Mr. Crane could
give no account why the advice of your friends was not
followed, but Mr. Lindsay made no secret of it after he came
back from St. Germain's, but informed us that, after he had
delivered to [the] Earl of Melfort the letters and advices
of your friends at London to your Majesty, his Lordship kept
him retired, and he was not suffered to attend you--fearing
that what he had written to your Majesty relating to his
Lordship might spoil his project of going to Ireland with
you. We had observed at London the great aversion men of all
professions had at his being employed, and we knew he was in
no better esteem in his own country, which made us entreat
your Majesty to leave him in France, and some, upon his own
account, advised his not coming over, knowing the danger he
might be in; but his Lordship either suppressed our letters
or gave our advices another turn than was intended, by which
all our hopes of succeeding in the Convention vanished, nor
was ever seen so great an alteration as was observed at the
next meeting after your letter was read, which made all your
friends resolve to leave Edinburgh and to call a Convention
of Estates at Stirling, as your Majesty had given the
Archbishop of St.
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