'Newton' kept writing, meanwhile, that Cluny can do nothing till
winter, 'on account of the sheilings,' the summer habitations of the
pastoral Highlanders. There may have been sheilings near the hiding-
places of the Loch Arkaig treasure. On September 30 we find Charles
professing his inebranlable amitie for Madame de Talmond. He bids
his courier stop at Luneville, as she may be at the Court of
Stanislas there.

The results of Goring's mission to England may be gleaned from a
cypher letter of 'Malloch' (Balhaldie) to James. Balhaldie had been
in London; he found the party staunch, 'but frighted out of their
wits.' The usual names of the official Jacobites are given--
Barrymore, Sir William Watkyns Wynne, and Beaufort. But they are all
alarmed 'by Lord Traquair's silly indiscretion in blabbing to Murray
of Broughton of their concerns, wherein he could be of no use.' They
had summoned Balhaldie, and complained of the influence of Kelly, an
adviser bequeathed to Charles by his old tutor, Sir Thomas Sheridan,
now dead. 'They saw well that the Insurrection Sir James Harrington
was negotiating, to be begun at Litchfield Election and Races, in
September '47, was incouraged, and when that failed, the Insurrection
attempted by Lally's influence on one Wilson, a smuggler in Sussex,
which could serve no end save the extinction of the unhappy men
concerned in them; therefore they had taken pains to prevent any.
They lamented the last steps the Prince had taken here as scarcely
reparable.'

Goring had now been with them, and they had insisted on the Prince's
procuring a reconciliation with the French Court. 'Goring's only
business was to say that the Prince had parted with Kelly, Lally, Sir
James Graeme, and Oxburgh, and the whole, and to assure friends in