The reversal of my lord Slane's[1] outlawry makes a mighty noise through this kingdom: for aught I can remember, the destroying of our woollen manufactory did not cause so universal a consternation.
GENTILHOMME ANGLOIS, À PARIS.
I AM very much obliged to you for the favour of a kind reproach you sent me, in a letter to Mr. Addison, which he never told me of till this day, and that accidentally; but I am glad at the same time, that I did not deserve it, having sent you a long letter, in return to that you was pleased to honour me with; and it is a pity it should be lost; for as I remember, it was full of the diei fabulas, and such particularities as do not usually find place in newspapers. Mr. Addison has been so taken up for some months in the amphibious circumstances of premier C to my lord Sunderland, and secretary of state[2] for Ireland, that he is the
- ↑ Christopher Fleming, baron of Slane, having taken up arms for king James in 1688 in Ireland, where he was colonel of a regiment of foot, afterward lost his estate, and was outlawed, till queen Anne reversed his attainder; upon which the house of commons of Ireland, on the 3d of June 1709, unanimously resolved, that an address be made to the queen, "setting forth the fatal consequences of reversing the outlawries of persons attainted of treason for the rebellions in 1641 and 1688." Lord Slane was in November, 1713, created by her majesty viscount Longford.
- ↑ Principal secretary to the earl of Wharton, lord lieutenant of Ireland.
