...outlawry in case of his failure. Of this Wharton himself speaks with much unconcern. He writes to James, " I had rather carry a musket in an odd'' named Muscovite regiment, than wallow in riches by t( the favour of the usurper I am told, from good u hands, that I am to be intercepted by the enemy...

...To Lord Inverness he writes, on the 8th of June, 1726 : I had rather carry a musket in an odd-named Muscovite regiment than wallow in riches by the favour of the usurper. I set out infallibly on Tuesday next, and hope to be with you in three weeks, wind, weather, Moors, and...

...To Lord Inverness he writes, on the 8th of June, 1726 : I had rather carry a musket in an odd-named Muscovite regiment than wallow in riches by the favour of the usurper. I set out in• DUKE OF WHARTON. 217 fallibly on Tuesday next, and hope to be with you in three weeks,...

...ascribed his banishment to Ripperda, but gallantly declared to King James (June 8) that " he would rather carry a musket in an odd named Muscovite regiment than wallow in riches by favour of the usurper." He went to Rotterdam and, after some continental wandering, arrived in Vienna,...