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received fresh respites, and lived in London as if in his own
country, veil received everywhere. Being informed that these
respites would never cease, he lived thus several years, and
died very old, a natural death. The other prisoners were
equally well treated.

It was in this expedition that the King of England first
assumed the title of the Chevalier de St. George, and that his
enemies gave him that of the Pretender; "both of which have
remained to him. He showed much will and firmness, which
he spoiled by a, docility the result of a bad education, austere
and confined, that devotion, ill understood, together with the
desire of maintaining him in fear and dependence, caused the
Queen (who, with all her sanctity, always wished to dominate)
to give him. He asked to serve in the next campaign in
Flanders, and wished to go there at once, or remain Bear
Dunkerque. Service was promised him, but he was made to
return to St. Germain. Hough, who had been, made a peer of
Ireland before starting, preceded him. with the journals of the
voyage, and that of Forbin, to whom the King gave a
thousand crowns pension and ten thousand as a recompense.

The King of England arrived at St. Germain on Friday the
20th of April, and came with the Queen, the following Sunday,,
to Marly, where our King was. The two Kings embraced
each other several times, in the presence of the two Courts. But
the visit altogether was a sad one. The Courts, which met in
the garden, returned towards the Chateau, exchanging indif-
ferent words in an indifferent way.

Middletoa was strongly suspected of having acquainted the
English with our project. They acted, at all events, as if they
had been informed of everything, and wished to appear to know
nothing. They made a semblance of sending their fleet to
escort a convoy to Portugal; they got in readiness the few
troops they had in England and sent them towards Scotland;
and the Queen, under various pretexts, detained in London,
until the affair had failed, the Duke of Hamilton, the most
powerful Scotch lord, and the life and soul of the expedition.
When all was over, she made no arrests, and wisely avoided