[1328] Vide Charles’s letter, and the answer, among the Stuart Papers.
[1329] Letter of 10th February, 1747.
[1330] Vide the two papers presented by Sempil to the Chevalier de St. George in February 1748, among the Stuart Papers.
[1331] Charles wished his father, on Lochiel’s appointment, to present the chief with a patent of peerage, which, with other patents, had been made out but kept latent. This James declined, as he thought that, by declaring Lochiel’s patent, he would disgust many deserving people, and particularly the other Highland chiefs. He very properly observed that Lochiel’s interest and reputation in his own country, and his being at the head of a regiment in France, would give him more consideration there than any empty title he could bestow.—Letter from James to Charles, 7th November, 1747, among Stuart Papers.
[1332] Letter to M. de Puyzieux, among the Stuart Papers.
[1333] Letter, Charles to his father, 13th May, 1748, Stuart Papers.
[1334] The Earl of Essex and Lord Cathcart, hostages sent to France until the restitution by Great Britain of Cape Breton.
[1335] Letter,—Charles to the Duke de Gesvres, among the Stuart Papers.
[1336] Authentic Account, p. 51.
[1337] Another account (G. Charles’s Transactions in Scotland) says that the material for binding was ten ells of crimson silk cord. This looks far more probable; if the major wished to make the binding of the prince effectual, “silk ribbon” would have been ridiculous. Still the anonymous letter referred to below is so circumstantial as to call it “a black ribbon, three fingers broad, and thirty-six ells long.”