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They asked for aid, and the scene, as described by the spy Macallester, on Clancarty's information, was curious. D'Argenson taunted the Lord Marischal with not being at Charles's side in Scotland. To the slovenly Clancarty he said, 'Sir, your wig is ill-combed. Would you like to see my perruquier?
'Some unworthy people have had the insolence to attack my character. . . . Conscious of my conduct I despise their low malice. . . . I have long desired a churchman at your hands to attend me, but my expectations have hitherto been disappointed. Soon he returned to the Mass, as we learn from Macallester. He was ill and poor.
He was very fond of children, and Macallester, who hated him, declares that, when hiding in the Highlands, he would amuse himself by playing with the baby of a shepherd's wife. None the less, his habits made him no proper guardian of his own little girl.
Lascelles Wraxall, again, in Remarkable Adventures , says: 'Whatever truth there may be in Saint-Germain's travels in England and the East Indies, it is indubitable that, for from 1745 to 1755, he was a man of high position in Vienna, while in Paris he does not appear, according to Wraxall, till 1757, having been brought from Germany by the Maréchal de Belle-Isle, whose 'old boots, says Macallester the spy, Prince Charles freely damned, 'because they were always stuffed with projects. Now we hear of Saint-Germain, by that name, as resident, not in Vienna, but in London, at the very moment when Prince Charles, evading Cumberland, who lay with his army at Stone, in Staffordshire, marched to Derby.
Progress of Pickle Charles's last resource Cluny called to Paris The Loch Arkaig hoard History of Cluny Breaks his oath to King George Jacobite theory of such oaths Anecdote of Cluny in hiding Charles gives Pickle a gold snuff-box 'A northern Asks for a pension Death of Old Glengarry Pickle becomes chief The curse of Lochgarry Pickle writes from Edinburgh His report Wants money Letter from a 'Court Trusty' Pickle's pride Refused a fowling- piece English account of Pickle His arrogance and extortion Charles's hopes from France Macallester the spy The Prince's false nose Pickle still unpaid His candour Charles and the Duc de Richelieu A Scottish deputation James Dawkins publicly abandons the Prince Dawkins's character The Earl Marischal denounces Charles He will not listen to Cluny Dismisses his servants Sir Horace Mann's account of them 'The boy that is lost' English rumours Charles declines to lead attack on Minorca Information from Macallester Lord Clancarty's attacks on the Prince On Lochgarry Macallester acts as a prison spy Jesuit conspiracy against Charles.
Macallester next proses endlessly on the alleged Jesuit connection with Damien's attack on Lous XV., and insists that the Jesuits, nobody knows why, meant to assassinate Prince Charles. He was in very little danger from Jesuits!
Minor spies are tracked here and there, as Rob Roy's son, James Mohr Macgregor, Samuel Cameron, and Oliver Macallester. English machinations against the Prince's life and liberty are unveiled. His utter decadence is illustrated, and we leave him weary, dishonoured, and abandoned. 'A sair, sair altered man Prince Charlie cam' hame' to Rome; and the refusal there of even a titular kingship.
Macallester called Murray a card-sharper, and was himself lodged in prison on a lettre de cachet. Murray wrote, of the Irish, 'their bulls and stupidity one can forgive, but the villainy and falsity of their hearts is unpardonable. Scotch and Irish bickerings, a great cause of the ruin in 1745, broke out again on the slightest gleam of hope.
There was not much to be got out of the Highlanders, a race of men who can drink and hold their tongues. 'Not the smallest artickle has been performed of what was expected and at first promised. Pickle was useless now in Scotland, and remained unsalaried; so ungrateful are kings. The centre of Jacobite interest now was France. Turn we to Mr. Macallester for more minute indications.
Lascelles Wraxall, again, in Remarkable Adventures , says: "Whatever truth there may be in Saint-Germain's travels in England and the East Indies, it is undubitable that, for from 1745 to 1755, he was a man of high position in Vienna," while in Paris he does not appear, according to Wraxall, till 1757, having been brought from Germany by the Marechal de Belle-Isle, whose "old boots," says Macallester the spy, Prince Charles freely damned, "because they were always stuffed with projects."
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