Star.
London, England, 1817-02-17 00:00:00

THE s7:l4earappEßs.

" Items, faxuale to, Ism
64. Latterly the Smart Papers have been the chi-:
subject of conversation here. The whole of tho,t
which had been in the possession of the late Cardinal
York, (ortniug a Supplement probably to those ir,
the Scotch Codege at Paris, had been traced and pa .
chased by a Scotch Gentleman, of the name of Wa:.
sun, a atsidenr h:re during part of the late war. They
have since been secured and sealed by order of Go.
vertu:sent ; the person from whom they were pur.
chased is arrested, and at this mosneir a .'apal dens
d'ertnes keeps guard in the hone. Myself and ----.
had a short view of them before they were seize 1, in
company' with Mr. and Laid —. They are
supposed to amount to halt a million. Many of
diem were not unpacked when I saw them, and co.
vered, in great packages, the sides of a sm.ll clime.
br. The whole weighed seven tons. They Leg!!
with Jame: the Secomi and go down trilhe cleat!) of
the Cardinal York. In those which I saw, every
thing publ.c and private is embraced, from plots for
invasion and correspondence with foreign Piavers,
&e. Etc. to the amours of the Pretender, and the de-
tails of the doc.estic menage of the Court of Atb.,„,
Several letters are iii the hand-writing of James cid
t'ie PR Lnder, in I the whole collectit n is arranged
with an clabcrate scrupulosity, which d, s melt t,
tie mete mechilhical talents for business of the erles
anti their party. I saw amongst the hot tical pipers,
tour Proclamations of the son of Jarm.s, pii iscuoirly
t.) the Univos:ties ; the'Pretender promos s the enure
est.ibli.liment ~f their ecclesiastical rig!its, ai,d les
Lull support of the Prot.-stant church, in all its pm._
leges, however ample. • A short time alter vitae: a
letter of the Cardinal, congratulating him on lids
3pen avowal of the Catholic religion! 01 muse
these are acimiraLle illustratihns Of each other. Tnei,
there is a letter to James. from the General of the
Jesuits, offering biro the support of himself intim,
dually, and his o:d..r, for any ielr,;i•ius purpose he
might design there; it is very shunt and Nye,
signed, I think, lti;z or Retz. Almost Al' i!ie prin.
cipal families of treland and Scotland are implicate&
A Colenei O'Bryan seems to have been a remarkably
active personage. Many, that have hitt,erto biers
only suspecte.l, are now deeply compromised; pain.
cularly the Wythillarn (amity, who give most minute
information, and Many other Members of the Palm-
meta of the day. There is a very lung letter of At-
terhally, arranging a plan for invasion ; one from the
Duke ot Leech, otf:riog Admiral Baker, then in the
command vf the Channel fleet, a Peerage, and
s¢1.00,1)00 in the result of his deletion. There are
letter, of tile Duke of Norfolk, sigited N. but ut :to
immediate importance ; he stems to have been the
moat LAIIIIGIiS of the party. 1 have heard something et
a 3Chellie arranged between a Mr. l an.i --,
to die assassination of the Pretender. Thi,, it ae•
curate, is a serious charge, and may lleVC;,ii,t 4 sit
War scene of this strange chants. 'lnc letters of
the Queen are principally ri.troducOons of ft i. 41 haw-
lies, exiled and fugitive, to tier Roman an I Len."'
friends. They enter, though quinerons in ti.t e%-
treme, but little into the putit.cal intrigues of tlse da).
, Perhaps the most corions of the whole, are the loin!
lot Miss WillkinthaW to Prince Cfear!es ; the le Leo.
of her clang:tier to the same ; the letter, of James to
him ; and the remonstrance of his friends in Scotland.
In every relation they completely destroy the lowest
about his character."

The Duke of !wed+, mentioned ie the above lc^er, was pro.
bably 1119ruas, the first Duke, so created in I OS9 . In 17004. WII.OI
I.vekh irt, Kroll a knowledge a the very general attactime t
the JC(ii:.;l Nulricity to their late Sovereign, came over to sound
those of EngLnid, he " found means (says I end• must
the ntitimenta of the Duke of Lee ti., l.old Grambh., ant
twat Dater, : he Informed Capt. et: stio,i, that the Laighsli .
girs were much mere ea..thins than the tiro:. Carel:cm it
seems, however, that as early as 1695, the Duke was suspected
of correspistidisig snit James, tor, item a MIA i 4.11 then luau. :a
the Hut.se of Co:MI:1111f for impeaching :he !'nice, un account el
his trausact,in.t N nth the least India Ci.ntpany, a 41eitiber rub-
lid), 'Mite(' at 1.1, ssupposAl attachments. Its t;t 9, upon the eta•
nun cur impeaching Dr. Saciseverti, tto Duke made a iang +pet
agaitiat the 11111pc.64:11111Clit, iu w hien he owi.e.t, that " he ti,tl a
great share iii the Lie ILevoiution, but slid he newer t:s.,u4s,,s
that things would have gone to bar, as to set tie the Crown •ill tic
Prince or Orange, whom he had °den heard say, usat he tad
sio secs thoOgitts Linuelt."

Lutist Bake; %ea.:Wadean Admiral In 1703.
1 ►se Duae ot Nur►ulk was prubably ihumas, who was puke
bum 1;4)1 to
btr W in., Wyndham, the head of the family of flat name,
long seated in the Writ of E.1414.‘1, was one of six Menike* ut
the House ot Commons, to whuge arrest I lie !loose consented,
open eke apt•! cation at George I. in 1715; but it is knumi
that lie 40Calpvti 110111 the Mem,enget.

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