wrote to Mr. Secretary Stanhope was quoted as a base and fawning
submission, and what I intended as a mark of respect to the
Government and a service to my friends was perverted to ruin me in
the opinion of the latter. The Act of Attainder, in consequence of
my impeachment, had passed against me for crimes of the blackest
dye; and among other inducements to pass it, my having been engaged
in the Pretender's interest was one. How well founded this Article
was has already appeared; I was just as guilty of the rest. The
correspondence with me was, you know, neither frequent nor safe. I
heard seldom and darkly from you, and though I saw well enough which
way the current ran, yet I was entirely ignorant of the measures you
took, and of the use you intended to make of me. I contented
myself, therefore, with letting you all know that you had but to
command me, and that I was ready to venture in your service the
little which remained, as frankly as I had exposed all which was
gone. At last your commands came, and I shall show you in what
manner I executed them.

The person who was sent to me arrived in the beginning of July,
1715, at the place where I was. He spoke in the name of all the
friends whose authority could influence me, and he brought me word
that Scotland was not only ready to take arms, but under some sort
of dissatisfaction to be withheld from beginning; that in England
the people were exasperated against the Government to such a degree
that, far from wanting to be encouraged, they could not be
restrained from insulting it on every occasion; that the whole Tory
party was become avowedly Jacobite; that many officers of the army
and the majority of the soldiers were very well affected to the
cause; that the City of London was ready to rise; and that the
enterprises for seizing of several places were ripe for execution: