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know them for what they are. But I can point them outancl can furnish ample proofs of their guilt.” lie thennamed Berwick. For the English Government, which hadbeen willing to make large allowances for Berwick’s pe-culiar position as long as he confined himself to acts ofopen and manly hostility, conceived that he had forfeitedall claim to indulgence by becoming privy to the Assassi-nation Plot. This man, Portland said, constantly hauntedVersailles. Barclay, whose guilt was of a still deeper dye,— Barclay, the chief contriver of the murderous am-buscade of Turnliam Green, — had found in France, notonly an asylum, but an honourable military position. Themonk who was sometimes called Harrison and sometimeswent by the alias of Johnson, but who, whether Harrisonor Johnson, had been one of the earliest and one of themost bloodthirsty of Barclay’s accomplices, was now com-fortably settled as prior of a religious house in France.Lewis denied or evaded all these charges. “I never,” hesaid, “ heard of your Harrison. As to Barclay, he certainlyonce had a company: but it has been disbanded; and whatlias become of him I do not know. It is true that Berwickwas in London towards the close of 1695; but he was thereonly for the purpose of ascertaining whether a descent onEngland was practicable: and I am confident that he wasno party to any cruel and dishonourable design.” Intruth Lewis had a strong personal motive for defendingBerwick. The guilt of Berwick as respected the As-sassination Plot does not appear to have extended beyond