[Rarebooks] fa: AN ANSWER to the SECOND MANIFESTO of the PRETENDER'S ELDEST SON - 1745

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[William Grant, Lord Prestongrange:] The Occasional Writer: Containing an Answer to the Second Manifesto of the Pretender's Eldest Son: Which bears Date at the Palace of Holyrood-house, the 10th day of October, 1745. Containing Reflections, Political and Historical, upon the last Revolution, and the Progress of the present Rebellion in Scotland. London: Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row, 1745. Pamphlet, 8vo (21 cm), stitch-bound and untrimmed as issued; [2], 34 pp. ESTC T41915. First and last leaves browned, top corners of first 5-6 leaves bumped and curled, dust-soiling to the untrimmed edges, light stains to the last leaf, occasional light spotting to the others.

On October 10, at the high-water mark of the Jacobite rising known as "the 'Forty-Five," with the victory of Prestonpans behind him and the Highlands flocking to his banner, Charles Edward Stewart issued a spirited manifesto justifying the steps he had taken, proclaiming his father's gracious intention to redress every grievance, including the repeal of the union, and endeavoring to show that the government of the "Elector of Hanover" (George II) was an onerous tyranny supported by foreign mercenaries.

Here, Prestongrange, writing in the following month and signing himself "Britanincus"(sic), counters Bonnie Prince Charlie's manifesto in a pamphlet that "displays a mastery of polemic and rhetoric" (ODNB). Henry Fielding, frustrated by the government's lack of response to the rebels' propaganda, described it as, "a pamphlet which some Administrations would have thought worth propagating by Authority."