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=================Volume I.-No. 10. 10th FEBRUARY, 1922. ls per year, posted.

NOTES AND GENERAL.

Mr. Wallace Gandy, 78 RedLion Street, Holbol'n, London.Vi.C.]., kindly sent us a copy of anode for the glorious 29th of MayCl In commemoration of the Restor­ation of the King a,,11 Royal Fam­ily, 1660-'F1or we and posterityare bound to keep up the Mem­orial of this Great )1ercy.' n

Captain H. S. Wheatly-Crowe,so well known as a fervent ad­mi rCt' of King Charles 1., is aboutto publish a volume entitled,( Rovalist Hcvclations." Part onewi11~ contain a new history ofCharles 1., part 2 a history of theRoyal Martyr Chmeh Union, andmemoirs of our ,~wn times.

,V,-itina from Crouch Hill, Lon-o "Adon, M,'. Robert Seott says,

friend happened to show me twocopies of 'The Jacobite,' and I wasso pleased with the th.ought thatsome other people, and so faraway as you, think as we do. ~Iayyout' paper have every success,and may the Whigs be brought toconfusion, though I am afraid thatnow-a-clays nearly everybody IS

onc of this pestilent class. "

i ow that Uaeaulay as an histor­ian is j j down and out," to use anlOdern colloquialism, we ventureto put a. word in favour of Hume'slIistOl·y. David Hume was noJacobite, and when in 1754 his his­tory first appeared, it was coldlyreceived by both the Whig andJacobite parties. Nevertheless itis generally recognised that thegreat Scottish historian hasthrown a wall of defense aroundthe memory of the Stuarts, whichno succeeding historian has beenable toO remove.

l?l'om Palmerston, Otago, A.E.B.says: "I wouLd like you to send

me down a copy of lThe Jacobite,'anil am glad to see that we have apaper at last, as I have beard no­thing of our cause lately. I usedt.::> get the l Fiery Cross' from theold land." 'Vriting from DUlle­din a loyal member of the Clan)Iackay says: "Please post me afew copies of ''1'he Jacobite' as wcarc a goodly Humber of Stuartsupporters down here. I 'vas incommunication with ~rl' TheodoreNapier of the Scottish Jacobite So­ciety some years ago. 11

'rhe house where the present wri­ter was born, "The Old Rectory/'Alvechurch, Vvol'cestershire, wasin thc 17th century the resi­dence Cof Dean Hiekes, deprived of.all his benefices for refusing toacknowledge William of Orangeat the Revolution of 1688. DeamHiekes was therefore olie of thestrenuous band of faithful, who atthe bidding of the learned San­erof, the saintly Ken, and otherbishops and cGllfessors of DivineRigh t, left all things as proof oftheir devotion to the ancient mon­archy. H All houses wherein menhayc lived or died arc hauntedhouses" says the poet Tellnysoll,and we like to think that we oncetrod the same st"ps as that dev.ot­ed Royalist of other days.

It would be reasonahle to as­sume that about the year 1810,survivors of the '-!5-that is thosewho had actually participated inthat memorable conflict wouldhave sunk to amere handfuL TheChevalier Johnstone died in 1800,ag'ed 81. Sir Stuart 'l'hreiplaudlived till 1805.' An inmate ofDanby Hall (the seat of tbe Jac­obite Scrapes in Yorkshire) diedin 1816, aged 91, having lived atDanby Hall ever since 1746, whenhe came there as a refugee fromCulloden. But according to an old

copy of the St. Germain's ~Iaga­

zine llthe last sUl'vivor of the '45was undoubtedly Donald Ross,died at Kilrearn, Rossshire, 23rdSeptember, 1845, aged 116 years.During the rising he was employ­ed as a 'special messenger,' but onwhich side does not appear. Fromhis clan name, he was very likelyin the Army of the Elector whosepartizans the Hosses WCl'e. Theold veteran retained all his facul­ties till within a few days of hisdeath. I 'We remem bel' readingthough tha t the Hoss family of theCocos, ):Cecling Islands, belongedto a family for whom the eauseof Prin.ce Charlie spelt ruin, sosome of the Ross' evidentlyfought on the right side.

The idea seems to prevail inmany quarters that the "Marseil_laise" is the French national an­them, the equivalent of our llGodSave the King." Nothing couLd befurther from the truth, it is merelythe song of the F'reneh Republic.We feel sure that every good Roy­alist will regard the "Marsail­laise" with abhorrence, ., thetune of which so many inllocentpeople of both sexes and all clas­ses were barbarously butcheredduring the Terror.

Vve have received from Mr.Robert :Mm'doek Lawramee, 23Ashlcy Road, Aberdeen, somecopies of "The Aberdeen Book.Loyer," which contain reviews ofmany books of Scottish interest.All Scottish readers anxi.ous to im­prove 01' refresh their memories ofthe ,Homeland should send for acopy of the Book Lover. Mr.J.Jawrance, informs us that he is ofJacobite descent, and his paper'rhe Book Lover gives many in­teresting anecdotes of by-goneJacobites. .

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EDITOR'S NOTIOE.All subscriptions, enquires, or

literaf'y contributions should be sentto the EditOl' :-

C. C. BAGNALL. Rongotea, Patmerston N.

Cb~ ]acobU~.8t~ February, 1922.

AINSWORTH AND MAN­CHESTER.

":i\Iarching wHh a light elasticstep, that showed he was not inthe shghtest degree fatiO'ued' atall, well-pl'opOItioned, f:ir-c~m~plexi::med, handsome young man

f " ' ,o S?ille llye-and-twenty dressed ina HIghland garb, armed with abl'oa?s\vol'd, and carrying a targeton his shoulder. He wore no starupon his breast-no ornament ofany kind-merely a white rose inhis bounet, and a blue silk scarfyet his dignified and graceful de:portment pr.aclaimed at once thatit was Prince Charles Edward.r~'he Prin.ce 's frame was slight, butfull of VIgour. His features wereregular and delicately mo'uldcd,hlS complexion fair and his eyesbright and blue." (Haze!!) "Hisnatural blonde locks would nodonbt have becomc him betterthan the flaxen-col·oured perukewhich he wore, tbough that suitedhim, His expression was extreme­ly amiable and engaging, and hisyouth, grace, and good looks pro­d,uced a most favourable impres­sIOn upon the beholders. CharlesEdward was preceded by a hun­dred Highland pipers all playingvigorously. "

The above description of BonnieJ?rince Charlie entering Manches­ter was penned by 'V"m, HarrisonAins\vorth, the novelist who inthe introduction t'J ,( 'rhe Man­chester Rebels" says: ,( All myearly life being spent in Manches­ter, where r was born, bred, alldschooled, I am naturally familiarwith the scenes 1 have attemptedto depict in this tale. Little of theold town however, is now left. Thelover of antiquity will search invain for those picturesque blackand white timbcr habitations withpointed gables and latticed win­dows that were common enoughsixty years ago (about 1820). En-

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tire streets embellished by suchhouses have been swept awa;y. But1 recollect them well. t\.o great ef­fort. of the imagination was, there­fore, needed to reconstruct the old1,uWll c~""i II t'xi~ted in 1745. 1 couldconduct the Jarobite leaders totheir quartH"s withont difficult),.One of the houses belonged to mymother's uncle, 1\11'. Touchet. 'rhisis gone, as is 1Ur, Dickellson's finehouse ill Market Street Laue,where the Prince was lodged. In­deed there is scal'ccly a honse leftin the town that has the slightesthistorical interest bclong"ing t,:) it.

((\\'hen! was a boy," says Ains­worth, ., some elderly people withwHom 1 was acquainted wel"e kindenough to describe to 1l1e eventsconnected with Prince Charlie 'svisit to r.lanchestcl', and the&tol'ies 1 then heard made a lastingimpression upon mc. 'rhe Jaco­bile feeling must have been stillvel'y stl"'Jng among myoId friends,since they expressed much sym­pathy for the gallant Col. Towne­ley. Doctor Deacon and his un­fOl'tunate sons, Jemmy Dawsol1,whose hapless fate has been so ten­derly sung by Shenstone, andabove all for poor 'l~OIll Syddall.'rhe latter, 1 know not why, unlessit be that uis head was affixed onthe old Exchange, has always beena hero in illanchester.

Aillsworth was born in 1805,and died ill 1882, that is to saythat forty years ago thcre was ac­tually amongst us one who fromthe testimony of eye witnessescould describe events relating tothe '45.

Manchester was a Jacobitestronghold fOl' long after the '45.An American visitor there in 1777says thet the Jacobite faith is hercopenly professed, all of that partyputting- up lal'ge .'Jak uoughs overtheir doors on the 29th May, toexpress joy at the glorious eventof the restoration of the Stuartfamily to the British throne.

The Martyr Roll of Jacobite J.oy­alty contains fcw, if any other in­stan ccs of father and son dyingfor the Stuart Cause, thc one in1715, and the other in 1745, andthis record of the Sydall family isprobably unique. Poor Tom Syd­dall, the '45 hero, was a well-

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known barber in Manches-ter, at whose shop theJac·obites of the town used fre­quently to meet. Tom Syddallwas taken prisoner, together withother members of the ManchestcrHegiment at Carlisle, and after­wards suffered at Kennington forhis loyalty to the Stuarts, or asOur Jacobite forerunners w''Juldhave described it "was murderedin cold blood."

In "1\fel'vyn Olitheroe" Ains~

jVorth gives us an intcresting piC­ture of Lancashire as it was justabout 100 years ago. (rhe novel isin&cl'iboo to "~Iy G'Jutempol'al'iesat thc l\ianchester School," andaccurately reflects the author'sown memories. 'l'he recollection ofthe '45 was fresh in the minds ofall, and the people of Manchesterin 1820 needed no dictionary todIscover the meaning of the wordJacobitc. To liS thc most interest­ing chal'actel' in the whole bookis that of JIlrs. lIIervyn, the pro­totype of an aunt of Ainsw.orth's.Nothing strongly excited Mrs.J\icrvyn, except some matter con­nectecl with the Jacobite Canse."She usecl freqnently to talk to me .about her Jacobite predecessors~nd though ol1dinarily very calmIII manner, grew excited by thetheme, and launched forth intosuch glowing and enthusiastic de­scriptions of Prince Charles Ed­ward, that 1 almost wished he wasalivc still, that I might fight forhim like the two bravc :M:ervyns."1\lrs. l\1ervyn's predilections wereexhibited even in her householdalmost every membcr .:)f whichcame of Jacobite stock. Her but­ler, Mr. Comberbatch, was agranclson of Tom Sycldatl, and farmore "blinded and intolerant"than his mistress; the spirit of theold barber's burnt within hisbreast, and he was some1Jimes ra­ther disloyal in his expressionstouching the Ila!10vel'ian dynasty;he would smg old J aco-bite songs, and drink 1;0

the memory of the Houseof Stuart. It was mainly owing tothe butler's excrtions that Mrs.'l\1:ervyn wass<> well supplied withJacobites. He found Ollt MrsChwdwick, the housekeeper, a de.'scendant of another '45 martyr.Hudson, the coachman, affirmedthat his grandfather was the first

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person that came to the assistanceof Sergeant Dickson when he tookthe town of Manchester supportedonly by a drummer and a ~cottish

lassie, Relen Carnegie. IIIn slwrtwe were all Jacobites, and the folknicknamed .:)Ul' place of abode'Jacobite Hall.'" The fact that:lIt-s. Men'yn and her householdwere drawn from life, and werenot merely the creations of Ains·wOI'lh '8 fancy, gives considerableinterest to I' .M:ervyn Clitheroe."As we pointed out in a previousedition of ·'Jur paper, Scott, Ay­tOUll and Ainsworth, derived theil'Jacobite lore from their elders,sUl'vivors oi the '45, and theirwritingS! arc living links withthose who fought and suffered forthe exiled race.

AN APPEAL."\V riting from Queensland, a

loyal supporter of fl The Jaco­bite,' J complains that ourpaper is not large enough,and that we should issuean appeal for fuuds to enable sub­stantial additions to be made. Wequite admit the force of this argu­ment, and over and again the Edi·tor has had to apologise for thesmallness of the paper. It is en­tirely a question of £. S. D. '1'0double the size of cHfhe Jacobite"would require an extra £26 a yearto coyer the bare cost of printing.If 52 subscribers could see their\vay to give 10/- each per year,the paper could then be perma­nently enlarged. We would ask allOul" readers to give all the helpthey can, if only £6 101- is sub­sCI'ihod it woud give us at leastone double number, but all thingsconsidered there is really no rea­son why the whole amount shouldnot he subscribed. All subscrip­tions will be duly acknowledged in"The Jacobite, 11 and we may men­tion that every penny which hashcen or will be contributed will gotowards printing, postage a'1d sta­tionery. The position of the Editoris entirely an honorary (me. Vvehave every reason to believe thatuThe Jacobite" has more thanjustified its existence. We knowthis from the dozens of apprecia­tive letters which we have re­ceived-not one discordant notehas been ,.ounded. Also from. the

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many friendly notices which haveappeared about "The Jacobite"in the Press of Great Britain, Aus­tralia and New Zealand. The factthat numbers of historicliterary institutions in Eng­land, Scotland, and Wales,'have accepted copies of"The Jacobite," goes to show thatour humble eflbrts have not beenin vain.

Fellow Jacobites-the descend·ants many of you in fact, and all.of you in spirit, from the men whoth"ught it little to carve a way fortheir Prince to the British thronewith their swords-what are you,d.oing to keep alight that lamp ofloyalty which for over 200 yearshas nevel' been extinguished? Onlyby OUI' l'eadiness to make some lit~

tle sacrifice can we prove our·selves worthy of our high callingai< the descendants of the heroesand martyrs of the '45.

GAETA.It was during the seige 'of

Gaeta, in Southern ItaJy, in 1734,when Prince Charlie, then onlya lad of 14, displayed that greatpersonal charm, and high courage,which eleven years later in Scot·land, were to produce such extra·ordina,·y results. The Duke deLiria, in writing an account ofPricc Charlie's conduct at Gaeta,says that upon his arrival he hul'­ried to the trenches, and showeda lofty unconcern for cannon shothissing about his ears. Lil'ia'shouse was riddled, but Charles in­sisted upon remaining in it a veryconsiderable time with an nndis·turbe'd countenance. Charles in aword was" adored by officers andsoldiers, and even the stoutest andmost uncompromising Hanover·ians would soon change their wayof thinking had they witnessed theYl'il1ce's resolution and courage."

Prince Charlie was a grandsonon the maternal side of a BavarianPrincess, and curiously enoughmany yeal'S later, another ide·scendant of the House of Bavariawas greatly to distinguish herselfat Gaeta. This was the Duchess~fary in Bavaria, aunt of the latePrincess Rupert of Bavaria, whomanied in 1900 the Heir of th.Royal House of Stuart. The Duch-

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ess Mary married in 1859 KingF'rancis H., of the Two Sicilies(Naples and 'Sicily). In 1860, Gari­baldi landed at Marsala, and pro­claimed himself dictator; he latertook Palermo aud defeated theKing's 'army at Malazzo. TheRevolution spread to Naples andthe King and Queen took refugeat ,Gaeta, where for a period ofsix months they held their citadelagainst the enemy. It was at Gaetathat Queen Mary made herselffamous, for she was utterly wit~l·

out fear, and took her place onthe ramparts exp.osed to the fireof the beseigers, and by her pre­sence and heroism encouraged thesoldiers of hel' husband to do theirduty.

All Europe was astonished atthc courage displayed by the Kingand Queen at this crisis, and theway in which they shunned noclang-m', and sought by thci!' exam­ple to keep up the hearts of thnsesubjects who had been loyal tothem. l?ate, however, was againstthem, and on February 13th, 1861,they were obliged to yield. Thefeelings of the unfortunate sov­ereigns may be imagined, and theQlleen, who had so bravely keptup the courage of her husband andhis $')ldiers, was even now un­daunted and declared her inten­tion of never resting until her hus­band once morc gained his throne.Her beauty and hei' valour madeher the heroine of Europe andfrom all sides came expressions ofsympathy to the exiled sovereigns.

After the fall of Gaeta the Kingand Queen retired t'J Rome, wherethe King protested against the an·nexation of his kingdom. Hismajesty never ceased to hope thathe might regain the throne, andhis existence was entirely embit·tered by his misfortunates. Hedied in 1894, leaving no children,and was succeeded in his rightsby his half-brother, the COlln, ofCaserta.

Queen Mary throughout herlong life has never forg,')tten herformer subjects, and took a promi­nent part in raising funds forthose rendered homeles s by thegreat earthquake in Calabria some15 years ago.

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THE FEAR OF THE PAST.

The la.st few decades have beenmarked by a special cultivation ofthe romance of the futlll'e. Weseem t.~ have made up our mindsto misunderstand w ha t has hap­pened; and we turn, with a sort ofrelief to stating what will happen-which is (apparently) mucheasier. The modern man no longerPl'CSCl'Ves the memoirs of his grea:t~

grandfather; but he is engage~ Inwriting a detailed and authonta­tive biography of his great-grand­son. This spirit is apparent every·where even to the formation of aform ~f futurist romance. frhemovement is not without its ele­ments of charm j there is some­thing spirited, if eccentric, in ~hesight of so many people fightlllg.aver the fights that have not yethappened; of people still glowingwith the memory of to-morrowmorning. A man in advance ofthe age is a familial' phraseenongh. An age in advance of theage is really rather odd.

The modern mind is forced to­wards the future simply fromfear of the past. A fear not mere­ly of the evil in the past, but of thegood in the past also. There havebeen so many flaming faiths thatwe cannot hold; so many hero­isms that we cannot imi­tate. And the upshot ofthis modern attitude is reaiiythis-that men invent new idealsbecause they dare not attempt old]deals. They look forward withenthusiasmJ because they areafraid to look back.

Among the many things whichleave me doubtful about the mod­ern habit of flxing eyes on thefuture, Hone is stronger thnt this-that all the men in historywho have really done anythingwith the futUl'e have had theireyes fixed upon the past.

rrhere is one metaphor ofwhich the modems are very fond.rrhey are always saying, "Y·oucan't put the clock back." Thesimple and obvious anl':iwer is,"You can." A clock being a pieceof human construction, can be re­stored by the human finger to anyfigure or hour. In the same way

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society, being a piece of humanconstructi.on, c;ali be rec<msrtructedupon :lilY plan that has ever ex­isted. -G. re Chesterton.

STUART COMMEMORATIONS.

With reference to the aeti,on ofCal'dinal Manning in refusing toallow a Mass to be said for the re­pose of the soul of Prince Charles~dwardJ to which we referrcd inour last issue, a correspondent invVelling'ton very kindly sends us acutting from the English "Tab~

let, JJ of 17th September lastJ fromwhich we quote the following. "Itmay interest some good Jacobitest,o know that the Roman authori­ties were kinder, for on the 125thanniversary of Charles Edwal'd'sdeath, January 31stJ 1913, a HillhlVlass of Requiem was sung in theChUl'eh of the Saneti Apostoli. Ifmy memory does not deceive me,the celebrant was the rector ofthe Scot's College. Mgr. Setonwas in the sanctuarYJ with othermembers of the clergYJ and amongthose present in' the congregationwere the young men of the WhiteRose Soeiety--at whose request 1believe the cercmony had takenplace - wearing the symbolicalflower, 'J ' -J\LC.

vVe find on \.ooking the matterup that on .January 30th, 1888, asolemn service for the repose ofthe soul of Charles Edward washeld at All Saints', Lambeth (An­gliean), by the Rev. Dr. Lee. OnJanuary 31st, 1888, a Mass forCharles Edward was sung at the·Church of the Scots Colleg'e,Rome, by Mgr. Campbell, and theArchbishop of St. Andrew's andEdinburgh. It is interesting ton.ote that just four years later,31st January 1892, there was alItass for Charles Edward at theCarmelite Church, Kensington~

the very church where Cardinall\ianning exercised his power toprohibit the Mass in 1888. It mustnot be supposed though that Car­dinal J\.fanning was the only onewhd wished to efface all recollec­tions of the Stuarts, far from it.On the anniversary ,of the murderof Mary Queen of Scots, 8th Feb­ruary, 1892, a pilgrimage to her

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tomb in vVestminstel' Abbey wasstopped by the authorities closingthe 1ioyal Chapels. But in afteryears the Abbey officials had togive ·way. Mr Theodore Napier,on 8th February, 1911, paid his an­nual visit to Fotheringhay (whereMary Queen of S00tS was behead­cd), bringing wreaths, but was notallowed to enter the. grounds,and as it was private property no­thing flll'ther could be done. Inthe letters of Mr. Page (formerlythe United States' Ambassador toGreat B"itain) which have justbeen publis'hecl, there is a gracefulreference to the Statue of KingCharles I. being decorated eachyear with the "White Roses ofhis line." It is amusing to recall

• the fact that on the 30th January,1892, al~ attempt to lay a wreathon the Statue of Charles 1. by theLeg-itimist Jacobite League wa;::­stopped by the police. But justtwel-vcmonths later OUl' J\Ial'tyl"­King's Statue was sm,athel'ecl witbwreaths.

PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD.

The following lines addressed toScotland are taken from a PrizePoem recited in the Theatre, Ox­ford, at the Commemoration of1847. The poem which is byJohn Adams, is entitled "PrinceCharles Edward after the battle ofCulloden. "

Land of the loyal, when the Stuartfell,

Thy faithful mountains sigh 'cl afond farewell,

'1'he dirge of freedom peeled alJnglhe gale,

And tears of sorrow flow'cl inevery vale.

Still do thy children love PrinceCharlie's name,

Like flowers along the \'alley li\'eshis fame;

Still many a bard in thrilling nnm­bel'S sings

The hero-offspring of a hundredkings.

Printed and published by E. H. FISHER,MacArthur Street, Feilding, N.Z., for theproprietor, C. C. B;l,gnall, Rongotea, Palm­el'ston North, N.Z" 7th February, 1922.