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seeing the resemblance of young Mr. Radcliffe to the prince, took 
him for the Cheyvalier’s younger son, and fancied Mr. Radcliffe to be 
the Pretender himseif. is arrival in London, and his safe 
lodgement in the Tower, created no little sensation ; but the public 
before long found out that the report was without foundation. On 
the 27th March following, young Mr. Radcliffe and four officers 
who were French subjects, were liberated from the Tower upon 
their parole, for they could not be indicted for treason to the King 
of Great Britain. The spring, summer, and autumn of that 
eventful year passed over the head of Charles Radcliffe, but still 
left him an untried prisoner in the Tower. The Government 
“* Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,” 
seems to have been at a loss to know what proceedings to take 
against him, and was probably occupied all that time in en- 
deavouring to find witnesses who would prove him to be the same 
Charles Radcliffe who had been condemned for high treason thirty 
years before. 
On Friday, the 21st November, 1746, he was taken in a coach, 
strongly guarded, from the Tower to the Court of Queen’s Bench 
in Westminster Hall, to be arraigned on the conviction for high 
treason which had been recorded against him in 1716. *He‘is 
described as appearing five feet ten inches in height, dressed in a 
scarlet regimental suit, faced with black velvet, and gilt buttons, 
a gold laced waistcoat, bagwig, and hat of Spanish fashion, with a 
white plume. Being called on to plead as Charles Radcliffe, he 
said that was not his nanie ; that he was the Count de Derwent: 
Water, and a commissioned officer and subject of the King of 
France, whose commission he produced, and in whose realm he 
had resided thirty years. It was ordered that a jury should be 
“empannelled to try his identity, and this trial was appointed for the 
following Monday. On that day he was again arraigned, but he 
_ treated the Court with contumacy, and refused to acknowledge its 
_ jurisdiction to try him, repeating his claim to be treated as a 
subject of the King of France, and appealed to the minister of the 
the King of Sicily, who was then in court. This claim was of 
