[23] Letters in Browne, iv. 64-66. Conceivably it was Goring who prejudiced the Earl against Kelly; he may have conveyed the ideas of Carte and the English party.

[24] See Sir Charles’s letter of February 6, 1751, in Pickle the Spy, p. 117.

[25] These letters are from the printed Correspondence of Frederick.

[26] Ewald, Charles Edward, ii. 223.

[27] The story was believed, however, by a contemporary who knew the Earl well.

[28] Mr. Bisset has printed these letters from the originals in the Add. MSS. British Museum.

[29] Fidei Defensor.

[30] From the correspondence of Hume. MSS. in the collection of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

[31] Hill Burton’s Hume, ii. 464-6.

[32] See[Mlle. Luci],’ later.