| Description | They deal, in a perfectly safe and cautious manner, with the movements of the Pretender, the attitude of France, the controversy over the punishment of the chief leaders of the Rebellion, and the romantic escape (6785) of Lord Nithsdale - "We now call a woman's riding hood a Nithsdale".The bias is strong Tory, if not pro-Jacobite, e.g., the strong terms used about the supposed black treachery of Bolingbroke (“Bullenbrook”) so the Pretender’s cause (6789-6790). A good deal is aid of the movements for superseding the Triennial Act (6786) |