Majesty know what the Marshal had told me. I shall only add, that at all times, and in all situations, I ever am with the greatest zeal, Sir, Your Majesty's most faithful and obedient subject and servant, CLEVES, 4th September, 1748. GEO. MURRAY. SIR, * No. CLI. Young Glengary to the Chevalier de St George. As I have wrote at large to Mr Edgar, and desired him to inform your Majesty of my letter, I imagine it needless to be troublesome by a repetition of the same things: my circumstances in this country obliged me to quit Paris, and I intend to wait at Boulogne-sur-mer for ane opportunity of going safely to Britain, where the present situation of my own affairs makes my presence very necessary; but I humbly beg your Majesty will be persuaded that your orders shall allways be an inviolable rule of my conduct there or in any other place; and that after the marks of your Majesty's goodness I have been honoured with, inclination, as well as duty, will always oblige me to embrace with pleasure every opportunity of shewing my gratitude. I can only at present assure your Majesty I shall allways be ready, as I wait with impatience for an occasion of proving that I am, May it please your Majesty, Your Majesty's most obedient, and most humble, AMIENS, 20th September, 1748. MACK DONEell. No. CLII. The Chevalier de St George to Prince Charles. ALBANO, September 30th, 1748. I have received yours of the 9th. Your map is actually hung up in this dining-room, and the other copy I sent to Cardinal Valenti for the Pope. I beseech God to bless and direct you. SIR, No. CLIII. Mr John Græme to Prince Charles. THERE is nothing gives me so much concern as to be put to the una voidable necessity to leave Paris at a time your Royal Highness inclines I should stay, and after all the marks I have shewn of my fidelity and attachment to your Royal Highness. I did not imagine you would have pushed me to so cruel a pinch as to be obliged to choose between parting contrary to your inclinations, or ruining myself for ever by staying any longer. I have just left wherewithal to make my journey, so that I flatter myself you will have pity on a faithful servant, and consent that I should retire to a place where I may be able to live, tho' obscurely, yet always honestly, and with the most sincere and ardent wishes for Y. R. H.'s interest and wellfair, I am ever with profound respect, Sir, Your Royal Highness's most dutifull and most obedient servant, Tuesday morning. No. CLIV. Jo. GRÆME, SIR, The same to the same. HAVING represented my circumstances to your Royal Highness so often both by writing and by word of mouth, I did not imagine that so strong motives for my retiring from Paris could appear strange to you. However, since your R. H. persists in refusing me leave to take the only party I could think of to save the poor remains of a small fortune, and to prevent my falling into misery in my old age, a precaution which no impartial man can condemn, I shall con tinue to ruin myself by staying a month longer, in hopes that your R. H. will in that time consent to what is so just and reasonable. I shall employ these in taking off mourning, what I had kept in reserve for my journey, and as soon as I can appear in that dress, I shall have the honor of waiting upon your R. H. I am ever with profound respect, I FIND by Kelly, and by what you have writ to me, the infatuation you are in of goin away, which is inconceivable to me, noing always the desier you have had hitherto of doing your duty and pleasing at sametime a friend: their can be no good reason for such a proceeding on your side, and it seems very obscure to me. I desier you to reflect on it seriously, being concerned for an honest man. I shall never say any more on this affair but declaring my opposition For Sir John Græme. IV. SIR, No. CLVI. Mr Græme to Prince Charles. I MUST have explained myself very ill since your R. H. is pleas'd to say that my motives for retiring from Paris are obscure and inconceivable. I thought I had represented to your R. H. more than once that I was noways in a situation of staying in this place, having neither money nor credit, and that all which I have left in the world is scarcely sufficient to afford me a morsel of bread in a remote corner of the kingdom. I humbly think, that, without entering into any further detail, this is enough to justify my resolution of going away before all impartial men. I am heartily sorry that my circumstances are such as make it altogether impossible to comply with your R. H.'s commands, which I am confident you will not doubt of when you reflect, that, as long as I had wherewithal, I never desired you should put yourself to a farthing's expense on my account. Your R. H. is too just and reasonable not to allow what I take the liberty to advance to be not only a sufficient reason, but an unavoidable constraint upon me, for taking the party of retiring to Avignon, for which place I intend to set out on Monday or Tuesday next. But whether there or elsewhere, your R. H. may be persuaded that my sincere and hearty wishes will ever attend you. I am, Y. R. H.'s most dutifull and obedient servant, AFTER what I writ to you last I have nothing to add but desiering anew your compliance to my desier, which, if not, cannot but apear strenge to me, on my accounting uppon you as an honest and reasonable man. As long as you stay here nothing shall be wanting any ways with you, so that should be the least concern or ever should be in you. Reflect, and iff you donte, allow me to reflect, as I can't but do. It is surprising to me for a man of sence any thing that appears strange to him when agreeing with reason. I do not desier of you to put yourself to strets, but what I say is as a friend. You are master of yourself as I am to advise. Choose what is agreeable to you, but after that do not make merit without deserving, which can never be the case 1 SEND you inclosed the draught of a letter which I heartin wish H. K. H. would write to the King: that, or another to the same purpose, would, in my numble opinion, make up all that is past, and I think it of the tast importance that his R. H. should lose no time to acquaint his Majesty of his sentiments, if they are such as I hope them to be, and indeed it is absolutely necessary should be so in this conjuncture. Pray let me know how his R. H. will receive this mark of my zeal. I have no other object but his real interest. I am ever, Dear Sir, Your most grateful and most obedient, humble servant, My service to Mr Oxburgh. No. CLIX. F. BULKELEY Prince Charles to Mr Bulkeley, in answer. PARIS, 31st October, 1748. I HAVE just seen your letter to Kely, and am truly sensible of yr zeal, and having nothing more to say on that subject but that, quod dixi, dixi, et quod scripsi, scripsi *No. CLX. C. P Mr Drummond of Bochaldy, under the signature oj “ Micflock,” to the SIR, Chevalier de St George. PARIS, 4th November, 1748. Ir is so long since the situation of affairs I had any concern in permitted my troubling your Majesty directly with accounts from this place, that it becomes cruel in me now to be obliged to begin to inform you of the loss your Majesty has of the most faithful and zealously devoted subject ever served any Prince, in the person of Donald Cameron of Lochiel. He died the 26th of last month of an inflammation within his head at Borgue, where he had been for some time with his regiment, and where I had the melancholy satisfaction to see all means used for his preservation, but to no valuable effect. There is no great moment to be made of the death of people who continue in their duty to your Majesty, having no temptation to swerve from it, or of others who have an affectation of zeal and duty to procure themselves subsistence, nor even those whose distresses, when personal, or flowing from oppressive tyranny, determine to be freed of the load by all reasonable means. Lochiel was not in any of their cases. He had all the temptations laid in his way that Government could. The late Duke of Argyle, Duncan Forbes the President, and the Justice Clerk, never gave over laying baits for him, tho' they knew his mind was as immoveable as a mountain on that article, and since he came here he has not been left at ease. The Duke of Cumberland caused information that, if he would apply in the simplest manner to him, he would never quit his father's knees until he had obtained his pardon and favour: this be disdained, or rather had a horror at. I need say no more; his own services, and the voice of your Majesty's enemies, speak loudly the loss. The Prince nas very graciously inter ested himself in procuring the Regiment Lochiel had for his eldest son, which his R. H. has charged M. Lally to solicit for along with other officers. It is very unhappy that this Lally has been for some time heartily hated by the minister. I am afraid his appearance will hurt the youth as well as the other affair he is charged with, but there is no help for it. The Prince was positive, and would not allow Sullivan to be employed in it, notwithstanding he had all along agented with the Court all the public affairs Lochiel had since his arrival here. All I can do is to go to Fontainbleau privately, and give what assistance I can for the support of that numerous afflicted family. Had I had the Lt.-Colonelship of that Regiment, as your Majesty graciously inclined I should, and my deceased cousin wished above every thing of this side the water, this nomination could have met with no difficulty, because the King and minister of the war would have confided in me for conducting the regiment until Lochiel was of age to do it himself; but my being named to that or any other thing while his R. H. continues here and keeps Mr Kelly to advise him, is inconsistent with the duty and respect both Lochiel and I owed him, and either of us would have suffered any thing rather than oppose his will in what regarded ourselves. Care has been taken by Mr Lally and Kelly to have that commission out for my cousin Cluny, and his R. H. is very anxious about his arrival here to possess it. Your Majesty has been informed by Lord Sempill that he and I had taken care to keep your friends united by a correspondence with them, which we were often straitened how to do in because of some certain disagreeable circumstances: the same correspondence continues still. I do not know if your Majesty will find it for any valuable purpose to entertain it longer, as I am left alone. I am likewise afraid that I shall not be able to continue the connexion and correspondence Lochiel and I had with the Highlands-that was easy for us to have done while he lived, and had a regiment without putting your Majesty to any expense; but now I am done without means or assistance to do anything. Tho' I had a million I am as ready as ever to employ the last farthing and every hour I have to live in your Majesty's service, which your Majesty's most gracious countenance and indulgence to my weakness made so bewitching, that dangers, difficulties, and fatigue, never stood in the way of going on in what appeared to serve best the end aimed at. I am ever, with the most profound respect, Sir, Your Majesty's most faithfully humble and zealously devoted servant, MALLOCH. No. CLXI. Prince Charles to the Duke de Gesvres, from an original draught in the Prince's hand, titled “ à M. Gesvres, ye 6 Nov., 1748.” C'EST avec beaucoup de regret que je me trouve forcé par mes interets de resister aux intentions du Roy dans cette occasion. J'en avois deja prevenir S. M. par une lettre que j'ay ecrite à Mr de Puyzieulx, le 20 Aoûst dernier: je prie instammement mon cousin le Duc de Gesvres d'assurer S. M. T. C. dans |