Industrious Friedrich had tried, on the other side of this affair, Whether the King of Sardinia, once an adventurous fighting kind of man, could not be stirred up, having interests involved?
But no; he too, grown old, devotional, apprehensive, held by his rosaries, and answered, No.

Here is again a hope reasonable to look at, but which proves fallacious.
Marischal continued in Spain, corresponding, sending news (the Prussian Archives alone know what), for nearly a couple of years.

[Returned "April, 1762" (Friedrich's Letter to him, "10th April, 1762:" in _OEuvres de Frederic,_ xx.

285).] His Embassy had one effect, which is of interest to us here.

On his way out, he had gone by London, with a view of getting legal absolution for his Jacobitism,--so far, at least, as to be able to inherit the Earldom of Kintore, which is likely to fall vacant soon.