none. I carried the point of party honour to the height, and
specified everything to my attachment to them during this period of
time. Let us now examine whether I have done so during the rest.

When I arrived in France, about the end of March, 1715, the affairs
of England were represented to me in another light than I had seen
them in when I looked upon them with my own eyes very few weeks
before. I found the persons who were detached to speak with me
prepared to think that I came over to negotiate for the Pretender;
and when they perceived that I was more ignorant than they imagined,
I was assured by them that there would be suddenly a universal
rising in England and Scotland. The leaders were named to me, their
engagements specified, and many gentlemen, yourself among others,
were reckoned upon for particular services, though I was certain you
had never been treated with; from whence I concluded, and the event
has justified my opinion, that these assurances had been given on
the general characters of men by such of our friends as had embarked
sooner and gone farther than the rest.

This management surprised me extremely. In the answers I made I
endeavoured to set the mistake right, to show that things were far
from the point of maturity imagined, that the Chevalier had yet no
party for him, and that nothing could form one but the extreme
violence which the Whigs threatened to exercise. Great endeavours
were used to engage me in this affair, and to prevail on me to
answer the letter of invitation sent me from Bar. I alleged, as it
was true, that I had no commission from any person in England, and
that the friends I left behind me were the only persons who could
determine me, if any could, to take such a step. As to the last
proposition, I absolutely refused it.