He died with manly fortitude.
[12] Elliot was not brought to trial.

The evidence against him was not quite so clear as that on which his associates had been convicted; and he was not worth the anger of the government.

The fate of Preston was long in suspense.

The Jacobites affected to be confident that the government would not dare to shed his blood.

He was, they said, a favourite at Versailles, and his death would be followed by a terrible retaliation.
They scattered about the streets of London papers in which it was asserted that, if any harm befell him, Mountjoy, and all the other Englishmen of quality who were prisoners in France, would be broken on the wheel.