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We'll a' be glad, carlin,
We'll a' be glad,
And play ' The Stuarts back again,
To put the Whigs mad."
thepetitionfor me, having taken my precautions against all events, and asked
if she were at home, and they answered that she expected me, and had ano-
ther duchess with her. I refused to go up stairs, as she had company with her,
and I was not in a condition to see any other company. I begged to be shewn
into a chamber below stairs, and that they would have the goodness to send
her grace's maid to me, having something to say to her. I had discharged the
chair, lest I might be pursued and watched. When the maid came in, I de-
sired her to present my most humble respects to her grace, who they told me
had company with her, and to acquaint her that this was my only reason for
not coming up stairs. I also charged her with my sincerest thanks for
her kind offer to accompany me when I went to present my petition. I add-
ed, that she might spare herself any farther trouble, as it was now judged
more adviseable to present one general petition in the name of all : however,
that I should never be unmindful of my particular obligations to her grace,
which I would return very soon to acknowledge in person. I then desired one
of the servants to call a chair, and I went to the duchess of Montrose, who had
always borne a part in my distresses. When I arrived, she left her company to
deny herself, not being able to see me under the affliction which she judged
me to be in. By mistake, however, I was admitted ; so there was no remedy.
She came to me; and as my heart was in an ecstacy of joy, I expressed it in
my countenance as she entered the room. I ran up to her in the transport of
ray joy- She appeared to be extremely shocked and frighted; and has since
confessed to me, that she apprehended my trouble had thrown me out ef my-
self, till I communicated my happiness to her. She then advised me to re-
tire to some place of security, for that he king was highly displeased, and
even enraged at the petition that I had presented to him, and had complained
of it severely. I sent for another chair ; for I always discharged them imme-
mediately, lest I might be pursued. Her grace said that she would go to court,
to see how the news of my lord's escape was received. When the news was
brought to the king, he flew into an excess of passion, and said he was betray-
ed ; for it could not have been done without some confederacy. He instant-
ly despatched two persons to the Tower, to see that the other prisoners were
well secured, lest they should follow the example. Some threw the blame upon
one, some upon another; the duchess was the only one at court who knew
it.
" When I left the duchess, I went to a house which Evans had found out
for me, and where she promised to acquaint me where my lord was. She got
thither some few minutes after me, and told me, that, when she had seen him
secure, she went in search of Mr Mills, who, by the time, had recovered him-
self from his astonishment ; that he had returned to her house, where she had
found him: and that he had removed my lord from the first place, where she
had desired him to wait, to the house of a poor woman directly opposite to the
guard-house. She had but one small room up one pair of stairs, and a very
small bed in it. We threw ourselves upon the bed, that we might not be heard
walking up and down. She left us a bottle of wine and some bread, and Mrs
Mills brought us some more in her pocket the next day. We subsisted on this
provision from Thursday to Saturday night, when Mrs Mills came and conducted
my lord to the Venetian ambassador's. We did not communicate the affair to