is the certain index of a base and little mind. I know it may be
urged in his vindication, that a prince in exile ought to be an
economist. And so he ought; but, nevertheless, his purse should
be always open as long as there is anything in it, to relieve the
necessities of his friends and adherents. King Charles II,
during his banishment, would have shared the last pistole in his
pocket with his little family. But I have known this gentleman,
with two thousand louis-d'ors in his strong-box, pretend he was
in great distress, and borrow money from a lady in Paris who was
not in affluent circumstances. His most faithful servants, who
had closely attended him in all his difficulties, were ill
rewarded.'--King's MEMOIRS.] We must receive, however, with some
degree of jealousy what is said by Dr. King on this subject,
recollecting that he had left at least, if he did not desert, the
standard of the unfortunate prince, and was not therefore a
person who was likely to form the fairest estimate of his virtues
and faults. We must also remember that if the exiled prince gave
little, he had but little to give, especially considering how
late he nourished the scheme of another expedition to Scotland,
for which he was long endeavouring to hoard money.

The case, also, of Charles Edward must be allowed to have been a
difficult one. He had to satisfy numerous persons, who, having
lost their all in his cause, had, with that all, seen the
extinction of hopes which they accounted nearly as good as
certainties; some of these were perhaps clamorous in their
applications, and certainly ill pleased with their want of
success. Other parts of the Chevalier's conduct may have
afforded grounds for charging him with coldness to the sufferings
of his devoted followers. One of these was a sentiment which has