Methinks that the time is not far distant when it will be so.

I am, as you know, a Jacobite; but there is no shutting one's eyes to the fact that the cause is a lost one.

The expedition of James the Third, and still more that of Charles Edward, have caused such widespread misery among the Stuarts' friends that I cannot conceive that any further attempt of the same kind will be made.
"In fact, there is no one to make it.

The prince has lost almost all his friends, by his drunken habits and his quarrelsome and overbearing disposition.

He has gone from court to court as a suppliant, but has everywhere alienated the sympathies of those most willing to befriend him.