permitted me to cite his privately printed collections, where they illustrate the matter in hand. Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael was good enough to lend me, for reproduction, his miniature of the Duke of York and Prince Charles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.