The Association in Scotland had written in early 1745 that it objected to a Jacobite rising if it was not supported by six thousand French soldiers; however, Lord Linton had been unable to find a safe way of transporting the letter to Charles.

Charles goes to Paris again in defiance of a French government ban of his presence there, determined to go to Scotland to force the French to back him.

Charles borrows forty thousand livres from Parisian banker George Walters (who later extends Charles' credit to one hundred and twenty thousand) to purchase broadswords.

The commander of the Irish Brigade of the French Army, Lord Clare, introduces Charles to Irish shipowners who agree to help him get to Scotland with money, volunteers and arms.

Sir Walter Ruttlidge gives Charles the captured sixty-four-gun British warship Elisabeth, which has on board one hundred volunteers from Clare's Regiment of the Irish Brigade, fifteen hundred muskets and eighteen hundred broadswords.

Charles' ship is to be the sixteen-gun privateer Du Teillay, which also had on board muskets, swords and four thousand louis d'or.