Pickle the spy; . f faithful subjects and servants,jealous at all times to preserve his honour and repu-tation. They had, in brief, declined to accompanyCharles in his carriage when his condition demandedseclusion. Lumisden writes (December 8,1767), HisEoyal Highness (the Duke of York) thanked us forour behaviour in the strongest terms. We need follow no further the story of a con-summated degradation. Charles threw off, one byone, on grounds of baseless suspicion, Lord GeorgeMurray, Kelly (to please Lord Marischal), Goring, andnow drove from him his most attached servants. Henever suspected G
Pickle the spy; . f faithful subjects and servants,jealous at all times to preserve his honour and repu-tation. They had, in brief, declined to accompanyCharles in his carriage when his condition demandedseclusion. Lumisden writes (December 8,1767), HisEoyal Highness (the Duke of York) thanked us forour behaviour in the strongest terms. We need follow no further the story of a con-summated degradation. Charles threw off, one byone, on grounds of baseless suspicion, Lord GeorgeMurray, Kelly (to please Lord Marischal), Goring, andnow drove from him his most attached servants. Henever suspected Glengarry. But neither time, nordespair, nor Charless own fallen self could kill theloyalty of Scotland. Bishop Forbes, far away, heardof his crowning folly, and—blamed Lumisden and hiscompanion, Hay of Restalrig ! When Charles, onGood Friday, 1772, married Louise of Stolberg, theremnant of the faithful in Scotland drank to thefairest Fair, and to an heir of the Crown. LEcosse ne peut pas te juger ; elle t aime !. ^ liM SfTii .pt-t: xt <&a£fe^ S, //so. THE IIEIU 321 Into the story of an heir, born at Siena, andentrusted to Captain Allen, , to be brought upin England, we need not enter. In Lord Brayesmanuscripts (published by the Historical MSS. Com-mission) is Charless solemn statement that, exceptMiss Walkinshaws daughter, he had no child. Thetime has not come to tell the whole strange tale of John Stolberg Sobieski Stuart and Charles EdwardStuart, if, indeed, that tale can ever be Nordoes space permit an investigation of Charless marriedlife, of his wifes elopement with Alfieri, and of thelast comparatively peaceful years in the society of adaughter who soon followed him to the tomb. Thestories about that daughters marriage to a SwedishBaron Rohenstart, and about their son, merit no at-tention. In the French Foreign Office archives is awild plan for marrying the lady, Charlotte Stuart, toa Stuart—any Stuart, and raising their unborn sonsstandard in the A
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