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Sir,

I received the honour of our Majesty's rateful thanks Your Majesty is very good in coave his life ly for your Majesty's service, and I am persuaded that your Majesty never had a subject more attacht to his duty than he was

The Prince of Wales and the Duke of York have been so good to show a great concern forof France racious to them My son, that was Captain in Dillon's, has now the Brevet of Colonel reform'd with appointments of 1800 livres a-year; his sisters have 150 livres a-year each of them, with his royal promis of his protection of the fahter the Princess de Monteban have been most extremely friendly to my famyly in this affair

I am, your Majesty's most dutyfull subject,

CHARLOTTE DERWENtwatER

St Germains, February, ye 10th, 1747

Of the Countess's two younger sons, one, James Clement Radcliffe, an officer in the French service, survived till 1788, the other, who bore his father's nahters died unmarried, but Lady Mary, the fourth, married Francis Eyre, Esq, of Walworth Castle, Northamptonshi+re On the failure of the issue of three sons, in 1814 the title of Newburgh passed into the fae of the above Mary, and devolved upon Francis Eyre, the grandson of Charlotte Countess of Newburgh, and of Charles Radcliffe, father of the present Earl of Newburgh

By the hter of Jahth Baron Petre, the present Lord Petre is the rightful representative of that attainted noble the third in direct descent from Lady Anne Radcliffe, whose only brother, John,[421] was killed accidentally abroad, having never beenthis account of the unfortunate Charles Radcliffe, a reflection naturally arises in the mind, how different would have been the spirit of adovernreat would have been the horror of shedding the blood of honourable and valiant men; how universal the senti the conviction, that men, so true to an ill fated cause, would have been faithful to any engagements which required them to abandon their efforts in that cause; had clemency, but too imperfectly understood in those turbulent and ratitude, and for ever ensured their fidelity

FOOTNOTES:

[399] ”Genuine and Impartial Memoirs of the Life and Character of Charles Radcliffe, wrote by a Gentle imposed on by any erroneous or partial accounts, to the prejudice of this unfortunate gentleman” London, printed for the Proprietor, and sold by E Cole, 1746

[400] Hodgson's Hist of Northumberland, vol ii p 227, note

[401] Ibid p 233

[402] Fever

[403] At Thorndon, the seat of Lord Petre, in Norfolk, are other original letters of Lord Derater, referring to his wife Interiven her to hihly prized, and consequently carefully preserved by the ancient and noble family to whom they have descended

[404] See Life of Lord Derater, vol i

[405] Ibid 14

[406] Secret History of the Rebels in Newgate, 3rd edition, London, 1716

[407] Ibid p 8

[408] Secret History

[409] State Trials

[410] For this anecdote, and also for a considerable portion of the reat kindness and intelligence of the Hon Mrs Douglas, daughter of the present Lord Petre

[411] Wood's Peerage

[412] MS Letter