to comply: the Princess laughed
very heartily, and told us that she did not question but the day
would come that we should not be sorry to have made so early an
acquaintance with her son. I thought myself under a necessity of
making her the compliment, that being hers, he could not miss being
good and happy. On the next post day, we went, as commonly the
English gentlemen here do, to the Pretender's house for news. He had
received a great many letters, and after perusing them he told us
that there was no great prospect of amendment in the affairs of
England; that the Secret Committee and several other honest men were
taking abundance of pains to find out the cause of the nation's
destruction, which knowledge, when attained to, would avail only to
give the more concern to the public without procuring relief; for
that the authors would find means to be above the reach of the
common course of justice: he bemoaned the misfortune of England
groaning under a load of debts, and the severe hardships contracted
and imposed to support foreign interests: he lamented the
ill-treatment and disregard of the ancient nobility; and said it
gave him great trouble to see the interest of the nation abandoned
to the direction of a new set of people, who must at any rate enrich
themselves by the spoil of their country: "some may imagine,"
continued he, "that these calamities are not displeasing to me,
because they may, in some measure, turn to my advantage; I renounce
all such unworthy thoughts.""[423]

FOOTNOTE:

[423] The rest of the letter not being material, is omitted.

No. II.--THE PEDIGREE OF THE DERWENTWATER FAMILY. (_See Page 513._)

Francis Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Derwentwater; died 1696;===Catherine Fenwick.
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Francis, 2nd Earl of Derwentwater; === Lady Mary Tudor; born 1673; Four sons; Four
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