Dartmouth learned, with bitter grief and resentment, that the free Parliament, the general amnesty, the negotiation, were all parts of a great fraud on the nation, and that in this fraud he was expected to be an accomplice.

In a pathetic and manly letter he declared that he had already carried his obedience to the farthest point to which a Protestant and an Englishman could go.

To put the heir apparent of the British crown into the hands of Lewis would be nothing less than treason against the monarchy.

The nation, already too much alienated from the Sovereign, would be roused to madness.

The Prince of Wales would either not return at all, or would return attended by a French army.