They suspected, and not without reason, that he was going, like them, to Saint Germains, but on a very different errand.

The truth was that Berwick had sent Maxwell to watch their motions and to traverse their designs.

Henry Luttrell, the least scrupulous of men, proposed to settle the matter at once by tossing the Scotchman into the sea.

But the Bishop, who was a man of conscience, and Simon Luttrell, who was a man of honour, objected to this expedient.
[80] Meanwhile at Limerick the supreme power was in abeyance.

Berwick, finding that he had no real authority, altogether neglected business, and gave himself up to such pleasures as that dreary place of banishment afforded.