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Tynemouth, the eldest son of the Duke of Berwick, Lieutenant Cameron,
and several other persons, on board a French ship, which, according to
some accounts, "was laden with brandy, and furnished with a good
pass-port." Thus at length having ventured on the ocean, the Prince set
sail towards Norway; but changed his direction, and steered towards
Peterhead, in Aberdeenshire. During all this time, the Earl of Mar
suffered from the utmost anxiety and perplexity for one who was unworthy
of the exertions made for his restoration. This is evident from the
following letter, dated November the thirtieth, to Captain Straiton:

"The accounts of that person's[119] way of going on, and the danger
he is in, confound me; but I hope Providence has not preserved him
all this while to destroy him at last. I am doing all I can to make
it safe; and perhaps what we thought our misfortune, (the men going
home after Sheriff Muir,) may prove our happiness, they being where
that person is to come, and I send troops there immediately."

"I knew before I got yours that the Dutch troops were coming
here.[120] Those by sea may come soon, but those by land cannot be
here a long time. They will now power in all the troups from England
on us; but I hope we may hold it this winter in spite of them, tho'
we shall have hard quarters in the Highlands. In case of what Mr.
H----ll writes me prove true, and happen, for fear of accidents
after it does, were it not fitt that you should write to France to
send some ships to cruise up and down the north-west coast to save
the person Mr. H----ll writes of, if things should not prove right?
and our friends in France can either send them from thence or Spain,
round Ireland? I hear of but two little ships of warr on that coast;
and the ships I would have sent may pass as marchant ships tradeing
and putting in by accident therabouts, which they often do. Pray
think of this, and write of it soon to France, as I intend to do
to-night by an express I am sending; and were it not fitt you should
write of it too to some trusty friend at London? But it must be done
with the utmost caution, for fear of disheartning the English. Tho'
the safty of that person is of such consequence that all ways is to
be taken for it, and all accidents guarded against.

"I wrote to you the twenty-seventh, and in it I gave you account of