The doctor, having an entire confidence in the chaplain, talked very freely to him about the object of his journey, and engaged him, if there should be occasion, to second his applications.

At last, the general arrives; the brothers embrace; and after some preliminary conversation, the doctor opens his business.

Monk interrupted him, to know whether he had ever before to any body mentioned the subject.

"To nobody," replied his brother, "but to Price, whom I know to be entirely in your confidence." The general, altering his countenance, turned the discourse; and would enter into no further confidence with him, but sent him away with the first opportunity.

He would not trust his own brother the moment he knew that he had disclosed the secret, though to a man whom he himself could have trusted.[*] * Lord Lansdowne's Defence of General Monk.
His conduct in all other particulars was full of the same reserve and prudence; and no less was requisite for effecting the difficult work which he had undertaken.