Thomas McCrie the younger on the character of William Carstares

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Reformed Covenanter

Cancelled Commissioner
But William III. was a great politician, and would have every thing in the kingdom managed by the court. And there are his correspondents. There sits William Carstares, the son of John Carstares. The father had been an old unbending covenanter, and the son had been so deeply implicated in some of the political movements against the Stuart dynasty, that he had been in danger of his life, and subjected to the torture of the thumb-kins to extort from him some confessions.

He is evidently of a more modern school than the father, and has all the air of a finished diplomatist. The bosom friend and councillor of King William, he is now the acknowledged leader of the Scottish Church, and an eyesore to the Jacobites, who hate him most cordially for his politics, while he is rather suspected by some of his friends of too much leaning to the court. ...

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