m entirely innocent of. It will be my own ruin beside, but
if that could advance the K----'s affairs I am contented. In time I
shall be justified when my parte in all this affair comes to be
knowen, and I bless God I have witnesses enough who have seen all;
and if accidents do not happen them, my papers will show it to
conviction, for I have been pretty exact in keeping copies and a
journall.

"Since I have wrote so fully to you, I do not write to Mr. H----ll,
for which I hope he'll forgive me.[122]

"I am anxious to know if my brother got my note that was inclosed to
you in that of the twenty-seventh, which was to caution him in a
thing that I was affraid his over great concern for me might make
him do, and which would vex me extreamly if he did.

"I long to hear from you again, as I suppose you will from me; and
as soon as I know of what you'll expect to hear of from me, you
shall. Adieu."

In a few days afterwards Lord Mar had gained more precise intelligence
of the Prince's movements; on the delay at St. Maloes he puts the
favourable construction of the vessel's having been wind-bound, as will
be seen by the following letter. The dissensions in his counsels, aided,
as he hints, by the influence which the Master of Sinclair exercised
over the Marquis of Huntley, were, still, not among the least of his
difficulties.

"December 6th, 1715.

"Sir,

"Last night one of the messengers I had sent to France returned, and
there came with him to Montrose, Mr. Charles Fleeming and General
Eclin; but they are not yet come here, nor some money that came
along with them. I have a letter from the King, the fifteenth of
November, N. S. from St. Malos; severall from Lord Bolingbroke, the
last of which was the twenty-seventh, and he belived the King then
to be saild, and he had been wind bound there three weeks; but he
did not sail, as I understand from the messenger til the eighteenth
inst., he having seen a letter from Col. Hay at St. Maloes, to Mr.
Arbuthnot, two dayes after he sailed. God send him safe to us, for
which I have done all in my power! It is in the hands of Providence,
and I hope God will protect him. It is not to be known where he is
to land, and indeed it cannot be known certainly. Even this has not
quite cured all the whims amongst us. Lord g