UNIV’ T T IR IT V O F CA I J F SA NT A B OR NI i l':J A NA COLLEGE LI BRA R Y THE LIST OF CHAPTERS I T HE L S H OPE OF T HE S R S a e . A T TUA T p g 3 I I T HE GR E A VEN R E . AT D TU N R E IN N B III . PRI CE CHA L S EDI URGH FR OM D ER BY T o CUL LOD EN V I H A N W N E N . H s IGHL D A D RI GS A VAGR A N T P R INCE T HE SOB ESK S S VII . I I TUART LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ' P R INCE CHAR LI E Fron tiqbzece From a min iature in the possessio n of JEFFR EY TE E Es . WHI H AD , q — JAMES STUA R T T HE OLD P R ETENDER page 4 m v n Fro an en gra i g. — JAM ES STUA R T T H E OLD P R ET ENDER B kin d e rm ssi n o f C HA LK ER ’I‘ O N F . S WOO OR y p i o L D , E . E r h s d n u . q , i b g D ISCUSSI N G T HE NEWS E n m G . O I I R . S . A . B k d er ss n M rs G LVY R D , y i p i io of . LI N S Edz eil L d e Ed n ur h . D AY , o g , i b g K ISSI NG T HE D I R K G O E R . S . A . I I G LVY R D , PRINCE CHA R LI E AT H O LY R OOD G . O I EI R . S. A . 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A . B kin d ermissi n J. ACD ALD , . y p o of W E R R . M I TH s . Ed n b ur h . HA Y S , q , i g A FUGITI VE E N T ERTA I N ED . O I EI R . S. A G G LVY R D, . FLORA M ACD ONALD T HE R ER OF R ELE SE 1 6 O D A , 7 4 Sir o HN E. M I I S P. R . A . B kin d ermiss o n j LLA , y p i of the T rustees of the N a t on a Ga er of Bri tish A rt i l ll y , L n n o do . CLEM ENTI N A WAL K I N SH AW FLORA M AC DONALD T OM OBER TSON B k n d ermis n the as w R . y i p sio of Gl go n Corpo ratio . P R INCESS LOUI SE OF STO L BERG . D UC H ESS OF ALBAN Y CHAPTER THE FIRST LAST HOPE OF THE STUARTS ’ B s e wa th e s e th e y yon ca tl , at clo of day, I e . man s i u his e it was e h ard a ng , tho gh h ad gr y, A n d as h e was s i i th e e s e ng ng t ar down cam , ’ e e e e e e e e Ther ll n v r b p ac till Jami com s ha me . ' cob n f a z te So g. CHARLES EDWARD STUART CHAPTER THE FIRST LAST HOPE OF THE STUARTS IL N ’Y A AUCUN E' EMPLE DANS ’ ’ l histoire d une maison Si longtemps in for ” f tun ée o . , remarks Voltaire the Stuarts And he cites in illustration the tragic mis Of fortunes the Stuart princes , from James I . of Scotland , a prisoner in England for eighteen years , and assassinated by his own subjects , down to Charles Edward Stuart , the defeated and degraded adventurer . The illustration might have been carried even farther back , to the unhappy Robert III . , father Of the murdered Duke of Rothe r s a o . of y , to David II , the loser Durham and the prisoner of England for eleven of years and the case of James I . England , who won a base security by the sacrifice of every manly and picturesque quality , can hardly be counted an exception to the rule of unvarying misfortune . The causes both of the Stuart misfor — tunes and of their long continuance Oi CHARLES EDWARD STUART the long delay of the hour Of final reckon — ing are no great mystery . The Latin tradition o f decorative and sacerdotal ah s olutism which the Stuarts represented was equally at variance with the tu rb u lent and fanatical individualism of the Scottish people , and with the stubborn and utilitarian individualism Of the Eng lish . The doom was withheld by Scottish patriotism , by English compromise , and by the loyalty of the devoted minority who Shared the Stuart notions of the div ro ine right Of kings . But the Spell was b ken a t last by that most uncompromis “ ing of Englishmen , Oliver Cromwell , who taught kings that they have a lith in ” their neck . The lesson was not learned - y . by the eas going libertine , Charles II , who , however , evaded deposition by per sonal popularity and by a premature fi ou te d sa t death . It was Openly by the u rn in e . and bigoted libertine , J ames II , who , with no personal following to appeal to , had no alternative but abdication and ’ ‘ w OLD ETEN E JAM ES S I UA R T T HE PR D R LAST HOPE OF THE STUARTS hurried nocturnal flight With h is flight the Stuarts pass from the text to the mar Of of gin the page history , and become mere pawns in the game of European in o f trigue . But as the dry and dusty light political history recedes from them , they brighten into a constellation in the violet firmamen t Of romance , and their part on the British stage culminates in an a dv en o of ture worthy f the heroic age Greece . The ring of Highland broadswords almost mingles with the rattle Of Manchester Spinning - j ennies and the clatter Of Clyde Shipyards . The romance as well as the history o f the Stuarts would have closed with the abdi Oi cation James II . had it not been for s ix o n I O the birth , months before , June , 1688 o f o n , the child whose legitimacy vul gar Whig prej udice sought to cast a doubt - by the absurd story Of the warming pan . Thirteen years later , when the last Stuart king lay dying at St . Germain , he was visited by Louis XIV . , the faithful friend CHARLES EDWARD STUART of his house , who promised to support the claim of the only s on of J ames and Mary of so o n Modena to the British throne . And , ’ his father s death , James Francis Stuart , . was the Chevalier de St George , acknow ledged King of Great Britain and Ireland sa t at Versailles , and at the right hand of 16 ran d M ou ar ue g g , clothed in the imperial purple robe of mourning . But those who attempted to proclaim him in London had to fly for their lives from a furiously Pro mob . testant He is said , on fairly good to authority , to have paid a private Visit his half- sister Anne at the time of her c or o n a tion , but with what precise purpose it Of is hard to tell .