discharging it.

I had made very little progress in the business which brought me to
Paris, when the paper so long expected was sent, in pursuance of
former instances, from England. The unanimous sense of the
principal persons engaged was contained in it. The whole had been
dictated word for word to the gentleman who brought it over, by the
Earl of Mar, and it had been delivered to him by the Duke of Ormond.
I was driving in the wide ocean without a compass when this dropped
unexpectedly into my hands. I received it joyfully, and I steered
my course exactly by it. Whether the persons from whom it came
pursued the principles and observed the rules which they laid down
as the measures of their own conduct and of ours, will appear by the
sequel of this relation.

This memorial asserted that there were no hopes of succeeding in a
present undertaking, for many reasons deduced in it, without an
immediate and universal rising of the people in all parts of England
upon the Chevalier's arrival; and that this insurrection was in no
degree probable unless he brought a body of regular troops along
with him: that if this attempt miscarried, his cause and his
friends, the English liberty and Government, would be utterly
ruined: but if by coming without troops he resolved to risk these
and everything else, he must set out so as not to arrive before the
end of September, to justify which opinion many arguments were
urged. In this case twenty thousand arms, a train of artillery,
five hundred officers with their servants, and a considerable sum of
money were demanded: and as soon as they should be informed that
the Chevalier was in condition to make this provision, it was said
that notice should be given him of the places to which he might