Excerpt from The Waverley Nobels Thus a young ochman of rank is said to have so low as to plot the surgical of St. James's Palace, assassination of the royal ily. While these ill-di ted and desperate conspiracies were agitated among the ow Jacob ites who still adhered with more obstinacy to their pu there is no question but that other plots mi ht have bron ht to an open eglosion, had it not sni the policy of Sir lgobert Walpole ra er to prevent or disable the conspirators in their pro'ects than to promulgate the tale of which might thus ve been believed to be more widely di used than was really the case. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.