Stuart dynasty

APPENDIX I. 399
On the whole, Lord Bolingbroke toas confident he
woidd retrieve the disaster inflicted on the Jacobite
cause by the death of Louis XIV., while the situation
did not seem qidte so intolerable as when all the coast
was closed.
In a postscript to this letter, indited on October 21,
1715, the Chevalier s distinguished adviser utters these
reflections : —
" I broke off my letter yesterday in hopes of
news from England, and also because ye Queen
thought fit to keep Cameron till to-day, that she
might by him give y r Maj ty an account of ye Duke of
Berwick's final resolution to whom y 1 ' paquet has
been this morning sent. There are letters of this
day seven night from London, which do not answer
in all points my expectations. Lord Mar encreases
in strength, but has not advanc'd so far as we
thought.
" Lonsdale, Vivian, and Coulston, and many others
are taken up.* The storm grumbles in ye West, but
is not yet begun, arid Hanover takes what measures
he can to prevent it."
Urging that the Duke of Ormond should start for
England some time before the Chevalier, Lord Boling-
broke repeats a ivarning regarding care of his masters
person, which appi ared in the extracts given from his
last letter. He sags : —
" Let me most earnestly renew my request that
you will leave no possible precaution neglected to
* Lord Lonsdale was originally in the interest of George I., but joined
the Chevalier's standard.