like water, diplomatists caballed and scribbled despatches, all for
very little. The best place to have hunted for Charles was really at
Luneville, near the gay Court of his kinsman, the Duke Stanislas
Leczinski, the father of the Queen of France. There Charles's
sometime admirer, Voltaire, was a welcome guest; thither too (as we
saw) went his elderly cousin, people said his mistress, the Princesse
de Talmond. But the English diplomatists appear to have neglected
Luneville. D'Argenson was better informed.

On April 26 Charles was at Strasbourg. Here, D'Argenson says, he was
seen, and warned to go, by an ecuyer of the late Cardinal Rohan.
Hence he wrote again to the Earl Marischal at Berlin. From this note
it is plain that he had sent Goring ('Mr. Smith') to the Earl;
Goring, indeed, had carried his letters of April l0-20. He again
proposes a meeting with the Earl Marischal at Venice. He will
'answer for the expenses,' and apologises for 'such a long and
fatiguing journey.' He wrote to Waters, 'You may let Mr. Newton know
that whenever he has thoroly finished his Business, Mr. Williams [the
Prince] will make him very wellcum in all his Cuntrihouses.'

The 'business' of 'Mr. Newton' was to collect remittances from Cluny.

On April 30, the Prince, as 'Mr. Williams,' expresses 'his surprise
and impatience for the delay of the horses [money] and other goods
promised by Mr. Newton.'

On May 3, Charles wrote, without address, to Goring, 'I go strete to
Venice, and would willingly avoid your Garrison Towns, as much as
possible: id est, of France. I believe to compass that by goin by
Ruffach to Pfirt: there to wate for me. The Chese [chaise] you may