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a much later period, passing over the seventeenth cen- 

 tury, when there was a real difference of monarchical 

 and republican principles, the controversy, which lasted 

 the greater part of the eighteenth century, and led to 

 all the excesses of factious violence and to two rebel- 

 lions, turned on mere hereditary right the preference 

 of one family to another, as so entitled ; and although 

 the two families held different doctrines as to royal 

 authority, there cannot be the least doubt that, with 

 the vast majority of their partisans, the Jacobites and 

 Hanoverians, the difference was on the grounds of 

 mere personal feeling. Even with the more enlight- 

 ened partisans, such as Dr Johnson, it was a kind of 

 romantic attachment to the one family in preference to 

 the other. I don't at all consider that, in the course 

 which we pursued in the question between the oppressed 

 individuals and the oppressor, we were taking a more 

 personal view than had been done in the other instances 

 I have referred to, even independent of the share which 

 opposition to the Prince and his measures had in our 

 motives. 



Whitbread and I acted together cordially, occasion- 

 ally to the discontent of some of the party : and this 

 co-operation continued down to the eve of his lamented 

 death, which cast a gloom over political society, such 

 as I recollect no other example of. Dr Baillie was at 

 that time attending me, and when the examination of 

 the cause of his illness took place, upon my positively 

 insisting that it should, I remember his saying how 

 glad he was that it had been made. It was a slight 

 ossification of the dura mater, which produced irrita- 

 tion of the brain, and Dr Baillie said he had escaped 

 by his death a most painful existence, for he had an 



