nor her cruelty; nor a single spot on
her shining coat; nor the conquering spirit which impels her; nor the
shot which brings her down.

During that well-founded panic the Whigs had, lest the Queen should
forsake their Hanoverian Prince, bound by oaths and treaties as she was
to him, and recall her brother, who was allied to her by yet stronger
ties of nature and duty; the Prince of Savoy, and the boldest of that
party of the Whigs, were for bringing the young Duke of Cambridge over,
in spite of the Queen, and the outcry of her Tory servants, arguing that
the Electoral Prince, a Peer and Prince of the Blood-Royal of this Realm
too, and in the line of succession to the crown, had, a right to sit
in the Parliament whereof he was a member, and to dwell in the country
which he one day was to govern. Nothing but the strongest ill will
expressed by the Queen, and the people about her, and menaces of the
Royal resentment, should this scheme be persisted in, prevented it from
being carried into effect.

The boldest on our side were, in like manner, for having our Prince into
the country. The undoubted inheritor of the right divine; the feelings
of more than half the nation, of almost all the clergy, of the gentry of
England and Scotland with him; entirely innocent of the crime for which
his father suffered--brave, young, handsome, unfortunate--who in England
would dare to molest the Prince should he come among us, and fling
himself upon British generosity, hospitality, and honor? An invader with
an army of Frenchmen behind him, Englishmen of spirit would resist to
the death, and drive back to the shores whence he came; but a Prince,
alone, armed with his right only, and relying on the loyalty of his
people, was sure, many of his friends argued, of welcome, at least of
safety, among us. The hand of his sister the Queen, of the people his
subjects, never could be raised to do him a wrong. But the Queen was
timid by nature, and the successive Ministers she had, had private
causes for their irresolution. The bolder and honester men, who had at
heart the illustrious young exile's cause, had no scheme of interest of
their own to prevent them from seeing the right done, and, provided only
he came as an Englishman, were ready to venture their all to welcome and
defend him.

St. John and Harley both had kind words in plenty for the Prince's
adherents, and gave him endless promises of future support; but hints
and promises were all th