A true account of the behaviour and conduct of Archibald Stewart, Esq; : late Lord Provost of Edinburgh. In a letter to a friend..
Hume, David,1711-1776.
London: : Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row.,
1748..
Anonymous. By David Hume.
A rare pamphlet written by David Hume in defence of his friend and benefactor Archibald Stewart who was on trial before the High Court of Judiciary in Scotland for surrendering the city of Edinburgh to the Young Pretender in 1745. The first part of the tract, dated October 20, 1747, explains that it was printed in London as the Edinburgh printers were "terrified with the severity of a certain magistrate.". Stewart was well aware that the anonymous writer was Hume, and sent him a case of burgundy.
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Stewart, Archibald, 1697-1780
Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746
England London.