Stuart dynasty

234 The Stuart Dynasty.
applied the torch to the smouldering insurrectionary movement which
threatened to explode in the West of England, but escaped into France.
" Paris, Monday night,
August 7, 1715.
"S r ,
" Your Maj ty is already informed of ye Duke of Ormond 3
arrival att this place, and you will hear from ye Bearer ye
reasons he has had to alter his first resolution of going direct
to attend y r M ty .
" There will he this advantage through Delay, that he
will he ahle to assist in "bringing things to a certainty here,
and when he has the honour to see you, to inform you more
fully of ye state of y r affairs."
Paper XL VI.
Chevalier de St. George to Lord Bolinghrohe.
*** The Jacobites had clearly no trust in Marlborough.
"August 23, 1715.
" I write what follows in a sheet apart that you may be
able to shew the letter itself to Charles whom I mean by
Orbec (Ormond).
" I helieve you forgot to send me a letter concerning
Marlb., which D. Ber. mentions to me, so I cannot say any-
thing particular as to that more than you know as much as I
of that correspondence, and, therefore, I leave it to you and
D. B. to send such a message to Marl, as you shall agree on,
for 'tis not fitt to let this even for him nice occasion pass
without endeavouring to make use of it for the gaining so
considerable a man.
" I am glad you give me caution not to name him to
Charles (Ormond), though, should Charles know of the
Dealings I have with t'other another way, it would he
certainly yet more grievous to him.
" Could there be no possibility of uniting these two great
men, at least in some measure, for, after all, as to Charles
(Ormond), I did not see what jealousy he can have for him,
for sure he Charles cannot think that I would ever bring
t'other into competition against himself. When I see
Charles (Ormond), would it not he proper for me to say
something to him as to Marl., which in discourse can be
better done than hy writing ; but 'tis a nice point in which
I desire your advice.
"J. B."