How the Pretender's enterprise ended we all know. He does not appear to have been particularly attentive to his late host, the Duke of Lorraine. On the 24th of October he sent him a formal farewell; but on the 7th November we have the Duke stating as a grievance that he is without news. During November we find people in Paris growing remarkably confident. On the 2d of December Lord Stair complains that "_les plus sages à la Cour_" are just again beginning to treat the Chevalier as Pretender. Until two days before he was "King of England" to every one in Paris, "_et tout le monde avoit levé le masque_." There was not a single Frenchman, having any connection with the Court, who so much as set foot in Stair's house. Everybody thought that the Stuart cause was about to triumph. But the 11th of January, 1716, saw James back at Gravelines, "_d'où il repassa en Lorraine_," say the MSS. in the _Archives Nationales_. Mrs Strickland will have it that he went to Paris, where Bollingbroke advised him to go straight into Lorraine, without first asking leave of the Duke--which advice he did not follow. Independent Lorrain sources state that he passed through Lorraine, "_courant la poste a 9 chevaux_." As he had left all his goods and chattels at Bar-le-Duc, that seems the more likely version. Before his departure Duke Leopold had assured the Pretender that his dominions would always be open to him, and that he "_pourroit compter sur luy en tout ce qui en pourroit dependre_." In March, however, under altered circumstances, we find him advising Queen Mary Beatrice "for the second time," that he cannot again receive her son into his duchy. The Pretender himself seems to have taken the first warning. For we read in the 'Gazette de Hollande' that his _Domestiques et Equipages_ were removed from Bar to Paris in February. According to M. Konarski (I have not verified the entry in the archives, but it is doubtless correct) James left Bar on the 9th of February, "_sans adresser ses remerciments et ses adieux au duc Leopold_," says Noel; "_comme un escroc vulgaire_," says M. Konarski. "_Ne se contentant pas de largent que Léopold lui donnait il emprunta des sommes assez fortes aux seigneurs et partit sans les rembourser._" The sum of 15,000 francs paid to his friend M. de Bassompierre, which appears in the official accounts, is only one such debt. "_Cette ingratitude de la part du Chevalier de Saint Georges_," adds Noel, "_indignait toute la Cour_." People spoke to Leopold about it. "Gentlemen," said the Duke, "you forget that this Prince is in misfortune, and that he was a king." On another occasion he remarked to M. Bardin:--"He has done me justice; he has thought that I have simply performed my duty in assisting an unfortunate."