or any other Letters you want to send me.

'P.S. to Lord Marischal.--Whatever party you take, be pleased to keep
my writing secret, and address to me at Venise to the Sig. Ignazio
Testori to Mr. de Villelongue under cover to a Banquier of that town,
and it will come safe to me.

'To Md. Henrietta Drummond.'


Charles, on April 20, wrote another letter to the Lord Marischal,
imploring for an interview, at some place to be fixed. But the old
Lord was not likely to go from Berlin to Venice, whither Charles was
hastening.

It is perfectly plain that, leaving Avignon on February 28, Charles
was making for Paris on March 6 by a circuitous route through
Lorraine (where he doubtless met Madame de Talmond), and a double
back on Burgundy. What he did or desired in Paris we do not know.
He is said to have visited Lally Tollendal, and he must have seen
Waters, his banker. By April 10 he is starting for Venice, where he
had, as a boy, been royally received. But, in 1744, the Republic of
Venice had resumed relations with England, interrupted by Charles's
too kind reception in 1737. The whole romance, therefore, of Henry
Goring's letter, and all the voyages to Stockholm, Berlin, Lithuania,
and so forth, are visions. Charles probably saw some friends in
Paris, was tolerated in Lorraine (where his father was protected
before 1715), and he vainly looked for a home in any secular State of
Europe. This was all, or nearly all, that occurred between March and
May 1749. Europe was fluttered, secret service money was poured out