Charles mystifies Europe--Montesquieu knows his secret--Sources of
information--The Stuart manuscripts--Charles's letters from Avignon--
A proposal of marriage--Kennedy and the hidden treasure--Where to
look for Charles--Cherchez la femme!--Hidden in Lorraine--Plans for
entering Paris--Letter to Mrs. Drummond--To the Earl Marischal--
Starts for Venice--At Strasbourg--Unhappy Harrington--Letter to
James--Leaves Venice 'A bird without a nest'--Goes to Paris--The
Prince's secret revealed--The convent of St. Joseph--Curious letter
as Cartouche--Madame de Routh--Cartouche again--Goring sent to
England--A cypher--Portrait of Madame de Talmond--Portrait of Madame
d'Aiguillon--Intellectual society--Mademoiselle Luci--'Dener Bash'--
The secret hoard--Results of Goring's English mission--Timidity of
English Jacobites--Supply of money--Charles a bibliophile--'My big
muff'--A patron of art--Quarrels with Madame de Talmond--Arms for a
rising--Newton on Cluny--Kindness to Monsieur Le Coq--Madame de
Talmond weary of Charles--Letters to her--Charles reads Fielding's
novels--Determines to go to England--Large order of arms--Reproached
by James--Intagli of James--En route for London--September 1750.

The reader has had an opportunity of observing the success of Charles
in mystifying Europe. Diplomatists, ambassadors, and wits would have
been surprised, indeed, had they known that one of the most famous
men of the age possessed the secret for which they were seeking. The
author of 'L'Esprit des Lois' could have enlightened them, for
Charles's mystery was no mystery to Montesquieu, who was friendly
with Scottish and English Jacobites. The French Ministers, truly or
falsely, always professed entire ignorance. They promised to arrest