APPENDIX. PRINCE CHARLES STUART (UNDER THE NAME OF JOHN DOUGLAS) TO MR. BULKELEY. [From a rough draught in the Stuart Papers.] June 3. 1749. I WRIT you last the 26th of May from Venice with a letter inclosed. This is sent by one that promised safe delivery. My friendship for you does not permit me any longer silence as to what regards a person you esteem. His situation is singular; and though now rejected by many, he may be soon as much courted. Being desperate, honest, and with only one point de vue, what cannot be compassed? Bologna was said to be his residence, but that was but a blind; I can firmly assure you never shall any of the Pope's dominions see his face. The only one in Italy would have been Venice. That same person never intends to make but a passage over of France. Now my friend must skulk, to the perfect dishonour of his worthy relations, until he finds a reception fitting at home or abroad. JOHN DOUGLAS. MEMORANDA BY PRINCE CHARLES. "Remitted to B. (Colonel Brett ?) the 22d June, 1750.” Instructions for who is to inform himself whether will receive the P. (Prince) upon occasion, who is willing to trust his person in his hands; if he should decline it, to find out some other proper person for that purpose, as the P. (Prince) is determined to go over at any rate. To speak to Sir C. G (Charles Goring?) about a ship that it may arrive at Antwerp, to carry over his brother, and to be there some time in the beginning of August. To visit Mr. P. of D., and to see what he has done in his own and the neighbouring counties, and to agree where the arms, &c., may be most conveniently landed, the grand affair of L. (London) to be attempted at the same time. To inform the principal persons that the P. (Prince) desires the whole may be forwarded with the greatest expedition, and that no time may be lost; that a Declaration may be prepared in which the funds are to be referred to a free Parliament, and the army encouraged to join the P. (Prince) by showing the nullity of the obligation of the oaths they have taken for the E. (Elector.) To acquaint particular persons that the K. (King) will R. (resign), in order to prevent any proclamation, as lately happened at N., and to return, as soon as may conveniently happen, to me. Mem. Concerning some things to be proposed to B. (Duke of Beaufort?) for adding to the P. (Prince's) Declaration, to remove the prejudices so unjustly grounded against the K. (King), — and also something concerning the bribery in the F. M. (French Ministers), which has hitherto prevented the assistance that would have been given me, always agreeable and fitting to the inclinations of both the K. (King of France) and I. 1750 STUART PAPERS. V THE PRETENDER TO PRINCE CHARLES. [Stuart Papers.] Rome, December 30. 1750. TO-MORROW you end your 30th year. May you see many more than double that number, and happier ones than those you have already past! The hardships you have gone through, and do perhaps still undergo, are not small, and it is to be hoped they will contribute at last to what they are chiefly directed. But in the darkness you keep me, as to all that relates to you, I can pray and wish, but I can neither judge nor advise, except on one single article, which is so obvious and so important that I should think everybody, who really wishes you well, should be of the same opinion in that respect, and that is, your securing the succession of our Family by marrying. I cannot think you so selfish as to have yourself only in view in all you suffer. The happiness of our country must undoubtedly be your motive, and by consequence, you would never surely restrict that happiness to your own life only, but endeavour to perpeti ate it by a succession of lawful Kings, who may have no other interests but those of our country. Your giving lawful heirs to the Crown will not only be a constant security to your own person, but it will make you more considered and respected abroad, and will undoubtedly give new life and vigour to the cause and your friends, whose zeal can never be so warm when all their hopes are centred in you alone. Had you entered into the view I formerly gave you, you had been probably at this time the father of a family, with a wife whom it would not have been beneath you to have married had you been in England. But it is useless to look backward, and what gives me the greatest concern in all this is, that you have put yourself in a situation and way of living which renders your marrying anybody absolutely impracticable. This, as long as it lasts, must appear extraordinary and singular to persons of reflection and sense, because the motives and object of your marrying are obvious to all, and those of your pursuing your present conduct and scheme, whatever |