Prince Charlie Classic Reprint

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IL n'y A aucun exemple dans l'histoire d'une maison Si longtemps infor tunée, remarks Voltaire of the Stuarts. And he cites in illustration the tragic mis fortunes Of the Stuart princes, from James I. Of Scotland, a prisoner in England for eighteen years, and assassinated by his own subjects, down to Charles Edward Stuart, the defeated and degraded adventurer. The illustration might have been carried even farther back, to the unhappy Robert III., father Of the murdered Duke of Rothe say, or to David II., the loser of Durham and the prisoner of England for eleven years and the case of James I. Of England, who won a base security by the sacrifice of every manly and picturesque quality, can hardly be counted an exception to the rule of unvarying misfortune.

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