rt and indignant when the old soldier refused to
sanction such an audacious plan.

Charles had seen enough of hanging about foreign courts and depending
on their wavoring policy; he was determined to strike a blow for
himself. In Paris he was surrounded by restless spirits like his own;
Scots and Irish officers in the French service, and heart-broken exiles
like old Tullibardine, eager for any chance that would restore them to
their own country. Even prudent men of business lent themselves to
Charles's plans. His bankers in Paris advanced him 180,000 livres for
the purchase of arms, and of two Scottish merchants at Nantes, Walsh and
Routledge, one undertook to convey him to Scotland in a brig of eighteen
guns, the 'Doutelle,' while the other chartered a French man-of-war, the
'Elizabeth,' to be the convoy, and to carry arms and ammunition. To
provide these Charles had pawned his jewels, jewels which 'on _this_
side I could only wear with a very sad heart,' he wrote to his father;
for the same purpose he would gladly have pawned his shirt. On June 22
he started from the mouth of the Loire in all haste and secrecy, only
writing for his father's blessing and sanction when he knew it would be
too late for any attempt to be made to stop him. The companions of his
voyage were the old Marquis of Tullibardine, who had been deprived of
his dukedom of Athol in the '15; the Prince's tutor and cousin, Sir
Thomas Sheridan, a rather injudicious Irishman; two other Irishmen in
the French and Spanish services; Kelly, a young English divine; and
Aeneas Macdonald, a banker in Paris, and younger brother of the chieftain
Macdonald of Kinloch Moidart, a prudent young man, who saw himself
involved in the Prince's cause very much against his will and better
judgment.

II

PRINCE CHARLIE'S LANDING

ENGLAND and France being at war at this time, the Channel was constantly
swept by English men-of-war. The 'Doutelle' and her convoy were hardly
four days out before the 'Elizabeth' was attacked by an English frigate,
the 'Lion.' Knowing _who_ it was he had on board, Walsh, the prudent
master of the 'Doutelle,' would by no means consent to join in the fray,
and sheered off to the north in spite of the commands and remonstrances
of the Prince. The unfortunate 'Elizabeth' was so much disabled that she
had to return to Brest, taking with her most of the arms and ammunition
for the expedition. At night the 'Doutelle' sailed without a light and
kep