should be conveyed, ought to be written for;--all which I was told
by the Marshal of Berwick, who had the principal direction at that
time of these affairs in France, and I daresay very truly, had been
often asked, but never sent. I looked on this enterprise to be of
the nature of those which can hardly be undertaken more than once,
and I judged that the success of it would depend on timing as near
as possible together the insurrection in both parts of the island
and the succours from hence. The Pretender approved this opinion of
mine. He instructed me accordingly, and I left Lorraine after
having accepted the Seals much against my inclination. I made one
condition with him; it was this--that I should be at liberty to quit
a station which my humour and many other considerations made me
think myself very unfit for, whenever the occasion upon which I
engaged was over, one way or other; and I desire you to remember
that I did so.

I arrived at Paris towards the end of July, 1715. You will observe
that all I was charged with, and all by consequence that I am
answerable for, was to solicit this Court and to dispose them to
grant us the succours necessary to make the attempt as soon as we
should know certainly from England in what it was desired that these
succours should consist and whither they should be sent. Here I
found a multitude of people at work, and every one doing what seemed
good in his own eyes; no subordination, no order, no concert.
Persons concerned in the management of these affairs upon former
occasions have assured me this is always the case. It might be so
to some degree, but I believe never so much as now. The Jacobites
had wrought one another up to look on the success of the present
designs as infallible. Every meeting-house which the populace
demolished, every little drunken riot which happened, served to