to meet with.' He fears he 'may be chased from hence,' and his fears
were justified. On the same day (May 17) he wrote to Edgar in Rome,
'Venice, next to France, is the best for my interest, and the only
one in Italy.'

Venice ejected the Prince. On May 26 he wrote to his father:

'Sir,--I received last night from ye Nuntio a definitive answer about
my project, which is quite contrary to my expectation; as I have
nothing further to do here, and would not run the least risk of being
found out, I depart this very evening, having left a direction to the
said Nuntio how to forward my letters for me.' On the same day he
wrote to Chioseul de Stainville, the minister at Versailles of the
Empress, 'Could an anonymous exiled Prince be received by the Kaiser
and the Queen of Hungary? He would remain incognito.'

On June 3 Charles wrote to James, without address or news, and to
Bulkeley. 'Now my friend must skulk to the perfect dishonour and
glory of his worthy relations, until he finds a reception fitting at
home or abroad.' On the back of the draft he writes:

'What can a bird do that has not found a right nest? He must flit
from bough to bough--ainsi use les Irondel.'

Probably Charles, after a visit, perhaps, to Ferrara, returned to
Paris and his Princess. We find a draft thus conceived and spelled:


'ARRENGEMENT.