aussi.' He also wants 'Tom Jones' in French, and we may infer that
he is teaching to some fair pupil the language of Fielding. He asks,
too, for a razor-case with four razors, a shaving mirror, and a
strong pocket-book with a lock. His famous 'chese de post' (post-
chaise) is to be painted and repaired.

Business of a graver kind is in view. 'Newton' (April 24) is to get
ready to accompany the Prince on a long journey, really to England,
it seems. Newton asked for a delay, on account of family affairs.
He was only to be known to the bearer as 'Mr. Newton,' of course not
his real name.

On May 28, Charles makes a mote about a mysterious lady, really
Madame de Talmond.


Project.

'If ye lady abandons me at the last moment, to give her the letter
here following for ye F. K. [French King], and even ye original, if
she thinks it necessary, but with ye greatest secrecy; apearing to
them already in our confidence that I will quit the country, if she
does not return to me immediately.'

Drafts of letters to the French King, in connection with Madame de
Talmond--to be delivered, apparently, if Charles died in England--
will be given later. To England he was now bent on making his way.
'Ye Prince is determined to go over at any rate,' he wrote on a draft
of May 3, 1750. {97} 'The person who makes the proposal of coming
over assures that he will expose nobody but himself, supposing the