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Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott
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who thought they discerned in his subsequent conduct an
insensibility to the distresses of his followers, coupled with
that egotistical attention to his own interests which has been
often attributed to the Stuart family, and which is the natural
effect of the principles of divine right in which they were
brought up, were now generally considered as dissatisfied and
splenetic persons, who, displeased with the issue of their
adventure and finding themselves involved in the ruins of a
falling cause, indulged themselves in undeserved reproaches
against their leader. Indeed, such censures were by no means
frequent among those of his followers who, if what was alleged
had been just, had the best right to complain. Far the greater
number of those unfortunate gentlemen suffered with the most
dignified patience, and were either too proud to take notice of
ill-treatment an the part of their prince, or so prudent as to be
aware their complaints would meet with little sympathy from the
world. It may be added, that the greater part of the banished
Jacobites, and those of high rank and consequence, were not much
within reach of the influence of the prince's character and
conduct, whether well regulated or otherwise.

In the meantime that great Jacobite conspiracy, of which the
insurrection of 1745-6 was but a small part precipitated into
action on the failure of a far more general scheme, was resumed
and again put into motion by the Jacobites of England, whose
force had never been broken, as they had prudently avoided
bringing it into the field. The surprising effect which had been
produced by small means, in 1745-6, animated their hopes for more
important successes, when the whole nonjuring interest of
Britain, identified as it then was with great part of the landed
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