Stuart dynasty

276 TJie Stuart Dynasty.
" I suppose you have waited on the Queen ere now, and
received her commands. The King thinks you will be come
off before this reach Paris, and you may be sure you are
long'd for here, where you may expect all the wellcome a
gracious Prince can give you in the unluckie way his Starrs
have placed him ; but I hope better dayes are a comeing
both for him and those who now suffer upon the account of
his cause and their country.
" I beg you may give my most humble service to the
Marquess of Tullibardin, if still with you, who is long'd for
here, and others, a Lady who has taken an affection to his
name, and was very fond of L d George upon that account,
who she calls Tullibardino. Poor L d George has not been
well almost ever since he came, and has been phi sicking, by
which he is now better.
" One of the most deplorable things in the King's present
situation is that 'tis not his power to give that support to
those who have so bravely ventured and lost all for him,
that he wyshes he could, but that is his misfortoun, and not
his fault."
A bundle of miscellaneous letters dealing with the events of 1716, has
been recemly investigated at Windsor, from which the following papers
have been taken. Their existence was not known to the author in time
to place them amongst the preceding papers in chronological order in the
first edition of this book, and he has thought it advisable not to disturb
the original arrangement.
The letters in question are of considerable historical importance. They
deal with Lord Mar's sojourn at Scone and Dundee with the Chevalier,
and also expose Simon Lord Lovat's duplicity in intriguing with the
Jacobites ; while his rewards for outwardly and visibly supporting George
I. arc likewise announced from Whitehall by no less a personage than
< Sonera! Stanhope.
How these private secrets of Lord Lovat's reached St. Germain must
remain a subject of unsatisfied speculation.
The next paper gives evidence that money was lost during this campaign
on the coast of Scotland.
Paper CIIL
Earl of Mar to General Gordon.
" Dundee, Jan. 13, 1716,
" I have just now an express from Jo Erskine, who is at
Dundee, and all his crew. The ship was broke to pieces,
but the hulk and (undecipherable), where the gold was,