routes were so ordered that the Duke of Ormond was to sail from the
coast of Normandy some days before the Chevalier arrived at St.
Malo, to which place the duke was to send immediate notice of his
landing; and two gentlemen acquainted with the country, and
perfectly well known to all our friends in those parts, were
despatched before, that the people of Devonshire and Somersetshire,
who were, we concluded, in arms, might be apprised of the signals
which were to be made from the ships, and might be ready to receive
the duke.

On the coast of France, and before his embarkation, the duke heard
that several of our principal friends had been seized immediately
after the person who came last from them had left London, that the
others were all dispersed, and that the consternation was universal.
He embarked, notwithstanding this melancholy news, and, supported by
nothing but the firmness of his temper, he went over to the place
appointed; he did more than his part, and he found that our friends
had done less than theirs. One of the gentlemen who had passed over
before him, and had traversed part of the country, joined him on the
coast, and assured him that there was not the least room to expect a
rising; in a word, he was refused a night's lodging in a country
which we had been told was in a good posture to receive the
Chevalier, and where the duke expected that multitudes would repair
to him.

He returned to the coast of Brittany after this uncomfortable
expedition, where the Chevalier arrived about the same time from
Lorraine. What his Grace proposed by the second attempt, which he
made as soon as the vessel could be refitted, to land in the same
part of the island, I profess myself to be ignorant. I wrote him my