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actually did in the following manner:—The day appointed for 
the purpose, the rebel chiefs in Newgate had a very grand enter- 
tainment, which was held in a room called the castle, in the 
upper part of the prison. Charles Radcliffe was then dressed 
in a suit of black; and when the company were in the height of 
their merriment, observing a little door open in the corner of the 
room, he went through it, and was followed by thirteen more of 
the rebels who were then in company. The passage from this door 
led them to the debtors’ side, where the turnkey, not knowing 
them, but supposing them to be strangers who came to see their 
friends, let them out.* 
The fugitives had no sooner passed the gloomy portals of 
Newgate, than they hastened to various places of concealment ; 
and Mr. Radcliffe, after remaining for some time in the house of 
a lady of his family in London, who nobly protected her gallant 
relation from the emissaries of the government, was ultimately 
provided with an opportunity for escaping to France. 
“The sails were fill’d, and fair the light winds blew, 
As glad to waft him from his native home ;” 
when the fugitive took leave of his country to seek an asylum in 
France. He remained for some years in Paris and elsewhere, 
following the fortunes of the wandering and exiled prince, and en 
deavouring to promote his restoration. During this time, his only 
means of subsistance was a miserable pension allowed to him by 
his more unfortunate royal master, and such remittances as his 
young nephew could manage to send him. 
But the penalties of forfeiture, attainder, and exile could not 
break his gallant spirit ; and, before many years had passed, we 
find him the hero of a somewhat ambitious courtship, which was 
marked with a most amusing and romantic, though prudent degree, 
of perseverance. The lady of his choice was Charlotte Mary, 
only daughter and heir of Charles Livingstone, Earl of Newburgh, 
* When Napoleon III. was a prisoner at the Castle of Ham, he made his 
escape in the dress of a workman carrying out of his prison yard a plank upon 
his shoulder. His letters were returned to the French General Post Office, 
marked, ‘‘ Gone, without leaving his address.” The same might have been 
said of Charles Radcliffe when he escaped from Newgate. - 
