n.

The truth is, poor Cameron---though, I believe, he had some vague
Jacobite errands withal--never would have harmed anybody in the rebel
way; and might with all safety have been let live. But his Grace of
Newcastle, and the English generally, had got the strangest notion into
their head. Those appointments of Earl Marischal to Paris, of Tyrconnel
to Berlin; Friedrich's nefarious spoiling of that salutary Romish-King
Project; and now simultaneous with that, his nefarious oonduct in our
Privateer Business: all this, does it not prove him--as the Hanburys,
Demon Newswriters and well-informed persons have taught us--to be one
of the worst men living, and a King bent upon our ruin? What is certain,
though now well-nigh inconceivable, it was then, in the upper Classes
and Political Circles, universally believed, That this Dr. Cameron was
properly an "Emissary of the King of Prussia's;" that Cameron's errand
here was to rally the Jacobite embers into new flame;--and that, at
the first clear sputter, Friedrich had 15,000 men, of his best
Prussian-Spartan troops, ready to ferry over, and help Jacobitism to
do the matter this time! [Walpole,--George the Second,--i. 333, 353;
and--Letters to Horace Mann--(Summer, 1753), for the belief held.
Adelung, vii. 338-341, for the poor Cameron tragedy itself.]

About as likely as that the Cham of Tartary had interfered in the
"Bangorian Controversy" (raging, I believe, some time since,--in
Cremorne Gardens fist of all, which was Bishop Hoadly's Place,--to the
terror of mitres and wigs); or that, the Emperor of China was concerned
in Meux's Porter-Brewery, with an eye to sale of NUX VOMICA. Among
all the Kings that then were, or that ever were, King Friedrich
distinguished himself by the grand human virtue (one of the most
important for Kings and for men) of keeping well at home,--of always
minding his own affairs. These were, in fact, the one thing he minded;
and he did that well. He was vigilant, observant all round, for
weather-symptoms; thoroughly well informed of what his neighbors had on
hand; ready to interfere, generally in some judicious soft way, at any
moment, if his own Countries or their interests came to be concerned;
certain, till then, to continue a speculative observer merely. He had
knowledge, to an extent of accuracy which often surprised his
neighbors: but there is no instance in which he meddled where he had no
business;--and few, I believe, in which he did not meddl