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Whitbread, to whom Clarkson mentioned this latter cause of distress, generously offered to repair the pecuniary losses of all who had suffered in this cause. One anecdote will be a specimen of the energy with which Clarkson pursued evidence.
Whitbread could have ventured upon the task of remedying so complex a calamity; nor could any industry less persevering have compassed the miracle of rebuilding and re-animating that edifice, among the many-tongued claims that beset and perplexed his enterprise. In the following interesting letter to him from Sheridan, we trace the first steps of his friendly interference on the occasion:
Whitbread, Sir Samuel Romilly, Lord Londonderry all to perish in the same manner! Sept. 10. In this frank you will receive a copy of a very interesting letter from Fanny Stewart.
Now on hearing that I was a little more perturbed. Here were Mr. Whitbread and Mr. Fenwick, in whose company I had often been seen in public before the late troubles, condemned and awaiting sentence; and here was a fellow with a branded hand asking after me in Waltham Cross.
'Get Whitbread to speak, suggested someone, 'and Stephen will be sure to fly at him. The plan succeeded admirably. Whitbread asked for information about the proposed marriage of the Princess Charlotte to the Prince of Orange. Stephen instantly sprang up and rebuked the inquirer. Whitbread complained of the epithet 'indecent' used by his opponent.
Whitbread in such a manner that my heart turned cold; but I said no more on the point. "Now, Mr. Mallock," said the priest, "we must consider what is best to be done. When the case comes on, as it surely will, the question for us is what you must do. I am not at all sure but that it may not be best for you to keep away from the case at first at any rate.
Oh! what shuffling and cutting there was amongst the Minister's tools in the Honourable House; but Mr. Whitbread was made of too stubborn stuff to be driven from his purpose! In the meanwhile, the whole country was alive to the transaction, and watched with a scrutinizing eye every step that was taken by the wily Minister, who was beset in every quarter. Mr.
There had been a great to-do at the taking of Father Whitbread, for the Spanish soldiers had been called out to save the Ambassador's house, so great was the mob that went to see him taken. The next public event in the whole affair was the last and worst of all the links that were being forged so swiftly: and the news of it came to me as follows.
"You have seen Father Whitbread, no doubt," said the Duke suddenly. "No, sir. I waited to pay my homage first to His Majesty and to yourself." He nodded once or twice at that. "Yes, yes; but you will see him presently, I take it. You could not have a better guide. Why " He broke off on a sudden. "Why here is the man himself," he said.
From such a martyrdom, then, so near to me, how could I turn away? and I determined, if I could, to speak with Father Whitbread, and get his blessing.
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