nce; he is such a fellow that I'm afraid it will do little
good.

"I have nothing else material to say just now, but I cannot give
over without telling a thing which I'm sure will please you--that
the longer one knows the King the better he's liked, and the more
good qualities are found in him; that of good-nature is very
eminent, and so much good sense that he might be a first minister to
any king in Europe, had he not been born a king himself. He has
allowed Neil Campbell to go to Edinburgh t'other day on his parole,
he being ill, and it was with so much good nature that was evident
in his doing of it, that it charmed me. I wish you could get notice
how Neil represents it or expresses himself when he gets there; for
I wrote it at length to the gentleman who wrote to me about him.
Adieu.

"If people from S----q be designing to come to us, they should
either do it soon or give us assurances of doing it soon as we are
in view of each other; and these assurances must be such that we can
depend on, for our conduct must in a great measure be regulated by
what we expect that way.

"It were highly necessary that methods and measures were concerted
for the right way of doing this, which you should let such of them
as you know are so trusted know, and it is absolutely necessary that
they either send one to me about this, or let me know it certainly
some other way, that we may not be drawing different ways when we
are designing the same thing.

"We have no return of the last message which was sent to the good
man of the house you wrote of, and t'is above eight days ago. I
believe he designs right, tho' t'is odd."

The enthusiasm which was at first displayed towards the Chevalier was
soon cooled, not only by his grave and discouraging aspect, but by his
fearless and impolitic display of his religious faith. He never allowed
any Protestant even to say grace for him, but employed his own confessor
"to repeat the Pater nosters and Ave Marias:" and he also shewed an
invincible objection to the usual coronation oath,--a circumstance which
deferred the ceremony of coronation,--Bishop Mosse declaring that he
would not consent to crown him unless that oath were taken. This
sincerity of disposition--for it cannot be called by a more severe
name--especially diminished the affections of the Chevalier's female
episcopal friends,