Note 282 — Chapter XX · A LULL IN THE STORM
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Finch to Jenkins, May 10-20. The law of retaliation may be pleaded in extenuation of Collyer’s garrulity; and, at any rate, what he told the Vizir was the common talk of Europe. The actual facts were as follows: Just then the Duke of York had “obtained leave to retire to Scotland, under pretence still of quieting the apprehensions of the English nation, but in reality with a view of securing that Kingdom in his interests.”—Hume, vol. viii. p. 118.