with the Spanish Infanta, Lockhart, knowing all to be settled, had taken his farewell.

He was in London on the 14th of November, in the very crisis of the negotiation between Monk and the new Government, but remained only a fortnight.

Till Peace with Spain should be concluded by some means, his true place was at Dunkirk, for the recovery of which Spain would now certainly wrestle, while France would also bid high for the acquisition.

He left London for Dunkirk on the 1st of December, the issue between Monk and the new Government still undecided .-- While Lockhart was on the scene of the great negotiation between Mazarin and Luis de Haro on the Spanish border, there had been the surprise of the arrival there of no less a person than Charles II.himself.In August we left him waiting anxiously at Calais, ready to embark for England on the due explosion there of the great pre-arranged insurrection of the old Royalists and new Royalists.

He had lingered about the French coast for some time; but, when the revolt of Sir George Booth had collapsed, the notion of a new residence in Brussels after another of his failures had become disagreeable to him.