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estate in tail of his eldest son, James Bartholomew, to whom the 
settled property stood limited by a limitation similar to that in 
virtue of which his cousin, Mr. John Radcliffe, had been admitted 
tenant. James Bartholomew was born on the 23rd of August, 
1725, at Vincennes ; but, the statute passed in the seventh year of 
Anne (1708), gave him all the rights of a British subject born 
within the realm. He therefore became legally entitled on his 
birth, to an estate in tail male expectant on his father’s decease, of 
all the lands comprised in the settlement of 1712. He was, never- 
theless, excluded while an infant, and remained excluded through 
his life, from his inheritance, by a cruel, severe, and unprecedented 
expedient, which must ever reflect indelible disgrace upon the 
Government and Legislature of the time ; for, in 1731, immediately 
after the death of Mr. John Radcliffe, and when James Bartholo- 
mew, his cousin, was an infant of five years of age, the Government 
devised a statute, whereby it in effect declared that nothing 
contained in the declaratory law of Queen Anne, did or should 
extend to give the privileges of a natural-born subject to any child 
or children born, or to be born abroad, whose father at the time of 
his or their birth, either stood attainted of high treason, or was: in 
the actual service of a foreign state in enmity to the Crown of 
Great Britain—an outrage of legislative tyranny which was full of 
injustice generally, and designed with peculiar cruelty to the heir 
of Radcliffe, being passed for no other purpose than to secure to 
Government the confiscation of the great estates of the Derwent- 
water family. 
When the eldest son of Charles Radcliffe was about eleven 
years of age, his mother, the Countess of Newburgh, gave notice to 
all the tenants on the Derwentwater Estates, of the title of the 
Radcliffe family, in the following letter. 
‘London, September 20th, 1736. 
“¢ Sir, —Knowing you to be a friend of a family whose interest I espouse 
very much, I beg you will let the tenants know, who I hear are now taking 
leases upon lives, that there is three sons belonging to that family ; and though 
their father cannot now possess the estate, his soz’ Right is undoubted after his 
death, so that it will be at their peril. I am come over on purpose to serve 
the family what I can, and I have a great many relations who have interest, 
