Life of Lord Chesterfield; an account of the ancestry, personal character & public services of the fourth Earl of Chesterfield[microform] . ing, just as great a fool asherself, and who, like her, would have been led by the noseby a set of rascals. This shows that the young gentlemanmust have taken a keen interest in the course of events inhis own country during his stay on the Continent, and thathe managed to keep himself pretty well informed of whatwas going on there—better even than Lord Bolingbroke, towhom he was the first to reveal how far the plots in favourof the Pretender had progressed
Life of Lord Chesterfield; an account of the ancestry, personal character & public services of the fourth Earl of Chesterfield[microform] . ing, just as great a fool asherself, and who, like her, would have been led by the noseby a set of rascals. This shows that the young gentlemanmust have taken a keen interest in the course of events inhis own country during his stay on the Continent, and thathe managed to keep himself pretty well informed of whatwas going on there—better even than Lord Bolingbroke, towhom he was the first to reveal how far the plots in favourof the Pretender had progressed before the Queens deathupset them all. The Whigs, it appears, were quite inreadiness to take up arms against the expected coup d^ Stanhope was to have commanded the army, LordCadogan to have seized the Tower ; all officers on half payhad agreed to give their services, holding their arms inreadiness in their bedchambers, and prepared at anymoment to hurry to the place of rendezvous, behindMontague House. He most probably did not return toEngland until the beginning of 1715, as we find him writing ^ Letter to M. GENERAL STANHOPEFrom ail old Engraving
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