But it was also well known that there was one subject which would require the most dexterous and delicate management.

The cry of the blood shed more than three years before in Glencoe had at length made itself heard.

Towards the close of the year 1693, the reports, which had at first been contemptuously derided as factious calumnies, began to be generally thought deserving of serious attention.

Many people little disposed to place confidence in any thing that came forth from the secret presses of the Jacobites owned that, for the honour of the government, some inquiry ought to be instituted.

The amiable Mary had been much shocked by what she heard.