...else." " I am persuaded we should gain ground," again writes the Cardinal, on the same subject,* " as to everything, were it not for the nasty bottle,...sway as, in reality, no living body has with him." So degraded had the Prince become by this vice, that, when his visitors came to know him a little better,...

...else." " I am persuaded we should gain ground," again writes the Cardinal, on the same subject,* " as to everything, were it not for the nasty bottle,...sway as, in reality, no living body has with him." So degraded had the Prince become by this vice, that, when his visitors came to know him a little better,...

...1767, wherein he is persuaded " wee shoud gain ground as to everything were it not for the nasty Botle that goes on but too much, and certainly must at last...Stafford is in desolation about it, but has no sway in reality, no living body has with him." Dorothy, Lady Pakington, one of the reputed authors of the...

...drunk by the evening; nay, some letters of Cardinal York, addressed to an unknown Jacobite, speak of the " nasty bottle, that goes on but too much, and certainly must at last kill him." But, although drunkenness undoubtedly did much to obliterate whatever still remained of the hero of...

...inflexibility and disregard for everything that regards his own good. . . . I am persuaded we should gain some ground as to everything, were it not for the nasty...sway, as, in reality, no living body has with him.' 1 Lord Elcho arrived in Rome, to dun for his 1,5OO/., which Charles was ready to pay, as soon as he...

...a Prince so openly and palpably degraded. His brother the Cardinal was soon writing despairingly of "the nasty bottle, that goes on but too much, and certainly must at last kill him." " I have very little to say," he writes in another letter, " except to deplore the continuance of the...

...brother •was here [at Frascati] last Sunday, and is to come again on Saturday to see the Ordination. I am persuaded we should gain ground as to everything,...Stafford is in desolation about it, but has no sway." l On July 7 he " deplores the continuance of the bottle ; that, I own to you, makes me despair of everything,...

...brother was here (at Frascati) last Sunday, and is to come again on Saturday to see the ordination. I am persuaded we should gain ground as to everything,...Stafford is in desolation about it, but has no sway." 4 On July 7th he deplores "the continuance of the bottle ; that, I own to you, makes me despair of...

...Sir Horace Mann. Writing in 1767, when Charles was still in the prime of life, the Cardinal says, ' I am persuaded we should gain ground as to everything...but too much, and certainly must at last kill him.' There is evidence, however, that towards the end of his life his habits improved. 'He was impossible'...

...drunk by the evening; nay, some letters of Cardinal York, addressed to an unknown Jacobite, speak of the " nasty bottle, that goes on but too much, and certainly must at last kill him." But, although drunkenness undoubtedly did much to obliterate whatever still remained of the hero of...