Gents Mag 1745 p.613
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Gentleman's Magazine 1745 p.613
the body of regular horse is very inconsiderable. There are not as yet above 30 Hussars, besides those that march'd with the van guard yesterday to Kendal; that Carlisle was left with only about 100; that they talk'd of great numbers were gone to join them from Scotland, that Old Glenbucket was gone forward with lord Elcho; that their whole train of artillery did not amount to above 16 small field pieces; that their baggage waggons, which were about 20 in number, were very slenderly guarded, some of them being drawn by three, and others by two horses, and that it was expected that the whole body would march from Penrith upon the 24th. Whitehall, Nov. 26. By advices from Liverpool of the 24th, there is an account, that nine men belonging to the army of the rebels came into Burton about one o'clock in the afternoon of the 23d, and demanded quarters for 100 horse and 700 foot. Letters from Lancaster of the 24th, take notice, that the van of the rebel army, consisting of the numbers above, arriv'd there that day; and that the young pretender, with the main body, lay at Kendal the night before. - There are letters from the north which mention, that upon the 14th instant about 40 carts belonging to the rebels, and loaded with arms, bread, Highland plads and waistcoats, were seiz'd and plunder'd by the country people in the the county of Annandale, within ten miles of Dumfries. ... ... Deal, Nov. 25. This afternoon arriv'd here his majesty's ship Sheerness, capt. Bully, and brought in a French privateer call'd the Soleil, which he took on the 22d off the dogger bank. She came from Dunkirk the 21st, and was bound to Montross, in Scotland, and has on board Mr. Ratcliff, (who stiles himself earl of Derwentwater) with 20 colonels, captains, &c.† Irish, Scotch and French, besides 60 other men. So far from the Gazette. † Another account of the capture of the Soleil, says 'there was on board a million of livres, and that, besides Mr. Ratcliff, among the prisoners are the duke of Richlieu, count Clerment, lord Nairn, lord Drummond, sixteen other persons of distinction, and the pretender's youngest son, who goes by the name of Manley.'--- A letter from on board admiral Vernon's ship, where the prisoners are, relates, 'that Mr Ratcliff pretends to be father of the young gentleman who is supposed to be the pretender's youngest son, (see his age vol.XI. Pedigree of princes, p.435) but that, upon two beds being shewn, he offer'd the best to his son, who is very sullen and spiritless; and every thing tends to confirm his being a young pretender, which some are ready to swear, but they did not think he was six foot high, as this person is.'From another letter, --- 'Our suspicion is further confirmed, by the young gentleman's keeping his left hand cover'd to hide his two middle fingers, which grow together; by his throwing his laced hat and coat into the sea and putting on a leather cap and jacket; by the preference Mr Ratcliff gives him on all occasions, and by the affirmation of a person who knew him at Rome.'... ... |
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