Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850 | Page 7

29 was with 80. He receiv'd me
pretty well, and said 30 and 50 were the causes of my misfortune and
would ruin me. After some hot words against them and against S., went
away in a good humour.
"26. I went to E---- and was in danger of being discover'd by some of
Oglethorpe's men that met me accidentally at the back door of the
garden.
"Nov 2. A letter from 29 to be to-morrow at seven at night at S. and
nobody to know it but 80.
"3. He came not, there being an extraordinary council. But 80 brought
me a copy of 50's intercepted letter, which made rather for me than
against me. Bid me come to-morrow at the same hour, and to say
nothing of the letter except 29 spake of it first.
"4. I came and found 29 and L. there; he was very kind and gave me
directions how to manage my business and what words I should say to
39. He appointed 80 to come to me every night until my business was
ripe and promised to send with him directions from time to time.
"9. L. came from 29 and told me my business should be done to my
mind next week, and that Q. was my friend, and had spoke to 39 and D.

in my behalf; which he said 29 took very kindly and had expressed so
to her. At parting he told me there should be nothing requir'd of me but
what was both safe and honourable. But said there must be something
done to blind 39.
"15. L came to me with a copy of a letter I was to sign to please 39. I
desired to know in whose hands it was to be deposited; for I would
have it in no hands but 29. He told me it should be so; but if 39 ask'd a
copy it could not well be refus'd. I referred myself entirely to 29's
pleasure.
"24. L. came to me from 29 and order'd me to render myself to-morrow.
Cautioned me to play my part, to avoid questions as much as possible,
and to seem absolutely converted to 39's interest. Bad me bear with
some words that might seem harsh.
"25. I render'd myself. At night 29 could not dissemble his satisfaction;
press'd my hand, which I remember not he did before except when I
return'd from the French service. 29 acted his part well, and I too. 39
and D. seemed not ill pleas'd.
"26. 29 took me aside and falling upon the business of L.R. said he
inclined to have sav'd him but was forc'd to it, otherwise he must have
broke with 39. Bid me think no more on't. Coming home L. told me he
fear'd 39 began to smell out 29's carriage. That ---- said to 39 that
morning that all that was done was but sham.
"27. Several told me of the storm that was brewing. Rumsey was with
39 and was seem to come out crying that he must accuse a man he
lov'd.
"_Dec._ 19. A letter from 29 bidding me stay till I heard farther from
him.
"_Jan._ 5. I received a letter from L. marked by 29 in the margin to
trust entirely in 10; and that in February I should certainly have leave to
return. That matters were concerted towards it; and that 39 had no
suspicion, notwithstanding of my reception here.

"_Feb._ 8. A letter from L. that my business was almost as well as done;
but must be so sudden as not to leave room for 39's party to counterplot.
That it is probable he would choose Scotland rather than Flanders or
this country; which was all one to 29.
"16. The sad news of his death by L. _O cruel fate!_"
Dr. Welwood cautiously adds, in a note:--
"That by 29 and 39 King Charles and the Duke of York seem to be
meant. But I know not what to make of the other numbers and letters,
and must leave the reader to his own conjectures."
There can, I apprehend, be little doubt that the L.R., under the date of
November 26, were meant to indicate the patriotic Lord Russell.
The whole of these extracts possess the highest interest, establishing as
they do several points referred to by historians. It is curious to remark
the complete subjection in which Charles, at this period, stood towards
his brother; occasioned, perhaps, but the foreign supplies which he
scrupled not to receive, being dependant on his adhesion to the policy
of which the Duke of York was the avowed representative. Shortly
before his death, Charles appears to have meditated emancipation from
this state of thraldom; and Hume says,--
"He was determined, it is