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'They expect a Prince who will take advice, and rule according to law, and not one that thinks his will is sufficient. Charles replied as follows: Prince to Stouf. 'March 6, 1754. 'I received yours tother day and am sory to find by it yr Bad State of Health.
Do not go to Lisle, but stay at Coutray for my farther orders. I send you 50 Louisdors so that you may give ye Frenchman what is necessary. 'The little man' is, probably, Beson, who was also recalcitrant. Goring replies in the following very interesting letter. He considered his errand unworthy of a man of honour. From Stouf.
Goring answered, and here his part of the correspondence closes. Stouf to the Prince. 'May 16. 'I recd ye most gracious letter you honoured me with dated ye 10th. of this present, and must beg your pardon if I do not rightly understand ye Contents; first it is so different from ye Orders you were pleased to send me by Mr.
Goring wrote in these terms: Stouf to Charles. 'May 5, 1754. 'It is now five years since I had ye honour of waiting on you in a particular manner, having made your interest my only study, neglecting everything that regarded myself. The people I have negotiated your business with, will do me the justice to own what you seem to deny, that I have honourably acquitted myself of my charge.
Again, on November 12, he writes to Goring: To Mr. Stouf. 'November 12. 'I am extremely concerned for yr health, and you cannot do me a greater Cervice than in taking care of yrself for I am not able to spare any of my true friends. Dr. King, as we have said, accuses Charles of AVARICE. Charles II., in exile, would not, he says, have left a friend in want.
My prayers and wishes shall ever attend you, and since I am able to do you no more good I will never do you any harm, but remain most faithfully yours Charles answered angrily: 'May 10, 1754. 'Sir, I have yrs of ye 5th. May Directed "For His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Signed Stouf."
'Je me flatte qu'en cette Nouvelle Annee vous vous corrigerez, en attendant je suis come je serois toujours, avec toutte la tendresse et amitie possible, C. P. It is, of course, just possible that, from October 1750 to February 1751, Charles was in Germany, trying to form relations with Frederick the Great. Goring, under the name of 'Stouf, was certainly working in Germany.
Charles might have been expected to answer this very frank letter in a fury of anger. He kept his temper, and replied thus: The Prince to Stouf. 'January 18, 1754. 'Sir, I received yours of ye 13th. Current, and am resolved not to discard any of my Cervants, that is to say, for ye present . . .
Dormer also reproached Charles for impatiently urging his adherents to instant action. Goring, as 'Stouf, wrote the following explicit letter from Paris on January 13, 1754. As we shall see, he had been forbidden by the French Government to come within fifty leagues of the capital, and the Bastille gaped for him if he was discovered.
I hope that this letter will not find you in Paris. I have little doubt that the 'repugnances' of 'Madame La Grandemain' were concerned with the bringing of Miss Walkinshaw to the Prince. The person who is in danger of losing the Prince's favour is clearly Goring, figuring under the name of 'Stouf, and, at this moment, with 'Madame La Grandemain' in the country.
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