Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . tothose that were near her, and then, upon hearingthat dinner was ready, going out. Addison andSteele might have been occasionally seen at her Kensington Palace.] QUEEN ANNE AND THE JACOBITES. 145 Kensington levees, among the Whigs; and Swift^Prior, and Bolingbroke among the Tories. Marl-borough would be there also; his celebratedduchess, Sarah Jennings, had entered upon a courtlife at an early age as one of the companions ofAnne during the princesss girlhood. The last memorable interview between QueenAnne and the Du
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . tothose that were near her, and then, upon hearingthat dinner was ready, going out. Addison andSteele might have been occasionally seen at her Kensington Palace.] QUEEN ANNE AND THE JACOBITES. 145 Kensington levees, among the Whigs; and Swift^Prior, and Bolingbroke among the Tories. Marl-borough would be there also; his celebratedduchess, Sarah Jennings, had entered upon a courtlife at an early age as one of the companions ofAnne during the princesss girlhood. The last memorable interview between QueenAnne and the Duke of Marlborough took placehere. When Queen Anne was lying in the agonies on Queen Anne, had their dinner here; and hetells us that Richard Steele liked the latter farbetter than his own chair at the former, wherethere was less wine and more ceremony. Steele,who came to London in the suite of the Duke ofOrmond, figures in the above work as ScholarDick; he was one of the gentlemen ushers ormembers of the kings guard at Kensington. When Esmond comes to England, after being. KENSINGTON IN 1764. {From Rocquis Map.) of death, and the Jacobite party were correspon-dingly in the agonies of hope and expectation,two noblemen of the highest rank—John, Duke ofArgyll, and the proud Duke of Somerset, whohad been superseded in office at the time of theunion with Scotland—suddenly, and unbidden,appeared at the council, and their unexpectedpresence is said to have stifled Lord Bolingbrokesdesigns, if he ever entertained any, of recalling theexiled Stuarts. On such slight events—accidentsas we often call them—do the fates of dynasties,and indeed of whole nations, depend. We learn from Thackerays Esmond that while the royal guard had a very splendid table laid out for them at St. Jamess, the gentlemen ushers who waited on King William, and afterwards 205 wounded at Blenheim, he finds Mrs. Beatrix in-stalled as a lady-in-waiting at the palace, andthenceforth all his hopes and desires lay
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