"THE CURSE OF SCOTLAND."
'■ Sir,—There is a letter/in your, issue Of No. yembor./'io;..regarding, tho derivation of this term as applied to the nine of diamonds. In •addition- to the' suggestions mado therein,- I beg to give tho following.. I'quota from tho second . volumo of ,:"Tho Life and Letters' of Lady Sarah:Lennox," •■pae6':-ISO. .There, in a iettor :-.td her (sho was then, of course, Lady Surah• Napier) friend,. Lady Susan' O'Brien, dated -Dublin,- September i, 1800, she says, referring/to a leading, statesman-of: Die timo: "Hisnam'e will'ever ,bo tho curso;of'England, I- fear,: and certainly of Ireland, : in thc-opin-ion of nnti-unionists, , like tho' 'nine ofr : dia--.monds.tho.Cui'so of Scotland.' Do you know whence that-saying arose?. From its being thb arms of/Lord Stair,-who .brought about, tho union". ",. ;■'■■;'■'.",•'■ : "Lady;Sarah was born in 1745, and therefore; ono would think, would hftvo known or heard of the Culloden incident.—l. am,: etc.,- ;.:■-■" •;;/..;;■'':"..:■'-/■ :"-.'". '' : :'-.f : ':'.;V'':\'JAC6BITE,-' : '
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 672, 24 November 1909, Page 9
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145"THE CURSE OF SCOTLAND." Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 672, 24 November 1909, Page 9
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