This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...schemes--Charles's poverty--' The prophet's clothes '--Mr. Carlyle on Frederick the Great--Alleges his innocence of Jacobite intrigues--Contradicts statesmen--Mr. Carlyle in error--Correspondence of Frederick with Earl Marischal--The Earl's account of English plotters--Frederick's advice--Encouragement underhand--Arrest of Archy Cameron--His early history--Plea for clemency--Cameron is hanged--His testimony to Charles's virtues--His forgiveness of his enemies--Samuel Cameron the spy--His fate--Young Edgar on the hidden treasure--The last of the treasure--A salmo ferox. The Stuart Papers, we have said, contain no hints as to the Elibank plot of November 1752, unless Goring's scruples were aroused by it. It was suggested and arranged by Alexander Murray, younger brother of Lord Elibank, whom young Edgar describes as' having a very light head; he has drunk deep of the Garron' (Garonne P).1 With a set of officers in the French service, aided by Young Glengarry (who had betrayed 1 May 4, 1753. Stuart Papers. To old Edgar. the scheme) and 400 Highlanders, Murray was to attack St. James's Palace, and seize the King. If we may believe Young Glengarry (writing to Edgar in Rome), Charles was ' on the coast, ' but not in London. Pickle's letters to his English employers show that the design was abandoned, much to his chagrin. As Glengarry, he expresses the same regret in a letter to Edgar. We now offer Pickle's letters. He is at Boulogne, November 2, 1752. Add. B.M. MSS. 32,730. 'Boulogne: November 2,1752. My dear Sir, --My friends will be most certainly greatly surprised at my silence, but I have such reasons that I can clear all at meeting. I have been so hurried, what with posting, what with Drinking, and other matters of greater weight than they dream of, that I hav...