either leve it in consine to your post-master of Belfort, or, what is
still better, to give it to the bearer.'

Goring and Harrington were to meet the bearer at Belfort, but
Harrington seems to have been mystified, and to have failed in
effecting a junction. The poor gentleman, we learn, from letters of
Stafford and Sheridan, Charles's retainers at Avignon, could scarcely
raise money to leave that town. Sir James Harrington was next to
meet Charles at Venice. He was to carry a letter for Charles to a
Venetian banker. 'Nota bene, that same banquier, though he will
deliver to me your letter, knows nothing about me, nor who I am. . .
. Change your name, and, in fine, keep as private as possible, till
I tell you what is to be done.' Harrington failed, and lay for
months in pawn at Venice, pouring out his griefs in letters to
Goring. He was a lachrymose conspirator.

These weary affairs are complicated by mysterious letters to ladies:
for example to Mademoiselle Lalasse, 'Je vous prie, Mademoiselle, de
rendre justice a mon inviolable attachement . . .' (May 3). He
gives her examples of his natural and of his disguised handwriting;
probably she helped him in forwarding his correspondence. Charles's
chief anxiety was to secure the Lord Marischal. Bulkeley and the
official English Jacobites kept insisting that he should have a man
with him who was trusted by the party. Kelly was distrusted, though
Bulkeley defends him, and was cashiered in autumn. Charles's friends
also kept urging that he must 'appear in public,' but where?
Bulkeley suggested Bologna. The Earl Marischal, later (July 5), was
for Fribourg. No place was really both convenient and possible. On
May 17 Charles wrote from Venice to the Earl Marischal, 'I am just
arrived, but will not be able for some days, to know what reception