As for James, it seems--at this date of the proceedings, with the sentence as good as pronounced--he has no hope but in the King's mercy.

May not his Majesty, then, be more pointedly addressed, the characters of these high officers sheltered from the public, and myself kept out of a position which I think spells ruin for me ?" They all sat and gazed into their glasses, and I could see they found my attitude on the affair unpalatable.

But Miller was ready at all events.
"If I may be allowed to put our young friend's notion in more formal shape," says he, "I understand him to propose that we should embody the fact of his sequestration, and perhaps some heads of the testimony he was prepared to offer, in a memorial to the Crown.

This plan has elements of success.

It is as likely as any other (and perhaps likelier) to help our client.