Hugh James Rose

“ Johnson, is an elegant composition; but this was likewise unavailing, as the danger was increased in a greater proportion than his age. He now sat down a quiet spectator of the revolution, in which most of his family acquiesced; and resolving to lay aside all thoughts of pushing his fortune either in the court or the camp, he endeavoured to divert his melancholy in the company and conversation of the softer sex. ”

“ At the age of ten he was sent to Trinity college, Cambridge; and on account of his extraordinary merit he was created M. A. at the age of thirteen, and left the university soon after. He had a strong passion for a military life, which discovered itself on the duke of Monmouth’s rebellion, and he requested his father to let him arm in defence of his sovereign; but being then only eighteen years of age, he was thought too young for such an enterprize. ”

“ He even entered deeply into the scheme for raising an insurrection in the West of England, and was at the head of it, if we may believe lord Bolingbroke, who represents him as possessed now with the same political fire and frenzy for the Pretender, as he had shown in his youth for the father. ”