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Appendix I. 253
XIV., ivhile the situation did not seem quite 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-clay, that she might by him give y r Maj ty an
account of ye Duke of Berwick's final resolution to whomy r
paquet has been this morning sent. There are letters of this
day seven night from London, which do not answer in all
points my expections. 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, and 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 Bolingbroke repeats a warning
regarding care of his master s person, ivhich appeared in the extracts
given from his last letter, lie says : —
" Let me most earnestly renew my request that you will
leave no possible precaution neglected to disguise y r person
and conceal y 1 departure and route.
" I shall be thought timourous by those who take want of
foresight, for courage, and 1 confess I am so where ye safety
of y r person is concerned."
Lord Stair is well known to have exercised judicious espionage
on behalf of the Government of George I. at this crisis, and toe
have the fact recorded by Lord Bolingbroke.
" Stair has some jealousy that you or ye D of Ormond and
myself, are in motion, or all three. He has people on
most of ye roads, and two are this morning gone towards
Eouen.
" I believe the posture of affairs in England, as much as any
appearances here make him thus alerte. I cannot penetrate
yt he has any jealousy of y 1 ' Maj ty ' 3 way of going off.
" I will do my uttmost by several little expedients which
I have thought of to perplex him and to put him on a wrong
scent."
* Lord Lonsdale was originally in the interest of George I., but joined thr
Chevalier's standard.