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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040725
Author:Will Cummins

In 1748, the novelist Horace Walpole had cause to draw attention, in a letter, to the outrageous behaviour in France of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the exiled leader of 1745's failed Jacobite revolt. Prince Charles Edward Stuart was terrorising Louis XV - the rebellion's mentor, on whom Charles relied for everything - with endless threats and the most insolent demands. Walpole could not help remarking on the narrowness of Britain's escape.

"What a mercy," he wrote to the Duke of Newcastle, the then Prime Minister, "that we had not him here!" If, said Walpole, the Pretender was prepared to bully ...

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