will be certain that, if he fails, it is because success is
impossible.' {83}

This letter was likely to please a romantic girl, as we may suppose
Mademoiselle Ferrand to have been, despite her philosophy.

Stafford and Sheridan now kept writing pitiful appeals for money from
Avignon. Charles answers (July 31, 1749):

'I wish I were in a situation at present to relive them I estime, in
an exotick cuntry that desiers nothing else but to exercise their
arbitrary power in distressing all honest men, even them that [are]
most allies to their own Soverain.'

Charles, in fact, was himself very poor: when money came in, either
from English adherents or from the Loch Arkaig hoard, he sent large
remittances to Avignon.

Money did come in, partly, no doubt, from English adherents. We find
the following orders from the Prince to Colonel Goring.


From the Prince to Goring.

'Ye 31st July, 1749.

'I gave you Lately a proof of my Confidence, by our parting together
from Avignion, so that you will not be surprized of a New Instance.
You are to repair on Receipt of this to London, there to Let know to
such friends as you can see, my situation, and Resolutions; all