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against bM events . I asked if she was at home , and they answered me that she expected me and had another Pucbess with her j 1 refused to go up stairs as she had company with her , and I was not in a condition to see aoy other company . I begged to be shewn into a chamber below stairs , and that they would have the goodness to send
her Grace's maid to me , having something to say to her . I had discharged the chair lest I might be pursued and watched . When the maid came in , I desired her to present my most humble respects to her Grace , who they told me bad company with her , and to acquaint her that this was my only reason for not coming up stairs ; I also
charged her with my sincerest thanks for her kind offer to accompany me when I went to present r ay petition ; I added , that she might spare herself any farther trouble , as it was now judged more desirable to present one general petition in the name of all : however , that I should never be
unmindful of my ^ particular obligations to her Grace , which I would return very soon to acknowledge in person . I then desired one of the servants to call a hair , aad went to the Duchess of Montrose , who had always boroe a part in my distresses . When I arrived she left her
company , to deny herself , not being able to see me under tbe affliction she judged me to be in . However I was admitted , so there was no remedy ; she came to me , and , as my heart was in an ecstasy of joy , I expressed it on my countenance as she entered the
room I ran up to her in the transport of my joy . She appeared extremely shocked and frightened , and has since expressed to me that she apprehended my troubles had thrown me out of myself , till I communicated my happiness to her . She then advised me to
retire to some place of safety , for that the King , ( George I . ) was highly displeased , and even enraged , at the petition 1 had presented to him , atid had complained of it severely . I sent for another chair , for I always discharged them immediately lest I might he
pursued . Her Grace said she would go to court to see how the news of my Lard ' s escape wag received . When the news was brought to the King , be flew into an excessive passion , and said he was betrayed , for it . could not have been done without some confederacy . -He
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instantly sent two men to the jEeWftr , to &ee t&at the oth $ r prisqiiecs w * jfc well secured , lest itbey should follow the example . Some threw the -blame on one , and / some on another ; the Duchess was the only one at court who k&eyv it .
When I left the Quohess , I w ^ ent to a house which Evans had found out for me , and wliere ghe promised to acquaint me where my Lord was . She got thither a Jew minutes after me , and told me , thi * t when she had seeu
him secure , she we&t in search of Mills , who by this time had r ** coveered from his astonish ment * , that he had returned to his house , where she had found him , and that he had removed my Lord ,
front the first place where she had desired him to wait , to the house of a poor woman directly opposite tbe guard-house ; she had but o * je small room , up one pair of stairs , sod a very small bed in it . We threw ourselves
upon the bed , that we might not be heard walking up and dawn ; she Jeft us a bottle of wine ajad some bread , Mrs . Mills brought us some more i * feer pocket the next day . We
subsisted upon this provision from Thursday till Saturday night , when Mrs . Mills came and conducted my Lord feo the Venetian Ambassador ' s . W ^ did not communicate the affair to his
Excellency , but one of the servants concealed him in his ow . n room till Wednesday , pn which day tbe Ambas $ & 4 or ' s coach and six w * s to go down to Dover to meet his brother . My JLord put on a livery ami went down in the retinue , without tfee least suspicion , to Dover , where Mr . Mickle , which was the name of the Am *
bassad or '^ servant , hired a small vessel and wiamediately set sftfl for Calais . The passage was so remari ^ My short , that the captain threw out Jthe s < eftection , that the wind could not have served better if his passengers bad been fly i » g for their lises , little
Abinking jit to . be really / tbe case . Mr . Mickle , might have easily m&nrned without being susp&cted , of being cpn-/ cerned in my IxmTs escape , Jbut my Liprd seemed itieliiied to have h * # continue with him , which he did ,, ^« d ha * at present a good plajoe under QW young master , the Pretender .
Thitt is a » emact mod full an f * pwuut of thi * affair ,, aad 4 he &eamm eo ^ <^ erne 4 « att , BsIcDoldipfifiMb 1 y ^ v £ ^« Mi ;
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i £ t Zotfy mths&de ' s ttdotion of I * rd Nithsdmte * Escape .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 464, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/16/
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