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 CULLODEN PAPERS: 
 
 COMPRISING 
 
 AN EXTEXSn'E AXD IXTERESTIXG CORRESPOXDEXCE 
 
 TROM THE YEAR 1625 TO 17-18 ; 
 
 ISCLUDIXG 
 
 NUHEROrs LETTERS FROM THE rXFORTlNATE LORD LOVAT, 
 AND OTHER DISTINGLISHED TERSONS OF THE TI3IE ; 
 WITH OCCASIONAL STATE PAPERS OF MUCH HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE. 
 
 THE WHOLE PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGIN.ALS 
 
 < 
 IN THE POSSESSION OF 
 
 DUNC.\N GEORGE FORBES, of CULLODEN, Esq. 
 
 TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, 
 
 AX IXTRODUCTIOX, 
 
 COXTAININ'G 
 
 Memoirs of the Right Honourable JJuncaji Forbes, 
 
 ManvYcars Lord President of the Court of Ses:?i<m in Scotland. 
 
 ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS. 
 
 ' And You may then revolve what tales I have tdd you 
 Of couns, of princes, of the tricks in war : 
 That service is not service, so being done, 
 But being so allow'd : To apprehend thus. 
 Draws us a profit from all things we see : 
 And often, to our comfort, shall we find 
 The sbarded beetle in a safer hold 
 Than is the fiill-wingd eagle. O, this life 
 Is nobler, than attending for a check; 
 Richer, than doing nothing for a bauble ; 
 Prouder, than rustling in unpaid-for silk." Cvmbeline. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 PEIXTED jOli T. CADELL AND Vi. DAVIES, IX THE STRAND. 
 
 1815. -
 
 A. StnTian, 
 Piintexs-Stieet, London,
 
 C 5^ 
 
 TO 
 
 CHARLES GRAaT Esquire, 
 
 MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE OUXTY OF IX\'ERNESS, 
 
 Ajn» 
 
 CHAIRMAN OF THE COURT O' DIRECTORS 
 
 THE HONOURABLE EAST INDA COMPANY, 
 
 1 
 
 THIS VOLUME 
 
 IS DEDICATED, 
 WITH SENTIMENTS OF THE HIGHESTRESPECT. 
 
 '■^ ■_> v^- ~t -» >
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 PREFACES have, generally, one of three objects ; either to solicit 
 favour, to apologize for defects, or to afford explanation. The fol- 
 lowing pages may, perhaps, require a short notice with more than one 
 of those views. 
 
 After the death of the Lord President Forbes, in 174/, a period of 
 nearly 40 years elapsed, during which his son and grandson made only 
 short and unfrequent visits to Scotland ; and there is every probabilitv, 
 that not the nature only, but even the very existence of these Papers, 
 had eluded recollection. Certain it is, that they must have narrowly 
 escaped desti-uction by a fire which consumed the old castle of Culloden 
 about thirty years ago. 
 
 'VMien ]\Ir. Home was writing his " History of the Rebellion of 1745," 
 he either had been infonned, or conjectured, that important documents 
 relative to his subject might be found in the possession of the Culloden 
 family. With tliis view, he paid a ^asit to the Highlands in the autumn of 
 1791 ; and it is extremely unlikely, from the acknowleged liberality of the 
 Proprietor, that, had the existence of the Papers been then known, he 
 would have been disappointed in the object of his jouruev. A reference, 
 however, to liis publication will show, that he did not derive any material 
 advantage from his visit at Culloden House. 
 
 About five years since, a similar anxiety for information occasioned a 
 partial search to be made by a gentleman of eruflition, in the county of 
 Inverness, at the instance of a friend in the South of Scotland. On this 
 occasion, a small nmnber of Papers were procured and transmitted ; but 
 the undertaking, for the purpose of which the search had been made, 
 having been relinquished, the documents were returned with the same 
 handsome alacrity with which they had been granted. It is retdly 
 
 A 2 extraordinary.
 
 IV PREFACE. 
 
 esfraordinan-, that this partial disco^•e^^' of Papers clld not lead to a 
 more careful investigation. The design of publishing a book, however, is 
 not among those most frec[uently entertained by comitiy Gentlemen ; 
 and, admitting that it might have occmred to some acquamtance of 
 the family who was more immediately attached to literari' pursuits, it 
 must also be allowed, that there is a considerable delicacy to be over- 
 come, before a Gentleman can request a free mspection of family papers. 
 
 , But for an accident, the mention of which would be wholly uninterest- 
 ing to the public, it is probable, that the Cullodex Papers would still 
 have remained in the obscurity and oblivion, into wliich inadvertence had 
 tlu^o^ii them. In exploring some dark and unfrequented recesses of the 
 House of Culloden for purposes of a very different nature, in the year 1812, 
 two large chests and tlu'ee sacks Avere found, containing the materials, a 
 careful selection from which forms the contents of the present volume : 
 mingled, without the least order, or indication of previous inspection, with 
 the lumber of local and uninteresting documents, of useless accounts, 
 trivial memoranda, and law papers, of all dates witliin the last 200 years. 
 
 From this chaotic mass of Manuscripts, a selection of what was 
 considered as best calculated to subsene the pui*pose of historv' was 
 made, and put to the press in chronological succession. The Editor, 
 however, had frequent occasions to regi'et, that many of the Papers 
 were either Letters requiring Answers, to wliich no Answers could be 
 found ; or Answers to Letters that seemed to ha\e no existence ; or, 
 again. Letters refemng to others which could not be traced. 
 
 ^Mien the printing had been far advanced, this circvunstance, so much 
 to be regretted, induced a more eager search, and a hamper of similar 
 Papers was brought to light. It was impossible, however, now to 
 interfere with the clu^onological order that had been adopted : and it 
 was deemed expechent to fonii a second part of the Collection, imder 
 the name of Addenda ; to recommence, like the former, according to 
 their dates ; which would furnish an easy clew to the Reader, for 
 connecting and associating Papers, on similai* subjects, that had been 
 printed in the former part of the Volume. Of these last Papers, not a 
 
 few
 
 PREFACE. V 
 
 few may, perhaps, be found even more interesting than those which had 
 been previously inserted. 
 
 The Editor hopes that he ma}' be allowed to deprecate any displeasure 
 being felt by Noblemen or Gentlemen of the present day, on account of 
 the mention incidentally made of their ancestors, &c. To have omitted 
 their names altogether, would have destroyed the interest of the Letters ; 
 and to have inserted them by initials only, would, without answering 
 any purpose of concealment, have seemed to intimate, that they did not 
 appear in a creditable point of new ; wliich, in many instances, will be 
 far from the con\iction of liberal minds, that can connect circumstances 
 with the times in ^vhich they happened. The expressions which one 
 man employs in writing of another, are often far from being those of 
 his sericus sentiments : allowance must be made for momentary imta- 
 tion, for conflicting interests, and for what, perhaps, is esteemed address 
 and dexterity in pushing on the business of life. Amongst other instances, 
 we may particularize the notice (in page 33) which Lord Lovat takes of 
 his neighbours and kinsmen in the Aird : so far from his real sentiments 
 being those expressed in his letter, it is well knomi that he gloried in 
 those gentlemen being part of his clan, and that he knew they were 
 men of handsome independent estates (situated in the fairest chstrict of 
 the Highlands), and of education and honour ; and of all the various 
 circumstances upon which his Lordship piqued himself, the distinction 
 of being the head of these very Barons was by far the dearest to his 
 heart. jNIany other instances might, if necessary, be quoted, in which 
 the momentary expression of anger or contempt could be resolved into 
 the same want of temper or of sincerity. 
 
 As to the tendency of many of the Highland chieftains and their clans 
 in favour of the exiled family, whatever opinions divided the kingdom at 
 fhaf time, this cannot uoiv be a subject requiring vindication ; and if it raise 
 a glow upon the faces of their descendants, it is not likely to be the blush 
 of shame. EiTor may be produced by the excess of the noble, as well 
 as by that of the baser passions ; but wliile courage, disinterestedness, 
 generosity, fidelity, compassion, and gratitude for former benefits be- 
 stowed, shall continue to be esteemed among the human virtues, the 
 
 actions
 
 Vi PREFACE. 
 
 actions of their father? and of their adherents Tieed not in future create 
 unpleasiiiff sensations. Time, which birries in promiscuous ruin and 
 oblivion the hojies and fears of mankind, has long disanned tliis subject 
 of its acrimonv, and justly appreciated its merits. Of late, we have 
 seen our venerable Monarch liberally assisting the last heir oi the ancient 
 rivals of his House, during the downfall whereinto France had plunged 
 the Church, of which he was one of the pillars, and liimself ; and we 
 know, that the latest moments of this solitary" representative of that 
 House, so Ions piu^ued by misfoitimc. were employed in declaring his 
 willing resignation of its long unavailing pretensions, and in blessing 
 THAT FA3XILT to whose geiierositv he had been so deeply indebted. 
 
 March i, i8ij.
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 NuMBKR Pace. 
 
 I. "PETITION of Duncan Forbes, in the 
 X name of the Inhabitants of the Town 
 of Inverness - - - - 1 
 
 II. — P* B. of Koss to the Council of Inver- 
 ness, dated London, 17th March 1626 2 
 III. — Sir William Alexander, to the Baillies, 
 Council, and Committee, of the Burgh 
 of Inverness, dated Whitehall, the '2S"' 
 of March 1 626 ... ibid. 
 
 IV.— P^ B. of Ross to the Hon'''' Duncan 
 
 Forbes, dated London, 22d of April 1626 3 
 V. — Petition from Duncan Forbes, Provost 
 of Inverness, in the name of the Inha- 
 bitants of that town, to King Charles 
 the First - - - - 4 
 
 VI. — From Mr. Middleton to the Marquis of 
 Argjle. Dated from Knockhall, 1 4th 
 Janry 1646 - - - 5 
 
 VII. — Address to the Lords, &c. assembled in 
 Parliament, Dated Invernes, 9'*^ Feb> 
 1649 - - - - 6 
 
 VIII. — Act of the Commission of the Gene- 
 ral Assembly, made at the West Kirk 
 of Edinburgh . - . ibid. 
 
 IX. — Ordinance from the King's Majestic for 
 
 John Forbes - - -7 
 
 X. — Pass for Mr. Duncan Forbes, granted by 
 
 Oliver Cromwell, dated 1 7"' Sept' 1 65 1 8 
 XI. — A Protection from General Monck ibid. 
 XII. — Petition of Duncan Forbes, and John 
 Forbes his Son, for a continuance of 
 abatements, on account of their loss at 
 the time of Montrose - - ibid. 
 
 XIII. — The answer of the Council to the 
 
 Petition from the Shire of Inverness - 9 
 XTV. — George Monck Esq'' to Auditor Ge- 
 nerall Thompson, dated from Dalkieth, 
 16'''Feb> 1657-8 - - - 10 
 
 XV. — Licence to John Forbes, of Culloden, 
 
 for Lent . - . - ibid. 
 
 XVI.— Sir John Hill, to Mr. John Forbes, 
 of Culloden, dated Dublin Castle, 14"' 
 Feby 1676 ... .Hid. 
 
 XVII. — Declaration of the Earl of Argyll - 11 
 XVIII.— Pass from the Earle of Melville - 12 
 XIX. — SirJohnHill to the Laird of Culloden ibid. 
 XX. — Memoir of a Plan for preserving the 
 Peace of the Highlands : written a short 
 time after the Revolution - - 14 
 
 XXI. — Cessation of Hostilities for a stated 
 
 Time - - - - 18 
 
 NoMBER Page. 
 
 XXII. — Orders upon which the Massacre of 
 Glenco proceeded; by which 38 persons 
 lost their lives - - - 19 
 
 XXIII. — Copy of Letter from Sir Tho* Li- 
 vingstone to Coll' Hamilton - - ibid 
 XXIV.— Coll' Hills order to Lieut. Col. 
 
 James Hamilton . - - 20 
 
 XXV. — Copy L' Col. James Hamilton to 
 Major Robert Duncanson, of the Earl 
 of Argyll's Regiment - - ibid. 
 
 XXVI. — (Copy) Major Robert Duncanson 
 
 to Cap" Robert Campbell, of Glenlyone i6«/. 
 XXVII. — Sir John Hill to the Laird of Cul- 
 loden - - - - 21 
 XXVIII.— Sir John Hill to the Laird of Cul- 
 loden - - - - 22 
 XXIX. — King Will'"" Order to liberate the 
 Earl of Seaforth from Inverness Garri- 
 son. 1696-7. - - - 23 
 XXX. — Simon Fraser (afterwards Lord 
 
 Lovat) to the Laird of Cullodin - ibid. 
 
 XXXI.— From Col. Hill, to the Laird of 
 
 Culloden ... ibid. 
 
 XXXII. — From Simon Fraser (afterwards 
 Lord Lovat) to the Laird of Culloden. 
 Dated Nov' v>= 'iSd 1 697 - - 24 
 
 XXXIII.— The Lord Chancellor (Earl of 
 Marchmout) to Culloden. Dated Lon- 
 don, 28th April 1698 - - ibid. 
 XXXIV. — Mr. John Forbes to his Brother, 
 The Right Honorable Duncan Forbes, 
 dated Fort William, the 2^ of Novem- 
 ber 1698 - - - 25 
 XXXV. — LordSeafield to Culloden. Dated 
 
 from ^Miitehall, Oct' 24"' 1699 
 XXXVI. — From ISI' Duncan Forbes to his 
 brother Col' Forbes, dated Edinburgh, 
 6"' Febry 1 700 ; Giring an Account of 
 a Great Fire in Edinbingh 
 XXXVII.— Earl of Arg^ll to CuUoden. 
 Dated Edinburgh, Sept' 5'", 1700. - 
 XXXVHI. — Lord Seafield to the Laird of 
 Culloden Dated Whitehall, Decemb'' 
 SO"', 1701 - - -ibid. 
 
 XXXIX.— Lord Seafield to the Laird of Cul- 
 loden. Dated Whitehall, March 24'", 
 1702 - - - - 29 
 
 XL. — Anonymous to Duncan Forbes. Coll. 
 
 28 August 1714 - - - ibid. 
 
 XLI. — The Pretenders Declaration - 30 
 
 XLII. — Lord Lovat to the Laird of Culloden 32 
 
 XLIII. 
 
 26 
 
 28
 
 >'m 
 
 CONTEXTS. 
 
 Page. 
 
 NCMB. 
 
 XLIU. — ^M' Jo. Forbes to his Brother M' 
 
 Duncan Forbes, dated IS'*" Xber 1714 - 
 
 XLIV. — Mr. Duncan Forbes to the Laird of 
 Ciilloden 
 
 XLV. — ;Memoriall for the President of the 
 Session in Scotland, 1714 
 
 XLM. — Mr. Munroe to the Laird of Cou- 
 lodden. Dated Foules, 17^ Feb' 1715- 
 
 XLVIl. — Mr. John Forbes to his brother 
 Mr. Duncan Forbes 
 
 XLVIII. — The same to the same. 
 
 XLIX.— To the Hon"*^ My Ladle Collodin 
 vo"^ at Collodin - - 
 
 L. — The Laird of Culloden to his Lady 
 
 LI. — Provost and Council of Inverness, to 
 Hua;h Rose, John Forbes, and Mr. 
 Duncan Forbes. Dated Inverness, the 
 7th Nov. 1715 ... -ibid. 
 
 LIT.— The Duke of .\rgyll to Culloden. 
 Aberdeen, Febry. 17'''. 1/15-6 
 
 LIII. — Lord Lovat to ilr. Duncan Forbes - 
 
 LIV. — Two Letters from M' Duncan Forbes 
 to the Lord Advocate, dated from Edin- 
 burgh, 20^^ March 1716 - -ibid. 
 
 33 
 
 - 34 
 
 30 
 36 
 
 37 
 
 38 
 
 ibid. 
 39 
 
 40 
 41 
 
 LV.— M' Rob' Baillie [to Culloden] 
 L^T. — TheEarlof Ilav to Lord Lovat 
 L\TI.—M' Robert Ba'illie [to Culloden] 
 LVllI. — Sir Dand Dalrymple toM' Duncan 
 Forbes - - - - 
 
 LIX. — Mr. Hossack to Mr. Dimcan Forbes 
 LX. — M' Rob' Haillie to Mr. Duncan Forbes 
 LXI. — Mr. John Forbes to Mr. Duncan 
 
 Forbes - - - - ibid. 
 
 LXII. — Lord Lovat to Mr. Duncan Forbes 48 
 LXllI. — Lord Lovat to Mr. John Forbes 
 LXn'. — M' Hossack toM' Duncan Forbes 
 LXV. — ^M' Duncan Forbes to his Brother 
 M' John Forbes. Dated from Edin- 
 burgh, the le"" April 1716 - - 
 
 LXVl.-^Mr. Robert BaiOie to - 
 
 LXVII.— Lord Lovat to Mr. Rob' B.aillie - 
 LXVHI.— Mr. Hossack to Mr. Duncan 
 
 Forbes - - 
 
 LXIX. — Mr. John Forbes to Mr. Duncan 
 
 Forbes ... 
 
 LXX.— The Duke of Argyll to Mr. Duncan 
 Forbes - ... 
 
 43 
 
 44 
 • ibid. 
 
 45 
 46 
 47 
 
 49 
 • ibid. 
 
 50 
 51 
 52 
 
 ibid. 
 
 ibid. 
 
 LXXI.— M' John Forbes to his Brother Mr. 
 
 Duncan Forbes, dated London, 31^ 
 
 May 1716 
 LXX II. to Mr. Duncan Forbes - 
 
 LXXIII. 
 LXX IV. 
 LXXV 
 
 -to Mr. Duncan Forbes 
 
 , — Lord Lovat to Mr. Duncan Forbes 
 
 Mr. Bailiie to Mr. Duncan Forbes - 
 
 LXXVl. — The same to the same 
 
 LXXA'II. — Memorial concerning Lord Lovat 
 
 and Grant to him of Mackenzie of Fra- 
 
 serdale's Escheat - - - 
 
 LXXVHI. — Mr. Duncan Forbes — [most 
 
 likely to Lord Islay] 
 
 53 
 
 ibid. 
 54 
 
 ibid. 
 55 
 56 
 
 ibid. 
 
 0/ 
 
 - 58 
 
 NlMB. 
 
 P.4GE. 
 
 LXXrX. — Mr. Duncan Forbes to Lieut. Col. 
 
 Innes. - - - - 58 
 
 LXXX.— The Duke of Argyle to Coll. WiU 
 
 liam Grant - - - 59 
 
 LXXXI.— to M' Duncan Forbes - ibid. 
 
 LXXXII. — -\n Anonymous Letter written 
 by M' Duncan Forbes to Sir Robert 
 Walpole, most likely in .August 1716 — 
 a Copy is extant (from which the 
 present is taken) in the President's 
 hand-writing - . _ 61 
 
 LXXXIII. — Lord Lovat to Mr. John Forbes 65 
 
 LXXXI^'. — Lord Lovat [probablv to Mr. 
 
 BaiUie] - - ' - - 66 
 
 LXXX\". — Lord Belhaven to Mr. Duncan 
 
 Forbes .... jbid. 
 
 LXXXVL— Extract of an Act of Councill - 67 
 
 LXXXMI.— M' Duncan Forbes to his Bro- 
 ther M' John Forbes, Dated Edinburgh 
 26'^ October 1716 - - -ibid. 
 
 LXXX\^U.— Messrs M. & W.Drummond 
 
 to the Laird of Culloden - - 6S 
 
 LXXXIX.— M' Ja= Steuart to M' Duncan 
 
 Forbes. - _ - . ibid. 
 
 XC— M' Duncan Forbes to his Brother M" 
 John Forbes, Provost of Inverness, 
 Dated Edinburgh 16'^NovM 71 6 - 69 
 
 XCI. — Lord Lovat to M'^ John Forbes. - ibid. 
 
 XCII. — Lord Lovat to M'. Duncan Forbes - 70 
 
 XCIII.— M' John Forbes to M' Duncan 
 
 Forbes - - - - 71 
 
 XCIV. — Lord Lovat to M' Duncan Forbes ibid. 
 
 XCV. — M'' John Forbes to M' Duncan 
 
 Forbes, London, 2^' June 1/17 - 72 
 
 XC%T. — Mr. John Forbes to M' Duncan 
 
 Forbes, Lond. 13"" July 1/17. - ibid. 
 
 XC\TI. — Provost Hossack to the Laird of 
 
 Culloden - - - - 73 
 
 XCVIII.— Lord Belhaven to M' Duncan 
 
 Forbes, London, March 18th, 1721 - ibid. 
 
 XCIX. — M' Duncan Forbes (probably to 
 
 the Duke of Argyll] - - - 74 
 
 C. — Lord Lo»-at to the Laird of Culloden - ibid. 
 
 CI. — Lord Lovat to the Laird of Culloden - 75 
 
 CII. — From the same to the same - ibid. 
 
 cm. — M' Duncan Forbes to his Brother 
 
 M' John Forbes ... ibid. 
 
 CIV M' Duncan Forbes to the Duke of 
 
 ArgvU - - - - 76 
 
 CV.— The Duke of Argyll to M' Duncan 
 Forbes, Dated Sudbrook, Sepf \^ 7^ 
 1723 - - - ' -ibid. 
 
 CM. — M"^ Duncan Forbes to the Duke of 
 Arg\-ll, Dated Inverness, 21^' Sepf^ 
 1723 77 
 
 C\TI.— The Duke of Argyll to Mr. Duncan 
 
 Forbes - - - - 78 
 
 CVIII.— M- John Forbes to his Brother Mr. 
 Duncan Forbes, Lord Advocate ; dated 
 Culloden. 28"" Januarv 1725. - ibid.
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 IX 
 
 YivKB. Page. 
 
 CIX. — ^The Lord Advocate to the Magis- 
 trates of Glasgow - - - 79 
 
 ex. — The Lord Advocate [probably to Mr. 
 
 Scrope.] - - - - SO 
 
 CXL — M^ Scrope to the Lord Advocate - 83 
 
 CXIL — M' Delafaye to the Lord Advocate 
 
 and Sollicitor of Scotland. - - ibid. 
 
 CXIII.— The Lord Advocate to M' Dela- 
 
 fave, dated Edin', 8''' July 17-25 - 84 
 
 CXIV.'—M' Delafaye to the Lord Advorate - 86 
 
 CXV. — An Account of the conduct of the 
 several Magistrates of Glasgow, touching 
 the late Riots there; from whence those 
 Acts of Malversation in Office are de- 
 duced, for which they are committed, 
 and may be tried - - - ibid. 
 
 CXVI. — Lord Caithness to the Lord .Ad- 
 vocate - - - - SS 
 
 CXVII. — Petition from the Magistrates of 
 
 Glasc;ow - - - - 89 
 
 CXVIlI.-1-Address from theMagistrates, &c. 
 of Glasgow, respecting the Riots on the 
 MaltTlx- - - - - 90 
 
 CXIX. — A true and faithfull Account of the 
 proceedings touching the Riots and 
 Tumults which have lately happened in 
 the City of Glasgow - - 9 1 
 
 CXX.— M' Delafaye to the Lord Advocate - 93 
 
 CXXI. — The Duke of Newcastle to the Lord 
 
 Advocate - - - 94 
 
 CXXn.— The Lord Advocate to Mr. Dela- 
 faye - _ - - ibid. 
 
 CXXlil. — M' Scrope to the Lord Advocate - 96 
 
 CXXIV. — Sir Robert Walpole to the Lord 
 
 .Advocate - ... ibid. 
 
 CXX\'.— The Lord Advocate to M' Delafaye 97 
 
 CXXVl. — The Duke of Newcastle to the 
 
 Lord .Advocate _ . . ibid. 
 
 CXXVII.— The Duke of Newcastle to the 
 
 Lord -Advocate - - - 98 
 
 CXXVIII.— The Lord Advocate to Ach- 
 
 nagarn, . - . . iHri. 
 
 CXXIX.— To the Lord Advocate from 99 
 
 CXXX. — Lord Lovat to the Lord .Advocate 101 
 
 CXXXI. — ^Lord Balmerino to the Lord Ad- 
 vocate. - — - - ibid. 
 
 CXXXII. — Sir Hugh Dalrymple to the 
 
 Lord .Advocate - - - ibid. 
 
 CXXXI II.— M^ Delafaye to the Lord Ad- 
 vocate - - - - 102 
 
 CXXXI v.— M' T. Rawliuson to the Lord 
 Advocate, dated Inversan', May 24"" 
 1728 - . " ■ . ' -103 
 
 CXXXV. — Lord Seafort to the Lord Ad- 
 vocate . - - . Hid. 
 
 eXXX\T.— The Lord Advocate to the Laird 
 
 ofCuUoden - - - 101 
 
 CXXXVII.— Lord Lovat to Mr. John 
 
 Forbes , . . . lo.*) 
 
 NiM3. Pace- 
 
 CXXXVIII. — From the same to the same 105 
 CXXXIX. — Letter from tlie Queen, settling 
 the Precedency of the Courts of Justice 
 in Scotland . _ - 106 
 
 CXL. — ^The Duke of Newcastle to the Lord 
 
 .Advocate - - - - 107 
 
 CXLI.— The Lord Advocate to the Duke 
 
 of Newcastle - - -ibid. 
 
 CXLII. — ^From General Wade to the Lord 
 
 .Advocate - - - - 109 
 
 CXLIII. — Lord .Advocate to Gen' Wade - Hid. 
 CXLIV. — ^The Lord Advocate to the Duke 
 
 of Newcastle - - - 110 
 
 CXLV. — The Lord Advocate to Sir Robert 
 
 W.alpole - - - - 111 
 
 CXL VI — Gen' Wade to the Lord Advocate ibid. 
 CXLAII.— M-^ Murdoch to the Lord Ad- 
 vocate - • - - I J 2 
 CXL VIII.— Lord Lovat to M-^ John Forbes 113 
 CXLIX. — M' Scrope to the Attorney Ge- 
 neral - - - - ibid. 
 CL. — The Lord .Advocate to Mr. Scrope - 1 14 
 CLI.— The Lord Advocate to Sir Rob' Wal- 
 pole - - - - 116 
 CLII. — M' Scrope to the Lord .Advocate - 117 
 CLIII. — Lord Lovat to M' John Forbes - ibid. 
 CLIV. — Lord Lovat to M- John Forbes - 1 1>3 
 CL\'. — Lord Lovat to M' John Forbes - 119 
 CLVI. — Sir John Pringle to the Lord Ad- 
 vocate - - - 120 
 CLVII. — Sir John Pringle to the Lord Ad- 
 vocate - - - 121 
 CLVIII.— Lord Lovat to M^ John Forbes - 122 
 CLIX. — Lord Lovat to Mr. John Forbes - 123 
 CLX. — yi' Delafave to the Lord Advocate - ibid. 
 CLXI.— The Lord Advocate to M^ Scrope - 124 
 CLXII. — M' Henry Home (aftersvards L* 
 
 Kames) to the Lord .Advocate - 125 
 
 CLXIIl. — M' Hew Dalrj-raple to the Lord 
 
 Advocate - - - 126 
 
 CLXIV.— The Laird of CoUodon to John 
 Forbes, the President's Son, dated In- 
 verness, 28"» Sept^ 1 732 - - ibid. 
 CLXV.— The Lord Advocate to M"^ Mur- 
 doch - - - - 127 
 CLXVI.—M^ MacLeod to the Laird of Cul- 
 
 loden, dated Dunve^an, Dec' 19">, 1732- 128 
 CLX\TI.— Lord Lovat to M^ John Forbes - 129 
 CLXVIII. — Lord Lovat to M"^ John Forbes - ibid. 
 CLXIX. — Lord Lovat to Mr. John Forbes - 131 
 CLXX.— The Lord Advocate to M"- Scrope 132 
 CLXXL— M- Isabella Sleigh to the Lord 
 .Advocate, dated Brodie House, 29"" 
 Sept' 1735 - - - 133 
 
 CLXXII.— The Lord Advocate to M'= Isa- 
 bella Sleigh, dated Cidloden, 2d Octo- 
 ber 1735 - - - 134 
 CLXXIIl.— The Lord .Advocate to M' 
 
 Scrope - - , • 135 
 
 13
 
 CONTEXTS. 
 
 NcMB. Page. 
 
 CLXXIA". — M' Speaker Onslow to the Lord 
 
 Advocate - - - 135 
 
 CLXXV. S' Clair to the Lord 
 
 Adrocate ... Hid. 
 
 CLXX\ I.— 3P Ruddiman to the Lord Ad- 
 vocate - - - - 13" 
 
 CLXX\ IL — ^M"^ Scrope to the Lord Presi- 
 
 dtnt of the Session - - ibid. 
 
 CLXXMIL— il"^ Henrv Fane to the Lord 
 
 President -' - - 133 
 
 CLXXIX.— The Duke of Ar^U to the Lord 
 President, dated Adderbury, Ocf v= 
 9^, 1737 - - '-ibid. 
 
 CLXXX. — M' Henrv Fane to the Lord Pre- 
 sident. Dated the 3d DecM 737 -139 
 
 CLXXXI.— From L° Hardwicke to the L* 
 
 President - - ibid. 
 
 CLXXXIL— M' P. Murdoch to M' John 
 Forbes, dated from London, 14^ Ja- 
 nuan- 173y"-S - - - 140 
 
 CLXXXJII. — M' John Drriramond to the 
 Lord President ; dated London, Ja- 
 nuary 31'--. 1737-8 - - 141 
 
 CLXXX i v.— M^ P. Murdoch to M' John 
 Forbes ; dated from London, 2" Feb. 
 1738 - - - - 142 
 
 CL^^XXV.—M' Murray (afterwards Earl of 
 Mansfie'.d) to the Lord President - 144 
 
 CLXXXVL— The Duke of Argyll to the 
 Lord President, dated Loudon, ilarch 
 v^ Jith, 173S - - - 145 
 
 CLXXXAIL— The Lord President to M' 
 Scrope, dated Edinburgh, 30^ March 
 1738 - -" - -ibid. 
 
 CLXXXMn. — ^From Lord Combury to the 
 Lord President, dated London, April 
 lti'\ 1738 - - - 147 
 
 CLXXXIX.— M' Murdoch to M' John 
 
 Forbes - - - - 14S 
 
 CXC. — Offer from the Duke of .\Tgyll of a 
 Commission in the Blues, to the Pre- 
 sident's Son - - - 149 
 
 CXCL— The Lord President to the Duke 
 of Ai^ll, dated CuUoden, 6^ October 
 1733 ■ - - - - 150 
 
 CXCU.— The Lord President to Capt. Ales' 
 
 Forbes, Roval Grav Drasjoons - ii.„. 
 
 CXCllL— The 'Lord President to Lord 
 
 Hardwicke - - - 151 
 
 CXCIV. — From Lord Hardwicke to the 
 
 Lord President - - - 153 
 
 CXCV. — Lady Matgarett Macdonald to 
 Lord Milton, Justice Clerk, concern- 
 in:; emiffration to America. Dated 
 Sky, JanJ 1, 1/40 - - 154 
 
 CXCM. — Gen' Oglethorpe to the Lord 
 
 President - - - 155 
 
 CXCMI. — ^The Lord President to Lord 
 
 Hard\^-icke ... ibid. 
 
 Nl.M9. PaCS, 
 
 CXCVni.— The Lord President to Mr. 
 
 William Grant, dated 29^^ Feb. 1/40 - 156 
 
 CXCIX. — Lord Hardwicke to the Lord 
 
 President - - - 157 
 
 CC— The Lord President to Lord Hard- 
 
 \vicke - - - - 153 
 
 CCI. — From Lord Hardwicke to the Lord 
 
 President - - - ibid. 
 
 ecu. — MOIurray to the Lord President - 159 
 
 CCIll. — The Duke of Queensbeny to the 
 
 Lord President - -" - 1 60 
 
 CCn". — The Lord President's Answer -ibid, 
 
 CC\'. — Goveraor Trelawney to the Lord 
 
 President - - - 161 
 
 CCM. — The Duke of Newcastle to the 
 
 Lord President - - - 162 
 
 CCMI. — M" Murray to the Lord President ibid. 
 
 CCA'TII. — Memoriall anent the Records of 
 
 Scotland 1740 - - - 161 
 
 CCIX. — Memoriall anent the ancient Rolls 
 and RegLsters in the lower Parliament 
 House, and Proposals, kc. 1740 - 165 
 
 CCX.— M- 3Iurrav to the Lord President - 167 
 
 CCXl.— Mr. Fane to the Lord President - 163 
 
 CCXII. — From Lord Hardwicke to the 
 
 Lord President - - - 169 
 
 CCXl II. — M' Murray to the Lord President iii<f. 
 
 CCXR'.— MOIurray to the Lord President 171 
 
 CCXV. — The same to the same - - ibid. 
 
 CCXVI. — Lord Morton to the Lord Pre- 
 sident - - - 172 
 
 CCXVH.— M' Murray to the Lord Pre- 
 sident - - - 173 
 
 CCXVnL— M"^ Scrope to the Lord Presi- 
 dent ; dated IC^ Feb. 1742 - 174 
 
 CCXIX. — Lord Morton to the Lord Pre- 
 sident _ _ . Hid. 
 
 CCXX. — Tl:e Marquis of Tweeddale to the 
 
 Lord President - - - 175 
 
 CCXXl.— The Lord President to theMarq- 
 of Tweeddale. No date ; but sup- 
 posed to be written about the middle 
 of March 1742 - - - 176 
 
 CCXXn.— The Marquis of Tweeddale to 
 the Lord President ; dated Whitehall, 
 Ifi'-'JIarch 1741-2 - - 1/7 
 
 CCXXIIL— M' P. Murdoch to Mr. Andrew 
 Mitchell : dated Paris, 2/'*' March, 
 X. S.. 1 742 - - - ibid. 
 
 CCXXIV. to the Lord Presi- 
 dent - - - - 179 
 
 CCXX\'. — The Lord President to the Mar- 
 
 quis of Tweeddale 
 
 ibid. 
 
 CCXXVI —The Lord President to M' And. 
 
 MitchcU - - - ISO 
 
 CCXXVH.—M^ Mitchell to the Lord Pre- 
 sident - - - ISl 
 
 CCXXVUL— The Lord President to his 
 
 Son John Forbes, of the Blues - 1S2
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Xl 
 
 Numb. Pace. 
 
 CCXXIX.— The Marquis of Tweeddale to 
 
 the Lord President - - - 182 
 
 CCXXX. — The Lord President to tlie Mar- 
 quis of Tueeddale [in answer] - 1S3 
 
 CCXXXL— The Marquis of Tweeddalc to 
 
 the Lord President - - 1S4 
 
 CCXXXII. — M' Fane to the Lord President ibid. 
 
 CCXXXIII.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Marquis of Tweeddale - - 185 
 
 CCXXXIV.— The Marquis of Tweeddale to 
 
 the Lord President - - 186 
 
 CCXXXV. — The Lord President [probably 
 to the Marquis of Tweeddale, about 
 1742] - - - 188 
 
 CCXXXM.— The Lord President to Sir 
 
 Will'" Yon£;e - - - 195 
 
 CCXXXVIL— the Lord President to W 
 
 Pelham - - - 196 
 
 CCXXXVIIL— Chief Baron Idle to the 
 
 Lord President - - - ibid. 
 
 CCXXXIX. — From Sir Andrew Mitchell to 
 
 the Lord President - - 197 
 
 CCXL. — The same to the same • - 198 
 
 CCXLI. — The Lord President to the Mar- 
 quis of Lothian - - - 199 
 
 CCXLIL— The Lord President to Lord 
 
 Chancellor Hardwicke - - ibid. 
 
 CCXLIIL — Letter from C John Munro to 
 
 the Lord President - - 200 
 
 CCXLIV.— Capt. Hugh Forbes of the Ox- 
 ford-blues, to the Lord President, inclos- 
 ing a Letter from Lieut. John Forbes, 
 describing the Battle of Fontenoy - 201 
 
 CCXL\'.— The Lord President to Mr. 
 
 Pelham - - - - 203 
 
 CCXLVT. — M^ Normand Mac Leod to the 
 
 Lord President . - - itjrf. 
 
 CCXL\TL— The Lord President to the 
 
 Marquis of Tweedale - - 204 
 
 CCXLVIIL— Louis de Bouillone & the 
 Prince de Canipo Florida to the Young 
 Pretender - - 205 
 
 CCXLIX.— The same to the same. - 206 
 
 CCL. — Sir Alexander Macdonald to the Lord 
 
 President - - - 207 
 
 CCLL — Sir John Cope to the Officers of 
 
 Lord Loudoun's Regiment, in Scotland ibid. 
 
 CCLII. — M' Normand Mac Leod to the 
 
 Lord President - - - 208 
 
 CCLIII. — The Marquis of Tweedale to the 
 
 Lord President - - . aid, 
 
 CCLIV.— The Lord Advocate to Lord 
 
 Lovat - - - - 209 
 
 rCLV. — Lord Lovat to the Lord Advocate 210 
 
 CCLVL — Lord Lovat to the Lord President 211 
 
 CCLVIl.— The Lord President to Lord 
 
 Lovat, Sunday 25"^ August, 12 oClock - 213 
 
 CCLVIIL — TheLord President toLordFort- 
 
 Tosv, 26 August, 6 at night - - ibid. 
 
 NbMB, p^cE. 
 
 CCLIX. — The Lord President to Lord 
 
 Lovat, 26 .August, Gat night - - 214 
 CCLX. — Lord Lovat to the Lord President ibid. 
 CCLXL — The Lord President to Lord 
 
 Lovat - - - - 216 
 
 CCLXIL — M' Thomas Fraser of Gortuleg 
 
 to the Lord President ' - - ibid, 
 
 CCLXIIL — The Lord President to the Lady 
 
 Clunie - - . . 
 
 CCLXIV. — Mem. concerning the Rebellion 
 
 in Scotland - - . 
 
 CCLXY. — The ;\Iarquis of Tweeddale to the 
 
 Lord President - - . 
 
 CCLXVL — Sir Andrew Mitchell to the 
 
 Lord President - . - 
 
 CCLXMl. — Sir John Cope to the Lord 
 
 Presiflent - - - 
 
 CCLX\ III.— The Lord President to Lord 
 
 Lovat 
 CCLXIX.— The Duke of Newcastle to Mat- 
 thew Ridley, Esq. Mayor of Newcastle 
 CCLXX. — The Mayor of Newcastle to the 
 
 Lord President ... 
 
 CCLXXI. — General Wightman to the Lord 
 
 President 
 CCLXXIL — The same to the same - 
 CCLXXIIL — Instructions by the Young 
 
 Pretender, before his March into Eng- 
 land 
 CCLXXR'. — Sir Andrew Mitchell to the 
 
 Lord President 
 CCLXXV. — Lord Lovat to the Lord Pre- 
 sident - . . 
 CCLXXM.— The Lord President to Lord 
 
 Lovat .... 
 
 CCLXXVIL— The Lord President to 
 
 Lovat 
 CCLXXyill.— Lord Lovat to the 
 
 President 
 CCLXXIX.— The Lord President to 
 
 Lovat 
 CCLXXX.— The Lord President to 
 
 Lovat 
 CCLXXXI. — Lord Cromertie to the 
 
 President 
 CCLXXXII.— Lord Lovat to the L'^ 
 
 sident - - - 
 
 CCLXXXIII.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Earl of Cromertie - - . 
 
 CCLXXXIV.— From the Lord President to 
 
 Lord Lovat 
 CCLXXXV. — Lord Lovat to the Lord 
 
 President 
 CCLXXXVI. — From the Lord President to 
 
 Lord Lovat - - - 
 
 CCLXXXVII. — Lord Lovat to the Lord 
 
 President - - - . 
 
 CCLXXXMII. — Copie Memorandum to M' 
 
 Donald Fraser - - = 
 
 B 2 
 
 217 
 
 ibid. 
 
 219 
 
 ibid. 
 
 229 
 
 - 221 
 
 222 
 
 223 
 
 224 
 226 
 
 ibid. 
 
 ■ ibid. 
 227 
 228 
 
 Lord 
 Lord 
 Lord 
 Lord 
 Lord 
 Pre- 
 
 229 
 ibid. 
 230 
 
 - 231 
 232 
 ibid. 
 235 
 ibid. 
 
 . 236 
 237 
 238 
 24Q
 
 •jril CONTENTS. 
 
 KCMS. Page. 
 
 CCLXXXIX.— Lord Lovat to the Lord 
 
 President - - - 2^0 
 
 CCXC. — The Lord President toLordLonit 242 
 
 CCXCI. — Lord Lovat to the Lord Pre- 
 sident . - _ - 243 
 
 CCXC II. — ^The Lord President to Lord 
 
 Lovat, dated 11^ Nov. 1745 - 245 
 
 CCXC in. — The Lord President to the 
 
 Marquis of Tweedale _ - - ibid. 
 
 CCXC IV. — ^The Lord President to SLiAnd' 
 
 Mitchell - - - - 249 
 
 CCXC\'. — Lord Lovat to the Lord Pre- 
 sident - - - 251 
 
 CCXCM.^Tbe Earl of Stair to the Lord 
 
 President - - - 252 
 
 CCXCVII. — Sir Andrew :Mitchell to the 
 
 Lord President - - - 253 
 
 CCXCVIII.— The Lord President to Lord 
 
 Lovjit ... 255 
 
 CCXCIX. — ^Lord Loudon to Lord Lovat - 256 
 
 CCC. — ^The Lord President to Lord Lovat - 257 
 
 CCCI. — ^To Simon Fraser, Master of Lovat, 
 
 (afterwards Gen' Fraser), By H. F. - 25S 
 
 CCCII. — ^Lord Lovat to the Lord President ibid. 
 
 CCCIII.— The Lord President to Lord Lovat 259 
 
 CCCIV. — Lord Lovat to the Earl of Loudon 260 
 
 CCCV. — Sir Andrew Mitchell to the Lord 
 
 President - - - 261 
 
 CCCM. — Professor Maelaurin to the Lord 
 
 President - - -ibid. 
 
 CCCVll.— M- Rob"' DundiLS Solicitor G^ 
 
 neral. to the Lord President - - 263 
 
 CCCVIII.— The Duke of Newcastle to the 
 
 Lord President - - - 264 
 
 CCCIX.— Gen' Hawley to the Lord Pre- 
 sident • - - - 265 
 
 CCCX. — Gen' ^^'ightman to the Lord Pre- 
 sident - " , " " ^^^ 
 
 CCCXI. — Sir Harry Monro, of Fonlis, to 
 
 the Lord President - - - 267 
 
 CCCXIL— From Lord President to 268 
 
 CCCXIIL— Mr. Corse to the Lord Pre- 
 sident - - - 269 
 
 CCCXIV.— The Young Pretender's Protec- 
 tion for the Hou.<e of CuUodeu - 273 
 
 CCCXV. — Pass and Protection from the 
 
 Earl of Cromertie - - - HAd. 
 
 CCCXVL— Lord Reay to the Lord Pre- 
 sident - - - - ibid. 
 CCCXML— The Lord President to Mr. 
 
 Pelhain ... - 274 
 
 CCCX\I1I.— The Lord President to Mr. 
 
 Geo. Ross _ - - 275 
 
 CCCXIX.— Sir John Cope to the Lord 
 
 President . . - 277 
 
 CCCXX.— From Mr. Murdoch to Mr. John 
 
 Forbes - - - 27S 
 
 CCCXXl. — ^The Earl of Dmunore to the 
 
 Lord President ... 279 
 
 NrM3. Page. 
 
 CCCXXn.— The Lord President to Sir Eve- 
 
 rard Fawkner _ . . 279 
 
 CCCXXm.— The Lord President to Mr. 
 
 Geo. Ross - - . 2S0 
 
 CCCXXR'.— The Lord President to Sir 
 
 John Cope, K. B. - - - 281 
 
 CCCXXL". — Opinion relative to Attainders 2S2 
 CCCXXVI.— On the same Subject - - 284 
 CCC XX VII.— The Lord Lyon to the Lord 
 
 President - " - - 285 
 
 CCCXXMII.— The Lord President to Mr. 
 
 Georje Ross - - - 286 
 
 CCCXXIX.— Copy of the Paragraph of S' 
 
 E. Fawkners Letter referred to in the 
 
 precedins - _ . 287 
 
 CCCXXX.— The Duke of Newcastle to the 
 
 Lord President ... j^y. 
 
 CCCXXXI.— The Duke of Cumberlands 
 
 Commission to Mr. James Eraser, of 
 
 Castle Leathers - - . 2SS 
 
 CCCXXXII.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Lord Lvon - - - ibid. 
 
 CCCXXXIIL— The Earl of Dunmore to 
 
 the Lord President - - - 289 
 
 CCCXXXIA'.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Earl of Dunmore . . _ 290 
 
 CCCXXX\'. — Lady Margaret Macdonald to 
 
 the Lord President - - - ibid. 
 
 CCCXXXM Sir Ales' Macdonald to the 
 
 Lord President - - - 291 
 
 CCCXXXAII.— Mr. Donald Macdonald, of 
 
 Castletown, to the Lord President - 292 
 CCCXXXVm.— Mr. Mac Leod to the Lord 
 
 President - - - 293 
 
 CCCXXXIX.— The same to the same - 294 
 CCCXL. — Sir Andrew Mitchell to the Lord 
 
 President - - - ibid. 
 
 CCCXLI.— The Earl of Dunmore to the 
 
 Lord President - . . 296 
 
 CCCXLIL— The Lord President to Mr. 
 
 Poyntz _ - - j^. 
 
 CCCXLIII. — Some Thoughts concerning 
 
 the State of the Highlands of Scotland 297 
 CCCXLIV.— Mr. Nonnand Mac Leod to 
 I the Lord President - - - 301 
 
 CCCXL v.— From Sir Arthur Forbes to the 
 I Lord President - - - 302 
 
 1 CCCXLVL— Mr. Ales. Brodie to the Lord 
 
 President - - - 303 
 
 CCCXL VII.— The Earl of Stair to the Lord 
 President . - . ibid.. 
 
 ; CCCXLVIIL— Mr. Fos to the Lord Presi- 
 dent Forbes _ - _ ibid. 
 CCCXLIX.— Mr. (afterwards Lord) Lyttd- 
 
 toa to the Lord President - - 304 
 
 CCCL.— M=^WiU. I'orbes to M' John Forbes, 
 
 of CuUoden - - - 305 
 
 CCCLI. — From Sir Andrew Mitchel to the 
 
 EcviM'Miirdock. - -306
 
 CONTI 
 
 Pack. 
 
 NTS'. 
 
 xm 
 
 Numb. ' 
 
 CCCLII.— D' Armstrong to tlie Rev"* M' 
 
 Miirdock - - - 306 
 
 CCCLllI.— The Rev. M' Murdock to M' 
 
 .Tohn Forbes - - - 307 
 
 CCCLl v.— D' Armstrong to M' John Forbes, 
 
 of Culloden - - - ibid. 
 
 CCCLV— The Rev^ M' Murdock to M' 
 
 John Forbes of Culloden - -308 
 
 CCCLVL— M' Millar to M' John Forbes of 
 
 Culloden - - - 309 
 
 CCCLVII.— From the Rev. M^ Murdock to 
 
 M' John Forbes - - - 310 
 
 CCCLVHI.— The Rev"i M' Murdock to M' 
 
 John Forbes - . - ji;j. 
 
 CCCLIX.— The Rev. M' Murdock to M^ 
 
 John Forbes - - - 311 
 
 CCCLX.— M' John Forbes to Alexander Rose 3 1 2 
 CCCLXL— The Lord President to the Rev-* 
 
 WW. li. .. - - 313 
 
 CCCLXII.— M' James Thomson to M' John 
 
 Forbes - - - 314 
 
 CCCLXJII.— M^ James Thomson to M' 
 
 John Forbes - - - 315 
 
 CCCLXIV.— M"^ James Thomson to Mess" 
 
 Forbes, Warrender, & Gray - - ibid. 
 
 CCCLXV.— D' Armstrong to M'JohnForbes ibid. 
 
 ADDEND.\ : 
 
 CCCLXVI.— State of Things in 1696 
 
 CCCLXVII. — Memorandum anent the Vis- 
 count of Tarbat. [1701.] 
 
 CCCLXVII I. —The Earl of Sutherland to 
 the Laird of Culloden 
 
 CCCLXIX. — Copy of a Letter laid before 
 the Lords Justices . . . 
 
 CCCLXX. — A Petition to His Majesty, in 
 behalf of Lord Lovat ... 
 
 CCCLXXL— the Laird of Culloden to his 
 brother ]Mr. Duncan Forbes 
 
 CCCLXXII.— Copy of Lord Lovat's Grant 
 
 CCCLXXIII.— Memorial forLachlan Mack- 
 intosh, of Mackintosh 
 
 CCCLXXIV.— The Laird of Culloden to 
 his brother M' Duncan Forbes 
 
 eCCLXX\'.r— Quest iuns put to the Magis- 
 trates of Glas.rovv, the 15th July 1725, 
 in the presence of Generall Wade, 
 Collonell Spotswood, and Col' Guest, 
 by His Majesty's Advocate; together 
 with the Answers then made 
 
 CCCLXXVI.— air. Delafayc to the Lord 
 Advocate . . . 
 
 CCCLXXVII.— Tlie Lord Advocate to jI^ 
 Delafave . . . 
 
 CCCLXXVII I. —M"^ Delafaye to the Lord 
 Advocate . . . 
 
 CCCLXXIX.— M' Delafaye to the Lord 
 Advocate . . . 
 
 CCCLXXX— M' Delafaye to the Lord Ad- 
 vocate 
 
 317 
 333 
 335 
 
 ibid. 
 
 336 
 
 338 
 339 
 
 341 
 
 342 
 
 343 
 350 
 351 
 352 
 353 
 354 
 
 Numb. Pace. 
 
 CCCLXXXL— Lord Lovat to the Lord 
 
 Advocate ... 354 
 
 CCCLXXXIL— 3NP Scrope to the Lord Ad- 
 vocate - - . 355 
 CCCLXXXIIL— The Lord Advocate to the 
 
 Duke of Newcastle - - ibid. 
 
 CCCLXXXIV.— General Wade to the Lord 
 
 Advocate - - - 356 
 
 CCCLXXXV.— The Lord Advocate to the 
 
 Laird of Culloden - - 357 
 
 CCCLXXXVL— M^ Hamilton to the Lord 
 
 Advocate ... ibid. 
 
 CCCLXXXVIL— The LordAdvocates Let- 
 ter to M"' Talbot - - 358 
 CCCLXXXVIIL— Mr. William Grant to the 
 
 Lord President ... jji^, 
 
 CCCLXXXIX.— General Wade to the Lord 
 
 President - - - 359 
 
 CCCXC— The Lord President to General 
 
 Clayton - - - 360 
 
 CCCXC'l. — From the Lord President to the 
 
 Lord Lvon - - - 363 
 
 CCCXCII.— The Marquis of Tweeddale to 
 
 the Lord President - - 364 
 
 CCCXCHI.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Marquis of Tweeddale - - 365 
 
 CCCXCIV.— The Marquis of Tweeddale to 
 
 the Lord President - ■. ibid. 
 
 CCCXCV.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Marquis of Tweeddale - - 366 
 
 CCCXCVI.— The Marquis of Tweeddale to 
 
 the Lord President - - 368 
 
 CCCXCVII.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Marquis of Tweeddale - - ibidt 
 
 CCCXCVIII — .Sir John Cope to the Lord 
 
 President ... 369 
 
 CCCXCIX.— Sir John Cope to the Lord 
 
 President - - - 370 
 
 CCCC— The Lord President to the Duke 
 
 of Gordon ... Hid. 
 
 CCCCI.— The Lord President to Sir John 
 
 Cope, K.B. - - - 371 
 
 CCCCII.— The Lord President to Sir John 
 
 Ca])e, K. 1>. - - - 373 
 
 CCCCIII.— M' jM'Pherson, of Cluny, to the 
 
 Lord President ... j^if/, 
 
 CCCCIV.— M^M'Pherson to Sir John Cope, 
 
 K.B. - - - - 371 
 
 CCCCV.— M"^ M'^Pherson of Chiny to the 
 
 Lord President - - - 375 
 
 CCCCVI.— The Lord Presideot to Sir Ale.\' 
 
 Macdonald ... 37*; 
 
 CCCC^TI.— Lord President to Sir John Cope 377 
 CCCCMII.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Duke of AthoU - - - 378 
 
 CCCCIX. — The Lord President to CInnie - 379 
 CCCCX. — The Lord President to John 
 
 Mac Pherson _ . . ibid. . 
 
 CCCCXI.— -The Lord President to the Earl 
 
 of Stair - . - - 380^
 
 XIV 
 
 CO>rfENTS. 
 
 Page. 
 
 CCCCXn.— TlieLordPresident toSir J.Cope 3S1 
 CCCCXllI.— The Lord President to Cluuie 3S2 
 CCCCXn .— The Lord President to SL- ^ 
 
 John Cope - - - 3S3 
 
 CCCCXV.— Sir John Cope to the Lord 
 
 President - - - ibid. 
 
 CCCCXVI. — ^The Lord President to Sir 
 
 John Cope - - - 3S4 
 
 CCCCXVII.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Provost of Aberdeen - - 385 
 
 CCCCXVIII.— The Marquis of Tweeddale 
 
 to tae Lord President - - ihid. 
 
 CCCCXIX.— M^ T. MuUov to 3S6 
 
 CCCCXX.— From M- Tho= Fraser, of Gor- 
 
 tuleff. to Lord Lorat - - 3S7 
 
 CCCCXXL— The Lord Preadent to Major 
 
 Grai^t » - • — 008 
 
 CCCCXXn— The Lord President to SLr 
 
 John Cope - - - ibid. 
 
 CCCCXXIII. — Sir John Cope to the Lord 
 
 President - - - 389 
 
 CCCCXXn.— The Lord President to Lord 
 
 Fortrose . - - 390 
 
 CCCCXXV.— The Lord President to Sir 
 
 J. Cope ... ibid. 
 
 CCCCXXVL— Ladv Clunv to the Lord 
 
 President ' - " - - 391 
 
 CCCCXXVIL— Lord Rear to the Lord 
 
 President - ' - - 392 
 
 CCCCXXVm.— The Provost of Aberdeen 
 
 to the Lord President - - 393 
 
 CCCCXXIX.— Lord Findlater & Seafield to 
 
 the Lord President - - ihid, 
 
 CCCCXXX.— The Lord President to Lord 
 
 Harrington - - - 395 
 
 CCCCXXXI.— The Lord President to Lord 
 
 Rear - - - 396 
 
 CCCCXXIXTT.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Provost of Aberdeen - - ibid. 
 
 CCCCXXXIII.— The Lord President to the 
 
 E. of Findlater - - - 397 
 
 CCCCXXXIV. — ^The Lord President to Sir 
 
 John Cope - - - li"--^- 
 
 CCCCXXXX .— The Miirqiiis of Tweeddale 
 
 to the Lord President - - 39S 
 
 CCCCXXXVL— Sir John Cope to the Lord 
 
 President - - - 399 
 
 CCCCXXXVII. — Sir John Cope to the Lord 
 
 President - - - 400 
 
 CCCCXXXMIL— The Earl of Sutherland 
 
 to the L-ord President - - -401 
 
 CCCCXXXIX.— The Lord President to the 
 
 E. of Sutherland - - ihid. 
 
 CCCCXL.— The Lord President to Sir John 
 
 Cope - . - - 40-2 
 
 CCCCXLL— TheLordPresidenttoSirJ Cope 403 
 CCCCXLIL— The Lord Advocate to the 
 
 Marq* of Tweeddale - - 404 
 
 CCCCXLIIL— The Lord President to Glen- 
 garry - - - . 405 
 
 NCMB. PiGS. 
 
 CCCCXLR'.— The Lord President to In- 
 
 verchasiv - _ . 406 
 
 CCCCXLV.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Earl of Sutherland . - Hid, 
 
 CCCCXL^^.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Magistrates of Elgin - - 407 
 
 CCCCXLVIL— The Lord President to the 
 
 Marquis of Tweirddale - - ibid. 
 
 CCCCXLMII.— Sir John Gordon to the 
 
 Lord President - . . 4O8 
 
 CCCCXLIX.— Lord Lovat to the Lord 
 
 President ... 409 
 
 CCCCL.— Lord Reav to the Lord President 411 
 CCCCLI.— The Lord President to the E. of 
 
 Cromertie ... ibid, 
 
 CCCCLIL— Mr. .\lesander Robertson to 
 
 the L-ord President - - 412 
 
 CCCCLIII.— Sir .\lex. Macdonald to the 
 
 Lord President - - - 414 
 
 CCCCLIV.— The Lord President to the E. 
 
 of Croiuertie - - - ibid. 
 
 CCCCLV.— The Earl of Cromertie to the 
 
 Lord President - - - 415 
 
 CCCCLVI.— The Marquis of Tweeddale to 
 
 the Lord President - - ibid. 
 
 CCCCLMI.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Marquis of Tvveeddale - - 416 
 
 CCCCLMII.— The Ltrd President to the 
 
 Commanding Officer at Berwick - 417 
 
 CCCCLIX.— Mf'George Ross to the Laird 
 
 ofMacleod ... 418 
 
 CCCCLX.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Marquis of Tweeddale - - 419 
 
 CCCCLXI. — From Mr. Morison jun. late 
 Provost of Aberdeen, to the Lord Pre- 
 sident - - - ibid. 
 CCCCLXII.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Marquis of Tweeddale - - 420 
 
 CCCCLXIIL— The Lord President to Lord 
 
 Fortrose - - - 421 
 
 CCCCLXIV.— The Lord President to M' 
 
 Riillie - - - 422 
 
 CCCCLXV.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Laird of Grant ... ibid. 
 
 CCCCLXM.— Lord Fortrose to the Lord 
 
 President - - - 423 
 
 CCCCLXVn.— The Lord President to M- 
 
 Morison. late Provost of Aberdeen - ibid. 
 CCCCLXMII.— Lord Fortrose to the Lord 
 
 President ... 424 
 
 CCCCLXIX.— Lord Reay to the Lord Pre- 
 sident _ _ . _ ibid. 
 CCCCLXX.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Earl of Sutherland - - 425 
 
 CCCCLXXI.— Letter from the Laird of 
 
 Macleod to the Lord President - 426 
 
 CCCCLXXII Sir Andrew Mitchell to the 
 
 Lord President ... 495 
 
 CCCCLXXIIL— The Lord President to the 
 
 Laird of Mac Leod - - 427
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
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 Nt'MB. Pace. 
 
 CCCCLXXIV.— The Lord President to Sir 
 
 Alex' Mac Donald - - 428 
 
 CCCCLXXV.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Laird of Pitcalnie - - 430 
 
 CCCCLXXVI.— Lord Deskford to the Lord 
 
 President ... ibid. 
 
 CCCCLXXVII.— The Lord President to 
 
 Lord Deskford - - - 431 
 
 CCCCLXXMII.— The Laird of Grant to 
 
 the Lord President - - ibkl. 
 
 CCCCLXXIX.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Earl of Sutherland - - 432 
 
 CCCCLXXX. — Lord Sutherland to the 
 
 Lord President _ . . ibid. 
 
 CCCCLXXXI.— The Lord President to 
 
 the Laird of Grant - - 433 
 
 CCCCLXXXIL— Lord Fortrose to the Lord 
 
 President _ . - ibid. 
 
 CCCCLXXXIIL— Mr. Baillie to the Lord 
 
 President . - . 434 
 
 CCCCLXXXIV.— The Lord President to 
 
 Lord Fortrose . - - 435 
 
 CCCCLXXXV.— The Lord President to 
 
 Lord Lovat - - - 436 
 
 CCCCLXXXVI.— The Lord President to 
 
 the Laird of 2Iac Leod - - 438 
 
 CCCCLXXXVII.— The Lord President to 
 
 M^ W™ Baillie - - - 439 
 
 CCCCLXXXMII.— Lord Fortrose to the 
 
 Lord President - . _ 440 
 
 CCCCLXXXIX.— The Lord President to 
 
 Genzies ... md. 
 
 CCCCXC— The Lord President to In- 
 
 verchasly - - - 441 
 
 CCCCXCI.— The Laird of Grant to the 
 
 Lord President _ - . 442 
 
 CCCCXCII.— The Lord President to young ibid. 
 
 Pitcalnie . . _ 
 
 CCCCXCIIL— The Lord President to the 
 
 Laird of Grant ... 443 
 
 CCCCXCIV.— The Lord President to Lord 
 
 Fortrnse ... 444 
 
 CCCCXCV.— From Lord Reay to the Lord 
 
 President - - . Hid. 
 
 CCCCXCVl.— The Lord President to the 
 
 Gentlemen of the Name of Ross - 445 
 
 CCCCXCVIL— The Lord President to Pit- 
 calnie ... 446 
 CCCCXC\1II.— The Lord President to 
 
 Inverchasly - - - ibid. 
 
 CCCCXCIX.— Lord Fortrose to the Lord 
 
 President ... 447 
 
 D. — The Gentlemen of the name of Ross to 
 
 the Lord President - - ibid. 
 
 DI.— The Lord President to M"- Scrope - 448 
 DIL— The LordPresident to the Earl of Stair 449 
 Dili. — The Lord President to Mr.Geo. Ross ibid. 
 DIV.— The Lord President to Mr. Gco.Ross 450 
 
 Nu.MB. Page. 
 
 DV. — From the E. of Loudon & the Lord 
 President to Marishall Wade, or the 
 Commander in Chief in the North. - 450 
 
 DVI. — The Lord President [perhaps to M' 
 Tho' Eraser of Gortiileg.] No date; 
 but probably about the end of Nov. 1/45 451 
 
 DVIl. — The Lord President to the Duke of 
 
 Gordon .... 452 
 
 DMII.— The Lord President to the Earl 
 
 of Findlater. - - - ibid. 
 
 DIX. — Mr. Robert Dundas, Solicitor Gene- 
 ral, to the Lord President - - 453 
 
 DX. — The Duke of Ciordon to the Lord 
 
 President - - - 455 
 
 DXl. — Part of a Letter from the Lord Pre- 
 sident to ^lac Leod, at Eiijin - ibid. 
 
 DXII. — The Lord President to' the Duke of 
 
 Gordon - - - - 457 
 
 DXIII. — The Lord Prssideut to the Laird 
 
 of Mac Leod. Same Date. - - ibid. 
 
 DXIV. — Sir Matthew Ridley to the Lord 
 
 President - - - - 458 
 
 DXV. — Lord Fortrose to the LordPresident ibid^ 
 
 DXVI. — Part of a Letter from the Lord Pre- 
 sident to J/ Fortrose. - - 459 
 
 DXVII. — The Lor ; President to MacLeod ibid. 
 
 DXMII. — From the Lord President to 
 James Morison Esq"^ late Provost of 
 Aberdeen .... 453 
 
 DXIX. — The Lord President to the Marquis 
 
 of Tu eeddale - - - ibid. 
 
 DXX. — Part of a Letter from the Lord 
 
 President to the E. of Stair. - -464 
 
 DXXI. — The Lord President to Sir Andrew 
 
 Mitchell. - - - . 465 
 
 DXXII. — Lord Lewis Gordon to the Laird 
 
 of Mac Leod. - - . 466 
 
 DXX III.— The Earl of Sutherland to the 
 
 LordPresident ... 4(i^ 
 
 DXXIV. — The Lord President to the Earl 
 
 of Sutherland - - -ibid. 
 
 DXX\'.— M' Jolin Forbes to the Lord Pre- 
 sident - - - . 468 
 
 DXXVL— The Duke of Argyll to the Lord 
 
 ProMdent - - - - 469 
 
 DXXVII. — General Wightman to the Lord 
 
 President - - - . ibid, 
 
 DXXVIIL— The Lord President to the 
 
 Duke of Newcastle - - - 470 
 
 DXXIX. — From the Earl of Loudoun & the 
 
 Lord President to Gen" Hawley - 4/2 
 
 DXXX. — Provost Hossack to the Lord Pre- 
 sident .... 473 
 
 DXXXI. — The Lord President toMr. Scrope 4/4 
 
 DXXXII. — From Sir Andrew Mitchell to the 
 LordPresident [withAnecdotesofSirA.] 
 
 DXXXIII. — From Farquharson, of 
 
 Livercald, to the Lord President 
 
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 478
 
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 DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING THE ENGRA\TNGS. 
 
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 (2.) Engraved Title Page ; with Vignette, representing the Moxument of the Lord President in 
 the Court of Session, executed by Roubiliac. 
 
 (4.) A Plate of Fac Similies, to face Page 1. 
 
 (3.) A Portrait of Prikce Charles Edu-ard Stuart (Son of the Pretender), from an original 
 Drawing by Ozias Humphry, R.A. taken at Florence in I "76 ; derived from the Kindness of 
 Mr. Upcot^ of the London Institution. To face Page 226.
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 C/N presenting the following papers to the Public, h may not be improper to give a 
 short biographical sketch of the members of the Culloden family, who were chiefly 
 concerned ; particularly of the Lord President Duncan Forbes, a man whose public 
 and private virtues justly raised him to celebrity. Persons who have been most sue- 
 cessful in writing the lives of eminent men, have been surprised to find, in their 
 researches, how soon those, who might be supposed to be most generally known, 
 have, after their deaths, become difficult to trace, and so have afforded but scanty 
 materials for the biographer. In this respeft likewise it may be observed, that men 
 of literary eminence (and those whose history does not present the animating vicissi- 
 tudes of life incident to the warrior, to the traveller, and to him who emerges from 
 poverty, and the humbler walks of life, to dignity, notoriety, or opulence,) generally 
 afford but meagre subjects for narrative ; and the attention is, perhaps, more forcibly 
 excited by the varied history of a vicious man, than by the gradual and expected 
 ascent to dignity and fame of him who, born in the higher class of society, pursues, 
 without deviating, the usual road to eminence : the want of surprising incidents in his 
 life, however, docs not detract from the admiration due to the unvarying tenor of 
 excellence in the career of a great and virtuous man ; and that of President Forbes 
 was so connected with the most important transactions of his time, as to deserve a 
 fuller account than is compatible with the nature of this work, 
 
 Duncan Forbes, ' the great grandfather ^ of the Lord President Forbes, was 
 member of parliament and provost of the town of Inverness. He was descended from 
 
 the 
 
 ' The perusal of history too often shews, that those whose folly or crimes produce lamentable event* 
 in the sequel, escape from feeling their effects, and leave their descendants to expiate what they have had 
 no blame in producing ; this was the case with Charles ist ; who, perhaps, may be forgiven for the worst 
 of his actions, if we except that which fixed his own destiny, and for which he could never forgive himself 
 (the death of Strafford), for he never smiled afterwards. A multitude of events conspired to draw forth 
 the disturbances which heavily threatened the kingdoms before the death of James ist. In England, the- 
 jealous policy of Henry 7th had abased the nobility, the natural support of the crown, and given birth 
 to a new race of small proprietors, who aspired to independence. The selfish policy and passions of his 
 
 a sou
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 the familv of Lord Forbes, through that of Tolquhoun, ^ as a narrative in the hand- 
 vrrlting of the president's father informs us. and purchased the barony * of CuHoden 
 
 from 
 
 son hzd puiled do\Tn the clergr ; commerce had intixxiaced the innuence c: e:;'.c:.;;ve :_r:u-e; :^:";i by 
 laea of no family ; and the refonnauon excited a spirit of discussion Cingerc_i :o a g-.T;r:;sica: reared 
 tnth no consent eicept the fiat of the conqueror. The Scotch nation, and, of course, a Scotch succession 
 to the c: -- iious to the English people. The person and character of James were calculated to 
 
 excite c, . :. ?: ; ^ i the three kingdoms were trulv-, as Henry 4th remarked, " too fine a morsel for a 
 j>edant." The Tudor princes might be hated, but they -wtre fer from being contemptible ; and they 
 might with justice use this masim to their subjects, odeoMt dam mutmunt. James was both hated and 
 demised ; and it must be owned, that he appears to hare been a cruei, timid, sensual, and despicable 
 priace, unable to govem his own femHy. Some of his letters, lately published, admit of no rational 
 explanaaon, except one so abominably degrading to his nature, as might shake the character of a more 
 unexceptionable man. The power of this monarch being weakened and precarious in England, the 
 Presbyterians, who had long been bringing it into disrepute in Scotland, gained additional courage and 
 •trength to keep pace with theit English brethren, uiitil the monarchy was subverted. Scotland indeed, 
 after the accession of James, was always regulated by the destinv of England. The character of James 1st, 
 snd of his court, and of Charles ist, are so well given by Mrs. Hutchinson, and that of the forma- conduced 
 so materiaOj to the events in which the Forbes"s of Culloden weire actors, that we insert them : as to 
 O&iks I St, it is probable that no prudence could have saved the monarchy from the storm and ruin 
 which was ready to burst upon it at his accession. 
 
 " The Court of this King (^ James 1st) was a nursery of lust and intanperance. He had brought with, 
 kiin a conqtanr of poore Scotts, who, coming into this plentiful kingdome, surfitted with riot and 
 dfhanrheries, and gott all the riches of the land to cast away. The honor, wealth, and glory of the 
 i^on, Trherein Oueene Elizabeth kft it, were soon prodigally wasted by this thriftlesse heir ; the nobility 
 of the land utterly debased by setting honors to publick sale, and conferring them on persons that had 
 Bother blood nor meritt fit to weare, nor estates to bear up their titles, bat were fain to invent projeds to 
 pin the people, and pick their purses for the maintenance of vice and lewdness ; the generality of the 
 gentry of the lande soon kamt the Comrt fashion ; and every greate house in the country became a sty of 
 tmcleaime<se. To keep the people in this deplorable security till vengeance overtook them, they were 
 AiGEanaiaed with masks, stage plavs, and sorts of ruder sports. Then b^an muither, incest, adultery, 
 drunkeoesse, swearing, fornication, and all sort of ribaldry, to be no concealed, but countenanced vices, — 
 because they held such conformity with the Court example." — ^Again : " Those sermons only pleased, 
 that Sattered them in their Tices, and told the poor King that he was Solomon ; that his skith and 
 cowardice, by which he betraved the cause of God and the honor of the nation, was gospell meaknesse 
 and peaceablenesse ; for which they raised >>Tm above the heavens, while he lay wallowiag like a swine in 
 the mire of his lust. He had a little learning, and that they called the spirit of wisdom ; and so magnified 
 bim, ^>d so wisely Sattered him, that he could not endure the words of truth and soundnesse, but rewarded 
 these base, wicked, imfaithfiill fe.vners, with rich preferments, attended with pomps and titles which 
 beaved tbem up above a humane height." Mrs. H. describes further the charaders of the King and his 
 ininions, and the events to which they gave rise, with much spirit. Of Charles ist sbe gives tbe fallowing 
 iketch, which, as the lady was a rgid puritan, must be admired for its impartiality. 
 
 " The fece of the Court was much changed in the change of the King ; for King Charles was tempe- 
 rate, chaste, and sorous ; so ih^t the fools and bawds, nwmif-tcs and catamites, of the former Court, grew 
 OTit of fashion ; and the nobility and courtiers, who did not quite abandon their debosheries, had yet that 
 ■reference to the Kicg, to retire into comers to pra6ise them. Men of learning and ingenuity in all arts 
 wwe in estecme, asd received encouragement from th^ Sing ; who vrsj a most acfUcnt judge and a great 
 
 loTer
 
 INTRODUCTION. 'g^ 
 
 from the Laird of Mackintosh in 1625. During the civil commotions which disturbed 
 the kingdom in the reign of Charles the First, and after the death of that prince, he 
 seems to have adhered to the Presbyterian party, and to have aided all the measures 
 in which the Marquis of Argyll participated ; and from his situation as chief magis- 
 trate of an important town, his assistance must have been of much consequence. He 
 died in 1654, aged 82 years, as appears by the following epitaph: 
 
 " Here lye the bodies of Duncan Forbes of CuUoden, and his spouse Janet 
 Forbes ; lineally descended of the honourable families of Tolquhoun and Cor- 
 sinday (') respectively; who departed this life, viz. the said Janet, aged 66, upon 
 the 8"' day of November Anno 1651 and the said Duncan, aged 82, upon the 
 14"* day of October 1654 — 
 
 lover of paintings, carvings, gravings, and many other ingenuities, less offensive than the bawdrys and 
 prophane abusive witt which was the only exercise of the other Court." 
 
 She then proceeds to attribute the king's hostihty to the puritans, which was greater than his father's, 
 to the Queen, Laud, and Strafford ; and to the flattery of the prelacy, which preached up his prerogative ; 
 likewise to his self-will, and great desire of uncontrolled power, more than to religious motives ; for it 
 was his principle (she says), tliat " an honest man might be saved in any profession." She is very severe 
 upon Charles for his want of good-faith in his dealings with the puritans ; which charge, indeed, cannot 
 be said to want foundation. 
 
 Mrs. H. attributes the favour of Buckingham with James to no other merit except his beauty and 
 prostitution ; and says, it was believed, that the monarch died poisoned by his favourite *, for fear that his 
 weakness should sacrifice him to his enemies. The peaceable end of his reign she thus describes : " The 
 land was then at peace ; if that quietnesse may be called a peace, which was rather like the calme and 
 smooth surface of the sea, whose darke womb is already impregnated of a horrid tempest." 
 
 It must be owned, that there is a strong resemblance between the habits and reigns of James ist and 
 Lewis 15th, as to their private lives, the disaffeftion which their conduA made a legacy to their heirs, 
 and as to the prattices and vices of their courtiers. Their successors, Charles, and Lewis i6th, have been 
 compared by many : both erred alike in one respeft (which may perhaps be rather imputable to their 
 embarrassing and multifarious transaftions, than to themselves); viz. not afling as if it was requisite to 
 keep rigidly their good faith with their subje6ts when enemies : this afforded the chief grounds of accu.sa- 
 tion against both princes. If Charles retains more of our esteem than Lewis, it is owing to his military 
 career alone : both princes were privately virtuous ; but Lewis deserved well of the French nation in 
 many respedts. The English nation does not appear to have received any boon from Charles : the heart 
 bleeds for Lewis, because he might be called innocent at least of blood, was mild, and a benefactor to his 
 butchers ; it bleeds for Charles, because he was virtuous, magnanimous at the last, a warrior, and unfort\mate. 
 
 * The families of Baillie of Dunean, and Frazer of Foyers, in luverness-shire, are descended of thi« 
 Duncan Forbes's daughters. 
 
 3 This is mentioned as the case in Nisbett's Heraldry, and Shaw's History of Moray ; and likewisft 
 appears in numerous letters of Lord Forbes to the president's father and grandfather. 
 
 •♦ This estate had been but a short time possessed by the family of Mackintosh, during which the castle 
 was begun and built up to the first story. It had previously belonged to a family of the name of 
 Strahan ; and before that, to one of the name of Edmestone, as is evident from the old sasines. 
 
 s This family is likewise descended from that of Lord Forbes. Vide Nisbett's Heraldry. 
 
 * Dr.Egleslum, the king's p'nysician, confinns this ; and likewise, that ii« foitonisd [he Marqiiiii ot'iisn^itton. 
 
 3 2 " Tliese
 
 rv INTRODUCTION. 
 
 " These Polish'd Stones 
 Rais'd here above thy bones. 
 Add to thy honor not a whitt ; 
 Which was before, and still remains, compleit. 
 Thy memorie will ever recent bee, 
 Preserv'd by such as draw their blood from thee ; 
 Who in reguarde 
 .-. .^ Of thy good fame, 
 
 r- Receive rewarde 
 
 By claimei;ig to thy name ; 
 For thy remains give honor to this place. 
 And thy true vertue honors all thy race." 
 
 In the year 1684, his son erected a monument to his memory, at the expense of 
 jf 1000. Scots, in the chapel yard of Inverness. This (though it may not appear 
 large when reduced to sterling money) was a verj' great sum in those days in point of 
 efficacy- ; for, a variety of facts could be adduced to shew, that in the purchase of land 
 a Scotch pound was then more efficacious than a pound sterling at present.* 
 
 Duncan Forbes was succeeded by his eldest son John, who was likewise provost of 
 Inverness (we believe, member of parliament for it), and the friend and coadjutor of the 
 Marquis of Arg\"ll.' Upon the Restoration, although he escaped the unhappy fate of 
 that nobleman, and of others who were put to death, still, his name being in the list of 
 persons exempted from the Act of Indemnity, he was involved in all the vexatious and 
 tyrannical acts of vengeance, short of death, which disgraced the reign of Charles the 
 Second. He was severely fined, and both himself and family were tormented with 
 every species of dvil and ecclesiastical oppression. Misfortune, and experience of the 
 
 * Duncan Forbes had a brother James, who became lord of La Faye, in France. About 1650, he was 
 engaged in a law-suir, which, after lasting for ten years, seems to have ended in the destruction of his 
 fortune. The judgment and passions of the judges appear to have been propitiated by every art of prose 
 and poetrv, Latin and French, in voluminous printed memorials ; and the yariety of procedure far 
 surpasses that described in Racine's comedy Les PLiidiurs. The litigants at last, in agony, call heaven 
 and earth to witness the ruinous expense of the law-suit. 
 
 " Upwards of 18, coo persons are said to have been put to death in Scotland, during the reigns of Charles 
 2nd and James and, for religious or political opinions. In the Marquis of Argyll's indictment, Cromwell's 
 name is repeatedly mentioned in such indecorous terms as the following, which do tis memory less 
 dishonour, than thev do to the want of dignity and propriety in the king's advocate : — " Monster of men 
 and cruel regicide, Oliver Cromwell ;" " Oliver Cromwell, that monster of men, vilest of traitors, most 
 cruel murderer, bloody tyrant and usurper;" " Archtyrant and traitor;" " abominable traitor and 
 usurper;" " vile usurper ;" " cruel bloody murderer and usurper," &c. A few years before, the Scotch 
 had resolved to erect a statue to Oliver Cromwell. 
 
 world,
 
 INTRODUCTION. rJT 
 
 world, had taught this monarch disguise and h)'pocrisy, without eradicating his cruel 
 and tyrarmical disposition ; and as he hated the Presbyterians in Scotland, he saw no 
 motives for not indulging his revenge against them. In England, the case was dif- 
 ferent ; particularly at the beginning of his reign : the warriors of Naseby and Worcester 
 had taught him to fear the valour of his enemies ; and he long walked cautiously over 
 what he thought covered fire, ignes suppositos c'niere doloso. His question of " Where 
 *' are my enemies ?" which he put upon landing, and which has been stated as com- 
 plimentary, was probably dictated by his suspicions ; and his first declarations, such as 
 being most particularly fond of parliaments, and regretting not having funds to enter- 
 tain the members, could deceive no man of sense, and, compared with the sequel of 
 his reign, shew that fear (which the course of years removed) was alone the motive of 
 all the seeming urbanity and facetiousness of his behaviour : on every occasion when 
 he escaped from the impulse of this base feeling, he evinced an unbounded thirst 
 for blood, and the exercise of undue power.. 
 
 In the course of life it may be observed, that what is at first taken as a misfortune con* 
 duces often, when conscience directs the conduct, to our happiness in the sequel j and 
 
 " Oft the cloud which wraps the prefent hour 
 " Serves but to brighten all our future days." 
 
 The truth of this observation, if not felt by John Forbes, was at least evident to 
 his family after his death. The frowning aspect of government, by introducing the 
 habits of economical and private living, instead of hospitality and expense, into his 
 family, must have conduced to the accumulation of his fortune ; and about the year 
 1670 his landed estate was doubled by the purchase of the barony of Ferintosh, and 
 the estate of Bunchrew *. He died about the period of the Revolution, leaving by 
 his wife Anna Dunbar (a daughter, we believe, of Dunbar of Hempriggs, in the 
 count)' of Moray) a large family, and was succeeded by his eldest son Duncan, who had 
 received a very liberal education at Bourges, and in different parts of the Continent. 
 
 In 1685, the succession of James 7th to the throne seemed, if possible, to consign 
 Scotland to a lower state of degradation and slavery than she had yet reached. It has 
 been justly remarked, that in the former reign she enjoyed less freedom than the most 
 despotically governed kingdom in Europe. The dreadful severities following the 
 Rye-house plot, and the expeditions of Monmouth and Argyll, seemed to have extir- 
 pated the last champions, and stifled the last sighs, for liberty ; and the nation exhibited 
 
 • These estates were the patrimony of a son of Lord Lovat. The word Ferintosh signifies the Thane's 
 land, it having been part of the thanedom of Calder (celebrated in Macbeth). 
 
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 ^ INTKODrCTION. 
 
 the dissrracefiil appearance of being pleased with the chains which it could not shake off. 
 James possessed, m darker or lighter shades, aU the bad qualities of his brother, except 
 •his cunnini^ ; and had he been more open to good advice, less ardent, and less bigoted, 
 these realms -oould possibly have been consigned for ages to political insignificance and 
 •slavery. Providence, however, ordained other«'ise, and drew fortli, from the infatuated 
 dblly and perseverance of the tyrant, the unlooked-for spirit and exertion which 
 <aused his overthrow.' Till the great blow was struck in England, much vigour of 
 resistance to a government established by the bloody severity of twentj-five years could 
 not be expected : and the Scotch nation ' seemed rather willing to follow the course 
 of events than to direct them : so true it is,"" that the worst symptom of men reduced 
 4o slavery is, the loss of the desire of breaking their chains. It is but justice to 
 Duncan Forbes to state, that he was among the first and the most strenuous of those 
 patriots who, in Scotland, secretly prepared, or openly brought forward, those events 
 which tended to produce the overthrow of the tyrant, and secured his exclusion ; and 
 as he w^us a member in the Scotch parliament, his decided love of freedom made 
 
 * Several historians have attempted to decorate the character of James 2nd with personal courage ; and 
 his behaviour at the action of Southwold Bay ha? been quoted as a proof. That he was in that battle 
 is certain, and in some danger ; but how the conduct of a British Admiral quitting his ship repeatedly 
 ■when hotlv engaged, going on board Sir Edward Spragge's ship, and calling out, " Spragge, Spragge, 
 they follow us still," can be reckoned any thing else than co%vardice, we are at a loss to discover. 
 The stor^- of Brounker shews cunning, cowardice, and court intrigue ; but this affair never was cleared 
 up, as it ought to have been, by a court martial : how a court martial would treat these matters is known 
 to every officer ; we shall only contrast them with Nelson's conduct during the hottest fire at Copenhagen ; 
 —when he exclaimed, '■' It is warm work ; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment ; but, 
 mark vou ! I would not be elsewhere for thousands." James was equally careful of himself when ship- 
 wrecked in 1682, and at the battle of the Boyne, as at Southwold Bay ; and no action of his life displays 
 the smallest intrepiditv. He has been said to have piqued himself upon a faithful regard to his word ; 
 yet his conduct to Major Holmes, and several others, shews that no dependence could be placed upon 
 Lis good faith, when the life of a victim was to be saved. The cool crueltv, and unrelenting butcheries, 
 in vain attempted to be laid to the escl'.!sive charge of Jefferies, evince an ungovernable appetite for blood 
 in this tyrant, who knew not how to pardon in any case. Hume's partiality to this king is wonderfiiL 
 
 9 Torture, which was not abolished till after the Union, had been pretty rigorously made use of during 
 the reigns of Charles 2nd and James 7th *. It may be remarked, that the practice of torture is only 
 timorously mentioned as improper in certain cases, in the Scotch List of Grie\-ances : the rest of the 
 paper brer.thes no very exalted impatience of tyranny ; and had not the genijs of England carried Scotland 
 alon^ with it of necessity, there can be no doubt that the latter would easily have relapsed into her chains 
 in spite of tbe Presbyterians. 
 
 ''^ This is the remark of J. J. Rousseau, who compares a people in this state of slavery to those persons 
 fabled to have been enchanted in the Island of Calypso, who lost all desire of extricating themselves. 
 
 * Poor Carstiirs, Ae editOT d the State Papers, was thcmb-scrrwed in pieseace of the privy couacO ; the teds direding the 
 *pplicati(xi of the tonure to this poor deflgyman. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. . VU 
 
 him a very conspicuous character in that assembly ; and one, finally, not very 
 manageable even by the ministers of King William or Queen Aiine. 
 
 The year after the Revolution, his estates of Culloden and Ferintosh were ravaged 
 by the soldiers of Buchan and Cannon, and the houses and other property destroyed, to 
 the amount of ^54,000. Scotch money, as ascertained by a regular proof. His hos- 
 tility to the Jacobite interest was the avowed cause for those outrages ; and his known 
 merit in promoting the Revolution, no doubt, was the real cause of the favourable 
 result of his claim for compensation by the Scotch parliament ; which was made by a 
 perpetual grant of a liberty to distill into spirits the grain of the barony of Ferintosh, 
 upon paying a small specific composition in lieu of excise : the value of this privilege, 
 and its fate, sb-all be stated hereafter. 
 
 The following extract from a journal of events kept by Mr. Forbes will shew how 
 much his services -were valued by King William: — " At that time I contrived the 
 sending him (his brother John) to the Prince of Orange with our address, which took 
 effect. I was in London in 1690, and wrote down scrolls of such letters as I would 
 have his colonel write to Portland anent his officers ; and by that means, and other 
 management, got him made major of that regiment; the secretary Melville being 
 zealous for Carlipp, and Mackay for his cousin Roubigill : the king, upon knowing 
 that John was my brother, Immediately caused write him down major, because he 
 meant to gratify me, to whom he then looked upon himself to be beholden ; nor would 
 he be brought to alter it in favour of either Mackay or Melville." 
 
 Duncan Forbes was married to Mar}' Innes, daughter of the Laird of Innes, a family 
 long established in the county of Moray, with the dignify of baronet ; and which, 
 through the female line, has lately succeeded to the dukedom of Roxburgh. By her 
 he left two sons, John and Duncan (the Lord President), and several daughters : " 
 he latterly served in parliament for the county of Nairn, and died in 1704. Of his 
 brothers, John " was a lieutenant-colonel in the army, and Sir David '^ Forbes, of 
 Newhall, an eminent lawyer. After his death, the Union in 1707 tended to smooth 
 the asperity of many of the feudal remains of tyranny in Scotland, and to shed the 
 influence of English independence and manners, and perhaps of English laws ; at least 
 
 " From daughters of Duncan Forbes are descended Ross of Kendeace, Innes of Innes, ar.d Urquhart 
 of Burdzards. 
 
 '- This Lieutenant Colonel John Forbes was employed (as he was at any rate going north) to carry 
 the order respecting the Glencoe affair to Sir John Hill, governor of Fort Willism ; ?nd it is bu,. sutice 
 to the memories of both to slate, that they expressed their horror at the order when the letter was 
 opened. 
 
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 in criminal cases), over that kingdom ; and the sources of future prosperity vere pre- 
 pared and rendered so obvious, that many who had opposed the Union became hostile 
 to the dissolution of it afterR^ards, when it was agitated ; of which number his son 
 John Forbes, who was in parliament, was one. We shall now proceed to notice his 
 second son. 
 
 Duncan Forbes was bom in Inverness-shire "* upon the icth November 16S5, and 
 after being some time at the school of Inverness •was sent at an early age to Edinburgh, 
 where he prosecuted his studies at the different seminaries of that capital, and gave 
 very early indications of that genius and application for which he was afterwards 
 distinguished. 
 
 It has been repeatedly asserted, that he had a juvenile bias towards the military 
 profession ; which is not improbable, as he had an uncle and several other relations 
 in the army. This inclination, however (if he reaUy had such), does not appear to 
 have been long entertained, as he commenced the study of the law in the chambers 
 of professor Spottiswood in the year 1704 ; in which year likewise he lost his father, 
 who was succeeded bv John Forbes, his eldest son, in all his landed property. It 
 was extremely fortunate for Mr. Duncan Forbes, that this loss was greatly mitigated 
 by the care and unceasing friendship of his brother, who for the period of thirty 
 years, during which he surs-ived his father, appears to have behaved with the greatest 
 affection and generosity towards him : of this conduct he had never cause to repent ; 
 and towards the close of his life had only to reproach his brother (as he indeed did) 
 for the extreme delicacy which induced him to decline those marks of affection which 
 he was ever ready to bestow. 
 
 Although Mr. Forbes had begun the study of the law in Edinburgh, the tide of 
 celebritv' had not vet reached its university, and he found it extremely ill appointed in 
 teachers. This want induced all the young men, whose fortunes permitted them, to 
 resort to those seminaries on the Continent which were rendered illustrious by the 
 reputation of their professors ; and at this period Levden seems to have supplanted 
 Bourges, a city which had formerly generally attracted the Scotch youth intent upon 
 legal knowledge. Mr. Forbes thereibre, after a short time spent in Edinburgh in 
 studjing the law, took up his residence in Leyden'' in 1705, and applied with the 
 
 greatest 
 
 ^ \Ve are not certain, whether Duncan Forbes was bom at Ciilloden or Bunchrew ; but rather judge the 
 latter, betaase his grandfather and grandmother occupied CuUodea at the time of his birth ; his father and 
 mother living at Bunchrew till i6g8, when his grandmother, who held the whole barony of Culloden as 
 jointure, died. 
 
 '' In a short Memoir of the life of President Forbes, lately prefixed to his Work?, it is said, that 
 Jie laid out his patrimony, .^jjc sterling, in c^jaimeree. This ii possible ; though, as he studied the law 
 
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 INTaODTJCTION. -"«- 
 
 greatest assiduity to his studies under the professors of that university. Of the 
 jntenseness and success of his appHcation in general, some judgement may be formed 
 from the great extent of his acquirements in languages as well as law (which in the 
 former comprehended the Hebrew and several other Eastern languages), and from 
 his rapid rise into reputation and business upon his commencing practice. His 
 conduct was, indeed, quite the contrary of that of almost all the English youths who 
 resorted to the different cities of Europe, which were usually disturbed by the riot 
 and debauchery of those striplings, vvho repaid the forbearance and politeness of the 
 inhabitants with contempt and arrogance ; and returned to their native country as 
 ignorant as when they left it, but much more depraved ; generally carrying no- 
 thing home but the absurdities and vices which they met with. As he states in one 
 of his letters, " he bought his books, upon coming to Leyden, that he might make 
 *' use of them;" whereas with the generalit)' of students the custom was, to make the 
 payment of such articles a pretext for drawing money to defray other deb-s upon 
 leaving the place. 
 
 In 1 707 Mr. Forbes returned to Scotland, and to the study of the Scotch law, and 
 was admitted Advocate on the 26th July 1709, when in his 24th year ; a period some- 
 what late, if we consider how early his studies began, and with what success they were 
 prosecuted. 
 
 The warm friendfhip of the family of Argyll, which had probably been instrumental 
 in inclining Mr. Forbes to the profession of the law, did not long leave him unproWded ; 
 and he obtained the place of Sheriff of Mid-Lothian very soon after his appearance at 
 the bar. The Earl of Hay (brother of John Duke of Argyll), who was afterwards 
 known as Archibald Duke of Argyll, took a very active interest in his success in life, 
 and entrusted his most weighty affairs to his management and judgement at this early 
 period : a compliment which must have been very advantageous and honourable to so 
 young a man, from a nobleman of so high a character for discernment ; since, as has 
 been said of amusement, it may be said of business, that no man is a hypocrite to the 
 loss of his own interest. The Duke of Argyll afterwards committed the direction of his 
 
 in Edinburgh at the age of 19, and was engaged in the same pursuit at Leyden from the age of 20 t* 
 22, and afterwards in Edinburgh again till 1709, when admitted Advocate, h; must be supposed to 
 have had little time for the pursuits of commerce. It is indeed true, that he might have adventured 
 his patrimony in a commercial speculation, and lost it (as Said in the Memoir), without being what 
 can be termed engaged in commerce as a man of butincss before studying the law, as the nsemoir intimate* 
 that he -was. 
 
 The Memoir accuses both DuBcan Forbes and his brother of being tousen in their youh : that the 
 elder brother was, may be true ; but the younger hsd neither time nor iaclioation to merit such a title. 
 
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 X INTRODUCTION. 
 
 estates (during his own absence) to Mr. Forbes, •which has probably given rise to the 
 assertion, in some publication, that he acted as factor '^ for this nobleman ; a situaticai 
 (according to the acceptation of the isord in Scotland) totally inconsistent with his 
 views and habits of life, and which, it is probable, no consideration could have 
 induced him to accept ; and it is a fact, that the same friendsliip, which led him at first 
 to crive his ad«ce and assistance in the absence of this noble proprietor, induced him to 
 continue his exertions in tlie same line, and to the same extent, after he had risen to 
 the first legal situations in the kingdom, 
 
 - To his profession, therefore, he had chiefly to look for the means of his immediate 
 expendimre ; for although his brother was both rich and generous, yet a spirit of 
 proper independence made him ever im'willing to be burdensome even to one whose 
 greatest pleasure consisted in sharing his fortune with him ; and his patrimony, 
 although it might sound largely when counted in the merks or pounds of Scotland, 
 yet, when reduced to sterling money, did not exceed an inconsiderable sum : the 
 pride or prudence of the Scotch gentry having always strongly biassed them to sacrifice 
 the comfort of the younger branches of their femilies to the splendour of the heir. 
 
 As Mr. Forbes, however, was allowed the first rank for eloquence at the bar, was 
 extensively employed both in his pracdce before the Court of Session and afterwards 
 before the House of Lords, had a natural turn for expense, and lived in the best 
 company, we may infer that his emoluments were considerable ; and we may be cer- 
 tain, that in the successful pursuit of a lucrative profession with unri\'ulled eclat, he 
 felt the most agreeable sensation experienced by men of talents, that of owing Httle 
 to interest or friends ; for even friendship will not go the length of risking much for 
 the sake of conferring the trifling obligation of a short employment ; and though 
 interest may elevate a practitioner to the bench, it cannot be supposed to assLst him 
 much at the bar. With the means of his livelihood greatly depending on his own 
 exertions, be was not prevented from entering into the matrimonial state :i>he 
 had been an admirer of the daughter of Hugh Rose, of Kilravock, in his own 
 youth, and almost from her infancy ; and the vicinity of the residence, of the lady 
 to CuUoden must have acbrded them frequent opportunities of improving their 
 acquaintance. Though her family was among the most ancient, and the estates of her 
 father ample, it is not probable that she added much to the pecuniary resources of Tier 
 husband ; but we have convincing proofs that she brought beauty and accomplish- 
 
 '^ The Duke of Argyll proffered to him the management of his estate in Scotland. This Mr. Forbes 
 readily accepted ; but declined taking any pension or reward, though h,e might have made ^£"600 yearly 
 by it. FiJi Memoir prefixed to his Works. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. XX 
 
 nients, which were all that he desired j with this lady, however, he was not long 
 blessed ; for she died young at no distant period after their marriage '^ 
 
 The death of Queen Anne, in 1714, opened the succession of the crowTi to the 
 House of Hanover; and George the 1st lost no time in securing the possession of 
 the government. The feeble and tardy efforts of the son of James the 2d created 
 far less sensation than might have been expected, from the fairness of the opportu- 
 nity, the number of his adherents, and the unpopular severity of some of the recent 
 measures of ministry, both in England and Scotland. The standard of rebellion 
 
 '' This Lady, whose name was Mary, left him his son and successor John Forbes. She is much cele- 
 brated by a poet called J. Colme, who seems to have gained a livehhood by writing laudatory pieces in 
 English and Latin yerse. 
 
 Mr. Forbes did not marry after her death.— The present Mrs. Rose, of Kilravock, a lady possessing 
 great literary and musical, as well as the more usual female accomplishments, favoured us with the follow- 
 ing information : " His Lordship (the President) was not only an honour to his family, but to the human 
 species ; and we venerate, here, even a grey rock in the wood, where he used sometimes to meet his lady, 
 on whom he made the beautiful verses beginning 
 
 " Ah, Chloris ! could I now but sit • ' ■ ■ ■ 
 
 As unconcern' d as when ,':..;■.. 
 
 Your infant beauty could beget j ■_■■■.___ 
 
 No happiness nor pain. Sec." 
 
 As a specimen of Mr. Forbes's abiUties for light versification, vre give the rest of this song, which gained 
 
 Kiany admirers in Scotland. 
 
 When I this dawning did admire, ., , ,.. . --r ", 
 
 And prais'd the coming day, . . ' . ' 
 
 I httle thought that rising fire ;..■'.. 
 
 Would take my rest away. , ;. .^i.; .... 
 
 •; 2 . '.;;:'.:> 
 
 Your charms in harmless childhood lay -i ■ • ' 
 
 As metals in the mine ; , > , 
 
 Age from no face takes more away, '-'-•■' ' ' - - • ' ■" - ' 
 
 •- Than youth conceai'd in thine ; - — = - 
 
 But as your charms insensibly n, 
 
 To their perfediion press'd, .. • 
 
 So love as unperceiv'd did fly, _ .,_ 
 
 And center'd in my breast. 
 
 3- 
 
 . ' My passion with your beauty grew, 
 
 While Cupid at my heai-t, 
 Still as his mother favour'd you. 
 Threw a new flaming dart : 
 £ach gloried in their wanton part : 
 
 To make a lover, he ; 
 
 Employ'd the utmost of his art ; 
 To make a beauty, slie. 
 
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 sil - - INTROBUmOX. 
 
 \f:is, however, at last erected ; and for some time the affairs of Scotland bore a Huc« 
 tuating and dubious appearance. The prince, for whose claim the rebellion was 
 undertaken, made a late effort to reanimare his adherents by his presence, and a 
 rapid and inglorious retreat : leaving his friends to the vengeance of their enemies. 
 The silence of the laws amidst the din of arms has long been proverbial ; but at this 
 period they do not seem to have been attended to, even after the return of tranquillity. 
 Many of those Scotchmen accused of joining in the rebellion were hurried off to 
 En-^land, there tried by English laws and juries, and the sentences of many executed 
 with rigour. This epoch formed a very important one in the life of Mr. Duncan 
 Forbes : the activity, the zeal, and courage of both himself and his brother, have been 
 alwap acknowledged to have conduced much to the speedy suppression of the revolt in 
 Scotland. They were greatly instrumental in securing the town of Invemes and the 
 neighbouring country for government. The castle of Culloden '* had been besieged, 
 and was defended by the lady '' of the proprietor during his absaice in parliament, with 
 a degree of inrrepidirv- seldom equalled, even without considering the sex of the person 
 attacked : and ^Ir. John Forbes had, moreover, expended ^3000. sterltng of his 
 own fortime in the ser\-ice of govenmaent, without receiving the smallest repayment. 
 The services of his brother were known, and met with the applause of aU the friends 
 of the House of Hanover, as well as the public acknowledgments of feveral corporations. 
 These circmnstances, probably, suggested the propriety of proffering the office of 
 Deput\- Lord Advocate to him : an appointment which, by at once drawing him for- 
 ward into public notice and approbation, secured his fumre elevadon in life ; k might 
 indeed be called the tide •'•' wllich, taken at the full, led on to fortune ;" and we 
 cannot suppose that Mr. Forbes was insensible of the danger attending the neglect of 
 such an crcasion : he possessed feelings, however, which would not allow him 
 to attend to the susrqestions of interest, when his conscience was dissatisfied : as 
 
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 ;» Lcrd LrCT.: ^;:>;(i great applaud and rcvi^rdi from Government, for his aaivitv and courage m 
 keepb- '.s.i nonh coui:trv on the part of the hoafe of Haaorer in 1715-16. But Mr. Staw infbnns ns» 
 in Ids Historv ot Morav. that the Jacobite trcops were expelled from InTcmess by Hugh Rose, ai K3r- 
 laTock, whose brother was slain ia the expedition : it was (he says) afterwards garrisoned by Orav ock 
 -aad Culloden. 
 
 The dismauLling of the citadel of InTemefs by Ciarfes IT. greatly assbted the plans of the rebels, both 
 after the RcTolution, and in 171 j and 1745. This was a step which dearly shews the selnsh policy of 
 Charles II. ; who, ppoTided he gained the good-will of the clans, easily conlented to dispense with the 
 anthoritj of the laws (which conld not be maintained nitfaou; force \, and to leave the Highlands to anarchy 
 Mid rapine. In retnm for this, he counted, no donbt, upon the help of the clans in forwarding his own 
 nbn of gOTeniment elsewhere. The citadel was a neat small pentagon, constructed by order of Oliver 
 Cromwell: upon the ramtvarts his standard displayed the word ■' Emakcel," in golden letters. 
 
 '- Thii bdy wsi a daagbter gf Gordca of Gsrdotjnown,. Barcuct. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. lUj 
 
 the Lord Chancellor Ersklne has since so beautifully expressed himself, he 
 made it a rule " always to do what his conscience told him to be his duty, and 
 to leave the consequences to God ;" '" and, like that illustrious nobleman, he found 
 it the road to prosperity. He for a long time refused the office, which was pressed 
 upon him ; and at laft accepted it only through the earnest intreaties of his friends, 
 and particularly of Lord Hay. It is, indeed, probable, that his final acceptance of 
 the deputation (1 2th March 171 6) from Sir David Dalrymple, the Lord Advocate, 
 was owing to his finding that the duties were not entirely for the purpose for which 
 it was understood that the office was to be filled ; viz. the prosecution of the persons 
 confined on account of the rebellion. It is certain, that he considered the act of 
 sending the accused out of Scotland for trial as highly illegal ; and that he contributed 
 largely himself, and used his influence with his friends to obtain money for the use 
 of the Scotch prisoners at Carlisle ; considering every man as innocent before con- 
 vidion ; and that it was a disgraceful thing for a Scotchman to behold, without assist- 
 ing, so many countrymen in poverty and misery, when the defence of their lives, and 
 of the fortunes of their families, required pecuniary aid. 
 
 The natural desire of self-preservation has, in every state, made the highest penal- 
 ties attach to high treason, or the rebellion of the subject against the government. 
 This crime, in point of moral turpitude, is, notwithstanding, of far less deep a dye, 
 than many others for which trivial punishments are appointed. In the case of the 
 rebellion of 1 7 1 5, many allowances might reasonably be made for the persons who 
 revolted against a government hardly clothed with possession, erected contrary to the 
 expectations of those who were best acquainted with the designs of the former sovereign, 
 and upon principles which would, at no remote period, have subjected the person 
 promulgating them to the pains of high treason ". Though we detest the tyranny, and 
 
 ** Mr. Erskine, upon some important trial, had been desired by Judge Buller to sit down. This com- 
 mand produced the following answer, which every person entering npon life ought to contemplate : — 
 
 " My lord, I will not sit down — your lordship may do your duty ;. but I will do mine. It was the 
 first command and counsel of my youth, always to do what my conscience told me to be my duty, and 
 to leave the consequences to God. I shall carry with me the memorj', and, I trust, the practice of this 
 parental lesson to the grave ; I have hitherto followed it, and have no reason to complain that my obedience 
 to it has been even a temporal sacrifice ; I have found it, on the contrary, the road to prosperity and 
 wealth, and I shall point it out as such to my children." 
 
 " Even at so distant a period as 1718, commissions of Oyer et Terminer were opened at Perth, Dundee, 
 Kelso, and in Fifeshire, to enquire into the treasons of 17 15. The grand juries, however, did not forward 
 the views of those instituting these measures (notwithstanding that lawyers were sent from London to 
 tupport the prosecutions;, and shewed a spirit of independence honourable to Scollaiid, and probably not 
 looked for. In treating of some periods of our history, we might add te such a fact, " jncredibile diftu !" 
 
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 sen INTRODUCTlONf. 
 
 degree, left England in a similar state of desolation '-' ; but her soil and climate, and the 
 genius of her inhabitants, being more favourable, her recovery was more easily effected. 
 To restore a country reduced to such a state of poverty was impracticable, vithout 
 waiting for the gradual effects of time ; but even to sow the seeds of fiiture prosperity 
 was a work of labour, requiring enlightened views, nice discrimination, disinterested. 
 ness, and patience '-^. The habits hostile to labour of a ver)'' obstinate people were only 
 to be overcome by their experience of the sweets of industry ; and even these, when 
 seen, were often ineffectual, because the pen'erted principles of religion were called in to 
 the aid of idleness. But even the wages of industry were difficult to be procured ; 
 there was little credit enjoyed in the kingdom ; and those who had the means of 
 raising money, wanted the knowledge and the desire of enlarging their fortunes by 
 laying out their capitals on improvements, the advantages of which could not be imme- 
 diate, and mighc be chimerical. This was the case with the landholders ; but with 
 those engaged, or who might be engaged, in commerce and manufactures the case 
 Tvas sdll more difficult : povert)' w^s almost universal, and the want of trust in a proper 
 return for iudustrj' and outlav was sufficient to deter the few who had the means 
 of adventuring from risking their money. The recent event of Darien hung heavy 
 •upon the spirit of speculation ; and it was a task of no easy accomplishment to draw 
 the knowledge of arts and manufactures from those persons in other countries, who 
 were liberally supported by the exercise of their skill or exclusive invention. 
 
 We are far from asserting, that ever}- thing which has since rendered Scotland the 
 wonder of every -visitor ; that what has covered her coasts with commerce, her hills 
 with woods, her vallies with unrivalled cultivation, and reared her cities to a degree 
 of splendour beyond the plans or ideas of the most visionary ; — derived foundations 
 alone from the labour of Mr. Forbes ; but it is not too much to say, that the 
 fisheries, almost ever)' manufacture (particularly that of Hnen), the circulation of 
 money, the agriculture, and opening of the country by roads, all derived their first 
 great stimulus from his incessant exertions ; so that (to use the expression of the Pre- 
 sident Dalr)-mple, when writing to him on the subject of the Bank) he might call them 
 *' his own bairns." Of late years, the patronising of such affairs has become little 
 
 -' Land had fallen so much in value at the end of these wars, that an historian of the time says, that 
 estates of ^ I CO. a-year were given to adventurers byway of recompencCj who would have preferred 
 1^200. in ready money. 
 
 -♦ " ^\^len it is in agitation to form an estimate of the pubhc power, the man of taste visits the palaces of 
 the piince, his ports, his troops, his arsenals, and his cities ; the true politician surveys the farms, and 
 enters the cottage of th? labourer : the first sees what has been effected, the second what it is possible to 
 cffeft." RovssEAi. 
 
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 IKTRODUCTION. XVU 
 
 more than an occasion for festivity, because it now requires only the labour of putting 
 into motion those means which have been already acquired. 
 
 Mr. Forbes's plan of life was now materially changed ; his time being divided 
 between his duties in London and Edinburgh, and his retreat at Bunchrew, a small 
 estate belonging to his brother in the district of Aird, within three miles of Inverness. 
 His predilection for the country was, indeed, always observable : when his duty 
 called him to England, he usually passed much of his time at Hampstead ; and he, 
 for many years, occupied a country seat near Edinburgh, called Stoneyhill,*^ which 
 commanded an extensive view Over the firth of Forth and the coast of Fife, and to 
 which he retreated whenever the state of his business would permit him. - - • "^ 
 
 The year 1725 was remarkable for the commotions generally excited throughout 
 Scotland by the introduction of the malt tax, which was finally enforced chiefly 
 through the management of Mr. Forbes. These particularly bore a serious aspect in 
 Glasgow, to which city a very large body of troops was sent ; for it was justly 
 suspected in this case, as in every other of civil disturbance at this period, that a 
 spirit of Jacobitism was the chief stimulus to revolt -^. Mr. Forbes accompanied his 
 friend General Wade and the troops to Glasgow ; and though the insurrection had 
 risen to a great height, and was supported by persons far above the humbler walks 
 of life, it was soon suppressed ; the chief instigators, through the activity of Mr. Forbes, 
 were arrested, and even the magistrates sent to Edinburgh. In paying him this tribute, 
 we give no more than he received at the time from the voice of his country, and has 
 received since from the impartial page of history. 
 
 During the 1 5 years that Mr. Forbes attended the House of Commons, his time must 
 have been passed very pleasantly both in Edinburgh and London. His manners were 
 extremely agreeable, his disposition was cheerful and convivial, and his opportunities 
 of enjoying the society of those most respected for worth and literature were frequent. 
 His uncle, Sir David Forbes, of Newhall, near Edinburgh, lived close to the estate ren- 
 dered celebrated as the scene of The Gentle Shepherd ; and a considerable part of his 
 time was spent at the house of this gentleman, where, it is said, Mr. Ramsay composed 
 and first recited his play before several friends, of whom the Lord Advocate was one. 
 When in London, his attendance in the House of Commons, and at the bar of the 
 House of Lords (where his practice was great), introduced him to the acquaintance of 
 the most eminent persons ; and there are few of the toW laudati of Pope with whom he 
 
 *' Stoneyhill was the property of the famous Colonel Charteris. Mr. Forbes most ably exerted himself 
 in his behalf in the trial for a rape ; and from his gratitude obtained the use of Stoneyhill, with some parks 
 around the house, gratis, for life. To this place he afterwards used to retire from Saturday noon unti^ 
 Monday morning; happy, with one or two companions, to avoid the opes fumum strepitumque Romx. 
 He was left guardian to Colonel Charteris's heir. 
 
 >* The highlanders were disarmed by ad of parliament in this year. 
 
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 XYlii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 was not intimate. He likewise reckoned among his clients two of the most remarkable 
 of those whom that poet has lashed in his satirical writings ; xiz. Charteris and Timon 
 (the Duke of Chandos) ; and it may be mentioned as honourable to him, that after his 
 situation in Scotland withdrew him from the company of his English acquaintances, their 
 expressions of regret at the loss of his society were such as shewed that the heart 
 dictated, and that empty compliment had no share in, their praise. 
 
 During his residence in London, he had the satisfaction of befriending his country- 
 man Thomson, who was then in great poverty and without a patron, and whom he 
 had prenously known by some of his writings in Scotland. The recommendations 
 which the poet received from him to his numerous friends were of the greatest use, 
 and emboldened him to publish his "Winter in 1726 ; which poem soon introduced him 
 to the acquaintance and patronage of many persons of rank and literary eminence. In 
 1727 his Summer, and in 1728 his Spring, extended his reputation ; and his Autumn, 
 which came out in 1730, with a complete edition of his works, raised his name to its 
 highest lustre ; for he never published any thing afterwards equal to his Seasons. In 
 his Autumn he takes an opportunirv", after his beautiful eulogium on the Duke of 
 Arg)-ll, to shew his gratitude to Mr. Forbes in a manner very judicious, and which 
 must have been the more agreeable because there is nothing overstrained in the 
 compliment. 
 
 Thee, Forbes^ too, whom every worth attends. 
 As truth sincere, as weeping friendship kind ; 
 Thee, truly generous, and in silence great ^, 
 Thy country feels thro" her re^-iring arts, 
 Plann'd by thy wisdom, by thy soul infonn'd ; 
 And seldom has she known a friend like thee -^. 
 
 " The latter part of this line seems, however, but an aukward compliment to a real orator, such as 
 Mr. Forbes. 
 
 -s Mr. Thomson was not the only poet patronized by Mr.Forbes. He had himself a strong propensity 
 towards poetrv at every period ; and wrote verses, at least of the highest standard of what are termed 
 vers descctke, at a very juvenile time of life. Those who possess real, genius always feel, at the period 
 when the sensual inclinations begin to gain force, a kind of soaring of the soul, as if it was emulous to 
 keep pace with or to outstrip the impulse of the grosser passions : this gives birth to a thousand delightfiil 
 deliriums and ecstatic hankerings after an undefinable excellence and happiness ; a thousand noble and 
 generous, lively, tender, melancholy, and aspiring thoughts, which Pope compares to those beautiful 
 colours that sometimes appear to the eyes when shut, and which, once fled, cannot be recalled. Love and 
 the muse may generally receive the first homage of genius of whatever kind ; but these feelings are the 
 real blossoms of true genius, even when those make but a transient impression : this elysium of the mind 
 can only be felt by the favoured few, and never adequately described ; each of these may exclaim at the 
 time, because they feel it, 
 
 " Creation's heir, the world — the world is mine." 
 
 « Ask not what genius is ; if you have it, it will itself tell you ; if you have it not, explanation will 
 
 be vain," Rousseau. . 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. . xix 
 
 During his attendance in Parliament, Mr. Forbes generally supported the measures 
 of Sir Robert Walpole ; a minister whose character has, by his opponents, been 
 stigmatised as corrupt to a degree formerly unknown in England. The eloquence of 
 a Pitt might excite the resentment of a senate against the vices which he had the power 
 either to create to the imagination in all their deformity, or to exaggerate by the splen- 
 dour of his diction •'. We may be certain, however, that his corrupt practices must 
 have been chiefly directed to persons in the higher orders of life, and could not have 
 been generally successful, without supposing a depravity so general as greatly to palliate 
 the guilt of the minister : and when he retired to his woods, and drew comfort from 
 the reflection that the beeches did not flatter, he had probably more cause for his 
 disgust at the baseness of mankind, than the nation had reason in aflixing so many 
 imputations to his character. If we take it from Pope, w.e cannot but esteem the 
 amiability of one of whom he says, and of whom Mr. Forbes might likewise 
 have said — 
 
 Seen him I have, but in his happier hour 
 
 Of social pleasure, ill exchang'd for power ! • , ' ^: ' •"- . 
 
 Seen him, uncumber'd by the venal tribe, 
 
 Smile without art, and win without a bribe ^°. 
 
 His son (the Earl of Orford), in drawing the character of his father, does not 
 flatter when he calls him the mildest, most forgiving, and best natured of men. The 
 nation owed him gratitude for establishing the House of Hanover on the throne ; for 
 20 years of peace and internal tranquillity and prosperity ; and for the confirmation of 
 liberty by the exclusion of the Stuart race ; under which, if at all tolerated, it is almost 
 certain that it must have been sickly, mutable, and unproductive of any benefit. 
 A long course of opposition at last deprived him of his influence in the House of 
 Commons; and in 1741 he resigned his place, harassed by "clamours for liberty 
 of which (Dr. Johnson says) no man felt the want, and with care for liberty which was 
 not in danger." He died 40,000 pounds in debt, and had not fortune sufiicicnt to 
 leave his younger children much above indigence. 
 
 ^ Mr. H. Walpole (who, it may be stated, was a client of Mr. Forbes) drew the following retort from 
 Mr. Pitt, the sting of which was meant for Sir Robert Walpole : it is admirable for its ready eloquence, 
 though Sir Robert was not the wretch described : — " I will not undertake to determine, whether youth 
 can justly be imputed to any man as a reproach ; but the wretch who, after having seen the consequences 
 of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is 
 surely the objeft of eitlicr abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him 
 from insult : much more is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, 
 and becomes more wicked with less temptations ; who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot en- 
 joy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country." 
 
 3° A vast sum of money was known to have been expended by Sir Robert upon writers, for their praises 
 and defences of his administration ; these have all sunk into oblivionj while Pope's hnes, which probably 
 cost him or the nation nothing, remain. 
 
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 XX IKTRODL'CTIOK. 
 
 I^Ir. Forbes passed that part of the year which was unoccupied in the south by the 
 duties of parliament, or of his cfEce, at Bunchrew. For this place, which lies close 
 to the sea shore, in a wood of noble trees, and is extremely beautifal and romantic;, 
 he ever retained the warmest predilection, having passed much of his youth there. 
 "When he succeeded to his brother, he preferred it as a residence to Culloden ; and 
 many vears after his death, his son wrote to his factor to shew Bunchrew to Dr. Arm- 
 strong ; adding, " My father always had it shewn to those whom he loved." Although 
 the size of this place did not admit of the largest scale of improvement, still it 
 admitted of enough to form an example ; and he was, probably, one of the first 
 persons in the north of Scotland who demonstrated what might be effected by plant- 
 inof, liming, draining, and inclosures ; in all of which improvements he was for many 
 years assiduous and successful ''. His brother, who became a widower In 17 17, was 
 extremelv anxious that he should take up his residence at Culloden, and urged many 
 arguments to induce him to give up a separate establishment in the north country. 
 Althsugh few brothers have lived upon terms of such uninterrupted harmony, it is 
 easy to perceive good • reasons why this offer was declined : there is something ex- 
 tremely fascinating in independence, however humble ; and Mr. Duncan Forbes, 
 probablv, saw that the separation of a few miles would add mutual pleasure to the 
 enjoyment of their society, instead of tending any way to cool their friendship. Of 
 the manner in which the two brothers Uved, we have a' very good idea, from the 
 narrative of an officer, whose letters have been published under the title of '• Letters 
 from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London," Sec. This 
 gentleman, though exuremely sarcastic, is yet generally very correct in his delineations : 
 his account, most probably, was written a short time previous to the year 173c : 
 
 " There lives in our neighbourhood, at a house or castle, called Culloden, a 
 gentleman whose hospitality is almost without bounds. It is the custom of that house, 
 at the first visit, or introduction, to take up your freedom by cracking his nut (as he 
 terms it) ; that is, a cocoa shell, which holds a pint, filled with champaign, or such 
 other sort of vi-ine as you shall choose. You may guess, by the introduction, at the 
 contents of the volume. Few go away sober at any time ; and for the greatest part 
 of his guests, in the conclusion they cannot go at all. 
 
 " This he partly brings about by artfully proposing, after the public healths 
 (which always imply bumpers), such private ones as, he knows, will pique the interest 
 
 =' It mav tend to shew the decline of agriculture in Scotland before this period, to state the fact, that, 
 
 thouo^h Boethius mentions the country around Inverness as fertile in wheat, the author of the Letters from 
 
 the North of Scotland says, " that a wneat-neld would be as great a rarity as a nightingale in any part 
 
 of Scotland, or a eat-a-mountain in \Gddleses." At present, the most luxuriant crops of wheat, as well 
 
 as of other sorts of com, are produced around InTemess. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. XXI 
 
 or inclination of each particular person of the company whose turn it is to take the 
 lead, to begin it in a brimmer ; and he himself being always cheerful, and sometimes 
 saying good things, his guests soon lose their guard, and then — I need say no more." 
 
 In another part of the same letter he writes : " This laird keeps a plentiful table, 
 and excellent wines of various sorts and in great quantities ; as indeed he ought ; for 
 I have often said, that there was as much wine spilt in his hall as ought to content a 
 moderate family." 
 
 And in another letter he writes : " I shall now return to the neighbouring country. 
 Here are but two houses of any note within many miles of us, on this side the Murray 
 firth ; one is the house of CuUoden, which I have mentioned in a former letter. 
 
 " This is about two miles off, and is a pretty large fabric, built with stone, and 
 divided into many rooms, among which the hall is very spacious. 
 
 " There are good gardens belonging to it, and a noble planted avenue, of great 
 length, that leads to the house ; and a plantation of trees about it. 
 
 " This house (or castle) was besieged, in the year 17 15, by a body of the rebels; 
 and the laird being absent, in parliament, his lady baffled all their attempts with 
 extraordinary courage and presence of mind. 
 
 " Near adjoining are the parks ; that is, one large trafl: of ground, surrounded 
 with a low wall of loose stones, and divided into several parts by partitions of the same. 
 The surface of the ground is all over heath, or as they call it heather, without any 
 trees ; but some of it has been lately sown with the seed of firs, which are now grown 
 about a foot and half high, but are hardly to be seen for the heath ''. The other 
 house I spoke of, is not much further distant from the contrary side of the town, and 
 belongs to the younger brother of the gentleman above mentioned. He is Lord 
 Advocate, or Attorney-General for Scotland ; it is a good old building, but not so 
 large as the other ; and near it there is a most romantic wood, whereof one part 
 consists of great heights and hollows ; and the brush-wood at the foot of the trees, 
 with the springs that issue out of the sides of the hills, invite the woodcocks, which, 
 in the season, are generally there in great numbers, and render it the best spot for 
 cock shooting that ever I knew. Neither of these houses are to be seen from any 
 part near the town. 
 
 " The gentleman of whose house I have last been speaking, were it not for a 
 valetudinary state of health, and the avocations of his ofHce, would be as highly 
 
 3» Seventy years after this letter was written, tliis wood was worth upwards of ^io,000 sterling: 
 some of the trees sold for five guineas. 
 
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 SXa INTRODUCTION. 
 
 pleased to see his friends about him at table, and over a bottle, as his hospitable 
 brother'^." '^ 
 
 In 1729, Mr. Forbes was so fortunate as to engage in his service, as tutor to his son, 
 Mr. Patrick IMurdoch, who has since been known to the public by his Genesis Cur- 
 varum Nciutoni per umbras — and other mathematical works, and a life of Mr. James 
 Thomson " ; with whom he long lived upon the most intimate terms. With this gentle- 
 man young Mr. John Forbes ■"" was sent abroad ; and, after some residence at Orleans 
 and Montauban, went to Rome, and completed what is usually termed the grand 
 tour. The friendship of the tutor and pupil remained unimpaired through life ; and 
 the former having obtained the living of Stradeshall, in Suffolk, through the friend- 
 ship of Mr. Vernon, whose son he accompanied on his travels, had the satisfaction of 
 receiving for many years the long and frequent visits of his first pupil, and of superin- 
 tending the early education of his eldest son, Duncan Forbes, in his own vicinity ; a 
 youth who gave such a decided promise of eminence, that his premature death, after 
 he had completed his studies at Harrow, was never mentioned by Dr. Sumner, the 
 head master, without tears — 5/ qua fata aspera rumpas, — iu Marcellus eris. 
 
 Some time after Mr. John Forbes's return to England, he received, without solicita- 
 tion, a commission from the Duke of Argyll in the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, 
 with which corps he served, with the greatest credit as an honourable and very brave 
 cfEcer, at Dettingen -^ and Fontenoy ; at which last battle iiis horse was shot under 
 him : — he was likewise present at the battle of CuUoden. 
 
 Though Mr. Duncan Forbes had hitherto lived in the society of men distinguished for 
 rank and talents ; and though the education of his son, and his frequent change of 
 residence, must have been highly expensive ; his regular income, independent of his 
 
 53 It is certain, that this gentleman did not exaggerate the hospitality of Culloden castle. A hogshead 
 of wine was kept constantly on tap near the haJl door for the use of all comers ; and it appears, in the 
 account books of President Forbes, that, for nine months' housekeeping in his family, the wine alone cost 
 a sum which, at the present price of that article, would amount to upwards of ^^2,000 sterling. 
 
 ^■» Thomson, as appears from the sale catalogue of his effects after his death, enjoyed at last a degree 
 of ease and luxurj- seldom the lot of poets. His house was well provided with furniture, plate, books, 
 and a good coUeftion of prints ; and his cellar was stored with burgundy, red port, old hock, mountain, 
 madeira, rhenish, and Edinburgh and Dunbar ale. Some of these lots were, probably, presents : we know 
 one of them to have been a present from the Presidents son. 
 
 ^5 It appears, that Mr. Murdoch and his pupil rode to London. Mr. Duncan Forbes generally made 
 that journey on horseback, summer and winter ;. as, indeed, almost all the Scotch members did. It is said, 
 that John Duke of Argyll used to strap up the skirts of his coat round his waist, and dash through on 
 horseback in the worst storms of winter. 
 
 3* The Blues certainly did not add to their former high reputation at Dettingen (as they did at Fon- 
 tenoy), owing to some mistake or surprise ; but Mr. John Forbes, who carried one of the standard?, was 
 universally allowed by the army to have conduced himself, even in such circumstances, with uncommon 
 courage, and singular coolness and propriety. 
 
 10 business.
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXIU 
 
 business, amounted to no large sum : his situation in this respect was improved in the 
 winter of 1734 by the death of his brother, who, after a tedious illness, died of a 
 complaint in his bowels, in Edinburgh. By this event Mr. Forbes lost a most affec- 
 tionate friend ; one who was by all his acquaintances esteemed a truly upright man, of 
 considerable talents and knowledge of the world, and who had on all occasions acquit- 
 ted himself, both in public and private life, as an enlightened and worthy member of 
 societv. As we find him at Brussels upon his travels, and his own master, in 1692, it is 
 probable that he was upwards of 1 2 years older than his brother. He seems to have 
 pushed his hospitality and conviviality to an excess which must have been sometimes bur- 
 thensome to one who had to pass much of his life in his society ; but, in this respect, the 
 usual propriety of his brother's conduct did not forsake him : for while he, on one hand, 
 shunned every excess unsuitable to his character and official rank ; on the other, he 
 avoided making his too rigid abstinence from convivial pleasures a satire upon the op- 
 posite mode of living at Culloden : he was, indeed, a friend to a cheerful glass, till 
 near the close of his hfe, when his health became seriously impaired. 
 
 The estates to which he succeeded by this event " were ample and improveable ; but, 
 though Mr. John Forbes had not disposed of any part of the inheritance^^, he left it 
 somewhat incumbered with debt ; and his successor (who was no great economist, and, 
 indeed, had little opportunity to economise) did not render those debts hghter, although 
 he received several legacies. !. . 
 
 Among the last events which grew into importance while Mr. Forbes filled the 
 place of Lord Advocate, was the execution of Captain Porteous in Edinburgh, 
 7th September 1736, by a mob of persons, not one of whom could ever be brought 
 to justice. This affair was, in itself, of no great moment ; but, when connected with 
 the intrigues and designs of the Jacobites, it drew upon the Government an appear- 
 ance of contemptible imbecility, to which it was determined not tamely to submit ; 
 and in the steps which were taken to vindicate its authority, it must be owmed that 
 policy or resentment, rather than justice, seems to have directed the measures of 
 Ministry. A bill in parliament, containing severe penalties against the city of Edin- 
 burgh, was the consequence of that determination : this was vigorously opposed by 
 many of the English and all the Scotch members, and at last carried by a majority 
 of only one. Mr. Arnot, in his History of Edinburgh, informs us, that even this 
 
 '' Upon succeeding to the estate of Cullodeti, Mr. Forbes began improvements such as he had before 
 carried on at Bunchrew. Among the rest, he established a manufacturing village of twenty famihes, and 
 was at the expense of the machinery of each family : this vUlage flourished till after his death. 
 
 3* It may be the best mode of giving an idea of the value of these estates, to say, that they consisted 
 of from 3,cx:o to 4,000 arable acres of good-soil, and in a populous countrj' and mild climate ; besides 
 the pririlege of distilling whisky almost duty-free in Ferintosh, and several mills, salmon-fishings, and 
 pasture grounds of great value. 
 
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 XXIV INTRODCCTION. 
 
 would not have been the esse, had not the Lord Chancellor " detained two Scotch 
 members, who were employed in an appeal cause in the House of Lords, and so pre- 
 vented their voting. This is hardly credible in such a man as Lord Hardwicke j but, 
 if true, shews to what a height part}' spirit had arisen. As to the justice of the penalty" 
 inflicted upon the city of Edinburgh, perhaps it may be best estimated by asking the 
 question (which was put by Lord Polwarth), whether such severit)' would have been 
 exercised against any of the principal towns of England "' for such an affair as that 
 alleged, without any proof of criminality against the magistrates of Edinburgh ? 
 
 This transaction was likewise attended by a disagreeable circumstance to the Scotch 
 judges ; three of whom were forced to attend at the bar of the House of Lords in 
 their robes, notwithstanding a ver)' strenuous attempt to obtain for them a seat next 
 to the English judges within the bar. * 
 
 Sir Hew Dalrj-mple, of North Berwick, after having presided over the Court of 
 Session for near 40 years, died in 1737 in extreme old age. Mr. Forbes -^ had been long 
 looked upon as his successor ; and (as Lord Hardwicke states in his letter) the voice of 
 
 ^ How differentlv Lord Hardwicke generally acted, may be inferred from tie quotation of his bio- 
 grapher : " Etiam quos contra statu!:, equos et placidos dimisit." 
 
 " Mr. Forbes interested himself with great ardour on behalf of the antient capital of Scotland, and 
 concluded one of his speeches in the following words : 
 
 " Shall, then, the metropolis of Scotland, the residence of such an illustrious race of kings, who made 
 it their greatest glory to dignify this noble city, be stript of her most valuable privileges, her guards and 
 gates, for the sake of some unknown offenders ; and a Scotchman calmly behold the havoc : I glory, my 
 lords, to withstand so rigorous a procedure, and judge it my greatest honour to stand up in defence of 
 my native country, when it is exposed to loss and infamy." His exertions tended greatly to get the 
 »everitT originally intended mitigated in the bill which was passed. 
 
 ♦* VThen Mr. Forbes produced his letter, appointing him Lord President, joy was visible upon everv 
 face. The Facultv of Advocates waited upon him in a body, to congrattilate him on his advancement, and 
 to thank him for his condud as Lord Advocate. He is said to have repeated twice, with ardour, the 
 oath of administerinor justice impartially, so much did his heart go with that part of his engagement ; and 
 ever afterwards, he made it a rule, to bring every proper feeling into the breasts of his brethren on the 
 bench, when deciding any cause in which he suspected prejudice, by saying, in the most solemn and im- 
 pressive manner, " Bv Gods grace, I shall give my thoughu ancerely, and your lordships will judge in 
 this matter as you -niU be answerable to God." 
 
 He likewise had the satisfaction of being able to restore a greater degree of decorum upon the bench than 
 had been usual during the preceding presidency. The warmth with which the judges differed from each other 
 mav, indeed, be cited as a proof of the sincerity with which they delivered their opinions ; but as these 
 public disputations (for of such they had the appearance) seldom or never created a surrender of the tenets 
 originally held by any partv, it is certain that great good did not result from them. A calm delivery of 
 Opinions, and the orounds for forming them, instructs the parties concerned, without hurting the decorum 
 so essential to the respectability of any court. 
 
 No man could shew oreater patience and attention in hearing pleadings than Mr. Forbes did, or greater 
 humanity and feeling ; his voice was seldom heard until the period of decision ; for he esteemed the 
 maxim, 
 
 yex judtc'u nimium iaUrloqutnt'u tit campana male tonani. 
 
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 INTRODfCTIOif. XXV 
 
 the country called him to fill the vacant chair. His friends, indeed, who had the good 
 of the kingdom at heart, were much more afraid that he might refuse the appointment, 
 than that any other person would be advanced to the presidency, in case he chose to 
 accept it. They knew that his health had long been precarious ; that his love for study, 
 and a country life, had always been great ; and that so much v/as expected from the 
 person succeeding to this office, that he might wish to decline engaging in a career 
 always laborious, and nov/ particularly the object of the hopes and observation of 
 Scotchmen. These were some of the grounds upon which those who knew Mr. Forbes 
 founded their fears "^ : ' and, if he had studied his own inclinations alone, there is no 
 doubt that he would have preferred the ease of a private life, and the care of the 
 improvement of his estates, to an office of responsibilit)' and fatigue. The salary, 
 ^i,ooo per annum, could not possibly be reckoned an inducement for his acceptance; 
 for it was not sufficient to defray the expenses incident to an establishment in Edinburgh 
 in addidon to that at Culloden, independent of the great outlay which his hospitable 
 disposirion would lead him to incur, while living in the most conspicuous official rank 
 in the capital. His sense of duty, however, prevailed over the suggestions of 
 interest and personal convenience ; and he was appointed Lord President of the 
 Court of Session, by letter dated 21st June 1737. It is evident from the letters 
 of several eminent men (among the rest, of the Lord Chancellor), that this Court: 
 had not for some time before enjoyed the highest consideration, from the course of 
 its proceedings ; and we have the same authority for stating, that this reproach 
 was no longer due after it acted under the presidency of Mr. Forbes. This became 
 evident to the Lord Chancellor, as his correspondence shews, from the different 
 complexion of the judgements brought now before the House of Lords by appeal, to 
 what they bore informer days: — The delay of justice, by the long arrear of causes 
 remaining undecided before the court, was another great cause of grievance to the 
 subject; this was likewise remedied ; and, at no great distance of time from his entry 
 upon office, the president had the pleasure, upon the closing of the session, to write to 
 a friend, " that not a single cause ripe for hearing remained for decision ""'." When 
 
 not 
 
 ■<* A letter from Mr. William Murray {aiterivards Lord Mansfield) shews the truth of the above state- 
 ment, and that the difficulties and unworthy opposition experienced by Mr. Forbes made that eminent 
 law^-er use all his influence to prevent his resignation in 1741. He compares it to " a General forsaking 
 the fight in the hottest of the fire." 
 
 ^^ This was effeAed by his causing a quorum of the judges to sit till the whole decisions were ready for 
 his signature. 
 
 Several causes, which had been upwards of twaity years before the court, were disposed of in the very 
 first session of his presidency ; as well as many others which had from twelve to twenty years been lingering 
 
 d oa
 
 XX\1 IXTRODUCTION'. 
 
 not only the delay on this head before this period, but likewise long after the presi- 
 dency of Mr. Forbes, is considered, great merit must be allowed to his exertions. We 
 shall not enter into any discussion relative to aU the regulations and changes made in 
 the court of session for the better administration of justice during the ten years that he 
 presided ; it will be sufEcienc to state, that one of the iirst authorities of England calls 
 them '•' the wonders he effected." "We shall conclude by shortly taking notice of one 
 benefit •" which Scotland derived from his disinterested patriotism, which will of itself 
 shew his countr>'men of how much importance is the elevation to office of such men as 
 Duncan Forbes. The causes in the inner house came on for decision according to a 
 roll regulated by the president ; so that, at his discretion, a cause long pending was 
 often retarded, while one much more recent was brought forward ; it is unnecessary to 
 state to what length injustice and partiality might or did proceed from this latitude of 
 preference being permitted ; or with what plausibilirv' it was easy to conceal injustice, 
 or even to make it appear meritorious. With Mr. Forbes, a licence could no longer be 
 tolerated which he probably had seen often abused *-' ; and though his own power (a 
 thing so difficult for men to part with) was diminished, he caused, it to become a rule 
 of court, that the rolls should be rigidly regulated according to seniority ; by which 
 means every cause came forward in its course, without favour or undue delay. 
 
 on without any decision. These abuses occasioned his getting an aft of sederunt passed, that no cause 
 should be suffered to remain above four years in the parliament house : such a step must bare destroyed at 
 once the hopes of many iniquitous htigants, who found, in the old system of protracted procedure, ample 
 scope for revenge, postponing the payment of just debts, ruining the hopes or finances of their adversaries, 
 or for unjust possession of their fortunes, and an incalculable series of vexations schemes of chicanery. 
 
 ** "We here state the change as to the regulation of the rolls according to the information of professional 
 men, and beUeve it to be correcUy given. 
 
 *» In Mr. Forbes, the pubUc had a constant and energetic protector against two oi the most ruinous 
 of practices, collusive chicanery and venal treachery : he was aware that there were many honourable men 
 engaged as agents, who were hurt in public estimation hr the conduct of the lower rants of the profession, 
 in which they did not participate. We may form some idea of the abhorrence in which he held chicanery *, 
 firom the expressions which he used to his friend CoL Forbes, in a letter written to him at the close of a 
 session : " I am worked almost to a jelly by the rascally business to which I am tied." While, howeTsr, 
 his horror and effectual resentment (for he never passed the smallest act of imposition without pu nis hmen:) 
 against those wliom he saw collusively preying upon the fortimes of their clients were always exerted for 
 the prote&on of those who had fallen into unworthy hands, he was remarkable for his kindness and 
 encouragement of persons of merit and honest practice ; and to many advocates of liberal minds and pro- 
 mising talents he shewed the festering care of a father, repressing what was improperly audacious, and 
 drasving forth the noble soaring of genius and eloquence, and every feeling of reditude and virtue ; so that 
 many, who afterwards held the highest places and reputations, looked back to him with filial veneration 
 and love. 
 
 * W"M.-e tie rastallT basinets :o which -it President illudes bv, is someviis dooldul; saos* drcBinstances tend to ic^tuc the 
 Hecrs kj^':re the ccun free: ":ei:u giiaied is. 
 
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 INTRODUCTlo^f. xxvii 
 
 The annals of the Scotch nation are extremely deficient in describing the establlsli- 
 ment and the antient forms of the courts of justice. Normandy "' enforced many of 
 the original models for the English forms of law, since so much improved by the ex- 
 tended powers of juries ; and we may believe that England supplied several of those as 
 examples followed at an early period by Scotch legislators, without compulsion ; it is 
 certain, that trial by jury, in all cases, was the ancient birth-right of the Scotch ; and 
 it is wonderful, that so much darkness and uncertainty pervade our researches as to 
 the exa£t period when that glorious privilege was mutilated. We may be certain, 
 however, that the assumption of undue power by the government occasioned its disuse in 
 civil causes ; and one circumstance thoroughly favours this opinion ; viz. that long after ,^' 
 it had been suppressed near the seat of government, it lingered until the beginning \ 
 
 of the 1 7th century in the remote extremities of the kingdom. That the inferior 
 courts were hostile to the use of jury trials, we learn from the assertion of a member 
 of the court of session, who very candidly shews the fact, as well as the reason for 
 it : " That juries (says Lord Kaimes) wore gradually out of use in the inferior courts, 
 will not be surprising, when it is considered, that an appetite for power, as well as 
 for imitating the manners of our superiors, does not forsake us when we are judges." 
 The first court of session was instituted in 1425, when Lord Kaimes presumes that 
 juries were not employed. James the First was a very arbitrary prince; and it is not 
 unlikely that he wished that the power formerly vested in juries should be trans- 
 ferred into the hands of judges of his own appointing. In the new regulations 
 of the court of session in 1457 ", at the appointment of the daily Council in 1503 
 (upon the abolition of that court), and upon the new institution of the court of session 
 
 in 1532 "% the use of juries in civil causes seems to have become obsolete. 
 
 The 
 
 •** Edward the 3d seems to have been the first of tlie Norman princes who conceived himself really an 
 Englishman. Until his reign, the law proceedings were in the French language ; as many of the phrases 
 still are, in the king's answers to parliamentary bills, the names of courts, &e. 
 
 The old Saxon laws were, however, in a great measure preserved after the Conquest ; and even care was 
 taken to prevent them from sinking into disuse. Jury trial is insisted on in Magna Charta ; but rather 
 equivocally, as it is followed by " aut per legem terrx." 
 
 <' One of the regulations of 1457 is as follows: " As tuitching the expences of the s"" judges, the 
 Lds of the 3 Estates thinks that the L""^ of Session of thir avvin benevolence sould bear their awin 
 costis, considering the shortness of the time of their sitting, the quhilk is but fortie days, and peradventure 
 in seven yeire not to come again to them." Some small perquisites, arising from fines, were however appro- 
 priated to the daily Council. 
 
 <' Dr. Henry says, " The Court of Session was for some time very popular, and gave universal 
 content. The judges acted with great modesty, caution, and even diffidence. When a cause came before 
 them that appeared perplexed and difBcult, instead of determining it themselves, they referred it to parlia- 
 ment for a decision. By degrees, however, they acquired greater confidence in their own abilities and 
 powers : when a case occurred to which none of the existing laws applied, or, when applied, led to a 
 
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 XSVIU INTRODCCTIOV. 
 
 The forms of the Court of Session, as instituted in 1532**, have been said to be 
 derived from those of the Parliament of Paris. Its establishment was a favourite 
 measure, not only with the court, but with the clergy ; w ho, no doubt, expected to 
 derive additional power, from their judicial character, to check the inno%-ations upon 
 the dominion and tenets of the Roman see, which had already made an important 
 impression throughout the kingdoms of Europe. - 
 
 Cardinal Baton, under whose influence the new court was formed, was not only 
 himself a man of great talents for government, but he acted under the direction of a 
 court remarkable for its policy and discernment. The religion of Rome fell in Scotland, 
 and the other covmtries of Europe, through no fault of the heads of that church. The 
 high clergy -' were generally able and enlightened men - ' ; and the names of Wolsey and 
 De la Pole, and afterwards of Richlieu and Ximenes, among many other, might uphold 
 the character for abilides of the Cardinals. The reputation of the church had been for 
 
 rigoroua oppressive sentence, thev no longer reierred it to parliament, but ventured to determine it them- 
 selves, by what appeared to them agreeable to the rules of natural equity and justice. The authority by 
 widen thev did this, at arst, had no name ; but it came afterwards to be called their noiili; o^Lhrm." 
 
 Henry afterwards remarks, that the first appearance of this ns^iZr aJLlum " was very unpopular, and 
 excited violent clamours that the property of the people of Scotland was at the mercj- of r : : .who 
 
 determined everv thing bv their arbitrary will and pleasure:"' this took place, however, ■- ;^ -;.;r the 
 first establishment in 1532. 
 
 The pope Paul III. gave a buU of confirmation, dated 31st ^£a^ch 1535, confirming the grant of 
 1 2, ceo ducats made bv the clergv ; and power to the king to appropriate benefices to the amount of ^200 
 sterling per annum. The judges were likewise exempted by the pope from the jurisdiftion of all pre- 
 lates, and he took them under the immediate proteSion of the see of Rome. One half of the judges, 
 and the president, were at first of the clergy ; which rule was followed for more than thirty years, from 
 15 ;2. The first president was Milne, abbot of Cambuskenneth. In 1543 he was succeeded by the bishop 
 of Orknev : who, in 1665, was succeeded by the bishop of Brechin. In 1566, BailHe of Provand wa» 
 president. 
 
 _ ■*? Amot sars, " The Court of Session possesses a jurisdiction and exercises powers so extensive, as 
 not to be exceeded by ttose of any free country.'" Again : " The chief circumstances which make their 
 power imDortact, and may seme day render it formidable, is, that they are judges both of law and fact ; 
 and neither in their dvil nor criminal capacity do they ever hold trials by jury. This material circum- 
 stance is clearly an iimovation in the law of Scotland. The eld laws and statutes every where make men- 
 tion of trial by iury, in matters civil as we-' - - -iaal: that of trial by peers was, in both nations, 
 what it continues to be in England, a funds of the country. ' Ke further observes (.quoting 
 
 sonie instances), that from the general procci^viiiigs of the Court of Session it would appear, that the 
 supreme judges in Scotland are extending, both vx their own and the inferior judicatories, the latitude of 
 trial without jury. He makes several other remarks on this subject, which we abstain £rem repeating, 
 as not necessary to this memoir. 
 
 >= Sir Ralph Sadler found among ti.; , . _ . ly men of wit and policy in the kingdom, the 
 nobles even being perfectly deficient in these respicts when he visited Scotland in the reign of James 5th. 
 
 J' Sir David Lindsay does not approve of the conduft of the court of session in his time (James \ .), 
 and more particularly of the clerical part of it. Sir Richard Maitland complains, about 1580, of the small 
 and c^yiial fees of the lords of session, as well as of the great length of law-snits. Some severe aas were 
 Blade about tlsat period against persons murmuring at the decrees of th: cooit of session, as well as those 
 of sheriffs : this, probably, is the epoch alluded to by Dr. Henry. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. Xxix 
 
 centuries vilified by the vices and ignorance of the lower order of the monks, into 
 which dissolute persons found an easy admission. These, it was foreseen at Rome, 
 would cause its downfall ; but the frequent attempts to reform the monasteries proved 
 unequal to the urgency of the times, and the temptations which their riches offered to 
 the cupidity of the powerful, whose religious zeal was rewarded by the spoils of the 
 establishments which they overthrew. It will, perhaps, appear surprising, that during 
 all the storms which succeeded the re-estabhshment of the Court of Session in 1532, 
 that body, originally founded with most ample powers '-, not only preserved them 
 unimpaired, but greatly added to them, by profiting by the opportunities which the 
 events of the times presented. Mr. Arnot justly remarks, that in Scotland the " contest 
 was for power." The Scotch leading men were not employed in breaking the fetters 
 of usurped controul, and hewing them link from link ; and the predominating parties 
 found the Supreme Court generally disposed to forward the views of government ". As 
 liberty has been acknowledged to be of so precarious a nature, as to require a law every 
 ten years directly in its favour, to maintain it without decline, and as it is the most essential 
 attribute of power to desire to extend its own limits, we may blame the ruling men 
 (rather than the court itself) in those tempestuous epochs, for preferring the con- 
 venience afforded by the ample powers of the judicial body employed in their support, 
 to the general principles which were more successfully established in England, and 
 which formed the source of the riches and glory of that kingdom. 
 
 The general character of President '* Forbes ; his known love of freedom, evinced 
 during his whole life ; his voluntary surrender of personal influence ; and likewise 
 
 the 
 
 -- The Court of Session has been said to have jurisdiftion (though not afFefting life or limb) as extensive 
 as that of perpetual imprisonment ; but the treatise of a learned and eloquent lawyer, J. P. Grant, Esq. 
 M. P. shews, that, with a little management, it extends in efFeft, and has lately been pushed even to the 
 extent of necessarily procuring sentence of death. Vide pages 17 and iS of the Observations, &c. on the 
 Constitution, &c. of the Court of Session. 
 
 5' Cromwell's judges were very popular with the Scotch, notwithstanding their being strangers. Lord 
 Hales has stated an instance of very shameful interference by the Protector's government, to make them 
 decide a cause against an obnoxious litigant : this, on the whole, does not, on comparison, hurt these 
 judges ; for if, even with such a blemish as giving the cause as ordered, their popularity remained the 
 greatest, the inference is obvious. 
 
 In 1674, three advocates were "debarred" by the Court of Session "from their said function," 
 for not disowning on oath their share in appealing to parliament against the interlocutors of that court ; 
 as were 40 others, for deserting their attendance on the house, and refusing to return, when the Lords 
 were sitting on the day the sentence on the above three was intimated." 
 
 ^* It is probable, that no individual, in any kingdom of Europe, possesses more real power (if we 
 allow for his influence over his brethren as their head,) than the president of the Court of Session ; and 
 we may take the remark of Lord Cornbury to President Forbes as just : " That the property of 
 Scotland is entrusted to him." It is certain, that President Dalrymple thought himself ill used, when 
 a judge was appointed to his court without his recommendation, as his correspondence shews. The 
 
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 XSS • INTHODt'CTION. 
 
 the TOsh expre.-sed to him bv Lord Hardwicke, that the laws of the tvro countries should 
 be assimilated ; srrensthen our motives for belie\ing that he was a friend, even at 
 the period during which he presided over the Court of Session, to the extension of 
 the best birth-right of Englishmen to his own countr}-men. That^the sagacious charac- 
 ter of Scotchmen, enlightened by education beyond the natives of any other country, 
 renders them highly fit for the exertion of this privilege, will hardly be denied by its 
 enemies ; and thase laws which originally derived their activity and vigour through the 
 aid of Juries may surely be made capable of enduring them again. Already has the 
 second Aurora of this dawn of freedom been hailed by the wishes of the Scotcli 
 nation ; and gratitude, proportioned to the greamess of the expected benefit, been 
 silently paid to the persons desiring to present it. May we have cause to rejoice at 
 the unclouded rise of the genial day ; and casting our eyes around all our islands, 
 encircled as thev are by that ocean which has so often borne our triumphs, perceive 
 but one scene of prosperity and loyalty, and one system of hberty and law, pervading 
 the whole -■ ! 
 
 Arduous as the duties of his office were ^% they did not withdraw Mr. Forbes from 
 the livelv interest which the other public concerns of the nation excited : his talents 
 
 memorandum found in the papers of Judge Hale is so much to the honour of a person, in somewhat 
 similar circumstances, that we shall here insert it : 
 
 « Things to bb hab ix coxtixcal rilmembrasce. That in the administration of justice, I am 
 
 entrusted for God, the King, and the Country ; and therefore that it be done uprighdv, dehberately, 
 resolutelv : That I rest not upon my own directions and strength, but that I implore and rest also upon 
 the strencrth of God : That in the execution of justice, / carsfully lay aside my o<a.m pastiotu, and gi'v: not 
 viay to thsm, boiuii^er prwokcd : That I be not biassed with compassion to the poor, or favour to the rich, 
 in point of justice : That popular or court applause, or duUki, ba'oe no irjluen^t in any thing I do in the £siri- 
 button of justice: That I be not solicitous about what man shall think or say^ so long as I keep myself 
 exactly according to the rules of justice." 
 
 -'i Should the enLghtened minds of an Eldon, an Erskine, and a Romilly, espouse this subject {ingenii 
 percuhi amore), success would not be doubtftiL Liberty is almost always established by one great exertion, 
 calling forth the whole energies of an abused nation ; it is gradually lost by the partial restraints and 
 encroachments of its crafty enemies taking advantage of fit opportunities, and imder pretence of public 
 good and espediency. No step in favour of freedom is ever estabUshed to counterbalance these, for 
 power never will restrict itself. The natural and inevitable consequence th^^ore mu£t be, the declme and 
 extinction of liberty at last, unless steps be taken to reinvigorate it. 
 
 i* To President Forbes the country owes the first effectual exertion to arrange and save the public 
 records from the destrudion to which they were fest hastening, from negleA and damp. The register 
 office was the work of an after period ; but there is no doubt that his indefatigable represenutions first 
 estabhshed the necessity for the new edifice. The Scotch records have been uncommonly unfortunate- 
 Edward I. carried off or destroyed many ; and Cromwell sent those he could secure to England. After , 
 the Restoration, by far the greater part was lost at sea, coming back to Scotland ; and the few casks of 
 deeds which were saved from that disaster were fast decaying when President Forbes extended his care to 
 them. He seems likewise to have takea a vast deal of trouble in airanging and ascertaining the different 
 claims of the peerage. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. JCXXl 
 
 and zeal were ever ready for the benefit of his country ; and it may surprize our 
 readers, that they were exerted on such a subject as the too frequent habits of 
 smuggling, by which the revenue was most enormously defrauded. On this subjeO: 
 he wrote a pamphlet, which at least obtained the full approbation of those most com- 
 petent, from office, to judge of its merits. In 1738, the war which afterwards broke 
 out with Spain began to cloud the political horizon. It was easily foreseen, that Bri- 
 tain would not long have to contend with that power alone ; and the intrigues of the 
 Jacobites in the Highlands made it probable, that some attempts would be made in 
 favour of the exiled family. These contests had always been, in his eyes, the bella 
 nullos habitura triumphos ; and he was sensible how much more easy and creditable to 
 Government it would be, to prevent them by eradicating the causes, than to obtain the 
 most decided success in quelling rebellion by force of arms. No man knew so well 
 the state of the highlands, for he was beloved and looked up to by every family of any 
 note there, and intimate with by far the greater number of them : he knew that the Pre- 
 tender's interest did not keep its ground so much from any attachment to a prince of 
 whom they knew little, or from any motives of religion or interest, as from the 
 neglect of Government, and the desire, and almost the necessity, of being called 
 forth into active military life. This was the real stimulus to every insurrection which 
 had hitherto taken place, and to that in 1 745 ; which at last, though too late, con- 
 vinced the country, that Mr. Forbes had made known both the disease and its remedy *. 
 He this year submitted to Ministry a scheme for raising 4 or 5,000 men in the high- 
 lands, and recommending that the chiefs of clans, and other leading gentlemen, should 
 receive the commissions. The value of such a force was obvious ; for while it drained 
 the disaffected districts of the means of hostility, it would tend greatly to conciliate the 
 highlanders, and place in the hands of Government in distant stations the most ample 
 security for the tranquillity of the most suspected districts. Lord Hay approved of and 
 presented the plan, which likewise met the sanction of Sir Robert Walpole : but the 
 clamours for liberty, and against a standing army (which the party In opposition had 
 kept alive), rendered the cabinet timorous ; and the fear that Sir Robert's enemies 
 might find a colour for converting the highland levy into a design upon the national 
 freedom, prevented its adoption. 
 
 Long after the death of President Forbes, Lord Chatham called forth military virtue 
 from the mountains of the North ; his motives then wanted the impulse of fear of 
 
 * It might be truly said of the highlanders, that they were " cut off from glory's course, which never 
 mortals were more fond to run." A reference to Marshall's Life of Washington will shew how high an 
 opinion that great man entertained of the highlanders as soldiers : lie had served both witli them and 
 against them ; and no maa formed his opinions with greater justness. That part of his army which he 
 thought would haye to encounter them, it is known, was ever the objei5l of his peculiar care and anxiety. 
 
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 SXXU I>fTRODtTCTION'. 
 
 internal danger, for the Stuart family had no longer partizans or intrigues in the high- 
 lands. The call was obeyed, and the fields of America, of India, Flanders, Germany, 
 Egypt, Italy, and Spain, can give testimony that he did not err. A highlander may 
 be excused if he feels some warmth in glancing at the days of glor)' of his countx)'- 
 men ; of those bands which have equalled in discipline and valour the legions of 
 Rome ; whose courage, patience, and persevering ardour, have never been subdued by 
 the greatest dangers, by the extremes of every climate and privation, or by the most 
 lengthened opposition ; and whose matchless hardiness of body has enabled them to 
 urge their way 
 
 " Unhurt tiro" every toil in ereiy cRme.'* 
 
 The death of the Emperor Charles 6th, in 1740, involved Europe in what may 
 be termed a general war ; and Great Britain and France (though no war was for some 
 time declared) viewed each other vrith hostile eyes. At length an invasion in favour 
 of the Pretender was resolved upon by France : and in 1743, 13,000 men, under the 
 orders of Marshal Sase, were collected for the expedition. This plan, partly 
 owing to a storm, proving abortive, these forces of France were employed in Flan- 
 ders ; the attempt at in^'asion, however, caused war between the two countries to be 
 formally declared in ]SIarch 1 744. Although the first plan of the French government 
 had been abandoned, the young Pretender would not drop his intentions of trj'ing his 
 fortune in Scotland ; and though his means of success were very different from what 
 were originally intended, the event of the battle of Fontenoy (May 11, N. S. 1745,) 
 induced him to make the long-meditated attempt ; and with only seven adherents, 
 .^4,coc in money, and 2,000 stand of arms, he landed on the 25th of July in a remote 
 and lonely bay of the West Highlands ; where collecting 2,000 men, he hastened 
 his march to the south. The news of the intended attempt had (but obscurely) been 
 received at Edinburgh, when President Forbes hurried down to Inverness-shire, in 
 order to use his influence in confirming the well-affected, and conciliating or awing the 
 Jacobites. No man could be better qualified for this duty ; for while he possessed the 
 utmost confidence of the friends of Government, its enemies were disheartened by 
 his imposing dignity of character, and inclined to listen to the admonition of one whose 
 wisdom had long been admired, and whose friendship and urbanit)- had often been 
 experienced in the course of 30 years during which he held offices of distinguished 
 authority in the kingdom. Many families and their followers he secured to Govern- 
 ment ; and even into several of those which he could not bring over to a cordial co- 
 operation, he infused so much conviction of their danger, and the little hopes of their 
 schemes being successful, that the Pretender derived no benefit from their counte- 
 nance. "We shall here give the narrative of Mr. Smollett, which is extremely correct 
 in ever)' point, in his ovm words : " Several powerful chiefs in the highlands were 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. XXXtii 
 
 ■attached to the Government, and exerted themselves In its defence. Tlie Duke of 
 Argyll began to arm his vassals, but not before he had obtained the sandion of the 
 Legislature. Twelve hundred men were raised by the Earl of Sutherland ; the 
 Lord Reay brought a considerable number to the field ; the Grants and Munros ap- 
 peared under their respective leaders for the service of his Majesty. Sir Alexander 
 Macdonald declared for King George ; and the Laird of Macleod sent two thousand 
 hardy Highlanders from Skye, to strengthen the same interest. These gentlemen, 
 though supposed to be otherwise affected, were governed and directed by the advice of 
 Duncan Forbes, President of the College of Justice at Edinburgh ; a man of extensive 
 knowledge, agreeable manners, and unblemished integrity. He procured commissions 
 for raising twenty independent companies ; and some of these he bestowed upon indi- 
 viduals who were either attached by principle, or engaged by promise, to the Pre- 
 tender. He acted with indefatigable zeal for the interest of the reigning family, and 
 greatly injured an opulent fortune in their service. He confirmed several chiefs who 
 began to waver in their principles ; some he actually converted by the energy of his 
 arguments, and brought over to the assistance of the government which they had 
 determined to oppose ; others he persuaded to remain quiet, without taking any share 
 in the present troubles. Certain it is, this gentleman, by his industry and address, 
 prevented the insurrection of ten thousand Highlanders, who would have otherways 
 joined the Pretender ; and, therefore, he may be said to have been one great cause of 
 that adventurer's miscarriage." — To enter into a minute detail of the Pretender's 
 campaigns will not be necessary to elucidate the services of the Lord President. It 
 may be shortly stated, that in military conduct the Prince far surpassed the two first 
 generals who opposed him (Sir John Cope '■ and Hawley ■'), men, indeed, of very or- 
 dinary capacity. His march to Edinburgh, and his disposition previous to and at the 
 
 57 Sir John Cope's conduft was looked upon by the President (who only saw him during his campaign in 
 Inverness for a short time) as partly excusable, from the state of the country, and the little support he met 
 ivith; as well as from the condition of his troops, which were not numerous or of the best description : but his 
 leaving the capital, and all the south highlands and the lowlands, open to the Pretender's irruption, seems very 
 unaccountable conduft ; for if he did not think it prudent, after advancing so far as he did, to engage the 
 highlanders at all, or particularly in the heart of the mountains (at Dalwhinic), he could easily have fallen 
 back upon Perth, Stirhng, and the Forth ; and even after the rebels had passed him, and gone towards the 
 Forth, he might have stopped their reinforcements, by occupying the passes of the highlands. His marck 
 to Inverness, and afterwards to Aberdeen, with his subsequent embarkation, app -^r to be inexplicable 
 upon any principle of common sense ; as was his not materially changing his position the evening or night 
 before the battle of Preston, when he clearly saw that the rebels were moving close to him, and watching 
 their opportunity to rush in upon his army, which they did at day-break. 
 
 J' Hawley had served at SherifFmuir as major of dragoons, and held the highlanders so cheap, as to have 
 often boasted, that with two regiments of dragoons he could ride over their army. Falkirk gave him i 
 woeful lesson of the danger of too great confidence. General Huske is said to have saved the army by 
 his courage and prudence. Hawley had 14 battalions of infantry, besides artillery and cavalry, at Falkirk. 
 
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 XSXIV INTRODUCTION. 
 
 battle of Preston, were bold, decisive, and masterly. His march to Derby, and retreat 
 into Scotland, were likewise well conducted ; by which result, however, it was ascertained 
 beyond a doubt, that his experiment could not succeed, since a formidable rising in 
 his behalf in England could alone give it any chance of permanent success. The 
 battle of Falkirk would have been a complete victor)', had he followed up General 
 Hawley to Edinburgh; a step which, considering the desperate state to which his affairs 
 were verging, it is wonderful that he did not take ; as by it he might probably have 
 entirely destroyed his opponent's army before the arrival of the Duke of Cumberland. 
 The retreat to Inverness was a measure for which it is not easy to find a good cause ; 
 and his choosing for the field of battle (for he had the choice of one) the open plain 
 of Culloden, vcith hardly any artillery or cavalry, before an enemy well provided with 
 both, and waiting the event of a battle with his troops wet, hungry, and dis-spirited, 
 while one quarter of them were absent in Inverness, and great supplies of troops 
 marching to join him, are circumstances which greatly sanction the idea that his ad- 
 visers were tired of their employment, and resolved to hazard every thing rather than 
 prolong a defensive contest. The march towards Nairn the night previous to the 
 battle, had it been persevered in, would probably have proved successful ; for no- 
 thing could have prevented the highlanders from falling among the Duke's army, hand 
 to hand ; and a victory might have been snatched in this way, as it had previously 
 been done at Preston : no sufficient reason has ever been given for the abandoimient of 
 this last chance for even a protracted occupation of Scotland -"'. 
 
 The unfortunate grandson of James 2d, after his defeat, fled from the field of 
 battle to the West coasr : whence he escaped to the Hebridean islands, where he wan- 
 
 -9 It is well known, that the firm but temperate coudutl of the President Forbes, his extreme influence 
 with his countrymen, and his pat;J^otic exertions, even to the sacrifice of his private fortune, were the main 
 instruments of the suppression of the rebellion in Scotland in I "45-6 ; and that had his enlightened counsels 
 been attended to, and his provident precautions adopted, the seeds of rebelhon had in all probability never 
 sprung to light, and the country had been spared the misery which it aftually endured. It is needless, 
 and perhaps might be invidious, to enter into the reasons why the eminent services of this great and good 
 man were treated, on the part of government, with a negleft, ingratitude, and injustice, which leave a stain 
 upon the annals of the times, Estrad from Lord Woodhouselee's Life of Lord Kaimes. 
 
 So much surprise was excited by the neglect of ministry to the services of Mr. Forbes, that many 
 ttories have been told, few of which are probably true, in order to account for it. Among these is one, 
 that the Duke of Cumberland and he had some misunderstanding in Inverness ; another, that his favour 
 declined upon his answering the king in the afSrmative, when asked about some persons said to have been 
 put to death in Culloden-house by the royal army. 
 
 The story of the ministers asking him for his accounts, instead of conferring any mark of approbatioir 
 on him, and of Mr. Forbes retiring in silence, has probably a foundation in trutL It is certain, that the 
 King received him in the most gracious manner, and thanked him for his services : this last term has, 
 however, a meaning, in such a case, rather equivocal in the Enghsh tongue ; and so decidedly hostile to the 
 merits of the person thanked in the Erench language, that t«.be thanked and discarded are equivalent terms. 
 
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 IKTRODUCTION. " XXXV 
 
 dered for a considerable time, and met with a variety of adventures ; several times 
 narrowly escaping from falling into the hands of his enemies. At last, he found it 
 expedient to return to the main land, in order to avoid the search of his pursuers ; and 
 for several weeks, he met with a retreat upon Benalder, a mountain in the centre 
 of Scotland, between the countries of Athol and Badenoch. Whilst at this place, he 
 received intelligence of the arrival on the West coast of a vessel which had been sent 
 for his deliverance. In this ship he embarked in September, and in a few days termi- 
 nated his expedition by a safe arrival in France. His military career, his adventures, 
 and his misfortunes, excited a lively interest among the European nations, and have 
 been raised by the pens of several men of genius to a kind of romantic grandeur 
 which the sequel of his life was far from justifying. We cannot, however, without 
 pride, mention the astonishing fact, that though the sum of ^30,000. sterling was 
 long publicly offered for his apprehension, and though he passed through very many 
 hands, and both the reward and his person were perfectly well kno\Mi to an intelligent 
 and very Inquisitive people ; yet no man nor woman was to be found capable of degrad- 
 ing themselves in earning so vast a reward by betra3'ing a fugitive whom misfortune had 
 thrown upon their generosity. This fact may surely repair the injury done to the Scotch 
 character by their leading men delivering up Charles the First to his enemies. When we 
 compare it with the numerous instances, both in ancient and modern history, of the 
 want of gratitude, good faith, and humanit)^, experienced by princes from their equals 
 and their subjects in the decline of their fortunes, we cannot withhold our expression of 
 the warmest admiration of these poor Highlanders ; and, comparing their exalted 
 morality with the standard of \artue and principle in use among so many classes of 
 mankind more favoured by fortune, we are tempted to exclaim with IMr. Pope, 
 
 " Blush, grandeur, blush ; proud courts, withhold your blaze ; 
 " Ye little stars, hide your dimiiiish'd rays." 
 
 During the expedition of the young Pretender to the South, the Earl of Loudon 
 occupied Inverness with a small force ; and the Lord President remained at his castle 
 of Culloden, preventing as much as possible supplies from leaving the Highlands for 
 the Jacobite army. He lived surrounded by the enemies of the government ; and the 
 castle of Culloden was attacked by a part)' of the Stratherick Frasers, who intended 
 either to take him prisoner or to put him to death. This plan failed, owing to the spirited 
 reception which this body of men met with from the artillery and small arms of the 
 garrison which defended the castle under Mr. Forbes's own direction. Lord Lovat 
 has been accused of having prompted this attack ; and his conduct, long suspected, 
 grev^ at last so unguarded, that it was deemed proper to secure him, which was 
 
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 Xxsvi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 effected by the President '^ in person, at a considerable risk. As the town of Inverness, 
 however, was chiefly occupied by his clan and adherents, he contrived by their assistance 
 to escape from the place of his confinement in a few days after he was taken up. 
 Whether, or not, he really gave his countenance to the attack upon Culloden castle, must 
 remain somewhat doubtful ; he ever denied it himself ; and the marks of friendship 
 which he had often received from the father of Mr. Forbes, as well as from his 
 brother and himself (which he always seemed proud to acknowledge), tend to induce 
 a belief that he was innocent in this respect. So much has been laid to the charge 
 of this nobleman, that he seems very little indebted to the voice of fame ; and the 
 warm affection which such a man as Mr. Forbes long entertained for him, of itself 
 renders it extremely difficult to believe many of the acts of which he has been 
 accused ". 
 
 The march of the Jacobite army towards Inverness forced Lord Loudon, early lq 
 1746, to retire into Sutherland ; whence he was compelled, after a skirmish with 
 the Duke of Perth's troops, to pass over to the Isle of Sky. The Lord President ac- 
 companied him in this retreat, and remained with the King's friends in that island, 
 till the battle of CuUoden *- (i6th April) restored peace to the kingdom. In July 
 following, the Court of Session met, after having discontinued its sittings nearly a 
 year. 
 
 During the occupation of Inverness by the rebels (though it does not appear that 
 much wanton mischief was done), the estates of Culloden and Bunchrew were both 
 
 '° Lord Lovat was brought into Inverness in the same coach with the Lord President ; and, it is said, 
 entertained strong hopes of a rescue by his clan. Persons who saw the carriage passing have assured us, 
 that he took seTeral opportunities of stopping on the road, and was with difficulty made to re-enter 
 the coach. 
 
 '' Lord Lovat certainly possessed qualities that, in a different state of society from that in which he 
 was brouo-ht up, and in different circumstances of life, would have insured him respeft. He seems to 
 have been always courageous and active, and was at last magnanimous. His natural abilities were excellent ; 
 and his address, accomplishments, and learning, far above the usual lot of his covmtrymen, even of equal 
 rank. With the civilized, he was the modem perfed fine gentleman ; and in the north, among his peiiple, 
 the feudal baron of the tenth century. Duplicity and circumyention, as well as the most atrocious cruelty, 
 were almost universally practised in the northern distrids of Scotland during his youth, when he had ratter 
 a difficult part to play. 
 
 '- It is certain, that very great outrages were committed by the Duke of Cumberland's army after the 
 battle of Culloden. Many of the houses in Inverness (among the rest, one of the President's) were destroyed 
 for the sake of fire-wood, and many burnt in the country ; and several persons were shot among the moun- 
 tams, or otherwise put to death, by the soldiers. This, perhaps, could not be entirely prevented : it is 
 certain, however, that President Forbes most strenuously exerted himself to put a stop to these proceed"- 
 ings ; and his remonstrances were, it appears, very SI received by Lord Albemarle and some other officers. 
 No biame can attach to the Duke of Cumberland for these outrages The Court of Session at last inter- 
 fered, to DUt an end to the iliegal proceedings of the soldiery 
 
 plundered
 
 IXTRODL'CTIO^r. XXSVU 
 
 plundered of plate, wine, corn, cattle, and of every other article of any use to the 
 soldiery, to a great amount, notwithstanding the written protection granted by Lord 
 George Murray. 
 
 Having attempted to give a short sketch of this rebellion, as far as concerns Mr. 
 Forbes, it becomes a painful task to allude to the ingratitude with which liis eminent 
 services were repaid by the ministry. How much his Sovereign trusted, and with how 
 much cause, to the efficacy of his exertions, the letters of Lord Stair, and many others 
 in high employment, can bear testimony ; for each of them seemed to think, 
 
 Cresceret que mihi ex eo ipso Jiducia quod possit in hominis unius I'irtute tanhim mO' 
 menti esse. 
 
 It was immediately ascertained, that he had expended three years' rent of his estates 
 in the public service ; and, afterwards, new claims upon him became so numerous 
 upon the same account, that at the time of his death his ample fortune was left in a 
 state of such embarrassment, that the best friends of his family saw no prospect of 
 relief, but in sa^^ng one of his baronies by the sale of the other. Few princes had 
 more sagacity than George the Second ; and in military matters he could not have 
 been deceived ; but in those services which could not, of themselves, in the same way 
 arrest attention, nor be knowTi to the Sovereign except by the report of his ministers, 
 Mr. Forbes was entirely at their mercv ; and to have displayed the extent of his ser- 
 vices would at once have discovered the extent of their own demerit ; since theii" 
 want of foresight and preparation alone had, undoubtedly, plunged the nation into 
 the greatest danger and perplexity. Lord Bacon remarks, in his history of Henry jth, 
 that " convenient merit, unto which reward can easily reach *% doth best with king?." 
 Mr. Forbes's servicres might certainly have been conveniently reached by reward ; but 
 they were just such as it was most inconvenient to acknowledge ; and ministry had 
 the baseness to attempt to screen themselves, by neglecting the man, without whose 
 aid, it is difficult to say, what the result of their folly and improvidence might have 
 been. The loud voice of the empire, however, gave the tribute of applause w'hich a 
 so-rdid ministry denied ; and the motives of their fears were seen, as well as the effect 
 of them, in spite of their management and want of candour : so true it is, that 
 cunning ever defeats itself. 
 
 The Lord President had, through a long life, evinced a character much more 
 retiring than forward ; he was indeed the prater laudem nuUius avarus ; and it is not 
 
 '' Lord Eacon makes this remark upon the great services rendered to Henry VII. by the Stanley 
 family ; which, not being easy to requite, are supposed to have caused jm ill-will and jealousy in that prince, 
 ■which proved fatal to Sir W. Stanley. Had his services not amounted to " overmerit," it is probable that 
 Sir W. Stanley would have been more cautious aud uoassumingj and the king more easy and grateful. 
 
 probable^
 
 x:cx\nu INTROOrCTIOK. 
 
 probable, that he would have felt with great acuteness the negle£V of the Government, 
 were it not that the degree of retribution for meritorious services has long been so 
 well known, and arranged with such exactness, that the want of merit is generally 
 presumed by the public, when the usual marks of favour to the chief actors do not 
 follow the successful result of important transactions. That the evening of his life 
 assumed a browner shade, both from this consideration, and the embarrassment of his 
 fortune, it is not unreasonable to believe ; but reUgion and philosophy had long pre- 
 pared him to bear with fortitude and resignation wounds deeper than an ungrateful 
 ministry, or the approach of poverty, could inflict ; and both in the business of his 
 own court, and in that in which his assistance was required in different bills before 
 parliament, he shewed the same attention and patriotism which had uniformly distin- 
 guished his former life. His health, long far from robust, became much impaired 
 several months before his death ; and in November 1747 he became so seriously ill of 
 a gradual decay, that it was thought proper to send for his son from England, who 
 arrived but just in time to see his father alive **. During the last week of November, 
 he srill continued his correspondence with his friends ; and in such a stile, that they 
 were surprised to hear of his death, which happened at Edinburgh on the loth of 
 December, when he was aged 62 years and one month. He was buried in the Grey 
 
 '^ The last words which the Lord President delivered to his son were written down in a book at the 
 ■time. The memorandum is sdU preserved, and is as follows : 
 
 " Edinburgh, loth December 1747. 
 
 " My father entered into the everlasting life of God, trusting, hoping, and believing, through the blood 
 of Christ, eternal life and happiness. When I first saw my father upon the bed of death, his blessing and 
 prayer to me was, " My dear John, you have just come in time to see your poor father die. May the 
 great God of heaven and earth ever bless and preserve you ! You have come to a very poor fortune, 
 partlv by mv own extravagance and the oppression of power. I am sure you will forgive me, because 
 what I did was with a <rood intention. I know vou to be an honest-hearted lad. Andrew Mitchell loves 
 you affeclionatelv ; he will advise you, and do what he can for you. I depend upon Scroop too ; which 
 vou may let him know. I will advise you never to think of coming into parUament. I left some notes 
 with the two "William Forbes's, in case I had not seen you ; they are two affeftionate lads, and will be 
 able to help you, in some affairs, better than you would have done yourself. John Hossack will help 
 Tou in your affairs in the north. My heart bleeds for poor John Steel * ; I recommend him to you. 
 When I was in the north, I paid some considerably large sums, that I never dreamed of before, towards 
 the defraving the chargei 3ccasioned by the rebeUion. There is but one thing I repent me of in my whole 
 life ; not to have taken better care of you f . May the great God of heaven and earth bless and preserve 
 you ! I trust in the blood of Christ. Be always religious ; fear and love God. You may go ; you can 
 be of no service to me here.'' 
 
 These words may remind the reader of Addison's remark to his son-in-law, when he told him he sent 
 for him " to see with what composure a Christian could die.'' 
 
 • John Steel \rss then a sort c£ head-servant, hsring been once 3 merchant ia Edinbor^ He passed the rest cf his days at 
 dCuHrden, in comfan and ease. 
 
 ■f The President here aDcdes, no dotibt, to bis sen's fon-jne. 
 
 8 Friars
 
 INTRODUCTION, XXXIX 
 
 Friars church-yard, near his brother ; his funeral being attended with all the pomp 
 usual to persons of his elevated rank, but more remarkable for the deep affliction of 
 every class of people (among whom his death was reckoned a national misfortune)^ 
 than all the trappings and outward show of sorrow and magnificence could make it. 
 
 The Faculty of Advocates, of which he had for so many years been the ornament, 
 resolved to perpetuate his memory by the erection of a statue. The Scotch nation 
 had intended a similar honour, from interested motives, for Cromwell ''' ; and had 
 erected one to Charles 2d, from motives equally selfish and obsequious. The honour 
 done to President Forbes is so much the greater, because the most invidious judgement 
 can assign no cause for its being paid, which does not tend to the credit of the per- 
 sons paying this tribute of veneration, as well as of the memory of him to whom the 
 statue was erected. A statue has lately been voted for Lord President Robert Blair ;. 
 a man who, in inflexible integrity, extensive literary attainments, candour, legal know- 
 ledge and penetration, and amiable manners, seemed to emulate those endowments of 
 Duncan Forbes. 
 
 The figure, which represents the President in the attitude of delivering his senti- 
 ments from the bench, is reckoned the chef-d'oeuvre of Roubilliac, and is admired 
 for its great spirit, elegance, and beauty. It was put up in the outward Parliament 
 house in 1752, and cost .^3, 00c. sterling; a sum which, it is scarcely necessary to 
 observe, was far greater in efficacy then, than at the present day. Below the figure is> 
 the following inscription : 
 
 Duncano Forbes 
 
 de CuUoden, 
 
 Supremas in civilibus curiss PresidT, 
 
 Judici integerrirao, 
 
 Civi Optimo, 
 priscse virtutis virp, 
 Facultas Juridica libens posuit,. 
 Anno post obitum quinto, 
 C. N. 1752. 
 
 In so few words, a more correct character cannot be given than is by the foregoing: 
 inscription ; and perhaps it is uimecessary to enlarge upon a subject, OJi which the 
 preceding pages have already been intended to throw some light. We shall, however, 
 state the sentiments (as to his public character) of Mr. John Home, who might be 
 
 " The block of marble imported for tliis statue lay upon the wharf of Leith for nearly i jo years. Lately, 
 as we are informed, it was made use of for the statue of GeoTge III. executed by the Honourable 
 Mrs. Damer, and placed in the register office in Edinburgh. 
 
 called
 
 si IKTRODUCTION. 
 
 called the cotemporary of Mr. Forbes ; and of Lord Woodhouselee, whose opportu- 
 nities of knowledge gave him the same advantage in judging as if he had lived in his 
 £ociet\'. The first observes, " Duncan Forbes, of Culloden, born a younger brother 
 and bred to the law, had passed through the different offices of that profession which 
 usually lead to the chair, universally esteemed, and thought still worthy of a higher 
 ofEce than the one he held. When called to preside in the supreme court of justice 
 in Scotland, he fiilly answered the expectations of his countrymen ; his manners gave 
 a lustre to the dignit}" of his station, and no president of the Court of Session was 
 ever more respected or beloved." Lord Woodhouselee ''" gives the following animated 
 delineation in his life of Lord Kaims: "Duncan Forbes, of Culloden, was in all 
 respects one of the most eminent men of his time. His learning vras extensive and 
 profound, reaching even to the Oriental languages ; and he had that acuteness and 
 subtilty of parts, which is peculiarly fitted to the nice discriminations of the law ; but 
 which was always regulated in him by the prevailing principles of his nature, probity, 
 candour, and a strong sense of the beauty of virtue and moral excellence. His 
 wai-mth of heart made him a man of rehgion ; and as all his feelings were ardent, his 
 piety, of course, was fer\'ent and habitual. This disposition, co-operating with a 
 lively imagination, led hira to become an admirer and disciple of the Hutchinsonian 
 scheme of Theolog)', which professes to find in the Holy Scriptures, when interpreted 
 according to the radical import of the Hebrew expressions, a complete system of 
 natural philosophy, as well as of religious instruction. He had not enough of phy- 
 sical science to detect the absurdities vrith which the scheme of his favourite author 
 abounds ; but it delighted his imagination, and coincided with his religious propensi- 
 ties ; and in the writings which he published in support of that scheme (his Letter to a 
 Eishop, and his Thoughts concerning Religion, Natural and Revealed), he is allowed 
 to be the ablest of all the expositors of the Hutchinsonian system of theology. In 
 the eloquence of the bar, Forbes outshone all his cotemporaries ; for he united to 
 great knowledge of jurisprudence, a quickness of comprehension that discovered to 
 liim at once the strong ground of argument which he was to press, or the weakness of 
 the doctrine which he vrished to assail. When raised to the Presidenq' of the court, 
 the vigour of his mtellect, his patience in the hearing of causes, his promptitude in 
 the dispatch of business, .the dignity of his deportment, and, above all, the knov\-n 
 probity- and integrit}- of his mind, gave the highest weight to the decisions of that 
 tribunal over which he presided. When to these quaUfications we add an extensive 
 acquaintance with human nature, acquired and improved in a most active public life. 
 
 ** Lord Woodhouselee (like the sculptor of the pillar of Trajan) has had the art to exalt the principal 
 person ia his group (Duncan Forbes), tine dimhatlonc uIKiu. 
 
 and
 
 INTRODUCTION. xU 
 
 and uniformly directed to the great ends of promoting the welfare and prosperity of 
 his fellow citizens, and discharging his duty to God and to his country, we shall have 
 some faint idea of the character of Duncan Forbes." 
 
 In his person ]\Ir. Forbes was elegant and well formed ; and his countenance, from 
 the several paintings extant, appears much more animated and handsome than it is 
 represented by his statue. The sculptor, however, not having the same advantages as 
 the painter, we may rather rely upon the painting for the likeness, than upon the marble. 
 As a husband, father, and brother, he was exemplary ; and as a master, affable and 
 indulgent. Although his studies ^, and the serious nature of his avocations, might be 
 expected to affect his gaiety, that was not the case ; for no man was in society more 
 divested of care, or merrier, " \\nthin the limits of becoming mirth ;" so that the 
 first nobility and wits of the time were happy to " crack a bottle and a joke vnih. 
 him ^." In his friendships he was sincere and very steady ; and these of any merit, 
 with whom he had in the early part of his life been intimate, never found that his 
 elevation to fortune or office occasioned the smallest coolness or distance in him : indeed, 
 so much the contrary was the case, that, from" the terms of intimacy in which he was 
 addressed by persons far below his own walk in life, he might be blamed for suffering 
 a too great familiarity, did we not make allowance for their affeclion, and know that 
 he was on every occasion remarkable for propriety, and, when it was requisite, for 
 great dignity of deportment. He had, indeed, as several anecdotes attest, a happy 
 facility in overcoming, by a facetious kindness, the diffidence and uneasiness of per- 
 sons inferior to him in the gradation of society, when in his company. In his re- 
 sentment of injury, he was moderate and placable ; yet he was far from being easily 
 brought to renew habits of intimacy with persons who abused his friendship, until 
 atonement was made ; and, being himself incapable of injustice, he was always 
 careful to avoid the appearance of being insensible of improper behaviour of this sort, 
 even at the time that he heartily forgave it. This principle of his conduct proceeded 
 from the candour of his nature ; and we must allow, that he who passes over as nothing 
 the injustice of others, will not be scrupulously rigid in reguladng himself. To his 
 friendship the first families were often indebted for advice and assistance ; and not a 
 few confided to his integrity the care of their children, which was sometimes a trouble- 
 some and disagreeable task ; for gratitude seldom follows the rigid performance of 
 such dudes. His knowledge of mankind was deep and extensive ; and no man had 
 
 ^^ He is said to have read the Bible in Hebrew eight times over ; and when intent upon study, he 
 secluded himself for whole days entirely from society. 
 
 ^2 This expression is taken from a letter to the President from the Duke of Haaiiltoa ; and perhaps may, 
 without impropriety, be admitted in a \-iew of private life and character. 
 
 f , Studied
 
 Xlii INTRODrCTION'. 
 
 Studied with more success the peculiar character, and motives for action, of the high- 
 landers ; which gave him great weight among them *'. This was increased by his 
 boundless generosity, which prompted him to make others happv, with so Uttle 
 regard to his private fortune, that it often occasioned perplexity in hi-s aSairs ; but it 
 was strictlv confined to the use of his own means ; for he never used his influence to 
 get a friend preferred to office from affection, imless he was fully capable of per- 
 forming the duties of it : so that the interest of the public was never subservient to 
 his partiality. 
 
 In political principles, he was what is called a whig of the old schct.l ; and he 
 might be said to be one from hereditary right ; as his father, grandfather, and great- 
 grandfather, were staimch in the same opinions. These were not out of fashion in the 
 rdgn of George ad, who often was pleased to give unequivocal proofs that he 
 cherished the principles which placed his family on the throne. His religious opinions 
 were liberal and tolerant to every persuasion ; for he thought that God judged by the 
 heart, and not by the mere exterior show, or by the observance of minute forms 
 alone, which so often cover vice and hypocrisy. He is-as a sincere beUever in, and 
 defender of, the Scriptures, and the doctrines of Christianity ; from which he derived 
 a steady incentive to that -iirtue which he loved and practised throughout life, and rays 
 of comfort in the hour of death. 
 
 We shall conclude by observing, that though he was engaged, through a long 
 public life, in many affairs of peculiar delicacy, he had the merit of securing the 
 applause, not only of those with whom he acted, but even of those against whom he 
 was employed (a thing almost witliout example) ; and that his character for pubHc 
 and private excellence was such, that the revolution of many years may not again 
 bring forward such a man ; for those who paint him truest, praise him most. 
 
 ^ The following anecdote is so well authenticated, that we shall insert it^ as a proof how well he was 
 2cqnainied with the highlanders: 
 
 He was in the habit of sending his cattle to the west highlands, for the summer grazings. The tempta- 
 tion of keeping them, at iist, becaice so great, that the foreman cr manager of the gentleman who 
 possessed the grazings waf sent with the melar.choly news that the cattle were stolen. The President was 
 well aware of the real state of the case^ and that showing any mistrust or resentment could avail nothing. 
 Trusting to the point of honour, which he knew had the greatest weight with every tnie highlauder, he 
 ordered the messenger to be kept, and entertained for a fortnight with the excess of conviviabty ; and when 
 he was setting out homewards he called for him, and gave him ten guineas, desiring him to tell his master, 
 that the loss of a few cattle was nothing between two friends. All this had the effect desired ; the fore- 
 man (lite Henry iix faun!), in the treaty for restoring Saluzzo, who would give no answer to any repre- 
 sentation, but " I must have my marquisate,'") answered every argument of his master, " Culloden m.ust 
 Lave his cattle ;" and, as he was a man entrusted with too many important secrets and affairs to be a 
 contemptible enemy, the cattle were sent back to CoDoden, with the joyful tidings that they were foimd 
 strayine in the mountains. 
 
 His
 
 * JN'TRODUCTION. xll2 
 
 His works were published after his death, in two volumes octavo. They consist of 
 '* Thoughts on Religion, natural and revealed ;" " Reflections on the Sources of 
 Incredulity in regard to Religion '°;" and " A Letter to a Bishop, concerning some 
 important Discoveries in Philosophy and Religion." They are written, as LordHailes 
 says, in a " flowing and oratorlal style ;" and they prove that he had dedicated much 
 of his attention to theology and philosophy. He has been blamed for his partiality to 
 some of Mr. Hutchinson's ideas regarding the explanation of passages in the Scrip- 
 tures : he is, however, moderate, as well as clear and elegant, in the exposition of his 
 opinions ; and rather blames the severity of Mr. Hutchinson, m his attacks upon Sir 
 Isaac Newton '' and another antagonist. 
 
 It may not be disagreeable to our readers to know the fortune of his family after 
 the decease of President Forbes. His son and heir, though far less eminent than his 
 father in point of talents, was a sensible and honourable man, and a very brave officer 
 of cavalry. The fortune to v/hlch he succeeded was so Involved, that for some years 
 there seemed no means of extricating it, except by the sale of one half of the landed 
 estate. But the effedts of economy, however slow, are sure ; and John Forbes preferred 
 the part of living in retirement, and at a small expenditure, to that of dissipating the 
 fortune of his ancestors. In lefs than thirty years, he not only cleared the estate of 
 incumbrances, but added to it by several condguous purchases ; and his son'' and suc- 
 cessor, by Jean Forbes, daughter of Sir Arthur Forbes of Cralgievar, baronet, making 
 an opulent marriage in England, added to the family possessions. - - 
 
 In 1784, Government resolved to resume the privilege of Ferrintosh, after it had for 
 nearly a century been enjoyed by the family. Of the value of this privilege (which 
 
 7° " I cannot (says Dr. Warburton, in a letter to Dr. Hurd,) omit recommending to you the late Lord 
 President Forbes's little posthumous work on Incredulity ; it is a little jewel. I knew and venerated the 
 man: one of the greatest which ever Scotland bred, both as a judge^ a patriot, and a christian." 
 
 7' Mr. Forbes, indeed, may be said rather to state and explain Mr. Hutchinson's doftrines, than to 
 defend them. Among other curious things stated by that author, is the assertion, that in six different 
 passages the effetts of the load-stone are spoken of in the Bible, and that the cause is to be gathered like- 
 wise from it. 
 
 It must be so obvious, how greatly mankind are interested that the real meaning of words and passages 
 in the Old Testament (the foundation of our rehgion, and the most ancient of all histories,) should be 
 made evident, that it is strange more persons have not followed Mr. Forbes in his progress towards eluci- 
 dation ; a work which would confer honour on the person engaged, in proportion to the diificulty which 
 the developement of sentences involved in the emblematical and prophetical idioms of a difRcult language, 
 and dubious punftuation, must occasion ; not to mention the rites, manners, and transactions alluded to, 
 ■which are either chiefly unknown, or obscured by the deepest shades of antiquity. 
 
 7^ Arthur Forbes of Culloden was married to Miss Sarah Stratton, daughter and sole heiress of Edward 
 Stratton esquire, county of Kent. 
 
 9 was
 
 xliy INTRODUCTION. 
 
 -was likewise a distinction honourable to the proprietor's family) ^we may form some idea 
 from Mr. Arnot's statement, in his History of Edinburgh, that more whisky was distilled 
 in Ferrintosh than in all the rest of Scotland. The representatives of the family being 
 employed abroad for many years, caused this part of the estate to be much neglected ; 
 and arrangements had been only just made with a company, to bring it to an increase 
 of value, when Government (perhaps hearing of this) came to the resolurion of taking 
 it awav. We shall not pretend to give an accurate statement of what the real produce 
 might be brought to; but if we loosely suppose the number of arable acres at i,8oo 
 (they amount to this extent j, and take the produce at only five bolls of barley per acre, 
 that would give 9,000 bolls, which (considering the motives for making the lands pro- 
 ductive by imported manures) is but a small return. If the profit to the proprietor upon 
 the distillation of these 9,000 bolls into whisky (dut)'-free) should be taken at only two 
 founds sterling per boll, the return to the family would come to <^i 8,000 sterling per 
 annum ; besides insuring the conversion into arable land of the rest of the barony upon 
 easy terms. The produce of one boll of barley converted into whisky is sometimes 
 sold as high as six pounds sterlmg ; so that the above calculation of clear profit might 
 be fairly doubled in that ^•iew, and leave the farmer or distiller £2. sterling per boll. 
 The family, as might be expected, urged every argument to induce Government to 
 desist from resuming its own grant of a perpetual property '-' of such value ; but, in 
 spite of every opposition and appeal to jusrice and good faith, it was taken away, for 
 the compensadon of the principal sum of .^21,500. 
 
 Duncan George Forbes, the great grandson of President Forbes, now represents 
 the family of Culloden, 
 
 75 After stating this matter shortly, and without bebg very particular, we leave the transaftion to 
 speak for itself. We shall only add the expression of our hope, that when we have so lately seen the 
 generosity of parUament n^e an additional grant to a noble family for a property which had been resumed 
 for a much longer time, for a large sum, and by the consent of that family distiniSly expressed, the justice of 
 Government will not permit such a transaction as the one here stated, to remain what may perhaps be called a 
 solitary instance, that private property is not always secure from power. If it required that any thing should 
 be added to the rlaim to justice and favour of the Culloden family, the unrequited services and outlays of 
 the President, and of his brother, might be mentioned, who might each assume with truth the plaintive 
 jnotxo of the Courtenays : — Uhi lapsus ? Quid feci?
 
 CULLODEN PAPERS. 
 
 No. I. • • 
 
 PETITION of Duncan Forbes, in the name of the Inhabitants of the Town of 
 
 Inverness. 
 
 £Early in 1626. This teems to haye been the first sketch of a more formal document, which, with the 
 
 King's Answer annexed, will be found in p. 4.] 
 
 To the King's most Excellent Majestie, 
 
 The humble Petition of Duncan Forbes, Provost of Innernes, in name of the 
 whole Inhabitants of that your Majestie's auncient Brugh. 
 
 Humbly shewing, 
 
 THAT, notwithstanding the insurreftion of the Clanchattan is fulUe repressed, 
 and they reduced to obedience of your Majestie's lawes, which was the first ground 
 of the Comission granted to the Earle of Murray ; yet his Lordship, under color 
 of the same, and direftlie beyond the power granted thereby unto him, doth seek 
 utterlie to subvert that auncient Brugh (whose foundation was long before the Birth of. 
 Christ, and whose Inhabitantes have ever been faithful and loyall subjects to your 
 Majestie's Royal Predecessors), by exaftinge the escheate of some of them, and fines 
 from others in value far above their Estates, pretending that they sold some small 
 Commodities to some persones of that Clan. Thus doth he begin to exceede to such 
 height of rigour against your Subjects of that Towne as heretofore hath not been prac- 
 tised in ane civill kingdome or State ; being himself both Judge and party, and the 
 Members of his Courts his own Creatures. And withal! forcing your said Subjefts, to 
 their great charges, to repair from their Dwellings to places far distant ; where when 
 being come, they are delayed of that due course of Justice pretended against them 
 with unjust extremitie ; whereof if not in time prevented, they as are Members of the 
 body of that Estate shall thereby be brought to such povertie, that from henceforth 
 they cannot consist as a Town able to pay anie their lawful Dues to your Majestie. 
 
 And in regard there can be no greater Evidence of their innocence then their 
 earnest desire to submit themselves to the censure of anie your Majestie's 
 Judicatories : 
 
 It may please your Majestie to referr the Consideration of the premises to anie 
 such of them as your Highnes in your most princely judgment shall think 
 expedient ; and in the mean time to wreitt unto the said Earle that he desist 
 from further insisting in pursuit of your said Subjeds, until that by that 
 Judicatorie all differences between them be fullie cleared. 
 And they, their Wifes, and Children, (as bound by dutie) shall still pray 
 for your Majestie's long life and prosperous raigne. 
 
 B
 
 CCLLODEV PAPERS. 
 
 Xo.n. 
 
 P B. of Ross to the Council of Inverness, dated London, 17th March 1626. 
 
 Honorable and loveing freinds, 
 
 IT mav please you, your Proveft, Duncan Forbes, being heere about vour 
 Bussinesse, and I considering his great forwardness, and earnest care, to procure the 
 good and weal of your Towne, and your peaceable setiing vdih the Earl of Morray, 
 I could not but take speciall notice thereoff, and acquent you \rith the same ; And to 
 declare to you, that bv his wise and discreet cariage, with the assistance of some good 
 freinds to him and yourselves, obtained greater iavors and courtes\-e at my Lord the 
 Earle of Morray's hands nor could he expected by any other k.)Tid of dealing what- 
 soever : whereof Mv Lord of Lome, My Lord Ockletree, Mv Lord Kinclewin, S Francis 
 Stewart, and S' William Alexander and I my selff, as hearing and being Witnesses, can 
 bear testimonie, and as your Provest himselt will more particularHe impart to you. Iff 
 you and the Inhabitants of vour Towne, behaveth yourselffs dutifully, and respectively, 
 you will iind that his Lordship \iill use vou courteously, in this businesse, and all other 
 affairs betweene him and you, wherein I shall be contented gladhe to tak the paines to 
 see you all settled peaceabiie, and iinallie in peace with his Lordship. Tou have reason 
 to be thankfull to your Provest for his fidelitie, diligence, and care in these your 
 affairs. In anie thing wherein I can be serviceable, or able to pleasure you, either heere 
 or at home, I shall be willing to give proofe of my readines therein. Thus reconmaend- 
 ing you to Godj I rest 
 
 Your Loveing and affeOionat freind readie to be commanded 
 ■ , ;. FB. of Ross. 
 
 No. III. 
 
 Sir William Alexander, to the Bailiffs, Council, and Committee, of the Burgh of 
 Inverness, dated Whitehall, the 28 '' of March 1626. 
 
 Worthie freinds, 
 
 I HAVE wreitten this Lre unto you, tesdfieing the good carrage of yo"^ provest in 
 his Commission. At his coming here, he obteaned the favour of the best sort about Court; 
 he drew up his Petiuon, and was assured of trends to gett him presence of the King, 
 and to second him in so farre as might stand with reason. Notwithstanding, he, verie 
 wisehe considdering what might be the event of his petirioning, in respecl of the great 
 favour of the Earl of Murray \\-ith the Prince, and of his great frends about Court, but 
 cheefehe for that you have no just cause to complaine of him as yet, and untill the time 
 you suffer a reall wrong ; so that his Ma"' might have instandy disliked these rash kind 
 of proceedings, and might have irritated the Nobleman the more against you ; In con- 
 sideration whereof (working the same effects that you desired, in a more faire and plau- 
 sible maner), he hath concluded with the said Earle after this nianer : he conveened 
 divers of my Lord's own frends and other Noblemen, such as My Lord of Lorn, My 
 Lord Kincleuin, My Lord Ochiltree, The Bishop of Rosse, and some others, amongst 
 whom I was one ; and in our presence the Earle of Murray did tak the provest by the 
 hand in name of your Town, and protested that he was not of intention to deale in rigor 
 against you ; but your own misbehaviour towards his Lo'' did in some measure offend 
 bim ; and now haih promised (jou doing your dutie in reason as becometh you) that 
 
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 he shall not wrong you, in anie maner of way ; but rather to malntaine you with his 
 best assistance. And as for the putting of his Commission in execution lie shall do the 
 same in such sort as you shall have no just cause to complaine upon that subject ; for 
 doing whereof the Bishop of Rosse (besides that he was an eye witness) will assist ; so 
 that if the said Earle wold prove otherwayes nor he hath pfomised (being confident that 
 he v.i\\ not) you have all that you could crave by yo' Peticion ; which is, that you have 
 an indifferent Judge for your greevances. Wherfor you have all good reason not only 
 to think that yo' provest hath done better for your weal then you could have expefted 
 otherwise, but likewise to give him heartie thankes. He hath intended with me a Bar- 
 gaine in favour of your Town, as he himself will show you at meeting, which, God 
 villing, will both prove beneficiall and honorable unto you, asainieone thing that ever 
 you took in hand. He hath made me to be your loveing freind in all your good and 
 lawful affaires, whenever you shall desire me to that effeft. Thus with my love re- 
 membered to you, I rest ' ■ r- .. 
 . . Your loving frend to serve vou, 
 
 W. ALEXANDER. 
 
 ■ No. IV. ' •' ■ • ■■■ ■ 
 
 P'B. of Ross to the Honble Duncan Forbes, dated London, 22d of April 1626. 
 
 HONORABLE and loving friend, I have wrytten to the Earle of Marray to dis- 
 continue any proceedings against the inhabitants ofy towne until I my returning ; which 
 I hope his Lordp will doe gladly, according to his promise made to me before his de- 
 parting ; and after my returning I hope, God willing, to satle that business, to his Lordp's 
 honor, and both your contentments. Since your departing hence, within three dayes 
 thereafter immediatelie, I had two conferences with His Majestie ; and since that tyme I 
 have been visited with ane grievous ague ; and now, praised be God, am convalesced, 
 and am resolved, how soon I shall recover strenth, to take journay homeward before 
 the downsitting of the sessione ; befor the quhilk tyme, I most intreatt you to try out, 
 and ha\e in readiness, some ten or twelve thousand pound scots, that I may have the 
 same, upone sufficient securitie; fori purpose, God willing, to sarisfie some of my 
 most urgent creditors, whoe have adoe with ther monyes at this tearme. S'' I pray 
 you try out the money in the hands of sik as ye know will be most kyudlie and 
 discreitt. In doing quhairof, you shall oblige me to serve and pleasur you in ane 
 greater imployment, and I houpe the partie with whom ye shall deall in my favour 
 shall have occasione to give you thanks. I doubte •Jiot. bot ye will keip promise in 
 visiting my wyf and childring when yo' leasur may permitt you, and will be careful 
 that shee neglakt nothing quhilk you shall desyre to be furnished till my returning. 
 Thus recommending you to God, I rest 
 
 Your loving friend readie to power. 
 
 --.... ... V B. of Ross. 
 
 >--d B2 PETITION
 
 CULiODEK PAPERS. 
 
 Xo. V. 
 
 PETITION from Dancj-n Forbes, Provost of Inverness, in the name of the Inhabitants 
 
 of that town, to King Charles the First. 
 
 To the King's most Excellent Majestic, 
 
 The humble Petition of Duncan Forbes, Provost of Innemess, in the name of 
 the Inhabitants of that your aundent Brugh, 
 
 Humblie sheweth, 
 
 THAT it mav please your Majestic to readc and conadCT the Articles and 
 heads foUowinsr, concerning the Commission graunted of late to the Earl of Murray ; 
 \5"herebv in some measure theire greivances, that they thereby are likelie to endure, are 
 touched and sett downe. 
 
 i'' Firste, in res^arde that the Ground of his Commission was for repressiage the in- 
 suje^ons of the Clanchartaru who voluntarilie have submitted themselves unto him, 
 and are reduced to obediaice to your Majesties lawes, havingc become His Lordships 
 Scrvauntes and tennents ; he should not in reason thereafter to use means, imder coulor 
 of the same, to imdoe ane civill and aundent Towne, by exacringe somes of money 
 from them, which, if not aboTC, are att leaste equi\-alent ■vrith, the estate of many 
 ef them, 
 
 2. There is an Ade of Parliament in An' 1593, providinge that upon the grauntinge 
 of any Comission of the like nattire, and the insurraiion being setled, that then the 
 force of the said Comission, in all points wherein the same might be extended, should 
 cease. 
 
 3. It is a spetiall ground of his Comisdon, for the avoydinge of superfluous charges 
 and paines that your Majestie's subjeds might endure by theire rcpayringe to Judicatories 
 ferr distant from theire dwellings, that he shoulde minister Justice vrith ease to them ; 
 ■where to the contrarie, they are forced to goe from Innemes to Elgin, being 30 myles 
 distant one from another, there being a shire interjeSed betweene them ; wher when 
 beinge come, thev have been delaved of the due coarse of Jusdce pretended againste them. 
 
 4. Such a Comission as hee hath, shoulde onelie be in force against Rebellious people, 
 fireraisers, and such execrable maletadors ; and not against a Chill people, subject to 
 TOUT Majesties lawes, pavin^e theire part of your Jilaiesiies taxations, and beinge a tree 
 Brugh these many himdred yeares ; where himselt is both judge and partie, and the 
 Members of his Court meerelie his own Creatures. 
 
 q. Some of the Inhabitants of youre said Towne, beinge unwilling in the stormy time 
 of winter to hazard themselves from theire dwellings and from their lawfall trades, to 
 repair to El?in, were contented, at his earnest intreatie, to come into His Lordship's 
 will, wi:h promise they should incure no further danger then theire particular dittayes 
 had merited ; which cculde not (as they did then imagine) be further extended, then for 
 the sellrnge to some of the said clan, or thdr Servaunts (whom att that time they could 
 hardlie disceme in Mercates, where, ordinarilie, there is a confused concourse of 
 people), some smale coracdities, as Salte, Soape, and the like ; whereupon they simpHt^ 
 by subscribinge an Acte made by the Earle, confessed themselves to be resettors of the 
 said Clan, and soe are fyned, some in three thousand, some in two thousand marks, and 
 so forth, in somes equivalent if not above theire estates j whJch Acte and the Decreets 
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 CULLODEN PAPERS. ^ 5 
 
 given thereupon, togeather with the costs thereof, they humblie desire maye be con- 
 sidered, and they putt in their places as if they had never subscribed such an Afte, see 
 farr contrarie to equitie and conscience. 
 
 6. His LoP hath not Power, by his Commission, to dire£i; his own Precepts for charg- 
 ing of the persons fyned to make payment to him of their fynes, under payne of horninge ; 
 nor to give Declarations upon theire Escheates in his owne Courtes, which are merelie 
 your Majesties Royal Prerogatives ; and consequentlie he hath proceeded in this agiunst 
 all Equitie and conscience, and against all Civill Order ; and therefore in reason his Com- 
 mission is voide. 
 
 7. Laste, they holde it greate extremitie, (though his Suite againste them were righte) 
 to exalte, after soe rigorous and unconscionable a manner, the halfe, if not the greatest 
 part, of a poor Man's Estate, where penal 1 Statutes are executed with a greate deale of 
 more lenitie ; and moreover they think it noe waye agreeable to true nobilitie to make 
 up his Losses againste the said Clan, by undoinge the poor Inhabitants of an Auntient 
 Brugh ; which course, if it be not in time prevented, will be a means of the utter ruyne 
 and desolation thereof in all ages hereafter. 
 
 But in regarde there can be noe greater Evidence of theire Innocence, then theire 
 earnest desire to submitt themselves to the Censure of any your Majesties Judica- 
 tures ; 
 
 It may please your Majestie to reserv the Consideration of the premises to any 
 such of them as your Highnes, in your most princelie Judgm', shall think 
 fitt ; And in the mean time to give Order to the said Earle, that he desist 
 from further insistinge in pursuite of the said Subjects, untill that, by that 
 Judicatorie, all differences between them be fully cleered. 
 
 At the Court att Bagshott, the 16"' of August 1626. 
 
 HIS Majestie, havinge seene this petitione, is graciously pleased, in regarde of the 
 Petitioners alleaged distresses, to reserv the Consideratione of the same, and what can 
 be further alleaged to this purpose by either partie (whome His Majestie is willinge should 
 be indifferentlie heard), to the Commissions for the Greivances ; willinge them, after 
 due tryall of the premisses, to determine therein according to Justice and Equity. 
 
 No. VI. 
 
 From Mr. Middleton to the Marquis of Argyle. Dated from Knockhall, 14th Jaiiry 
 
 1646. ■- ; 
 
 My vene noble Lord, 
 
 AMONGST others who have testified y'' affeftion to the publick, I cannot omitt 
 to recommend to your Lordship's consideration the condition of Duncan Forbes, 
 of Culloden ^ who hes all this tyme past keept out his House, which lyes near to In- 
 vernes, for the publick service upon his own expenses, with a considerable number of 
 Men in it ; And has bene himself verie aftive against the Rebells at all occasions; and 
 if his house had beene gayned by the enemy, it would have tended much to the preju- 
 dice of the Publick. For this his affeftion, he hes all his Lands spoiled and waisted by 
 tlie Rfcbells, his Corne burnt, and truelie himselfe brought to that extremitie, that un- 
 less his loss be taken to considerationn he cannot be able to subsist ; wherebv not oulie 
 win he be disabled to doe the Publick service in these Parts, but likewise other Gentle- 
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 men will be discoara^d. This I thought fit to represent to your Lordship, and shall 
 intreatinhis behalffthat your Lordship will befriend him at the Committees, and by 
 thinking upon some way both how his loss may be repaired, • and for his subsistance in 
 the mean xyrae, in respect of his fideliry and constancie. Ceasing to trouble your Lord- 
 ship any more for the present, I rest. My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordsp's most faithful and most obedient Servant 
 
 Jo. mDDLETONE- 
 
 • Xo.vn. 
 
 ADDRESS to the Lords, S:c. assembled in Parliament. 
 
 Dated ln^ ernes, 9'" Feb-'' 1649. 
 Right Hono ""' and our much honored Lordes. 
 
 OLTR formar respecie to the Cause of God, testified be our sufferinges for it, 
 and our present posture in the same constant way, we hope, will beare witness of our 
 reall aflecriounes and obliged dewtie to the present high Court of ParHament; and to 
 declare the same the more, we cannot bot signifie to your LI that weheire ast thekingdome 
 is intended to be invadit be forraineirs, so this poor to^^Tie is specialhe aimed at. In this, 
 as hitherto we have proo\Tn Loyall, so now, be the grace of God, we sail not be defective. 
 OnUe this we must signifie to your LI, that, except thair be pro^ycion of Coall, wicluall, 
 and other Furniture, it will be impossible to manteiae the place against any enimie. We 
 appeall the consciences of all knowen our present condition, annent what we uTeit ; and 
 ■we hope our Provest, will upon certaine knowUdge, declare the same. We cannot their- 
 foir bot humbUe intreate your LI with all possible speed to send hither p^o^isioune of Coall, 
 •widuall, and other farniture suitable for such ane place ; and we assure your LI, we 
 sail not be found lacking in what may conceme us for our dewtie, according to our 
 power ; for, as we have signified to your LI befoir, we will rather die then staine diat repu- 
 tatioune which by God's great pro\idence this poore Towne has acqueired. "^Vith all 
 humihrie we desire your LI to assent to the other des}Tes which our Provest, from us, 
 is to represent to your LI ; which humblie awaiting for, we desyre a speciall bhssing 
 irom heaven on your Lis melting, and restis 
 
 Your humble Servands 
 
 ROBERT CARGIE bailHe 
 
 R. ROSE bailUe 
 
 M. CLTHBERT 2 baillie 
 
 J. J. DUNBAR baillie 
 
 *• No.VIIL 
 
 ACT of the Commission of the General Assembly, made at the West Kirk of Edinburgh. 
 
 West Kirk, the ly" Day of August 1650. 
 THE Commissione of the Generall AssembUe, considering that there may be just 
 ground of stumbling, from the King's Majestie's refusing to subscrj-be and emit the 
 Declaratione oflered unto hun by the Committee of Estates and Commissioners of the 
 Generall AssembUe concerning Ws former carriage, and resolutiones for the futur, in 
 reference to the cause of God, and the enemies and friends therof ; doeth therfor de- 
 claire, that this Kirke and Kindome doe not ovm. nor espouse any malignant pafrtie or 
 
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 CULLODEX PAPERS. y 
 
 quarrell or intrest ; but that they fight meerlie upon their former grounds and principles, 
 and in defence of the cause of God and of the Kindome, as they have done t'lese twehf 
 yeires past : — And therfor, as they doe disclame all the sine and guilte of the King and 
 of his house, so thev will not owne him nor his intrest, otherwayes then with a subordi- 
 nationeto God, and so far as heownes and prosecutes the cause of God, and disclames 
 his and his father's oppositione to th^ cause of God and to the covenant, and likevise all 
 the enemies thereof ; and that tliey aaiII with convenient speid take into consideration the 
 peapers lathe sent unto them from OHver Cromwell, and vindicat themselfes from ail 
 the falshoods contauied yrin, especiallie in those thingis whairin the quarrell betwixt us 
 and diat pairtie is mis-stated, as if we owned the late King's proceedings, and we'r resolved 
 to prosecute and maintaine his psnt IMajesde's intrest, befcr and ^uthout acknowledge- 
 ment of the sins of his house and former wayes, and satisfactione to God's people in both 
 Kindomes.* - . ' ;. . ^^- KER- 
 
 * «. - -'- - ■ 1 3"" August 1650* 
 
 - The Committee of Estates, harag seen and considered a Declaratione of the Commis- 
 sion of the General Assemblie anent the stating of the quarrell whairon the Armie is to 
 feight, doe approve the same and hartlie concur therin. THO. HENDERSON. 
 
 ■";""" '■■^ No.ix.'" ■• •"- '• 
 
 ORDDTANCE from the King's Majestie for John Forbes. 
 
 CHARLES R. ^'1 o; .iv:.: '.l-;; ■. ,- - 
 
 WHEREAS our well beloved John Forbes younger, of Culloden, and Provest 
 of our Burgh of Innernes, hath in obedience of the Atls and Orders issued from 
 us and the Estates of ParHament, and Committee of Estates of this our Kingdome, 
 come to this place for attending us in our Army, with the remanent Noblemen, Gen- 
 tlemen, and Heretors of this our Kingdome; And understanding that the said John 
 Forbes is intrusted vith severall Publick Imployments in our Burgh and Shire of Innernes, 
 and in particular that he is appointed, by the Committee of Parliament for manageing 
 the affairs of our Army, one of the CommifTioners for hastening up the mantainance aiKi 
 Meale for our Army from the forsaid Shyre and Burgh; And in regard thereof, and 
 that the most Pain of the Heretors andGendemen of our saidShyre are comeforth, and oa 
 their march hither for joyning with us in our Armv; finding that the said John Forbes 
 his return to and stay in our said Shyre and Burgh, for dischargeing these Publick Im- 
 ployments, and gi\ing his best assistance to execute the publick orders -aithin the same, 
 will be more necessarie then his attendance upon us in our Armv; Therefore it is our 
 Will and pleasure that the said John Forbes returne to his place of residence for the 
 effe£t aforesaid ; and we do hereby discharge all officers of our Armie, or any others 
 haveing Commission from us, and especiaUie our verie well beloved the Laird of Irmes 
 younger, to requyre the said John Forbes, or our well beloved Duncan Forbes, of 
 CoUodin, his father (who is of the age of Seventie zeires and upwards), to come out 
 -with the rest of the Heretors and Gentlemen of our said Shvre in the present Expedi- 
 tion, or to trouble them ther anent. Given att our Court att Sterling, tiie 
 day of May, and of ovu" Reigne the third zeir, 1651. 
 
 * The Marquii of Argyll aided this meeting ; and his participation became one article in kis isdicunent 
 for High Treason. 
 
 PASS
 
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 No. X. 
 
 PASS for Mr. Duncan Forbes, granted by Oliver Cromwell, Dated i;** Sept' 1651. 
 
 THEES are to requyre all OfEcers & Souldiers under Comand of His Excel- 
 \ency the Lord Gener" Cromwell, nather to trouble, molest, nor to offer any violence 
 or injur}- to the persone of John Forbes Fiair, of CuUoddin ; but to suffer and permit 
 him, with his Horses, Armes, and Ser\-antes, fairly to pass and repass our Quarters in 
 and about his lawful afiairs, w-out lett or molestation ; pro%-)-ding hee aft nothing pre- 
 judiciall &: against the Comon Wealth of England, or any belonging thereto — Given 
 under my hand at Inverness, the Seventeenth day of September 1651. 
 
 To all Officers and Souldiers ) R' ULBURNE. 
 
 whom this may conceme. j 
 
 Xo. XI. 
 
 A PROTECTION from Gen' Monck. 
 
 WHEREAS Mr. John Forbes, late Provost of Innernesse, desires my protedion 
 for himself, familie, 5c tenants : 
 
 These are to require you, on sight hereof, to forbeare to prejudice the said John 
 Forbes, or any of his familie or Tenants, either by tak i n g away any of his or their 
 Horses, Sheepe, or other Cattle or Goods whatsoever, or by offering any violence to 
 his person, or the persons of any of his familie or tenants, as you will answer the con- 
 trarie ; hee or they doing nothinge to the disserveing of the Parliam'. 
 
 Given under my hand att Dundee, the 13"^ day of November 1651. 
 
 To all Otiicers and Souldiers > GEORGE MONCK. 
 
 whom these may concern. ) 
 
 No.XII. 
 
 PETITION of Duncan Forbes, and John Forbes his Son, for a continuance of abate- 
 ments, on account of their loss at the time of Montrose. 
 
 To the Risht Honorable Colonell Robert Lilbume, Commander in Chief of the 
 Forces in Scodand, 
 
 The Peduon of Duncan Forbes of Cullodin, and John Forbes his Sonne, 
 
 Humbly sheweth, 
 
 THAT whereas, upon consideration of the Petitioners' great and grievous suf- 
 ferings the vyme of Montrose waging in this Nation, who ruined and burned the 
 ■whole Lands, houses, Sec belonging to the Supplicants, amounting in value to Twentie 
 thousand punds Scots, and upward, the Committee of Estates then sitting, and Par- 
 liament, were pleased to exempt the Petitioners from the Payment of Mainteinance, and 
 other Public demands : Whose condition being also sensj-ne layed to heart by your 
 
 Ho.
 
 CULLODEN PAPERS. 
 
 Ho. and one half of their Monethlie assessements abated to them, else it had been im- 
 possible for them to have subsisted : 
 
 Therefore It is humbly desyred, that your Ho. may be pleased to prolongst and 
 i,. continue the said abatements dureing such space your Ho. shall think fitt. 
 
 And your Petidoners (as bund) shall ever pray. 
 
 Dalkeith, > 
 24th July 1653. > . 
 
 That y'' Lard Colloden and his sun, y' L** Makentosh, y* Ladie Bray, & y* Ladle 
 Arderleer, be allowed halfe their Assesse out of y' abatem" of Envernes shire, for these 
 4 months following ; viz' July, Aug. Sep' & Oaob^ R' LILBURNE. 
 
 No. XIII. 
 
 THE Answer of the Council to the Petition from the Shire of Inverness. 
 
 By His Highnis Councell in Scotland for the Governm' thereof. 
 
 On reading a Peticon of John Forbus, for & in the name of the Gent., Herioto'', 
 and FreehoW', of the Lowlands of the Shire of Invernes, lying near to the Garrison of 
 Invernes, desiring Ease in their Burdens : The Councill answer, 
 
 First, concerning the Assess ; the same is imposed by the supream authority, and the 
 Councell have noe power to lessen the same ; but in the laying on of the Assess there 
 will be pow' given to Com'' for revaluacons. 
 
 Secondly, as to the Desires of the pedcon'" concerning abatem" of the Assess ; the 
 same will be taken into Consideracon, when that busines in general shall be con* 
 sidered of. 
 
 Thirdly, for the Charges of bedding, coall, & candle, furnished to the Forces upon 
 the generall account of the Shire, or that part thereof wherein the Peticon" inhabitt ; 
 the Councell will take the same into Consideracon, and will endeavour to ease them of 
 that Charge. 
 
 Fourthly, concerning Corne and Straw for the Forces, and the rates for the same ; 
 y' same is not imposed, but condiscended to by some who represented the Shires, as 
 well as by those on the behalfe of the Souldiery, for the space of Eight months ; during 
 which time their said agreem' is not to be broken. 
 
 Fifthly, the desire of the Peticon", concerning the Security to be given by y*" Collec- 
 tor of the Assesse, will fall under the generall consideracon of Busines of y' nature. 
 
 Sixthly ; and as to what the Peticoners alleage and desire concerning Grasse fc^r their 
 Horse - and bestiall, y' inequality of their Burden for Corne and Straw w"' other parts 
 of the Shire, and their furnishing of Baggage Horses ; they are to apply themselves to 
 the Generall ; and he will take such Ord', in those perticulars, as shall be litt. Gi /en 
 ait Edinburgh the 21" day of December 1655. 
 
 , .• BROGHILL Presld'. 
 
 George
 
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 No. XIV. 
 
 George Monck Esq' to Auditor Generall Thompson, dated from Dalkeich, 16* 
 
 Feb-' 1657-8. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 THIS Bearer, John Forbes, Lakd of Cuiloden, having some Businesse v.ith you, 
 relating to S' James Stuart's accoimts, I thought fitt to recomend hirr. unto you as an 
 honest and peaceable Man, and much for our interest. There is no diterence, that I 
 kno\r, why his Accounts may nott be allowed, but onely one thousand m^rks which was 
 taken away by the Laird of Pluscarty when hee tooke in Invemesse, for which he has a 
 Lener under his hand that hee took itt ; and I shall desire you to allow it: in his accounts, 
 being itt is a thinge notoriously kno-wne to all the honest men in those pairts, that itt was 
 taken from his Wife, who carried herself ver}' discreedy to save the rest ; and therfor I 
 think there is great reason in should be allowed ; which is all at present from 
 
 Yo" very loving friend and Serv' 
 
 GEORGE MONCK. 
 
 Xo. XV. 
 
 LICENSE to John Forbes, of Cuiloden, for Lent. 
 
 WILLL\!\I Lord Bellenden, of Broughton, Lord Thesourer Deputt of the 
 Kingdome of Scotland, doeth hearbv gix-e libertie and licence to John Forbus of Cxilloden, 
 and all such as are of his familie, ore doe accompany him att tabill, to eat flesh in this 
 forbidden Vfm of Lent, and in all other forbidden dayes till Lent next in the year 1665, 
 without any trouble or penaltie to be incurred to him for the same ; any ad or ads made, 
 or to be made, in the contrarv, notwithstanding. Dated at Edinbtnrgh, the first day of 
 March 1664. ' " • BELLENTDEN. 
 
 Xo. X\7. 
 
 Sir John Hill, to Mr John Forbes, of Cuiloden, Dated DubEn Castle, 14'° Feb'', 1676. 
 
 Very honor'd and dear Sir, 
 
 '' TOUR'S, bv Sir George IMonroe's Servant, is with me, & was very joyfully 
 received; it bringing me the newes of yo' welfare, which none alive can more cor- 
 dially desire ; nor can I express \\ hat Joy it would be to me to see you; but the distance 
 being soe great, and the Sea intervening, puts me to a great doubt of being made soe 
 happy. I am sorr)' to hear vou tell of growing Crazie ; it alarmes me to look about me. 
 God grant our elder mav be our best days (tho' not in reference to this world, yet as to 
 a better). I am sorr)- the old Mounsur vou mention is soe lame y' he hath never a foot 
 to goe upon, and fear, at his present rate, in a little time ■oill have never a Leg neither. 
 My good Lord Granard is att his House in the Countrev ; how soone he comes to tDV\Tie 
 I will present vo^ remembrance to him — As for that Debauch' priest, I doubt nott but, 
 when it Ives in vo' way, vou will endeavour to help the poor Woman. Shee sent the 
 note under his hand for if S of money by her Brother. Here is one D' Dun, an Aber- 
 deensman, who is Phvsirian to v' State, & to my Lord Lieut', desires to have his ser\'ice 
 remembered to vour Son Duncan, with whom he had acquaintance in Paris. 
 
 I have a Gentlewoman here, Mr. Thomas Henderson's wife, y' sometimxes brings 
 jou fresh to my memory, by pla)^!!^ on the manicords such Lessons as I have oft 
 
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 CULLODEN PAPERS. II 
 
 heard from you, which she doth exceeding well. I have at present helped her hus- 
 band, who was very low, to an employment under a Good Lord in this Country, worth 
 .^'loo a year: — L'^you see my Lord or Lady Murray, let them have the tender of my 
 most humble service: I am h'alfe angrie with them about Lady Margret, but now it 
 cannot be helped. Let me intreat you mak much of yourself, that you and I may yet 
 (if God please) live to see each other in the face. I thank you for the newes you gave 
 me. — 1 am much pleased to hear of my old friends, and doe intreat I may be Idndly 
 presented to them all, as you have occasion to see them. I comend you to the care of 
 our good God, & remain in the old maner, 
 
 Yo' truly loveing, faithful, and humble Serv'. 
 
 . JO. HILL. 
 
 I pray let my particular respeft be given to yo' Son Duncan k the rest j 24 to your 
 Brother, and all the House of Duncan, my good friends. 
 
 No. XVII. 
 
 Declaration of the Earl of Argyll. * 
 
 The Declaration of Archibald Earl of Argyll, Lord Kintyre, and Lord Herell, 
 ShirefF of the Shyre of the West Isles ; with his Orders to his Vassalls and 
 others in the s"' Shyre, within his Jurisdiclions, to convecn for the Defence 
 of ther Religion, lives, and liberdes, 1685. 
 
 "♦ I SHALL not mention my caice, published and printed in Ladne, Duch, and more 
 largely in English ; nor need I emitt the present Declaration, emitted by seall noblemen 
 and Gentlemen in both nations, now in Armes. But, because the sufferings of me and 
 my family are therein mentioned, I thought it fitt for me to declare of my selfe, that as 
 I goe to armes with those that have appointed me for no privat nor personall end, but 
 oidy for those contained in the said Declaratione which I have consented with and ap- 
 proven of, so I do cleam intrest but to what I had befor the pretended fortaulture of 
 my lands, which I hade a sufficient right to befor. 
 
 And then I do freely, as a Christian, forgive all persons' injuries agst my person, to 
 all that shall not oppose but joyne with me in our undertaking for the ends mentioned in 
 theis Declaratione. And hierby, I obleidge me never to persue them in Judgment nor out 
 of Judgement ; And I hierby declare, that obtaining the grant and personall possessione 
 of what belonged to myselfe before the pretended forfaltor, I shall satisfie all due by my 
 father or me, so farr as anie aire * or Debitor can be obleidged. And as my faithfullness 
 to his late Majestie, and his Goverment, hath suffitiently appeared to all unbyassed per- 
 sons woyd of malice, so I doe with greefe acknow ledge my former too much complying 
 with, and conniveing at, the methods that have been taken to bring us to this sad Con- 
 ditione we are in now ; tho' God knows we wer concurring to the designe. I have now, 
 through God's strenth, suffered my unjust Sentence in banishment these thrie years and 
 ane halte ; And I never offered to make anie uproar, or Defence by arnues, to disturbe 
 the Peace by anie privat concern. But, the King now dead, and the Duke oi York 
 having taken off his mask, having abandoned our religion and liberty, resolving to enter 
 into the Goverment, and to exercise contrar to the law, I think it but my just dutie to 
 God and my Country to use my utmost endevours to opose and repulse his usurpatione 
 
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 and tyrranie. And therfor, being assisted and furnished by verie good Christians, and 
 tnTOed and accompanied by severall of both nations to head them, I resolve, as God shall 
 enable me, to use their assistance of all kyad toward the end expressed in the sd Decla- 
 tione, I hierby innte earnestly and obtest all honest protestants, and particularlie of my 
 friends and blood relations, to concurr -vdth us in our said undertaking ; and as I WTeat 
 -so, haveing no other way so fullie to iiitimat my m\-nd to others, 1 do hierby require all 
 mv Wassais every where, and ail within my jurisdictions, with the fensible men within 
 ther Conmiand, to go to armes and jo^^le and concur with us according to the said De- 
 daratione, as they will be answerable at their highest perrill, and obey the particular 
 Orders they shall receive from tyme to t)Tnes, 
 
 - No. XVIII. ^ . - • 
 
 GEORGE Earle of Melvill, Viscoimt Kirkaldy, Lord Karth, Moni- 
 meall, and Ballwearie, their Majesties' high Commissioner, 
 and Secretarrie of State for the kingdom of Scotland. 
 
 '^\\HEREAS the Bearer hereof, Duncan Forbes, of Colloden, is furthwith to repair 
 from this to London about their Majesties' service, these are to desire and requpe you 
 to suffer and permitt him to pass thither, and return again, without lett, hindrance, or 
 molestation ; and to furnish and pro\"sde him from Stage to Stage, both in his goeing 
 and return, with sufficient post horse and a Guyde ; he pavnng y' ordinar rates therfor. 
 And, if need beis for this end, to press horses, for which this shall be your Warrant ; 
 he allwayes behaveing himselff as a dut)'full & lovall subjed to their Majestys King 
 William and Queen ^larie. Given at y' Palace of Hol)Tood House, the C2' day of 
 September i6go years, ^IEL^TLL. 
 
 To all Livetennants, Deputy Live- ^ 
 
 teimants, Shireffes, Postmasters, f ' -, 
 
 Justices of the Peace, and others ( . , * 
 
 concerned. J 
 
 Xo.XIX. 
 
 Sir John EQll to the Laird of Culloden. 
 
 Honored & Dear Sir, Fortwilliam 24'*' Nov' 1690. 
 
 I HA^T the favour of yours of the 28* Ofio", and find myself every Day 
 more tmder your Obligation. I can say no more but that I am thankful ; & God be 
 thanked, that has put me into a friend's hands ; for now I doubt not of the King's me- 
 morandum. I am greatly obliged to Sir Patrick Hume for his great kindness in setting 
 me right viith my Lord Portland, & otherways. I know, the obligations I lie under to 
 my Lord Commissioner are Exceeding Great ; such as have tied me to his Service for 
 Ever. I wish I could merit his kind regards for me. If the Eang thinks fit to leave the 
 Naming of the Officers to me, I v^ill take care to choose the best affected, & fittest for 
 his Sersice, without favour or affection. One thing I formerly hinted, for encourage- 
 ment of men to stay here, that the pay of the Soldiers mav be 8"^ a day, as the 
 English ; othem-ise the Men are not able to live upon 6" p' Diem in this place (two- 
 pence being retained for Cloaths) ; for by reason of the troubles ever\' thing is very 
 uear here, much dearer than about Edinburgh. We want a boat, ■with sails & oars, 
 
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 of about 20 or 30 Tons, that may carry four or five small Guns, & 50 or 60 Men, 
 upon occasion, to go about the Isles, & to fetch any sort of provisions ; & also small 
 boats to fetch wood over the Loch, which will serve the King considerably in fire for 
 the Soldiers. I am glad the Parliament are so ready to assist the King. I hope God 
 will make him an instrument to bring down the French Tyrant. I am concerned for 
 the diversion in Hungary : the French occasion it. I am confident God will carry on 
 his own work in Spite of all opposition. S', Since I writ last I understand my Daugh- 
 ters are 30 P.Iiles off in the Country ; so that I fall short of my intention ; but I have 
 a friend, one Cap'" Ward, (that was formerly in the Army in Scotlajid) that Lives at 
 the Sign of the Still, at Holborne Conduit. If you go that way, please to call oa 
 him, 8c he can tell if any of them be ia Town ; and he is an honest Man. 
 
 My Lord Arg)'le entered Mull with about 1,900 foot, and 60 Dragoons. They 
 submitted, delivered up their Aims, k took the Oaths of Allegiance ; only Dowart 
 Castle stands out, the weather proving so bad that my Lord with his Men could no 
 longer keep the Field ; otherwise I was sending him two battering pieces, & some 
 other Engines of War. MLeaie himself (with some few) are in Caniburrow, a Rock 
 in the Sea that is inaccessible. My Lord Aigyle hath left 300 in Arros in Mull, as a 
 bridle upon Dowart, and a Curb upon the disarmed Country ; &c 24 Men in Loch- 
 buy j 20 in the Castle of Kinlochaben, in Morvern ; 50 in Mingery, in Ardnamur- 
 chan ; 1 8 in Islastalker ; 1 8 in Dunstaffaage, & 1 8 in Dunollich •, all at his own 
 C.iarge (as his whole Company was), which I hope will be considered. He managed 
 Generously Sc selfdenyingly, minding none of his own Concerns, but the King's only, 
 and treated the people with great Civility after their Submission. All people here are 
 quiet ; Buchan, S' George Barclay, L' Coll. Grahame, & others at Glengarry ; Connon 
 and Drumfermlin in Isle of Skye. They all exped great assistance, in the Spring, 
 from France (or sooner) ; and are encouraged (as some of them say) by some of the 
 Council here, and by abundance of other malignants, who constantly fill them with 
 the strangest and most incredible storys in the world, which generally they believe ; 
 only Lochiel is not ready to believe those improbable Storys, & hardly that of assist- 
 ance ; & Buchan begins to swear there's nothing but lies on all hands. But in case 
 they should get the expefted assistance in the Spring, care would be taken of the Guard 
 of this Coast ; for if they block up with Ships tlie passage to this Garrison they undo 
 as, who have Meal but from hand to Mouth ; which if we wanted but a week, we are 
 blown up. We have not a fortnight's Meal now, and a Ship hath lyen long at 
 Greenock with 500 Bolls, but wind-bound a long time ; & when that comes (as I 
 have given intimation), it will not last us above a month. Either blocking, or bad 
 Weather, may prevent us from more in time ; which I have laid before the Lords of 
 Treasury & Commissary Gen". I would hope of good Effefts from the settlement of this 
 Garrison, if it once were settled with men proper for the purpose ; and t'will yet be 
 difficult to get it modelled right. Glengarry & Lochiel are content that any Mea 
 march towards me from Inverness through their bounds. I fear I have tired you.. 
 What I have ommitted, I leave to your Brother to supply. I tell you again I must 
 have him ; & if it be left to me, I w\\\ have him. 
 
 I pray you, Sir, let ray most humble Service be presented to Sir Patrick Hume. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 Your much obliged & very hum'''* Servant 
 
 JO. HILL*. 
 
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 No. XX. 
 
 IMEMOIR of a Plan for preserving the Peace of the Highlands : ^rritten a short time 
 
 after the Revolution. .* 
 
 ' [The Original is in the hand-writing of Duncan Forbes, of CuUoden, the 
 
 President's father ; and every part of his plan seems to have been closely 
 followed, in ever)' point of any consequence.] 
 
 THE strength of the kingdom of Scotland did stand anciently in the power of 
 Superiors over ther Vassalls, and Cheeits over ther Clanes ; which pov.er, as it was 
 ah'.'ays burdensome to the King and Kingdom in t^Tue of peace, because thes great 
 Superiors and Cheefts, proud of it, acied often insolently, and would neither be 
 commanded by King nor Law ; so was that same power of thers even as hurtfull ia 
 tvmes of War : which may appear by the conduct of the Scots affairs at Flowdon» 
 pinkie, Solloway Moss, and many other occasions, when competition amongst tiiem 
 ruined the King's affairs ; for such as he could neither humor nor engage by benefite, 
 were often tempted to desert the common interest, & leave it a prey to the Enemv. 
 
 "Wherefor the Kings of Scotland made it ther Bussines to break the power of these 
 Superiors (k Cheeffs, particularly K James the 5', as may be seen in the wholl 
 transactions of his reigne ; but all endevors to this purpose proved weak and ineffec- 
 tuall, rill the Gospell came to be established in the kingdome by a Reformation from 
 Popery. 
 
 Since the Reformation, the strenth of the Nation stands upon another bottome ; for 
 the preaching of the Gospell haveing brought in a hght upon the consciences of the 
 people, the far greater part of the nation now weill neither follow superior nor cheef, 
 but in so far as they are convinced that the undertaking is consonant to the Lav,s of 
 God i the Kingdom. 
 
 And when K. Charles the z^ came to the Crown, he found the designe of his Pre- 
 decessors so weell accomplished, that the nation was in ane inteir peace ; theeft <5c 
 Robbery extinguisht ; vassallages and Clanes brok ; exacl obedience to the Law ; the 
 Gospel pleached over all the Kingdome ; ,Sc ane orderly discipline exercised in a weell 
 governed Presbiterian Church, without shjsme, division, or so much as contradiction. 
 So that never Prince was better stated then he ; for he governed easily a people who 
 had nothing to crave, save but to have his Commands and obey. 
 
 But the designes of the two last reignes being to introduce Popen,' and arbitrary 
 power, and men of conscience being improper instruments for bringing such purposes 
 about, so contrary to their ingrained principles, it 'R'as found necessan.' to overtm^ne all 
 the good estabUshment already made in the nation, and act contrar)- to the Pollitick of 
 former Kings, by setting up Superiors and Cheeffs again, demolishing the streinths 
 built amongst the Highland Clanes ; so gi\'ing them loose reines to rob, and reassume 
 ther former barbarity ; whereby tliey became fitt instruments for destroj'ing Men of 
 conscience, who were hke to stand in the way of thes aherations that were intended 
 to be made upon the Religion and hbert)' of the Nation. 
 
 Ihis designe uas prosecute, as is knowTi, vdrh much bloodshed, torture, rapine, & 
 mine of fanulys ; and was ending in the overthrow of all rights, both sacred & civil, 
 when the Lord in his Mercy raised up his Majesty who now reignes, to dely\-er Scot- 
 land from M.ser)', and setle it upon its old and trew foundations ; which is ver}' neer 
 Eccomphsbed, and that bv methods lyke to those which were used by former Kings 
 in making the nation happy, viz. By makeing the parliaments free ; by s:ttleing the 
 Church in its former integrit)- j by restoreing the oppresi to their liveings ; i by 
 
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 settling Garrisons upon the necks of" those barbarous people w-ho xrere the tools of 
 oppression, and are the constant disturbers of the nation. Were this fully compleaied, 
 ther rests no more but that the King command what he will, and have the pleasure to 
 see the people joytuliy obey all liis Comands, to the utmost farthing of ther Estates, 
 and last drop of ther blood. 
 
 And certainly the present course of affairs can terminate in nothing but this, unless 
 some contrary methods be taken to those which have lately been so successful in gaiiung 
 the hearts of the people to the King ; which will hardly happen, if ther be not ill design- 
 ing men put in trust, who may weaken the hands of such as would serve the King best. 
 
 Therfor it is to be mynded, that ther is a part)' in Scotland whose affections can never 
 be gaind to the King; and these are they v»ho call themselves Episcopal, but really are 
 indifferent of that & all matters of that nature, and are adicced to nothing but King 
 James, under whose proteciion they formerly opprest others; and, in spyte of all 
 the k)Tidness & forbearance can be show'd them, vill oi.ly complv to gain opportunity 
 to bring him back if they can. The certainty of this appears as clear as the sun, from 
 three or four folloTning Evidences. 
 
 First, from the testimony of the best OfEcers in the Army ; who declare, that after 
 all ther converse & favourable endevors wi:h these Men, they find not one in Scotland, 
 who favors Episcopacy, but to the best of ther conjectures he hates the King and the 
 Government, Sc would have back King James ; nor doe they find one Presbiterian, lett 
 him have never so many other faults, but would venter all for his Majesn-, both ag°' K. 
 James and all his other enemys. 
 
 Secondly, This appears to be trew, from these Mens takeing the Oaths to His Ma- 
 jesty in Parh^ment, after they were in compact with K. James to bring him back. They 
 having sworn only to the effect they might have Latitude to adt & vote ag" the interest of 
 him. to whom they swore, & advance the Interest of him whom by ther Oaths & sub- 
 scriptions they had renounced. 
 
 A third Evidence, and a most convineemg one, that they will omitt no opportunity of 
 bringing back K : Ja : if they can, is ther Deportment upon the miscarriadge of the fleet; 
 the King being in Leland, Maj : Gen' Makay in Lockaber with the Forces, all Letters 
 and Intelhgence being stopt from England for severall Posts; then the Jacobite, or 
 Episcopal part)' as they please to call themselves, contryved fais news anent his Majesties 
 death, & K: James his Landing in England with a French Army, to whom the people 
 had joyned, & the State had intirely submitted ; upon which ther were many forged 
 Letters. Ther Preachers were very aftive in spreading these Reports, & in affoordmg 
 Horses to any who would take Armes ; by which means a body of 4 or 500 Horse were got 
 together, who came the length of Siirhng, boasting great things, & burning the Coun- 
 trey. While, in the meantyme, upon the first report of ther Insurrection, & a small In- 
 vitation from the King's Commissioner, some seaven thousand presbeterians had drawen 
 theriiselves together about Glasgow, marching towards Stirhng, wher the Enemy were ; 
 And, as is said, litle fewer than 14 thousand mere out of the Westerne Shyres were 
 following with Carseland & Buntine ; the terror whereof not only chased these Jacobites, 
 already on foot, awa)^ to the north, but also quashed all that was feard at that tvme fircm 
 Northumberhmd, the South border, & some great men within the Kingdome. By 
 which it is evident, who are for the King, & who ag" him; who are willing to serve 
 him, & who not; who are able, dc who not; and, consequently, who ought to bd. 
 trusted, Si who not. 
 
 Fourthly, It is also to be remembered, that those few mihappie men wha attempted' 
 the overthrow of the Government of late, no sooner fell in any disgust with his Majesty, 
 but they joyned themselves in with these Jacobites, with whom they entered into league, 
 
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 recerved Impresaons from them, & formed dessignes ■with them of bringing back K James ; 
 which ■n'as prosecute ■with such bold endevors amongst themselves, 6c such dark sub- 
 tilin- amongst good people to ■whom they durst never discover the bottome, that it 
 wanted litle, at several stepps, of takeing its damnable effecl:. The craftiness of ther 
 Insinuations ■was such, to persuade that the K : would never doe the things which are 
 now doon ; And so great was ther influence, that the most &: best of the people were 
 become desparare, & out of hope of any good at all from his JMajesry ; whilst in the mean 
 tvme the Jacobites asserted (w her they durst be free), that K : James was ready to doe 
 ail that could be requyred of him. But no sooner ■was ther any thing done in Parliam' to 
 the satisiaction of the people, but ther hearts began to warme towards the King ; and 
 the Jacobite Combination began to break, which certainly had no power in its self, but 
 in so farr as they were able bv Craft & Ives to discourage honest men, & lay them asyde 
 from ©■wneing the King's inrrest. By all which it is e\"ident, that the foUo^wing poations 
 are undeniably trew; \'i2'. 
 
 That the things now doon are of infinite value to the nation, & without which the 
 people could never be easie, & therfore behooved to be doon. 
 
 2° That the nation, having receaved so great obligations from the King, ■will never 
 be ingrate to him ; but ■will make retumes to him of all thev are worth, ask it when he 
 will. 
 
 3° That no Jacobite, or hardly any in Scotland who calls himself Episcopall, can be 
 trusted bv his Matie. 
 
 4* That His Majesties Commissioner, in manadgeing as he did, & gaining the hearts 
 of the people to the King, has doon both King and Countrey the best service could be 
 doon ; And by that means hes rendered himself the welcomest Agent that His Majesty 
 can hereafter employ to that nation. 
 
 I know that evill designeing men suggest two inconveniencies ia what is doon, & 
 thev are both groundless. 
 
 The first is, that the Presbiterian Churchmen ■will employ the freedome the King & 
 Parhament has given them too rigorously agst those of the Episcopall Profession, which 
 may irritate the Church of England. Verily, such as suggest this know very Htle of 
 the Presbiterian IMinisters' Conceme for the King's satisiaction, & prosperity of his 
 affairs. I am confident thev will rather omitt ther o^wn affairs then trouble his, which 
 ■will presently be seen in the Deportment of this Assemblv. 
 
 Another suggestion is, that the Commission of Parliament ■will be too rigorous in ap- 
 plying the Acl anent Forfaultuxs & f)nes ; which is also groundless ; For that Comittee 
 is so tender in these matters, that indeed, in m.y sense, thev are not so just as they 
 ought to be : ■withall, ther Power is but to report, &; then is the ■« hoU mater entire in 
 the King's o^wn hands. 
 
 From all that is said It mav be concluded, that if what is alreadv in freame were com- 
 pleited, and that one very small Article past anent the constant President, wholly in- 
 different to the King, but considerable to the People, hardly can Scotland wish tor 
 more. 
 
 For compleiring what is so farr advanced, ther may be 3 things reckoned necessary. 
 
 1 . That the Councell of Estate be not mixt with troublesome Members. 
 
 2. That the Garrisons in the Highlands be rightly placed, & the Peace cf thes 
 Ccuntreys secured. 
 
 3. Th\:t the well-affected part of the nation be put in a condition to defend the Comon 
 Interest ; & either armed, or at least armes provided, that may be put in their hands 
 in cise of necessity. 
 
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 As to the second, ancnt posting of Garrisons, & securing the Peace of the High- 
 lands, His Majesty will find it necessary to employ 1800 foot in Garrisons, which are 
 to be placed in eleven severall places ; which places are so advantageously scituate, as 
 that they comprehend the whole highlands. That if the King's forces be marching 
 through these Countreys, ther is no place they can be in, but they are within 12 miles 
 of two or three of thes Garrisons at once. They are proper for Magazins in tyme of 
 Warr, and \\i\\ save the trouble of Baggage horses when the forces are upon a March, 
 and are most proper for curbeing theefts & depredations in tyme of Peace. 
 
 The first & most considerable post is Inver-Lockie, which requires 1 200 men ; out 
 of which ther may be a Detachment of 40 at Keppach, Six myles above Inverlockie, 
 which opens the way into Baddenoch. At Rutven, in Baddenoch, there may be ano- 
 ther Detachment of 80 men, also from Inverlockie. At Blair in Atholl 80, of the 
 other Forces. At the castle of Bray Marr 60. At Drumond, in Perthshyre, 50. At 
 Fin Larik upon Loch Tay, 50. At Dunstafnage 50 ; which place, with the Castle 
 Kilchume, ought to be both kept by the Countreymen of Argyleshyre, upon the Earle's 
 Account (whilst his Bussines is a doeingwith Mull), & needs non of the King's forces. 
 And upon the other side of Inverlockie, is requisite ther be a Detachment of 80 men 
 from thence, placed at Invergarry, which opens the ways to the Shyres of Invernes & 
 Ross. At Invernes it is fit ther be a body of three hundred men, out of which 60 may 
 be posted at Erchelish in Strathglass (14 myles from Invernes & 12 from Invergarry) ; 
 that being upon the pass from Seafort & Lovat's Countreys to Lockaber. 
 
 These posts are all possest already by His Majestie's forces, excepting Keppach & 
 Invergarry, which may be easily had ; and according as the Countrey becomes peace- 
 able, the lesser Garrisons may be disbanded ; only Inverlockie cannot be left, but if 
 possible must be improven to a place of Comerce, to the effed the countrey about it 
 may be made Civill. 
 
 And that the Governement may be the sooner liberate from the necessity of keeping 
 these lesser Garrisons, it is humbly proposed, that His Majesty grant a Commission of 
 Justiciary, for securing the Peace of the Highlands, to some select Gentlemen living in 
 the Shyres most contiguous to them, as was doon in the tyme of K. Charles the second; 
 which will, undoubtedly, have a powerful influence for suppressing of theefts & rob- 
 berys, especially the forces being posted as is above said. It did good in K : Charles & 
 K : James his tyme, when it was designed for none, nor yet put in any good hands ; so 
 that now it cannot miss to doe good, being in honest mens hands, the Governement 
 weell disposed for the support of it, and the forces posted in a maner for the very use 
 of it. It is alfo fit ther be Conveeners named in each District ; that these Conveeners 
 have some allowance per Annum, for the Incident charges they must be at beyond the 
 rest ; lest, through the shifting to be at expence, the thing become less elFeftuall, as it 
 did in K : James his tyme. The Comander of each Garrison ought to be upon the Com- 
 mission, & the Governor of Inverlockie a Conveener. 
 
 It is also requisite for Inverloclde, that it have a particular Jurisdiction over the bar- 
 barous Countreys adjacent, as it had in former tvmes ; lest any encouradgement should 
 be wanting to the Governor now which he had formerly. 
 
 As it is requisite that the Governor of Inverlocky be in no relation to any of the 
 adjacent Superiors or Cheefs of Clanes, so it is necessary that none of the highland 
 sort, who speak a languadge not understood by the present Governor, be put in with 
 him in that place ; and what is presently amiss of that kynd would be rectified. 
 
 And that this may be the more effeftually doon, Collonell Hill his own recommenda- 
 tion would be had anent his Officers, who certainly will think of none but such as the 
 Governement may best trust. 
 
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 It is also necessarr that Hill's Regiment consist of 1 200 men ; in which case it will 
 Imploy all the Centinells that now are in the Regiments of Glencame, Kenmure, 5c 
 Grant ; these three Regiments being pitifully defective, as can be made appear. And 
 as bv the reducing these three to one, ther will be no fewer men in the service then 
 now ther are ; so it will save the King twenty thousand lb Sterline yeirly, which may 
 be emploved to buy armes. 
 
 As to the 3^ generall conclusion laid down for the security of the Govemement ; 
 viz', that the weell affected part of the nation be armed, Sc put in a condition to defend 
 the Comon Interest ; the above proposall will contribute to it some thing. And if 
 that be short, when the Parliam' meets his Majesty hes it in his power to persuade 
 them to accelerate the tearmes of the Cess, at the rate of a Concession ver\- easy to 
 him, 5c which will bring in the Money 5c seasonably, as every thing may be dcon to 
 sanstaction- 
 
 No. XXI. 
 
 Cessation of HostiUties for a stated Time. 
 
 \YE, Major General Buchan, Brigadeer, and S^ George Barclay, Generall officers 
 of K: James the Seventh his Forces within the Kingdome off Scotland, to Testiiie our 
 aversion of shedding Chrisdan Blood, 5c y" wee design to appear good Scotsmen, and to 
 wish y' this nation may be restored to its wonted and happie peace, Doe agree 5c con- 
 sent to a forebearance of all acts of hostilitie 5c depret^n, to be committed upon the 
 subjects of this nation, or England, imtiU the first day of October next; providing y* 
 there be no acts of hostility or depredan committed upon anv of the King's subjects who 
 have been, or are, ingaged in his service imder our command either by Sea or Land ; 
 "Wee haveing given ail necessary orders to such as are imder [our] Command, to forbear 
 afts cf hostility by Sea or Land until! the afforsd tyme. Subscribed at Achallader, y' 
 30'^ of June 1 69 1. 
 
 Whereas the CJidttains of Clans have given Bonds nbt to comitt acb of hostihty or 
 depredan before the first dav of Octob' next, upon the Condidons contain'd in the 
 afforsd Bonds; 5c in regard y' the OcScers sent by King James to conunand ye said 
 Chieftains have, by one unanimous consent in their Coimcil of Warr, agreed to 
 j' said forbearance ; Therefore I, as having Warrant from King William 5c Que^i 
 Mar)" to treat with the forsd Highlanders concerning the peace of the Kingdom, doe 
 hierby Certifie y^ the s"* officers & Chieftains have signed a forbearance of ads of 
 hostility 8c depredan till the first of October next. "VYherefor it's most necessary, 
 just, and reasonable, y' noe aSs of hosdlhty bv sea or Land, or depredlns, be 
 comitted upon the saids Officers or any of their parrie whom they do command, or 
 upon the Chieftains, or their Kinsmen, friends, tennents, or followers, till the forsd 
 first day of Octob'. Subscribed ait Achallader, the 30th day of June 1 69 1. 
 
 BR.1IDALBCVE. 
 
 Private Articles. 
 
 1. — ^That if their be dther ane Invasion from abroad, or a rising of his Mattes sub- 
 jects in Britain, y^ this Agreement is nuIL 
 
 2. — If his !MaHe doe not approve of the said agreement, it is also null. 
 
 3. — And to that purpose there is a passport to be granted to two Gentlemen, to 
 acquaint the King therewith in all heast- 
 
 4- — That if dieir forces goe abroad, then wee will rise. 
 
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 5. — That if King William and Queen Mary deny any or all of these Articles, thea 
 my Lord Braidalbine is to joyne us with a thousand Men, which he pronxises to per- 
 form both on oath and honour. 
 
 And thir Gen" Articles are, beside, the particular soums of money and oy' con* 
 ditions promitted to y' seall Chiefies. 
 
 Those sent to King James, by Major Generall Buchan and y* Clans are Lieut Coll 
 Charters, and Major Duncan Meynes. Their Errand, to crave a speedy reliefe, or a 
 libertie to capitulate and doe the best they can for themselves. 
 
 No. XXII. 
 
 ORDERS upon which the Massacre of Glenco proceeded ; by which 38 persons lost 
 
 their lives. 
 
 instructions from the King to Coll' Hill. 
 
 William R. 16 Jaiiy 1692. 
 
 1 . THE copy of that paper given by Macdonald of Aughtera to you hath been shewn 
 us. We did formerly grant passes to Buchan and Cannon, and we do authorize and 
 allow you to grant passes to them, and ten servants to each of them, to come freely 
 and safelv to Leith ; from that to be transported to the Netherlands before the 1 5*^ of 
 March next ; to go fi-om thence when they please, wthout any stop or trouble. . , „ 
 
 2. We doe allow you to receive the submissions of Glengarry and those with him, 
 upon their taking the oath of alledgiance, and deUvering up the house of lavergarry ; to 
 be safe as to their lives, but as to their estates to depend upon our mercy. 
 
 3. In case you find that the house of Invergarry cannot probably be taken, in this 
 Season of the year, with the artillery and provision ye can bring there ; in that case 
 we leave it to your discretion to give Glengarry the assurance of entire indemnity for 
 life and fortune, upon delivering of the house and arms, and taking the oath of alledgi- 
 ance. In this you are to aft as you find the circumstances of the affair do require ; but 
 it were much better that those who have not taken the benefit of our indemnity, in the 
 terms within the diet prefixt by our proclamation, should be obliged to render upon 
 mercy. The taking the oath of alledgiance is indispensable, others having already 
 taken it. 
 
 4. If M'Ean of Glenco and that trybe can be well separated from the rest, it will be 
 a proper vindication of the pubHc Justice to extirpate that sedl of theives. The double 
 of these instructions is only communicated to Sir Tho' Livingstone. W. REX. 
 
 ^ . No. xxm.v 
 
 COPY of Letter from Sir Tho' Livingstone to Coll' Hamilton. 
 
 Sir, Edin*" 23 Jaiiy 1692. 
 
 SINCE my last, I understand that the Laird of Glenco, comeing after the prefixt 
 time, was not admitted to take the oath ; which is very good news to us here, being 
 that at Court it is wishd that he had not taken it ; so that the very nest might be entirely 
 routed out ; for the secretary*, in three of his last letters, has made mention of him ; 
 and it is knowoi at court that he has not taken it. So, Sir, here is a fair occasion to 
 shew you that your garrison serves for some use ; and being that the order is so posi- 
 
 * The Master of Stair, who was afterwards dismissed for his conduct. 
 
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 rive from Court to me, not to spare any of them that were not timously come in, as 
 you may see by the orders I sent to your Collonel, I desire you vould begin "with 
 Glenco, and spare nothing of what belongs to them : but do not trouble the Govern- 
 ment with prisoners. I shall exped with the first occasion to hear the progress you have 
 made in this, and remain. Sir, your 
 
 humble serv' 
 . (^c subO T. LRTNGSTONE. 
 
 - Xo. XXR'. 
 
 Coir Hill's order to Lieut Col James Hamilton. 
 
 g^ Fort William 12 Feb'" 1692. 
 
 YOU are, with four hundred of my regiment, and the four hundred of my lord 
 ArjTV'U's regiment under the command of Major Duncanson, to march straight to 
 Glenco, and there put in due Execution the orders you have received from the Com- 
 mander in chii^ff. Given under my hand at Fort Wilham the 12''" July 1692. 
 
 (sic sub") J. HILL. 
 
 To Lieut. Col. James Hamilton. • • - 
 
 No. XXV. 
 
 COPY L' Col. James Hamilton to Major Robert Duncanson, of the Earl of ArgjU's 
 
 Regiment. 
 
 Sir, Ballechylls, 12 Feb-"" 1692. 
 
 PERSL^ANT to the commander in chief and my Collonel's order to me, for put- 
 ting in Execution the King's command against these rebells of Glenco, w^herein you, 
 with the party of the Earl of Argyll's regiment under your Command, are to be con- 
 cerned : You are therefore forthwith to order your afeir so, as that the several posts 
 already assign'd vou be by you and your several detachments ftdn in activeness precisely 
 by five of the clock tomorrow morning, being Saturday ; at which time I will endeavom- 
 the same with those appointed from this Regiment for the other places. It will be most 
 necessary you secure well those avenues on the south side, that the old tox, nor none 
 of his cubbs, get away. The orders are, that none be spared of the SAvord, nor the 
 : Government troubled with prisoners ; which is all, until I see you, from. Sir, your most 
 
 humble Ser\-ant 
 (sic subO JAMES H.i:MILTOLTSnE. 
 
 Please to order a guard to seciu-e the ferry, and boats there j and the boats must be 
 all on this side the ferrv- after your men are over. 
 
 For their Maj' service. 
 To Major Robert Duncanson, of the Earl of ArgvU's Reg'. 
 
 ' Xo.XXVI. 
 
 (COPY) Major Robert Duncanson to Cap"' Roben Campbell, of Glenlyone. 
 
 Sir, iiFeb'" 1692. 
 
 YOU are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebells the Macdonalds of Glenco, and 
 
 put all to the sword under sevent)'. You are to ha\ e a special care that the old fox and 
 
 ius sons do not escape your hands ; you are to secure all the avenues, that no man escape. 
 
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 This you ai-e to put in Execution at five of the clock precisely ; and by that time, or 
 very shortly after it, I will strive to be at you with a stronger party. If I do not come 
 to you at five, you are not to tarry for me, but to fall on. This is by the King's spe- 
 cial! commands, for the good and safety of the Countrey, that these miscreants be cut 
 off, root and branch. See that this be put in Execution without fear or favour ; or you 
 may expecl to be dealt with as one not true to king or government, nor a man fii to 
 carry commission in the King's Service. Expecling you will not fail in the fulfilling 
 hereof, as you love yourself, I subscribe this with my hand at Ballvchvlls, the 1 2 Feby 
 1692. (sic sub') ROBERT DUNCANSON., 
 
 No. XXVII. • 
 
 Sir John Hill to the Laird of Culloden.* 
 
 Dear Sir, Fort William, 9'"^ Oct'' 1692.. 
 
 I HEARTILY wish this may find you in good health ; and 'tis to let you know, 
 that I am under some apprehensions (not ill grounded) that there are 111 Designs on 
 foot ; to make way for which, it will perhaps be pushed on to lessen the Force and take 
 off the small Garrisons (which were ahke to me, if as conduceable to his Majesty's Ser- 
 vice and the common Good), and to settle a Highland Militia. I have 3 Companys at 
 Inverness, one at Ruthen & Islandonaw, one at Invergarry, and a sixth at Dowart & 
 Carnburge, with 7 Companys here, which are few enough ; for we must not have 
 barely such a number as mav keep the fort, but to send one, two, or 300 Men upon 
 parties as occasion offers. To lessen these forces, and to set up the other (prima facie),, 
 looks ven- ill ; and tho' the Highlanders seem at present inclined to peace, yet too. 
 much trust is not to be given, nor too many advantages put into their hands ; lest upon 
 any Design of Invasion, or other unliappy Chance of Vv'^ar, they may apprehend their 
 interest better another Way, & may enterprise accordingly. If these things prove 
 otherwise, I am sure they have been once designed. I only give these private Hints, .- 
 that honest Men may look about them, and be upon their Guard ; keep me secret for 
 the present, lest my Lords Polwarth & Saltoun know what I sa)-. I ftave, by the 
 inclosed, referred them to You ; and I know you may be free vith Secretary Jonstoi. ; 
 only beware of the Lords ; & start nothing of this, unless you find any to stirr in it j 
 but let them be narrowly watched. ■ . " 
 
 I had a very kind letter from the M' of Stair, wherein he tells me there will be no 
 alteration made in this Regiment or Garrison, and that the Estabhshmeut \\iil be shortly 
 settled, and that he will also do ail he can therein for our Advantage. He also writ 
 about the Jurisdiction (which he thought had been settled as well as it can be till the 
 parliament sit), that it may be erecied into a Shire, and that some more Lands may be 
 added to those formerly so erefted. I made him retiu-n, and gave him two Memoirs, ' 
 whtreof the inclo.'^ed are Copies. The Major gave you an Account of a slender, tall, 
 perpendicular Man, gone f > London under pretence of a furlough for Ireland, obtained 
 without my knowledge from the Commander m Chief, gain'd by the mediation of the 
 principal of his faction here, who in like mamier hath got a furlough for Ireland ; but 
 from thence intends for England, as he told me just as he was taking boat, aiid not 
 before. They should be watched ; for w'ever ill they can do, I am sure they will do 
 no good. I wish my people so happy as to be eased of them. I pray that what I write 
 
 * Tliis Sir John Hill seems to have been a man of some address ; as Cap' Carleton, in his Memoirs, 
 «tates, that he found hi-i in 1 690 Governor of Fort William ;■ having bcea pi.iccd there by Oliver Cromwell. , 
 *ad retained his Government during all the changes that took place in the intervening period. 
 
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 34 CL'LLODEy PAPERS. 
 
 may be only to yourself, & those you know to be honest friends. Make me as accept- 
 able as vou can to Secretarv Jonston, to whom I have now written. We are all peace- 
 able. The bv-?one Cess will be got in through the Isle ;?c Highlands ; but, coming all 
 together, it fells heav-^-. The Glenco Men are abundantly ciA^l ; I have put them imder 
 mv Lord Arg\-le, 5c have Arkenloss' surety for then till my Lord comes ; for they are 
 now my Lord A^g^'le's Men ; for 'twas ven" necessary they should be under some person 
 of power, and of honesty to the Government. 
 
 RIv Lord Braedalbane is lately become vers" friendly, Sc moved hard in some things 
 for us iu the Treasury ; which some there wondered at. The reason of this I will not 
 venture to guess at ; tho' perhaps I might do it, ^^■ithout being beside the purpose. Let 
 the World go which way it will, I will be found {aithfril to my trust, ^c just to honest 
 Men and principles ; And will alwa)-s be, as obliged, 
 
 Sir, Your most affectionate 6c very hiunble Servant 
 
 JO. HILL. 
 
 Secretary Jonston was saying, he believed the King might be induced to settle a 
 pension on me during Life ; and if soe (if no better can be found for a fund), I could 
 wish it were upon the rents of Ila. There is some more reason for it than the World 
 generally knows ; for I laid out upwards of ^'300 S'- on the Irish, and managed so as 
 to keep the To\sti of Bellfast from utter ruin & burninge, which they were several 
 times resolved to do ; otherwavs the King could have had no Landing-place nor re- 
 ception for his Stores .5c sick Men in all the North of Ireland. I pray vour favour, Sir, 
 and such friends as you thinke fit to trust, to promote this for me. I know the secre- 
 tary Jonston will further it, and I beheve my Lord Portland also, for he is very kind 
 to me. The King had a certificate from the Magistrates of the Town, under the seal of 
 the Town, which my Lord T. sent him. 
 
 No. XXVIII. 
 
 Sir John HiU to the Laird of Cuiloden. 
 
 Dear Sir, Fort William, i^'^ May 1695. 
 
 I Do by th^e salute you, but not trouble vou with much at this time, seeing the 
 Major can discourse you in all things of this conceme ; but I pray that if you find 
 mouthes open in parliament to our detriment, you will, with the help of other 
 friends, endeavour to stop them. Not that any can say justly what might turn to 
 injury ; but yet they may cast Dirt, thinking to make some stick. The Major can teU 
 you I am right -with the Secretary Jonston, and I hope vdzh all other honest ^len ; 
 yet all Men that are honest are not wise ; but of aU men I admire Grant (whose 
 Father I presers'ed from a Great Injury intended him), whose ^louth is open against 
 me in all Companys, &: I have never merited the least of it. I know not any 
 reason, except that I cannot Dance after a wooden piper. Pray take off this Bull 
 Dog ; for I am full of Informations of his Discourse (as fiill of Malice as it is of 
 untruth) ; But let that Ue bye, Sc no more of him at this time. 
 
 I remember I read a passage in Mr. Caryll's Exposition upon Job, which is both 
 pleasant and true enough : it is on these Words, " Then Job opened his Mouth, & 
 spake :" from hence he observed, That wise Men open their Mouths when they 
 speak, and fools speak with their Mouths open. 
 
 I desire that my true sersnce may be presented to my good Lord Pblwarth, and 
 to my good friend Com"^ Munro. 
 
 I need
 
 CULLODEN PAPERS. 23 
 
 I need not wish you to continue true to King & the Kirk, since I know you so 
 much devoted that way already. God give Avisdom to the Parliament, that all may 
 run in the right Channel, for the honour of God, the safety and honour of the King, 
 and the welfare of the people. 
 
 I am, with all Sincerity, 
 
 Sir, Your true well wisher & hum"" Servant, 
 . . JO. HILL. 
 
 No. XXIX. 
 
 King Will'"" Order to liberate the Earl of Seaforth from Inverness GarrisoiV 
 
 1696-7. 
 
 (Suprascrivit) William R. 
 RIGHT trustie and right well beloved Councellours, &c. We greet you well. 
 Whereas we are informed, that Kenneth Earle of Seaforth did surrender himself 
 Prisoner to the Commander of our Garrison at Inverness, and hes thrown himself on 
 our Royall mercie : It is our will and pleasure, and we heirby authories and require 
 you to set the said Earle of Seafort at Libertv, upon his finding Bail and Security 
 to live peaceably under our Government, and to compeare before you when called. 
 And that you order our Advocat not to insist in the process of treasone waged against 
 him, untill our further plesur be knoAvn therein. For doing whereof, this shall be 
 your Warrand. So we bid you hearetily ferwel- Given at our Court at Kensingtone, 
 the first day of March 1 696-7, and of our reigne the eight year. 
 
 By His Majest)''s Command, 
 •., ■ .. (sicsubO TULLIBARDINE. 
 
 ■■. ■ No. XXX. 
 
 Simon Eraser (afterwards Lord Lovat) to the Laird of Cullodin. 
 
 Dear Sir, Beaufort, y' 26"' of Ocl' iSgy. 
 
 THIR Lds att Inverness, w' y' rest of my implacable Enemies, does so confound 
 my Wife, that she is uneasy till she see them. I am afraid y' they are so madd w' this 
 disapointment, y' they will propose something to her y" dangerous, her brother having 
 such power w' her ; so y' really, till things be perfeftly accommodatt, I do nott desire 
 they should see her, & I know not how to manage her. So I hope you will send all 
 the advice you can to 
 
 Your oblidged humble Servantt, 
 SIM. ERASER.. 
 I hope you will excuse me for i^t*^ 
 
 going your lenth, since I have such > . . 
 
 a hard task at home. J ' 
 
 No. XXXL 
 
 From Col, Hill, to the Laird of Culloden.. 
 Hon"' Sir, 
 
 I AM much concerned that your Neighbour Beavifort* hath played (not the Fool, 
 but) the Madman. If, by your persuation, he cannot be induced to deliver up the (so 
 
 * This alludet to Simon of Beaufort's marriage, as he called it, with the Dowager Lady Lovat. 
 
 ;,..:i much-
 
 24 CCXLODEN: P.VPER3. 
 
 much abused) Lady, upon assurance of pardon, in all probability he wiU ruin both 
 himself & iriends. *Tis not long since he -was here, & promised me other things ; 
 but since he has run a quite contrary cotirse, and scands neither to his own, nor the 
 proposals of anvorher, I have sent down 2co Men, & had sent more, if just at the 
 same time Orders had not come from the King & Council to reduce my Regiment to 
 ihe Number of an ordinary Battahon, which is 57 in each Company (whereas they 
 were beibre 77) ; which I have done; & the many out Garrisons I have, take up so 
 many men, that just at present I could send no more. My Lieu' Coll. went to London, 
 to see to tlie Affairs of mv Regiment ; & (finding that the King would settle all con- 
 forme to his own pleasure ere he came over, ") went to the Hague ; but I think the 
 orders were come away before he got thither ; see I have the favour to stand whilst 
 my betters fall. I think you begin to forget me, or to think I hve too long ; for 
 it's once in a small age that I can have the favour of a line from you ; but soe you 
 be well and happv, it makes me so too, who am as you have obUged me. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 Yom' most affectionate faithful humble Servant, 
 Tort William, 7th Nov. 1697. ' . JO. HILL. 
 
 - * ". " ■ 
 
 Xo. XXXIL ■ 
 
 FROM Simon Fraser (afterwards Lord Lovac) to the Laird of Culloden. Dated 
 
 Nov' y' 23- 1697.* 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I PRAY you receive ye rnclos'd acompt of my busines, & see if your own con- 
 science, in sight of God, doth not convince you y' it is hterally true. I hade sent it to 
 you upon Saturdav last, but you were not at home ; however I sent it y^ day to ye 
 Laird of Calder, who I hope will not sitt down upon me, but transmitt it to my best 
 friends ; & I beseech you. Sir, for God's sak, y' you do \-* like. I know the Chan- 
 cellour is a just man, notwithstanding of his friendship to my L" TilHberdine. I for- 
 give you for betra\-ing of me ; but neither you, nor I, nor I hope God himself, will 
 not forgive v° f- deceived you, &: causd you do it. I am very hopful in my dear 
 "Wife's constancy, if they do not put her to death. Now I ad no more, but leaves 
 myself to your discrerion, & rests. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Your faithful Friend & Servant, 
 SDL FRASER. 
 
 No. XXXUI. 
 
 The Lord Chancellor (Earl cf Marchmont) to Cullcden. Dated London, zSxh 
 
 April 169S. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 IN the beoinning of this month I wrott to Sir Alexander Monro upon the Publick 
 occurrences and changes in our affairs ; and becaus I had not then time to write to 
 you, I laid it upon hun to acquaint you what I had wTiuen, and did not intend to 
 
 • This letter regards the marriage said to have be«r. er.:errd ir.to between Lord Lovat and t'ne Dowager 
 Lad)- Lovat. For the early historv of this Noblexaa, ise ihfi MeitOT v.Ti;-.eL bj LiiEsdf up to the year 
 1714; and Macphersoas and Carstairs' State Paperi. 
 
 have
 
 CULLODE^f PAPERS. 2^ 
 
 liave twitten myself till I could [have] given you some fuller account of matters then 
 I yet can. Now, finding that matters go slowly at Court in the fashion which yovl 
 and I are well enough acquainted with, I would not delay longer. 
 
 I do believ you, nor other honest men with whom I have sometimes assisted 
 to bear a weight and get through difficulties of Bussiness, shall not have matters 
 , vhich have lately past in a true light till we meet togither. You will be the more 
 easily pei'swaded of this, when you understand, that till I had been sometime here I 
 tvas in the Dark, and did not descern naither the motives, the means, nor the designes 
 which now are pritry clear to me. The argument which I would press upon you, 
 and, by you, upon other worthy men who knows us well, and whom we know-, witli 
 whom you may have occasion to converse, is, that it is no wayes fitt to draw con- 
 clusions, far less to form resolutions, upon premises and suppositions not well dis- 
 covered, examined, and found to be true in fact, and sound in their subjecl matter. 
 I shall, ■" God \^'illing, when we meet, treat honest Men honestly and truly, and pre- 
 tend to prevail no more upon them in reasoning, then they find the strenth of reason 
 to obhge them. You know I am no young man, nor a novice at this Court ; and I 
 hope many more know that I will never debase myself to manege a trick, tho' I 
 were dealing with persons of weak understanding. But, as all they upon whom I can 
 pretend to have any influence are persons of understanding, and worth, and truth, so 
 I hope to approve myself of the like sort towards them ; and becaus Storys, by telling 
 and retelling, takes strange shaps in a long course, I shall be glad that honest Men 
 be armed against them. I have been only thrice in the King's Closet with him ; the 
 tyrae I had was wholly upon Publick Bussiness ; as to w^hich, his Mat'' proposed no- 
 thing but what was very moderate, and what he gave good reasons for, of which I 
 doubt not to be able to satisfie all discreet Men, well afiected to the King and the 
 establisht Goverment. His way towards me has been very gracious and obligeing j 
 but he is so much taken up at present with the forrain Ambassadours and Ministers, 
 and with the Bussyness of the Parliament here, now drawing near to a close, 
 that it occasions some delay in ordering the matters of Scotland ; yet I hope to 
 be at Edinburgh in the beginning of June ; and, for ought I yet know, the ParHanient 
 may meet in the beginning of July ; but w-hat happens you shall know, either from 
 me or from Sir Alexander Monro. My Wife & I kindly salute you, your Lady and 
 famyly j and I remain your very humble Servant and faithful friend, 
 
 AL\RCHMONT. 
 
 No. XXXIV. 
 
 Mr. John Forbes to his Brother, The Right Honorable Duncan Forbes, dated Fort ■ 
 
 WilUam, the 2* of November 1698. 
 
 Right Honourable, 
 
 I HAVE yours of the 21" of October, and humbly thanks vour Excellencie for 
 causing my desyres to be proposed to the King. But the other man you menrione will 
 be noways agreeable to me by what I am informed of him ; and I will know how to 
 make the best choyse of officers well enough, if it com to ly att my Door. But I hum- 
 bly pray your Excellencie's fa\or to have the major of my owti choise, of which I writ 
 m a former. I am infinitely obleidged to you for your great care of me, and kindness 
 to me, in ever)' thing ; and particularly about the Armes, which were of absolute ne- 
 cessity. As for the reforming those Companies before they come here, I gave my 
 reasones in my last by Capt. Forbes, and by ane other since, and shall not be so 
 
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 26 CCLLOtEN PAPER?. 
 
 froublsome as to repeate. I have \\Titen the inclosed as my hiunble opinlone ; 'whicfr 
 is too laro-e, but that a pain of the discourse -was necessary to usher in the particulars 
 designed. Please to pardon errors and excuse frailties. I judge you most right as id 
 the most feasible vc^y of reduceing these Countries, if it be approved ; and then the 
 fittest instrmnents may be piched upon ; but then things vrill be found much as I have 
 stated theme, upon the French assistance, or not. The moneth's pay that came up 
 hear for the Men was pimchiallv payed out to them, and I believe it far spent ; and 
 these Como' neTvly come have nothing. Ther is not 2 pence now not amongst a dozen 
 Subaltemes. I was fain to lend them a litle out of my ov.ti purse, to help Glencame's 
 IVIen from deserting ; For I find no Souldiers that come here ^vill imdertake to live oa 
 Meall onlv, and they can have nothing else without monev ; and I have only 1 00 lbs. 
 which the Commissars sent from Leith, the money for the Works being expended, and 
 ean goe no furder \\ithout more. If my Lord Argvle's expeditione were ower, I would 
 send for Orbrev for that more ; for I have no timber to goe on with the "Work ; they 
 sent Deales, but no Timber. I can now have both fir, and Oake, and Plank for Plat- 
 formes and the Bridge, and have ordered it to be gotten, but have not ISIoney to pay 
 for it ; otherwaves it will be cheaper than any they can send, besvdes saving the fraught. 
 We have made our Batteries as strong as we can to the Sea, so that our greatest Gunes 
 can be all planted ther. For Captan Ross, I lyke him well enough ; but his ISIen ar 
 nought, and not induceable as my fora-.er acqtianted you. Weenie's Men will not stay. 
 For v' of Ardbindloss and others I humbly reierr to my last. I hop the tyme is draw- 
 ing near v' money will be coining in ; and without that, if these men come up, they 
 w3l run ail away. The Meall we hade is almost run out ; I wish it last till the Ship 
 come about from Glasgow. God forgive all that would oppose yotir just endeavours 
 for the publick good. I know the Lord -will have a care of them that trust in him, 
 and of his own cause : it is well he govemes the World. I humbly thank your Ex- 
 cellencv for the freedome you'r pleased to use, and the trust ycu give me ; it argues 
 crreat favour and kindnes, whereof I am truly sensible, and for which I ame thankfrill ; 
 and car assure vou, mv heart is with you in every good thing, -without Byess or Selfend, 
 So God may have Glory, his Cause carried on, and the King's intrest served, I shall 
 never allow anv thing that may concern myself, but in all things follow his proA-idence- 
 It is well that God is the searcher of all hearts, and knowes who are upright ; that's a 
 good Man's Satisfacrione, tho [men] censure him neversoe severly. I beseech your- 
 Excellency to believe that I am, with great sincerity, 
 
 Your most obedient, most humble, 
 '■ and most faithfull Servant, 
 
 JO. FORBES.. 
 
 No. XXXV. 
 
 LORD Seafield to Colloden. Dated from Whitehall, Oa' 24"'" i^og. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I HAVE now yo' 3- Leaer, and you shall find me very ready to do you the kind- 
 ness you propose. I am not as yet in \\aiting ; but how soon I can have an opportunity 
 of doing Business, I will remember the other parricular you recommend. 1 am very 
 sensible that a great many are ready to by the mkfortime we have bad at Darien upoa 
 His ^laj''' Proclamations ; &: I am truly sorry that thcs that are disattecied have this han- 
 dle to lay hold on ; but we in Scotland lirtle consider how his Maj''^ Vi^as engaged both 
 viith England & Spain ; & that, nctvdthstanding the Proclamations, the Colony would 
 have had provisions, had they had either Money or Cjedi:. They had also divisions; 
 
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 CULLODEN PAPERS. 27 
 
 amongst themselves, & they had non of authority enough amongst them to keep them 
 in order. I am obliged to you for writing so kindly concerning myself. I shall say 
 nothing but this, that God knows that on all occasions I have been ready to do for them 
 what was in my power ; and as to my carriage in that matter befor the hist Parliament, 
 I was so happy of having the occasion to give an Ace' which I think was sadsfying to 
 most that heard me, and you may remember it ; and as for what has past since that 
 time, My Lord Carmichael, My L** President of the Session, & the Advocate, can bear 
 witness that I did with all the earnestness & zeal in me for the service of the Company, 
 and for which I had the Company's thanks when I was last in Scotland. So I cannot 
 understand what they can say of rae upon this occasion ; which is all I shall trouble you 
 with at present. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Your most humble Serv^ 
 — SEAFIELD. 
 
 No. XXXVI. 
 
 FROM M' Duncan Forbes to his brother Col' Forbes, dated Edinburgh, 6"' Febry 
 1 700 ; Giving an Account of a Great Fire in Edinburgh. 
 
 D"' Brother, '' ' 
 
 I KNOW not if this comes to yo'' hand, because it goes in the Aberdeen's Bag, 
 ther being none going off for Inverness with the Mounday's post. My last was with 
 humbleng news, & this with news more humbleng. Upon Saturday's night, by ten a 
 Clock, a fyre burst out in M' John Buchan's closet window, towards the Meall Mercate. 
 It continued whill eleven a clock of the day with the greatest frayor & vehemency that 
 ever I saw fyre do, notwithstanding that I saw London burne. 
 
 Ther are burnt, by the easiest computation, betwixt 3 & 400 familj-s ; all the pryde 
 of Eden' is sunk ; from the Cowgate to the High St.eet all is burnt, &: hardly one stone 
 left upon another. The Commissioner, President of the Pari', Pres' of the Session, the 
 Bank, most of the Lords, Lawyers, & Clerks, were all burnt, & many good & great 
 familys. It's said just now by S' John Cochran & Jordan-hill, that ther is more rent 
 burnt in this fyre then the whole City of Glasgow will amount to. The Pai'liament 
 House very hardly escapt ; all Registers confounded ; Clerks Chambers, & processes, 
 in such a confusion, that the Lords & Officers of State are just now mett at Rosse's 
 Taverne, in order to adjourneing of the Sessione by reason of the dissorder. Few peo- 
 ple are lost, if any att all ; but ther was neither heart nor hand left amongst them for 
 saveing from the fyre, nor a drop of water in the Cisternes : twenty thousand hands 
 flitting ther trash they know not wher, & hardly 20 at work. These babells, often & 
 fourteen story high, are down to the Ground, & ther fall's very terrible. Many rueful 
 spectacles, such as Corserig naked, with a Child under his Oxter, happing for his lyfte ; 
 The Fish Mercate, & all from the Cow Gate to Pett Street's Close, burnt ; The Ex- 
 change, waults, k Coall Cellars under the Parliament Close, are sdll burneing. This 
 Epitome of dissoludon I send you, without saying any more, but that the Lord is angry 
 with us, & I see no intercessor. Tell your AVyffe her friends are weell ; & if this come 
 Jo hand, send it to my Wyfte howsoon you have read it. I bid you adieu, and am, 
 
 Y' Lo^ bro^' to serve you, 
 
 D. FORBES. 
 
 I have heard nothing from you, nor from home, since I left you. 
 
 • E2 ~ No.XXXVH.
 
 28 CULLODEN PAPEBS, 
 
 Sir, 
 
 No. XXXVII. 
 
 Earl of Argyll to Culloden. Dated Edinburgh, Sept' 5'", 1700. 
 
 IN complyance with your desyre, and a great many other Gentlemen, together 
 with my owti inclinadon to endeavour a piece of Justice, I have made it my chief 
 concern to obtain Beaufort's (now I think I may say Lord Lovatt's) pardon, &; the 
 other Gentlemen concerned with him in the convocation & seizing of prisoners, w"* 
 are cr)Taes more immediately against his Ma"' ; w " I have at last obtain'd, and has 
 it in mv custody. I designe tomorrow for Argyllshyre ; and, ther not being a Quorum 
 of Exequer in Town, am oblidged to delay passing the remission till next Moneth. 
 We have all had lyes enuf of his Ma"^ before : his goodnesse in this vrill, I hope, re- 
 turn my txiend Colloden to his old consistency, and make E. Argvll appear to him as 
 good a Presbiterian, and a weel wisher to his Country in no lesse degree then Tulli- 
 bardine, who plundered my Land some tyme agoe, 5c Colloden's latelv. Pray recover 
 the same spiritt you had at the Revolution ; let us lay assyde all resentments ill founded ; 
 all projects w^'' may shake our foundation ; let us follow no more phantasms (I may 
 say rather Divells), who, ■with a specious pretext leading us into the Dark, may 
 drown'd us. I fynd some honest Mens eyes are opened, and I shall be sorie if Colloden's 
 continue dimm. You have been led by Jacobitt Generalls to fight for Presbiterie, & 
 the Hbert}" of the Country. Is that consistent ? If not speedily remeded, remember 
 I tell you the posteririe of such will curse them. Let me have a plain satisfaftorie 
 answer from you, that I may be in perfeth Charitie with Colloden. 
 
 Adieu. 
 
 No. XXXVIII. 
 
 Lord Seafield to the Laird of Culloden. Dated Whithall, Decern" 30*^, i7oi» 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I ILWE receaved yo' Letter, and I have since concurred with the Earle of H^Tifoord 
 in presenting the Address of the Commissioners of the Northern Justiciary. It was 
 very acceptable to his Ma", to have renewed assurances of their Loyalty and Fidelity to 
 him in this Juncture ; when the French King has, contrary to his owti treatties and his 
 Ma" unquestionable right, owned the pretended Prince of Wales as King of His Ma'-^ 
 dominions ; and as this does give us a clear \iew of the dangers to which wee are 
 exposed, so I hope it will imite all honest men to support his Ma" go^•ernment, which, 
 under God, is the great Security of our religion, laws, and hberties. His Majesty 
 did impower both my Lord H)Tifoord & me to retiu-n the Commissioners his hearty 
 thanks ; and to assure them of his Protection, and that nothing vdW render them more 
 acceptable to him than that they fall upon effechiall methods for secureing the peace 
 of the Countrey, and extirpating thefts & Robberies ; and he was very well satis- 
 fied when I informed him, that the Commission and Highland Companies had all- 
 ready been of very great use for those ends. You may communicate what Ihave 
 written to those who concurred in the Address ; and you may believe that 
 
 I am. Sir, 
 
 Your most faithfuU &: most humble Servant, 
 
 SEAFIELD. 
 
 No. XXXIX.
 
 CCLLODEN rAPERS. 
 
 «9 
 
 No. XXXIX. 
 
 Lord Seafield to the Laird of CuUoden. Dated Whithall, March 24"", 1702. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I RECEAVED yo' kind and oblidgeing letter, in which you express yo' great con- 
 cern for the success of his Ma'" affairs ; and I had certainly acquainted him wixh it, but he 
 was ill att that time, and it was not proper to speak to him of business that could 
 admitt of any delay ; and now God has affictetl us by remo\-ing him bv death, which 
 is ane unspeakable loss to these Nations. Wee ow much to his iNIemory ; and the 
 best tribute wee can pay to it is, to follow out his measures, and to support the Oueen, 
 whose right is founded upon the same ad of Settlement ; and I truelv believe she 
 will give us full Protection in all our concerns. She has takeii the Coronation Oath 
 in presence of eleven of her Frvry Coimcil, and has assumed the Exercise of the 
 Regall Government, and has, by the signed opinion of 32 of her Pri\7 Council, ad- 
 journed the Parliat to the 26th of May, and has named the Duke of Queensberry to 
 be Commissioner. Now I know you have zeal for yo" rehgion and Countrey, and 
 this is a time to shew it ; and let us not, who are of the same principles, ditfer, and 
 promote annimosities, to the ruine of all that wee enjoy which is valuable. 
 
 You know that after her Majesty's reign we have no Settlement ; and I am afraid 
 we shall fall into confusion, and become a prey to those who are waiting for our 
 halting. For preventing this, the King did seriously and earnestly reconmiend the 
 Union of the Two Nations ; and since his death the queen has done the lyke, and the 
 Whigg part)' have appeared to be ver)- sincere for it, and I hope the other party will 
 at last come into it. I must intreat that you be at Edinburgh precisely against the 26'^ 
 of May, and I hope the Laird of Kilraick will also come ; and it will give me great 
 satisfacuone if I see such as have interest and estates, and a value for Rehgion, act 
 as they ought to doe on this occasione. I will endeavour to write again to you, & 
 some of yo' neighbours, before I part from this place. As for yo' Son in Law, 
 Burdsyeirds, I know him to be faithfull to the present Constitution of the Govern- 
 ment, Sc friendly to myself ; 5c therefor my inclinations are to sene him if I can ; 
 but if wee doe levy Regiments there are but two of foot, which in all furnishes but 
 1 2 Capt"', and there are a vast number putting in to be employed. As for what con- 
 cemes yo'seh", I shall leave till meetting. Give my service kindly to Kilraick- I only 
 sdd, that I am. Sir, 
 
 Tour most faithfull &: humble Servant, 
 Collodin. SEAFIELD. 
 
 No. XL 
 
 AN0NY:M0U3 to Duncan Forbes. Coll, 28 August 1714. 
 Dear Cusine, 
 
 JUST as I had sealed my Letters to the Brigadeer and you, The Letter with the 
 Red wax came express from Kill : you perhaps' cannot read it ; But Grant, who is 
 well acquainted with the hand, can. Some believes that this Gentleman, mentioned 
 in the Letter, is the Pretender ; and I am much of that Opinion, because of a certain 
 Joy and Resolution that of late appears in the Cc ^atenances and Conversation of the 
 Jacobites ; which tho' somewhat reserved, yet they still are positive, and persevere 
 that he will come, tho' the Freach should give Iiim no assistance. Therefore, how 
 
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 33 CULLODEN PAPERS. 
 
 «oon this comes to hand, you are to ad\ise it \nth the Justices, that Forces may be 
 immediately ordered for this Countrj-. I wish they come not too late. The Tories have 
 one other piece of News buzzing amongst them ; that if the Pretender can but let the 
 French see that he has any thing like a party to back him, either in England, or 
 Scotland, worth the while, that then the French King will assist him to the outmost 
 of his power ; and this thought is not improbable. Therefore I again desire, that you 
 and Grant may be pressing with the Justices, that some speedy course be taken for 
 the preservation of the peace and quiet of this Country. For, according to the old 
 proverb, its better keep out than put out ; the ad^ice in this Letter is not to be slighted; 
 for I assure you, the Highlanders ha^'e had very frequent meetings, and have been 
 randezvousing their men this last week. I add no more, being weary ; but hopes 
 vouT diligence in this atiair, and assures you that I am ever yours. You know the 
 hand, 
 
 Adieu. 
 
 No. XLI. 
 
 The Pretender's Declaration, 
 
 JAMES R. 
 
 JAINIES the third, by the Grace of God King of Great Britain, France, and 
 Ireland, Defender of the faith, 5cc- To all Kings, Princes, and Potentates, 
 and our loveing Subjects, Greeting. 
 
 IN such ane extraordinary and important conjuncture, in which not only our here- 
 ditary right to our Crowns is so vmjustly violated, But the interest of all the Soveraing 
 Princes of Europe is so deeply concerned, wee could not be silent without being wanting 
 to our selffs and them. 
 
 Every bodv knows, that the Revolution in the year i68S ruined the English Mo- 
 tiarchy, and laid the foundation of a Reipublickan Goverment, by devolveing the 
 Soveraing Power on the People, who assembled themselves without any authority', 
 voted themselves a Pari', and assumed a right of deposeing and elecHng Kings, 
 contrarie to the fundamentall laws of the land, and the most express and solemn 
 Oathes that Christians are capable of taking j and no body can be ignorant how un- 
 justly the late King our Father, of blessed Memor)-, suffered by this unjustifj-able 
 Revolution. 
 
 After his Demise, his Crowns, which the Prince of Orange had usiu-ped, being then 
 rightfully ours, according to the foundamentall laws of the Land, wee unmediately 
 claim'd our right to the same by a Declaration under our great Seall, dated att S' Ger- 
 main's the 8'"^ of Odb' 1704. And as soon as it pleased di\ ine proAidence to enable us 
 attempt the Recover)' thereoff, we readvhe embraced the occasion ; And 'tis sufficiently 
 known that the miscarriage of that expedition could not be imputed to us. 
 
 When we found, affter tMs, that a treaty of peace was upon the point off being con- 
 cluded, without any regaird had to us, we published our Protestation, Dated at 
 S' Germains, the 2^'-^ Aprile 171 2, in the most solemn i: authentick manner our 
 circumstances would then allow of ; asserting thereby our incontestable right to our 
 Crowns, and protested against whatever might be stipulated in the s"* treatie to our 
 prejudice. 
 
 Tho wee have been obliged since that t^Tne to remove from France to a more remot 
 place, wee have still continued to have our Kingdoms and our people in our \iew, to 
 
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 CULLODEX PAPERS. 
 
 51 
 
 vhom wee are convinced that God in his Mercy -win sooner or tater restore us ; and, 
 notnathstanding the malice and open Rebellion of some, and the forced complpnee 
 of others, wee have ne\er ceased to hope that God would in t\-me open our people's 
 Eyes, and con\-ince them not only of the notorious iniusdce done to the Crown and 
 us, but of the dangerous consequences thereoff for themselves. It is not our Interest 
 alone wee are concerned for ; our naturall and unalterable love for our people is 
 such, that as wee could not see without grieif their blood and treasure la\-isht in the 
 late Warr in opposition to our undoubted right, so wee cannot now with less sorrow 
 see them exposed to be subjected to ane arbitrary power, and become a prey to 
 foreingers. 
 
 Besydes that the Elector of B^owns^^ick is orte of the remotest Relations wee have^ 
 and consequently one of the remotest Pretenders to our Croviis after us, it is evident 
 that nothing is more oposite to the maxims of England in all respeds then that unjust 
 Settlement of the Succession upon his family. He is a forreinger, a powerfuU prince, 
 and absolute in his o^^ti Countr)-, where he has never met with the least contradifidon 
 from his Subjects. He is ignorant of our laws, manners, customes, and language 
 and supported by a good army of his o\^-n people ; besyds the assistance which a 
 neighbouring State is obliged to grant him upon demand, and many thousands of 
 Ahens refugd in England these 30 years past, who, haveing their dependence wholly 
 upon him. will be ready to stand bv him upon all occasions. 
 
 Moreover, what can our Subjects expect, but endless Wars and divisions, frsm sub- 
 verting so sacred and fundamental! a constitution as that of hereditary right, which has 
 still prevailed against all usurpations, how successfull and for how long time soever con- 
 tinued ; the Government finding still no rest till it rettirned again to its oa\ti Center. 
 And how can they be ignorant of the just pretensions of so manv other princes that are 
 before the House of Hannover, whose right after us will be as imdoubted as our owti 
 and who neither want will nor power to assert it in their turns, and to entail a perpetuall 
 warr upon our kingdoms, with a Civiil Warr in their own Boweils, which their T)v,i- 
 sions vill make unavcndable. 
 
 From all which it is plain, our people can never enjoy any lastinsj Peace or happiness 
 till they settle the succession again in the rightfull hne, and recall us, the immediate law- 
 full heir, and the only bom EngUshman now left of the Royall Family. 
 
 This being certainly the true interest of Great Britain, we had reason to hope that a 
 wise people would not have lost so naturall an occasion of recalling us as they have lately 
 had, since they coidd not but see, by all the stepps we have hitherto made, that we had 
 rather owe our restoration to the good \\dli of our people, than involve them in a Warr 
 tho' never so just 5 besides that they know, or might have kno\\-n, the reiterated invio- 
 lable assurances we have given them under our hand, that whensoever it should please 
 God to restore us, we would make the laws of the Land the Rule of our Government, 
 and grant to our Subjetb a generall Indemnity for whatsoever has been done contrary 
 to the said Laws ; And all the Security and Satisfaction they could desire, for the Pre- 
 servation of their Religion,- Right, Liberties, and Properties. 
 
 Yet, contrary to our Expectations, upon the death of the Princess our Sister (of 
 whose good intentions towards us we could not for some time past well doubt, and this 
 was the reason we then satt still, expecting the good effects thereof, which were imfor- 
 runately prevented by her deplorable death), we found that our people, instead of take- 
 ing this fevourable opportunity of retrieving the honour & true interest of their Countrv 
 by doing us and themselves Justice, had inmiedii-taly proclaimed for their King a forrei^n 
 prince, to our prejudice, contrary to the fundamentiill and incontestable laws of here- 
 ditary right, which their pretended Acts of Settlement can never abrogate. 
 
 After
 
 J 2 • CULLOUEN PAPERS. 
 
 After this height of Injustice, ve then thought "ourselves boimd in honour and duty, 
 and iadispensibly obliged by what we owe to ourseh, to oux posterity, and to our peo- 
 pie, to indeavour to assert our right in the best manner we could. Accordingly, upon 
 the first notice sent us, we parted from our ordinar)- residence, in order to repair to some 
 part of our Dominions, and there to put ourself at the head of such of our lawful] Sub- 
 \eQs as were disposed to stand by us, and defend us and ihemselv^ from ail forreign 
 Invasion ; but in oiu" passing thro' France to the Sea Coast, we were there not only 
 refused all succour and assistance, upon accoimt of the Engagements that King is under 
 bv the late treaty of Peace, but we were even debarred passage, and obUged to return 
 back to Lorrain. 
 
 After meeting with such sensible disappointments on all sides, the only comfort 
 left us is, that we have done our part at least to attain our just ends, and have nothing 
 upon that score to reproach ourself with ; and as our case is just, we doubt not but 
 God will in his own due time furnish us -with new means to support it : and that he 
 vnll at last touch the hearts of our Subjeds with a true sence of the crying injury 
 that they have done us and themselves, and move them eifectually to return to their 
 duty. 
 
 We likewise hope that ail Christian Princes and Potentates, who are now in peace 
 together, will reflect upon the dangerous example here given them, and y' formidable 
 Efiecls they are threatened with from such an imited force as that ot England &: Hano- 
 ver ; and that thev seriously consider, weither the exhorbirant power that now accrews 
 to the House of Brunswick be consistent -with the balance of power they have been 
 fif^hting for all this last Warr. And therefore we call on them for their assistance 
 for the recovery of our Dominions ; which their interest, as well as Honour, engages 
 them to grant us, as far as they are able. In the mean tune, in the Circumstances 
 we are in. We have nothing left in our power to do at present, but to declare to the 
 World, that as our right is indefeasible, so we are resolved, with the help of God, 
 never to depart from it but with our life. And therefore we do here solemnly pro- 
 test again, in the strongest manner we are capable of, against all Injustices that have 
 been, or shall hereafter be done, to the prejudice of us, our lawfull heirs and Succes- 
 sors ; Reserving and asserting, by these plents imder our Great Seal, all our rights, 
 claims, and pretensions whatsoever, which do and shall remain in their full force and 
 rigour ; declareing, that after this we shall not think ourselves answerable, before God 
 or Man, for the pernicious consequences which this new usurpation of our Crown* 
 may draw upon our Subjects, and upon all Christendom. 
 Given at our Cotirt at Plombeirs, y« cg'^ Aug" i^i-^ 
 
 Xo.XLII. 
 
 Lord Lovat to the Laird of Culloden. 
 
 Much honoured and D" Sir, « 
 
 THE real frdship v' I know you have for my person & family makes me 
 take the freedom to assure you of my kind service, & to intreat of you to join w^ 
 my otiiier friends betwixt 'Spy 6c Nesse, to sign the adresse y* Coim requires, in 
 order to give me mv remission. Your Cousine James, who has generously expos'd 
 himself to bring me out of Chains, will inform you of all steps & circumstances of 
 my afiaires since he saw me. I wish, D' Sir, from my heart, you were here : I am 
 confident you would speak to the Duke of Arg)-le, & to the Earle of Isla, to let 
 them know- their own interest, and their reiterai:ed promises to do for me. Perhaps 
 
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 CULLODEM PAPERS. 33 
 
 they may have, sooner than they expeft, a most serious occasion for my service. But 
 its needless now to preach y' Doctrine to them ; they thinlc ymselves in ane infallible 
 security ; I wish they may not be mistaken. Hovv^ever, 1 think its the interest of all 
 those who love this Government, betwixt Spy k Nesse, to see me at the head of my 
 Clan ready to join them ; so y' I belive none of tliem will refuse to sign ane Adrese 
 to make me a Scotsman. I am perswaded, D' Sir, y' you will be of good example 
 to y'" on y' head. But secrecy, above all, most be keept ; wtout which all may go 
 wrong. I hope you will be stirring for the parliament ; for I will not be reconcil'd 
 to you if you let Prestonall outvote you. Bregadeer Grant, to whom I am infinitely 
 obliged, has writen to Foyers to give you his vote ; & he is ane ungrat villain if he 
 refuses him. [If] I was at home, the litle pityfuU Barons of the Aird durst not re- 
 fuse you. But I am hopefull y' the news of my going to Brhtain will hinder Pres- 
 tonall to go north ; for I may come to meet him when he lest thinks of me. I am 
 very impatient to see you, & to assure you most sincerely how much I am, w'' love 
 & respect. 
 
 Right Honourable, Your most obedient 
 ,.- , ;, '• . s / . 1 '. & most humble Servant, 
 
 the 24"' of Nov 1714. • . LOVAT. 
 
 ." ■ ''- ■ ••^-■' '"''"' No. XLIII. ' ■ -' ' ••-•■^V' ■ ■ 
 M' Jo. Forbes to his Brother M' Duncan Forbes, Dated 18 Xber 17 14. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 I SEND you by this Express a packet, which if my Lord Hay is at Edin'' you your- 
 self are to deliver to him, and if still att London to forward carefully to him. It con- 
 tains ane Address from the Erasers to the King ; and likewise a full resignation of ther 
 Clan to Argyle, as ther Chieff. Ther doing this at a jountture when the other Clans 
 are forceing through ane other Address in favours of the high Church, and I truly 
 think pairtly levelled at A.rgyle, ought not to be forgot ; for I can assure you there 
 was no stone left unturn'd by the other Clans to divert them from it ; even to that de- 
 gree, that they were at daggers drawing about it. I therefore truely think the Duke 
 should take them heartily by the hand, and support them now that they have cast out 
 with all the Hylands on his Grace's accoumpt. Our aird Erasers viz" Relicl, Dunballach, 
 Belladrum, Kinnarids, and Dunballach's brethren, have subscribed the Hyland Address, 
 with Eraserdealls ; but Ahnagarn would not. Pray fail not to speak to my Lord Hay, 
 that he cause Streachen, who is now at the Colledge or with my Lady Duches at Did- 
 diston, subscribe the Erasers Address before it's sent up. I send you also a Memoran- 
 dum anent the Elections, which I doubt not you'll take care of. I know very well that 
 neither Relief or Dunballach are in possession of 4oolbs valued rent ; and what else the 
 old Retours of these two Barronies were, they are now so divyded that it's thought by 
 every bodie they will not answer to separate fortie shill. lands as now possest. 
 
 I entreat you'll be att pains in this thing ; for if there's any life in it, I will certainly 
 carry my eleftion. Therfor send me ane authentick double of those Barronies, ther 
 Lands, and Retours, in the termes of the note herewith sent you. I wonder much I 
 hear no word from Grant. Col. A. M'Kynzie was at Inverness all this Week, and 
 he's made a strong partie there for himself against Stewart ; yett I'm hopeful Stewart 
 may carrie it ; only ther is one thing Stewart must doe, otherwise Killravock will not 
 yield his pretensions ; and that is. That he not only give his Vote as a Barron to young 
 Killravock in the Shyre of Cromarty ; but also he must deall with Argyle and Roy- 
 ston, to write to Sir Keneth to give his interest also to Killravock : so tell Will Stewart 
 
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 ^ CrXLODEN TAPERS. 
 
 . Ais, that he may do all he can in this mater. We have a Stone att Inverness, not- 
 withstanding of what you wrote me of the 2"* Xber, That Argyie and the Squadron are 
 not in good termes ; and as a proof of this they say, That Montrose has wrote to the 
 town in favour of Col iFK\Tizie ; and if they cannot carrie him, any 2klan rather than 
 Stewart ; but I cannot beheve this. Glendamell has been in this Countrie, and verv 
 active in prcmot' the Hyland Address ; and also medling all he could 'm our Elections. 
 I wonder much, that the Goverment does not take notice of such Incendiaries. He as- 
 sures very confidently, that we are to have Warr with France ; and that the Chevalier 
 will be \^ith us in the spring:, and that the House of Commons will be Torie by a great 
 majorir^' ; and then he hopes this Miuistrie will ttim out as fast as ever they turn'd in ; 
 and yet, for all these stories, he doubts not in the least but on the presenting his Hy- 
 land Address to be repon'd to his Commission. I think, if he were right ser\"ed, he 
 should rather gett a htfalter. Killravock intreats, that how soon the parhament is dis- 
 solvedi you call for the Writts of the Shyre of Ross, and lett them be sent to him or 
 me vv-ith all possible speed ; vou may easily guess our meaning, if you think on 
 Channerie. You are lykev^ise to be the more active in sending me the returns 
 I call for, that att writteing hereof I am certainly informed that my worthie friend and 
 deaf Comrade Brodie is dead ; and therfore send me by the bearer my black Cloathes 
 that lyes in Mr. Monroe's. This man's Death is a very considerable loss to us. May 
 the Lord himself prepare us. Our Mother and all friends are weel. I am 
 
 Yours, 
 Coll. iS^''Xberi7i4. JO. FORBES. 
 
 Xo. XLIV. 
 
 Mr. Duncan Forbes to the Laird of Culloden. 
 
 Dear Brodier, Edinburgh, 31 December 1714. 
 
 THIS Christmas season is more a time of conjecture than of News. Dyer for- 
 merly was wont to propheo^ what was to happen from the Flors that were laid down 
 at this time ; but that is now over, and there is not so much as a Whisper of any 
 project, "Whigg or Torv% farther than that of Elections for the en-Suing Parliament ; 
 which, it is said by people who pretend to understand, will be ^Yhigg, bv some Ma- 
 jority ; and indeed one thing is certain, that the Mobb of London, and in proportion 
 that of the rest of England, is come to much juster sentiments of our King than those 
 they formerly entertained ; in so much that some of those audacious Sermons which 
 you might have heard preached, concerning the danger of the Chrurch, and the King's 
 title, at London, met vdth contempt instead of applause from the hearers ; and the 
 persons who held forth in Sacheverell's stile, had abundance of difficulty to escape 
 without aironts. 
 
 Our new Commission of Police, as they call it, is come down : the Commissicners 
 are, Tweddaie, Sutherland, Buchan, Marchmont, Bute, Deiorrain, Glenagies, Thomas 
 Kennedy, and M' Charles Airskin (Buchan's Brother). Their business is, to present 
 Ministers to such Kirks as the King is Patron of; to notice nonjurors, papists. High- 
 land Clans, the poor of the nation. Highways, .Ports, and na\-igable Rivers, &'^ ; and 
 their Sallarys are, Twedale, President, ^1200; every Peer ^800 ; each Commoner 
 ^400. 
 
 Upon Information that Beaufort, alias Lovat, is at London and intends to come 
 down, Fraserdale has been at the Justice Clerk, requiring ane Extract of the process 
 and sentence against him. How far Args'le is privy to his comming I know not. 
 
 f-DLTS\ FORBES. 
 
 Show this to mv Mother, and excuse me for not writing to her. 
 
 - • No. XLV.
 
 CULLODE.V P.VPER^. 
 
 ^5 
 
 Xo. XLV. 
 
 MERIORIALL for the President of the Session in Scotland, 1714. 
 
 ■ To the King. 
 
 MEMORIAL! for Sir Hew Dalrymple, of North Berwick, President of His 
 Majestie's Court of Session in Scotland. 
 
 THE Court of Session is the supreme ordinary Judicator in Scotland, of great 
 authority, wherein the Kings, his Maties Royall Predecessors, before the union of 
 the two Kingdoms in the Person of King James the first of Great Brittaine, were in 
 use to sitt. 
 
 The President of that Court had not only ane equall share of the Pro-vasions settled 
 upon the Lords of Session ; but our Princes were furder pleased to grant ane extraordi- 
 nary Sallary to the President, to enable him to liye according to the Caracter of 
 that Oifice ; wherein regaird was had to the circumstances of the person promoted 
 to that Dignity ; as in the case of Sir George Lockhart, who was taken from a 
 very lucrative imployment at the Bar. He got a Pension of ^1200, as President, 
 besydes his Sallary as one of the ordinary Lords of Session, w''' the usuall Present 
 of Wines allowed by the Treasurie : in all about ^1500. And the President of the 
 Session that now is, being in lyke maner advanced from the Bar, he had a Pension 
 of £-joQ. as President, and the lyke Present of Wynes, besydes a share of the pro- 
 \'ision of the ordinary Lords : in all, ^1000. 
 
 The expence of living increasing, and the Parliament of Scotland judging the Pro- 
 vision of the President and Ordinary Lords of Session not to be suitable to the Dig- 
 lyty & carafter of these Offices, did in the last Session of the Parliament, wherein 
 the treaty of Union was ratified, humbly and in a most particular maner adress her 
 late Matie of Glorious memory, in Behalfe of the President &: Remanent Lords of 
 Session, for additional Sallaries. 
 
 Her Matie, in complvance with that Address, by a Letter under her Royall hand 
 to the Lords of Session, was graciously pleased to declare her intention to make up to 
 each of the Lords ^500. and to the President of the Session ^1,000 yearly ; whereby 
 the President was entitled to .^"i,oco. as President, and .^500 as one of the Lords : 
 ^1,500. in all. 
 
 Nevertheless, when the Establishment came to be made out, in pursuance of the 
 Adress of Parliament, & her Maties Letter, The President did not receive the benefitt 
 intended ; tor hitherto, in place of ^1,000., he hath only received .d£'8oo. as President, 
 and hath not bein allowed any share of ^£'300. regularly payed to each of the other 
 Lords of Session ever since the Union. ' 
 
 The President did furder continue to receive his share of the old Sallar)- of .^200. 
 belonging to him as one of the Lords of Session. But that can never be reckoned to 
 make up a part of the ^1,000 mentioned in her Maties Letter; Because that old 
 Sallary belonged to him, not as President, but as one of the Lords, and was not issued 
 out of the Treasurie of Scotland before the Union, nor of Great Brittaine since, but 
 did arise from the Interest of a Stock of Money, and other appropriated funds, given 
 by Parliament to the Lords of Session. 
 
 This ^800. allowed to the President, is very litle if any thing better then w hat he 
 had formerly ; for before the Union he had .^700. as President, and a Present of 
 Wines allowed him by the Treasurie, and the old.Sallary pf..4faQQ. as.one of the 
 
 ■ F 2 . Lords^
 
 ^, CtTLtODKN PAPEBS. 
 
 Lords ; ^i,02c. in all : so that what hes bein hitherto received is no better then his 
 former Settlement, unless the said Wines be reckoned less \-aluable then £izz. which 
 must be so inconsiderable as not vvorth noticing : so that the Adress of Parliament, and 
 her Maties gracious letter, have hicherto been aliogether ine&etfmall to the President : 
 which cerra£nlv'\i-2S never intended ; for, 
 
 1= — The Adress is in behahe of the President, for ane additional Sallary to him. 
 
 2= — ^Her jNIaEes pi^sure was, that each of the Lords should be made up j£ '^oo. and 
 the President £1,300 ; whereof the plain meaning is, that the Lords as Lords, and the 
 President as President, should have these respective settlements. And the Lord Justice 
 Clerk and Clerk Register (who have since that Adress and Letter bein Lords of Ses- 
 sion) had their shares as Lords, besvdes their full SaUaries belonging to their Odices ; 
 and soe it hes allwaves bein formeriv in the case of the President, or anj- other 0£ce 
 enjoyed by a Lord of Session. 
 
 3'" — It pleased her late JSIatie to take care of ail the other Judges of Scotland ; and 
 the Presdent does belive that no mark oi distinction was intended to the prejudice of 
 h-TH personally, or to the prejudice of his oiEce- 
 
 4" — If all that is proposed were granted in behalf of the President, His Sallarv of 
 jf 1,50a. would vet be but suitable, considering the boimt% - :"e Giver, and the 
 greatness of the Government of the L^nited Kingdom in wh: ser^ es : and that 
 
 the OiEce of President of the Session was allwaves the nrst in : ; :>. : : .= Judges, ane 
 Implovment of great weight, requiring ane assiduous and close ^pp .:^^:^v^:i ; for which 
 reason it had allwaves a Siulary above that of the Lord Register, Justice Clerk, or 
 Jong's Advocat, or any other Judge ; and the Sallaries of the other Lords being raised 
 from ^'2oc. to ^500. the addition proposed to the Lord President's Sallary is no 
 more then proportionali. 
 
 How soon die late establishment was Publick, My Ij:>rd President did cause lay a 
 Memoriail before the Earle of Godolphine, then Lord Treasurer, setting fiirth his 
 Claim ; and he is well informed that my Lord Treasurer was convinced there was 
 a mistake in the Establishment, and made some steps towards a rectiiication, as well 
 with relation to the tvme past as to come ; which was then put on till some other par- 
 ticulars relating to Scotland should be considered, and thereafter obstructed by the 
 great alterations which happened in the Treasurie & other public aSaires. 
 
 The whoU is most humblv offered to his Maties consideration, that such directions 
 mav be given thereupon, both with relation to what is wanting for the tyme past, and 
 in L',Tne coming, as shall appear most suitable to Justice, and to His Maties Royalt 
 Bounty. 
 
 Xo. XLVI. 
 
 Mr. Munro to the Laird of Coulodden. Dated Foules, 17'^ Feb' 17 15. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 I HA\'E yours of yesterday's date at twelve o'CIock thJs day. It is not possfole 
 I can have any Account of the Proceedings at Wick yesterday, betbr Saturday next at 
 the soonest- I shall endeavour to informe vou of the event therof when any Account 
 of it shall come to mv knowledge. Coulraine is with mv Son in Caithness ; and I 
 shall disspatch ane express to meet him in Sutherland with your Letter, with one from 
 mvself to him, & another to Capran Roben Munro, that he may doe with his Brother- 
 in-law as he promised me heir. I doubt not but that Coulraine will meet with Capnn 
 Monro in Sutherland, & will use his outmost endeavour with him to perform his en- 
 g^idgment to Coulraine ii me, I find the Jacobits are weiie uppish, both in Edbr & 
 
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 CULLODEX PAPERS. 37 
 
 in England ; so that if ye go to the Parliament as I hope ye will, you will recommend 
 to some trustie faithful 1 frend to take care of your House of Coulodden ; & leave 
 Orders with your people at Ferintosli to receive directions from me, or from your Cousen 
 George (my Son as yt)u are ple;ised to call him); which you may be sure will be calculat 
 to the support of your Interest in subordination to the public Cause as possiblie I can. 
 I offer my affectionat humble duty to your Lady. All "here joyn with me in giving you 
 the tender of our most afectionate respects ; being, Dear Sir, 
 
 Your most humble Servant, Sc afectionat Uncle, 
 ; J. B. RIUNRO. 
 
 The vanitie, insolence, arogance, & maddness of the Jacobits is beyond all measure 
 
 unsupportable. I bleeve they most be let blood. They still have a trick of presuming 
 
 "upon the lenitie of a moderat Government, h seems, God either destines them for 
 
 ■ destruction, or infatuates others to allow them to be pricks in our sides &: Thornes in our 
 
 ■ Eyes. I have account from verie good hands from Edbr that to their certan knov. ledge 
 Saidles were making in that Citie for Dragounes to serve the Pretender ; & that all the 
 Popish Lords and verie manie Popish and Jacobits Gentlemen are assembled there now ; 
 
 ' so that all friends and Loyall subjects to his present Majesiie are advysed to be upon 
 there Guard from thence against ane Invasion or Insurrection, which is suddenly ex- 
 pelled, which the Jacobits pretend will interrupt the meeting of the Parliat. 
 
 Adieu. 
 
 No. XLVII. 
 
 Mr. John Forbes to his brother Mr. Duncan Forbes. 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 THE hurrie I was in last week made me neglect answering your Letters ; but I 
 bid M' Baillie tell you how matters past. I cam to this place last night in com- 
 ■panie witli M'Intosh, who I hope will return a kyndly answer to my Lord Hay's 
 Letter. I thought it needless to deliver Cromartie's Letter, because the Election for 
 that Shyre was over before it came to my hand, and also because of the disappoint- 
 ment Killravcck mett with, after a great many Promises and Protestations off friend- 
 ship. And I truly think, if the Duke of Argyle desyres any Favours, he should be ad- 
 
 ■ vysed to bestow them better then on such as never can be hearty for the present Govern- 
 ment, nor firm friends to his familie. You may make what use of this you please. 
 
 You say you have no newes ; but we abound with them in this Countrie. The 
 Pretender is expefted every moment, and his friends all raddie ; but since our steats- 
 men takes no notice of this, I lett- it allone, and wishes they may not repent it w hen 
 they cannot help it. 
 
 Ane other Storie we have is. That Argyle and the Squadron are att dagers-draw- 
 ing ; and notwithstanding of what you have wrote me 1' wish it be not found too true ; 
 For if his Grace be supporting Carnwath, M' Murray, and such People as these, in 
 ther Elections, as it is confidently storied here, I must beg leave to say, it is a proof 
 to me that there are differences amongst you which I most heartily regreate. I wish 
 to God they would remember, that a House divided agaihst itself cannot stand. 
 
 Please give my service to all friends ; lett [[mej know when the Parliat is to meet, 
 and believe me to be yours. 
 
 Castle Grant, 4"' March 1715. JO. FORBES. 
 
 Give my service to Capt Monro, and mynd him to write to me as he promised. 
 The Brigadier's return and myne were sent Express, Monday last, to M' Stewart, 
 to be forwarded. Inquier about them that they be not neglected. 
 
 No. XLVin.
 
 ^ • ' CCLLODEN- PAPERS 
 
 Xo. XL^'III. 
 
 The same to the same. 
 
 Dezi Brother, 
 
 I DELIVER'D your Letter to the IVIarquis of Lothian, and made his Lordship 
 the best compliment I could for the favour done vou ; and ane apologie, bv \raT of Ly, 
 as you des)Ted, for your Letters not haveing come sooner to hand ; all \rhich his Lop. 
 received most graciously. 
 
 In my last, I have answer'd the material pairt of touts anent mv niece ^larie. You 
 .put it now on the foot of obedience to me : You xery weel know I never was a match- 
 maker ; and as I des)Te not the half mark, so I mean not to have the ••»♦***. 
 When Foy" made that proposall to me, I thought it reasonable ; because if his circum- 
 stances are such as he represented them, she might Uve like a Gentlewoman, and this I 
 suppose her father ^ you are satisfied in ere now. But, whatever my Opinion be in 
 the matter, I will not impose it on any, much less on Marie ; nor doe I desire that she 
 should in the least cross her inclinations under a pretence of pure obedience to me ; and 
 this much I told her att parting. Therfore if vou her father and oy" friends does not 
 think Foy" a suitable match, and it she has no inclination to it, it is an easie matter to put 
 it off ; for I never proposed it on any other terms, than that it should be with the good 
 Ivkeing of the parties concem'd ; so that there need beno compliment of pure obedience to 
 me in the matter, nor can her marrieing or notmarrieingFoy" in the least altermv alledion 
 from her. So I leave it intyrelv to her to chouse a husband for herself. It, on the 
 ov" hand, she will marry Fov"*, I think it needless to postpone matters. The terms I 
 wrote you in my last- I am to give Five thousand marks, pa)-able year and day after 
 marriage ; and if you doe not think fifty pounds sterline of Annuit)- a sufEdent return, 
 take what more you think fit, and the man can ^Kure : For the oy' Clauses, Lett them 
 be in Comon Forme. Thus you have my mynd fiiUy of that matter, so you and oy' 
 friends may doe in it as vou rhrnk most proper. I need not trouble you with my pri- 
 vate afiairs, because I have wrote a long Letter to Ahnagam, which he will show you. 
 
 As for your Hyland neighbours, ther trysts and meetings, I know not what to say. 
 I wish we be not too secure. I can assure vou. the Tories here were never hver in their 
 looks or hopes, which they found upon a speedie Invasion. Whatever be in the matter, 
 lett things be so order'd, that my House be not surprysed. 
 
 M' Waloole has been very ill, and recovers but slolie ; and I'm told we will not 
 hare the reporte of the secrete Committee before us till he be in condition to come to 
 the House. But I am also told, that the maladministration of the late Minisrerie is so 
 clearly proven, that they caimot escape. Mind me to my mother and my Tr)-ffe, and 
 to Marie. 
 
 I am yours 
 London, 3 c" Apr)-le 1 7 1 5. JO. FORBES. 
 
 M- BaiUie gets the prints weekly. 
 
 No. XLEv. 
 
 To the Hon'^' Mv Ladie Collodin vo' at Collodin. 
 
 Madam^ 
 
 YOLT can'nt be a Stranger to the Circmnstances I have put mvself in at the tyme, 
 and the great need I have of my own Men ic follcvrers whergver they may be found. 
 
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 .eULLODEN PAPERS. 39 
 
 Wherfor I thought fitt, seeing Collodin is not at home, by this line to intreat you 
 to put no stopp in the way of these Men that are & have been my followers upon your 
 Ground, 
 
 Madam, your compliance in this will very much Oblige, 
 
 Your most humble Servant, 
 1 4"- Sept. 1 7 1 5. L. M ACKINTOSHE. 
 
 Madam, 
 P. S. If what I demand will not be granted, I hope I'll be excused to be in my 
 duty. 
 
 No.L. ._ . 
 
 The Laird of Culloden to his Lady. 
 
 London, 3d Sept' 1 7 1 5. 
 BY what is wrote' me, my dear lyffe, from you and my oy' friends, it feemes 
 your fears are over ; but hear they incress more and more. We have now three 
 Expresses, confirming that the Hylanders are actually incampt within ten or twelve 
 myles of Perth. My Lord Marr is faid to be the prinll man, and that a great 
 many noblemen and gentlemen have joyned him. I wonder wery much how this 
 can be without Killravock's knowledge, and that he has given me no accoumpt of 
 
 it. Hu ly, S — f — th, Lord D — d, M. ofT b — din, are particularly said to be 
 
 ther. I intreat you let me know what there is in this thing as farr as you possibly 
 can. I belive I shall stay till the Parliat is up. Sir Will. Gordon has got a place 
 of five hundred pounds a year. Ther is no other news but what you have in the 
 prints. I hope yow'U take all possible care of yourself and your houfe. Mynd 
 me to my mother ; and belive me, My Lyffe, ever yours, 
 
 JO. FORBES. 
 
 No. LI. 
 
 Provost & Council of Inverness, to Hugh Rose, John Forbes, & Mr. Duncan 
 Forbes. Dated Inverness, the 7th Nov. 1 7 1 5. 
 Right Honble, 
 
 AFTER so great experience of your friendship, we crave leave to tell you, we 
 Judge It strange you have been prevail'd with to entertain so harsh impressions of us. 
 Wee cannot doubt some malicious persons might have industriously spread very false 
 reports of us ; but at the same time are much concernd, to find a sett of worthie 
 persons, who (wee think) are well affected to this place, induced to believe them 
 without further proofs of their Credulity. When we have examined our conduct with 
 all the care wee could, we find nothing in it may merite the charge you have laid 
 against us ; and not being able to conceive how such a sudden change hath fallen upon 
 your inclinations towards us, we cannot but acknowledge we are very much sur- 
 prised and concerned at it. And tho' by this means our confidence in you appears 
 to be disappointed in great meafure, we flatter and assure ourfelves, ye will, upon 
 second thoughts, judge it convenient to wave the threatened severities, and treat us, 
 not as enemies, but as friends. And for your conviclion of our innocence we 
 atteft both our Inhabitants and the adjacent Country, that we have done nothing in 
 the matter we are charged with, but what we have been constrained and over- 
 .powered to doe. Your Letters bemg direclicd to the Magiftrats, Councill, and 
 Community, hindred we could not give you this return sooner ; but when yoor 
 
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 ^ CULLODEX PAPERS. 
 
 proposall xras pubEcIy concerted, all of us agree in one voice, that it is not in our 
 power (being disarmed of a while bvgone, and our xAjnmunition taken from us, and 
 thereby incapacitate to use anv hostilities) to thrust out a part\- of armed Men, who 
 can at pleasure not only defbroy us, but reduce the place to a&es. Ail that know 
 it can teilifv" it is not fortified, and so must be a paved road to all parties requiring 
 passage, other«"ise we have not been wanting (as far as lay in us) to secure it against the 
 attempts cf all rebellious Invaders ; but seeing it is not so, we still behoov'd, to yield 
 to the greater force. If the Goverment shall evacuate the part)- that now lodges in 
 it, "we shall be well satisfied, and give all the proofe in our power of our true zeal and 
 affection to His JMajest}- and Goverment ; which, we humbly think, is all can be reason- 
 ablv demand of, 
 
 Right Honble, 
 Your most humble Servants the Magistrats, Couh- 
 - -- cill & Commimitv of the Burgh of Inverness. 
 
 Signed, at their Command, be their Clerk, 
 
 CH: M'LEANE". 
 To 
 The Honble Hugh Rose of Kilravock, 1 
 John Forbes of CuUoden, & M"' j 
 Dimcan Forbes, Advocat, Deputie )> 
 Lieutenants of the Shire of Inver- 
 ness, J 
 
 Inverness, ~'° Nov" 1715. 
 
 Xo. LIl. 
 
 The Duke of Arg\-ll to Culloden. Aberdeen, Febry. 17'", 17 15-6. 
 
 I TAKE this occasion to return you my most hearty thanks for the zeal you 
 have express'd, 6: the service you have done his Majest)' & your Country. Your 
 friendship to me is of an old date ; & as I am ver)- sensible of it, I am no less concerned 
 that I have not been able to make vou y* acknowledgments I should, & fain would. 
 I beUeve vou will everv dav hear more Sc more of the -oains that is taken by some Gen- 
 tlemen to magnify Lord Sutherland's great conduct & greater services. I have a great 
 honour for my Lord ; & did I think it was only design' d to serse him, I should be very 
 well satisfied ; but I plainly perceive, it is much more with intent to lessen the honest 
 Gentlemen of the North, whos zeal and expence ha • produced those sers-ices, which it 
 would seem My Lord is projefted to have the meri: and reward of I thought it my 
 duty to let vou know this, that mv friends may fai' on some method to doe themselves 
 justice by bringing the truth to light ; that they may not be sHghted, nor great Men 
 be imposed on by fals representations. Pray give my service to all our friends, &: 
 doe me the justice to believe 
 
 Your mc^t faithfull 
 
 Humble Servant 
 
 ARGYLL. 
 
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 CULLODEN PAPERS. 4I 
 
 No. Liir. . . 
 
 . ' Lord Lovat to Mr. Duncan Forbes. 
 
 My Dear General, ■ . . 
 
 I SEND you y' inclos'd letter from y' name of M'Leod, which I hope you will 
 make good use of; for it's most certain, I keep'd y' M'Leods at home, which was 
 considerable SerAace done y' Government. Y= Earle went oft" from Culodin to 
 
 got nothing 
 
 may do us y*" same justice at Court : if not, I am sure if I hve I will inform y' King in 
 Person of all y'= pass'd here since y' Rebellion. Y' Earle's cretures openly speak of y" 
 D. of Aro-vl's being recalld. I could not bear it. You know my too great vivacity on 
 y' head. I was really sick w' it, & could not sleep w-ell since. I exped impatiently a 
 letter from you to determinat my going to London, or my stay here, where I am very 
 well w' General Wightman ; but always very much mortified to see myself y* Servant of 
 all, w'out a post or Character. I go tomorrow to Castle Grant, to take leave of my 
 dear Alister Dow. Y' Brother is to follow, & go w* Alister to London this week. I find 
 y= Duke was gone before you could be at London. I hope, my d' General, you will 
 take a start to London, to serve his Grace, and do something for your poor old Corpo- 
 ral ; and if you suffer Glengarry, Frazerdale, or y' Chisolme, to be pardon'd, I viill 
 never carry' a musquet any more under your Command, tho' I should be oblidg'd to 
 go to Affrick. However, you know how obedient I am to my General's Orders. You 
 forgot to give y' order, signed by you & y° other deputs, to meddle w' Frazerdales 
 estate for y^ King's Service. I entreat you send it me ; for ****** is afraid to 
 meddle w'out authority. Adieu, mon aimable General ; vous savez que je vous aime 
 tendrement ; et que je suis mille fois plus a. vous qu'a moyraeme, pour la vie. 
 
 Inverness, y= 5 of March 17 16. LOVAT. 
 
 ■ « ■ . 
 
 , . - No. LIV. . , 
 
 Two Letters from M' Duncan Forbes to the Lord Advocate, dated from Edinburgh, 
 
 20'" March 1716. 
 My Lord, 
 
 BY the first Letter which I did myself the Honour to write to you from this place, 
 I acquainted your Lordship, that I had carried three addresses from our Countrey ; 
 which, missing of the Duke, for whom they were designed, I intended to keep until 
 Brigadier Grant came hither, who I judged a proper person to present them. But a 
 certain incident, which lately happened, obliges me to give your Lordship the trouble 
 of taking care of one of them, herewith inclosed. 
 
 It is not, I presume, unknown to your Lordship, that tho' the Magistrats of Inver- 
 ness had lately, for certain reasons, favoured the Duke's interest ; yet, at the bottom, 
 some of these very Men have had inclinations with relation to Politicks not at all to be 
 approved of. The last election was under the influence of the Rebells : they manifestly, 
 tho' cunningly enough, abetted their Cause ; and have given, as I understand, very 
 good grounds to annull their Election ; whereby we may have a handle to settle the 
 Magistracy upon men equally friends to your Lordship's family and to the Constitution. 
 This I write, that your Lordship may not be tmwarily engaged in that matter. 
 
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 42 CULLODEN" PAPERS. 
 
 The Magistrals of whom I speak, wiling to make some interest for themselves, have 
 laielv, as I'm told, modelled an address, wherein they are very civil to the Duke, upon 
 the plan which J seded in that Countr>' : and from this, presented by some of His 
 Grace's friends, they hope to obtain his protecnon ; but as your Lordship may depend 
 upon what I here set forth to be true, I hope you will take care that that matter go not 
 too far. The address herewith inclosed is from the Whigs of our town, whom I mo- 
 delled into a Resjiuient of Militia. If your Lordship -will encourage it, and make M" 
 Stewart, or anv else whom youi* Lordship thinks fit, presenz- it, it will be very oblige- 
 ing ; and I believe I can promise, if the iilagistracy were once sectiea in .their hands, 
 that I could manage that incorporarion for the King's service whatever way your Lord- 
 ship should direct, for whose iamilv they have a sincere good will. 
 
 I hope your Lordship wiU beheve, that in the narrow sphere wherein I act I leave 
 nothing unsaid or undone that I think can be for your service. 
 
 I am 
 
 Your Lordships 
 
 Mind Lovat, * Most iaithfuil humble Servant. 
 
 ^ ■• ■ * 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 YESTERDAY I was qualified, the Lord knovs-s how, as \-oiur Depute. The 
 Justice Clerk shows a grim sort of ci\'ihty towards me, because he finds me plaguy 
 stubborn. I waited upon him, however, and on the other Lords, to the end they 
 might fix a diet for the tryall of the Episcopall Clergy. The Jusnce Clerk does not 
 seem to smile on their prosecution, because it is not his own contrivance ; and declared 
 it could not come on sooner than Ae first of June ; ailedging for a reason, that the 
 Circuits would not allow time for the trs"all ; but I told him, that if, as I understood 
 "was designed, the May Circuit were suspended for this year by act of Parhament, I 
 would require His Lordship to asagn a dyet sooner. This I acquaint your Lordship, 
 that I mav have your directions about it. 
 
 The Address from the Burrows, which I formerly mentioned, was carried yesrerday, 
 without the addition in favours of Cadogan, Sutherland, or Justice Clerk. Willy * * * 
 was the iNIan who protested, very slily, that if thev proceeded to make compliments to 
 inferior persons, such as Cadogan, Sutherland, S:c. he might be allowed to bring in 
 a clause in favours of the Grev nags. 
 
 Cadogan is this day gone by Stirling and Perth for Badenoch. He purposes vdth a 
 Detachment of 2,300 foot, and 500 Dragoons, to disarm the Highlands : but, un- 
 luckily, that great man is like to have small honour by it ; for already the Camercns 
 have given up theirs at Inver'cchy ; and it is not doubted, that the Commons over all 
 the Highlands wHl do the same, upon the grace that is to be given them. 
 
 Lord WiUiam Johnston spoke to me about one Roswal, or Oswald, prisoner in the 
 Cancngate tolbooth : he said your Lordship promised to give me directions about him ; 
 if you have any Commands relating to him, or to any thing else, lay them on me ; for 
 my part I'm resolv'd, postage being firank, to let you know if there is or is not any 
 thing new in this Couiury tiuice a week- I am. 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's Most Obedient humble Servant. 
 
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 CULLOOEN PAPERS. 4* 
 
 No.LY. 
 
 M' Rob' Baillie [to Culloden.] 
 Sir, 
 
 I HAVE yours of the 1 2"' Instant before mc ; and have, in Obedience to it, begutt 
 this post ; to be continued weekly, while in health, suppose the trifle I write of be net 
 worth a farthing, let be a groat ; but yours hither will be reckoned of value, not only 
 by your General, Corporal, Colonel, and all your Captains, but Chaplains — yea, will 
 reckon it a very great compliment to have two or three lines from your Servant every 
 week, if not from yourself. 
 
 Upon 13"* Huntley was carried hence toward Aberdeen, under a Guard of 20 Dra- 
 goons ; and Rollock, Sir Th : Calder, and Tannochy, upon the 20"', under a Guard, 
 also went off. 
 
 Gen. Wightman, with a Detachment of 400 foot and 50 Horse, attended by your 
 Corporal with 100 of his Men, and the Laird of Kilraick made an Expedition into 
 Ross upon the 1 5"' Instant, and lodged in and about Brahan that n.ight ; next day 
 marched to Coul and Scalwel ; thence to Castle Leod, Tulloch, and Dingwal, Kil- 
 coviry, Chanery, and Cromerty. The foot returned Sabbath the 1 8"', and the Gene- 
 rail upon Munday the i9'\ attended by the Horse, and your Corporal, who discovered 
 himself a pretty fellow, not only in taking Inch Coulter and E. Cromerty Prisoners, — 
 (tho', because of His Lady's sickness, the last was allowed, under a Guard, to stay at 
 home ; their Crime is said to be, aiding and assisting of Rebells) — but also in chasing 
 and taking some 8 or 10 of S' John of Coul bis Men, who, when the General was 
 upon the Banks of the River Conon, appeared in a body upon the brow of an hill on 
 the other side : wherewith, some in the Detachment crying out, " the Enemy !" your 
 Corporal's Men took the Alarm ; in fives, foorded the River to the Arm Pits ; which 
 made some of the Forraigners cry out, " what, must we all go that way to be drownd!'* 
 within a little were content that they were not commanded to follow them. However, 
 the Generall and his Dragoons got through, and followed Strae and Lovat about the 
 distance of a furlong behind ; your Corporals foot did breast the hill, and, like fleet 
 hounds after the Game, gained ground of the prey till they apprehended and disarmed 
 the forsaid number, who, upon examination, declared that they were informed, that 
 they were either to be shot or cut to pieces if they should be found in their houses ; 
 and therefore, to save their lives, had fled for proteftion to the hills ; which being 
 considered, and that the common people might not be hindered or affrighted from 
 surrendering themselves, they were all allowed to go home. 
 
 You will mind the address I talked of with you, because Meeting approacheth. 
 
 An Address to his Majesty by our Magistrates is sent off to Commissary Stuart, to 
 be presented by Secretary Stuart, as is talked ; in which they pretend to commend the 
 D. A. but I can assure you it is a blunt one, &c. ; and, considering every thing, I 
 would not wsh my friend to present it. — Yesterday I was at Bonchrew, where friends 
 are very well. I am, Sir, 
 
 Your most Obedient and faithfull Servant, 
 Inv. 23'' March 17 16. RO: BAILLIE. 
 
 10 o'clock at night. Just now I am charmed with Musick from Baillie Barber, 
 where they say there is a Ball, but it wants confirmation ; but next post you may hear 
 the certainty. 
 
 u 2 No. LVJ.
 
 44 CUlLODrX PAPERS. 
 
 No. LVL 
 
 The Eaxl of Day to Lord Lorat. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I SHOULD s>: :.;: h-ve done mvself this honour, but that I waited till I could 
 answer that pairr of your leter about your coming to London. I was apprehensive, that 
 in case vojt Lordship cam befor you hade a direcl leave, some of your &: mv Enesiies 
 might have been readie to pass censurs npoTi it ; as they never miss to do, when they 
 have ane opporrunirie, whither -"ght or wrong. I spoke to my Lord Townsend to day ; 
 and he told me your Lp might come when you pleased : all the Court, I find, are verv 
 weell disposed to take care of you, & to iind out such a reward as I forsaw you would, 
 & now thev are all con\Tnced vou doe, deserve : Our Enemies have of late been very 
 bude ; but its very possible that ther plons may turn upon themselves. I assure you, 
 there is no instance of success I should be fonder of, than, an opportunitie oi doeing 
 you Service. 
 
 I am, My Lord, Your Lordships 
 London, March zj~ 1716. ' most Obedient ^c laost humble Ser 
 
 ILAY. 
 
 - Xo. LVII. 
 M" Robert BaiUie j^to Culloden.j 
 
 Much HonQured Sir,. 
 
 I CONGRATLLATE you upon the Royal favour which smiles upon your 
 friends ; Long may it continue. 
 
 Yours of 22" is before me ; and I humbly thank you for the reprimand given so 
 justlv ; the person concerned is resolved to mend that fault. I suppose now you expeci 
 the comirmation promised in mv last ; which being a matter of importance, I shall tell 
 you the truth, that the Commander's Landlady inclines mightily to have home her 
 banished, and was pleased vdih the tidling a few springs, and the dancing of rwo []or]] 
 three Girls, rill about twelve, to entertain him : to see if that would put him in a good 
 humour. 
 
 3 Ships arrived Wednesday w" Powder, Cannons, Mortars, Bombs, Bullets, Grana- 
 does. Carriages, Biske:, Flour, Salt, 6cc, to proAide the Army in Badenoch, where they 
 encamp 3"^ April. The Dutch and Swiss march hence thither Munday. Some Compa- 
 nies of Grant's Regio' are marched to Ross, to reUeve the Garrisons of the Forraigners, 
 who go for the Camp at Ruthven. 
 
 General "Wightman, or W ^kman, hath taken sis Coach horses, with Coach and 
 
 Shaes, oi Seafort — the Coach is sent on board one of the Ships forsaid. 
 
 Stores of Com and Strae are laid up in abundance in our Magazine in the Maggot ; 
 and all the Souldiers are in a mighty hurry, preparing for the expedition to 
 Ruthven. 
 
 Fish and Provisions come in plentifully for the ready Money. 
 
 Our Svnod meets shortly. In the address, cast in a word of Lox-at also. If I can, 
 I'll endeavour to make it pass ; I hope to see it from you shortly. 
 
 Some say here, that it would have been better service to have taken the Guns and 
 
 swords from the Rebells than Seafort's Coach : but G. W kman is fond of the 
 
 Bonnv Coach and fine horses. 
 
 Our
 
 CTJLLODEJJ PAPERS. 
 
 45 
 
 Our old M — g — s — ts are apprehensive, but fail not to use all means w' General 
 Wightman v^ fortifie themselves ; think upon our liberation from Bondage, and get in 
 such Men whom the K. and all honest men may truft. 
 
 I humbly conceive our Comm in Chiefe should not comfort them who are sus- 
 
 pefted of Jacobitism ; far less such as are apparently so. 
 
 Never was there greater oppression in billetting of Souldiers : the poor Whiggs are 
 squeez'd, and Rebells spared. 
 
 Jcimesi.a is like to make a hand with some of our Officers to be reponed to his Meet- 
 ing House ; in which case the Seeds of Jacobitism shall still be nursed among us. 
 
 Now I suppose you are wearied in reading the incoherent Paragraphs above written ; 
 but I would not weary to talk with you all night. 
 
 My next shall be superscribed number 3'' as this numb 2'' ; and you need expeft 
 no other superscription from, 
 
 Much honoured & Dear Sir, • < 
 
 Inv : 30"' March 17 16. - Yours in sinceritv, 
 
 • ^ , RO. BAILLIE. 
 
 * 
 No. LVIIL '. , 
 
 Sir David Dalrymple to M' Duncan Forbes. 
 Dear Duncan, 
 
 I THANK you for your kind correspondence, and am to acknowledge noe fewer 
 than four of your Letters. I am not surprized with the marks of good nature & 
 temper that a certain Judge showes towards me every day. Indeed, I am surprized that 
 a Man of that temper should find Patrons any where. I hope that he has fewer than 
 he imagines ; but I will allwayes speak with great reserve in matters which depend on 
 great Men. M' Stanhope told me to-day, at Court, that he does not remember of any 
 order sent to M' Cockburn, or his father, to take care of the Warrants of Councill for 
 the election of y"" Burrowes ; but I shall know more particularly the state of that matter 
 before next post. 
 
 By a conversation I had this day at Court, I begin to think we shall have no Recruits 
 this year ; but I shall be soon cert?.ine in what will be expefted in that also. 
 
 There is not yet, for what I know, any resolution taken about the Prisoners ; only a 
 Petition has been promoted among them to pray for being transported ; which, if it 
 save y' lives & fortunes, I believe will go very well down w" the younger sort, but will 
 go heavily down with those of greater age, or such as have familys or young Children. 
 They have intimat" within these few days to prepare for y' tryalls speedily, — they ex- 
 pefl: y'' Indictments on Saturday — I don't yet hear that any Commission of Oyer & 
 terminer is exped. 
 
 The report, that the Triennial Aft is to be changed into a Septennial!, of which no 
 doubt you have heard, is the great subject of discourse in City & in C'ountry, where it is 
 argued with great her.t & animosity. To be sure, a projed that lessens the sweet op- 
 portunitys of eating & drinking heartily, & deprives hot headed Clergy Men of excite- 
 ing the people warmly once every three year, will not be very generallie gratefull ; & 
 there will not be wanting People who for popularity will encourage such sentiments ; 
 the matter itself is of moment, & not w''out difficulfv. It had been better from the 
 beginning a Septenniall aft ; but it may be dangerous at this tyme to deprive y'' people 
 & the Clergy of a beloved Aft. This is certain, that these frequent concussions about 
 Eleftions have encreased our divisions, and the giddie & unsettled temper that appears 
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 40 CCTLLODEN- PAPERS. 
 
 among us ; it has exhausted the Estates of Nobility 5c Gentry in many Places, & 
 wakens y^ reputation of our alliancies ^ith foreigners. li this thing comes to be debated 
 in v^ two houses, I believe v* Arguments vrill be urged on both sides with great eager- 
 ness 5c freedom j which would be ver)" entertaining, ii a iSizn could be indiiferent in 
 such cases. 
 
 The lar^e steps which France makes for clearing off her Debts, her doubtfiill con- 
 duct towards this Court, the weight of a Turkish Warr upon the Emperour, the pro- 
 gress which T^ Swedes make in Norwav, with some other circumstances, afford abim- 
 dance of matter of speculation to the Politicians ; but we have reason to depend upon 
 the goodness of Almighty God, which has not onhr supported us since the Revolu- 
 tion, but has brought every thing to such Points, as we could not doubt that our safetie 
 proceeded from that watchful Pro%-idence. 
 
 Mr. Walpole cannot be said to be out of danger ; but his Phisitians have better 
 hopes of him to dav &; vesterdav, than they had for some days before. You may be 
 sure that the doubtiull state of his health does ver\- much affect all that wish well to the 
 King and his Government. I thank you for the care of Ouchterlony ; I hope in a post 
 or two to write something further about him. I don't believe that he's just as clean as 
 white paper ; but by all that I ha^ e ever heard, he is not charged with any Crime that 
 is not bailable, 5c would not be thought so in any bodv that I were less concern'd in. 
 In a word, I beUeve he is not a Sinner above all that dwelt at Jerusalem ; nor are 
 his persecutors the most disinterested in the service of the Government, civil or eccle- 
 siastical. I han't yet seen Golloden ; but he and I will mind your honor in a 
 glass deep proportioned to yoxtr length, & sprightly as your wisdom. I am, dear 
 Duncan, 
 
 Your 
 Apr. 3- 1 7 16. DAATD DALRYMPLE. 
 
 i ' 
 
 Xo. LIX. 
 
 Mr. Hossack to Mr. Dimcan Forbes. 
 Sir, 
 
 I HA^T vours of the 27'° past; which is the most I have to say in the per- 
 formance of this officious dutv, besides to cover the inclosed. 
 
 You'l pcssiblv have heard, that Mr. \V^ Eraser, Fraserdale's Chamberlain, came here 
 when Lord Lovat was in the Country, w' two stollen passes from Athol 5c the Com- 
 missary Gen' a: Blair, to desire a pass from Gen'' Wightman ; upon these that he 
 might go to the Highlan*ds, to buv Cows for Cadogan's Army ; but "Wightman refused 
 it till Lovat was returned ; 5«; then, imderstanding that Lo^-at had procured Orders for 
 apprehending him, he withdrew ; next day, bv proxies, he gave some information 
 about Fraserdale's Plate ; and Lord Lovat as he was ^oing to Ruthven demanded it of 
 Provost Clerk : but he posirivelv refused him, and I believe there happened some hott 
 words. Afterwards Lo\-at, in his passion, dropt something of it to Wighiman ; who, 
 when Lovat was gone, by arreast and threatenings of prison, proctired the plate from 
 the Provost. I don't know vet what Cadosan may do in it, but Wiirhtman did not make 
 the Prize for Lovat. 
 
 General Cadogan came here last night : his little armv was encamped this dav, about 
 noon, at Borlum. There goes hence Detachments of the Fuzileers, Brigadier Grant's 
 Dutch and Swisse to the number of icco ; and it's s° they are to march into the High- 
 lands Monday next. 
 
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 Ct'I.LODEN TAPERS, 47 
 
 Many of us are indeed now sensible of your absence, Sir ; for we have none to 
 apply to for the redress of our Grievances ; but we'll be sufficiently redrest, if you 
 do what we believe is in your power for us ; and if you faile, you'l certainly be discon- 
 tented with yourself for it afterwards ; & pray speak the word for a Post Master to 
 Fochabers. I am, 
 
 Sir, 
 Your most humble Servant, while I am 
 Inverness, 6 Aprile 1 7 1 6. JOHN HOSS ACK. 
 
 No. LX. 
 
 Mr, Rob" Baillie to Mr. Duncan Forbes. 
 Much honoured, 
 
 AS the Army passed through Badenoch, an uncivil return was given to a Mes- 
 sage from the General, by M*" Donald of Gellaway upon Lochspei in Lagan ; where- 
 upon a Detachment of 200 men was sent to that Country', who burnt his house & 
 Corns, &: killed all his Sheep, and carried off all his Cows. Wednesday the Army 
 marched from Badenoch towards the head of Straithspei, & yesternight Incamped at 
 Moy ; & this night are to Incamp about Borlum. Yesternight, at 6 in the Evening, 
 General Cadogan arrived here, under the discharge of the great Guns from our Castle. 
 This day Mr. Stuart & I waited upon His Excellency, being introduced by My Lord 
 Lovat. I hear that tomorrow or Munday the troops in this towTi will march to the 
 Camp at Borlum. I am informed that Glengary keeps his house at Innergary ; but 
 how long he will do so I know not. I need not write the history of Fraserdale his 
 Silver Plate, since you may have that account from other hands ; only I am pretty well 
 
 informed, that it is not ^bove 150 Pounds in value : also I may observe, that G 
 
 W n keeps well what he takes. The Gentlemen in Lochiel's Countrey have sub- 
 mitted to the Garrison ; but the Laird with a fev/ men is gone to the Hills. I hope 
 shortly you shall hear of the Settlement of this Countrey ; of which per next, I am, 
 
 Much honoured & Dear Sir, 
 
 Your most Obed' k most humble Serv* 
 Inv: 6 Ap. 1716. RO. BAILLIE. 
 
 Our Presbytrie have appointed two Commissioners to the General Assembly, of 
 which you are one ; and it is humbly intreated you may not despise the Office of their 
 ruling Elder in that Court. 
 
 All the honest Officers who are come along with Cadogan seem surprized that the 
 Lewtennants did not turn out the Jacobite Magistrats ; seeing they were chosen whea 
 tiie town was ii. the hands of the Rebels, whom they aided and comforted^ 
 
 No. LXI. 
 
 Mr. John Forbes to Mr. Duncan Forbes. 
 Bear Brother, 
 
 YOU are pleased to blaime me for tb . hurrie I was in at pairtlng. If you con- 
 sider what hand John Kennedie and you had m that affaire, I perswade myself you'll 
 think it somewhat out of the Road, first to tempt, and then accuse. 
 
 In my last, I told you that I had Kist the King and Princes their hands ; I have since 
 been with the Prince in Private, and att his desyre given him a true accoumpt of what 
 
 past
 
 ^8 CCXLODEN- PAPERS. 
 
 past in the North ; widi •which he was xerv weell satisfied, and seems to have a very just 
 sense or what was done for bis Service there ; and he seems to understand matters 
 so weell now, that in a very litle vnne its thought the Squad will have but litle to 
 sav. 
 
 I have spoke to the Duke and to Hay. Thev both desrre vou mav continue to write 
 to them ; and I!av told me, he -n^s to write you to that purpose last pest ; but whe- 
 ther he has or not, fail not to write. The Duke told me a Storie last night. That the 
 Justice Clerk had represented you as a Jacobite, and not ntt to serve as Advocate 
 Deputt, and des^Ting to have vou alter'd. Pray lett me know what ther is of this ; 
 the Duke takes a great concern in you, and went himself tc Sir D^^-id Dalr}-mple, 
 who told the Duke, if any such thing were attempted, he would lay down before they 
 should have ther "Will. 
 
 I have delivered Sir "William S' Ouintine's Letter : vou may be sure ther shall be 
 nothing wanting on mv pairt to serve Mr. ^P Pharline. I b^ you may make my 
 humble dutr acceptable to him and his Lady. 
 
 All our news comes from vou. By the Publick prints vou'll find a great many 
 thousands gon togither ; for no oy' reason but that Cadoggan may subdue them. 
 
 It is cerrain, that the trienniall Act will be made septenniall. 
 
 The Court gives a great manv reasons for it, and the tories as many against it. Your 
 Perriwia: shall be sent how soon I can. As for mv ^lemorandum anent my affairs, I 
 have not as vett had r^-me to t hi nk of any ; only it were proper to lay down a Plan, 
 how to have our Ingadgements for the PubUc reliev'd ; and likewise that you should 
 direci me how to steate my private loss and expences. 
 
 I am yours, 
 London 7-' Appryle 1716. JO. FORBES. 
 
 Xo. LXII. 
 
 Lord Lovat to Mr. Duncan Forbes. 
 
 My d' General, ^* " 
 
 I WOULD certainly quarel anv man ahve, but my General, on what you tell me 
 about v" Llv of Invernesse ; for I rake God to witness, I never thought or design'd it ; 
 & I rejected it when others proposed it to me : so vou are ver)- imjust to your Corporal 
 on y' head. 
 
 I send you a double of my L" Islav's Letter. Gen. Cadogan this day, after his 
 geting ane account of GIengar\-^s, Lochiel's, ;v^ ***** *'s surender, gave me leave to 
 go for L<Hidon, & told me he would serve me if occasion offer'd : so, d" General, 
 "Wedsdav next I design to go off for Ed"^ : so about y' 22° I hope to embrace my 
 General. Gen. "^Vightman, contrary to Gen. Cadogan's desire and his own promise, 
 keeps ujigenerouslv y' half of y' plate firom me, but I will not quarel with him for it. 
 I give him money for it, and he is to be forthcoming for it, according to the 
 King's order. Give my humble dutv to Provost Campbell, & tell him the contents 
 of May's letter, i y' I hope to be soon w* him. I am pressd w' the post ; & I am 
 for ever, 
 
 My d' General, your own 
 Inverness, y' 7 cf Apryle 17 16. LOVAT. 
 
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 CULLODEX PAPEHS. 49 
 
 ■ The Baron, your father in law, told me a story y' makes Glengary y' greatest knave 
 on earth to y'^ Duke of Argyll. 
 
 I was likewise surprised y' Col' Ross told the Baron before me, y' Baillie Ro- 
 bertson told him, y' you did diminish y" Baron's services. 1 could not but turn 
 passional before the Baron himself, to vindicat my d' General. I told Col' Ross, 
 y' whoever told that, they were lyars, & y' my General was incapable of y' ; he was 
 full of honor & valeur, & had no need to diminish any man to rise him.self. I am to 
 examin y' Busines to-day, for I will loose my life rather than suiFer my General to be 
 reflected on. 
 
 I beg you may send y' inclosd to my 1/ Hay. Y" Baron talks of going to London 
 w' me. I canot be ready to go before Saturday. 
 
 I intreat you, acquaint y' Brother & Brig. Grant of my going oiF for London, & y' 
 I hope they will stop all y' is endeavoured to be done for Fraserdale till I come. I intreat 
 you take care of y" inclosd : their is one for my L* Townshend, to let him know y' I 
 am going conform to his order for London. I beg you may tell the Postmaster to stop 
 my Letters at Ed'. * 
 
 Xo. LXIII. 
 
 Lord Lovat to Mr. John Forbes. • ' . 
 
 My d' Colloden, .. r • :-i. ; 
 
 IF I could be angry w' you, I would for [not3 writing to me since you went to 
 London, having promised you would not be too days ther when I would here from you, 
 to let me know if I should go for London. But my L'^ Hay having writ to me that my 
 L"* Townshend allowed me to go, & IVr Cadogan having told me y' he had no more 
 service for me, or for my men, I am this far on my journey w' y" old Baron of Killrack ; 
 & we go off this Evening, but can't be at London before y' first week of May, none of 
 us being fit for posting. I was glad to find my General in good health, & I must own 
 ther are not many in the world I love so much ; he has given me my instructions at 
 large, & 1 am resolved to walk by them, & make you my rule. I long extreamly, my 
 d'' John, to imbrace you, and assure you, de vive voix, y' I am, w'- a tender affection 
 and regard, 
 
 ■ - - ' My d^ Colloden, 
 
 ' . ' Your affectionat Friend, 
 
 . ' _ ^ & most Obedient and Most 
 
 humble Servant, while 
 Ed'y'gthof Aprj'le 1716. ■ ._ ' • LOVAT. 
 
 I intreat you order y' Servant to give the inclosed to y' Cusing Sandie Eraser. 
 
 No.LXIV. 
 
 M' Hossack to M' Duncan Forbes. 
 Sir, 
 
 I SAW Yours by yesterday's post to M' Biiillie, This goes under Covert by the 
 Aberdeen's post : if it is at Edin' before Glengarrie, it will inform you that he came 
 here last night, waited of Gen' Cadogan, & gave him his Sword. This morning he's 
 
 H gone
 
 gone o5" for Edin' ; irs said upon his parole, without a guard. We hear nothing of 
 Seafon, but that Cadogan has allow'd his people till Saturday the 14" to bring in their 
 Arms. Oxir little Army is to decamp, the horse tomorrow, and the rest speedily, 
 towards the South. Cadogan goes off tomorrow for Inverlochy, and returns hither. 
 There was a derachnient seat to the house of Ttinergerrv some dayes agoe. 
 
 S", when you senie the runners to Aberdeen w" the Gen ■ Posua", please to mind the 
 Post M" of Fochabers ; for my brother-in-law, that's Minister of the Parish, 5c the 
 most steadiast friend of the Government in it, is maltreated by the present Postmaster, 
 as well as others ; and that part of the Country is otherwise neglected yet, and the 
 Rebel's there continue their little insidts. Last Night bro' a Letter from Colloden : 
 the Lady vo- mother 5c all friends are in health j and I am, with the same 
 inclinations. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Your most humble serv'. 
 Invemes, 10 April 17 16- . JOHN' HOSSACK- 
 
 Y :_ ::.iy & this dav Glengarrie's people were to give up their Anns to the adjacent 
 gainsons. 
 
 I hear, Gen^ Cac:~^- r.as made Lovar a pr^ :.: : his half of Frazerdale's plate, 
 & that he has compoimded for the other half w^ Wightman ; but there's only a small 
 part of it come to hand yet. 
 
 Xo. LXV. 
 
 KT Duncan Forbes to his Brother M' John Forbes. Dated fix)m Edinburgh, the 
 
 1 6" April I " 1 6. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 THE bearer hereof, mv Ladv Revelrigg, will inform you of the circumstances of 
 her son ; who, bv the rashness of youth, and the force of bad example, was led into 
 that miaRDrtune with manv of his countrymen, for which he is now a prisoner at 
 London. 
 
 I need not employ manv wc:.:? "r. r;commaiding to you the case oTthe unfortunate : 
 I will o2lv acquaint you, that in .i : -'~ •': >en,-ice is in your power to this yoimg 
 Gentleman, vou will do a very . ;o me, and a very kind thing to his 
 
 Mother, :": "•. I have most jusav a vcT)' grea: respect. 
 
 To say 1..^.^ :. vou would look like doubting of the interest I have with you ; and 
 less I cannot sav, in respect to the earnestness with which I recommend this Lady to 
 your services and assisance. I hope Sir Da\^ii Dalrymple, to whom I have written, 
 will do what he can. 
 
 Yours, 
 
 DL'N. FORBES. 
 
 N0.LXVI.
 
 CCLLODEN PAPERS. 51 
 
 No.LXVI. 
 
 Mr. Robert Baillie to 
 
 Much Honoured, 
 
 GENERAL Cadogan returned from Fort William upon the 15"'. He sailed 
 down the Loch in about 3 hours, having a brisk fair wind. There are good Garrisons 
 in Glengarry and Lochiel's houses. A detachment also is sent to the Isle of Sky of 
 about 600 Men ; and now we hear that Sir Donald's brethren have surrendered, but 
 cannot tell what is become of himself: it is judged, that the Ship which arriv'd in 
 some of the Creeks of that Island with Arms and Money, as was talked, hath carried 
 off the Noblemen and Gentlemen that were there, and amongst the rest Sir Donald 
 is carried off. 
 
 The Detachment to Brahan is not returned, I heard on Fryday they were to pierce 
 a little further into the Country. A great many Highland but no good guns are 
 delivered to the Garrison ; so that, after all, the giving up of Arms seems to be 
 against the grain, and but sham work : it is hoped the parliament will do its' 
 pairt. 
 
 General Cadogan went to CuUoden on Wednesday last, which place he commends 
 very much. Our Magistrates used all means with Wightman to engage the General 
 to accept of an entertainment ; to which, after much importunity, he consented. Upon 
 Thursday last it was given in Baillie Scot's, or John Stuart's rather. At Night there 
 was Musick and some dancing, w' sweet-meats in Wightman's. Mistris Barber in- 
 vited the Young Lasses, but some with me were so stubborn as not to go. 
 
 General Wightman is much displeased w' Colonel Dunbar, and told me that he 
 had been 111 Imployed in aspersing him unjustly, as if he favoured Jacobites and op- 
 pressed the King's friends, and desired me to intimate so much to him. The 
 Colonel would give him no satisfaftion about that matter, unless he knew his grounds ; 
 but alledged, that he never spoke or wrote any thing of him but truth. 
 
 Our Camp at Borlum is now broken up, & the Troops are all marched. 
 
 Upon Tuesday the General sets out for Forres, and the Swiss and Dutch shortly 
 after are all to march from this Garrison toward the South. 
 
 3 Ingeniers, Night and Day allmost, are at Work in measuring the Castle and 
 Ground about it, the Sconce and Ground about it, the Town on both sides the water, 
 and all the Streets, and they are very busy with their draughts : they talk of a Canal 
 to Fort William ; but that is no easy matter *. 
 
 Our Squad meets on Tuesday at Forres, where I must attend. I apprehend it will 
 be the 30"" of April before I go from this place. 
 
 I am now in such a haste lest the Post go off, that I fear I cannot write to London. 
 If you please, this may be forwarded to Culloden. I am 
 
 Your most obsequious and 
 
 obliged Servant, 
 Inv. 2 1 Ap. 1716. ' RO. BAILLIE. 
 
 * Here we have, probably, the first idea of this Canal ; which was again seriously revived in 177! ; 
 and was at last begun in 1803, with the name of the Caledonian Canal. 
 
 H 2 
 
 No. LXVII.
 
 5« CULLODEX PAPER?. 
 
 • Xo. Lxvir. 
 
 Lord Lovat to Mr. Rob' Baillie. 
 DSLr, 
 
 I HOPE J this Letter -wrill find vou at iNIy General's Lodgings in a dav or two, 
 & in perieci: health after your journey. BIy General will be as glad to see you, as 
 I -was sory to part w' him. I xrish vou could con^iQce him to go to London. I 
 am sure it vrould be for the interest of all those whom you wish well. M" Primrose 
 promises me to endeavour to soften y' cruel disposition of Justice Clark towards me. 
 I do not desire nor court any favour from him ; but I would wish y' he wotild not 
 indeavour by new calumnyes or foolish inventions to hinder the King's favour to me ; 
 but I hope i:s above his power & contrivance ; 6^: at the bottom I laugh as much at 
 my Enemys as mv d" General does at Ins being called a Jacobite ; their storvs of me 
 bang as fals as y^ of him. I iutreat I may hear from you under Culoden's cover. 
 Whoi it is tyme, I will intreat of vou 5: my General to put \~ transactions of y* 
 North in a truer light than y' Pamphelet did v' was published ^Vlondav last. I give 
 jay most humble service to your worthy Lady, & I am w' all ye gratitude imaginable, 
 & with great respect, 
 
 D" Sir, 
 Inglekirk, . Your most obedient & most humble Servant, 
 
 v= 2 ;;- of • . LOVAT. 
 
 Aprvle 1716. 
 
 Xo. Lxvni. 
 
 Mr. Hossack to Mr. Duncan Forbes- 
 Sir, 
 
 I ACKNOWLEDGE the receipt of your favors of the 19'''; they will be at all 
 times equallv acceptable, even tho'. Sir, its s** here vou are reckoned a Jacobite at 
 Court ; but I hope it's bv none but these Whiggs who are Enemvs to the D — of 
 Argyle ; and that the Jacobites shall fir " - h?rwaves. Tho' vou have discorded w^ 
 the Justice CJerk upon the trining Lvbc _ Porteous Rolls agst our Magistrates, I 
 
 believe you're not intirelv in thdr interest. 
 
 It would be an iniquit%" not to teU vou that L"^ L — r, bv some of his zealous friends 
 here, is reckon'd a Papist ; that thev have made discoveries of it or he went awav ; 
 that he seit a Priest to this town to administer the Sacrament to his Brother on his 
 ack Bed ; and that, since, he has got extream imadon. I cannot assert these, neither 
 will you, S', make a bad use of what I write ; but I hope, S', vou'l take some caution 
 by it- Coll Dunbar is affronted that k > :>t seen his Regiment's address in 
 print. The Dutch i Swisse, its s'*, gc *" rr.je on Mundav 6: Tuesdav. I hope, 
 
 S% you'l reckon that ^Ir. Baiilie is , cfore you can write him : he goes off 
 
 Mundav. 
 
 I am. Sir, 
 Inverness, 27 Aprill ") Your most humble Serv*. 
 
 17 1 6, in the inoming. J JOHN HOSSACK. 
 
 Xo. LXIX. 
 
 - Mr. John Forbes to Mr. Duncan Forbes. 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 I A2>1 glad to find that ovrs are as lasie as I. All the news I have to trouble you 
 widi is (i"''), that Brigadier M'Intosh and sis more made th" esca|)e out of Newgate 
 
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 last night. 2". That att the Prince's desyre Brigadier Grant gave him, at my sight, 
 this day the two Memorials you wrote of what was done in the North. I believe the 
 Prince desyres to compaire them with the accoumpt printed by Coll' Grant, which 
 makes so great a noyse here that E. Sutherland, as I am told, is making a reply to it. 
 I wonder much you doe not send me the accoumpts of the Money was raised for, and 
 laid out on, the publick accoumpt by us at Inverness. I wish also that you would 
 think of the proper way of steating my particular expenses, from the first tyme my 
 W)'ffe was besidged, till the forces came to Inverness. I give my humble duty to 
 Mr. MTharline and his Lady : you may assure them I shall keep M' Drummond in 
 mynd, nor shall any thing be wanting on my pairt to serve them. 
 
 JO. FORBES. 
 London, 5"' May > ..„.-, 
 
 No.LXX. 
 
 The Duke of Argyll to Mr. Duncan Forbes. 
 
 My dear Duncan, London, May the 24"", 171 6. 
 
 I HAVE from so many hands learnt the new Obligations I have to you, that I 
 must not, in justice to my self, delay confessing them to you. They are the greater 
 & more generous, that I never deserved them of you ; and I hope the same good 
 opinion of me that promted you to them will perswade you that I shall never omitt 
 any occasion of making you the returns that an honest man should doe. How 
 fate will dispose of me I know not ; but I believe my enemys have very little reason, 
 to believe that they are to get the better. I have been betrayed before now by the 
 same knaves that have done me the favor now ; but they may, if they please, call to 
 mind that they did not goe unpunished ; & what has been may be. One thing my 
 friends may depend on. That fate itself cannot make me like my Enemys j by which 
 'tis plain I shall ever be 
 
 Your faithfull Servant, 
 :■■'■■'■ ' ARGYLL. 
 
 No. LXXI. 
 
 ivr John Forbes to his Brother Mr. Duncan Forbes, dated London, 3 i " May 1 7 1 6. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 M' Dalrimple came here last night, and told me he had a Packett for me ; but 
 I have not yet gott it. By my last you'll find that there's nothing to be gott at tliis 
 tyme, on any accompt whatsoever. Divisions run high att Court ; and all our 
 people who make any opposition to the Bill of Forfaulters are ill lookt on by the 
 Court ; of which number your humble Serv' is one. This day it [was] carried that 
 the Commissioners to execute the powers in the said Bill should be Members of the 
 House. The Justice Clerk, as I am told, declares himself Lovat's enemie. The 
 Duke of Marlbrough was two days agoe suddenly taken very ill with a palsie, but 
 is now said to be in a fair way of recovery. No news ; all friends are well. 
 
 J. FORBES. 
 
 B. Grant mynds you most kindly. "^ 
 By this you may see that I write for > 
 
 writing's sake. 
 
 may 
 
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 54 CUIXODEX PAPERS. 
 
 No. LXXII. 
 
 — to Mr. Duncan Forbes. 
 
 My dear Forbes, London, 2"^ June 1 7 1 6. 
 
 I HAD nothing ixom you last post ; which makes me fancy you. My Lord, k 
 Nimmo, are employing yotirfelves about getting the papers I want. The Commis- 
 sioners of the forfeitures axe to have ^1000. p' Annum each: of 13, - to reside 
 here, & 6 in Scotland ; the balloting is to be on Tuesday next. 
 
 The Duke of Marlborough is a little better ; he can speak jj or 6 words together 
 att a time : his mouth stands less zwry ; and they don't dispair of the continuance 
 of his life. When his tongue is capable to send out his thoughts in words, we'll 
 know if the palsie has impaired his judgment *. 
 
 The squad h^\e given it out with a good deal of assurance, some days past, that 
 
 the D. of R. is S ^y of State — ^we don't believe one word of it on good grounds. 
 
 They are pushing the prosecuting of our honest Nonjurants at such a rate, that my 
 Patron told me this Morning, it vail not be in his power to prevent it after the 20'^ 
 No' next : to this day he'l get the time prolonged ; but he says they may depend on 
 it he will not have strength enough to support them after that time, so %nolently are 
 they pushed at : he told me this under a very deep concern for the melancholy con- 
 sequences he fears it will be attended with. 
 
 While I am writing I have yours of the 26'^. You are wrong : I said no more then 
 " I think Forbes deserA-es thanks." " Yes, I'll tell him I think so," said he. 
 " Farewell." It is of infinite importance to have these declarations. 
 
 ' No. LXXIII. 
 
 to Mr. Duncan Forbes, 
 
 My dear Forbes, 
 
 BECAUSE you wrote to me last post, & neither ]\Iy Lord nor Nimmo, I have 
 given my Lord the melancholy part of the Dispatches of the night, which upon my 
 word grieves me extreamly — it is an tmluckv aSair as can be in the world — ^and have 
 reserved the reverse for you. 
 
 The account I sent you on Saturdav was h.Q. ; yet on Mimday the began 
 
 to look up, & carried it so here, that I fancy you had news by the last post that 
 
 they had got the better. T d, S pe, & \V , told their Master, if the D — 
 
 of A — le was pusht at & shockt, they understood it was pushing at them directly, 
 & were positive that in this event they'd all lav down : whereupon his Majesty this 
 day gave the Squad a positive answer, that he would do nothing to shock the Duke 
 of Argjle, & would make no Secretary for Scotland att this time ; which I reckon 
 they are not a Utle displeased att. 
 
 Lond. 14"^ June > Farewell. 
 
 1716. y 
 
 * Jolmfon"5 lices on this great man were too true : 
 
 •• In life's last scenes what prodigies surprize, 
 " Fears of the brare, and follies of the wise. 
 ♦* From Marlborough's eyes the tears of dotage flow." 
 
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 CULLODEN PAPERS. « 
 
 No.LXXIV. 
 
 Lord Lo'N'at to Mi. Duncan Forbes. 
 
 My dearest General, 
 
 I GOT both your Letters, & I follow y' advice closs. I had a privat audience 
 of K. George this day j and I can tell you, dr General, yt no Man ever spoke freer 
 langage to his Majesty & y' Prince than I did of our two great frnds, in leting y" 
 know y' thev did y™ more service & were capable to do y"" more service than all 
 those of yr Ranks in Scotland : & yt is true. I hope what I said will be useful! ; 
 & let it have what efFefl: it will as to me, I am overjoyd to have occasion to serve y* 
 two pretiest fellows in Europe. Thev suU behave to me like kind brothers ; & I 
 spok to y" both of my m.ariage, they aprove of it mightily, & my L"* L or the D. is 
 to make y' proposition to the King ; so y' I belive it will do, w" y' agrement y^ my 
 two great frnds wish and desire it. I want but a Gift of y" Escheat to make me 
 easy. But if it does not do, you must find some pretence or other y' ^ill give me 
 a title to keep possession, either by y' taillie my L"* Provost has, or by bu)ing off 
 some Creditors : in short, you must make a man of it one way or other. I have 
 got out my Commissions, after much oposition. I belive they thought shame of the 
 Affidavits, or they keep them till I am gone ; since they know I can speak the 
 French as well as they. I long extreamly to see you. Y' Brother is angry at many 
 things, as well as I ; and neither his post nor mine satisfyes our minds when we see 
 matters go wrong. Adieu, cher General ! 
 
 Je suis a vous pour la \'ie, 
 London y^ 23") LOVAT. 
 
 of June 1716. y - 
 
 The two green ribands and Glengary's remission make many murmur and bite their 
 ihumbs. However, better days will come. My love and respett to my L'' Provost. 
 All will go well at the long runn. 
 
 No. LXXV. 
 
 The same to the same. 
 
 My dear General, London y' 28 of June 1716. 
 
 I THINK it is an age since I had the honour to hear from you. Your Brother 
 & Brig. Grant being very angry, & justly, at the List Sir W^" Gordon & his Brother 
 sent down about the Magistrates of Inverness, your Brother caused draw up a second 
 Petition, where he added Biig. Grant, Killrack, & you ; & I took upon me the 
 manad- cment of y' afair, & by my aquantance w' M' Southwell & M' Hailes, y= two 
 principal Clarks of y' Cabinet Council, I got y^ thing done as I would have it in four 
 & cwent)^ hours ; & M' Pringle says he sent you the order on Teusday m'ght by post ; 
 so y' we get something rectil^ed in spight of their private intrigues. Our friends gain 
 ground every day ; & I hope that what I said to the King, in my private audience 
 Saturday last, did a htle contribut to make him belive v' the two Brothers are necessary 
 persons to him. It would be too long to tell you all I said ; but, in a word; my Gene- 
 ral could not speak w' more force in favours of y' t\\o Brothers. I told but truth when 
 I said y' their father was y' founder of y*" protestaiit Succession in Scotland ; k y' they 
 were y'^selves y' support of it, 6c the only capable to be so : in short, dear Generall, 
 I told my mind as freely as I would have done to you. The King is one of the best 
 
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 men on earth ; but strangly imposed upon by certain persons. I hope ir vnil not be 
 aIlTra^•s so. — ^The King has been graciously pleased to grant me, this ven* dav. a Gift 
 of Fraserdale's Escheat ; 6: M' Stanhope told me, y' I was so w-ell ia His Majest)-'3 
 spirit, V" all my Enemvs are not able to do me harm. 
 
 I spoke to the Duke 5c my L** Hay about my marriage, &; told y"^ y* one of my 
 greatest motifs to y ' design was, to secure y^ y' joint interest of y' north. Thev are both 
 fiillv for it, (jc the Dtike is to speak of it & propose it to the King. But Islay desir'd me 
 to ■ttT-it to you, to know if their would be any fear of a poursuit of adherance fi-om y* 
 other person ; which is a chimerical busines, .Sc tender fear for me in my dear Islay. — 
 But when I told him that the Lady denyed, before the Justice Court, y' I had any 
 thing to do with her, & v" y^ pretended mariage was declared nul (which Islay sayes 
 should be done by y' Commissarys only) ; yet, when I told him y' y* Minister &: Wit- 
 nesses were all dead who were at the pretended Mariage, he was sarisfved they could 
 make nothing of it, tho' they would endeavour it. However, I intreat you write to 
 me, or to IM" Stew art, a line on this head, to satisfv my L" Islay's Scruple. — This is a 
 very long letter ; vet I have not said y* half of what I have to say to you. I'll begin a 
 new epistle on Saturday. — !Mv service to mv D' Lord Provost, &r to M" M'Pharlan & 
 his Ladv. — I hope you will consider the tailUe v- Provost gave you of mine, & what 
 can be done in y' busines of my natural right. Adieu. 
 
 I am yours etemaUv, 
 
 LOVAT. 
 
 I have mv two Commissions in my Pocket ; and the Prince told me last night he was 
 glad they were expeded. 
 
 «' 
 
 No. LXXYI. -.. . 
 
 Mr. Baillie to Mr. Duncan Forbes. 
 
 Much honoured & dear Sir, 
 
 I HA\'E verv Kttle to sav, save that the Account you sent of that tragical adventure 
 of Mr. Gordon and Cathcart's seems to be the most exact and ingenuous of anv that 
 came to this Countrev ; onlv I cannot call them censorious or malicious People whom 
 you are pleased to name so, seeing they tell nothing but truth. 
 
 M Neal, ice. is in his integrit)- at liberty, notwithstanding the storys you might 
 hear. 
 
 Glengarv writes to his People with a great dale of Majesty &: Spirit ; forbidding 
 them, under pain of his displeasme, to contribute in the least to the accommodation of 
 the Garrison at Innergary ; alledging, if they be oblidged to give plaids to Ly in, it is 
 contrar}- to Capitulation with Cadogan. 
 
 I hope to hear of vour coming north ; for we are still afraid something or other shall 
 be mismanaged if you come not. 
 
 I have no news to tell vou ; onlv I am informed, that my Colleague hath displeased 
 the Jacobites at the late thanksg:^•ing, in asserting that God, in his Providence, brought 
 K. G. to the throne without a dog to bark at him ; only of late some Jacobite Currs 
 have made a great noise, and continue to snarle when they neither can nor dare 
 bite. 
 
 I am. Dear Sir, 
 
 Yours faithfully, 
 Invemesj, 30 June 171 6. RO. BAILLir.
 
 CULLODEN PAPERS, 
 
 57 
 
 No. LXXVII. 
 
 Memorial concerning Lord Lovat ; and Grant to him of Mackenzie of Fraserdale's 
 
 Escheat. 
 
 ALEXANDER M"" Kenzie, of Fraserdale, by takeing advantage of the misfor- 
 tunes of my Lord Lovat, found means to become master of several old rights and titles 
 to the estate formerly enjoy'd by that family ; &, by being in possession of the said 
 Estate at the time of the late unnatural Rebellion, did furnish the Rebell Army with a 
 Regiment, consisting of persons of the name of Eraser, related to, or dependant on, 
 the said family ; till my Lord Lovat, by his appearing in Arms for his Majesty' in the 
 North of Scotland, had soe great ane influence over the name of Eraser, that they 
 publiclv, with their Arms, withdrew themselves from the late Earle of Marr & the • 
 said Alexander Mackenzie, join'd My Lord Lovat, & assisted him when he, with the ' 
 Men under his Command, did take the to^^^l of Inverness. 
 
 By an Acl of Parliament passed last Year, for encouraging Superiors, Vassals, Land- 
 lords and Tenants, all suspetled persons, who should remain in contempt after being 
 summoned to appear, as is by that Acl prescribed, are declared to incurr the penalty of 
 ^500., & single and Liferent Escheat ; that is, y' forfeiting all their Goods and Chat- 
 tells, and the Rents and Profits of their Estates dureing their Lives. 
 
 Judgment haveing been pronounced, in pursuance of this Ad, against the said 
 Alexander Mackenzie, of Fraserdale, — His Goods and Chattells, and the Profits of his 
 Estate, dureing his Life, are thereby vested in his Majesty. 
 
 His Majesty may grant to any Person, as is usual by the Law of Scotland, A Gift of 
 the .^500. penalty, and single ik Liferent Escheat of the said Alex' Mackenzie, by a 
 proper Warrant from the Thesaury ; which will operate thus : that if the said Alex"^ 
 Mackenzie shal, by any means or accident. Elude the justice of the Nation, by not 
 being convicted of High Treason for his Rebellion, this Grant would absolutely take 
 place against him dureing his life ; and in case he shal be attainted, it will reach to his 
 Personal Estate at y" time of y' judgment against him for his not obeying y" Summons ; 
 and y' Rents of his lands dureing his life, as far as y= same shal not be limited or Re- 
 strained by any Acl of Parliament concerning forfeitures. 
 
 The Value of these Lands is generally said to be about ^500 yearlv, but are very 
 much incumbred with Debts ; So that it cannot yet be known what the Clear Pro- 
 duce may amount to ; but it is conceived, y' the immediate making such a Grant to 
 a Person of Credit in that Country, & well afecled to his Majestv, would greatly tend 
 to strengthen y' hands of the Government ; both as to Seizing any of the Rebells w ho 
 yet abscond, the disarming their followers, the encouraging those who are well affecled, 
 and consequently y^ confirming y' peace of that part of y= Kingdom. 
 
 It is therefor humbly proposed and intreated, that my Lord Lovat, for his Signal 
 services in the North of Scotland, and for y'' encouragement of his Kinfmen, who have 
 soe Zealously exposed their Lives for His Majesties Service, may have a Gift or Grant 
 of the ^500 Penalty, & single 6c liferent Escheat of y^ s* Alexander M'Kenzie of Fra- 
 serdale ; My Lord Lovat haveing a natural Right to y" Lands possessed by him w^hen 
 he joined in the late unnatural Rebellion. 
 
 My Lords, Whitehall, a"* July 171 5. 
 
 THE King having had under his consideration the enclosed Memorial of the Lord 
 Lovat, His Ma" is graciously pleased to comply w' what is desyred in it ; and has
 
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 commanded me to signliie to Y Lordships his pleasure, that you prepare the necessary 
 Warrants to be laid before him for that purpose. I am, <5cc^ 
 
 The Lords of the Treasury. JAMES ST.IKHOPE. 
 
 , , , , To the Lords of the Treasury. 
 
 My Lords, 
 
 IN Obedience to y" Lordships Commands, signified to me by M' Loimds in a letter 
 
 of this day's date, I have considered a Memorial therein inclosed, ' concerning mv Lord 
 
 Lovat ; and am humbly of Oppinion, that the des%Te of the said ]\Iem.orial contains 
 
 nothing contrarv to Law ; and y' if his Ma'"' is graciousl'v pleased to grant the same, 
 
 it may be done by a Warrant for passing a Gift in the Excheq' of Scotland, in the 
 
 ordinary form, of the single and Literent Escheat of Alexander Mackenzie, ol Fraser- 
 
 dale, mentioned in the said Memorial ; and alsoe of the sum of five himdred pounds 
 
 sterline, therein mentioned ; being att his ]VIaj^' dissposali, bv vertue of ane acl passed 
 
 in the last Session of this current Parliament, intituled ane Act for encouraging all 
 
 Saperiours, Vas^ls, Landlords, and Tenants in Scotland, kc 
 
 This, w' great submission, is the Oppinion o^ 
 
 Mv Lords, 
 
 Y ' Lop' most faithfull, most 
 
 Obedient, and most humble Ser\-ant, 
 
 Westra^ July the 5th, 1 7 1 6. DAVID D ALR YMPLE. 
 
 Xo. LXXVIII. 
 
 Mr. Duncan Forbes — "most likelv to Lord Islav.l 
 Mv Lord, 
 
 i ILWE since mv Lord Advo-cate's leaving this Coimtr\- officiated for him, faithfully 
 I hope j and by this Night's Post, I have a kind of Intimation made me, as if there 
 were some design of appointing me one of his Deput5-s for the ensuing Prosecutions ; 
 but as I am an utter stranger to the English forms of procedure, and for severall other 
 reasons which your Lordship will easilv apprehend, I am determined to refuse that 
 emplovment ; nor can anv motive whatsoever induce me to accept that place, as things 
 now stand, unless vour Lordship commands me. Your Opinion on this subject I 
 expect either dire«fllv, or bv communicationg it to my brother. 
 
 Mv strength is small, but it is exerted at hazard to serve you as I can best judge. 
 Since, probably, George Drummond is not with you, I shall take the Libert}- of ^vrit- 
 ing frequentlv. No news. I'me pleased te see how universall the surprise is since last 
 post. 
 
 I am, my Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's most faithfiill, most devoted Servant, 
 
 Ed", 7 July 1 7 16. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Xo. LXXIX. 
 
 Mr. Duncan Forbes to Lieut. Col. Innes. 
 
 HIS Ro^-all Highness haveing been hiformed, that severall persons detained pri- 
 soners in Scotland, who were aitualiv in Arms in the late Rebellion, have endeavoured 
 to obtain Warrants for dischargeing them of their imprisonment, on account of some 
 Informalities in the Orders for their Comminment, has thenbr commanded His Ma- 
 icstv's Advocate forthwith to enquire into the State of the Committments of the several 
 Prisoners now in Custody for Accession to the laie Rebellion j and to endeavoiu- to 
 
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 CL'LLODEM PAPERS. 59 
 
 procure all possible Information concerning such Prisoners as aftually were in Arnii 
 against his Majesty ; to the end they may be charged with iegall Warrands of Committ- 
 ment. Therefor, In pursuance of his Royall Highnesses directions, I desire you to 
 make up an exact List of all Prisoners seized and committed bv you, or detained in 
 Custody at Winton House, or elsewhere, by the Forces under your command, for their 
 accession to the late Rebellion : Which List is to contain the names, designations, and 
 places of abode, of the several Prisoners, togather with Copies of the Warrands for 
 their Committment ; and where such Warrand of Committment appears defective, not 
 mentioning the particular Crime for which the Prisoner was apprehended, I desire you 
 will inform yourself whether the Prisoner was taken in Arms against His Majesty, or 
 haveing been in arms did surrender himself to mercv, or was seized by the troops ; and 
 to subjoin such Information to the several Prisoners' names ; To the end that formal 
 Warrands of Committment may be made out against them, and that furder discoveries 
 mav be made of the means of proving their Guilt. 
 
 The Prisoners are assiduous in their applications for their liberation, in the terms of 
 the Act of Parliament anent personall liberty; [so] that you will easily be perswaded 
 dispatch is necessary in delivering the Lists and Informations desired. I am, 
 
 Your most humble Servant, 
 Eden' July 18, 17 16. . DUN. FORBES. 
 
 Lieutenant Colonell Innes. 
 
 No. LXXX. ' 
 
 The Duke of Argyle to Coll. William Grant. 
 
 My dear Grant, 
 
 I TROUBLE you w' this, to let you know, that, some time since, I learnt that 
 Lord Lovat had proposed a match w' Grant's Sister, qch for many reasons I wished so 
 weell to, as to interest myself w^' Grant, in favours of it. You know Lord Lovat is on 
 for whom I have, w' good reason, the greatest esteem and respect ; and as I confid 
 inteirly in him & the Brigadier, I am must earnest that this match should take efect. 
 I am informed y' the young leadie is at present w' you, and y' som oyr bodie is making 
 court to her. I must yrfor, as a faithful! friend to us all, intreat your intrest to bring 
 this matter about, qch will I think unit all freinds in the North ; a union qch will be 
 very serviceable to His Majestic and His Royal Famyly ; and no less to all of us, who 
 have ventured our lives and fortunes in defence of it. Pray believe me, in qever stat 
 I am. 
 
 Your faithful humble Ser' 
 
 (Sic subscribitur) 
 Richmond, July 23-' 1716. ARGYLL. 
 
 No. LXXXI. 
 
 to M' Duncan Forbes. 
 
 My dear Forbes, Fd' 2S'" August 1716. 
 
 WE have been considering of the properest method of managing the Puny 
 highland Banditti, & have come to this Resolution : 
 
 You must so contrive it, as to get, one way or another, into his Company before you 
 return, by paying him a visit at his house, if you have not a better opportunit)\ It uill 
 be an easv matter to bring on the discourse of our friend, Sc to insist on his honor, 
 merit, and generosity. And you are by what means you think fit to lead him into 
 
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 ■€e CTLLODEN PAPERS. 
 
 the thought of his regard for you, & your interest •nith him ; this 'u-ell managed, 
 together with the man's anxiet)- to have our friend's claims against him discharged, 
 •will naturally lead him to join -with you Ln his praises, to express his regard for him, 
 and his inclination to be well ^ith him. When you hare brought him to enter on this 
 subject, you must artfully perswade him of your incluiations to serve him in this 
 matter, and that you'll contribute your endeavours to the bringing it about. Your 
 way of talking in this manner must lead him to express his passion in the strongest 
 terms ; when he needs say no more on that subject. You are then to tell him, — but 
 there is a story talked, as if he had either already done something to give rise to it, 
 or was yet to be made use of, to asperse the conduct of our firiend's friends, when he 
 •was in their neighbourhood in y^ country. In talking of this, you are to express it in 
 some such manner as this, — that tho' you beUeve this is an idle storv, that tho' it •was 
 
 * true it's in its nature such as what our friend is absolutelv indifferent of, as what can 
 m no •way concern him ; but that you can never perswade yourself to believe, that 
 tho' there v-tis just ground to blame them, as both he &: vou know there is none, that 
 he, giving him what Epithets you think proper, would ever enter upon so unhandsome 
 a measure ; and that therefore your reason for talking o'ver the story to him is not at 
 all that you believe it, or that you have any manner of regard to the thing itself ; but 
 that the story has been spread \vith so much Industrv, that anv endeavours on vour part 
 
 ' to do him the service you propos'd must be attended with the censure of your friend's 
 friends, if you are not able to com-ince them of the falshood of this aspersion. You 
 must give him time, after you have broach'd this, before you give him your reason to 
 contradict the story, & to express his abhorrence of any such project ; and follow vour 
 reason with the gi%'ing him hopes that your endeavours •with our friend mav be 
 successfull, & that you'll be ver\- heartv" in them, if he makes it reasonable for vou 
 to enter upon it, by -writing you a Letter disclaiming his ever having done anv thing, 
 his ever havmg a design to do anv thing, or his ever ha%Tng ground for it : founding 
 this his jusdficarion on the Accounts he has had from some of his friends, that such a 
 •v-illanous story is talk'd ; concluding with his earnest entreaties to you to vindicate 
 him at our ftiend's hand from so vile an aspersion. This length I fancy it's possible 
 for you to bring him ; & I am warranted to tell vou it \\ill be lookt on as good ser\-ice. 
 You'l be best able to judge when you are with him how far it's practicable to get him 
 to be ingenuous m telling what indeavours •were us'd -with him to be a Rogue, upon the 
 foot of his refusing to comply. I need not enlarge anv more on this subject ; I shall 
 only tell' you, the reason that induces us to turn the aiiair into this shape is, this 
 method proves all we want, and silences him ; whereas the prosecuting the scheme we 
 concerted vrhen we parted can't be managed in such a manner, but that it's morally 
 certain the Wiiispers of it must reach his ear. You know he has the jealous-^ and 
 lillany of an Itahan, -without the poHteness : he'll fancy that our searching after truth 
 is with a design to ruine him, which -nill set his Brain at work to forge. 
 
 From this you'll see it'^ necessarv to prosecute the getting a meeting •«ith him as soon 
 as you can, that there may be time for you to perfect what's next to be done, in case 
 it does not answer the end ; but even tho' it should, I am of opinion, a thorough 
 inquiry into his hte & conversation from his cradle, so as to enable vou to •R-rite his 
 History, is absolutelv necessarv^ ; and in this 1 know I need not retommend caution to 
 you ; and in all the conversation, of all things to avoid the least expression that mav 
 induce the -wretch to believe that we are in the least afraid for anv thing it's possible 
 for him, or even hell itself, to say. I am John's, my Lady's, & y' Slave. 
 
 Tuesday, 2 o'Clock, in my Boots. 
 
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 No. LXXXII. 
 
 An Anonymous Letter, written by M' Duncan Forbes to Sir Robert Walpole, most 
 likely in August 1 7 1 6 — a Copy is extimt (from w hich the present is taken) in the 
 President's hand-writing. ■ • . .. • ' 
 
 Sir, 
 
 MY constant affection for my King and Country will not permit me to see the 
 Interest of both in danger of being ruined, without a deep concern ; and when I dis- 
 cover that the mischief proceeds from the dro\vsy negligence or selfish designs perhaps 
 of some ministers, I cannot help endeavouring to obviate the misfortune by representing 
 the Case to such as ought to profit by the admonition. What moves me to address this 
 
 , unsigned remonstrance to you is, that of a great while, I have looked upon M' Walpole 
 to be an honest man ; and am still very unwilling to part with that belief, notwith- 
 standing of very shrewd appearances to the contrary : however, I shall form my opinion 
 in that matter, as I find this notice is used. 
 
 You need give yourself no trouble in endeavouring to find me out ; the attempt will 
 be impossible ; only, lest you should mistake me, from some of the sentiments after 
 expressed, I think it necessary to tell you that I am, and ever was, a very zealous 
 friend to the present settlement, which alone prompts me to give you this intimation ; 
 
 • and that during the late^onfusions 1 exposed myself as usefully for His Majesty's service, 
 as any of those on whom the King, ill informed, has bestowed the most distinguishing 
 marks of his favour. This declaration, since I am unknown, does not hurt modesty ; 
 and yet will appear to be true, if there is a proper occasion for it. I have but one thing 
 inore to acquaint you with, before I enter on the subject ; and that is, that it 
 ■uill not be in your power to suppress this representation. My respect to the King 
 will hinder me from publishing it ; but I will convey it into hands that will take 
 care of it : if you do not perceive, you will guess at my meaning, and act as you will 
 be answerable. 
 
 The People of Great Britain are but too well distinguished by the known designations 
 of Whig and Tory ; of which the Whigs, to a man, are afi'ectionate to his Majesty ; 
 and the Tories, on the other hand, bating a very few, madly addicted to the 
 Pretender. 
 
 As his Majesty has prudently chosen to settle the administration in the hands of his 
 . friends the Whigs, it is unquestionably his interest to keep that part of the nation 
 satisfied with the Public management ; and at the same time to take as few steps^ which 
 may sharpen the resentment of the disaffected part of the people, as the security of the 
 Government will possibly admit of. Britain receives still another distinction from the 
 two different kingdoms whereof it is composed ; and tho' it is undoubtedly his Majesty's 
 
 ^ interest to cherish England, as being the most valuable part of his dominions, it 
 is by no means prudent to disoblidge Scotland by open injuries, which may create 
 general dissatisf^ictions, not to be ended but with the ruin of that part of the United 
 Kingdom. 
 
 Sensible that the ministry has lately taken, and still pursues, measures unnecessarily 
 disobliging to the King's friends, exasperating the disaffected, and in a particular manner 
 ruinous to Scotland, I cannot help offering this representation ; in which, as 1 am a 
 Scotsman, and best acquainted with the affairs of that country, 1 shall chiefly touch its 
 grievances ; resolved to assert no fact, and to give the character of no person, that 
 I will not answer at the peril of my head, if by clearing it I may do my King and 
 Country service. — When the late Rebellion was happily ended by the Pretender's 
 
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 flight, his deluded followers found themselves all in chain?, or obliged to surrender and 
 sue for mercv, or to flv their country \dth him. Every man concerned in that odious 
 work cerraiiilv deserved Death, and the punishment due by Law ; but Humanirs- and 
 prudence forbade it. It was not fit to dispeople a coimtn" ; nor prudent to grieve the 
 King's best friends, who mostly had some concern in those unfortunate men ; or 
 expedient to give too just grounds of clamour to the disaffected. 
 
 It will be agreed on all hands, that the proper Rule in this case would have been, to 
 have punished only as many as was necessan- for terror, and for weakening the strength 
 of the Rebels for the future ; and to extend mercy to as many as it could conveniendy 
 be indulged to \nth the security of the Government ; and this maxim everv thinking 
 Whi^ had then in his mouth, however offended at the insolences of the Rebels. In 
 place of a course of this kind, the method followed was, ist, To try all the Criminals 
 in Enirland ; 2dlv, To detain in prison all those in custody in Scotland, except some 
 who had interest with certain great men to obtain a prenous pardon, to the m.anifest 
 dishonour of the Govenunent ; 3dlv, To attaint a \'ast number of Scots Noblemen and 
 Gentlemen ; 4thly, To put it out of his Majest)-'s power to grant any part of Estates 
 forfeited ; and fthlv. To appoint a Commission for enquirv", and IcN^ing the Rebels 
 goods and chattels. The necessary- consequences of this procedure ill general are xv.o ; 
 first, it makes all those who had the misfortune to be seduced into the Rebellion, with 
 their children, relauves, and such as depend on them, forever desperate : and it's hard 
 to tell what occasions mav offer for venting their Rage. We see that want and hard 
 circumstances lead men dailv into follies, without any other temptation ; but when those 
 circumstances are brought on by adherence to any principle, or opinion, it's certain the 
 sufferers will not quit their attempts to better their condition, but ■with their lives, 
 ad. As there are none of the Rebels who have not friends among the King's faithful 
 subjects, it is not easy to guess how far a severit}- of this kind, unnecessarily pushed, 
 mav alienate the affections even of those from the Government. But in particular, as 
 this case relates to Scotland, the ditEculty will be insurmountable. I may venture to 
 sav, there are not 2co Gentlemen in the whole Kingdom who are not very nearly 
 related to some one or other of the Rebels. Is it possible that a man can see his 
 daughter, his grandchildren, his nephews, or cousins, reduced to beggary and starving 
 unnecessarilv bv a Government, ■without thinking verj- ill of it ; and \^here this is the 
 case of a whole' nation, I tremble to think what dissatisfactions it v\ill produce against 
 a settlement so necessary- for the happiness of Britain. 
 
 If all the Rebels, with their Wives, Children, and immediate dependants, could be 
 at once rooted out of the Earth, the shock would be astonishing ; but time would 
 commit it to oblivion, and the danger would be less to the Constitution, than when 
 thousands of innocents, pmiished with miser)- and Want for the offences of their friends, 
 are suffered to wander about the Country-, sighing out their Complaints to Heaven, 
 and drawing at once the compassion and moving the indignation of every human 
 creature. 
 
 Zealots and short-sighted people may perhaps think it just, that a nation so involved 
 with Rebels should suffer ; but let those men consider, that it was much more owing 
 to Pro\idencc, and to the vigilence of our King, than to the inclinations of the people, 
 that England did not discover as many Rebels even, in proportion to its extent, as 
 Scodand did ; and then let them examine how far their retleclion will hold. 
 
 I should spend too much rime, and repeat w hat you, no doubt, Sir, have heard 
 often urged in Parliament, did I enter upon the improprieties and inconveniencies of the 
 Forfeiture Bill, as it affecb Creditors ; therefore I shall pass over that article, and 
 satisfy myself with assuring you, that those consequences, w hich at first might easily 
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 have been foreseen, have now accordingly fallen out ; and that in this Kingdom there 
 are not an hundred persons who can be restr;uned from murmuring, upon any other con- 
 sideration, than that they hope his Majesty, against the ensuing sessions of ParHament, 
 will overturn th^at fatal Bill, 
 
 It's pity the ministers, in a point so important, should not be at some pains to find 
 out what impression this step makes on the people. A faithful informer must Report, 
 that the King's friends in Scotland begin to fear that the Nation is devoted to destruc- 
 tion ; and that the most forward Abettors of the Conduct of the Government are 
 forced to lay the blame on some particular persons, and to promise that the measure 
 will speedily be altered, as the only possible means to preserve the hearts of his Ma- 
 jesty's loyal Subjects dutiful to him. In short, Sir, this course will very soon make a 
 standing army necessary ; the King's enemies say, that is the design of the ministry ; 
 and it's certain his friends will believe it, unless things take another turn. 
 
 If this forfeiting Bill was gone into, when the danger was over, from any other view 
 than that of crushhig this poor Countr)% it must have been with the hopes of Icvving 
 money for the Public Service ; and if it appear (as by and by it will) to a demonstra- 
 tion, that it can have no such effect, 'tis hoped, with reason, that the King and Par- 
 liament will either take it away, or not blame the people who construe the contrivance 
 of it into a design to ruin the Nation. 
 
 To satisfy any person that the forfeitures in Scotland will scarce defray the Charges 
 of the Commission, if the saving Clause in favours of the Creditors take place, I offer 
 but two considerations, that upon enquiry will be found incontestable. First, it is certain, 
 that of all the Gentlemen who launched into the late Rebellion, the tenth man was not 
 easy in his circumstances ; and if you abate a Dozen of Gentlemen, the remainder, 
 upon paying their debts, could not produce much money clear ; nor was there any 
 thing more open to observation, than that the men of estates, however disaffected in 
 their principles, keeped themselves within the Law ; when at the same time men sup- 
 posed loyal, in hopes of bettering their low fortunes, broke loose. 
 
 2dly. Its known, that the titles by which almost all the estates in Scotland are possessed 
 are dihgences upon debts affecting those estates purchased in the Proprietor's own 
 name, or in that of some trustee ; now it's certain, that when the Commissioners of 
 Enquiry begin to seize such estates, besides the debts truly due to real Creditors, 
 such a number of latent debts will be trumped up, not distinguishable from the true 
 ones by any else than the Proprietor, as will make the enquiry fruitless, and the Com- 
 mission a Charge upon the Treasury, as well as a nuisance to the nation. 
 
 By what is above said (which, upon ane examimition you will find to be certain truth) 
 it ■will be evident, that the forfeited estates are in themselves inconsiderable ; and that 
 they are good for little or nothing to any others except the owners : wherefore it will 
 be to the last degree imprudent, for the sake of such a trifle, or rather for the sake of 
 creating a revenue to the Commissioners of Enquiry, to stir up a disaffection in the 
 nation ; which may God and the Wisdom of our K. soon prevent. 
 
 But, allowing that this Bill should bring in 10 or ^^20,000 per annum clear, will 
 any reasonable man imagine that that profit is to be put in ballance with the certain 
 loss of the Affections of the people ; especially when that event will bring on ^"ioo,oco 
 Charge for maintaining an Army to keep the Nation orderly. 
 
 As I fee with concern the terrible effects of the forfeiting bill, I am far from think- 
 ing that the Rebels should goe unpunished ; but then that punishment ought to pro- 
 ceed according to the Rule above set down ; that is, no farther than is necessary for 
 the Security of the Government, and for the terror of others who might attempt the 
 
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 ^4 CULLODEX P.VPER3. 
 
 like aftenvards. Pursuant to this Rule, an easy and certain method might be fallen 
 upon ; for example 
 
 I*' Let the most leading, the most powerful, and the most malicious of the Rebels, 
 be pitched upon ; let them be executed if in Custody ; if not, their estates forfeited 
 forever. These men, in both nations, might possibly not exceed the number of 20 or 
 tliereby. 
 
 2''- Let an Indemnity, bv Act of ParUament, be pubUshed to all (excepting such as 
 his Majesty shall think fit) who shall surrender against a certain day, and at a certain 
 place, and there to have their names recorded. 
 
 3"^ ■■ Let those persons be only entitled to pardon and to their estates, upon their finding 
 bail, I. for their good behaviour ; 2. That they shall meddle in no public business, 
 elections, S:'^. 3. That they shall present themselves once or ofiener a year at Edin- 
 burgh, or where his Majesty shall think fit, there to answer to any Charge that can be 
 made agauist them ; and 4. That they shall neither wear arms, nor converse one with 
 the other, nor go without their respective Counties without hcence, under several 
 Penalties. 
 
 These or such like securities might be devised, whereby the Goverimient would be 
 absolutely safe, and the minds of all men sweetened ; whileas, at the same time, by the 
 execution of the most remarkable Criminals all the ends of Pimishment would be ful- 
 iilled. And if some such measure is not pursued, it is with the last degree of regret I tell 
 you, that the Pretender vrUl gain many more friends by the pmiishment of the Rebels, 
 than he will lose bv their OAerthrow. 
 
 After representing this important false step, I next proceed to take notice of another 5 
 which, tho' of less prejudice to the K. creates a verj' general disrespect to his ministr)' ; 
 and that is, that in a Season when matters of the greatest weight are on the Wheel, 
 this Country should be entirely neglected, and the management of it committed to a 
 set of men hated or despised by almost all the King's friends. 
 
 You cannot be ignorant, that the set of men known here by the name of Squadrone 
 have in a very particular maimer been of many years odious to the people, on account 
 of their selfish adherence to one another, in opposition to ever)' interest but their owti ; 
 and you may easily persuade yourself, that they have recommended themselves very 
 little by their mean assentation to what has so sensibly injured their Country ; especially 
 as their interest at the bottom is very inconsiderable, extending Uttle farther than the 
 individual confederates. These men are become in a more particular manner the derision 
 of the King's friends ; since it is found out, that they, who never did or durst attempt a 
 laudable thing for his Service vvhilst danger threatened the Constitution, have now had 
 hardiness enough to arrogate the merit of every useful action to themselves, and to aim 
 at blackening the Reputation of the King's General, by whose conduct and authority 
 alone, we are all satisfied, the torrent of the Rebelhon could possibly have been 
 stopped. 
 
 It is no small cause of discontent, to such as served the King faithfully in this Nation, 
 to find, that a Ministry can be so designing, or so far imposed on, as to quit with the 
 Duke of Arg)ie; worthy in himself, but chiefly valuable for his steady adherence to 
 his Majesty ; moved by a parcel of fictions, contrived and abetted by certain poUricians, 
 who are become a proverb in their Coimtry, 
 
 Nobody here can forget the fictitious scheme contrived by Gen' Cadogan in the 
 begiiming of Februarj' last ; by which he persuaded the Court that it was then possible 
 to pursue the Rebels into their hills, and obtained orders for that purpose, of design to 
 have detained the D. of Argyle about that adair. No one can forget, that the same 
 
 General,
 
 CCLLODEV PAPERS. 6^ 
 
 General, having found means to delay his expedirion till April, undertook it then, 
 without a possibilit)' of" Success : and evjry one still has it fresh in his menior)-, that this 
 man, having fatigued the troops, and spent a great deal of money, was necessitated, bv a 
 treaty dishonourable to the Government, to save his own shame in making articles 
 
 with a puny highland Chief, G ; inconsiderable in every other respecl, than 
 
 as he was a malicious Rebel, and famous for obtaining Conditions of the British Gene- 
 ral, which afterwards were ratified by a formal Remission ; and the King's friends will 
 long remember, that this pardoned Rebel was lately, m this town, a very forward man 
 of Council with the Squadrone in all their meetings. 
 
 This instance of the Court being imposed on, by the knot of men now mentioned, 
 to grant a remission to the worthlessest rogue living, is no small mortification to the 
 lovers of the Constitution ; and it receives a good deal of addition from what is at 
 present a doing ; viz. a distindtion, that every prisoner who was taken in Action, or 
 surrendered himself to the King's mercy, in the hands of the D. of Arg)'le, is ordered 
 to be transported to England to be tried ; whereas those who surrendered to any of 
 the Party aforesaid are almost ail left at home ; and if any one goes alongst with the 
 rest, it is of design that he may escape for want of evidence ; as in the case of M'Kenzie 
 of Fraserdale, in whose behalf the D. of Athol, to whom he surrendered, undertakes 
 to prove, that he was forced into the Rebellion, tho' he actually marched at the head of 
 500 men to Perth. 
 
 It is scarce supposible, that a ministry could do a thing more lawless or more inju- 
 dicious than to commit the Care of Public management, at a time so critical as this is, 
 to men so much the derision, and at the same time so much the aversion, of their 
 Country, as those to whom that Charge is committed in Scotland, 
 
 Now, Sir, do you judge if it is for the honour or interest of the King, or his ministr}', 
 at a time when the Nation is (I must say) in a just ferment, to entrust the Public Con- 
 cern to such managers, especially when the Kingdom is yet at a loss how to account 
 for the disgrace of that man, whom they lately accounted, under the King, their bulwark 
 against Popery and Tyranny. 
 
 By what I have said in the onset. Sir, you may guess I will not rest satisfied singly 
 with having transmitted this to you. I must know something of your sentiments about 
 it. I'm resolved to wait till the 20"' of September ; and if in the London Gazette, before 
 that date, I see nothing advertised concerning a letter dated and signed as this is, you 
 may trust to it, I shall complain of it in such a manner, as you shall have no reason 
 to be satisfied. 
 
 I am. Sir, 
 
 Your humble Servant, 
 
 Y. Z. 
 
 Xo. LXXXIII. 
 
 • ■ Lord Lovat to jNIr. John Forbes. 
 
 My dear John, 
 
 YOUR Election has made as great a noise here as at Inverness, k made people 
 very busy on both sides. Our great if rds did second me w' ye Prince & Ministrv ; 
 & tho ye Earle roares, & the Knight lyes, it will be of no use. We are highly 
 oblidged to M' Ridpath : he has fought the quarrel manfully in spight of y' threats of 
 the E. to take him up for Scandalum magnatum. His Fh-ing Post & Castlehill's letter 
 is this day before the Prince & Ministry ; so they have brought their Hogs to a base 
 market. I hope their Success at Elgin will be the same ; as, if I had been at home, I 
 
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 66 CULLODEK PAPERS. 
 
 would have put Thundertown the right way. I hope Sir Henry h?s done his duty on 
 this occasion. I hope to take journey y* next Week. I have been busy to get a Gift 
 to Fraserdale's trval, v' my Gift may be secure of his life real Escheat, which will 
 make me Master of y' Estate of my lathers if he'll live but a few years by the help of 
 mv dr General, who is now very meiancholly, as well as you. I was surprised when 
 Rf Scrahan told your ffrd Mrs. Pm^-is y' he had a letter from you, telling y' r mother 
 is dead, & vet Castiehill says nothing of it in his of the 1 5"'^. I sincerely partake w* 
 your grief; for she was one of the best of Women, all waves doing good to her 
 Grand Children 5c v* poor. I had a very great respect for her, & I allwayes found 
 her mv passionat Srd ; receive mv compliment on y' head for yrself 6c for all your 
 famiiv, whom I love & honor ; Sc believe me, while I breathe, 
 
 ^ . . D^ Sir, 
 
 London, Your most faithfuU 
 
 y* ""Q of Septre tSc most Obedient humble Serv'ant, 
 
 1 7 16. LOVAT. 
 
 Xo. LXXXIV. 
 
 • . Lord Lo\-at Qjrobably to Mr. Baillie]. 
 
 D^ Sir, 
 
 I ONLY send vou this to let you know y' Monday morning I go for v* Bath, 
 where I'll stay but short, & endeavour to be at Ed' before y* first of Nobre. I in- 
 treat you aquant both Dimcan &; John Forbes, that ther Inverness busines coast 
 trouble to me & to their other ffrds ; & v'^ I admire why John Forbes suffers himself 
 to be calumniat bv those people, by open Memorials to the Cabinet Council, w'out 
 John Forbes writing to anv of the Secretary?. If I,had not spoke so oportunly to my 
 L- Chancellor &: to mv L" Townshend, I belive the aifaire would have gone wrong. 
 It has keep'd y' great Brothers & me in hot water these ten dayes. I beg you send 
 y"" this Letter, y'" thev mav know that I Sc their other ffrds are angrj^ y' John Forbes 
 did not writ to mv L'' Townshend 6c to M' Walpole, who apear both his ffrds. But 
 I bes; he may do it how soon this comes to his hands, y^ y' mioistn," may know their 
 infamous proceedinc^. I hope they will one day or other smart for it. Adieu. 
 
 I am most intierly 
 V' 6 of Oaobre> Yours, 5cc. 
 
 ■ 1 7 16. f LOVAT. 
 
 No. LXXXV. 
 
 Lord Belhaven to Mr. Duncan Forbes. 
 
 D' Dunca!!, London, Oc. 6th, 17 16. 
 
 I HA\T1 inclos'd a letter to vou from the Lord Hay, a great part of which con- 
 cerns an afiair of mine. The Case in short is, that I have got a promise of the Lord 
 Kintore's place, of Knight Marshall of Scotland ; who have been in Rebellion ; 
 which place he had during his life. Now the Question is, which is the proper method 
 to proceed, to forfeit this Office to the Crown ? the Lord Day, and many others, are 
 of Opiruon, that he ought to be cited to attend his Office in Sist\- days, according to 
 the law of Scotland, at the Peers, and those of Leeth ; and upon his not appearing, 
 the Lords of the Session ought in law to declare his Office forfeted to the Crown ; but 
 I refer ycu to a paper I sent down to my Brother some time agoe, which is more 
 distind then I can write you. The Secretarie have often write to S' James Stewart 
 concerning this affair, but nothing have been done ; sa I must entreat you to concert 
 
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 CULLODEN PAPERS. 67 
 
 with my Brother, and other Lords, which is the best and most expeditious method of 
 doing this affair ; for it concerns me to have it soon done. There is one method that 
 will do, without all dispute ; which is, the finding of Evidence of that Lord's being 
 in Rebellion ; and upon their Deposition before the Judges at Carlisle, a Bill may be 
 found against him. If all [other] methods are ineffedual, this must be tryed, but I 
 had much rather any other would do. D' Duncan, you know most of your great 
 people with you will rather obstruct than forward any thing that concerns me ; so 
 must entreat your assistance. My Brother will consult any other Lawyer with you 
 that you think, fitt. So, D' Duncan, 
 
 Your BELHAVEN. 
 
 No.LXXXVI. ^ , «*^*^ 
 
 EXTRACT of an Ad of Councill. J- - \ . 
 
 The Magistrals and Councillours of Invernes to M' Duncan Forbes, Advocat. 17 16.' 
 
 AT'^' Invernes, the Eight day of Oftober One thousand seven hundred and six- 
 teen years, In presence of John Forbes of Culloden, Provost ; James Thomson, 
 James Dunbar, and William Eraser, Baillies ; James Mackintosh, Dean of Gild ; 
 Thomas Alves, Thesaurer, and remanent Councillours of the said Burgh then con- 
 vened : That day the Magistrals and Councill, takeing to their serious consideration 
 how necessary it is for the Burgh to have a fitt and qualified Advocatt to aft and doe 
 for them in all maters that may concern the Burgh in Generall ; And they being weell 
 versed in, and knowing the qualifications of, M' Duncan Forbes, Advocat : As also 
 considering how aftive he was in suppressing the late Rebellion againfl his Majesty 
 King George ; Therefore they do nominal and appoynl the said M' Duncan Forbes as 
 their Advocat for this Burgh ; To a6l in all publick affairs and Debates wherin the 
 Burgh in general may be concerned. For which the saids Magistrals and Councill 
 bind and obleidge them and their successors in place and office To pay to the said 
 M' Duncan Forbes, his Heirs or Affigneys, the sum of Twenty Merks Scots mony 
 yearly for his said Service in Generall ; and that dureing all the years he shall please 
 continue as Advocat for this Burgh : And ordain ane Extraft hereof to be given him, 
 which will be as sufficient as if a Commission containing all clauses requisite were 
 extended here annent. Qron Ad Extrad by me. 
 
 CH. M^LEANE. 
 
 No. LXXXVII. 
 
 M' Duncan Forbes to his Brother M' John Forbes, Dated Edinburgh 26"" Odober 1716. 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 MONDAY lafl: I came hither, after having established the belief I had planted 
 alongft the Road. There are no News, but that Men exped the Parliament will be 
 opened before the Holydays, and that the King will be over by that time. 
 ;j^- -At length we have come to the knowledge of the true lye on which the Duke 
 was disgraced. It was told the K. that the Duke * had visited Sir Peter King pri- 
 vately, and told him, that as he was L** Chief Juftice, he muft give his opinion that 
 the Limitations on the Guardian were contrary to law ; threatening that, if he did 
 otherwayes, upon his Majefty's Demise the Prince would not renew his commission. 
 
 * ArgyU. 
 
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 dft CCLtODES- PAPERS. 
 
 The story has had its eSFeA, we find ; but as it happens. Sir Peter no-w denyes every 
 ftep of it, and has gone to L^ Townshend and M' Methuen to assure them the D, 
 never visited him m his life, nor ever spcke a svUable on. that subieCi:. 
 
 DL'X. FORBES. 
 Mind Deple. Let T. Robinson's ^^50. "i 
 
 be paid, if possible, before the Term > 
 
 a day. ) 
 
 , ■ Xo.LXXXVIII. 
 
 Meflrs M. ^. AV. Drummond to the Laird of Cuilcden. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 YOU may be surpriz'd at our giving you the trouble of this : which nothing 
 less than the miserable Circumstances and necessitous Condition of our Countrymen, 
 transported to Carlisle, could have obhged us to. For when they were carried off 
 many of them had neither Credit nor Money to bear their charges, if they had not 
 been supplied, in some measure, by a collection made here from charitable persons ; 
 which no profession of people made the leaft disrinfldon ; but all concurred very 
 franklv. But as that collection will be soon, if not already, exhaufted, so their charges 
 will encrease by coming on of their tryalls, which now approach (the Judges being 
 actually set out' for Carlisle), which in a strange country- cannot be done easily, being 
 remote from their friends, and destirate of the means of subsistance ; for many, who 
 lived plentifully before, can receive no supply from thdr own Eftates, they being se- 
 questrate ; and as Unle from their friends, who hve at such a distance ; and many of 
 them are involved m the same misfortune, and not capable to give any assistance to 
 them. It's therefore hoped you will take these unfortunate Gendemen's case to your 
 serious consideration ; and to transmitt hither What you are pleased to bestow in so 
 charitable ane occasion •, and we -nill endeavour, as hitherto we have done, to apply it 
 in the most equall manner we can think of for their support. We are. 
 
 Sir, 
 Tour most humble Serv^, 
 Edinburgh, > ^r- DRL^DIOXD. 
 
 Nov-- e\ hi6.i ^- DRODIOXD. 
 
 Xo. LXXXIX 
 
 M' Ja' Steuart to ^l- Duncan Forbes. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 HIS Roval Highness being informed, that there are several persons concerned 
 in the late Rebellion who have fled from Justice, and are either gone abroad or sculk- 
 ing up and down the Councr)' : Therefore, by a Letter from my Lord Townshend of 
 die it"^ last mondi. His Lop has agnified to me, that it is His Royal Highness's 
 pleasure, jud<tina^ it highly necessary for his Majesty's service, that endeavours should 
 be used to find out the names of such persons as have been concerned in the late 
 Rebellion, and are either fled abroad or scu Iking up & down die Country ; and also 
 that proper Eddence be found against them : Wherefore I desire that you may forth- 
 with transmit to me a List of such landed men within your Sh\Te as were concerned in 
 the late Rebellion, and are now gone abroad, or are sc u Ik i n g at home. I do not here 
 mean, that vou should onlv send me a List of such as you know certainly to have 
 been in the Rebellion ; but also of such as, by the common fame of the country, are 
 said to have been engaged therein, and are known to be out of the way or sculking. 
 
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 CULLODEN PAPERS. 6q 
 
 This List may soon be made up, and therefore I hope soon to have a return from you 
 as to this particular. 
 
 You cannot but know a great many of these in your bounds, who, not being 
 landed men, were allowed, upon their surrender of themselves & arms, to return to 
 their own homes, and to live peaceably without disturbance. 
 
 Wherefore I am direded to let you know, that it is expedted that you will call such 
 persons before you, and examine them as to their knowledge of the persons afore- 
 mentioned, their having been in arms in the Rebellion ; and that you will be pleased to 
 give me a particular Lift of those persons that are capable of giving Evidence against 
 them ; and that you would mark at every persone's name not only his name and sur- 
 name, designation, and place of abode, but also the persons against whom he is 
 capable of giving Evidence. And in this I hope you will be at such pains. That I 
 may be in a condition to give such report of your diligence to Court, as is suitable to 
 the Office you are uitrusted with. 
 : As to the List of the landed Gentlemen who have been in the Rebellion and are 
 either fled or sculking, I desire that that may be sent up with all dispatch ; seeing you 
 need not w ait the event of finding Evidence against them ; That being to be dc«ie either 
 upon your own knowledge or common fame. And as to the List of Evidence, I hope 
 you will send it up so soon as it is possible to be got ready. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 Ed', 8"' Nov' ) Your most humble & Obed' Servant, 
 
 . 1716. f ■ JA.STEUART* 
 
 No. XC. 
 
 M' Duncan Forbes to his Brother M' John Forbes, Provost of Inverness, Dated 
 
 Edinburgh 1 6"' Nov' 1 7 1 6. 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 I HAVE written once to-day already : the design of this is to acquaint you, that a 
 contribution is a carrying on, for the relief of the Poor Prisoners at Carlisle from their 
 necessitous condition. It is certainly Christian, and by no means disloyall, to sustain 
 them in their indigent estate, untill they are found Guilty. The law has' brought them 
 to England to be tryed by foreign Jurys ; so far it is weel. But no law can hinder a 
 Scots man to wish that his Countrymen, not hith^to condenmed, should not be a deri- 
 sion to Strangers, or perish for want of necessary defence or sustenance out of their 
 own Counti-y. Therefor, if any Contribution is carryed on for the above purpose with 
 you, it is fit you should give it all the countenance you can, by exhortation and example. 
 The King's best friends do not scruple it here. 
 
 I am Yours, 
 
 DUN. FORBES. 
 
 No. XCI. 
 
 Lord Lovat to M' John Forbes. 
 
 My dearest Lord Provost, (we must give you your title since its to last but short.) 
 
 MY dear General's letter and yours are terrible ; but I was long ere now prepared 
 for all y* could hapen me on y*^ illustrous Brothers' account. Ill stand by y'" to y* last ; 
 
 & if I fall, as I do not doubt but I will, I'll receive y* blow w'out regret. But all I can 
 
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 70 CULLODE.V PAPERS. 
 
 you is this, y' we are like to see a troublesome world, & my General & you will be yet 
 useful ; & I am ready to be with you till y^ last drop ; for I am eternally 
 
 Your own 
 Ferintosh, \ LOVAT, 
 
 y'^ay'^of Deb^i7i6j 
 
 My most humble duty to y' Lady. God preser\-e you both, & destroy y^ Squade. 
 
 No. XCII. 
 
 Lord Lovat to M' Duncan Forbes. 
 My drest General, 
 
 AS I take a panicular share in all that touches mv d' Gen : so I am mightilv griev'd 
 at y^ sister-in-law's Condition. — I do not think y' vour d' brother will long outhve her ; 
 for he is so overwhelm'd w' grief, that he neither sleeps nor eats, Sc is very much alter'd. 
 I do what I can to comfort him ; but he gives way to his grief, in spight of what all his 
 fds can say. 
 
 I have several calls fi-om London. Foyers assirres me y' v*^ Squade have resolv'd to 
 ruin me, du fond en comble ; to break me as to my Commissions, & as to mv Gift ; & 
 to sect up a Fraserdale in odium of Arg}-le, & of me as his partisan. Brig. Grant writs 
 to me y' he never will belive y' promise of a Courtier after what was said to him of y' 
 Gift to Fraserdale. My L* I.'s refined Folitik has hindered his Brother to act for me in 
 y' matter, which \^-as most inaccountable befor God «k Man ; since they know I would 
 go w^ y"" tomorrow to Spain, if they bid me, & leave wife & kindred — But, my d' Gen. 
 I never found y' any frd would do for me what I would for him, except my d' Gen. 
 who is generous &; great in his Soul above all the Dukes, & Earles in Brittain. — If you 
 think fit, I intreat you writ to y^ Brothers, to do for me what they can. Brig. Grant 
 desires me to go off as soon as possible to secure Fraserdale's busines ; so I do intend to 
 go in a week or two at most, hv the mean tyme, I send this express, w* George Drum- 
 mond's 140 p'"; y'is, 132 I really owe him and 8 p" for the time he was out of his 
 money, that he might emplov better. So being to send this express South, I call'd for 
 Kinmiles &: Castlehill, who knows y° Conveyances of this Estate better than any of this 
 Countrey, & Kinmiles has made the inclos'd Memorial to be sent you. 
 
 I therefore most humblv beg of my d" General to employ Sir Walter Pringle, & 
 whom els you please, & consult together of some legal way of my keeping possession of 
 this Estate, besides y"^ Gift, which I 4ook upon as the most precarious thing on earth ; 
 & I most tell my Gen : that either I most keep ^^olent possession, which will remrn me 
 my old missfortunes, or I most abandon y- kingdoms, & a young Lady whom my fSs 
 have engadg'd me to marry. So, d' Gen : I beg you may give m.e some prospect of 
 not being again forc'd to leave y" Kingdom, or to fight against the King's forces ; the one 
 or y- other must be, if I do not find any legal pretence of possessing the Estate but by 
 this Gift, which I now reckon as nothing. The thoughts of all this confuse my brain j 
 soe excuse my writ & style ; and believe me eternally, w'out reserve. 
 
 The most faithfull Sc affectionat of all your Slaves, 
 
 LOVAT. 
 Beaufort, 
 y* 28"^ of Janry 17 17. 
 
 I have fully reconcit*d myself to all mv kindred on both sides, except Dunbalah's 
 Brothers. — I sign this day a submission to Killrach ;k Cullodin for what Capt. Hugh can 
 demand. 
 
 ^ No. xcni.
 
 CL'LLODEK PAPERS. 7 1 
 
 No.xcni. 
 
 M' John Forbes to M' Duncan Forbes. 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 I TAKE the opportunity- of Lovat's express, to tell you that my Wyffe is dead. It 
 pleased God to call her Munday last, the 28'" Instant, betwixt rwelve and on o' Clock 
 fornoon. She is to be interr'd Tuesday next, the 5*^ February. If my health will allow 
 me to travell after that, my stay Nvill not be long here, unless Parliat is either prorogued 
 or dissolved. 
 
 , ... JO -.FORBES. 
 
 Inverness, 30"^ > j-^ ri-Zj vri j:^y^ v:,:Ma vf.^ — j, ,■:■:'. 
 
 January '17 1 7 -) ' " - t-. I 
 
 ; X0.XCIV. ,, ; . . 
 
 Lord Lovat to M'' Duncan Forbes. "-'■' ' "'''.-' 
 
 My dearest General, 
 
 I GOT y' long letter ; & I am affraid its omenus, when you writ long letters & I 
 short ones. I have nothing to say as to the law part, but a blind submission to y' wall ; 
 onlv y' I am sorry my adversarys have employed y' best lawiers, except my Gen' : 
 whom I look on as y" best of all. If you can secure Sir "Walter Pringle, I beg you do it. 
 According to my General's orders, I re\'iewd yesterday ^t ******** above thirteen 
 hunder men. Col" Morav did me y" honor to go himself & review v"", & thought y'" lusty 
 bodys of Men ; but they lookd melancholly like, w'out Arms. — I have writ to the Chan- 
 cellor & Secretarvs about y" by the last Post ; & to Baron Shallenburg, to say a word 
 to y^ King of my zeal. I tliink you should make a Paragraph about my review, & cause 
 put it in your Currant. I do assure you, y' it is a terrificadon to y'^ Jacobites, & y" my 
 staying here frights them. Yet y" Brig, writes plainly to me, even since the Plot, y' its 
 in my L^ Hay's advice I should go immediatelv to London to save myself, since they 
 could not publickly act for me. Y' advice pusles me of my staying ; but I \^ill be deter- 
 mined by this day's post. If my fds from London continou to bid me go. He go ime- 
 diatly ; if they bid me stav He stay, sine thev most know there if ther is any danger so 
 near,: yet I am truly of Opinion y' matters will not end whout much blood. What you 
 desired to know I got notice of it precisly last night ; my Cusing Clanranald did land in 
 his own Countrey w' a great number of arms, 6c sent a great packet to Glengarv, who 
 is to go to Knoydard on y"" coast, to meet Clanranald, or Glendarroch, who is likewise 
 come over. I had this from a Cusing of Glengary's, who was w' him when he got y* 
 Packet ; so you may be assured y' Glengary & Huntley are as much the Pretender's, & 
 all ther Men, as any in Scotland. Adieu, mon cher General ; je vous ecriray plus au 
 long Vendrech' au soir, par la post ordinaire ; cecy est par im express pour porter les 
 Rolles de ma Company. iNIilie respefts au Prevost, a M. Drummond, et Nimbo ; et 
 me Croyer a vous, mille fois plus qu'a Movmeme, 
 
 LOVxVT. 
 Inverness, . - 
 
 y' 20"" of Febr- 1717. - • 
 
 I have been mild to mv kinsmen to excess, & I am affraid contrary to my interest ; but 
 I follow my General's orders : their all united to me as one Man, except Dunbalah's 
 Sons, whose Condud no man of Honor or frdship to me can jusdfy ; but I let y"" alone. 
 
 r.'. No. XCV.
 
 ~2 Cl'LLODEN' PAPERS. > 
 
 No. XCV. 
 
 M' John Forbes to M' DuncanJForbes, London, 20"" June 171 7. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 YOUR Friend Obnan was with me Tuesday night last, who, by the help of some 
 good wine, made me sUp that post ; and to the consequence of that night's drinking 
 you may impute my making use of a borrowed hand ; for yesterday and last night I was 
 so verie ill, that this day I was obHged to take a good quantity- of blood. 
 
 For news, Lovat's gift run the Gantlet this day in the House of Commons, by 
 reason of a resuming Clause in favours of Fraserdale's Lady, presented by Lord James 
 INIurrav, and strongly supported by Cocburn, Halden, and the Squad ; who in the 
 Debat, w'*" lasted r\vo hours, were pleased to belch out great many scurrilous reflec- 
 tions against Lovat ; but all to no purpose ; for the gift subsists as it did ; and in a 
 great Measure owing to Mr. "Walpole, and honest Mr. Smith, who, notwithstanding y* 
 melancholy circumstances of his Family at present, would not desert Lovat. 
 
 J. F. 
 
 Xo. XCVI. 
 
 M' John Forbes to M' Duncan Forbes, Lond. i^''^ July 17 17. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 iSr STANHOPE has this day kist the King and Prince's hands as Viscount Sussex 
 
 and Lord Mohaun *. Its also storied that ^lal h has demitted all his posts in 
 
 Favours of Cadfogan"!, who is to be Duke of Ormond. Its true, that Mr. Poultnie was 
 refused access to the King before he left this place ; and also that Tom Earle has lost 
 his place, as ever)^ oY body that voted against Cad. must in a few dayes. The D. of 
 Summerset has refused to serve the Court, till first the K. and P. are reconcilat. 
 We aieto have the Act of Grace ]Munday next ; and its talk'd, that the Parhament 
 will not onlv then be up, but dissolved ; and that Rox. and all the Squad, goe for 
 Scotland to make the Elections, whilst his Majesn- goes a progress through the Coun- 
 trie. As to mv t^Tne of down comeing, its micertain, because 1 know not how long 
 I may be detained in Hampshyre, where I desATie to goe next Week ; But in order to 
 my home coming, its proper you A^-rite north and find Credite for a,^ico. sterling, 
 which I must draw on George Drummond for before 1 leave this place ; since I take 
 it for granted that our Commisso" are to have no Sallarie payed them. Pray mynd 
 me kindly to honest Timothv. Its pritrv- hard that neither you or I can be of any use 
 att this junclure to the good Town. I am att present a hde on the Crab, and caimot 
 think of writeing to anv body ; Therefore please forward the substance of this to honest 
 Mr. Baillie. I am just new told, that, in order to secure Eledions for the Court, 
 Wharton is made Duke of Wharton. 
 
 I had almost Forgott to thanke ycu for the kyndly way off living you propose to us. 
 I lyke it extremelv weell ; but I should hkeit much better if you could think of pro- 
 •\7deing yourself \*:jth ane honest lass that would be a comfort to you, and also take 
 care a httle of me. This would determine me to keep home and with pleasure, which 
 
 • Viscount Stanhope, of Mahon in the island of Minorca. In the following year he was created Earl 
 Stanhope. 
 
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 CULLODEN PAPERS. 73 
 
 in ally oy'' event cannot be but pritt)' melancholie to me when allone. j\nd I assure you 
 that your comeing to some speedy and soUde resolution in this thing, which perhaps 
 you may take as a Joke, is the greatest obhgation you can do 
 
 Your afFed. Brother, 
 
 JO. FORBES. 
 
 No. XCVII. 
 
 Provost Hossack to the Laird of Culloden. 
 Hon"^ Sir, 
 
 COLONEL IMontague & some Horse, having this forenoon come in from' Kil- 
 lichnimman, brought a great many Letters from our Army, which goe by this Post, 
 and will confirm that the Troops attacked the Rebells in their most advantageous post, 
 beat them from it not without loss, and were in pursute of them next day ; the 
 Spaniards ha\'ing capitulat to surrender on the Afternoon thereof. Capt"" Downs & 
 2 Lieu'' of Montag' are killed ; Capt"" Moor & Heighington, of Clayton's, wounded ; 
 as is Cullairn on the thigh, & the bone safe. It's said, Seafort is wounded in the 
 Shulder, and Gordon in the Legg. This is what occurs for news now. I am, 
 
 Hon^-'-- Sir, 
 , , „,. Yo' most faithful Serv' 
 
 Inverness, 13'" June 17 19. JOHN HOSSACK 
 
 *,* This was the battle of Glensheal, fought on the lo'* of June. 
 
 t 
 
 No. XCVIII. 
 
 Lord Belhaven to M' Duncan Forbes, London, March 18"", 1721. 
 
 t)' Duncan, 
 
 THE Lord StrafFoord desired me this day to write to some Lawer of my acquaint- 
 ance in Scotland, and inclose this bit of Paper concerning on Hamilton, who, he's 
 inform'd, is now in Scotland. If you can find out that he is there, he would gladly 
 employ you in the recovery of his monie ; so should be glade you would employ some 
 body to find out whether such a man is there, or not ; and be so good as to let me 
 know as soon as possible. 
 
 For news, we are here in the outmost miserie, haveing had nothing before our eies but 
 a theme of Calamit)' ; the people in rage, fury, and povertie, without doors ; and car- 
 Tying on their particular views and interests within ; without any regard to the publick 
 good. You have, no doubt, heard of the Lord Sunderland's being acquitted by three 
 score and -on Votes : the Secret Committee were next to have proceeded against owld 
 Craggs ; but he bit them, haNnng, as it's believed, taken a large doze of laudenum, 
 of which he died Yesterday Morning. As for Politicks, I am not much vers'd in them, 
 nor are they at present much worth minding ; but this I may say, in generall, that if 
 we be not all blown up together, I'm of Opinion our friends here never had a fairer 
 prospeft than they now have. I long to see * * * * * return'd a member of Parlia- 
 ment. — Pray give my humble Service to George Drummond, Mr. Brent, and all other 
 friends. I am, D' Duncan, 
 
 Yours, 
 
 belha\t:n. 
 
 I. No. XCIX.
 
 74 
 
 CCLLODEX PAPERS. 
 
 No. XCIX. 
 
 M' Duncan Forbes [probably to the Duke of Argyll.] 
 My Lord, 
 
 THE choice your Grace has been pleased to make of me to represent your Bor- 
 rows * I take to be a very uncommon mark of your favour. 
 
 That vou have agreed I should not attend \^hen my Business tyes me necessarly to 
 this place, I look upon as a proof of your sincere friendfhip for me ; and that, in this 
 particular, your Grace has considered mv interest more than your own. 
 
 During the whole course of my past life till this moment, I never wifhed for riches. 
 But now, when I perceive that my narrow Circumstances ^vill not, without a manifest In- 
 discretion (which your Grace would readilv blame), permit me to fling aside all regards, 
 and to follow you wherever your sen ice requires, I begin to wilh I had an Estate. 
 
 My fears, and a more famiHar acquaintance I have \nth myself than any body else has, 
 tell me that I shall not answer the expectations your Grace may have of my service in 
 Parliament. However, since I am thoroughly satisfied that the same friendship which 
 moved vou to entertain those expectations will incline you to make allo\^"ances for my 
 failours, I submit to your Grace's Resolutions. 
 
 I hope your Grace will not believe I think the less of the honour you have done 
 me, that I assure you it neither has augmented, nor cannot, the affection with which 
 I formerly was Your Grace's 
 
 most faithful Servant, 
 Edin^ iS^Muly 1721. D. F. 
 
 Xo. C. 
 
 Lord Lovat to the Laird of Culloden. 
 My dear Lord Provost, 
 
 IT'S needless to me to give you ane account of the attack y' those impudent vil- 
 lains make on you ; since Tom. Rob. W. B. & Jo. Hosak, will give you a full ac- 
 count of it. It's a fine design, & very proper for King George's Officers of State, to 
 offer to the Tory Jacobits of Inverness to restore them to their old Magistracy, if they 
 will concur with them to turn out the Whigs who have been so zealous for King 
 George. I want to know mightily what pension >■* D. of R has from the Pre- 
 tender for serving his friends so faithfully. I am sure he gets more than ever I did for 
 my services in 1703. I must say, that you are all good natured, y' can every day see 
 those Rafkals w'out telling them they are so. But if the E. & Knight come to Inver- 
 ness, they will certainly be drum'd out of to^vn, & followed by all the dogs, fisher- 
 wifes, whores, .k boys of the town ; as the Peer would have been in 1 7 1 5 if I had not 
 proteSed him. I intend to go to Inverness, & show at least my zeal to serve you. 
 Adieu. I am eternally John Forbes of Colodin's faithfull Slave, 
 
 LOVAT. 
 
 My ser\nce to Sir Rob. Gordon, & the Laird of Brodie. My Wife gives you her 
 kind ser\-ice. 
 
 Beaufort, the y'^ ofDebre 1721. 
 
 * Mr. Forbes was chosea in 1722 for the Inverness district of boroughs. 
 
 No. CI.
 
 CULLODEN PATERS. 75 
 
 No. CI. 
 
 Lord Lovat to the Laird of CuUoden. 
 My dear Lord Provost, 
 
 THO' 1 am tender, 5c y' y' weather is very bad, I came in here to do all the service 
 I can. I refer to Mr. Baillie to give you ane account of what is doing here. * * * & 
 other old Frds are onlv to be trusted. But I hope we will blow up all their Plot very 
 soon. However, I think, w'out losse of t)'me, you should come home : you know 
 y' your presence would check a great many trimmers ; but in your absence we will do 
 what we can ; & I hope y' is to beat them to pieces, tho' their contrivances is very 
 malicious ; & you may be sure that Duncan \%-ill not acl with more earnestnes & affec- 
 tion for your concerns than I will, and y' w' y' rifk of life k fortime if it was usefuU. 
 I am my dear John Forbes's 
 
 Most faithfull Slave, 
 
 Inverness, y" 9 of Dec. 1721. LOVAT. 
 
 No. CII. . ' 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 My dear Lord Provost, 
 
 I Am heare this eight days doing what I can to ser^-e you & your Interest.^ 
 I hope I have not been useless ; for I left no stone unturn'd that 1 could think of to 
 knock the last ridiculous Plot in the head ; & I think it is better for you y' they in- 
 vented y' piece of malice ; for it only shows the world y all Inverness is yours, Whig 
 and Tory : & y' you can order any y' dares call themselves Squade to be whip'd out of 
 it. I refer to B Hos and Mr. Baillie, to give you ane account of my affec- 
 tion & zeal for you ; which I believe you are convinc'd is all the business I have, or 
 ever will have, to do with the Politicks of Inverness. I wish you a happy new year & a 
 merry Christmass ; but I wish it was at Inverness. I am eternally. My d" L^ Provost, 
 
 Your most faithful Slave, 
 Inverness, y^ 15 of Debre 172 1. LOVAT. 
 
 No. cm. 
 
 M' Duncan Forbes to his Brother M"^ John Forbes. 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 WE are frightned out of our witts here, that Peter Haldane will be made Lord 
 of Session in place of Fountainhall, who has demitted. If this happen, we have no 
 more to say in the Session ; and, for ought I know, the ridiculous process against you 
 and your Alagistrates may be determined against you, at a Season when there can be 
 no Appeall. I am hopefull the Duke will look to his own Interest in this particular ; 
 which will be mortallv wounded, if not killed quite dead, by such a Judge ; and I 
 cannot help thinking, that if the Ministers put such a Judge upon him, he has very 
 litle to look to from their promises. 
 
 I expecl to hear particularly from Inverness, in a day or two, what have been the 
 Springs of our Tory friends' actions, and then you shall know. 
 
 I heartily regrate our friend Sandy's loss ; I hope heel bear it, and get another son. 
 
 I am 
 Edr 1 9*^ Decer 1 , " Yours. 
 
 Note> — Mr. HalJane was not appointed. 
 
 L2 No.GIV.
 
 f6 CCLLODEX P.\PERS, 
 
 Xo. CTV. 
 
 ^^ Duncan Forbes to the Duke of Argj^ll. 
 My Lord, Ed' 29'*' Aug' 1723, 
 
 THIS Morning your Grace's Letter was sent me by Com. Campbell, under 
 whose cover it came. Obsen"ing it to be dated the I3'''', and that, consequently, it 
 ought to have come to hand ten days ago, I enquired somewhat carefully to dis- 
 cover where the stop had been. I foimd by the Cover, directed bv C. Poter to the 
 Commissar, that he folded it up at Sudbrook only on the 17'"; and by the London 
 Postmark that it was put into the Oi5ce there no sooner than the 24''. These things 
 I remark to satisfy your Grace, that this Answer is not delayed throw any fault of mine ; 
 because you seemed disposed to take some resolutions, upon the failour of ane answer, 
 in the course of the Post, from the date of vour Grace's Letter. 
 
 I am heartily sorry that what I wrote vour Grace, sometime agoe, in excuse of 
 my friend George's delay of Pa\-ment, did not prove satisfacior}-. If that delay proceeded 
 from unwillingness, there could be no excuse for it ; but if it proceeded truly from un- 
 ability at the time, I imagined your Gr. would have been as for«ard as I to have 
 covered it. Had I not been absolutely sure that he was then unable to answer the 
 demand, I should not have offered the proposition that I then made ; but since I can- 
 not safely, in this method of distant correspondence, hope to offer arguments that shall 
 conrace your Gr. that I v-as in the right, I shall at least give you the most substantial 
 proof that I think I was so ; for I shall forth\\-ith do what I can to find the Money, 
 and cause pay it up, to save my friend from Ruin. If it is remitted to J. Cockbum, I 
 believe it •will Ans^yer your Grace's intention ; and I hope in a very few Posts to lodge 
 it in his hands. 
 
 If the mistake of your Letters having come so late to hand has not occasioned your 
 Gr. doing somewhat cross to poor George before this reaches you, I flatter myself you 
 will lay aside all thoughts of hurting a Man who, joined to more merite, has as great 
 a love for justice and for vour Gr. Ser\'ice, as vour most f. H. Ser^-" 
 
 DL^^. FORBES. 
 
 No. CV. 
 
 The Duke of Argyll to M' Duncan Forbes, Dated Sudbrook, Sept' y' 7'\ 1725. 
 
 I PROTEST, I never was half so much surpriz'd in my life as I am at y^ way 
 in which you take this affair of George Drummond's. I have not as y' told IVI' Wal- 
 pool the Story ; but I have told it to some of our friends, that I might see whether 
 any Man thought upon the subject as you doe ; & upon my word they are astonish'd ; 
 & I am confident all mankind vnW be so that hears it ; &: one time or other you may 
 chance to be convinc'd that vou have misjudg'd in your extream passion for M' Drum- 
 mond ; v»ho, I confess, I with pain see prefer'd to me. I take it, by what you say, 
 that he is in a few davs to be pleas'd to part with v* Monev that he has thought to fit 
 to retain eight years in his hands. I desire, to whoever he sends the Bills, he will con- 
 descend to confess having ^ecei^''d the value out of the ten thousand pound, or some 
 such discriprion. That done, to please you, I shall not hurt him ; &: to serve myself, 
 1 shall never trust him. 
 
 I am, Dvmcan, 
 
 Your faithfull Servant, 
 ARGYLL & GREENWICH.
 
 CULLODEN PAPERS. I"] 
 
 No. CVI. 
 
 M' Duncan Forbes to the Duke of Arg)ll, Dated Inverness, 21" Sept' 1723. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 I AM at present under the greatest concern that ever possest me, when I sit 
 dov^Ti to answer your Grace's Letter of the 7", which I received in this place. 
 
 That your Grace's opinion, and that of your friends, concerning G. D. is a WTong 
 one, I dare not take upon me absolutely to say ; because you may be acquainted with 
 facts concerning him, to which I am a Stranger ; but if there was no more in the 
 matter than I know ; mz.. that he, tho' -willing, was unable to advance the Money for 
 some months, -without risquing ruin to himself and his friends ; I cannot think that 
 my entreating in his behalf with your Grace, or interposing to procure him the money, 
 is a Crime unpardonable ; tho', as I had the honor formerly to observe, his faultiness 
 or innocence cannot well be explained in this manner of Correspondence. ' ' . ' '"' • 
 
 But that which touches me the most sensibly is, the Opinion your Grace is pleased 
 to express concerning me, as if I preferred G. D. (of whom you seem to entertain 
 very unfavourable Sentiments) to your Grace : the consequence whereof may be, that 
 one time or another I may chance to be convinced that I have misjudged. 
 
 To one whose Actions, in so far as they reguarded your Grace, flowed from the 
 most sincere Love and affection ; whose conduct never was influenced by views of in- 
 terest or the least hopes of reward ; and who flattered himself your Grace considered 
 him in thi.t ligh:-, the Censure is prett)^ severe. The study of my Life, since ever I had 
 the honour to be kno%vn to your Grace, was, to merit your good \\-ill by honest actions. 
 I was ford enough to believe that I had gained some share of it ; and I do assure your 
 Grace, nothing in nature can afiect me more than the loss of it, excepting only the 
 deser\Tng to lose it. 
 
 The Consequences which, one time or another, I may chance to feel. Your Grace 
 •will do me the justice to believe, make no impression on me. Were I capable of 
 dreading these, I should be unworthy of that place which I so earnestly courted in 
 your Grace's Esteem. But I must confess, the reflexion that it should be in the power, 
 of chance, or industry, to give your Grace a jealousy of me, when my conscience bears 
 witness to my sincerity, is a circumstance that brings me abundance of pain. 
 
 Tour Grace ^%dll, 1 hope, pardon my complaining in this manner ; since you are the 
 only person lixing to whom L dare utter my complaint. Your justice will doubtless 
 dispose you to examine more narrowly, whether there was any cause for suspecting 
 my truth ; and in the mean time, till, upon such Enquiry, I am found Guilt)-, I take 
 the hbert)' to continue to subscribe myself, as formerly. 
 
 Your Grace's most faithfull and mo^t humble Servant, 
 
 ■■■' ; S' '.<■'■: -:■ - - I ic. . ^ • ;Mh.,- ;;[ " 'tL D. R. 
 
 I have written to Mr. Drummond, to acquaint Ja. Cockburn, that the Money remitted 
 him by Bill was in satisfaction of so much Monev which had remained in his Mr. Drum- 
 mond's hands of the ^10,000. since the late Rebellion. The Letter to Kilmahew, 
 which came North, unluckily being under the same cover "with your Grace's, I have 
 direded for him. r 
 
 No. cvn.
 
 fi. - CL'LLODEN PAPERS- 
 
 No. evil. 
 
 The Duke of Argyll to Mr, Duncan Forbes. 
 
 Mt Dear Duncan, Sudbrook, y' lo of Od. iji^. 
 
 I RECEIV'D your Letter out of y^ North, by which I find you have strangly 
 mistaken mine. The Opinion I have, you know, always had of you, cannot but have 
 made it a pain to me to find you think me in y= wTong, &; George Drummond in the 
 right. It is wonderful to me, how you could conceive that I intended, by what I 
 said, to threten you. If vou can think well of me, you should think that I am sen- 
 sible of the obHgations I lye imder to you, and sorr)- that I have had no opportunit)- to 
 return them. I have, God knows, too little power to be such a fool as to threten 
 my enemys ; and, I think, too much Honesrv' to dream of hurting my friend. Man is, 
 questionless, not perfed: ; and I am, no doubt, less so than I might be ; but if you 
 meet, Dimcan, with many, either with regard to pubUck or private life, much better 
 than mvself, you may be said to have good fonune. I goe in two or three davs into 
 Oxfordshire, where y' Dutchess will be toward the end of the month, and shall re- 
 main there till a few days before His Majestie's return. M"^ Walpole tells me, 
 every thing will goe well j & I have reason to be perswaded, that he will sincerly 
 doe the best he can to serxe us. Give my Ser\ice to all our friends j and doe me y' 
 justice to believe that I am 
 
 Your faithfuU friend & Sers-ant, 
 
 ARGYLL 5c GREENWICH. 
 
 No. CVIII. 
 
 M^ John Forbes to his Brother ]\Ir. Duncan Forbes, Lord Advocate ; dated Culloden, 
 
 28'^ January 1725. 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 WE have the strongest stnigle about Elections in this Coimtrie, all over, was 
 ever heard of, especially anent our Borrowes : so that I cannot yett say that Stewart is 
 secure. I wish the writts were here ; for till then, or rather till the Minute of Election 
 is over, It is not possible to say who will be the Man ; because Stewart, Killravock, 
 and Collonell ***** IsrKynzie, by Tom. Robertsones (and his assodats) ther bam- 
 busiling measures, doe all of them reckon themselves equally secure. 
 
 As to my Election, our Cousine Foulls is now here. He assures, Sir Donald will 
 not come North ; but Fraserdeall, who is also in this Countrie, asserts he will, and all 
 his 0/ South Countrie friends. If he speaks trueth, tATne mest try who will be 
 returned. 
 
 I am glad to hear the Address for dissohing the Union is throwen out by your 
 Facult)- ; tho' its well knowen I was not for it. Yet aver)- thinking Man may easily 
 belive this is not the proper tv-me to propose such ane affair. I am truely some to 
 hear the litle Recabite was violently opposite to you and his oy' friends m this matter ; 
 and as sorrie to hear that he is Ivke to follow Jacobite measures at the Elections. If 
 this be true, please show him this Lyne ; and tell him, I take his apearing so, att this 
 Jounclure, to be not onlv the greatest ad of folly he can committ against his interest, 
 but also the greatest affront he can possibly doe me, and all concem'd in me. It is, 
 in plain terms, a giveing up all friendship with me. Yett still, insignificant as I am, it 
 were more kj-ndly for him to wish me well, and to expect friendship from me, then to 
 
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 depend on, or to be led by the nose by, the Man I am told he setts up for ; who is a 
 stranger to him, and will perhaps laugh att him when the Eleftions arc over. I 
 know you'll think I have spent too much paper on this subjeft ; but I cannot help it, 
 because I love my Cousine, and desyre to keep friendship with him. Pray lett me 
 know what he inclynes to do, and use your interest with him to keep him right. 
 
 I cannot tell what to make of Mlntosh. If Argyll wrote to him, I am told, it 
 might doe weell. But doe in this as you think fitt. Your friend Tom Robertsone and 
 his father are intyrely in Fraserdeall's interest, for all the friendship he professes to 
 you ; and does oblidge his father, who never qualified before, to take the Oathes, 
 only to oppose me ; which I take to be the best thanks you'll gett from him and his 
 associats for patronizing them in their villainies. All friends are weell. Dispatch the 
 writts. How soon they come, lett me know when our great folks come to Scotland, 
 and what oy' Newes you have. 
 
 ^ Y" . JO. FORBES. 
 
 . ' No. CIX. ;^, .^,.:„^.,, . .^.- 
 
 The Lord Advocate to the Magistrates of Glasgow. 
 
 Gentlemen, ' ' ' ' ' ' ' - Edinburgh, 25"' June 1725. 
 
 WE are allarmed here with an imperfect Acco" of a Tumult that happened in 
 your town, in which M'' Campbell of Shawfield's house is said to have suffered ; but 
 how far the fury of the Mob proceeded, we have not yet heard. 
 
 I must own to you. Gentlemen, this News surprized me ; the more that I have heard 
 it for some time reported, there was such an intention ; and that the populace was, by 
 some means or other, stirred up to look upon M^ Campbell with an evil eye. That 
 previous notice, I flattered myself, would have put the Magistrates of the town upon 
 their Guard ; and their good offices and credit with the people I hoped would have 
 prevented extremities ; especially since I knew that as last night they must have had 
 with them two Companies of his Majestie's forces, who were commanded to assist the 
 Magistrates, and obey their orders, in suppressing any tumults or Riots. 
 
 But as, contrary to those expeftations, I now hear, that the Mobb was allowed to 
 execute their threatning, without being informed justly how that Mob became insu- 
 perable, whether the proclamation against tumults was read to them, or whether the 
 assistance of the troops was required, I take it to be my Duty to require of you an 
 account of those matters. 
 
 What is to be wished, and what I hope will appear to be the case, is, that you. Gen- 
 tlemen, have in all respects done your duty ; and in that belief, care is taken by the 
 General to order sufficient Detachments of foot and Dragoons to support the Civil 
 Magistracy in the execution of the Laws ; and to convince the Rioters, of whatever 
 stadon or degree they may be, that they must not hope to insult the Governm' with 
 impunity. 
 
 What I have at present to trouble you with is, that you would be pleased, with all 
 possible care and Diligence, to transmitt to me an account of what was transacted in the 
 Mob, its rise, and progress. 
 
 And, that with all convenient Diligence you would make the most exact enquiry and 
 search possible after all such persons as can be proved to have been accessary to, or 
 aftive in, the said Mob & tumult ; & that so soon as you discover any of them, you 
 would be pleased to committ them to Gaol, and transmitt to me an account of their 
 Names & Designations, together with the pardcullars of their accession to the Mob ; 
 
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 and the Witnesses names by whom such particuliars can be proven ; to the end that 
 thev may be tryed by those Laws which they have insuked. 
 
 When you have secured such of the adors as can be discovered, proper care will 
 be taken to assist you to keep them in safe Custody, if that shall be necessan-, and to 
 transport them hither in order to their tr)-all. .; 
 
 I am heartily sorrv-, Gentlemen, that a subject of this kind should be the first that 
 occasions oiu" correspondence ; and that a town so noted as Glasgow for its loyalty- to 
 his Majesde, and its adherence to those principles upon which the present happv esta- 
 bhshment is setded, should be the first, in the whole Kingdom, that shakes off obe* 
 ,dience to the Goverimient, and that gives joy to the King's EnenJes, by showinor a 
 spirit of Resistance and Opposition to the Laws. 
 
 -. I am, Gendemen, 
 
 Your most humble Serv'. 
 
 Xo. ex. 
 
 The Lord Advocate [probably to RL-. Scrope*] 
 
 Sir, Edinburgh, 26'* June 1725. 
 
 IT may be for your convenience, that this Letter, which is like to draw to some 
 length, be wrote by a borrowed hand ; because you \rill get much easier throw it, 
 than if it were of my writting. - ^ . , ^ 
 
 In my last, which was of the 24'^, but which will scarcely be with you sooimer than 
 this one, I told you that the Maltsters in this Neighbourhood had given ready access 
 to Sm-\"ey their Stock in hand ; but that there vras some cause to apprehend the Glas- 
 gow People would not be so tradable ; for which reason, vko companies of foot were 
 sent to Glasgow, to be followed by some more forces with all Expedition. 
 
 Nor were the suspicions of the mutinous disposition of the People of Glasgow 
 without foundation ; for on the 23'^ (when the stock in hand ought to have been 
 surveyed), a parcell of loose disorderly people infested the Streets, which made it im- 
 safe for the officers to demand access, until! they could be supported ; and the same 
 timiultuars- Disposition continued the 24"", but without doing any Mischief till to- 
 ward- the Evening, that the INIob got it in their heads, it was fit for them to de- 
 mohsh Daniel Campbell's house ; on a suggestion, which you guess at the Authors 
 of, that he was one of the Advisers of the INIalt Tax. 
 
 About the time that this Mob began thus to be turbulent, the two companies of foot 
 that had been sent firom hence entered the Town : The Provost had sent them Billets, 
 and had prepared the Guard Room for them. But as they were drawn up upon the 
 Parade ready to enter it, the jNIob got hold oi the Keys of the Guard Room, Locked 
 the Doors, and ran away with the Keys ; so that, without breaking up the Doors, 
 the Troops could not get in, who stood for some time in the Streets, insulted and 
 abused by the Mob. 
 
 .. The Remedy in this case was easy, to have broke upon the Doors ; and the Officer 
 ■i^o commanded the Detachment proposed it to the Provost, from whom he had 
 Erections to receive his orders ; but the Provost pretended to be affraid that such %io- 
 lence would irritate the Mob ; and therefore ad\ised the Officers to order his Men 
 into their quarters, as the only expedient that remained for their safetv* ; which the 
 Officer readily agreed to, the ISIen having been ver}" much wet Sc fatigued with a long 
 rainy inarch. 
 
 After the Troops were in their Quarters, the Mob became still more boisterous, 
 and directed their fury against Daniel Campbell's House, which they gutted and de- 
 
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 stroyed, pulling down every thing that their power could reach to. His Gardens they 
 defaced, and broke doAMi every thing except the Walls, which, it seems, they had 
 not leisure to demolish in form. 
 
 But, what is of worse consequence to poor Daniel than the loss of all his furni- 
 ture, the defacing his House and Gardens, the Carrjdng off his Wife's Jewells, and 
 his own ready money ^ notes, thev, as we are informed, got hold of his Writiings, 
 and have left him neither Bond, Bill, Book, nor Accompt. If this should prove true, 
 his sufferings must be very considerable. 
 
 About Eleven o'clock at Night, when the Mob was a Carrying on this Work, tl;e 
 Officer who commanded the Detachment of the Forces sent to the Provost to tell him, 
 that he was at his service, and ready to obey his Commands, if He thought fit to employ 
 the Troops in quelling that Mob. But the Provost returned him in Answer, 1'hat the 
 two Companies were too small a force for that service ; and it was therefore his opi- 
 nion, that the Officer had nothing to do but to keep within his Quarters. 
 
 It is true, indeed, this Provost went in amongst the Mob, begging and praying of 
 them that they would desist, tho' in vain ; but it is equally true, that he did not attempt 
 to read the Proclamation, or to make use of the assistance that the troops might have 
 afforded him. 
 
 The next morning, that is, the 25"", after Daniel Campbell's house was Demolished, 
 the Mob appeared less violent ; tho' still some disorderly persons, who had got them- 
 selves Drunk over night in Mr. Campbell's cellar, continued running riotously up and 
 down the Streets. However, the Provost, about ten a Clock of the Day, adventured 
 to break open the Guard Room Doors, and to give admittance to the Troops ; and he 
 pretended further to act so far in his Duty, as to seize some of the Rioters, and to 
 Committ them to Gaol. But that Act of his alarmed the Mob afresh, who got toge- 
 ther in great numbers to Rescue the Prisoners, and endeavour to insult the Troops 
 who had possession of the Guard Room. 
 
 To this end, a Woman, or a Man in Woman's Clothing, got hold of a Drum, beat 
 it round all the Su-eets of the Town ; and, having collected a great body of Mob, 
 marched straight to the guard, w-here they attacked the Troops with Stones and Brick 
 Bates so violently, that they had no choise left, but either to deliver up their Arms, 
 or to use them. 
 
 Upon this, the Officer who Commanded the two Companies ordered the Men to 
 fire ; first powder only, in hopes of Terryf^ang the Rioters ; but when that rather 
 added fresh violence to their former courage, he was obliged to fire sharp ; whereby 
 several people were knocked dowii, and diverse more were wounded, which had the 
 effect to beat off the Mob. 
 
 This Accident, however, provoked them still the more ; insomuch that they at last 
 rung the allarm Bell of the City, Broke up the Town's Magazines, and possessed 
 themselves with fire Arms wherever they could find them ; intending, as they said, to 
 attack the troops in form, and to destroy them. 
 
 Upon this, the Provost sent a Message to the Officer, telling him what was 
 threatened, and adviseing him, for his own Safety, and for the tranquility of the 
 Town, to leave it as soon as he could, and to march out of it, where he might be safe. 
 
 The Officer, whose directions were to Receive Orders from the Provost, imme- 
 diately marched his Men out of Town, in his Way to Dunbarton Castle. But, as he 
 was followed for aboiit Six Miles by the Mob, he was forced frequently to wheel 
 about, and fire, to make his retreat good ; which at last he effectuated, and arrived safe 
 at Dunbarton last night. 
 
 This Demelle with the Troops begun about three a Clock in the Afternoon. In it 
 some of the Mob are said to have been killed, and many wounded. The numbers of 
 
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 the Slain are variously reported ; some making them to amount to ten or twelve, an- 
 other to no more than five or six. Two of the Soldiers, who could not keep pace 
 with the Detachment, fell into the Rioters hands ; and one of these is said to have 
 been so inhumanelv used, that his life is despaired of. 
 
 This is, Sir, the best accoimt I can give you of that transaction ; a consequence 
 whereof it probablv will be, that the People in the Neighbourhood will refuse to pav the 
 Tax until tiie punishment of these who have already offended shall convince them, that 
 the course is imprudent ; for the Commissioners of Excise have Advice from theu* 
 Officers at Hamilton, Paisley, Avr, &c. that they have been refused access, and Male- 
 treated ; and that the people of these places give out, that they will follow the Ex- 
 ample of Glasgow, and not that of Edinburgh. 
 
 For this Reason it is, that it is thought necessary, that before the Officers be ex- 
 posed to fresh insults in those places, or the people be directly involved in Crimes, a 
 Sufficient force should be brought together, to support the execution of the Law at 
 Glasgow, and to bring the Actors in this Riot to Condign Pimishment. 
 
 As General Wade happens to be still here, he acted with great Judgment & Aigi- 
 lance in this matter. He has ordered Colonel Campbell's and Mv Lord Stair's Regi- 
 ments of Dragoons to be furthwith taken up from Grass, and to march to the proper 
 places in the Neighbovuhood of Glasgow. He has ordered five Companies of Colonel 
 Clayton's to march hither from Berv^ick ; which, with so many Companies as can be 
 spared from hence of my Lord Delorain's Regiment, will form a sufficient body to 
 strick terror into the Mutineers in the West, and to support the Civil Magistrate in 
 taking up the Offenders ; and at the same time, he has ordered some of the Troops in- 
 tended for the northern expedition, to halt where they are till further Orders, that they 
 may be at hand in case there is any occasion for them. 
 
 -So soon as the Troops intended for Glasgow are got together, which I believe may 
 be in Six or Seven Days, proper directions shall be given for taking up so many of the 
 Rioters as can be come at ; and in the mean time, the necessary informations and 
 evidences shall be preparing, that their Trjall may be speedy ; and so soon as we have 
 got hold of as many of the Offenders as we can come at, their Characters and the par- 
 ticular circumstances of their Guilt shall be made known to you, for your directions 
 how to proceed. 
 
 By the Circumstances which, in this Naration, I have marked concerning the 
 Provost, you will easily perceive, that his conduct seems to have as much the Air of 
 Guilt as any one's who is not directlv active can have ; and vet I am rold, even by 
 Daniel Campbell himself, that he suspects him of no Guilt, but only of plain stupi- 
 dity ; however, Sir, should even that appear to be the case, I submit it to you whe- 
 ther his conduct is not such as deserves a very smart reproof. L^pon an information of 
 Malversation in respect of his Office, and accession to the Riot, he may be taken up 
 and Committed ; that single Act would certainly strick terrour in all the Neigh- 
 bouring Magistrates, who may have a Disposition to be remiss in their Duty ; and tho' 
 his Malversation should appear at last to be more the effect of Folly than of Design, I 
 cannot help thinking that he deserves to meet with a Httle Severity-, if that Severity 
 may be usefull to the pubhck. 
 
 If it shall be your Opinion, that I should give Directions for Committing this Man, 
 alongst with the other Rioters, your Orders in answer to this will come time enough, 
 and I shall obev them. I am, 
 
 Sir, 
 Most faithfully Yours, &:c. 
 
 This goes by a flying paquet that General Wade dispatches to the Duke of New- 
 castic. 
 
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 No. CXI. 
 
 M' Scrope to the Lord Advocate. 
 My Lord, July y' i" 1725. 
 
 YOURS of y- 26"' ult, came to my hands yesterday morning ; upon receipt 
 whereof (S' Ro' Walpole being out of Town) I imcdiately waited on y Duke of New- 
 castle, who was pleased to shew me the letter he had from M' Wade, and he thought 
 what you write was of y' consequence, that it was necessary to suiiion y* Lords of y" 
 Regency ; w* could not be done till this morning, because my Lord Chancellor was 
 engaged. By this conveyance you will have their sentime", and direcdons to you and 
 Mr. Wade to carry on things w'" ) ' utmost vigour ; w*^'' I hope will put a stop to any 
 insolence of the like nature in other places. For ptilars I refer you to Mr. Delafay. — 
 The Duke desired to have your Letter to lay before the Regency, and intends to send 
 a Copy of it to Hanover, w'^'' I easily parted w''' because it was writ w"' great judgm' & 
 
 prudence. 
 
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 I am very sorry to hear of Mr. Campbel's Misfortune. Y' Duke of Newcastle 
 promised to write to him, and to assure him y' he should not be a sufferer by it. I can't 
 think y" Provost behaved as he ought. Y" forces might at least have protected Mr. 
 Campbel's house ; and had they been sent thither at first, 'ds probable ther had been 
 no occasion for their retreadng to Dunbarton. 
 
 I have only time to add, y' I am very faithfully. 
 My Lord, 
 Yo' Lordships most Obedient humble Serv', 
 
 J. Sfcrope.] 
 
 No.CXII. 
 
 M' Delafaye to the Lord Advocate and Sollicitor of Scotland. 
 
 My Lord, and Sir, Whitehall, July i'' 1725. 
 
 THE Lords Justices having received Information by several Letters, which were 
 this Day laid before them, particularly t\vo from yourselves to Mr. Scroop, of the 
 Tumult which happened at Glascow upon the occasion of the Commencement of the 
 Malt Duty in Scotland, which Riot was accompanied with the highest instances of in- 
 solence, Cruelty, Rapine and Violence, and too much countenanced and encouraged 
 by the connivance or at least (if it can possibly bear so favourable a construction) by the 
 neglect and the want of Resolution, Vigour, and Activity, of the Chief Magistrate, 
 and by the willfuU absence of the rest, at a time when the Seditious and tumultuous dis- 
 position of the inhabitants did more particularly call upon them to attend the Duty of 
 their Offices ; Their Excellencys judging it of the highest importan>,o to the Service of 
 His Maj''', the honour of his Administration, the Peace of his Kingdom, and the Safety 
 of his Subjects, thafso audacious an attempt, in defiance of all Laws and Government, 
 should not remain unpunished, have commanded me to signify to you their directions, 
 that you employ your utmost care and endeavours in bringing the Offenders to 
 Justice, and in causing such of them to be seized as you shall judge convenient, against 
 whom you can have any evidence ; particularly the principal Actors in that Riot j 
 those that were guilty of murder, and those concerned in demolishing of M' Camp- 
 bell's House. 
 
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 Tho' the Guilt of the Rioters might, by the construction of Law, amount to High 
 Treason, yet their Ex<^5"*, desiring that the proceedings against them may be speedy and 
 effectual, hayenot thought tit to order their being prosecuted for that crime ; but direct 
 that you proceed against them, according to their respective Cases, under these three 
 Heads, of Murder; of Felony, upon the Statute i" Georgii, in demolishing or beginning 
 to demolish, M' Campbell's House ; and of Riot ; that you go upon the Tryals of such, 
 against whom the eyidence is plainest ; and that the said trv'als may be carried on with 
 all possible expedition at Edenburgh, according to the Laws in force in Scotland. 
 
 Their Excellencys would haye \"ou also enquire into the behaviour of the Magistrates ; 
 and particularly consider the case of the Provost of Glascow's omitting, upon the above- 
 mentioned Riot, to read the proclamation appointed by the aforesaid Act, to be made 
 in the like occasions ; and proceed against Him by securing, examining, and Commit- 
 ting him, according to Law. 
 
 Their Ex'-"'' observing that Mr. Campbell, by a Clause in the said Act, is entitled to a 
 Rcmedv asrainst thetown of Glascow for the damage he has suflered, would have you 
 suggest to him the making use of the advantage ^^■hich that Law gives him. 
 
 Their Ex'-'- do also direct, that, as you take Informations against the Criminals, and 
 their Examinations, you do from time to time send me Copies thereof, to be laid before 
 their Ex"' ; and I take it for granted, you do not want any directions to let me have, 
 such an account of your proceedings as you shall think fit, to be laid before them. I am 
 also persuaded, that you will not fail to inform their Excellencys of any Discoverys that 
 you shall be able to make of the springs of these disorders, and of the persons by whom 
 they have been fomented and abetted. I am sure it were unnecessary for me to add 
 any thing to excite your Zeal and diligence in so necessary and so important a Service ; 
 I shall, therefore, conclude with my heart)' wishes for your good success in it ; and the 
 assurances of my being, with great truth and respect, 
 
 ^ly Lord, and Sir, 
 
 Your most humble and obedient Servant, 
 ■ - " . Ch : DEL.-^AYE. 
 
 - ' Xo. CXIII. - - ■'- ■ 
 
 The Lord Advocate to M'Delafaye, dated Edin', 8''' July 1725. 
 Sir, 
 
 I RECEIVED, by the Meflenger who vill deliver vou this, yours of the first 
 instant, signifjing to me the commands of their Excellencies the Lords Justices, con- 
 cerning the Tumults at Glafgow ; and to the end then* Orders may be the more 
 effectually executed, I am resolved to go furth"nith to Glasgow, and to do what in me 
 lyes for discovering thorrowly, and bringing speedily to punishment, the Offenders. 
 
 As that Town is generally pretty much in\olved in the Guilt, it will be attended with 
 some DifEculty to make the proper Detection of the secret Ad\-isers and promoters of those 
 outrages ; however, I have already taken all the pre\ious care I could of that matter. 
 I have sent before, secretly, r^vo young fellows from hence, who are acquainted pretty 
 well with the towns-people ; and who, under pretence of other Business, are to pick up 
 all the private information they can, to the end that I may follow it out, v. hen I go 
 thither, with a regular Enquiry'. 
 
 By what I can at this distance learn, I conceive there will be e\'idence enough of the 
 conduct of the Chief Magistrates who were in the Town, to subject them at least to a 
 just prosecution for gross Malversation in their Offices > the consequence whereof, by 
 
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 the Law of Scotland, is Deprivation & Uncapacif)' ; but whether there can be any 
 evidence found of their actuall accession to the Riots, by adviseing or fomenting, is 
 what I cannot answer till I have gone on with the Examination. 
 
 I Believe we shall have plenty of Evidence against the persons who acted ouvertlv in 
 the Mob ; but as the Magistrates have hitherto thought fit to committ none of them, on 
 pretence that they durst not take upon them to act, for fear of the Mob, before the 
 Arrival of the Troops, I am affraid that the appearance of the Troops will deter- 
 mine the greatest part of those, who know that they can be proved guilty, to get 
 out of the way ; but all endeavours possible shall be used to search for & to committ 
 them. 
 
 Tho' the Rebellious Disposition in Glasgow Looked ill at the Beginning, and proved 
 a great encouragement to other places in the Neighbourhood to stand out against pay- 
 ment of the Malt Duty, I am very hopefull that the punishment of the Offenders therej 
 and the just resentment that the Lords Justices have been pleased to express on that 
 occasion, v.i\\ humble those who took originally their Example from the insolence of 
 Glasgow, and pave the way for the peacible Collection of the Malt Duty over the 
 whole Nation. 
 
 As the Refusall of Entry to the Malt Officers, generally, was the effect of a false 
 Report, industriously Disseminated throw almost Every Royall Burgh of the Nation, 
 by Emissaries emploved for that purpose, that the whole Royall Burroughs of Scotland 
 had come to a Resolution not to pay the Malt Tax ; I have given the best directions 
 I could think of, for coming at a Discovery of the persons imployed in carrying on 
 such a confederacy against the Government and the Laws, to the end they may be 
 prosecuted as their offence Deserves. 
 
 And as the Annuall Convention of the Royall Burrows of Scotland, which consists 
 of a Commissioner from each Burrow, is now assembled at Edin', We thought it might 
 be of some Service to knock down the spirit of Opposition raised upon such a false 
 suggestion, if the general Convention could be brought to testify their abhorrence of 
 such Sentiment, by a formall Resolution to be circuUated throw all the Burrows of 
 the Kingdom. 
 
 And, accordingly. We moved and Carryed by a vast Majority the Resolution, a 
 Copy whereof is inclosed * ; which, I hope, will dispose the people generally to a due 
 Submission. When 1 talk of a great Majority, I must explain it, that there were but 
 four Negative votes ; and even these did not pretend to Dissent from the Resolution ; 
 but, whatever their Secret Sentiment might have been, contented themselves with 
 arguing for a delay ; and gave their negative, as they said, because that delay was not 
 indulged them. 
 
 I have conversed vdth Mr. Daniel Campbell on the Subject of Claiming Satisfaction! 
 for his Damage from the towTi of Glasgow, on the foot of the Act, the first of the 
 King, for preventing Riots ; and I find him disposed to do in that respect whatever 
 the Lords Justices incline he should do. 
 
 M' Solicitor General was willing to have gone to Glasgow, to assist at the enquiries 
 and examinations that are to be carryed on there. But as I thought that his presence here 
 might be of service to assist the Commissioners of Excise, ^ the Magistrates of this 
 Citys with his Advice, in case of any suddain emergent, I have perswaded him to 
 remain in this place, and have given him a deputation to act for me in my absence,^ 
 pursuant to the powers contained in my Commission. 
 
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 I shall from tdme to time take the liberty of writting to you, v^hen any thing happens 
 worth the notice of the Lords Justices ; and shall not omitt to transmitt to vou, to be 
 Laid before their Excellencies, exact Copies of all the proceedings that shall be had at 
 Glasgow. 
 
 This moment I am setting out ^ith the General for that place : he shows a great deal 
 of spirit and vigilance on this occasion. 
 
 I am, S", 
 : • ■ ■• Yours. 
 
 Xo. cxrv^ ■ " 
 
 i\r Delafaye to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 iSIy Lord, Whitehall, July 13'", 1725. 
 
 I AM honoured with your Lordship's Letter of the 8'*' Instant, which I laid before 
 the Lords Justices ; and I have their Ex'T'"^ Command to signify to you their entire 
 approbation of what you had done, and proposed to do, in compliance ■with their 
 Directions, for detecting and bringing to justice the Persons concerned in the late 
 Tumults at Glasgow ; and the dextrous manner in which you have set about getting 
 the best information of that unfortunate Transaction, and of the \vicked ad\-iser3 and 
 promoters of it. 
 
 Nothing could be more prudent and seasonable than the Resoluticn and Declaration 
 you procured from the Convention of the Royal Burroughs ; and their ExcelhT^ thought 
 that your care and pains in this matter deser\-ed their particular thanks ; which I 
 accordingly return you. 
 
 Their Excell^?"^ are extremely satisfied with M' Solicitor General's Zeal for the King's 
 Service ; and desire you will assure him of the sense they have of it. 
 
 I am, with great truth and respect, 
 ■ . _ My Lord, 
 
 Your Lords'" most obedient humble Servant, 
 . .; ■ . . CH. DELAFAYE. 
 
 Xo.CXV. 
 
 Ai\ ACCOLHS'T of the Conduct of the several ^Magistrates of Glasgow, touching the 
 late Riots there ; from whence those Acts of Malversation in Ottice are deduced, 
 for which they are Committed, and may be Tryed. 
 
 [Evidently in the hand- writing of the Lord Advocate.] 
 
 THE Magistrates of Glasgow who were Committed are Six in number j The Provost, 
 three Baillies, the Dean of Guild, and the Deacon Convener. 
 
 The Guilt of the Provost, in not putting the troops in possession of the Main Guard, 
 vhich would have prevented the misfortune of that night ; and in not allowing the 
 troops any other place, where they might be together ; in Ordering them to separate 
 quarters ; in not reading the Proclamadon which, by the Law, He is commanded to 
 eideavour at least to Read ; and in refusing the Assistance of the troops at last when 
 offered, is too paipable to stand in need of any Observation : tho' at the same time, 
 from the Character of the Man, it is very possible, that the fear with which He may 
 have been possessed by other People, who had the destruction of Mr. Campbell's House 
 in their Eye, and who were affiraid to be disappointed of their design by the Arrival of 
 
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 the Troops, might have been the immediate Cause of his Action : However, as that 
 cannot prove a legal! justification to Him, it makes it necessary to sift the Conduct of 
 his Collegues in the Magistracy the more carefully. 
 
 Of his Collegues, Baillie Stirline, and Baillie Johnston, were, as is believed, in- 
 dustriously out of Town, at and for some time before the Riots : So that no Magistrate 
 remained with the Provost, except Baillie Mitchell, the Dean of Guild, and Deacon 
 Convener. 
 
 This Baillie Mitchell is by trade a Maltster, and is the present trades Baillie, upon 
 whom the care of the Tradesmen and Aitificers by which those tumults were chiefly 
 carried on depends. He, on the first appearance of the mobish assemblies, on Thursday 
 forenoon, the Day on which the Troops entered the Town, and on which M' Campbell's 
 House was attacked, deserted his Dur\-, and left the Provost without giving any account of 
 Himself; nor did he appear in the Streets all that Day, the night following, or the next 
 morning till about 9 o' Clock, that he took a Boat privately, and went awav to Port 
 Glasgow. Thus He left the To-rti, after seeing the destruction of M' Campbell's house, 
 and knowing what danger the Town was in from a Mob, without afking leave from the 
 Chief Magistrate, & without otfering his advice or assistance for taking proper measures 
 towards the preservation of the peace. 
 
 This, it is humbly conceived, is a gross Malversation in Office. 
 
 The Dean of Guild was likev.'ise in the town with the Provost, and was witness to the 
 Riotous Assemblies on Thursday's forenoon ; but about the time that the Troops 
 entred the Town he withdrew Himself from his duty, and from the Provost's assistance, 
 and continued absent till the troops were sent to seperate quarters : it is true, indeed, 
 he afterwards returned to the Provost, and went alongst with him to intreat the Mob to 
 dissipate ; but it is equally true, that He did not attempt to Read the Proclamation,, 
 which dut}' led him to endeavour to Read. 
 
 This Dean of Guild was also the person who the next morning, in a meeting of the 
 Merchants who were deliberating upon a proposition for calling together aBiu-gess guard, 
 insisted on it, and carried it, that such Guard should not mount with swords ; but vnth 
 staves only ; from whence his disposition towards the Rioters may naturally be gathered. 
 
 The Deacon Convener, whose business it is to Assemble and Convene, and to 
 preside over the trades, was witness to the tumultuous assemblies on Thursday's fore- 
 noon, and stayed with the Provost till the troops came into town, and the mob was 
 gathered about the Guard Room ; but then He withdrew himself from his Duty, and 
 from attendance upon the Provost, and did not appear again on that night. 
 
 And on the Friday's night following, and the Saturday's morning, tho* he had a 
 guard mounted, with which he pretended to preserve the peace of the town, he did not 
 offer in the least, or attempt, to disturbe the Rioters who were busie all Friday's night 
 & Saturday's morning in demolishing M' Campbell's House. 
 
 As to Baillie Stirline & Baillie Johnston, who were absent, tho' no Ouvert Act can 
 appear from w hich their encouraging or fomenting the Riots can be gathered ; yet on 
 the 30th of June, in place of taking an examination, by which the Rioters might be 
 discovered, seized, and punished, they thought fit to take a partiall examination 
 concerning the supposed abuses Committed by the Commander of the Troops ; and 
 the pretended unjustice which, it was said, the people met with ; and, out of such 
 examinations, to draw out a false and partial account of the fact, which they sig"ned 
 ^^transmitted to Edinburgh, in order to be printed ; and this they did when at the 
 same time they neglected to return any answer at all to a Letter which the iNiagistrates 
 received from his Majesty's Advocate, requiring from them a particuUar account of 
 
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 those transactions ; and deslreing them to search for, Seize, and Comniict such 
 Oilenders, when they should discover them. 
 
 A Circumstance that aggravates the Guilt of the whole Magistrates is, that, tho' they 
 received the aiForsaid Letter, dated the 25 th of June, requiring them to Act as above ; 
 yet they never returned any answer, nor made the least step towards Discovering or 
 Seizing any of the Rioters. But, on the Contrary, suffered the most nottorious of 
 them to stay openly in town till about the 9'" of July, that His iVIajestie's Troops 
 approached Glasgow ; and even then, pennitted those riotters to Escape. 
 
 Another general Circumstance against all the jMagistrates is, that tho' His Majestie's 
 Advocat required the Dean of Guild, and one Bailhe Ramsav, a late Magistrate, vvhom 
 he met at Edin^ to acquaint all the other Magistrates of Glasgow, that if, as they pre- 
 tended, they durst not, because of the Mob, Seize any of the Rioters before the 
 Troops came up, it would be taken as acceptable service to the publick, if they would 
 employ their interest and industry secretly to get informations against the chief rioters, 
 and to make up hsts of their names, to the end the Advocate might Corrunitt them 
 when he arrived. And tho' this message was delivered to the Magistrates, and they 
 pretended to the Advocate on the 9'"" July, when He came to Glasgow, that they had 
 obeved his iastructions, and prepared Lists as he directed; yet on the lo'*" of July, 
 when, pursuant to their promise, they came to deli\-er to Him Lists such as he 
 expected, the only paper which the Provost, in the presence of the Magistrates, put 
 in his hand, was a List of seven persons, said to be rioters, whereof 4 were women, 
 & 3 onlv men ; & of the three men, one was a tinker, whose residence was not 
 described in the List ; another was not an inhabitant of Glasgow ; and the 3"^ was a 
 mean labourer, who resided somewhere in the suburbs of the To\vn, but had fled. 
 Neither did they tender any other information or list of offenders to the Advocate, at 
 that or any other time. 
 
 If this last particuUar is not of itself a Malversation such as merites Deprivation, 
 it at least \*"ill show what construction is to be put upon the Magistrates other actings, 
 above taken notice of. 
 
 Xo. CXYI. - 
 
 Lord Caithness to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 My Lord, Murkle, July 14*'^, 1725. 
 
 I WRIT to my Brother by the last Post, desiring him to tell you that I am very 
 willing to accepte of the Lieutennency of this Shire ; and had written to you, were it 
 not for a little disorder I had in my eyes. Since the Duke of Argile thinks it proper 
 that I shud accepte of something from the Government, I vnl not refuse it, be it never 
 so Uttle, or in whatever shape or form it be, since he does me the honour to procure it 
 for me. I never was prompted by necessity or a^•irice to dunn and importune for 
 favours of this kind ; and there is less reason whey I shud doe so now then ever ; for 
 by obser\ing Major Pack's prescription, of suiting my dyet to my pav, I have made 
 myself very easie. Nevertheless I beUeve I were to blame if I refus'd them when 
 offr'd in a suitable manner. My Lord, the offers that are made my Brother are, 
 I belive, in a great measure owing to your good ofices ; though I know the Duke 
 of Argile to be the readiest man in the world to doe good to all that are not unworthy 
 of it. Yet it being my misfortune to be- so little known to him, I could hardly expecte 
 to be remembr'd by him, otherwise than as falling under the general consideration on 
 
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 account of some new schem for electing the sixteen peers. If you aprove my senti- 
 ment, be pleas'd to let the Duke know it ; if not, favour me with your advice as soon 
 as you can. Though 1 wil not be importunat, I doe not like to seem shy. I wish you 
 good health, and all manner of prosperity, and am with great esteem, 
 
 My Lord, 
 . . Your Lo. most humble 
 
 ^, . and most obedient servant, 
 
 . . ;. CAITHNESS. 
 
 No. CXVII. 
 
 Petition from the Magistrates of Glasgow. 
 
 To the Right Honourable the Lords Justice Generall, Jusdce Clfe, and Comm" of 
 
 Justiciary. 
 
 The Petition of Charles Miller, Provost of Glasgow ; John Stirling, James Johnstoun, 
 James Mitchell, Baillies j John Slark, Dean of Gild ; John Armour, Deacon 
 Conveener there ; - ■ . 
 
 Humbly Sheweth, 
 
 THAT upon Friday the 16 Curr"'your petitioners were committed prisoners to the 
 Tolbooth of Glasgow, upon warrants from the Right Hon"' M' Duncan Forbes, His 
 Majestie's Advocat, and one of the Justices of the Peace for the Shyre of Lanerk ; of 
 which warrants, conceived indeed in a very new Stile, coppies are herewith given in. 
 
 Your Petitioners hope in due time to Satisfie your Lops and ev'ry impartial person, 
 how Utle ground or foundation there is for charging them with those things they 
 are accused of in the Warrants ; but att present they know it is improper to enter upon 
 their justification. The proceeding is very New and extraordinary, even for His Ma- 
 jestie's Advocat to committ to Prison the whole Magistrates of a Burgh ; much more 
 extraordinary is it, that such a thing should be done by a Justice of Peace of Lanerk ; 
 and that by this means so considerable a burgh, not only known to have demonstrated 
 their affeclion to the Government on all occasions, but to have disdnguished themselves 
 that way, should be left without a Civil Government in the hands of a military power. 
 
 However, Since such proceedings are had, it is some advantage to your Peddoners 
 that they are under the protection of the Law, and may have releiff from your Lops 
 justice ; and what we humbly apply for at present is, a Warrant from your Lops for 
 setdng us att Liberty, either without Baiil or upon Baill, as your Loj5s shall think 
 just. 
 
 And, in the first place, wee subnutt it to your Lops If the Right Honourable 
 M'' Duncan Forbes, as His Majesde's Advocat, hath a power to committ us. If he have 
 not, his warrant, as given under that Character, is Void, and wee fall to be dismissed 
 without Baill. 
 
 2% Wee Submitt it to your Lops if a Jusdce of Peace of Lanerk hath poAver to 
 committ the Magistrates of Glasgow for a pretended Malversation in their OiKces. Wee 
 don't doubt but a Jusdce of Peace may committ any Man whatsoever catched in an 
 aftuall breach of the peace ; but that is not the case : it's plain, by the warrant, 
 the pretended crime arrises from a defect, as is said, in the Right Execudon of 
 .our Offices ; and indeed the committing of the whole Magistrates makes it mc re plain; 
 and wee know no power any Justices of Peace have to committ Magistrates, on pretence 
 of negligence or Malversation. It is needless to mention tiow high that might go : a 
 Jusdce of Peace may easily mistake a Malversadon in Office ; perhaps some Justices 
 might think this warrant not intirely regular ; and it is yet more extraordinary for a 
 Man, as Jusdce of Peace of Lanerk, to give Orders to deliver over the Bodies of his 
 
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 Maiestie's subjects to the Military, not under the Care of any Constable, Mess', or Peace 
 Oficer, to be carried through another Shire, with a direction to the Magistrates and 
 Keepers of the Tolbooth of Edin' (over -whom a Lanerk Justice hath no Jurisdiction) 
 to recei\-e them into Prison. 
 
 But, in rhe next: place, as this Warrant is graiiced ^;^"idiout suScient powers, wee 
 apprehend it is directly in the teeth of Law, and concrarj- to die Libert}- of the subject. 
 "Wee have alreadv taken notice of that part of it ordering us to be DeUvered over to the 
 \Ti1it ar\-j vdthout being under the Custody of any cI^tI officer ; but what we are furder 
 to nodce is, the congruity of this Warrant with the Act for preventing wrongeous im- 
 prisonment. That Law, ia all cases of Conmiittment, requires a Warrant in write, 
 expressing the particuiar cause of the commirtment. Wee can find no particular cause 
 in this Warrant. " Wee have by our conduct favoured and encouraged the Mobbs, 
 Tumults," &c. This vvee take to be far from a particular cause ; fevouring and en- 
 couraging are not termes used in law ; at least, not in any law against Tumults. It will 
 require an expUcarion, to make favouring & encouraging a crime ; for it is plain, in 
 some sense, persons might favour and encourage, & yet be guilt\" of no Crime. A 
 mobb might be ere i by a Magistrate's running away for fear; but that could 
 
 fix no crime. If th.-, ..c Words of the Warran: don't necessarly set furth a crime, 
 the Ccnunittment is ag" Law ; and as to the pretence of Malversation in our Offices, 
 that is more uninteligible : it is neither a particv ..: c use, nor is it a thing for which 
 a Magistrate can be committed before triall taken. 
 
 Wee do like\\ase apprehend, that every thing which may be a subject of accusation 
 is not a ground of Coaunitment ; and wee do submitt it to your Lops if there be any 
 thing expressed in this Warrant, for which your Lops, or any Judge whatsoever, would 
 have granted ane order of Commitment before triall. If this be encouraged, the Act 
 of Parliament is useless, and here is an end of the liberty of the subject. 
 
 For these reasons, wee humbly conceive the Warrand is Void and Ag' Law ; but, 
 rather than take up time with a dispute on that head, wee offer instantly to find Baill, 
 •which we did likewise offer to his 5lajestie"s Advocat ; and wee hope there is no man- 
 ner of doubt, that the pretended Crimes in this Warrant a'- "R- '-'-'-. 
 
 May it therefore please your Lops to order us to be se: v, wee finding 
 
 baill according as your Lops shall please to order ; and to Oirect ) our Lops order to 
 any Person in whose Custody wee may be found, whether Keeper of a Tolbooth or 
 Mihtary- Officer ; for, indeed, after such Warrants, wee must be uncertain in whose 
 keeping we mav be found, according to Jultice. Sic. Subt 
 
 J.\-MZS GRAHAM. 
 Edin^ 17^ July 1725. RO. DL^T>AS. 
 
 The Lord Justice Clk ar.,: C : Justiciary ordain this Petition to be seen and 
 
 Ansred by his Matie's Advocat or Solicitor ag' Munday nest, att ten of the Clock 
 
 forenoon. , 
 
 No. CXVTII. 
 
 Address from the Magistrates, &c. of Glasgow, respecting the Riots on the Malt Tax. 
 
 To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 
 
 The Humble Address of the Magistrates & Common Coimdl of the CJr\- of Glasgow. 
 
 Most Gracious Soveraign, 
 
 WEE your Maj'^' most Loyal Sc DutifuU Subjects beg leave humbly to xepresent 
 
 to your Maj -^ the great sence We have of v' many Blessings your Kingdoms do enjoy 
 
 under yoiu- Maj'>"' mild ic auspicious Government, and to express our utter abhorrence 
 
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 & detestation of those Riots Sc Disorders that have lately happened in this your Maj'^' 
 Loyal, tho' in so far unfortunate, City of Glasgow. 
 
 Wee are deeply sensible how highly Criminal such outrageous proceedings are, 
 how destructive to Society, and how unbecoming a Corporation that hath endeavoured 
 to distinguish itself by an exemplary affection Sc zealous adherence to your Maj''*' Go- 
 vernment, and the interest of your royal & illustrious family. But as those Disorders 
 were begun & carried on by the lowest and most abjett sort of the populace, without 
 the countenance or approbation of any persons of note or consideration in the place ; 
 Wee humbly hope, from your Maj*-" known justice & great goodness, that neither 
 the folly nor wickedness of such mean, obscure, and for the most part unknown 
 miscreants, will be charged to the account of your Maj'''^ most loyal City. 
 
 Wee your Maj''" most faithfull & well meaning Citizens have, with no small con- 
 cern and astonishment, seen our Magistrates committed to the Gaol of that Town, 
 with the governm' of w"'" they are intrusted, without being allowed the benefit of finding 
 bail, and carried in an extraordinary way prisoners through a considerable part of the 
 Country, and then thrown in the nauceous common prison of Edinburgh, as favourers 
 & incouragers of tumults which they utterly detest. But while we are conscious & 
 perswaded of their innocence, we presume to approach your Maj"' Royal Throne with 
 humble confidence of your Maj'-^' most gracious proteftion and countenance ; and to 
 lay before your Maj'^' the true and faithfull account hereunto annexed of the several 
 Circumstances of these unhappy disorders. 
 
 And although we cannot take upon us to justify their behaviour from errors in point 
 of judgment, into which they may readily have fallen, when under the concern & 
 anxiety that naturally arose from so unexpedted an emergent ; yet with regard to the 
 sincerity of their & our intentions, & candor of our endeav" to settle and maintain the 
 peace of the Town intrusted to our management. We do most humbly submit our 
 Conduft, and that of our Magistrates, to your Maj'*' great wisdom. 
 
 That your Maj'* may enjoye a long, glorious, & quiet reign over a dutifull, sub- 
 missive, & contented people, is the earnest prayer of, 
 
 May it please your Maj'-% 
 T- J. Your Maj'-' most faithfull, most loyal, 
 
 & most duty-''ull Subjeds, 
 The Magistrates & Comon Council of the City 
 . ■ ■ of Glasgow. 
 
 ^b 
 
 Signed, by order, in presence and name of the Council, by 
 Glasgow, 31'' July 1725. . . CH. MILLER, Provost. 
 
 No. CXIX. 
 
 A true and faithfull Account of the proceedings touching the Riots and Tumults 
 which have lately happened in the City of Glasgow. 
 
 Upon the 21,* and 24"' of June last, the day before and the day on which the Malt 
 tax commenced in Scotland for the service of the year 1725, there was an appearance 
 in the streets of some disorderly persons, consisting chiefly of women & boys, who 
 were soon dispersed by the Provost and other inhabitants. 
 
 Upon the aV'', in the evening, two Companys of Ks Maj'" forces came to TovvTl 
 
 under the Command of Cap' Bushell, which drew a concourse of people into the 
 
 streets ; but that, being usual on such occasions, gave the Magistrates no apprehensions 
 
 jof any Riot, until the Provost, who ig Chief Magistrate, had notice brought, that the 
 
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 persons he had ordered to prepare and fitt up the Guardroom for the reception of the 
 Forces were dispossessed by a Mob, the doors of the Guardroom locked, and the 
 Keys carried off. The Provost thereupon sent the Town Officers to break open the 
 doors of the Guardroom ; but they being bruised and beat off, he went in Person from 
 the Townhouse toTvards the Guardroom, to have the same made open ; and in his wav 
 was informed, that the mob was much increased and threatned to pull him in pieces 
 if he came there on that errand ; and was thereupon ad\-ised bv several of the most 
 respedfull Burgesses, that it might tend to quiet the disorders, should the Soldiers be 
 sent to quarters for that night upon billets, and the common Town Guard advertised 
 to attend as usual. Of this the Commanding Officer being acquainted, he agreed 
 thereto ; by reason, his men being fatigued and few, and saving that he expec?:ed to 
 be reinforced next day with two other Companys: upon wh: " ' Town Guard was 
 advertised to meet at the ordinarv time, which is betwixt te; even at night. 
 
 The Provost, with M' Campbell of BhT;hswood, the only other Justice of Peace then 
 in the place, with several of the Burgesses of best account, continued in :' '" ' se 
 till towards nine a Clock at Night ; and then, there being no appearanc . .st 
 
 disorder, they went together to a tavern hard by: a litde after ten at : _ .count 
 
 was brought to the Provost, that the Mob had aran o^ot t :'; -. and v, ere inakmoc 
 an attempt upon ]M' Campbell of Shawfield's House, situate :;; . - of the estremirj-s 
 of the Town ; whereupon the Provost and the Gentlemen with him went immediately 
 to M' Campbell's House, and bv entreatvs and threats did prevail with them to retire ; 
 having then done httle other damage than breaking some of the windows ; and at that 
 time, when there was good hopes of their dispersing, great ntimbers of disorderlv and 
 riotous people advanced from sever.' ■ ^ ward the House, ir- ' ' ' e Provost, 
 
 beat down the Town Officers, and : Provost and the B. \':4th him ; 
 
 on some of whom they laid viol. 5 ; so that they, seeing it was impracticable to 
 
 sta-. ' -ent, were obliged to r.:j„-ie iJieir excape : which they did with great difficulty, 
 
 ha\ -^ :. pursued by several desperate fellows armed with Clubs, 
 
 After which, being lien near twelve at night, while the Provost was consulting with 
 some oi the Bursresses about cr." ' M:': : .rv together, a Serjeant came to the Pro- 
 vost trom the Commanding O.. - o- ^ there was occasion, the assistance of 
 
 the Military ; to which the Provost answered, he was most willing, provided they could 
 be got together : adding, he was onlr afraid they would now be in l " ' be 
 
 disarmed and knocked on the head before they could be brought to ; ::e 
 
 Mob being then in frill possession of the House, and very numerous and outrageous). 
 To which the Serjeant answered, that w^s the case, for the Men would be in bed. ITie 
 next day, being the 25'"^, for preventing further confusions, the Provost desired the 
 Commanding Officer, that he might have his Men ready to take possession of the 
 Guardhouse ; and while thev were convening, the Provost, and a good many of the 
 principal inhabitants, went to Mr. Campbell's Hoxise, caused secure and shut up the 
 entrys and doors in the best manner ; and returning to the Guardhouse, where the 
 !^Iilitar^" were drawn up, gave possession of it to the Officer, and two Companys under 
 his Command. Inmaediatelv after the King's Troops were thus lodged, the Provost gave 
 orders, that twent)' men of each of the ten Companys of Trainbands should convene at 
 the Townhouse at three a Clock in the Afternoon, in order to assist in suppresang any 
 tumults might happen. Betwixt two and three, a considerable niunber ot riotous persons, 
 consisting chiefly of Women & boys, having got together near the Townhouse, the Pro- 
 vost, with the assistance of stmdrv of the Inhabitants, caused them soon to disperse and fly ; 
 but in a little time, as the Provost was afterwards informed, a good manv more appeared 
 before the Guardhouse, and insulted the Military by throwing of stones. It has not 
 
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 CULLODEN PAPERS. g^ 
 
 hitherto appeared, that any of the Troops were disabled or hurt by this insuh ; nor 
 does it appear that the Officer or Soldiers under his Command were at this time in 
 any great danger ; however, the Commanding Officer ordered them to fire ; by which 
 first fire tvvo men were killed, who had been no way concerned in the Riot, and were 
 then a good way distant from the Guardhouse ; and thereafter continued to fire by 
 Platoons, towards tlio four principal Streets ; tho' in some of them there was no mob, 
 nor not so much as one single stone thrown. The Provost, upon hearing the first fire, 
 sent a Gentleman with a request to the Commanding Officer, that he might fire no 
 more ; and to acquaint him, that a sufficient number of Townsmen should be sent to 
 assist in quelling the Mob. The Cap' promised not to fire till the Gentleman should 
 return ; notwithstanding which the Soldiers did fire. Upon the Gentleman's return to 
 the Provost, he found him environed by a more formidable Mob than was at the 
 Guard, and complaining highly of the injury done the Town by firing sharp in the 
 streets ; wherby some of the inhabitants were killed, and several wounded. I'he Pro- 
 vost did all he could to pacify them by threats and smooth words ; but all was of no 
 avail '; the multitude was so incensed that they proceeded to break open the doors of 
 the Townhouse, in order to ring the alarm Bell, and to take from thence some old 
 Arms and Halbai ds that were therein lodged. The Provost hereby perceiving he should 
 not be able to quell the enraged Mob, who were increasing every minute, and who he 
 presumed would still be greater upon ringing the Alarm Bell, dispatched again imme- 
 diately the same Gentleman to the Officer with a message, that he believed it would 
 tend to the safety of the Officer and King's Troops, and the quitting the present tu- 
 mult, for him and his men to retire out of the Town ; the officer accordingly retired ; 
 and tho' there were no numbers pressing upon him, he continued firing upon the 
 Streets ; whereby, in all, there were nine persons killed, particularly one Gentleman 
 out of a Window two stories high, some in the sides, and others crossing the Streets, 
 going about their lawful affairs ; and seventeen dangerously wounded, whereof not 
 above five or six at most, so far as can yet be known, was in any way concerned in 
 the Mob. Upon the Troops leaving the Town, some of the Mob followed after ; but 
 came up only with two of the Soldiers, who through immediate indisposition had fallen 
 behind : these two being brought back to the TowTi, one of them was dismissed ; and 
 the other, being hurt in the head, was carried to the Town House to be taken care of, 
 and in a few days, being fully recovered, was Hkewise sent off. 
 Glasgow, 31 July 1725. 
 
 Signed by Order, in presence and name of the Magistrates 
 and Council of Glasgow, by 
 
 CH. MILLER, Provost. 
 
 No. CXX. 
 
 M' Delafaye to the Lord Advocate. 
 My Lord, Whitehall, Aug' 24'^ 1725. 
 
 I RECEIVED yesterday the honour of your Lops Letters of the 17'" Instant. 
 That which is upon Business I will lay before the Lords Justices next Thursday ; and 
 1 am very glad that you are so clear, as I am sure you are very right in your judg- 
 ment of their Ex'^' intentions ; whose approbation you need not in the least question 
 but you will have in the fullest manner upon every step you take. 
 
 I must in a particular manner beg leave to return my humble & hearty thanks for 
 your goodness to me, in your private Letter. You will find how dangerous it is to 
 make offers of service, by my taking you at your word, &, without more . ceremony, 
 
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 begging you will favour me with an Account of the natiire and business of the Signet 
 office in Scotland ; which, by the removal of the Duke of Roxburghe, falls to the two 
 English Secretarys of State. I suppose it is by virtue of their having the Seals ; so that 
 they ■will want no patent or commission for that purpose. If I am mistaken in this 
 point, I humbly pray your Lop will set me right ; and that you will also inform me, 
 what sort of constitution the Secretarys of State should give to those whom they shall 
 think fit to entrust with the care of thai OfHce ; and, if they should be persons residing 
 here, what deputation they are to give to y' person or persons that are to officiate for 
 them at Edinburgh. I will not conceal from your Lop that the two Secretarys of 
 State having determined to appoint each an imder Secretary to be at the head of that 
 Office, I shall come to be concerned in it : so that your fevouring me -with these in- 
 formations will be more particularly an obligation to myself, who am with great truth 
 & resped. 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lops most humble 
 
 & most obedient Servant, 
 I inclose a Letter from my Lord Duke of CH : DELAFAYE, 
 
 Newcastle to Maj' Gen' Wade ; which 
 
 his Grace desires you will forward to 
 
 him by an Express. 
 
 No. CXXI. 
 
 The Duke of Newcastle to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 My Lord, WhitehaU, Aug' 24'^ 1725. 
 
 HIS Majesty, not intending for the future to have any particular Secretary of State 
 for Scotland, has been pleased to remove the Duke of Roxburghe from that Employ- 
 ment ; and ordered his other Secretarvs of State to take care of the department that his 
 Grace had. As, in my Lord Townshend's absence, that must lye singly upon me, I 
 must beg your Lop will be ^leased :o send me from time to time such accounts as you 
 shall judge to be for His M-^j"^" Ser\-ioe. It is a very great pleasure to me, that, in the 
 execution of the King's Commands, I shall have the honour of your Lops Correspon- 
 dence, and the happiness cf vour assistance ; which will be the more necessan* to me, 
 who must be unacquainted with the Laws and methods of proceeding in your Countr)'. 
 I shall endeavour to supply those defecls as far as I am able, by my attention to His 
 Majesty's service ; and to recommend mvseLf to the good opinion of the King's faithfull 
 subjects of Scotland, by promoting, as far as in me lyes, their interest and welfare ; 
 and pursuing those measures that m-ay be for the honour & happiness of the United 
 Kingdom. 
 
 I am, my Lord, 
 Your Lord'" most obedient humble Servant, 
 
 HOLLES NEWCASTLE. 
 
 No. CXXU. 
 
 The Lord Advocate to Mr. Delafaye. 
 Sir, 
 
 I HAVE the honour of yours of the 24'", which I cannot help looking on as a 
 favour ; since it gives me an opportunity to show how willing I am at least to sers'e 
 you, and how pleas'd I am widi any thing that may turn to your advantage. 
 
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 As to the nature of the Office of His Majesty's Signet in Scotland, it is pretty much 
 of the same kind that Keeper of the great or Privy Seal is; but -ndth this difference, 
 that the common fees of the office are all the salary that generally is annexed to it ; which 
 fees are more considerable than those of either of the other Seals, because of the mul- 
 tiplicity of business that goes thro' that office ; all process from the Court of Session 
 passing under the Signet Seal. The proper business of the Deputy or under Keeper, 
 as he is called, is, by himself or his servant, to affix the Seal to all Writings that pass 
 the office ; to keep the Records of that office in good order ; to colled the dues of the 
 Signet, and to account for them to the principal Keeper ; and, since the Union of the 
 Crowns, to dispatch to London, and receive from it, the Secretary's Packet, commonly 
 called the black Box, in which all pubhc dispatches, Warrants, &c. are contained. 
 
 As to the Constitution of the Office, the Signet does not properly belong to the 
 Secretar)''s Office ; tho', for time past memory, it has been annexed to it ; but then 
 it has been generally granted to the Secretary by a particular Commission under the 
 great Seal of Scotland ; and for your more perfect understanding the nature of such 
 Commission, I transmit you a Copy from the Record of the last, which was o-iven to 
 the Duke of Roxburgh. 
 
 The Principal Keeper, being so appointed, constitutes a Deputy or under keeper by 
 a Commission ; a Copy whereof, I mean of the last given by the Duke of Roxburgh, 
 I have also inclosed to you. If you and any person in my Lord Townsend's office are 
 to be appointed principal Keepers, you have but to jo\-n in a deputation accordin >■ to the 
 form transmitted to you ; but if the two Secretarys of State are made principal Keepers, 
 you'll take care, in your Commission from them, to have an ample poAver of deputation, 
 and of appointing all inferior Officers ; that you may be able to choose fit persons for the 
 service ot the pubhc, and for doing yourselves justice. 
 
 The value of the Office, in whole, runs, as I have been inform'd, fi-om between 
 ,^1500 to 17, or 1800^. pr Ann; and the usual fee to the under Keeper is 100^ 
 certain, and one tenth part of the profits of the office, he being accountable for the 
 remainder to the principal Keeper. As this under Keeper is the proper Officer through 
 whose hand all die Secretary's dispatches pass, you doubtless will take care to pitch on 
 a fit person for that trust ; as well as on another fit person for a distincl: office, called 
 the Clerkship of the Signet, the fees whereof are a trifle, not exceeding 60, or yo^ 
 a year ; which does not come out of the Keeper of the Signet's profits, but arises from 
 a perquisite called drink-money payable to that officer. 
 
 If there is any thing defective in this accotmt, I shall supply it as well as I can, when 
 you are pleas'd to put me any fresh question. 
 
 I thank you for your goodness in sending me a Copy of the Magistrates of Glasgow's 
 Papers. They begin to be msolent in hopes of impunity, which I cannot well imagine 
 how they have conceived ; but their tryal, when I am allowed to go on \nth it, will 
 convince the world whether I have been in the wrong to them, as thev willin<^lv would 
 have you, it seems, believe I was. 
 
 I do not trouble you with any account of the cure lately WTOught on our Brewers 
 here ; who seem to have returned to their senses only because they saw that w^e had 
 force enough prepared to bind them had they continued mad ; since I know that Earl 
 Hay has, by a more expeditious conveyance, given an account of those matters to the 
 Duke of Newcastle, who has laid them before the Lords Justices ; and I am very hopeful, 
 that as the direftion of the affairs of Scotland is now in his Grace's hands, the madness 
 of the people, which was pretty much encouraged by the countenance thev met with 
 from the friends of a certain great man, will cool, and that things will speedily grow 
 quiet. 
 
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 : Since Earl Day has wrote as I mendon'd to you, it will be unnecessary for me to 
 trouble you •with any publick Letter by this Post, tho' I have received yours of the 
 26th. 
 
 . I am, Sir, 
 
 With great respeft, 
 Your most obedient Sc most humble Ser' 
 Edinb' 31 Aug' 1725. 
 
 No. CXXIU. 
 
 ]\r Scrope to the Lord Advocate. 
 My Lord, Sep : y'' 2^ 1725. 
 
 THE News w" came yesterday bv an Express from my Lord Day, of your ha^^ng 
 put an end to the confederacy of y* Brewers, gave great pleasure to every body here ; 
 & S' R: W: told me this morning, y' he would very soon write to you himself, to 
 return you thanks for y' part you have taken in y', & y* zeal you have shewn in this 
 whole aflaire. I can't find but justice is done you in all Letters he hath received ; & he 
 is ver\" sensible of every sort of difficult)' vou have to encounter w''". He told me, 
 there was a Letter for me by y' express, but it's not yet come to my hands ; how y' 
 comes to pass I don't know. I beHeve you will not have a Secretary of State in haste. 
 
 I am, w'-^ pfed truth & esteem, 
 - . . My Lord, 
 
 Yo' most iiaithfull humble Serv' 
 
 J.S. 
 
 No. CXXIV. 
 
 Sir Robert Walpole to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 Dear Sir, London, Sept. 4*1725. 
 
 I HA\T1 not hitherto troubled you, since vou left ttiis place, because you gave me 
 leave to make use of Mr. Scrope's correspondence w '' you ; both to inform myself of 
 what was transacting among you, and likewise, from time to time, express the great 
 satisfaction I had in y' \-igilance and abilit)*, in strugling w^ y' greatest difficulties * that 
 a Man could possibly be engag'd in ; but y^ great prospect that their now is of successe 
 in all y' endeavours calls upon me not only to congratulate w'^ you, but to return you 
 my thanks for y' Zeal -s ou have shown for His Majesties Service, and y' indefatigable 
 pains you have taken to extricate y^ Government out of the greatest difficulties ; and it 
 is hard to determine, whether v' zeal, abilities, or resolution, is most to be comended. 
 But 1 hope now you will find y' work easier, and if v° alteration His Majest)- has been 
 pleased to make will tend at all towards facilitating y"" fufare proceedings, it will be an 
 additional satisfaction to me y' I have been able to contribute to y' convenience in ad\'ising 
 what I thought absolutely necessary for His Majestie's Ser\'ice. You will go on, S", to 
 co-operate w'" y' Justice Generall ; ;?c I doubt not but, by y joiut endeavours, we shall 
 soon see all those black clouds disipated that so lately threatned storms & confusion. 
 
 I am verj- trulv, 
 Dear S^ 
 Y' most faithfixll Humble Serv'-, 
 
 R. WALPOLE. 
 
 * The Riots at Glasgow oa account of the Malt Tax. 
 
 No. CXXV,
 
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 No.CXXV. i; 
 
 The Lord Advocate to M' Delafaye. 
 
 AFTER the interruption of correspondence occasioned by my expedition to the 
 Northern Parts of this Country, where by travelling I have improved my health beyond 
 my own expectation, I return to my former practice of letting you hear weekly from 
 me ; which I take to be my duty, because it was my Lord Duke of Newcastle's command. 
 
 Whilst I was in the North Country I made severall small progresses into the High- 
 lands ; and what on my first arrival at Inverness I wrote to you concerning the tran- 
 quility of those parts, I can now confirm from my o\vn observation. In the whole of 
 my Journey I did not see one highlander carry the least bitt of Arms, neither did I 
 hear of any theft or robbery. 
 
 The last Year's complaints and madness are very much stilled ; and, from all ap- 
 pearances, I imagine the King's measures, pursued with common prudence, will 
 produce Duty and Obedience where his enemies endeavoured to sow jealousy and 
 disafection. 
 
 In my way I made some enquiry after the Popish Priests and their practices, which 
 with justice gives so much jealousy to our Kirk. I look for perfect information in a 
 few days against Seven or 8 of the most troublesome of them. My Lord Duke of 
 Newcastle was pleased, before I left London, to say, that ane Order should be sent to 
 me to prosecute them at the Publick Charge. If this has slipped his Grace's Memory 
 you will be so good as to put him in mind of it, and it will come still in time enough. 
 
 Upon my arrivall here, I found every thing in the same quiet and tranquility as when 
 I left it. The convention of Royall Burrows is next week to meet, in order to make 
 their report to his Majesty in obedience to his late most gracious letter. I hope they 
 will act as becomes Men so much indebted to his Majesty's goodness ; but as I pre- 
 sume the Earl of Hay, who is here, has acquainted the Ministers of any thing that may 
 have hapned in this part of the Country worthy their observation, I shall not trouble 
 you ^\'ith any more on that subject. 
 
 I beg you will be so good as to make my most sincere compliments to his Grace : he 
 will easily pardon me for not troubling him with a letter, since I wrote to you. If his 
 Grace has any Commands for me, he knows my readiness to obey. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 Your most obedient and most humble Serv'. 
 Edinburgh, ap'*" October 1726. 
 
 No. CXXVL 
 
 The Duke of Newcastle to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 My Lord, Whitehall, Septem' g"" 1725. 
 
 I HAD the honour of yo' Lord"" of the 31" of last month, and am very much 
 obliged to you for the assurance you give me of your assistance in the execution of His 
 Maj''"' Command with relation to Scotland. I am very glad I can now congratulate 
 you upon the success with which your endeavours for His Maj'^" Service have been at- 
 tended, in the happy prospect that we have of seeing very soon an entire end put to the 
 disturbances that have of late appeared in so many shapes. As we are all here very sen- 
 
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 sible of the part that yo" Lordp had acted throughout this whole proceeding, and of 
 the ability and courage, that you have shewTi to procure the execution of the La-ws ; 
 to' Lop may be assured, that I shall transmit a faithfall account to His Maj"^ of your 
 behaviour, which, I am sensible, you will think is the best Service I can do you. 
 The Lords Justices are of opinion, that the prosecution of the four Brewers, who were 
 committed, and were the principal Actors in the late combination, should be carried 
 on ; & leave it to Lord Hay and yo' Lop to direct in what manner it may be most ef- 
 fectuallv done. I have at present nothing else in command from the Lords Justices to 
 your Lordp. I shall with pleasure receive whatever accounts you shall be pleased to 
 send me of what passes in your parts of the Kingdom, and am with great truth, 
 
 My Lord, 
 Ycur Lops most obedient humble Servant, 
 
 HOLLES NEWCASTLE. 
 
 Note. — Aner a short conSnex.ent, Governxcnt thought fit to release the_ Magistrates of Glasgow 
 »-ithout bringing them to trial. 
 
 Xo. CXXVII. 
 
 The Duke of Newcastle to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 My Lord, Whitehall, July 16'" 1J26. 
 
 I RECERTID with the greatest pleasure the favour of vour Lops Letter of the 7''" 
 instant, accompanving that in which the Lord Provost of Edinburgh inclosed the 
 answer of the convention of the RoN"all Burroughs to His Majesty ; and I laid it before 
 the King ; as also that which vou wrote at the same time to ^Ir. Delafave. I can assure 
 you. His Majesty was extremely satisfyed with the good effect which the measure you 
 suggested, of His Majest)''s writing to that assemblv, has had upon them ; and that 
 their Letter, and the turn of it, was very acceptable to His Majest)-. The King has 
 Commanded me to acquaint you, that the share you have had in contributeing to this 
 good disposition in them is very acceptable to His jNIajesty •, and His jNIajesty doubts 
 not but vou will be able to culti\'ate and improve it, to the honour and ease ot the Go- 
 vernment, and the quiet and welfare of the Country. I return you many thanks for 
 the frequent accoimts vou take the trouble to send of what passes, and of the state of 
 Afiairs where vou are, which the King reads with great satisfaction ; and I beg you will 
 be persuaded of the perfect sincerin- and regard with which I am, 
 
 ISIy Lord, 
 Your Lops most obedient humble Servant, 
 
 HOLLES NEWCASTLE. 
 
 No. CXXMU. 
 
 Edin' i" December i~z6. 
 
 The Lord Advocate to Achnagam. 
 
 Dear James, 
 
 YOL'R Letter, dated from Balnagown the 24"" of November, I received, and 
 shall do what I can about it. 
 
 I am imder some concern to find that our friend Sir John Gordon, of Enbo, is like 
 to be drawn into the scrape about the false certificates of Arms in Sutherland. Some 
 
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 very foolish circumstances appear about his own certificate for upwards of three hun- 
 dred pounds in the name of one Gordon, who is said to have been a Servant of his ; 
 but what wakened the Commissioners attention was, the intelligence they had, that 
 he rode the first horse in bringing about the pretended examination before some jus- 
 tices of the peace in Sutherland, where affidavits were taken, contrary to former de- 
 clarations I wish Sir John had not meddled in that matter, because it has quickened 
 the attention of the Conunissioners, and may put them upon Enquiries that mav be 
 attended at least with trouble to him. They were advised to send for Sir John in 
 custodv, as they have done for others ; but, upon my intercession, they have forborn to 
 applv for any warrant of that nature at this time. I do not think it proper for me, in 
 my prese.i situation, to write to Sir John ; but as I know you are his Friend, I beg 
 you may as speedily as possible meet with him, and let him know what I now tell 
 you, that he may deliberate well, and resolve what is fit for him to do. I have a 
 strong inclination to believe Sir John is innocent ; and if he is, I should think it well 
 worth his while to take a trip this far to clear it, and to show the Commissioners that 
 their treating him in a different manner from other People has a proper return. You 
 will not faill to discourse with Sir John on this subject as soon as possible ; and when 
 you have done so, let me hear from you. .. ^. 
 
 I am Yours, &c. 
 
 No. CXXIX. 
 
 To the Lord Advocate from — 
 
 My Lord, Edr : i4Janr: lyzG-y, 
 
 IN the hurry of important publick business, it were folly for private people 
 to expect, that their little concerns should be much minded : therefor I write this 
 only, that when occasion offers (w* may be sooner than is thought of) you may the 
 better remember some things we talked of before you took journey ; and I wish you 
 may read it presently : it will not rob you of much time. 
 
 You know how uneasy it is to me that my nephew L** Erskine waited not on Mr. 
 Scrope, as I often wrote to him of it : he wrote to me again and again, that he wished 
 to do it ; and since he came to Scotland has frequently regreated that it was not done. 
 In a few weeks he returns to London, & then will intreat you to introduce him to Mr. 
 Scrope ; and in the mean time, begs you to assure him of his humble respects ; and I 
 pray you do me the same favour. I hope it will not be thought unseasonable, but 
 dutifuU, when we are threatned with disturbance from the enemys of our King & 
 Country, to mention my L"" Erskine's firm resolution to adhere inviolably to the 
 present Government, and never to have any concern with the Pretender. He is just 
 now with me, reading what I write about him, and I write it at his own desire ; and 
 he intreats you to do him the honor, in his name, to assure S' Robert Walpole, and 
 any other of the Ministry, that this is his sincere & fix'd resolution ; and that he 
 desires not to make his fortune any where but in our King's Interest and Service. 
 
 I have done all I could to discover whether he be sincere in this ; and I do believe 
 that he is sincere. If he should prove otherAvise, it would be a double afflicliion to 
 me ; first to see him in so bad a way, and next that he had dealt so disingenuously and 
 falsely with me. But I do not think he cheats me : I am cheated if a friend of his, 
 nearer to him than I am, do not now fully acquiesce in his serving our King faithfully, 
 & having nothing at all to do with the Pretender. It is my misfortune, that some of 
 
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 my relations have been in the Pretender's interest ; but it is my duty to endeavour that 
 they may leave it ; and that those of them who are entering on the World may be 
 firmly attached to our King & his Familly ; since I have allways done so, & acted for 
 the present estabUshment. It would be a little hard to get me still in the shade of my 
 Jacobite relations, and, tho' I be of their colour, to look at me through a false me- 
 dium, & then cr\-, I am not white, Ennemys do so, & no wonder : but sometimes 
 friends, or they who at least are not foes, are pleas'd to acb as if they were afraid of 
 the litle clamour of Eimemys, though unthout foundation, & which they themselves 
 can easilv put an end to. Men of Power can do N^ith honest people, in certain cir- 
 cumstances, as Kings can do with good metal on which dirt has been thro\^"n ; either 
 stamp them into current coin, or else let them be thrown aside as of base alloy ; and 
 then, 'tis ten to one but they shall generally be deemed of that alloy ; for few carry 
 a touchstone to make the tryal, & fewer are at the pains to try a piece neglected as 
 suspicious. Yet one would think that this faint clamour, thrown out by foes who can 
 do no other hurt, is not really regarded ; for we have seen even those who had been 
 openlv disaffected, push'd for"* as fit to be trusted by the Government ; and perhaps 
 few, if any, will burden themselves to answer that they are better affected, to this 
 hour. We have seen such actually trusted, & in favour ; and whatever others have 
 done, I'm sure the clamourers did so. Could they then pretend, that it should be 
 worse with a man who was always well affefted, but only has disaffected relations, 
 whom he was never influenced by ? this cannot hold in common reason, nor would it 
 in the general oppinion of the world. 
 
 It is true, great men take not the trouble to consider the case of a private persoH 
 ■who makes not himself considerable. If there be the appearance of an objection good 
 or bad, it is easyest to have nothing to do with him. But Friends who have access to 
 speak freely with great Men of his subject, can render them effectually attentive to it ; 
 and when the great Men have good understanding k experience (as at present), the 
 task is less difficult ; because they soon perceive the real import of things ; and, when 
 they are brought to consider them, are not amus'd with superficial appearances. 
 
 if it be too much for me to expect to be noticed, as one who in his low^ sphere has 
 not deserved ill ; vet I hope it is not an immodest request, that when my name casts 
 up, I be not slurr'd as a person whom the friends and servants of the Government 
 must be shy of, and keep at a distance. If I be otherw ise used, w^hether on a pre- 
 tended personal account, or on account of my Relations, the reall effecEts of it as to 
 me, and the appearance it must give me in the World, will be much the same. Only 
 when it proceeds from friends, or from those who are not Ennemys, with one's friends 
 standing near and looking on, it must strike deeper and stick faster, and the imlucky 
 person must appear to be sa7u resource. 
 
 This would make my case so singular, that perhaps there is not an other instance 
 of it in Brittain ; and, indeed, it seeras to be a pretty strange case. If Jacobitism, or 
 even torr)-ship, prevail, I am to be undone for my own sake. At present, I must pass 
 for a strano-e creature, whom it is not safe to give Countenance to, because of my 
 
 Jacobite Relations ; for this would offend these that know me not, and the Sq ^y, 
 
 who are Ennemys to me & to the present Administration. If that same Sq y gets 
 
 op ao^in, I am still to be defeat, because they fancy those presently in power to be 
 my friends. Perhaps some others know how to have good luck in all events ; and 
 these pretty fellows w^ould tell me, that I am sers-^ed as becomes an honest fool, who, 
 by aiEting sincerely, leaves himself but one foot to stand upon ; & when that faills 
 him, down he tumbles, & must ly there. 
 
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 I did not think to have said so much on this Head ; \v''' speaking of my Nephew. 
 L"* Erskine, led me to. You may the more easily pardon me, because 1 do not intend 
 to trouble you again with it. Do with this as you think it requires. 
 
 Nothing remarkable in this Country has come to my knowledge since you left it. 
 
 My Dear Duncan, I am most faithfully yours. 
 
 No. CXXX. 
 
 Lord Lovat to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 My Dear Lord, Inverness, 2<> March 1727. 
 
 WHEN I had the honour to writ to you by the last post, and send you an infor- 
 mation of the Riot that hapen'd last week at Ridcastle, I was very justly angry ; and 
 if it was not for fear of the Laws and of my bread, I would have immediatly reveng'd 
 the blood of my tenants and Kinsmen ; and the enclosed affidavits will convince your 
 Lordship y' I had very great reason to be in wrath ; but now y' the first movement of 
 Passion is over, I am well satisf}''d that the affair should be taken away in a fdly 
 maner ; for I have no desire to be in blood w' my nighbours ; tho' you may easily be- 
 iive I do not fear all the Mackenzies on Earth, tho' I had none to assist me against 
 them but my owti Frasers and followers. Your Lordship knows both the Clans prety 
 well. I have put the Affair into my Commander in Chief's hands, who will certainly 
 consult you about it ; and I am ready to yield to any thing y' is reasonable. I have 
 writ to Culodin my thoughts of what I have observed in this town. 1 wsh y'' Lord- 
 ship better health than what we are told you have ; and I am, in all conditions of Life, 
 as I still was, your Lordship's most faithful Slave, 
 
 LOVAT. 
 
 No. CXXXI. " ■ 
 
 Lord Bal merino to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 My Lord, Leith, ii"" May 1727. 
 
 SOME Months ago I writt to my excellent friend the Earl of Loudoun, concern- 
 ing a Remission to my Son Arthur Elphinston, to be obtained by the means of the 
 Duke of Argyl ; but to this hour I have had no answer. 
 
 My Son James, several Weeks ago, writt to your Lordship ; and likewayes he has 
 got no Answer from you. This astonishes me ; for, indeed, I would rather have a 
 Refusal, than remain in this uncertainty. Considering how mercifull the King is, and 
 how great the favour he has showen to some who were more Criminal (though his 
 fault was very great), I cannot but hope that this which I so earnestly desire will be 
 readily granted. But whatever be in this, I beg the honour of vour Answer, that I 
 may take measures accordingly. I am, with great truth. 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most humb'" Serv', 
 
 BALMERINO. 
 
 No. CXXXII. 
 
 Sir Hugh Dalrymple to the Lord Advocate. 
 D' S', 
 
 THIS, I own, looks very like ingratitude, to be so long in returning you thanks 
 for your favour ; but I had many reasons for not writing till now, of which the thing 
 
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 called Protelation was one ; & the* uncertainty of ever coming back again, another. 
 Before I went, I thought Bunchrew would be a ven' decent date ; but when I was 
 there, the place, the trees, the Firth, & Peter, were all my enemies ; S: I do not 
 remember if I was in a capadt}" to write or no. From that time forward, the good 
 people of Inverness & Murray were so exceedingly kind (if it can be called kindness to 
 make a Man run the gantlet), that neither shame nor remorse had any effect upon me ; 
 & seriously, tho' I thought mvself happy that neither your Brother John nor the 
 Squire were in the Covmtrs-, yet every body, I don't know how, took upon them to be 
 Johns ;?c Squires to m-^ : &, for aught I know, I might have been cracking nutts till 
 now, if I had been able. The nre about Aberdeen was not so intense ; but, compara- 
 tively speaking, it was pretty smart : the Perth people are good enough for a brush 
 and awav ; but the pleasures of the enchanted Island, the Ball, the Lucy Barbers, & 
 the strange and surprizing adventures of Emperor Gausy, must be left to another 
 time. I am in some hopes that this will not find you at London : it is but blushing a 
 little more for an excuse, to make it here to you myself, coram Francy Farquhar and 
 a dish of hard fish. But, as far as I can see, it is more convenient to be imthankful ; 
 for it makes me look sillier, to tell you that I never shall cease to be sensible of what 
 I owe to you, than it would do to some people to fall asleep & forget it. 
 
 I am, D' S", 
 Your most ObUg'd k most Obedient Servant, 
 
 HUGH D.ILRYMPLE. 
 Ed' May 3c, (oh, shameful!) 1727. 
 
 No.CXXXlII. 
 
 M' Delafaye to the Lord Advocate. 
 My Dear Lord, Whitehall, Nov' y'-^ 1727. 
 
 I ILWE received the honour of your Lops letter from Edinbmrgh, and was glad 
 to find vou were returned thither safe, & I hope in sound health, fi-om your expedition 
 to the Highlands, w*- is now no more a Wild Country. My Lord Duke of Newcastle 
 was so well pleased with the account you give of the disposirion of things there, that 
 he would shew your Letter to His Maj'^, to whom it gave a good deal of satisfaction. 
 I ask your pardon for having omitted to acknowledge y' receipt of your return, which 
 I immediately transmitted to the Crown OiEce. Matters here go as they did ; the 
 King very good and gracious to his ^linisters and Servants, & all things very quiet. As 
 to foreign affairs, I think we shall certainly have a Congress ; France is prodigious 
 honest and heart)- ; Pconerabotirg behaves like an Angel at Madrid ; the Emperor & 
 
 his Ministers are the greatest in y* world, or else they are sincerely for 
 
 paciiick measures ; so that, tho' the Q. of Spain does still scold, that power must and 
 will come into measures, tho' not with a good grace. The general talk is, that \-^ Par- 
 liam' will not sit till y-' 10- Jan"^, which I fear will retard y' pleasure I promise myself, 
 of assuring you in person of the sincere 6c hearty respett w" which I have the honour 
 to be. 
 
 My Dear Lord, 
 
 Your Lops most hmnble 
 
 & most Obedient Servant, 
 I dined this Day w*^ My Lord Townshend, CH : DELAFAYE. 
 
 who is in a very bad way with his Rheu- 
 matism, & I fear will not get rid of it till 
 
 Warm Weather comes in. 
 
 No. CXXXIY.
 
 CIJLLODEN TAPEHS. I03 
 
 No. CXXXIV. i 
 
 M' T. Rawlinson to the Lord Advocate, dated Invergary, May 24"' 1728. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 AS I have not the honour of being knovi^n to your Lordship, I humbly beg leave 
 to acquaint you, before I proceed to give you an account of other matters, that I have 
 made a purchase (for myself and Company) of a considerable quantity of Wood in 
 Glengary for the use of Iron works we are ere£ting there ; and we fear not of having 
 good success in our Business (which certainly will be of great use and benefit in this 
 part of North Britain), provided we can peaceably enjoy the same ; but I am extreamly 
 sorry that I have occasion to acquaint your Lordship, that I have had two of my Ser- 
 vants murthered by a Villain in this Country, who I apprehended, with one of his 
 Accomplices, on the 20"' of the last instant ; and because it is supposed (by my friends) 
 that they may find means to make their escape out of the Gaiel of Inverness if they 
 should be committed there, I am therefore favoured in having them confined in the 
 Barricks of Kiliwhynnan till I am further instrufted how to proceed against them. The 
 Murtherer's accomplice (by name John Grant) hath confessed before M' Fraser of Cudu- 
 thall (a Justice of Peace), that their principle design was to rob and Murther me, and as 
 they could not meet with me, they were resolved to rob & Murther some of my Servants. 
 I have good proof against the Murtherer ; but as for his accomplice, John Grant, I have 
 no other than his own confession ; and as the Murtherer is famed for a notorious and 
 dangerous fellow, I should be glad to have him brought to his tryall as soon as possible ; 
 but if I am obliged to send him and his Accomplice to Edinburgh to take their tryall, I 
 am informed that their Prosecution will be very expensive. But if your Lordship would be 
 so kind as to give your Orders to the Sheritf of Inverness to try them there, a great 
 part of that expence might be saved ; and (with submission) if their punishment was 
 directed to be upon the place where this murther was committed, I believe it would 
 be a very terrifying example to our Rogueish Inhabitants : all which I most humbly 
 submit to your Lordship's opinion ; beging your pardon for the liberty here taken by, 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's 
 Most Obed" humble Servant, 
 P. S. — If your Lordship thinks it proper to T RAWLINSON 
 
 honour me with your return to 
 this Letter, to the care of the Post- 
 master in Inverness, it will come .; ' :,. , ,■ 
 safe to me. 
 
 Note — This Thomas Rawhnson, an Englishman, was the person who introduced the Phelie Ref, or 
 short kilt, into the highlands. This faft, very little known, is explained by a Letter from Evan Baillie 
 of Oberiachan, inserted in the Edinburgh Magazine for 1785. 
 
 No.CXXXV. 
 
 Lord Seafort to the Lord Advocate. ' 
 My Lord, 
 
 AS you gave me leave, when last I had the honour of seeing you, to let you 
 know how my affairs went after you was gone ; so I lay hold of y' opportunity with 
 pleasure, because to one I value I impart where my grievance lys. 
 
 I was
 
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 I was last Tuesday to wait on S' Robert Walpole, who desired, hearing what I had 
 to say, y' I wou'd put it in black and white, y' he might shew it to his Maj"% Ac- 
 cordingly I did as order'd, and y' morning went to receive his answer. He was, as 
 usual, obliging ; but what I reqviired, he was sorry to let me know, was not to be 
 complv'd with ; since the King would neither allow any thing of y' kind, or give 
 orders to be confirm'd what his royal Father had granted before. On hearing this, 
 I cou'd not forbear making appear how ill I was us'd. The Government in possession 
 of the Estate, and I in the interim allowed to starve ; tho* they conscious of mv com- 
 phing with whatever I promised to see put in execution : in fine, several other cir- 
 cumstances I took the freedom to insist upon, which he cou'd not but own was right. 
 Now, my Lord, you being my sincere friend, I the more candidly lay the case before 
 you, that by vour usual prudence you may fall on such methods [asj will be thought 
 most proper, towards contributing to what may tend to y* mutual satisfaction of all 
 concern'd. For as t 'n'^y I am now in is most disagreeable, consequently, if not recH- 
 f\'d, will chuse rather to seek my bread elsewhere, y" continue longer in so unworthy 
 a Situation. I •writ to Mr. Cowper last post, to wait upon your Lop to receive your 
 orders how to behave, for making all things easie for a seale. I beg you'll give your 
 directions, since what your Lop says will be a law to me & mine. I have several other 
 things to- enlarge upon ; but your time I know is precious ; therefore, will presiune no 
 further, than to beg you will honour me with a return, y' accordingly I may take my 
 measiu-es, and fully convince y^ whole World how ready your instructions are 
 obey'd by. 
 
 My Lord, 
 Jane y' zy, 1728. Your Lops obedient 
 
 humble Servant, 
 
 SEAFORT. 
 
 No. CXXXVI. 
 
 The Lord Advocate to the Laird of Culloden. 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 SINCE my last, we have had no division, nor indeed so much as scolding, rill 
 yesterday. The Committee of Supply was opened ; a supply voted to His Majesty ; 
 the estimates for the current year's Servace were delivered in, and 15,000 Seamen 
 voted ; but when the question for continuing the same number of Land forces as last 
 year was yesterday moved in the Committee of Supply, Poulmey took occasion to make 
 a popular declamation against the Ministry and their measures, in terms sciurrilous 
 enough ; the language, indeed, of the Craftesman. This met with a ver)^ long Answer 
 from H. Walpole, who went throw the whole course of the Negociations ; and with 
 ane exceeding smart one from Sir Robert, who exerted his usuall spirite ; and after a 
 run of Discoursing which lasted, without much force or method, till near 8 at night, 
 the Committee Resolved to keep up the Land forces, without a diiision. I still 
 believe, as I told you in my last, that, contrary to the expectations of all the world, 
 we shall have no great matter to do this Session. Sir Wilham Windham, and some 
 
 more J s, are gone out of to^vn. Gen. Ross is lying-in of the Gout, but 
 
 is now mending. Geo. Clerk touches you in a bumper as usuall. I am. Dear 
 Brother, Yours ; tho' uneasy that a Week has past without hearing firom you- 
 
 London, February i", 1729. 
 
 No. CXXX\T[.
 
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 No. CXXXVII. 
 
 Lord Lovat to Mr. John Forbes. 
 
 My Dear Laird of Culloden, 
 
 I HAD y ' honour of your letter late last night from my Cusin Relick, and I am 
 heartily sorry to understand y' you are out of order. I hope this good weather and y' 
 good air about Culodin will soon recover you. I dare freely say, there is not a Forbes 
 alive wishes your personal health and Prosperity more aftectionatly and sincerely 
 than I do ; and I should be a very ungratfu! man if it was otherways ; for no man gave me 
 more proofs of Love and frdship at home and abroad than John Forbes of Culodin did. 
 
 As to what service I ever can do to you or yours, you should truly command me as 
 much as you would do Peter Forbes, and not afk favours ; for it never will be in my 
 power to return y* himdreth part of favours and frdships I ha^■e personally receaved from 
 you ; since it is more owing to your person than to any man I know, y' I am now in 
 this place in any condition to serve you. 
 
 As to carr\-ing y" lime to Lovat, I shall do more in it than if it was for my ov.n use. 
 I shall give y"" most pressing and precise orders to my officers to send in my tenants' 
 horses ; and to shew them the zeal and desire v' I have to serv'e you, I shall send my 
 own labouring horses to carry it, w' as much pleasure as if it was to build a house in 
 Castledownie. I hope to have y^ honour to pay my duty to you tomorrow or next day, 
 and receave v" Commands for Ed' ; and I beg you may believe y' I shall be, while I 
 live, both sensible and thankful of all the great marks & proofs of frdship y' I have 
 received from your person, even from y' beginning of my troubles to this hour ; and 
 y' I am, wth great Affection, Gratitude, and Respect, my d' Laird of Culodin, your 
 most faithful Slave, while 
 
 Beaufort, > LOVAT. 
 
 38'" May 1729. ^ 
 
 My Wife and my Beams are your faithful Serv-, and assure vou of their humble 
 duty. She is not yet deliver'd of her burden ; if it is a boy, he will be a Serv' to 
 v' family. 
 
 No. CXXXVIII. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 My Dear Laird of Culodin, 
 
 IT is w' great joy I hear from others y' your health is much better than when I saw 
 you last. I wish w' all my soul you may for many yeares injoy perfect health and 
 Strenth ; for I'le never see a Laird of Culodin y' I love so mmch, or will do so much for 
 me as you have done in my greatest trouble and distress ; and I would be guilty of 
 y' greatest and blackest ingratitude if I did not love and honour your person and con- 
 cerns. With all y' other proofs I have of your goodness, I beg leave to put you in mind 
 of your promise, y' whether it is a lad or a lass y' my Wife gives me at this t)-me, 
 you will do me the honour, sine I cannot be present myself, y' you viill hold it up to 
 receave the Holy Water of Baptisme, and make it. a better Christian than y" father. 
 I expect this mark of Frdslnp from my d"- John Forbes of Culodin. I do assur 
 you, y' I ne\'er saw y' B' Duncan look better : he is very well recovered. General 
 Wade is to be here on Saturdav, and to stay at least three weeks in y" Canogate.
 
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 Y' Duke of Arg)le is to be here this month, and y' E. of Iky in y* next month ; and 
 he vnll get his handfiti to do to settle this city, which the)- tell me is as much in factions 
 and divisions as ever. 
 
 Every body expects we shall have a War very soon, which I am not fond of ; for, 
 being now grown old, I desire and wish to live in peace w' all mankind, except some 
 damn'd presbyterian ministers who dayly plague me. I am ver\- busy in mv Law-suit, 
 and I hope to get it ended this Session ; and their is no appearance of my IcKjsinge of it. 
 I gave a Bottle of Wine to Caberfey, w" the Young Lairds of Kilraak, Huss, and 
 Kilcowie ; and we had y^ honour to drink your health heartily. When you have a 
 spare hour I beg to hear from you, w' an account of your health, which by G — d is 
 very dear to me ; for I am \nth great affection, &: a'gratful respect, My d' Culodin. 
 Your most faithful Slave, 
 
 Edin% I LOVAT. 
 
 I g"" June, ijzg.j 
 
 Your Br. Duncan is very anxious about my cause, which I beleve vou will not be 
 
 angry at him tor : he has a very good opinion of it, as all my La^iers have. 
 
 Xo. CXXXIX. 
 
 LETTER from {he Queen, settling the Precedency of the Courts of Justice in 
 
 Scotland. 
 
 By her Majesty the Queen, Guardian of the Kingdome, Sec. 
 CAROLINE, R. C. R. 
 
 • FORASML^CH as we have been informed, that doubts have frequentlv arisen be- 
 tween the Senators of his Majestv^'s Colledge of Justice, and Barons of His Exchequer, in 
 that Part of His Majesty's Kingdome of Great Brittain called Scotland, concerning their 
 Rank and Precedency ; and wee are willing to prevent any imeasiness or Disputes between 
 the Members of two bodies so highlv intrusted by his Majestv, and of so great use and 
 importance to his ser%-ice, and to the good Government and welfare of his people ; 
 Therefore wee doe, in his Majesty's name, by these presents, appoint and Ordaine, 
 that vou the President of his Majesty's said Colledge of Justice shall have the first place, 
 and on all occasions shall take rank and have Precedency of the Chief Baron of His 
 Majesty's Exchequer there ; and the said Chief Baron shall continue to take rank and 
 have Precedency of the remanent Senators of His Majesty's said Colledge cf Justice ; 
 and the remanent Senators of his said Colledge of Justice and Barons of His Majesty's 
 Exchequer shall take place of each other, according to the date of their Commission or 
 appointment to their respective offices ; that is to say, That every Senator of His 
 Majesty's said Colledge of Justice, whose Commission or Appointment to his said 
 Office is of ane elder date, shall take place and have the rank and Precedency of and 
 above all Senators of ffis Majesty's said Colledge of Justice and Barons of His Majesty's 
 said Exchequer whose Commissions or appointments are of a later date ; and that every 
 Baron of His iMajesrv's said Exchequer, whose Commission or appointment is of ane 
 Elder date, shall in like manner rake place, and have the rank and Precedency 
 of and above all Senators of his Majesty's said Colledge of Justice and Barons 
 ef his Majesty's said Exchequer whose Commissions or appointments are of a 
 later date ; And if it 'shall happen, that the Commissions or appointments of one 
 
 5t of
 
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 iay 
 
 of the Senators of his Majesty's said Colledge of Justice and one of the Barons 
 of His Majesty's said Plxchequer shall be of the same date, then the said Senator 
 shall take place and have rank and Precedency of and before the said Baron. 
 And this wee doe, in His Majesty's name, ordain, appoint, and establish to he the 
 constant and unalterable rule and order in this respect from henceforth in all time 
 comeing. Provided alw^ays, that the same shall not extend to deprive any Peer of his 
 Majesty's Realm, or the Son of a Peer, or any other whatsoever enjoying any of the 
 above mentioned Offices, and haveing rank and Precedency by reason of such his 
 Peerage or Birth, or on any* other occasion not relative to his office of Senator of his 
 Majesty's said Colledge of Justice or Baron of His Majesty's s;ud Exchequer, fron) 
 bruikeing & enjoying such rank or Precedency, any thing in these presents to the 
 contrary notwithstanding. And so wee bid you heartily farewell. Given at the Court 
 at Kensington, the twenty-fourth day of July 1729, in the third year of his Majesty's 
 reign. 
 
 By her Majesty's Command, 
 
 (Signed) HOLLES NEWCASTLE 
 
 No. CXL. 
 
 The Duke of Newcastle to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 My Lord, Kensington, July 25, 1729. 
 
 HER Ma'^ having received private intelligence, that there was reason to believe, 
 some design was carrying on in Scotland in favour of the Pretender, and that several of 
 his Adherents were lately gone thither from Rome for that purpose ; Her Ma'^ has 
 commanded me to send you notice of it, knowing so well your Zeal for the King's 
 service, and your dexterity, that Her Ma''' does not doubt, but if any thing of this kind 
 should be in agitation, your Lop will be able to discover it, and take the proper means 
 to prevent it. 
 
 Your Lop will particularly inquire whether any of the Pretender's followers are lately 
 come from abroad into Scotland, and upon wliat account ; and acquaint her Ma'*' with 
 what you shall be able to learn on this head, and with any other mformation you 
 can procure relating to it. 
 
 I am, ■v\ith great truth and regard. 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lop" most Obedient humble Servant, 
 Lord Advocate. HOLLES NEWCASTLE. 
 
 No. CXLl. 
 
 The Lord Advocate to the Duke of Newcastle. 
 
 My Lord, Inveraray, in Argyllshire, 5''' August 1729. 
 
 THIS morning I received at this place the letter your Grace did me the honour to 
 write to me of the 25"' of July, acquainting me with the Intelligence her Majesty has 
 received, that some design is carrying on in Scotland in favours of the Pretender, and 
 that several of his Adherents have lately come from Rome hither, and desiring me to 
 employ all the Industry I can to discover what truth may be in these Reports ; and 
 particularly to inquire whether any of the Pretender's adherents have lately come from 
 abroad into Scotland, and upon what account, and to acquaint her Majesty with what 
 I may learn on this subjeft. 
 
 p 2 I cannot
 
 l^, CULLODES" PAPERS. 
 
 I cannot take upon me at present to say any thing positive to your Grace, further 
 than that I shall employ all the skill & industry I ain able, to give her Majesty satis- 
 faiEUon in respe«S: to the things she desires to be informed of; and that, to enable me 
 the better so to do, I shall make the very midle of the highlands my way from hence to 
 Inverness, v/here I shall probably meet with some Notice of what your Grace writes 
 about, if the Highlanders know any thing of the matter ; and what 1 learn your Grace 
 shall be acquainted ^ith. But in the mean time I shall take the libert)' to offer what 
 occurs to me according to the Ughts I now have. 
 
 Tho' I have not hitherto had any suspition of what the advices her Majesn,- has lately 
 received bear, yet in the ordinar)' course of my dut}' I have, since I came last into 
 Scotland, been attentive to the countenance &: beh^\-iour of the disaffected ; and if I 
 can at all judge, those about Edinburgh & in the Southern parts have no sort of pro- 
 spect in their heads, a:id have not hitherto so much as heard of what may have been 
 contrived abroad ; tho', to be sure, they soon \%-ili if there is any thing real in it. 
 
 I have not heard that any of the Pretender's adherents have lately come into Scotland 
 from abroad ; neither do I knov*- of any that have come over this year, excepting my 
 Lady Southesk, who came over by His iMaiest)''s permission ; & Mr. Fleeming, brother 
 to Earl Wigron, who has lived in France up\\'ards of twent}- years, and came over last 
 Winter, at his Brother's desire ; as I have been told, with a design to be married, in 
 order to keep up the family ; the Earl having no Children of his own to succeed him. 
 This Gentleman was, I believe, concerned in the late Rebelhon, but was not con\'icted 
 or attainted. Her Majest)^ has been acquainted, that M Stewart, late of Lmeriiity, and 
 two or three other attainted persons, came over to Scotland in his late Majest)''s reign, 
 in hopes of being pardoned ; and that ha\ing mude apphcation to the Crown by Gen' 
 Wade, who had instructions to receive the submissions of such as seemed well disposed, 
 they were permitted to live privately in the Country, where they still remain verj' quie* 
 and peacible. 
 
 I cannot at present think of any other of the Pretender's adherents who came from 
 abroad without previous leave into Scotland, except Gen" Gordon ; he indeed has been 
 in this comitry upwards of three years ; and your Grace may remember I acquainted 
 vou with his arrivaU at the time ; \nth this Circumstance, that he declared it to be his 
 intention to live his remaining days peaceably at home ; and that tho' he was secure by 
 the Laws, vet if his being in Scotland gave any umbrage to the Go^■ernment, he would 
 instantly return into a voluntary Exile ; desiring me at the same time to give your Grace 
 notice of his arrivall and intention, which I accordingly did. The Man has since that 
 lime lived inoffensive, so far as I can hear, at his house in the Country. 
 
 These particulars, which are all that at present I can recollect, I trouble your Grace 
 with. — If the most carefuU inquiry can produce any further Intelhgence, it shall be laid 
 before your Grace. If I wanted any spur to quicken my diligence in discovering and 
 preventing anv mischief that mav give the least disturbance to the Government, Hex 
 Majesty's good opinion of my zeal for the King's service is more than sufficient to stirr 
 up all the a(3i\ity and attention I am capable of. — I am with very great respect & 
 sincerity, 
 
 My Lord Duke, 
 Your Grace's most obedient & Most humble Ser\'', 
 
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 No. CXLII. 
 
 From General Wade to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 From my Hutt at Dalnacardock, 
 D' Sir, August y' 27"" 1729. 
 
 YESTERDAY I had an express from the Post Master of Edinburg, with an 
 enclos'd from the Duke of Newcastle, of a very old date, which by neglect was detain'd 
 at the Post Office at least a fortnight ; the letter being dated the 7''' of August from 
 Kensington. 
 
 His Grace informs jne by her Majesr\-'3 Command, that they have advice, that some 
 of the Scotch who were with the Pretender are comeing home, in order to carry on 
 some designs in his favour ; ordering me to endeavour to discover and secure any such 
 persons whom I may apprehend tp be concerned therein, and to prevent any attempts 
 or practices against his Majest)' or his Government. He tells me likewise, that he has 
 WTitten to your Lordship on that Subject ; and I suppose your letter may have been 
 detain'd as mine has been. I have wrote to Willy Grant, to be vigilent towards Gordon 
 Castle, and to observe Glenbucket's motions, w^ho I think a dangerous Fellow, and who 
 I believe will be ready to play the fool if he is any wav encouraged bv the Agents from 
 Abroad. I think the Troops are so disposed, that nothing can give us any sort of 
 trouble, unless with the assistance of a foreign force ; which makes me very'easv and 
 free of all apprehensions from the jacobite quarter. I shall leave this place this day 
 se'nnight, stay a day or two at Fort William, and as long at Killyhunnen ; and propose 
 to be at Liverness about y' i o''' or 1 2"^' of the next month ; when I hope to have the 
 pleasure of kissing your hand ; being with the greatest sincerirv 
 
 Your very faithfull humble Ser\-' 
 
 GEORGE WADE. 
 
 Xo. CXLIII. 
 
 Lord Advocate to Gen' Wade. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 WHEN I was at Inveraray, I received from the Duke of Newcastle a letter of the 
 same Import, with what you tell me, in yours of the 27"' of August, you had fi-om his 
 Grace. I immediately returned an Answer, That from the obser\-ations I had made, 
 since my Arrival ua Scotland, upon the Countenance and Conduct of the DisaiFedted, it 
 appeared to me they did not at that time know of any projeft to give Disturbance, or 
 of any Emissaries from Rome being come among them. But I promised, in my way 
 through the Highlands, to be as attentive as possible to the motions of those people, 
 and to report with greater Certainty on my arrival in this Country. 
 
 In my progress from Argyleshire through Lorn, Mull, Lochaber, Src. I have been 
 as inquisitive as prudence could permit ; and I have the answers of some Letters which 
 I wrote from Inveraray to Edin' upon this Subject ; and the result of all confirms my 
 former Opinion, That no Emissaries are hitherto come into Scotland ; at least, that the 
 Highlanders have not any knowledge or Expectation of their coming j and this I am 
 resolved by the next post to signif\' to his Grace. 
 
 It was because I took it for granted, that You had the same Directions as I had, that 
 I did not attempt to send you Notice of what was wrote to me, notwithstanding tt ^ dif- 
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 ficulty of coming at You, from the part of the World in which I then vras. But, as I 
 believed you had the same ad^•ice, and would readily frame the same Opinion of it, 
 I thought it unnecessary' to say any thing on the Subject till Meeting. 
 
 I was so damnably tired of the Highlands, that I durst not venture on your mines. 
 The History of me you will meet with in your Travels ; I long to hear Yours. Never 
 was penitent banished into a more barren Desart, to suffer for his sins, than what vou 
 have suffered in since your Confinement to Drumochlter. I hope, however, you have 
 got safe out of it, and that this •will find you in full Vigour of Mind and Body. I beg 
 you may be so good as to direct John Baillie, who will deliver you this, to let me know 
 when I may expect to see you at Inverness, fince you do not intend to be long at Killie- 
 whinnan. I am. Dear Sir, Your most faithful, Sec. 
 
 D.F. 
 Bunchrew, 3'' Sep" 1729. 
 
 No. CXLR\ 
 
 The Lord Advocate to the Duke of Newcastle. 
 
 JVIy Lord, 
 
 I HAVE the honour of your Grace's Letter of the z"^ Ins" : and w' it the greatest 
 pleasure in observing, that the Accoxmts I transmitted to vour Grace, in mine of the 
 5''' of August, were satisfactor)'. Since that time 1 had the Honour to acquaint your 
 Grace, from Inverness the 5''' Ins',* what I obser\''d in my Travells through the High- 
 lands ; and I hope that also has proved to your Liking, as it confirms pretty much 
 what I wrote formerly from Opinion only. 
 
 As, in Obedience to her Majesrie's Commands, I was resolved to make all possible 
 inquiry into the Truth of those reports that had reached her, touching Designs carrying 
 on in Scotland in favors of the Pretender, I made a Trip, since my last, through Stat- 
 hearn to Badenoch ; and from thence, cross the Country, to Gordon Castle. I have 
 likewise found occasions of conversing vdth Gentlemen from almost all those parts of 
 the Highlands where I have not been ; and I am ver\' glad to be able to assure your 
 Grace, that, from all the Observations I could make, what I formerly wrote to your 
 Grace is confirm'd, That there is not any project at present stirring in favours of the 
 Pretender ; that no Agents from him have lately come among them ; and that if any 
 one sent, the Highlanders hitherto know nothing of it. 
 
 I propose yet to stay some days in this Countrv, and to make a different part of the 
 Highlands from what I have already pass'd my way to Edinburgh, if the weather per- 
 mit. If in that Expedition I can discover any thmg further worth your Grace's notice, 
 I shall have the honour to acquaint you with it. I am, with the most sincere Regard 
 and Dut}-, 
 
 Your Grace's most Obedient & most faithful' 
 
 humble Sers-', 
 
 Inverness, 26-^ Sep^ 1729. DLTN. FORBES. 
 
 To the Duke of Newcastle. 
 
 •* This Letter does not appear ia the Colleftion. 
 
 No. CXLV.
 
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 No. CXLV. 
 
 The Lord Advocate to Sir Robert Walpole. 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 I HAD your Note of 9"' Instant inclosed with my Lord Duke's. It did me Good 
 tho' very short, because it shew'd me that my friend was well, I heartily thank you for 
 your Mindfulness of the getting in the presentation to the Living of 
 
 By this post I have acquainted the Duke with my further Travells through the 
 Highlands ; which confirm me in the Opinion I formerly was of, that there is not at 
 present the least thought among them of any Design in favour of the Pretender ; and if 
 any such thing should be set a foot, I am satisfy'd it could not long be kept Secret, nor 
 with any hopes of success supported, considering the present situation of the people, 
 and of the Troops. 
 
 His Majesty's happy and early arrival from beyond Seas, spreads an Opinion, that 
 the Parliament is to sit before Xmas, a thing that I should be sorry for my own Par- 
 ticular to see ; but which, if it should happen, I ought to be prepared for. Pray, Dear 
 Sir, be so good as to inform me what you know of this, when you find a Minute's 
 leisure. I am, D' Sir, with perfect Esteem, 
 
 Most faithfullv Yours, 
 
 Inverness, 26'" Sep"^ 1729. ' DUN. FORBES. 
 
 No. CXLVI. 
 
 Gen' Wade to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 Dated Edinburgh, Odtober the a**, 1729. 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 I HAD the pleasure to receive yours of the 26"' Sept' at Col' James Campbell's, 
 who was so kind to give me good Quarters for two days on my way hither. On the 
 day after you left us at Ruthven, the Knight and I travelled in my Coach with great 
 ease and pleasure to the feast of Oxen, which the Highwaymen had prepared for us 
 opposite to Lock Gary ; where we found 4 roasting at the same time, in great order 
 and solemnity. We dined in a Tent pitched for that purpose ; the Beef was excellent ; 
 and we had plenty of Bumpers, not forgetting your Lord'' and Colloden ; and, after 
 three hours stay, took leave of our Benefaftors the Highwaymen, and arrived at the 
 Hutt before it was Dark. 
 
 The 5 dayes I continued there set me upon my leggs again, and enabled me to take 
 a second Survey of the projected Road between Dalnacardock and Creif which is to 
 be the work of the next Summer. — I am very thankfull to you for your kind mediation 
 of the treaty between her Grace and me. — I supp'd last night with Hay at Lady Milton's, 
 who, ! found, had been informed of the whole affair, and of our Court of Judicature 
 held at Ruthven, and disaproved of none of our proceedings, except the Lift ; in which, 
 he said, he thought I had aded with too much lenity, or to that purpose. The Knight 
 of the Bath is much your humble Servant; but more Coiloden's, for he never favles 
 to remember him in a Bumper ; though, in the main, I have interposed between him 
 and the Bottle, and kept him sober ever since we parted, i wish you had as much 
 influence over Coiloden. 
 
 The last post brought us no news. I shall go from hence on Monday Morning, and 
 propose to be in London the day after the birth-day. — I have not yet the honour of her 
 
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 Grace's Letter. If you happen to see Willy Grant, desire him to lodge the Armes that 
 were taken from her Grace's tennants in the Castle of Inverness. 
 
 1 am, D' Sir, 
 Your ver)' faithfull & most obed' hmnble Serv, 
 
 GEORGE WADE. 
 
 No. CXLMI. 
 
 ., .- , Ar Murdock to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 My Lord, Orleans, 24"" June 1730. 
 
 I HAD the honour of your Lordship's of the May some days ago ; which was 
 the more refreshing to Mr. Forbes & me, that it had been so long expected ; though 
 the multiplicity- of Business you have upon your hands during the Session of Parlia- 
 ment, and, which we hear of with the greatest concern, your still unconfirmed state of 
 health, were but too good reasons of jout silence. The apprehension your Lordship has 
 been under, that his head might suffer bv some ci\-ihtvs he met \vith en the road will 
 be over, when I assure you that any vanity of that sort is not his foible : on the con- 
 trarv, it he were fit for it, I should think the very best Companv to which he could 
 have admittance the properest for hun. This would inspire him with a certain ambi- 
 tion of a poUte and manly behaviour, which he wants as much as anv thing, and which 
 is no where else to be learned. As for study, properly so called, from several Experi- 
 ments we have had sufficient leisure here to m.ake, I find no such thing is to be ex- 
 pected of him : he is ever ready, in very good earnest, to own the necessit}' of re- 
 deeming the time he has lost, and to enter into resolutions and schemes for that pur- 
 pose ; but the issue is generally such as satisf\''s me there is a want of power more 
 than of will ; and indeed when one cannot conceive things with that ease and distinct- 
 ness as to take pleasure in contemplating them, how is it possible the attention should 
 be engaged to any purpose ? The next care is, that if he is not distinguisht, he may at 
 least be easy to himself and others, in Societ}' ; and that he be not remarkably defec- 
 tive in the ordinary accomplishments of a Gentleman who does not pretend to be a 
 Scholar ; and this I doubt not he will be able to compass. His inclination runs chiefly 
 upon the Army, which I had lately an occasion of discovei-ing. He had read in the 
 Gazette, that there was some appearance of a War, and that some of the British Troops 
 were in that case to be sent abroad. Upon this he took a resolution, if the War was of 
 any continuance, to join them some time at least before their return to Britain ; " for," 
 said he, " I shall by this means have an opportunity of learning something of the 
 trade ; and of enlisting myself with a better grace, than I could afterwards do at home." 
 This notion he was so full of, that if some other Newspapers had not spoke of the 
 thing as doubtful, he would certainly have before now wrote to your Lordship himself 
 about it. In the mean time, he is, upon his own proper motion, taking a lesson of 
 Fortification and Gunnery once a day ; besides what French v.e have read for the sake 
 of the language, and some attempts to recover the Latin, cast Accompts, write English, 
 &c. We Ughted on a very good Book, called " La maniere d'Enseigner et d'Etudier 
 les Belles Lettres, par Rolhn," containing, amongst other things, extracts of some of the 
 best passages of the Greek and Roman History. These he read once and again v%ith 
 pleasure. He is now busy %%ith the History of Louis 14.'. This vour Lordship may 
 possibly think preposterous ; but that period is so remarkable, a:id is so much the 
 subject of conversation, that it was necessary he should look into it as soon as possible. 
 Besides, a course of History that is tolerably complete being too large JUi undertaking 
 
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 for us ; and one that is not, so imperfect and unentertaining ; I thought the best \ray 
 would be to pick up the most useftil and remarkable passages, and connect them into 
 a sort of body afterwards. For Learning, or Learned Men, there is scarce such a thing 
 to be heard of in this place. The fathers are all busy in their Shops, and the Sons at 
 their diversion ; and, except a Family or tr\vo where we pay a visit once a Week, we 
 have little more acquaintance than when we came here. There is a sort of Theatre too 
 for some time past, where Racine and Corneille do penance ; Harlequin comes off on 
 better terms. In two months or so, we may, if your Lordship pleases, be steering 
 down the river, which -nill be the easiest and cheapest way of mo^'ing towards our 
 winter quarters ; and we will at the same time have an opportunit}" of seeing several 
 places worth while by the way. Mr. Forbes offers his affectionate and humble duty ; 
 and I remain, ^ 
 
 My Lord, , 
 
 Your Lordship's most obedient humble Ser', 
 
 PAT. MURDOCK. 
 
 No.CXLVIII. 
 
 Lord Lovat to M' John Forbes. 
 
 Mv Laird of Culodin, 
 
 I AM persuaded y' you will be very well pleas'd to know y' I bless God, I have 
 this afternoon gained my cause, two- to one. Ther was but four Votes upon y" Bench 
 against me ; Dunn, Roistown, Newhall, and the Justice Clark, who shewed his spite 
 to y^ last, but to Uttle purpose ; the eight for me are, the President, Grange, Cowpar, 
 Milto\vTi, Dnimore, Minto, Muny, and Henning. »•***** g^^^j^ j^g would not 
 vote in y' cause, and Poltown was *********** but what he spoke was for me. 
 The Speakers on my side were. Grange, Drumore, Milto^^n, and v" President ; and 
 I am told, that they beat to pieces all y" arguments y' Roistown, Dunn, and Newhall 
 advanced. In short, I have gained it w' honour and advantage. I cannot tell you how 
 much I owe to Duncan ; but I can freely tell you, y' he was full as sanguine in it as if 
 it had been your Cause ; so y' since he was His Majesty's Advocate, he never took so 
 much pains in anv cause everv manner of way. I hope he has now established a family 
 y" will be forever faithful to the Rooftree of Culodin ; and I beg y' you may believe y' 
 there is not a Forbes come out of your family y' loves and respects you more than I do ; 
 and y' I am while I live, with zeal and affection, 
 
 My Dear Laird of Culodin, 
 
 Your most obedient and most faithful Slave, 
 Ediil' 2'July 1730. LOVAT, 
 
 No. CXLIX. 
 
 M' Scrope to the Attorney General. 
 Sir, 
 
 IT being his Majesr\-'s pleasure, that every the estate reall and personall of Coll' 
 Charteris, w'*" became forfeited to the Cro^^Tl, upon his being lately convicted of a 
 Rape, shou'd be granted and restored to him : The Lords Commissioners of his Ma- 
 jesty's Treasury desire you to give Warrants to the Clerk of the Petty Bagg, to make • 
 forth so many Commissions as you shall judge necessary to be passed under the great 
 seal of Great Brittain, and to be directed to such and so many particular persons as 
 
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 shall be approved by you, to enquire and find, by the Oaths of Good & La^^-ful Men, 
 the reall and personal! estate ■which became forfeited to the CrowTi as aforesaid, and to 
 make the said Commissions returnable sine Dilatiom. 
 
 I am. Sir, 
 
 Your most humble Serv', 
 Treasur)- Chamber > qpropf 
 
 y- I x^ day of July 1730. y _. J. bCKUFL. 
 
 M' Attorney Generall. ' •" 
 
 : .-. :" Xo. CL. 
 
 The Lord Advocate to Mr. Scrope. 
 D^ Sir, 
 
 YOUR kind Letter of the 28"^ of July was a great Cordial to me ; it came just 
 in time to relieve me from some suspicions which your silence for a m.onth or tw'o began 
 to create. I do assure you, in my present situation there is occasion for some encou- 
 ragement to keep up my spirits ; since the scene, whatever corner I look to, is so dis- 
 agreeable ; and since, in place of finding anybodv ready to co-operate to mend it, I 
 meet \nth rubbs and obstacles from these whose concurrence I ought to expect. 
 
 The imminent distress, from the condition of our Revenue, has now for some time 
 possest my attention ; the Customs, from the defects of the Law, from the corruption 
 of Officers, and from the perverseness of jury's, are fallen to nothing ; and never can 
 by any art be raised, till those complaints are removed, which must be the work of 
 some time, tho' our disease seems to demand a more speedy remedy. 
 
 The Excise, tho' not under so correft managem.ent as formerly, seems to be the 
 only revenue from which we can look for any immediate relief ; but unless it is put 
 on a better foot, we cannot depend upon it's answering any immediate purpose. 
 
 It is an ob\-ious reflexion, to any one that knows what immense quantit)-s of Brandy 
 are drunk in this countr}-, and that it is commonly sold at 2 slulUngs a gallon, that 
 the Excise must be greatly affected by the excessive use of that liquor ; at the same 
 time, that the price of grain is beat down to nothing bv it, which is a very sensible 
 loss to the men of estates, whose rents are almost universally paid in grain ; as well as 
 to the farmers. This obser^-ation led me to think, that if the people generally could 
 be made sensible of their interest, as they are not a little national, it might be possible 
 to work them up to some popular resolutions against the use of run Brandy ; and if 
 that could be brought about, at the same time that it must improve the excise, it 
 might help to give our iurys in general a different turn of thinking from what hitherto 
 they have had touching the running trade in general. 
 
 Possest of this opinion, I became Author, and published, against the meeting of 
 the last Convention of Roval Burrows, the Paper which is enclosed, and seconded 
 that conceit so well, as to procure from that Assembly the Act and Resolution which 
 is printed at the end of the Paper. The resolution was unanimous, the' my Friend 
 Rob. Dundass opposed it ■n-ith his usual Zeal ; but, finding the tide too strong, he 
 submitted, -without a di\"ision. 
 
 The Design was, after a publication in this manner of the sense of the representa- 
 tives of all the Burrows, to bring in each Brugh in particular, and the Gentlemen in 
 the several C.ount)-s, to Resolutions, after a day certain (-Christmas for example), not 
 to use any foreign Spirits ; nor to use any Inn or Tavern while any such are sold ; but 
 to give all assistance ia their power, in their several stations, to the seizing and destroy- 
 ing it, and I still entertain ver)' strong hopes that this may be accomplished ; whjch 
 
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 must necessarily raise the excise on Beer and Ale, and Spirits, some thousand 
 pounds. 
 
 One would have thought that a projeci: of this kind must have been very palatable 
 to the great Man that governs us here ; what he says of it you must know better than 
 I ; but his agents here seem rather to fling cold water upon it : whether that proceeds 
 from its being disliked by their Chiefs, or from it's being a Child of mine, I caimot 
 tell ; only give me leave to tell you that it mortifys me not a little, to see power (at 
 least in the opinion of the people) in the hands that do not employ it for the Publick 
 service, when it calls so loudly for assistance. 
 
 I have set on foot and carryed throw to the purpose above mentioned, a Resolution 
 in the County of IVIidlothian ; the like is a carrpng forward in the neighbouring 
 Countys ; and I am now in my Journey northwards in order to propagate the same 
 spirite over that part of the Kingdom if I can. What effect it may have I cannot tell, 
 because I find myself almost alone in the attempt ; but I hope the design will meet 
 with your approbation ; and that Sir R. will think that, though distant from him, I 
 am not unmindful of his interest, w-hich I take to be more concerned in the fate of 
 our revenues than he is aware of. You will be so good as to explain this matter to 
 him, as far as you think proper ; since, in the enclosed Letter, I do but just refer him 
 to you for information touching this project. 
 
 The intent of the letter which I beg you may deliver to Sir Robert is (pursuant to 
 leave which he gave me at parting), to put him in mind of 2 Articles of the Memo- 
 rial I left with you ; viz' those about the family of Gordon, and the E. of Seafort : 
 it is shame that what w^as promised by the Queen, as well as by Sir Robert, above a 
 Year ago to the Dutchess of Gordon, is not yet done ; and as I must see that Lady 
 very soon, unless I have something to say to her about it, I shall lose all the credite 
 by which I could do any thing good for the publick service in that Neighbourhood : 
 therefor I am verv earnest, that, without loss of time. Sir Robert should settle that 
 article, and let me know what is done. 
 
 As to the request for Seafort, which was a Pension, Sir Robert had some doubts 
 about his success with the King ; and whether he has made any step in it since, I 
 know not ; but there is a circumstance cast up of late, which claims the execution of 
 a promise he made some time agoe, in which I hope there will be less difficult)' : the 
 estate of Seafort owed for several Years few-duns to the Crown ; which now rise to 
 a considerable sum, and will be payable out of the price of the Estate which is sold. 
 A Grant of these to the poor Man, or to any trustee for him, would be a vast relief 
 to him and his Children in their present Circumstances ; and as this takes no Money 
 out of the Treasury, I should flatter myself it may without great difficulty be obtained. 
 Your assisting to help forward this charitable purpose wall be extreamly obliging 
 to me. 
 
 I spoke to you, before I left London, of the appointments of the Clerks of Dele- 
 gates, whose business is now almost at an end. They have served hitherto without 
 any sallary, and the Court who employed them begin to be uneasy. I am the person 
 they dayly worry and teaze about them ; and therfor I must insist with Sir Robert, to 
 make them some reasonable allowance. 
 
 I am frequently entertained with the strongest Pannegiricks immaginable of you, by 
 my worthy friend Co" Charteris : he swears nothing less than a divinity can forgive 
 Injurys so readily, and delight so much in doing good. He flatters me with imputing 
 some part of your good nature to him, to my intercession ; and insists I should return 
 you thanks. My Brother is here with me, and commands me to tell you that fow and 
 fasting he is equally yours. 
 
 Q 2 I return
 
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 I return you thanks for your care of Poor Nh'en, and ot every other thing that con- 
 cerns me. The only further request I have to make is, that you will be so good as 
 pardon the length and ill -wTiting of this Epistle ; and if you can find leisure enough to 
 tell me that you have forgiven me, and how you like the Work that I am about, it will 
 greatly add to my spirites, 
 
 I am most faithfully yours. 
 Perth, 1 1 th August 1730. 
 
 To John Scrope Esq'. 
 
 Xo. CLI. 
 
 The Lord Advocate to Sir Rob' Walpole. 
 
 Sir, Perth, 11'*' August 175c- 
 
 I PROFITE of the allowance you gave me, to WTite to you from this Country 
 touching certain Articles of the Memorandum I left with you when I took my leave. 
 
 I hoped to have heard before this time of the >i'ioGo pension intended tor the 
 Dutchess of Gordon, and in effect promised last year by the Queen. As I go now into 
 that Country, I shall look verv simple, not being able to say any thing certain about 
 it ; and shall be incapable of making that use of his Majesty's Bount)' in that part of 
 the Countr), which, were the pension granted, might be made of it. If the thing 
 succeed, as I hope it will. My Lord Peterborrow is to be acquainted with it, and M' 
 Scroop will let me know of it. The next thing I am to trouble you with is, the re- 
 quest in behalf of the late Earl of Seafort : A Pension, you know, was prayed for ; 
 but now, I am to put you in mind of a thing that you was so good as to promise, some 
 time agoe, and that will perhaps be more easily obtained. The estate is sold by the 
 Barons of Excheq' and the few-dutys (that is. Crown Rents) due out of it have been 
 in arrear for many Years : these now amount to a Sum, and w-ill become payable out 
 of the price of the estate. If the poor Man could have a grant of these from his Ma- 
 , jesty, it would be a great reUef to him and his family : the fevour asked is what the 
 King dayly grants in other Cases to his subjects ; and as it takes from you no money 
 that hitherto you have in possession, I should hope it may be easily obtained. This 
 was your Opinion when I had the honour last to speak to you on the subject ; and 
 what I humbly beg is, that you may take a fit opportimity to move it, that the thing 
 may be done. 
 
 I have given M"^ Scroope a long account of a project I am actually at work on, for 
 improving the Revenue here ; and he will open it to you, . whenever you have leisure 
 to hear it. I do not flatter myself with hopes that you are to give yourself the trouble 
 of letting me have your opinion of my project, or an Answer to the particulars I now 
 write of ; bur if you will be so good as to say a word or two about them to M' Scrope, 
 he will let me know your sentiments, and that will satisfy me. 
 
 Since I left Edin' 1 \isited M' Wade and his Works in the Highlands. He goes on 
 with his usual diligence and discretion, and caimot fail of doing immense Ser\ice to 
 the King and to this Country. 
 
 My Brother, who is now with me, and who Drinks & Swears as much as ever for 
 you, insists that I assure you of his service. I beg pardon for the length of this Letter, 
 and take leave of you, with assuring you, that you wrong me greatly if you do not 
 believe me to be, very warmly, Your most taithfull and most humble Serv'. 
 
 To Sir Robert Walpole. 
 
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 No. CLII. 
 
 M' Scrope to the Lord Advocate. 
 My Dear Lord, Whitehall, 17 Sep' 1730. 
 
 I HAVE the honour of yours of the 29"' of last month, with one by the same 
 Post from yo' Bro' w''' I shew'd to S' R. Walpole ; at w"'' he laugh'd, & said he would 
 remember w' his old friend wrote, & take care nothing should be done y' would be dis- 
 agreeable to him. He had heard nothing of the Inquiry you hint at ; and treated it 
 in a manner y' you would have been pleased with, had you been present. The Day 
 before I went to Bristol I had another Lfe from you, with one inclosed to S' Rob' 8c 
 he promised to take care of yo' Commands ; but he living for the most part at 
 Windsor, I have not had an Opportunity of talking so fully with him as I could wish. 
 I can't find any thing in the mem'''"' you was pleased to leave with me relating to the 
 Family of Gordon, or the E. of Seaforth, If you please to send me a Draft of a sig- 
 nature for granting what you propose for the E. S' Rob' has promised to get it dis- 
 patched, &: to do what he can for the Dutchess. 
 
 Being just return'd from Bristol, 5c a fortnight's absence from my Business putung 
 me into a little disorder, I hope you will pardon my enlai'ging at this time ; & y' you 
 will make my excuse to the Laird of Coloden for my not answering of his till mv 
 spirits are a little more composed. 
 
 I am with perfed Esteem, • - ' 
 
 My Dear Lord, 
 Lord Advocate. Yo' most Obedient humble Serv', 
 
 - . J. SCROPE. 
 
 No. CLIII. 
 
 Lord Lovat to M' John Forbes. 
 My Dear Laird of Culodin, 
 
 I RECEIVED this day w-' great pleasure y*" honour of your letter of y'' ig"" Inst. 
 and I am exceedingly rejoiced y' you are in perfect health : May you be many a merry 
 Christmas and New year so ! 
 
 I give you, dear Culodin, ten thousand thanks for your concern and good wishes 
 towards me ; it is what I ever did and will expeft from such a stedfast friend as you, 
 who put your life in hasard for me when I was in my greatest distress ; and ever sincje 
 did appeal- my best friend, whenever any essential occasion presented itself. I do 
 assure you, y' I have as gratful a sense of those frdships as I had the minute I received 
 them, and I shall publish while I live y" gratitude I owe to the Laird of Culodin. It 
 was full of those sentiments y' I wrot a long letter to you this day se'night and sent it 
 north by Castle Ladder's, and bid him give it in your own hands ; the essential contents 
 of it were to assur you of my constant gratitude and respect, and to give you an Ac- 
 count of my present situation, and to ask your kind assistance as I always use to do, 
 y' you would be so good as to endeavour to know, by y^ Laird ofM'Leod, whether 
 the infatuat familv of Fraserdale are resolved, or not, to agree really and finally ; for 
 y' B', my L" Advocat, who takes full burden on himself for me, says, y' they are such 
 mad fools y' he can make nothing of them ; however, he will put y' thorn in their 
 side, and leave them excuseless befor God and Man. If you can bring this about by 
 y^ Laird of M'^Leod's means, who only can press them to it, you secure y" Estate of 
 Lovat to Simon's Beams, and to Brig. Grant's nevews. I need fay no more ; I am ■ 
 
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 convinced you will do •what you can to fave a family and Kindred y= is yours more than 
 anv I know on earth. As to those Scrahglass Rogues, if you knew y' malicious and 
 insolent affronts they put upon me, you would not ask any favour for them. INIy L"^ 
 Advocate knows it, and was very warm for transporting them if they did not volim- 
 tarilv list for your Cusin Arthur ; and if it had cost me .^'"500 I had got them trans- 
 ported ; but if they have voluntarly inlisted themselves for ^r Forbes, I am ver^- well 
 pleased : I shall send them to him whout any expence in keeping of them ; for I will 
 send immediately orders to carry them south w^ a guard. There is a Captain here of 
 Arthur's Reg= who will receave them and deliver them to Arthur ; and I'll send him 
 other two Camerons y' are in your prison, tall fellows ; and five such good men will do 
 him more ser^-ice now y' the Dutch expect a war, than thirt\- men next season. I have 
 written to mv fd M- Baillie v" Town Clerk about this, who will manadge v" affair for 
 me, and for y' Service of your Cusin. I truly rather give a Crown a day out of my 
 pocket to mantain them a twelve month at Inverness, than to admit them to bail. It 
 is but a new trick of my enemies to insult me : for if thev were once at hberrv, no bail 
 would ever eet them back ; but thev would offer vou for v' Cusin's use some little 
 nasty thieves y' they would be rid of, and would be of no service to Arthur ; but those 
 are handsome fello^vs, and they are too happy if thev come off for going to Holland. 
 I therfore beg you may order them to be well secured till I send for them ; and be so 
 just as to believe y' I am, while there is blood in mv bodr, w' great affection & Respect, 
 
 IVIy Dear Laird of Culodin, 
 Edin" 25"° Dec' 7 " • Your most faithful Slave, 
 
 - 1730. J ■ LOVAT. 
 
 " ' " . Xo. CUV. 
 
 Lord Lo\'at to M"^ John Forbes. 
 
 My Dear Laird of Culodin, 
 
 1 BEGAN the New Year w' my L* Advocat, and was truly fiidled drinking your 
 health, and y^ healths of our frds in the north. Yotu- brother, who has been work- 
 ing aU he could for me this Winter, has at last come to a final resolution : he offers 
 Fraserdale's family £6zoo. sterl. from me, and .^"2000. more from himself, if they 
 come into his measures ; upon condition, y' if they accept y* offer in a month's tvme, 
 he will oblidge me to adhere to it ; and if thev do not accept, he has declared to them y' 
 they never will have it again ; but y' he will do all y' in him lays to overtium all y' 
 rights y' ever they had to the Estate of Lo\-at from y<= foxmdation ; and my L'^ Advocat 
 will find no great difficulty in y' ; for I have consulted it fully, and am going on w ' all 
 vigour to put it in full execution. 
 
 I am very much surprised to hear firom several of my frds, v" their is a design to 
 a&ont me, and hurt my reputation and interest, bv letting those Straglass villans at 
 liberty who did insult me in the most attrocious maner ; but I will not belive an 
 Angel from Heaven, y' my Worthy and Constant friend John Forbes of Culodin would, 
 for any consideration, directiy or indirecdv, assist any Chisolm on earth to insult or affront 
 me in y' persons of those Villans ; espedallv since y^ only thing y" keep'd me from send- 
 ing them to America was my eagerness to serve your cusin-german Arthur Forbes ; so 
 I beg of you. Dear Culodin, to give strick orders y' those fellows do not make their 
 escapes till I order a party to bring them up here at mv own expence, y- thev may be 
 sent to Arthur, w^ other two Camerons, y' are in your Tolbooth, bv a Cap' of his 
 Regiment who is in this Town. — My L- Marq' of Lothian is to be y^ Peer in my L'* 
 
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 Deloraine's place ; some of my frets thought y" this Avas a good occasion for my "^reat 
 frits to fix my family and Peerage ; but I must have patience. Sir Rob. Rich, y' frd, 
 gets Deloraine's horse, and Coll. Cathcart gets Rich's dragoons, and Coll. Hand- 
 grave gets Cathcart's Regiment. Brigad' de Bourgay comes dowoi in Bavcll's place. 
 All y'' members are going up fast, and they expect a hot battle against y' frd Sir Rob. 
 at the Sitting ; but I hope he will defeat his enemys. I wish you perfect health in this 
 new year, and in many more. I drink a bumper to it almost every day of mv Life ; 
 and I am w" a most sincere Affection and respect, my Dear Laird of Culodin, 
 . . , Your own old Slave, 
 
 Edin' 5"" January 1 73 1. LOVAT. 
 
 . No. CLV. 
 
 Lord Lovat to M' John Forbes. . • " 
 
 My Dear Laird of Cullodin, 
 
 I HAD the honour of your letter of y" 15"', with the Attestation enclosed in it, 
 but two dayes after the Post returned for Inverness. I give vou, D' Sir, a thousand 
 thanks for your frdly and affectionat expressions towards me and my Children ; It is 
 realy what I shall alwayes expect from my dear John Forbes, of Culodin, who sup- 
 ported my Interest, and stood up for me, even in the t}'me of mv most desperat cir- 
 cumstances ; and I bless God, I cannot accuse myself of ingradtude ; for I can freely 
 declare, y" I never had the least occasion to serve your interest, or any y' was con- 
 cerned in you, but I run to serve you w' as much zeal and cheerfulness as I would do 
 my o\^Ti family ; so, dear John, their is no love lost ; and as I am most sensible of the 
 essential services you have done me both in Scotland and England, on signal occa- 
 sions ; so you may assure yourself that there is not a Forbes of your family, except 
 your brother, who loves your person more affectionatly, nor none of them would ventur 
 their blood sooner to serve you than I would do while I have courage and breath. — 
 After what I have said, I take the freedom to tell you, y' I am convinced, if vou know 
 really the unworthy manner in which I have been insulted by .the Chisolms, after 
 doing the most essential services to the Chisolm and to his family, you would as soon 
 offer to throw me from the Bridge in the River of Ness, as you would desire me to 
 consent to put those villans at libert)', who beat and insulted some of mv men and 
 reladons. I do assur you. Dear Culodin, the whole design is to affront me in setting 
 those villans at liberty, and hope y' you never will go into y ; for it is but highly just 
 y' they should willingly make a Campagne or two in Holand, since I save them on y' 
 account from transportation ; and those fellows w' the t\vo Camerons y' I have in your 
 prison will be such a good complement for honest Arthur, y' I hope it may contribut 
 to get him a company now y' the Dutch are going to raise ten thousand men of addi- 
 tional troops ; and I shall take care y' they will not be expensive to Arthur till they 
 are in Holand, and then they will be worth themselves. Your Cusin Hughy is to let 
 me know this week, when the Cap' of Arthur's Reg' goes off, or sends over his men ; 
 and then I'll send an order to carry those fellows and the Camerons w' a guard of the 
 forces to this place, and deliver them myself to y' Cap' for my Dear Arthur's use ; and 
 I most humbly intreat for your assistance and authority in this affair, since sincerely 
 my honour is concerned in it. I give you joy for dear Hughy's being assessor in 
 Tom Erskine's place. I do assur you, that I wrought like a riger for Hughy, and my 
 labour was not useless, nor in vain. Provost Lindsay acted Hke your brother in the 
 affair. I saw a letter of my L"* Advocat's yesterday, y' says y' all y"' stories against y* 
 
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 ministry vanished like smoak, and y' fird Sir Rob. triotnphes ; so drink his health as I 
 do your's lust now in a bumper ; and I am, w' a most ancere zeal & most affecdonat 
 Respect, Dear Sir, 
 
 Your most obed', most obliged, and most humble Ser\', 
 
 Edin; - '" LOVAT. 
 
 29'" Januars" 1 73 1 . 
 
 P. S. Norvrithstanding y' all that hears it, and my L° Roistown himself, approves 
 much of v^ great and generous offer y' brother, mv Lord Advocat, made to Fraser- 
 dale's family in his owu name iSc mine, to put an end to all difference, yet I am told 
 y' Fraserdale's so high and mighty y' he will not hear of it ; however I am exo- 
 nered, and so is my L'^ Advocate, who will soon let them know, as he said to my 
 Lord Roisto-mi, v' thev used him ill as well as me, and v' he never would hereafter 
 allow me to make them any offers. While MacLeod keeps the one & Sir George 
 Stewart the other at rack and manger, they never think of their family or children. 
 I have done my part. 
 
 Adieu. 
 
 No. CLM. 
 
 Sir Tho' Pringle to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 Dear Dimcan, 
 
 I SEND you inclosed the inscriprion, which, upon rexising, I caimot alter, and 
 yet am not thoroughly well pleased with it. Tho' we are got out of the Gothick taste 
 in most other things, yet I think we continue in it as to inscriprions ; & it was only in 
 comph-ance to the pre%"ai1ing taste that I writ it ; for I cannot help liking the old plain 
 Roman wav ; in which it was sufficient to tell the person's name S: character in plain 
 prose ; & anv elogium after it, was in Verse. If mine do not please, I should be sorry 
 if thev pitched upon that one published in M' Pope's Name : the Latin is so obscure, 
 that it mav ver}" well pass for an senigma ; & tho' the English disrich is ver)- pretty, 
 yet I would rather see it shine in a Collection of Epigrams than on S'" Isaac's monmnent. 
 By the bv, if they are not pleased ^"ith mine, I should not like to read it in the 
 Newspapers, especially with my name at it. I am surprised that neither Eblley nor 
 D" Frend have trj-ed dieir hand on that subject : especiallv the last ; of whom I have 
 seen several good performances of that kind, tho' they are generally too prolix. 
 
 I wrott to M' Logan, of Dunbar, as I told you I would do, both in your name & 
 mine, about his L^ncle M" Cimningham's papers ; & I have since had an evening's 
 conversation with him ; the sum of which was, that his L^ncle has not left one single 
 scrape of any thing ready for the press, or even in any tolerable order. His notes on 
 Horace are written on the Margin of six Voliunes ; whereof three are the text of 
 Horace, as he published it ; and the other three are his animadversions on Bentley. 
 The use of all these, I am promised against next week : the Lord have mercy on the 
 patients till I have done with them 1 His notes on Phaedrus are likewise only on the 
 m^-rgLns of two Editions of Phjedrus ; but he thinks them fuller than the others, & is 
 talking of gi^^ng them to M' Ruddiman, if he will be at pains to putt them in 
 order & publish them. He has marginal notes upon several other authors ; as Vrrgil, 
 Statius, Ouintillian, Cicero ; anv of which he offers to send me after I have 3one 
 \vith Horace. His Notes on the Corpus are larger than any of the rest, & not -RTitt 
 on the margin, as the rest. His Copy of the Corpus is interleaved with clean paper ; 
 
 so
 
 PDIXODEN TAPERS. 121 
 
 SO that there is a leaf of written notes, for every printed leaf. He told mc, the Advo- 
 cat's Library has applyed to him to have it ; but he has given the curators no answer 
 as \et, nor did he seem determined when he spoke to me. 
 
 What will surprise you most is, that he has left nothing of his scheme of the 
 Christian religion. M' Logan told me, he had inquired at him about it when he was 
 in his perfect senses ; but that he declared to him that he had never putt it in 
 wTiting, & that he would didate it to him any day, for he had it all in his head, & that 
 it could be contain'd in four or five sheets of paper ; however, every day that Logan 
 press'd him to do it, he found always some reason for shifting it, till he was incapable 
 of doing any thing. 
 
 I congratulate you on your successfull experiment of Sobriety : your irregular 
 meals may do harm ; but even when you putt Dinner & Supper together, it will be 
 enough to change your Rule of 3 to 4. 
 
 1 am sorry for poor Will. Aikman. If he gives too much way to his Melancholy, 
 he may cast himself so far back in the bad season as not to reach the good. Pray let 
 me have some polls [politics] in your next. I hear, all go's swimmingly with the Go- 
 vernor, & that he is on the point of surmounting all difficulties. 
 
 I hope you will keep a medal of S' Isaac's for me. 
 
 Your's, , T. P. 
 
 Ed', Jan' 30, 1 73 1. • '■ ' ' .! 
 
 No. CLVII. 
 
 Sir Tho' Pringle to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 Dear Duncan, 
 
 I SENT you a long letter last post, with S' Isaac's inscription ; but I could not help 
 trying to mend it next morning ; efpecially the line I liked worst ; in the place of which 
 I have put two, & upon that account transposed another ; w hich is all the alteration in the 
 inclosed. I am very fond of the Alteration (however little you think of it), as well on 
 account of the phrase, as that it expresses better the nature of the Newtonian Philosophy 
 in opposition to any other. If the inscription is thought too long, or is really too 
 long for the space on the Monument, I think the lines I have inclosed betwixt 
 these [ ] may be omitted. I have gott two Volumes of Horace, with Cunningham's 
 marginal Notes ; but the hand is so bad, & the lines so closs on one another, that I 
 have difficulty to make sense of them, tho' I perceive no sigls, or secret marks, 
 among them. However, I design to give true pains, & you will see probably the fruit 
 of my labours when you return. 
 
 Your's, . . T- • P' 
 
 Ed'. Feb. 2, 1 73 1. 
 
 H. S. E. ... 
 
 Isaacus Neutonus 
 
 Seculi gentisque suss, decus, 
 
 Oui fida experimentorum ope. 
 
 Missis inanibus conjecturis, ' ' 
 
 Natura; reseravit arcana Legesque fixit 
 
 Dia Mathesi praferente facem : 
 
 Jactisque inconcussis Philosophia; fundamentis 
 
 Princeps Philosophorum merito cluet. 
 
 [[Ouod adyta ccelorum penetralia 
 
 Menti patent humanse, 
 
 II . , Quod
 
 124 , . CULLODEK PAPERS. 
 
 V^ 
 
 i; 
 
 Quod lucida tela diei 
 
 novo refulgent lumine. 
 
 Quod severiore calculo 
 
 veritatis indagantur fontes, 
 
 Quod ultimorum caligo temporum 
 
 felici dissipatur jubare, 
 
 Viro incomparabili 
 Acceptum referat grata posteritas.3 
 
 Dh'inum ingenium ^ ■ 
 
 jequavit aniini candor, 
 
 Superavit modestia. > 
 
 Mortal: vix ut fas sit propius attingere superos. 
 Mortalem fuisse hoc, eheu 1 testatur marmor. 
 VLxit annis LXXXIV. mensib. II. dieb. XXIII. 
 Obiit XII. Kalend. April. A.C.N. MDCCXXVn. 
 
 No. CLVIII. 
 
 Lord Lovat to M' John Forbes. 
 
 bear Sir, 
 
 I TRULY long to know how vou are after rour last week*s cavalcade. I ani 
 afraid y' your kind heart to your friends will at last send f youj to the other "World j 
 and tho* I love y' B' Duncan very well, yet I sincerely declare I never wish or desire 
 to see any other Laird of Culodin than my Dear John Forbes, who was always my 
 warm and stedfast friend sine ever I had any use for a frd ; for which I shall be thank- 
 ful while their is breath in me. My beams are ver)- well, and will be your humble ser- 
 vants. I am much indisposed sine I saw you at y' own house ; many marks apear y' 
 shew y' the tabernacle is failing ; the teeth are gone ; and now the cold has so seiz'd my 
 head, y' I am almost deaf w' a pain in my ears ; those are so many sotmds of trom- 
 pette y' call me to another world, for which you and I are hardlv well prepared ; but 
 I have a sort of advantage of you ; for if I can but dy w' a little of my old French 
 belief, I'll get y^ Legions of Saints to pray for me ; while you will only get a number 
 of drunken fellows, and the Innkeepers and tapister Lasses of Inverness, and M' 
 M'Bean, y* holy man, &c. I beg you let me know what accounts you have of my 
 dear Duncan's health ; I hope he will not cost you and me any more teares, which 
 his first sickness made us shed very bitterly together. I am heartily glad y'' you saw 
 "WilUe BailUe, your worthy good frd"s son, behave so well ; it -will be worthy of you 
 to give him all maner of protection and encouragement. Whether sick or heal, I ever 
 am w' an unalterable Affection & Respect, 
 
 My dear Laird of Culodin, 
 
 Beaufort, lo'*' April Your most faithfull Slave, 
 
 1 73 1. LOVAT. 
 
 P. S. I take the freedom to send you some tarmichens, and a black cock y' I got 
 last night from Glenstrafain, where you have mounted the highest hills as cleverly as 
 any Scotchman ever did. Adieu. 
 
 No. CLIX.
 
 CULLODEX PAPERS. I2j 
 
 Xo.CLIX. 
 
 Lord Lovat to Mr. John Forbes. 
 
 My Dear Laird of CuUodin, 
 
 I AM as much vex'd as any man alive at the escape of y' murdering villan v' 
 stab'd y' nevew and my cusin ; and if the Jailor was my relation, I would concur to 
 send him to the Plantations ; for he must have plainly contrived and efFecluat his 
 escape, and no doubt he has been sufficiently bribed for it ; for which he should suffer. 
 It is prett}^ lucky y" just now, as I received your letter, I have two of my trusr\^ Ser- 
 jeants w' me ; Alex. Erchet's son, and William Fraser, son to Dulcraig. I send them 
 this minute to march all night, the one by Straobench, and the other by Glenmoris- 
 town ; so y' if he goes either of those ways, they wll have a fair chance to seize him. 
 1 order all my Company y" are to the Westward to join them ; and I command to 
 make the same dihgence as if my Life depended on it ; and I know they will be faithful 
 and actif. But my plain opinion is, that he will, when it's dark this night, cross Ness 
 about Borlum or Delifour, and go straight on to Tullidanside, where he is safe ; for 
 none in y' country \vill lay hands upon him, except Col' Grant or Capt. George met 
 him in the teeth. I tell what I truly think, because I would give anv thing to have y*" 
 villan seized and punished. If lam able to ride, I am to meet Col. Grant on business 
 of our Company's at Dalrachnys on Wednesday night ; and you may belive I'll know 
 if he has gone to y' Country ; and I -nnll wait of you on Tuesday afternoon at Culodin. 
 But I am so very much indisposed now, y' I am afraid I will not be able to keep my 
 appointment with Col. Grant. You may be sure, D' Culodin, y' what vexes you vexes 
 me, tho' a Fraser was not at all concerned in the matter ; and I \\ill always make your 
 quarrel my own ; for I am, while there is breath in me, w' much Love (Sc Respect, 
 
 My dear Laird of Culodin, 
 Beaufort, 25'" April '^ Your most faithful Slave, 
 
 1 73 1. — seven at night, f LO\'AT. 
 
 No. CLX. 
 
 M' Delafaye to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 My Dear Lord, Whitehall, July Io'^ 1732. 
 
 YO UR most obliging Letter of the 5*^ instant was brought me Yesterdav by a 
 fi)Tng pacquet. Expressions of kindness from so valuable a friend are a cordial to one 
 who, in the midst of a crowd, leads y' Life of a hermit ; a stranger to the world, & 
 y^ ways of it. 
 
 Having an Opportunit)' of sending to Claremont, I have got a further reprieve for 
 Joseph Hume, w'"" I send by fl)"ing pacquet ; & lest y' former reference should be lost, 
 I will desire of my Lord Duke of Newcastle to sign a duplicate of it, & send it you 
 by y post. This is'y' second rime that the man's life has been in danger, by y* want 
 of attention of those who solicit for him ; for it is not y^ business of y* Officer here, nor 
 indeed could any Officer watch the progress of ever\- affaire that passes thro' their 
 hands into those of other people. Pray, in such a case as this, where circumstances 
 unforeseen and meerly accidental happen, could not y' Lords of justiciary take upon 
 tnem to prolong a reprieve ? I ask purely for information : for as to y' present business, 
 your Compassion &; humanirj- has secured y" Man once more. The continuarion of y' 
 reprieve v>-ill come soon enough. 
 
 n 2 Your
 
 124 CULLODEN PAPERS. 
 
 Your Lop will have seen from y^ News, that the Spaniards are certainly sailed for 
 Oran ; the infidels will have a powerful Auxiliary in the heat of the Season and y' 
 Climate. 
 
 By our Letters from Hano\'er, the King is in good health, & well pleased ; the 
 Emperor has as good as finished y' AQair of INIecklembourg intirely to his Ma'"' 
 satisfaction, and most courteous 6c affectionate Letters have past between them 
 upon it. That of Holsteyn also is adjusted, by a treaty between y^ Emperor, y'' 
 Czarina, & y^ King of Denmark, without our being concerned ; by which we have 
 y^ Advantage of having got rid of the Guaranty of Sleswick to y' Danes, %nthout con- 
 tributing towards y" equivalent to y^ D. of Holsteyn ; and as this treat)- contains mutual 
 Guarantvs of possessions, we could not have come into that part ot it without disobliging 
 the Sweedes ; who tho' they have no near prospect of recovering what y- Musco\-ites 
 have got from them, yet are not very thankful!, I believe, to those who guaranty y" 
 possession of it to Russia. 
 
 As to domestic Occurrences, we have none that I know of, worth troubling your 
 Lop ; so I shall only add most sincere professions of the hearty Respect with which 
 I am, 
 
 My dear Lord, " • 
 
 Your Lops most humble and most obedient Servant, 
 
 CH. DELAFAYE. 
 
 Xo.CLXI. 
 
 - ' _ ' The Lord Advocate to M' Scrope. 
 
 D'Sir, Edin' 8'" August 1732. 
 
 MY Business being over in this place, I take my journey northward to-dav, 
 intending to find quiet for a few weeks, if possible. Every thing in this Countrs" is 
 quiet, aiid would go well on, if those whose Business it is to promote the publick good, 
 would not obstruckt it. What I mean particularly by this reflexion, Bowles & Dodswell, 
 who are now on the road, vnll explain to you. It surely would provoke anv man 
 living, as it did me, to see the last day of our term in Exchequer. The effect of every 
 verdict we recovered for the Crown, during the whole term (and we recovered 
 verdicts in everv Cause we tryed, except two) stopt ; upon the triflingest pretences, 
 that false popularity and want of sense could suggest ; if some remedy is not found for 
 tliis evil, we must shut up shop. It's pity that when we have argued the Jury's out of 
 their mistaken notions of popularit)-, the behariour of the Court should give any handle 
 to their relapsing. You know, Sir, it has for some years been my opinion, that 
 under the favour of the fondness the Coxmtrv is possest with for their Improvements and 
 Manufactures, the jury s, and indeed the justices of peace, and other magistrates, may 
 receive a favourable turn towards the revenue, out of the surplus whereof the funds 
 for their improvements arise ; and you may remember, that towards propagating this 
 favourable Opinion in the Country, I proposed to Sir Robert and to you, before I left 
 London, that as the Country is interested in the surplus of the Malt duty, a general 
 Surveyor should be appointed for the Malt, to be recommended by the trustees for the 
 Manufactures ; whose business it should be to superintend the OtEcers employed in 
 that service, and who might, by making rounds through the Country, recommend to 
 the people every where the full collection of that duty, and discover to them, by degrees, 
 how important it is to the national improvements, that fraudulent trade be layd aside, 
 and that the revenues of all kinds bear surpluses. How useful so ever I think such an 
 
 Officer
 
 CULLODEN r.vrEns. 125 
 
 Officer might be at this time, yet I should not choose to load the surplus of the Malt 
 Duty with any appointment tor him ; but, as it happens, there is room enough at pre- 
 sent to make a bcginuing, and there soon will be more. In the Year 1726, the Com- 
 missioners named 4 General Supervisors, at a salary of ^'150 each ; and tho', soon 
 after, they began to think them not extreamly useful, yet as they were once employed, 
 and as the men had merite, they were unwilling to discharge them. One of these is 
 dead ; so that his salary may be made use of for the Officer I speak of; and Mr.Dodswell 
 agrees, that when any of the remaining 3 drops, his salary may be added to the appoint- 
 ment of the new Officer, which will make a provision of ^300 per Annum, and 
 sufliciently enable the Gentlemcm I should recommend to do what is expected from him : 
 his name is Archibald Hope, Son to M' Hope of Rankeiter, one of our Trustees, and 
 is a very diligent, sensible young fellow ; from whose Industry and Zeal, I expect very 
 considerable service to the publick. I have prevailed with him to begin at the salary of 
 if 1 50, now vacant; upon assurance that when any of the other three fall, or are 
 better provided, his appointment shall be increased to .^^300. As this is nothing out 
 of the Revenue, I should hope it would meet with no difficulty ; and if you will take 
 the trouble to settle it witli M' Dodswell whilst he is with you, it will be, I think, 
 doing the Revenue and the Country a kindness. 
 
 Ten or twelve days agoe I wrote to Sir Robert Walpole on the subject of the Dutchess 
 of Gordon's business. What I earnestly begged was an answer ; because I soon must 
 see her, and must make a very silly figure if I do not know what to say, after all that 
 has passed on this subject. Hitherto I have had no answer from him, and must therefor 
 in this, as I do in all my other dificultys, apply myself to you ; and entreat, that with 
 your first conveniency you will let me know how that matter stands, and what I am to 
 say. Any commands you have for me, directed to me at P'.din'', will find me wherever 
 I may happen to be. 
 
 I beg your pardon, and with great reason, for giving you the trouble of so long, and 
 so ill wrote a letter ; and your perpetual indulgence encourages me to hope for it. 
 
 I am most faithtullv, &c. 
 
 . Xo. CLXII. - . 
 
 ]Vr Henry Home (afterwards L* Karnes) to the Lord Advocate. 
 My Lord, , .. ,. 
 
 I ESTEEM it my duty to acquaint your Lordship, that I have it in View (o 
 stand as a Candidat for the Professorship of Roman Law, now vacant by the death 
 of M' Craig. 
 
 As 1 have it at heart, by this application, to contribute my small mite towards the 
 service of my Country, I shall hope your Lordship's interest only in case you reckon 
 me qualified ; and yet further, as your Lordship stands justly possessed of the most 
 amiable Character of disinterestedness, as well in publick as in private life, with great 
 alacrity and submission shall I be ready to throw up my pretensions the moment you 
 tell me the office may better be supplied by another. Believe me, my Lord, these are 
 not words of course ; they are the real sentiments and resolution of 
 
 Ed', ") Your faithful and devoted Servant, 
 
 a4Aug= 1732.1 HENRY HOME. 
 
 No. CLXIIl.
 
 136 CULLODEX PAPER5. 
 
 . • Xo.CLXIlI. 
 
 M' Hew Diilrrmple ro the Lord Ad%ocate. 
 
 My dear Dunc:^^, Elphinston, Aug' 26, 1732. 
 
 I WAS sorry to hear of your Riotous Joumev northward. Remember your 
 flannels and SAsing ; and if you will not for voux . give over such pranks, pray 
 
 at least be so complisant as to avoid them for v' s^.. . ; :. good manv folks, mvseli in 
 particular, who languish when they see you doing yeurseif so much harm. I seldom 
 have been troublesome to you in asking favours for mvseli^ or any other body ; tho' 
 now I must beg a favour of you, which I hope vou'll be so good as to gram me. You 
 know that the Professor of Law's Chair in the CoUege of Edinb" is now vacant, & the 
 method how that is supphed. The facult)' of Advocate's Leet two, and the Town 
 Goundll choose one to fill it out of that leet. There are two Gentlemen who I 
 hope have the honour to be known to you ; M' Will. DuST, and M' Will. Brodie, 
 Advocates : whom our friend the Lord Rresid- recomme: me as lit persons to 
 
 be put in that leet, and for whom I now presume to as^^ . . >-: patronage. I always 
 placed a ?reat value upon vour frieidship, and need not, I am sure, multiply words, 
 nor depar he stile of afriend, to make protestations in another wav of mv sincerirj' 
 
 in being .^ ^. ^ : dl that, betneen us, b quite well understood : but if vou are at Uberty 
 to give vour Countenance ror these Gentlemen, it will give me great jov, because it will 
 be of the last con; .. I now take again the libenv to recommend vourself 
 
 to vourself, i- be; ^: .^_ :^ l:-c more moderate in vour riots; which more than anv 
 thing, as the best for you, isill oblige, 
 
 Mv Dear Duncan, 
 -«■ Yours, 
 
 HEW D.ILRYMPLE. 
 
 Xo. CLXIV. 
 
 The Laird of ColIodKi to John Forbes, the President's Son, dated Inverness, 
 
 = 3- Sept% 1732. 
 Dear Nephew, 
 
 I AJNI very glad to f^Tid from your own hand, that vou are in L^"fe, after the bad 
 accoxmts I had of you some months agoe. At the same rvme, I wonder vou did not 
 write me oftener ; however, I expect vou'U mend this fault in t^Tne coming. 
 
 As the greatest happiness of mv h*fe now, My dear Johnie, depends on the hopes 
 I have of your comeing home an honest man and a prett\- fellow, I dare not doubt but 
 you have improved vour tvme, since abroad," to the best adA'antage ; and therefore I 
 will insist with ycur father to comply with what vou desire, and also to send vou proper 
 directions, that when you com.e home, vou mav not be idle. Prav lett me hear often 
 from you, and believe that I vnh doe zi\ in mv power to m.ake you easie. Give my 
 ser\ice to M' ^lurdoch. 
 
 I am. Dear Jok, 
 
 Your affectionate Uncle, 
 
 JO. FORBES. 
 
 No. CLXV.
 
 CULLODEN PAPERS. 127 
 
 No. CLXV. 
 
 The Lord Advocate to M' Murdoch. 
 
 Sir, Bunchrevv, 8"' October 1732. 
 
 WHEN I sent John into the south of Fiance, you know it was my intention he 
 should pass some years there ; partly that he might form his manners and habits in a 
 place where example giVes less temptation to vicious ones, and where he might have 
 some encouragement to study ; and partly to keep him out of this most corrupt corner 
 of the world til! those habits were put on, and his mind grown somewhat firmer by age. 
 But this intention was in some degree traversed by his impatience to see Italy ; which, 
 tho' I did not contradict (because I know what fruit that commonly produces), I did 
 not approve of; and he is now returned to Geneva, where a resolution must be taken 
 what further is to be done. 
 
 If my original purpose can yet in any degree be executed ; it after he has seen Italy, 
 and I presume reckons himself a fine travelled Gentleman, he can chearfully submit to 
 retire for some time to any convenient place in France, Swiss, or Germany, to improve 
 himself there, and grow a little older, at less expence, and with smaller temptation to 
 folly, than he would meet with in Paris or London, I shall be very well pleased ; but if 
 he is reluctant to this, and has a violent itch to come home, I shall probably submit to 
 that upon my part, and he may make Paris and London his way ; but as a traveller 
 only, and not to reside there : the good that is to be had at either of those places I know 
 pretty well, and the price of it. 
 
 By what 1 now say, and formerly have often told you, you see my strong byass is, to 
 his remaining abroad some [time] longer, if it may be done at reasonable charge, and 
 with tolerable hopes of his not doing harm rather than good, by hiding himself a little 
 beyond seas ; and my reason for this is, the imminent danger I see him in of being 
 undone, if he is to make this part of the world his home without being well fortifyed 
 against foily. But as I am intirely unacquainted with his present turn of mind, and 
 ignorant of his byass and inclinations, as well as of what Change to the better or 
 worse time and observation may have made on him, I must insist with you, that, 
 without any reserve, you do report to me your real opinion of him, that I may 
 be enabled to determine what is fittest to be done with him. And, that your 
 return may answer as near as may be my views, I desire to be resolved in the 
 following particulars : 
 
 i". Is his understanding and Capacity to comprehend, the same as when we parted ; 
 or is it in any degree improved, and how far ? 
 
 2^. Is his Application and Attention to learning or thinking, to any or all kinds, the 
 same ; or is it mended in any, and in what, degree ? 
 
 3''. Has he pursued any study, and what ? By study, I mean learned Amusement 
 only. Did he read willingly, so as to find entertainment in it ; or by compulsion, and 
 from compliance ; and does not reading produce any fruit in his conversation ? 
 
 4"". Has he made any discreet Observations of what he has hitherto heard and seen ; 
 are his Views at all improved by them ? 
 
 5"'. Has he got so much rehsh of reading. Reflexion, or study of any kind, that he 
 can entertain himself agreeably alone ; or must he, to kill time, run into Company, 
 diversion, and folly ? 
 
 6"'. What is his most favorite pursuit ; which the scenes in which he discovers the 
 greatest satisfaction and sense of happiness ? 
 
 . - . 7'^ Does
 
 128 ' ~ CULLODEN PAPFHS. 
 
 7"". Does he delight in Company, and of what sort ; does he incline to show in 
 Company, and on what subjects ; is he given to telling of Stories ; does he boast ; or 
 is he usually the subject of his own stor)- ? 
 
 8*. Does he love eating and drinking, so as to frequent Company that are given to 
 these things ; is he able to bear drink when he sets himself to it ; whether is excess or 
 sobriet\' his Choise ? 
 
 g^. Whether is his disposition to be a good or bad husband of his money ; does he 
 show any inclination to plav ? 
 
 I o'^. Does he conduct himself with decency and discretion in Company, and in his 
 way of hving with his acquaintance ? 
 
 1 1 "". Is his prudence such, that you think he may be safely trusted with the 
 Government of himself, where temptations to vanit)- or riot may irequently come 
 across him ? 
 
 These are Questions wliich, doubtless, vou can answer ; and as the}' are put by one 
 who desires to be resolved only for his service,' and who m.ust be resolved in them 
 before he can prudently determine what to do with him for his further benente, I must 
 expect a particular and candid Answer ; together with such other circimistances as may 
 lead me to form a just idea of my son, if they do not come within the Resolution of the 
 presvse questions I have put to you. 
 
 Wherever this finds vou, it is my desire that you remain there, or in the Neigh- 
 bourhood, untill, upon hearing from you, I may be enabled to give further directions 
 for your conduct. 
 
 If you caimot hide this Letter from John, it may show him tliat my doubts and fears 
 about him are great ; but then it must also show him, that mv afiection and regard for 
 him is great in proportion. 
 
 As to yourself, Dear P., tho' my \-iews have not been pvmctually followed, yet 1 
 impute that to accidents of different kinds, and not to you. I am ver)- sensible of 
 my obligations to you, and shall lav hold of all proper occasions to answer and discharge 
 them. I am ver)' sincerely your friend and humble ser^', 
 
 DUN. FORBES. 
 
 Note. — Tliis Letter seems a very v.f:VL adapted one for the purpose intended ; and any appearance of 
 distmat in hi» son may be well attributed to parental ansiety. 
 
 ^ No. CLXVI. 
 
 M" MacLeod to the Laird of CuUoden, dated Dunvegan, Dec' 19'', 1732. 
 
 Mv dear John, 
 
 THIS evening, about 5, I gott yours. You'll se.e, by the date, your express has 
 not been slow. 
 
 I am very glad to see your quondam friends have appeared in their proper colours. 
 My surprise is, how the Laird of Grant can ask the vote of a real Baron, after 
 endeavouring to enslave them. Anie that will give it him (that's not dependant) ought 
 to be m.arked properlv for the use of posterit)-. 
 
 I'm sorrv Sanders Baillie should have the least ailment when he must imdertake a high- 
 land Jourrue. I've named him the day & materials he should meet me w- att Glenelg. 
 What do vou mean, to ask if I'm to make Barons ? I own its against the grain w'- me ; 
 but necessity has no law ; Sc every one of our shyre that won't on this occasion exert 
 
 himself, may he be for ever p d on by all his neighbours. 
 
 2t I won't
 
 COLLODEN PAI'EIIS. 
 
 1 29 
 
 I won't repeat what I spoke to you last Hairest, about getting the Custom house of 
 Hornwa brought to Glcnelg ; but I tell you, that in spite of me a deal of Brandy is 
 run over this Hand and neighbourhood, w" I assure you vexes me ; & to shew my 
 good inclination for the quick sale of Ferintosh, procure in the mean time (v/' I'm 
 informed can be got) a Warrant from the Commissioners of the Customs to me, & 
 w horn I appoint, to seize Vessels w' Counterband goods anie where about Sky or 
 Glenelg ; &: I'll v/arrant you ane effectual stop shall be putt to tliat mischievous trade ; 
 & wout it, I can do little. 
 
 Nota. The people I employ will expect the same advantages by seisures that Com- 
 missioned officers have. The word in this house for the time is, Bumper to CuUoden 
 & his Clans. When I do not, to the utmost of my power, assist toothless John Forbes 
 may I be incapable of serving his 
 
 NORWAND MAC LEOD. 
 
 No. CLXVII. 
 
 Lord Lovat to Mr. John Forbes. 
 
 My Dear Laird of Culodin, - ' 
 
 I HAVE been very ill this last night ; and my L-" Advocat did me y' honour to 
 come and see me this morning, and stay an hour w' me. He told me odd stories of 
 those he has most obliged ; I likewise let him see something y' did surprise him, which 
 he bid me tell you at meeting, since it cannot be writ, for reasons. Duncan has 
 directed me how to writ my answer to my Cusin M'Leod ; which I will follow and send 
 you y' letter with a flying seal. Duncan and I are now as we were in 1 7 1 5 ; y' is, 
 whout reserve to each other ; and I know y' there is few things will please you more. 
 I own y' when I believed y" he forsook me for y' Mackenzies, I would have seen him 
 at y^ Divel ; but he has fully satisfied me as to all y' ; and I am persuaded their never 
 will be y' least mistake or jealousie bennxt us. It is certainly to my Dear John Forbes 
 y' this re-union is oweing ; for in mids of all these mistakes, I found Culodin still y' 
 same friend to me ; and I can freely declare, y' I always loved & honoured you as in 
 gratitude I ought ; having receaved singular marks of your frdship in my greatest dis- 
 tress. My L*" Advocat & My L'^ Grange are speaking about my affairs w' FraserdaJe ; if 
 my Cusin M'Leod designs to interpose and make use of his interest, I think this is y' 
 tjTne. My breast is so sore, y' I am not able to hold down my head. I must conclude 
 w' assuring you, y' I am while I breathe, w" Passion & Respect, 
 
 My D' Laird of Culodin, 
 
 Your affectionat & faithful Slave, 
 Edin' 29"" Dec' 1732. LOVAT, 
 
 I earnestly beg y' what passes betwixt us be entirely to ourselves. Adieu, my most 
 Dear friend. 
 
 No. CLXVIII. 
 
 Lord Lovat to M' John Forbes. 
 
 My Dear Laird of Culodin, 
 
 I HAD this afternoon y' honour of your letter by express ; for which I give you 
 my most sincere thanks. It is a singular proof of your frdship to me and to my family, 
 
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 which I never will forget to you or to your Successors ; tho' in the mean tyme I see no 
 great appearance of Success. I have to do with very extraordinary fools, that refuse a 
 better estate from me than ever Prestonhall had free in his Life ; tho' thev are nov/ but 
 in a ntiserable situation, and in danger never to get a sexpence. But who can make 
 madmen ^ ise ? it is only y' Supreame Bdng y' can do it ; and I must have patience till 
 Prondence open their eyes. IMy Cusin the Laird of Macleod is might\- kind in his 
 letter to me ; it is most certainly to you y" I owe his good intentions to serve me, and 
 live in great frdship w' me ; but he desires v' nobody but you and your brother should 
 know it ; otherwise, y' it will put him out of Condition to serve me, because of the 
 weakness and jealousies of those he has to do -with. Macleod is reallv a sv^eet-blooded 
 young fellow, and has good sense and wTits preriely. I wish w' all my soul y' this great 
 affair were ended, y' we might live in an atfecrionat and strict frdship together ; sine I 
 am y*" nearest relation he has of his father and mother's kindreds. 
 
 D' Clark having told me y' they opened letters at y^ Post house, I would not expose 
 mvself in writing to my 1/ Advocat. However, y^ Doctor ha\'ing told me y= other day 
 yt y= President was worn out and going, I have ventured to WTit a long billet in French 
 to Duncan, and I give it to y' Cusin Willy to put under his Cover. I have told him in 
 that billet what passed ben^ixt v- unmannerly fool and me ; and I have written a long 
 letter to y^ Earle, in which I have told nothing but y' truth ; and yet no more could be 
 said of y^ most abominable fellow in y" Kingdom : he deserved it all at my hands. I 
 have taken care to blo\^ him up w' y*" voung laird of Grant , and I have acquanted his 
 father of his insolency towards me, and y' he had as httle reason as I had to be pleased 
 w' him. Capt : George Grant and Dalrahny came 2 davs ago here, and I dined w^ them 
 yesterday at young Grant's ; and I let those t\vo Gentilmen know how little they are 
 obliged to the monster. In short, we all agreed y Grant should give you the Shire of 
 Inverness, and take Moray to himself, and leave y^ beast to his shyr of Nairn ; and in 
 the Parlement y" v."ill come after y* next, he will be quit out, which would be a happiness 
 for him v- he does not deser\'e. If my L** Advocat take my advice, he will triomphe 
 over him and all his enemies ; and it is verv easv for Duncan to make up w' Grant, who 
 is a orood-natured man ; and I will do all I can to bring this about : nothing can hinder 
 it but y' Earle, and I have most earnestly begged of your brother to lay asyde his 
 humour at this tyme, and to make up w' y^ Earle, who I know vdW be glad to receive 
 him ; and bv tliis means he will get y' better of all his enemys ; he will most certainly 
 be made President ; an Illustration y' would do honoiu: to any family in Scotland, and 
 put him in condition to do good to his family and friends. I tell him y' I know y'' 
 Court, and those particularly whom he had to do w'. I am persuaded y' y* iirst 
 minister %vill not stand by him against y' E. ; and I am as siue y* y' Duke will not 
 entirelv cast out w' his brother on his account. I therefore beg of him, for Jesus' sake, 
 to put water in his wine, and make a httle court for his ovai advantage and for his 
 friends. If he takes my ad\ice, I am siu-e he will succeed ; and tho' he should not take 
 it, upon serious reflection he will see y' it is a good addce, and y' it flows from y' heart 
 of a true friend ; and I do not want hopes but in some measure he will take my advice. 
 I beg y* what I writ to you be betwixt ourselves j for you see there is no trusting to many 
 who eat and drink at Culodin. ^VTiatever comes of affairs, I shall be ever thankful 
 and gratful for y' constant and kind friendship to me ; and you will find me on all 
 occasions, w' touch affection & sincere regard. 
 
 My dear Laird of Culodin, 
 Your most obed' &: most obliged humble Serv* 
 Edin' 30"' Jan^ 1733. LOVAT. 
 
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 The Lairds of Macleod and Grant going on to make a great number of Barolis, forc'd 
 me to be at y" expence to try the records to see what I could do. I found t^vo Retours 
 in Chancery, by which it appears y' I can make by y' Barony of Lovat about 1 20 
 Barons. I consulted y " aff;iir \v' the best Lawiers in Town ; and they are positive y' I 
 can make about 1 20 Barons out of the Baronry of Lovat without objection ; besydes 
 several other Baronrys in the Ldsp ; so y' I am resolved to make as many as will make 
 some sort of ballance in my family, in case of a disputed election ; and as my ancestors 
 made always a good figure in the Shyre, it is but natural I should wish to preserve it. 
 
 I am ashamed y' you should lay out money for expresses on my business ; but I will 
 thankfully pay it at meeting. The Bearer says, he wants ten shillings for his coming 
 here, besydes what you gave him ; so I have pay'd him the ten shillings, tho' he only 
 came here scarce one day before the common Post ; but I am most sensible of your 
 anxiety to send y" letters. 
 
 No. CLXIX. 
 
 Lord Lovat to Mr. John Forbes. 
 
 My dear Laird of Culodin, 
 
 I RECEIVED from your Cusin y- honour of your letter of the 1^ Feb''. I am ex- 
 ceeding glad y' you keep your health in y*" mids of such a contagious distemper ; we 
 are frighted here w' y' dreadful mortality at London. I do assur you, my Dear CuUo- 
 den, y' I have such experience and such strong proofs of your frdship, y' I no more 
 doubt of it than I would do of my Brother's frdship if he was in life. — As to y'' showing 
 my letters, as I told y* impertinent squire, I did not value if they were printed or pub- 
 lished at the Cross ; but as he reproached me y"' knowing them paragraph by paragraph, 
 I only wrot to you as my intimate frd, y' you may observe hereafter those who had y' 
 ill manners and indiscretion to writ such Chatters to M' Brodie. I dread much y' 
 Moderator, for reasons I'll tell you at meeting : this is a most ingratful World ; a 
 rrue heart and a kind heart is as rare to find, as a black swan in a Lake. 
 
 I wish I had never put pen to paper or opened my mouth about y" Sheriffship ; for 
 you canot imagin how I am used in y' affair ; which you will know at meeting, and I 
 hope y' will be y* next month. I behve Dun. by this tyme has let you know how y' 
 impertinent King of Beasts has brunt his own fingers, by telling y he had orders to 
 keep you and your brother out of Parlement. The E. denys ever giving any such orders 
 by word or writ, as I am assur'd ; and I truly belive he is too prudent to give such 
 orders. I am hopeful my letter will extinguish the Beast's interest with the E. I 
 have keep'd a copy of it for several reasons. That ungratful fool has been the only 
 occasion of all our jarrs in the North. God damn him, y' ever I should be acquanted 
 w' him. 
 
 My gaining y^ decreet of the expiration of the Legal makes my enemys think y' it is 
 tyme to agree. Their great Council, who is a prety fellow, Mr. Craigy, has spok to 
 the Solicitor, who is one of my Council. But Fraserdale and his son are such weak, 
 wavering, and unconstant creatures, y" I belive nothing can fix them to an agreement 
 but your frd and mine his holding his assistance from y"' ; which would be a good ser- 
 x-ice done them, as well as to me. MacLeod setting up seven new barons has made 
 Grant set up as many ; but, as Grant is willing to make no Barons if MacLeod makes 
 none, your Brother wrot down to stop MacLeod's Barons ; however both are revis'd : 
 but John Hamiltown told me he would not pass y' Seals till further orders ; and 
 Grant and he have agreed to pass y= Seals at the same time, or make no 
 Barons at all, which in my opinion is best ; sine, the one is making as many as y* 
 
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 Other. I have delayed to make any this term, till I know M-hat those Gentilmen will 
 do ; for if they pass the Seals, I do assur vou that I'll make twenty new barons 
 next term, y' uill be entirely unquestionable ; for I am resoh'ed to keep a sort of . 
 ballance in y^ Shire, as mv Ancestors have done. I give you a thousand thanks for 
 y' visit to my Dear Babys, and I am while I breathe, w' Love, Zeal, and Regard, 
 
 ISIy Dear Laird of Culloden, 
 Edin', o"" Feb' > Your most faithful Slave, 
 
 1733. 5 LOVAT. 
 
 Xo. CLXX. 
 
 The Lord Advocate to M' Scrope. 
 D' SL', 
 
 LAST August, before I left this part of the Country-, I gave you notice of the 
 state wherein I found myself ; and now, upon my return from the North, I cannot help 
 letting you know how I stand. Long letters, on a subject so remote, may be trouble- 
 some ; but I hope for your forgiveness, because you know I correspond •with no one 
 else. 
 
 I have strickly keeped the resolution I acquainted you with in m.y last, of not medling 
 directlv or indirectly, to oppose or thwart the views of L. L or any of his friends, in any- 
 place whatever, except the Countys of Inverness & Ross, and the Burrows for wbJch 
 I serve. That I have endeavoured to secure mv Burrows will not (I presume) be 
 complained of, because no man vAW own the having medled with me there ; and yet 
 nothing is more certain, than that there have been attempts against me in every 
 one of them, tho' the undertaking made no great noise, because it met with no 
 encouragement. 
 
 As to the Count v of Inverness, I have had the mortification to meet with such 
 Oppression from Power, as some time ago I had no reason to expect. You know, that 
 bv the Constitudon of Scotland, the Freeholders in each Count}- are to meet annually 
 at IMichalmas, to settle the Roll for Election ; and that the Sheriff is obHdged to enter 
 into his Books the Roll as settled by the Major Part of the Freeholders to be the Roll by 
 which the election to Parliament is to be made. 
 
 At last Michalmas there was a compleat muster of all the Barons and Freeholders of 
 the County of Inverness capable of voting : the total number was 16. Sir James Gram 
 attended \%4th his friends, in order to add to the Roll of real Freeholders 1 3 ficticious 
 freeholders, who, without ha%Tng one Shilling in the County, had patched up the last 
 term the show of qualifications, but \^hich really were liable to unanswerable Objections 
 from the words of our statutes ; and Culloden and his friends attended to oppose the 
 enrolment of those Strangers, bv whom the Rights of the real Freeholders were to be 
 defeated ; and tho' no influence was withheld to encrease Grant's part)-, it could be 
 brought no higher than 5, whereas the other 1 1 adhered to your friend John ; wbJch 
 put it out of all doubt where the interest of the Shire lay, and what must be the fete of 
 the ficticious Voters as to their Admission to the Roll. 
 
 But Grant's friends had a trick for that : they said, the Meeting for setling the Roll 
 could not consist of 16, all Freeholders present ; but only of 5, because.no more than 
 5 had been present at the last Election of a Member to serve in Parliament. And finding, 
 that of those 5, 3, including Sir James Grant himself, were in his interest, these 3 
 pretended to be the majorin^ of the legal meeting, chose Sir James Grant Preses, and 
 proceeded to enroll all his ficticious votes, and to leave out all the reall votes that were 
 
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 CULI.ODEN' PAPERS. 1 33 
 
 against them ; tho' the other 1 1 Barons & Freeholders protested against that proceeding, 
 and required them to join with them the Majority, who had chosen John Forbes to their 
 Preses, in revising & setting the Roll. 
 
 This Conduct, ridiculous as it seems to be, Grant held ; but what is stiil more 
 extraordinary, the Sheriff was, it seems, properly instructed ; for tho' he was present, 
 and saw the 3 acting against the Eleven, and knew that Grant had no more than two 
 good Votes to join his original 3, yet he, without hesitation, accepted of the Roll made 
 up by the 3 (in which all the ficticious Votes are inserted, and from which Nine of the 
 antient Barrens and Freeholders are excluded), and rejected that made up by the 
 Eleven, who had admitted all the good votes, and rejected all the bad, without distin- 
 guishing w-hether they belonged to friend or foe. 
 
 By this Arbitrary Act, the Sheriff has given the right of determining the Election to 
 meer Strangers in the County, and scored off Gentlemen possessed of by much the 
 largest property in the shire ; and has so exceedingly and so justly provoked them, that 
 they have unanimously resolved to prosecute them, and to seek for redress in the Court 
 of Session ; hoping that they may be relieved from this Oppression before any new 
 Election come on ; I dare say, this step will be imputed to me ; but I do assure you, 
 the Gentlemen wanted no prompter ; they feel the sore ver>' sensibly ; and I confess I, 
 for my own part, think it more eligible to have such a simple proceeding complained of 
 and contested here, than above, where it would not sound to the advantage of those 
 who encouraged it, and might draw allongst with it Consequences that I should be very 
 sorry for. I send you a Copy of the Lybell printed in common form. Glancing it 
 over will give you a more perfect idea of this transaction. 
 
 In Ross Shire I think all the arts & diligence of Col. IVIunro, and those that stand by 
 him, must come to very little. It is amasing to me, that a Man so well known should 
 be encouraged. I have something more to say on this subject then I choose to trouble 
 you with in this form of Correspondence ; but it will keep cold. 
 
 What description will be made with you of those transactions, or whether any, is 
 more than I can tell. The end of giving you this trouble is, that you may be able to 
 set any false report that may be propagated to rights. 1 am heartily sorry that the occu- 
 pation I have had at home has hindered me to assist in the service of the common cause 
 so much as is required, and as I wished ; but I am confident I am in no degree to blame 
 for that misfortune, and therefore I make mvself as easv as I can. 
 
 As you know I had some jealousy before I left Eondon, and as I have no doubt fresh 
 hints will be given to Sir Robert to my disadvantage, I intreat you will be so good to 
 me as to enter with him a little on my subject, and let me kiiow how matters stand. 
 Your abstaining from touching this matter bears with me the construction of unwilling- 
 ness to say what I should not like to hear ; but it will be much more kind to let me 
 know the worst, than to leave me in a state of doubt and suspicion. I have no other 
 apology to make for such an impertinent Letter, but tliat 1 am sincerely, 5cc. 
 
 .Stony Hill, if'' Oct' 1733. 
 
 No.t'LXXI. 
 
 M" Isabella Sleigh to the Lord Advocate, dated Brodie House, 29'^ Sept' 1735. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 I HAVE allways esteem'd you so much, and am so greatly oblig'd to your Lop, 
 that 'twas with the most sensible regret I passed twice by Colloden without doing my- 
 
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 self the honour of vraiting on you. Your Lop -will easilv guess what occasion'd it j 
 and I hope you'll not think me guilty of a fault when I T%-as doing the greatest penance, 
 tho' not for sins of mv own. I wish to God those unhappv diiferences betnixt vou 
 and Brodie had never had a being ; and next to that, tliat there may soon be an end 
 to 'em. 'Tis now a great manv years since I told vour Lop of what consequence your 
 firiendship was to my Daughter and me ; and tho' I know you do us the honour to 
 value us, vet we should be stiil much happier if vou and the Lvon were as you have 
 been, and if you could forget all the cross accidents that have happened, and onlv re- 
 member the great friendship there was, and the relation there still is, betwixt vou. 
 
 My heart is so full of this unlucky subject, that I could not write to you without 
 mentioning it. If 'ds impeitinent, I beg \-ou'I forgive it ; and be pleased to believe, 
 that no body has a greater respect for your merit, nor a truer gratitude for your 
 favours, than. 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's obliged cmd most Obedient humble Serv' 
 
 ISABELI^ SLEIGH. 
 I would have done ravseh the honotur to write to vour 
 
 Lordshp from Inverness ; but the pain I was in bv an 
 
 overttim (which I still feel), & a hiurr)- of companv, 
 
 prevented me. 
 
 No. CLXXII. 
 
 The Lord Advocate to M'' Isabella Sleigh, dated Culloden, 2"^ October 1735. 
 
 Madam, 
 
 IT was with ver)' great pleasure I saw bv the Letter I had the honour to receive 
 from you of the 29"" Septem.ber, that our unluckv dissentions in this Country have 
 not been able to dislodge me from the place I was so proud of possessing in your 
 esteem. Those dissentions produced abundance of mieasiness ; but none I felt so 
 sensibly, as the being locked out from the Con-sersation of Ladvs to whose good v,ii\ 
 I owed so much, and for whom I had so true a respect. And if the nature of the 
 disputes, and the manner of carr^-ing them on, had not put it absolutely out of my 
 power, you may be sure no slight incident, no matter of form, would have ever pre- 
 vailed with me to mortifv" mvself so much, as to pass bv Brodie House whilst vou and 
 yoiu: daughter were in it. But those unhappv diiferences were begim, and have been 
 carried on, in such a manner, as leaves it impossible for me (I say it with great 
 concern), in any consistency with the maxims I have laid down to myself for the 
 Government of my life, to forget, or even to seem to forgive hastilv, the usage I ap- 
 prehend I have met with. I say the usage I apprehend, only, I have met with ; be- 
 cause I would not, if it might be had for a wish, desire that either you or M" Brodie 
 were con\inced of the Injustice of it. Since, if one of us must be in the wrong, it 
 is much more eligible, and will tend much more to your quiet, that I should be 
 thought the fault)' person, than that M' Brodie should deserve the Blame. But let 
 those Contentions rim as high between the Lord Lyon and me as Indiscretion on either 
 ade may push them, I do assure you, with the greatest sinceritv", that nothing can 
 give me greater pleasure than to have it in my power to do you or your daughter any 
 reall ser\ice ; and that upon everv occasion wherein your honour or Interest may be 
 concerned, I shall delight in shewing how- much I am, 
 
 Dear ^ladam, 
 Your very faithful! and most Obedient humble Servant.
 
 CULLODEN PAPEItS- 1 35 
 
 ■ . ,. " < ■ ■ ; 
 
 No. CLXXIll. . 
 
 The Lord Advocate to M' Scrope. 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 rr was not my intention to have given you any trouble at this time ; but the 
 Report made to me by my Nephew, John Munro, of your kindness to him, is so 
 strong, that I cannot forbear expressing my thankfulness. It is true, that, recollecting 
 the whole tenor of your conduct towards me, I had reason to expect vour good offices 
 to such as I had any near concern in : but the neglect I have for some time past met with, 
 from those whom I have always served with great affection and fidelity, places vour 
 goodness in such a light, as draws from me all that my present condition can afford ; to 
 wit, wishes that it may be in my power to return your friendship to yourself, or to 
 any in whom you are any way interested. As for me, my situation is such as you 
 may guess ; disabled to do good, unwilling to do harm, I live as much as I can the life 
 of a Philosopher ; hopeful, from the lucky turn the Newspapers say our Forreign af- 
 fairs have taken, that faction and virulent opposition will be so far quelled at home, that 
 
 1, who am incapable of leaving my friends in times of difficulty, may have leave, with- 
 out imputauon or reproach, to enjoy a little quiet at home, and to retire from a 
 situation for which it seems I am not fit, and in w'hich I never enjoyed much comfort. 
 But, whatever my situation may be, you & yours shall ever find me a most faithfuU 
 & most humble Serv'. 
 
 Edinburgh, 18"' Nor' 1735. 
 
 No. CLXXIV. 
 
 j\r Speaker Onslow to the Lord Advocate. 
 My Dear Lord, 
 
 I AM much beholden to your Lordship for the favour of your Letter, ;?: havfc 
 
 2. thousand pardons to ask of you for the trouble I give your Lordship in this matter ; 
 & to shorten it as much as I can, at present, I will only inform Y' Lordship, that 1 
 have just now rec** the linnen, w"'^' shall remain as it came, till I have the honour to 
 kiss your hands here ; when, I am sure, you will suffer me, in some shape or another, 
 to make a return by way of present for this w"" the Royal Burghs have sent me. I 
 know your Lordship will think this right when you & I talk together of it ; & then 
 I'm sure of your assistance iji it. I am, with all imaginable respect, my Dear Lord, 
 
 Your most affecdonate, 
 Leicester-street, ) and ever faithfull Humble Servant, 
 
 Dec' the 1 8'^ 1 736. j' AR. ONSLOW. 
 
 I'll do all I can for poor M' Anderson ; but fear my success. 
 
 No.CLXXV. 
 
 S" Clair to the Lord Advocate. , 
 
 No date [probably Jan' 1737.] 
 My Dear Duncan, 
 
 BY last night's post I had your kind Letter. Our poor Friend M" Fenwick is 
 no more. I have given Farquhar an account of her death, which I make no doubt 
 
 he
 
 1^6 . c^;LLODE^' papers. 
 
 he comrr.unicated to you ; so, I reckon, a repedtion of that rr.ellar.choly storie is 
 unnessisan- : all we that vreie acquainted v.-ithe her have made an L-reparable loss ; 
 but she, poor Woman ; had suffered so much m hir ionge ilnese, that, in kindness to 
 hir, one shou'd not be sorr%- she is released, since their %vas no prospect cf hir being 
 restored to hir health. Not half an hour before she dyed, she received a letter from 
 George Clark, which she oppened and read with a seeming satissfaction. The Day 
 befor she sat donne at the head of hir owne Table at Dinner, and in hir usevs-all way 
 mind'd ail your healths, and in short caned ever)- thing out to the last with ane un- 
 commoune spirit. 
 
 I retume vou mv hearr\- thanks for the care you take in assisting my Brother in his 
 Burgh ; as also for makerng your Brother John's peace with the Kirk, without gixeing 
 him the Trouble of Ionge conferrences and treatys. I reckon yoirr preliminarys 
 have been better adjusted and imderstood than those that shall be nameless. M' Ross 
 has had his a£air rinished on the plan you left it on ; and, I thiink, was convinced 
 that Sir Robert cou'd do no more then he did for hi m, in the matter of the Rank 
 twixt him and the Duke of Arg}-le, which he now aquiesses tco. 
 
 Thier was a project of the E. of Islay's agreed too by S' R , for Peter Maiden's 
 
 beino- Commissioner of the Customs in the roome of him whom Yahan has succeeded 
 too ; and that the 1500 poimd a year, which is the sailer)- of a Commissioner of the 
 Customs and Excise, shou'd be equaly di\4ded berwixt Peter and the Master of Ross- 
 
 "When this came to be mentioned to his Maj it's said he was in a great passion 
 
 with the Knight, and ordered him to tell Peter, that he, ncr no such Rascall, ever 
 shou'd have any employment from him. On this, 1 heare, Peter has walked for Scot- 
 land, with an intent to sacrifvse the remainder of his days for the good of his Country 
 in a private -way. S' Robert had done nothing in my affair befor his goeing into North- 
 folk, but has promised to speake to the Queen of it as soone as he retumes ; which if 
 he do's, and that I see no apperance of the Princes comeing soon over, it'^ verry pos- 
 sible I may visit vou in the month of Sep", when my waitting as Field Otticer will be 
 out. I do not heare when the Duke is to sett out on his re^-iewing. 
 
 I have not seen Lord Grange since he had his first heareing before the Chancelour ; 
 but I take it for granted, he \\ill lose his plea. 
 
 We have been told here, that the President was at the last gasp * ; and I think it's 
 allowed bv everv bodv, that you may be his successor ii you please. I have said so 
 much to vou on that head, that I shall trouble you with nothing new upon it : but as- 
 sure you,' that all vour friends v.'iH have great cause to bt dissatisfied with you if you 
 refuse it. 
 
 The King is nov,- at Hampton Court, and will stay there about thjree Weeks longer ; 
 from thence he retumes to Richmond, and will live pri^-atly till the middle or end of 
 August ; then he goes to Windsor. 
 
 I am, my D^r Duncan, most Affectionately your^ 
 
 JA. S'- CLAIR. 
 
 • Sir Hugh Dalrrmple, Bar., of Xonh Bersficl, LordPrtrsideatof the Session, died Feb. i, 173; 
 
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 No. CLXXVL 
 
 M' Ruddiman to the Lord Advocate. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I AM sorry I am obliged to inform you, that at five o'Clock. this After- 
 noon, I was served with an Order from the House of Peers, to appear as an Evidence 
 before them with relation to a Bill disabling our Lord Provost, &c. against the third 
 of May next. It is not unknown to your Lop that besides my advanced Age (I being 
 some Months gone in my grand CHmaderick) I have been accustomed to a sedentary 
 kind of life ; in so much that I have no prospeft that it w ill be pra£licable for me to 
 arrive thither against that time. I am therefore advised by some of my good Friends 
 here to have recourse to your Lop, that in case I do not come up in time, as I am per- 
 swaded I will not be able to do, you will be so good as to represent my Circumstances 
 to such great persons as you shall judge proper. To shew my Obedience, I design to 
 set out the Morrow forenoon ; but sure no Orders can be so strick & peremptory as to 
 oblige a man to anything that is inconsistent with his health, & far less what is above 
 his power. Your Lop's knowTi generosity & goodness, of which I have hade many 
 instances, will excuse this trouble, & prevail with you to represent my case so favourably 
 that I may not incur any hazard by arriving later than the time appointed. I am, with 
 all dutiful! RespeCl, 
 
 My Lord, 
 Edin" 23' April 1737. - Your Lop's most obliged & 
 
 most humble Servant, 
 - . THO' RUDDIMAN. 
 
 No.CLXXVII. 
 
 •,,■■• ' ■ ' / jf I 
 
 M' Scrope to the Lord President of the Session. * 
 
 My Dear Lord, August y' i3'\ 1737. 
 
 I HAVE y*" honour of yours of y' 2'' ; y" substance of w'"" I comm.unicated to S' 
 R. W. who spoke of you w"' great respeft, & I am confident will do any thing to 
 make you easy. At present, little is thought of here, but y" incident w''' lately happened 
 at Court. Y" removing y' Princess from Hampton Court, w"'out y' knowledge of y' 
 K. or Q. after there were certaine indications of her being in labour, hath much increased 
 y^ uneasyness y' was there before ; & I see no prospett of it's being better. What y' 
 Consequence of it will be, God knows. I intend next week to go w"' my nephew to his 
 House in Somersetshire, where I hope to be quiet, & am resolved to be troubled w"^ 
 no news but what is in y' prints, w" is so seldom true y' I shall not regard it much. I 
 believe Httle will be done about Scotland till my return. I don't find any thing is de- 
 termined in what you hint at about the Customes ; nor is it talked of in y' man' it was 
 when you left us ; w':'^ makes me think they will go on in y" channel they are in. As 
 to poor Bowles, I don't know what to say : he is so secreet in every thing y' relates to 
 himself, that I can never guess what would be agreeable to him ; & y' unfortunate 
 affaire of the Isle of Wight hath created such a prejudice agst him, y' I am affraide to 
 mention his name ; but this I dare not let him know. It being uncertaine where this will 
 wait on you, I will only add, y" I am w'"' y' utmost regard and esteem, 
 
 My Dear Lord, 
 Yo' most affeftionate faithful humble Serv', 
 
 J. S. 
 
 * Mr. Duncan Forbes was appointed Lord President June 21, i"'37. 
 
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 13^ CULLODEX PAPERS. 
 
 . No. CLXXVIII. 
 
 M"^ Henry Fane to the Lord President. ' ^ 
 
 My Lord, ^ ' The 13"^ Sep-" 173;, 
 
 I TAKE the liberty to acquaint you, that Lord Harrington has talk'd w- ' M' So- 
 lenthal, the Danish Minister, ab' the Affair of M' Wightman, who has promised to 
 write home to his Court ; & my Lord has WTote to M' Titley to use proper instances for 
 obtaining satisfaction. In the mean time, the last subsidv is stopp'd ; and I think a line 
 from you to my Lord & S' R. W. may make the matter more easily finished. 
 
 IVIy Uncle & I returned Sunday from a progress to Lyme, & my Brother's house in 
 Somersetshire : where we left him verv well. 
 
 There was a great scour yesterday at S' James's, to get the P. i: Princesse's Baggage 
 out of the house, pursuant to the order he rece'd Saturday by the D' of Grafton, Rich- 
 mond, & the E. of Pembroke, to be gone by v" time. The message thev delivered was 
 long, 5c I hope to send you a Copy of it next Post. Ever)- one is forbid pa)-ing court 
 to them, under the penalty of non- Admittance into their ^lajesties Presence. 
 
 I am, w"^ the most perfed Respect, 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your LordF^ most faithful h obed" htmible Serv', 
 
 HEN. FANE. 
 
 No. CLXXIX. 
 
 The Duke of Argyll to the Lord President, Dated Adderbury, Oct' y° 9'" 1737. 
 Dear Duncan, - • . 
 
 I HAVE last post receav'd your Letter, & doe not doubt but you will believe 
 that I am most sincerely thankful for y" vast trouble you have been at to doe me good. 
 I am very fare from not ha\-ing my expectations ans%vered ; for, upon my word, I 
 took it for granted, from the Sheriff's way of stating the affairs of that Country, that 
 things would turn out as you found them ; & believe me, I think myself well off 
 on the foot that you have put them ; & I am fully perswaded, if you had not 
 given yourself the trouble you have done, some Gentlemen had brought about their 
 ends whose duty it was to ser^-e me better. When you have time, my curiosity makes 
 me wish to know your observations on Teree. I have strange notions of that Island. I 
 fancy you don't expefl news from me, who have nothing to doe with Patriots, & almost 
 as litle to doe with Ministers. I had a Letter by this last post from I\r Wishart j Minis- 
 ter at Edingbourg, by which I see that many of those Gentlemen are as mad as ever, 
 &, to my great surprize, that he is of the number. This, Duncan, I think proves 
 plainly that the method I proposed for conducting those Gentlemen was much better 
 then what was taken. My Brother did us the favour of a visit last week ; to what end 
 I am not able to conceive ; for in the three days he pass'd here, thi only news he told 
 me was, that he knew nothing : he did, indeed, doe me the favour to let me see 
 Extratls out of some Letters which I and every body in this Count)^ had seen before 
 in full & in print. Receive y' compliments of y* Dutchess & y' young Gentlewomen, 
 who are all well. 
 
 I am most faithfullv vours, 
 ' ■'■- ARGYLL & GREENWICH 
 
 No. CLXXX.
 
 CULLODEN PAPERS. 1 39 
 
 No. CLXXX. 
 
 M' Henry Fane to the Lord President. Dated the 3'' Dec' 1737. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I HAD the honour of your Lordps Lre, with the comfortable Scarfe for my Bro' 
 Tho' Parson, w^'' I immediately forwarded to him, that his Poll may receive no da- 
 mage from the cold winds. I should have answered it sooner, but I have been at- 
 tending (partly out of curiosir)^ & partly as my duty) the Committees of Council 
 to regulate her Mat" funeral. Their LordJDS sent for the ingenious M' Anstis, who at- 
 tended them 3 times ; and, altho' he had as plain directions given him as possible to 
 prepare a scheme of a funeral agreeable to Queen Anne's, in w^^ the Queen's OiEcers 
 were to be mtroduced, he bro' them no Scheme, but tired them with puzzling 
 speeches ; so y' to-day the Lords met themselves and settled the Ceremony, w''' is to 
 be this day fortnight. The body is to be removed to the Prince's Chamber the night 
 before, and buried from thence in a new Vault w^*' is building in H. the 7''''* Chappel. 
 It is to be preceeded by the Peers & great Officers, & other inferior ones. The 
 Princess Amelia is to be Chief Mourner ; the Lord Chamberlain & L"* Steward are to 
 support her, & two Dutchess's support her train, assisted by 14 other Dutchesses. 
 There is no other of the Royal family to be there. Had it not been for the quarrel, 
 the Prince & Duke would have been her supporters, & the young Princesses 
 would have carried her Train. Six Dukes, Knights of the Garter, are to be Pall- 
 Bearers. The Duke of Somerset and others are angry at the Mourning, and won't 
 put their Coaches in black ; because the King having declared by an Order of Council, 
 pubhshed in the Gazette soon after he came to the Crown, y' he should not require 
 so close Mourning as formerly on any publick or Court Mournings, it altered the 
 old Method of going into Mourning ; so y' sev' have not put their Coaches or Serv'* 
 into Mourning for their nearest relations, and therefore think it hard to do so for the 
 queen. 
 
 My Bro' has the hardest Case. He, as Soir to the Q., puts his Chariot in Mourning, 
 and his place is extinct ; & he can't take a Pension, as her other Officers do, because 
 he is a Member of Parliament. The K. wanted to be put into the Coffin with her 
 when he died ; but that being impossible, her Coffin is to be put into a Marble 
 Coffin big enough to hold two ; and when the K. dies, he is to fill up the vacancy. 
 
 I believe I have tired you. I shall only add, that M' Blair told me last night, that 
 Lord Harrington is very assiduous ab' the Danish Claim ; that M'' Scrope is very much 
 yours, & will soon write to you ; & that my Brother doubts not of your being his 
 with the same sincerity that he is yours. 
 
 I am, with perfeft respeft & regard. 
 My Lord, 
 Yor Lordp's most obliged & obedient humble Serv', 
 
 HEN. FANE. 
 
 No. CLXXXI. 
 
 From L'' Hard\vicke to the L"* President. 
 
 My Lord, Carshalton, Janu> ^* 1737-8- 
 
 YOUR obliging letter found me at this place, rusticating for a few days, in order 
 
 to be the better fortified against a Session of Parliament. It gave me much pleasure, 
 
 as it brought proofs of my not being ftn-gotten bv an old friend whom I most highly 
 
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 >4<' CTLLODEN PAPERS. 
 
 esteem ; and something the more, as it flattered my vanit)", in making me believe 
 that I ^^ as not altogether mistaken in part of those considerations which you per- 
 mitted me to lav before vcu. Your Lordship perceives from hence, that I can some- 
 times be on the same side Ai^-ith a Scottish mob, interdum popuhu rechim vidct ; and in 
 this instance, I think them right when they tbimd themselves on your talents and 
 perseverance, and the probable consequences of a good beginning. Reformation is 
 most difficult at first ; but when some ad\"ances are happily made, the good effed;s, 
 beincr felt, afford a sensible evidence, which operates more strongly than any pre%-ious 
 speculation, and must create a shame of relapsing. 
 
 I rejoice much to hear that your Lordship hath tum'd yom- thoughts toTvards the 
 improvement of the Laws of your Country. Such hands as yours are fitted for such 
 Undertakins^s ; whereas others, not so well informed, or not so well intentioned, often 
 spoil what tihev pretend to amend. If a scheme of this nature were sent up, you might 
 depend on mv best endeavours for your service ; for, however I may of late have been 
 thoucrht of, I assure you, with the stridest truth, that there is not a man in the united 
 Kinc'dom who considers it as one more than I do ; and, upon this principle, would 
 more zealously promote the trae interest and weliare of Scotland. But, as to the Bill 
 passing zviliout alteratkm. Your Lordship, who had long experience of our Parliamen- 
 tary" Genius, of the disposition to amend the English Law, and of some attempts relat- 
 ino-' to vour own, can judge, as well as I, of the probability of such an event. It would 
 be impertinent to put you in mind of another matter ; that, unless some of your Coimtry- 
 men here are taken into the original projed, many obstacles may arise. 
 
 The recoverv of vour people from their Ferment about the Edinburgh Bill, is a good 
 Svmptom. I hope thev also are, or soon will be so, from that about reading the 
 other Act oi Parhament in the Churches ; for, whatever becomes of your Law, your 
 Ecclesiastical Afeirs are too sacred for me to meddle with. As to those of your Alanu- 
 factures, thev have my best Wishes, and shall never want any assistance in my power. 
 
 I hope the becoming concern, which you say shews itself in your part of the King- 
 dom, on the Queen's death, mav be looked on as an e\"idence of their affection to 
 the Kins:, his familv, and Government. As the Blessing we enjoyed in her life was 
 public and universal, the misfortune of her loss must be equally extensive. 
 
 After mentioning the Subject, I can add nothing more, but that I am, with perfect 
 truth and Respect, 
 
 Wy Lord, 
 YoTo- Lordship's most obed' and faithful humble Servant. 
 
 HARDWICKE. 
 
 I hope M' Ross remembered to return my hearty thanks and Com- > 
 pliments for vour kind present, which did credit to your Fishery. ) 
 
 No. CLXXXII. 
 
 Wi p. Murdoch to M' John Forbes, dated from London, 14'- January 1737-S. 
 
 My dearest F. 
 
 1 L^'DERSTAXD, bv a Line ftt>m our good friend which I received since I 
 <:anie to Ein^land, that yoo and he wrote me from CoUoden, which I am sorry I never 
 received ; for t have been exrremelv uneasy, not knowing what was become of you. 
 nor what you were doing. My only resource was, to enquire at Mitchell, who gave 
 me what satisfaction he could, ' In the mean tiarie, my dearest J. I did not impute your 
 
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 CULLODEN PAPERS. I4I 
 
 silence to unkindness. As I feel no decrease of friendship on my own part, i am as 
 little jealous of it on yours. I know you love me, and ever will ; and nothing in this 
 world can ever interest me so much as your Welfare. It is a great comfort to me, 
 that Mitchell loves and esteems you. He is of opinion, as I always have been, that an 
 agreable match would make you happy and independant ; and since your father does 
 not insist for money, it is very hard if you camiot find one to your mind in a Country 
 where there are so many fine Women, and where I believe there is more virtue and 
 good sense than in any other. As to my o-^vn affairs, I have given up with travelling 
 for good and all. Mr. Vernon has offered me a silug little Benefice down in Suffolk, 
 which I am to be put in possession of in a few weeks, and where I propose to pass the 
 remainder of my days in study and retirement ; for the bustle of this world is vanity 
 and vexation of spirit, and true happiness must spring from within ; that is, from a 
 Mind not tyranized by violent and outrageous passions, and from a consciousness of 
 doing one's duty in the station where Providence has placed him. For the rest, after 
 the necessarys of life are ensured, it is no great matter whether the sphere one acts in 
 is wide or narrow. You need say nothing of this to any body but to my Lord Presi- 
 dent, to whom I offer my most humble respects, and to honest George. Remember 
 me to Mr. William 6c your friend Dugal. Write me immediately how you are, and 
 what you are doing. Direct, at Commissioner Vernon's, in Grosvenor Street. Adieu, 
 mon cher Enfant j porte-toi bien. 
 
 PAT. MURDOCH. 
 
 P. S. When I was at Geneva, I payed for you, to Chappreys, 3 Spaiiish Pistoles ; 
 & 2 Mirletons to Bonnet. 1 should not so much as mention this, considering how 
 deeply I am every way indebted to your father and you ; but not being in a Condition 
 at present to make any remittance to my Sister in the Country, as I intended, if you 
 are in hand at present, or some time hence when you are, I would beg you would give 
 to the above value to And' Martin, who will deliver it to my Sister, to be sent to the 
 Country. I saw your friend Dupuys at Paris, who talked of no less than making you 
 a visit ; but I told him it was by no means seasonable. I am a litle disobliged at him, 
 for recommending to me a Scoundrel who picked two Guineas from me before I left 
 London, and not procuring me payment when I was at Paris. At the same time, what- 
 ever that Gentleman's real Character is, I reckon myself under very great obligations 
 to him for his friendship to you. 
 
 No. CLXXXIII. 
 
 M' John Drumraond to the Lord President 5 dated London, January 31" 1737-8. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 IT'S with no small satisfaction that I hear of your health, from our friends 
 come up to Parliament ; and at the same time, from all hands & parteys, what 
 I always expected you would prove, an honour to your Country, and an ornament to 
 your employment ; a lover of equity, and dispatch of Business in a regular way ; and 
 to convince you, Sir, that it's from all parteys, I make use of the words of my Lord 
 Chancellor & of my Lord Carteret ; and the former added, that you had only made a 
 beginning ; and that you would bring it farther still, without peevishness & insolence, 
 too common to some of your Brethren. The Man who was to engrave the Tapicery 
 of the House of Lords, to whome you was a subscriber, has not apeard yet this Ses- 
 sion ; but I shall enquire after him. 1 hear Complaints of what ought not to be ktiown 
 
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 t42 CL'LLODEX PAPERS. 
 
 in a trading Country, that Englishmen, ha%-ing stock in their own names in your New 
 Bank, coming to die, their heirs must pay arbitrary- fines or compositions tQ your 
 Commissary Court, at proving of their Wills, or interest. If that be not rectified, 
 I must have a Clause in an act of parliament ; othervrays no purchasers will be found 
 here, or who will ad^■ance money on that stock ; whereas in London, oitne Gentle- 
 men pledge stock to raise monev, to finish a purchase, or to marrs- a Daughter, till 
 other ^lonev come in. I have been in England almost three weeks. I left Ant^verp 
 the beginning of this Month, and must recum again as soon as the house will permit. 
 We have hitheno an easie Session : Friday the x\rmy will bear a strong debate. We 
 expect no motion from the Prince's partey ; if it should come, the K. is prorided against 
 it. Sir Robert looks well ; and lam with much respect, , .i, 
 
 Honoured Sir, 
 Your most humble 6c most obedient Servant, 
 
 JOHN DRUMMOND. 
 
 M' p. Murdoch to M' John Forbes ; dated from London, 2^^ Febr\- 1738. 
 
 I RECEIVED yours, mv dearest Forbes, and am charmed you should not be 
 averse to the ad^'ice t gave you : 'tis what I am sure your father, i all that wish you 
 well, will readily concur in. For speaking to him on the subject, ycu can find no 
 difficult", if once the thing were ripe for proposing ir to him. On these occasions 
 there need no flowers or Ornaments of speech ; upon Business, people ought to speak 
 plain their meaning ; and not only on this, but ever)- other subject, you ought, with- 
 out going out of the bounds of respect and dut)-, to talk as frankly to him as to any 
 other Man. But it is necessary first to look out for a person suitable ; and if you have 
 made a right choice, there will be no difficult}-, either in proposing it to him, or ob- 
 taining his consent and encouragement. I am, perhaps, not the fittest person to direct 
 your choice : but the infinite concern I have for your happiness obliges me to give 
 mv Opinion upon the qualifications you ought principally to have in your Eye. ' 
 
 1. Ever\- Gentleman owes to his friends and posterit)' not to bring into his family 
 but one of an equal or rather superior birth. In the \'icissitude of humane things, a 
 good parente is verv" often all that a Man has left, and that sometimes retrieves his 
 affaires when othemays he should be lost. 
 
 2. I should take it for a bad omen, if you were conducted in your choice by a fond 
 and %-iolent passion ; of which there so rarely comes any good, that if one finds himseli 
 happy it is but bv accident. He has run the same risque as a Man that has passed a 
 narrow Bridge blindfold. The degree of Love one ought to have tor a future Spouse 
 is that which arises from well-founded esteem and cool reason, and which will always 
 be rather growing than declining : whereas all your Goddess Brides are reduced to 
 mere Mortals in the operations of one night. One thing with regard to Beaut\- is in- 
 dispensible ; a Graceful form and Stature, blooming or rather ^igorous health, with 
 a natural turn to cheerfulness and gaiet\\ that she may not introduce a diminutive, 
 •sickly, melancholy race. 
 
 3. The quahtss of her mind are a great deal more diiEcult to distinguish. Young 
 Women are ver)- often close hypocrites ; or if they are not, they at least do not know 
 themselves what sort of wives they are Ukely to make. Their situation and circum- 
 stances are so entirely altered by matrimony, that it is no grea; wonder if themselves 
 
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 CULLODEV PAPERS. 1 43 
 
 are so : yet there are marks that rarely fail. We hold every thing good or bad from 
 Nature, Education, and Example ; and from these, variously combined, we can with 
 tolerable Certainty fix any Man or Woman's character. If in a family, for Example, 
 there have been several examples of Women that have turned out whimsical, extrava- 
 gant, lewd, or ill natured, a prudent Man would be shy to have any thing to do with 
 the Race. If, on the contrary, a Girl has been rear'd under the eye of a virtuous 
 Mother and virtuous relations, she bids fair to follow their Example. There is a general 
 Character attach't to each family, which is publickly known, and which ought not 
 to be overlook'd in the present case. But above all, the Company one keeps, or 
 affects to keep, is a mark without any exception. Birds of a feather fiiil not to flock 
 together. A Lady's behaviour too with regard to publick Companys and Spectacles 
 shews her disposition. If she is continually gadding about, and fiUing up her whole 
 life with them, she shows herself a Votary of pleasure, and unfit for Domestic cares 
 and tenderness. If she lives recluse altogether, her nature must be sower and un- 
 sociable ; but if, without fondly running into either extream, she is equally easy and 
 chearful at home and at the Ball, her breeding and good sense will be justly admired. 
 For money, I say not a word about it. If it comes, of course it is not to be refus'd ; 
 but ought never, even to a much poorer Man, balance other Considerations that are 
 essential to Domestic happiness. After all, I am not in the least doubt but that, if you 
 set yourself seriously to work, you may find out a person that shall be the solace and 
 comfort of your life. It is not enough to consult our honest friend G., or any other 
 Man that should have the like tenderness for you : you must have a female confident, 
 who loves you, knows the world, and the Characters and private history of families. Such I 
 take the M" Kennedys to be, and that you cannot have more faithful or more disinterested 
 Counsel than in that worthy family. When, by such advice and assistance, you have 
 fixed your choice, cultivated a little personal acquaintance, and had a tolerable prospect 
 of success, then is it time to open the matter to your father, who cannot fail to contri- 
 bute all in his power to your happiness, and will wish to see himself increase and 
 multiply in his descendants. Think seriously, my dearest J., on this affair : you will 
 find what an agreeable change it will make in your Circumstances, manner of living, 
 and temper. If one is to marry at all, the putting it off serves to no good purpose. 
 An old Batchelor grows unfit either to give or relish pleasure ; and, if he marrys, 
 dyes off without the satisfaction of seeing his Children grow up to support his old age. 
 I give you my promise, if that can be any inducement, to come and stay a twelvemonth 
 with you, to be a witness of your happiness ; and to see it compleat will be the most 
 sensible to me that I can have on this side the grave, if I was to double the years of 
 Nestor. To convince you of the truth of this, I know I need not use many words : 
 we know each other ; that is enough. 
 
 My Love to honest G. I will write to him and other friends when I can get franks. 
 All your acquaintances here are well, and salute you with great affection. Thomson 
 has writ a Tragedy *, whereof the Town is in great expectation. 
 
 Yours, with unalterable truth, 
 
 P. M. 
 
 This was his Agamemnon. 
 
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 Xo.CLXXXV. ' i^ 
 
 M" Murray (afterwurds Earl of Mansfield) to the Lord President. 
 
 My Dear Lord, 
 
 I THIS instant had the favour of vours ; and vou -nill forgive mv answering: it 
 directly, the' in a Word, rather than to xrait in hope of an opportimit)- of writing 
 more at large. I am ver)' seriouslv concerned at the account vou give me of vour 
 health ; and I am afraid it is a consequence of too close an application, and too much 
 anxierv. You have undertaken a great work ; and, bv all the Accounts here, you 
 have already succeeded bevond what anv man could have thought possible in so short a 
 time. The best Argument I can use to vou, to manage yotir health, is, to desire you 
 to consider of what importance it is to the Public. 
 
 Was you known here no otherwise than bv the great Character you have acquired in 
 the Office you now enjoy, which every bodv is full of, I think you would find support 
 against the Opposition you apprehend ; but vou have so many personal friends of all 
 denominations, that were you quite retired from the world, and leading a pri\"aie life, 
 the Person you mean would be wiser than to engage in so unreasonable and so personal 
 a contest with you, be his inclinations what they will. 
 
 I am, therefore, fully perfuaded in mv ovra mind that you will not be oppofed. 
 If you are, vou may depend upon everA- assistance in my power. I will fpeak 
 to all my friends and acquaintance in the House, as if it was my ovti cafe ; and 
 I will mention your name to such of the leading members as I have familiarity 
 «iough with to speak to upon such a fubject ; viith. whom I know it -ttill have 
 great weight. 
 
 Unless an opposition were certain, I should think you did as well in not writing 
 to the Persons you mention, and others whom I suppose you intend. I think to 
 most of them my speaking in your name will have the same effect ; and if you 
 were to write at all, I should think it nnght be more proper to secure some of vour 
 friends in power. 
 
 Ross has wrote to vou •with regard to our -want of proof of the manner in which the 
 money has been expended ; to which yoiu- two members can say nothing, and which 
 is necessary to be proved, whether the petition be opposed or not. I almost wish that 
 some opposition may be set a-foot, that I may have once an opportunitj- of gi^Tng some 
 small mark, with how much zeal and real gratitude I am, 
 
 My Dear Lord, 
 
 Lincoln's Inn, ") Your most Affectionate and Obli^red hu. Ser\--, 
 
 .} 
 
 i8"' Feb. 1737-8./ W.MURRAY. 
 
 Note. — The approbation of the great and the virtuous, and of conscience, is the most grateful reward 
 of rrerix ; and perhaps few have enjoved that satisfaction in so eminent a degree as President Forbes. 
 Mr. Murrar (Lord Mansfield) was now himself rising into distinction, and became so much the object of 
 public admiration as to draw forth the Epistle of Mr. Pope, from which the following lines are here 
 inserted, as they shew how early his abiliries were conspicuous : 
 
 ■ " 'V Grac'd as thou art with all the power of words ; 
 
 So known, so honoured, at the House of i.ords ; 
 Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, 
 
 (More silent far) where kings and poets lie ; "^ 
 
 tMiere Murrav (long enough his Country's pride) 
 Shall be no more than TuUy or than Hyde. 
 
 Jmitationt cf Hcract — Epistle to Mr. Murray, Boch I. Epistle 6ib. 
 Published kt'Uieen 1750 and 1 740. 
 
 Lord Mansfield enjoyed, to an extreme old age, the applause of his country, and the full possession of 
 the powers of his exidted mind ; and Hved to witness and publish his opinion of the French Revolution. 
 
 No. CLXXS\1.
 
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 No. CLXXXVI. 
 
 The Diike of Argyll to the Lord President, Dated London, March y' a^"", 1738. 
 
 My dear Duncan, -■'.(• 
 
 I HAVE received your Letter, with your state of the Island of Tyrie ; by which 
 I find, a young Man, who could hope for thanks from those who were to succeed him, 
 might make advantage of that place. You know I am not in that state ; but, however, 
 I am not the less oblig'd 'jko you for your constant concern & anxious care for everv 
 thing that in any degree relates to my Interest or Welfare. One very poor return I 
 can make you ; which is, to let the World know, that I am a very Minister if I am 
 not your most faithfull Servant. From this you may believe that I could have no 
 greater pleasure than the hearing of your Recovery ; &, next to that, I am glad to find 
 Doctor Ciark has subdued you : I say subdued you, because I can make no doubt but 
 vou strugl'd most imprudently hard to make your way to the North. I hope, & indeed 
 tJiink, the Parliament cannot sit long, tho' they have at present before them an affair ' 
 of the greatest concern to this nation that I beheve any Parliament in this Country ever 
 had before them : for my part, I cannot conceive that we have more than one party to 
 take ; that is, if y'' honour, dignity, & Interest of Britain, are to be considered ; and 
 I hope our Ministers will not lay those considerations out of the case, altho' the 
 doing their Country Justice should in some degree interfeer with their private Interest. 
 The moment we are at liberty, I shall make the best of my w-ay to Stony Hill, where 
 I hope to find you in health to doe as you did, but in prudence obeying Doctor 
 Clark's directions. I am. 
 
 Dear Duncan, 
 
 most faithfully Yours, 
 
 ARGYLL & GREENWICH. 
 
 No. CLXXXVII. 
 
 The Lord President to M' Scrope, dated Edinburgh, 30"' March 1738. 
 
 S', 
 
 A PIECE of Intelligence.! have just received puts me under the necessity of 
 giving you the trouble of this Memorial ; which, if needful!, you will be so good as 
 to lay before S' Robert Walpole. 
 
 In the 5"' year of his late Majesty, an end was put to the claim for an excrescent 
 equivalent, by granting to the Creditors of the Publick in Scotland an Annuity after 
 the rate of 4 ^ Cent, on their Capitall, redeemable by P;> .liament ; and the Crown 
 was authorized to incorporate those publick Creditors, which was accordingly done, 
 and they were incorporated by Charter, by the name of The Equivalent Company. 
 
 In the first year of His present Majesty, a Charter passed under the Great Seal 
 directed by the Treaty of Union to be used for Scotland, erecting such of the Proprie- 
 tors cf the Stock of the Equivalent Company as should subscribe for that purpose, 
 into a Banking Company, under the name of the Royal Bank of Scotland ; and the 
 Company so erected have carried on with success the Business of Banking down to 
 this time. 
 
 One of the means this Banking Society used to recommend itself to the favour of 
 the nation, in rivalship with the old Bank, was, to take first .j£'2o,ooo, and then 
 j^2o,ooQ. more of the monies intended for improvement of Fisheries & Manufac- 
 
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 tures, and to hold that money at legal interest ; which has enabled the trustees for 
 those improvements to carrv on their undertakings hitherto vcith success, and has been 
 no considerable loss to the Bank, because it supplied them with so much cash to carry 
 on their Business, without putting them to the necessity of making Calls on the Pro- 
 piietors for that end. As the Banking powers of this Society cannot last after redemp- 
 tion of the Stock, the Proprietors whereof are incorporated ; and as the trustees for 
 the Manufectures found it very convenient for them to have the Publick money so 
 lodged, that they could depend upon the punctual payment of the interest ; a pro- 
 posal was set on foot some years ago to apply to the Crown fdf a new Charter, granting 
 to the Royal Bank a perpetuity' of their Corporate Capacitv, inth powers of Banking 
 even after redemption of the Annuity to which their Proprietors are entitled. In con- 
 sideration whereof, they were to hold the ^40,000. they had in their hands of the 
 Monies intended for improvements at legal interest, so long as it should be found 
 necessary to suffer that IMoney to lye at interest. 
 
 And, accordingly, an hmnble Petition was presented to His Majesty by the Royal 
 Bank, reciting of wha? service they had been, and might still be of, to the improve- 
 ments in Scotland, and prating for a perpetuity as aforesaid. 
 
 This Petition was referred to their Advocat & Solicitor Gen', who had several 
 Meetings \dxh the Directors of the Royal Bank ; in which it was always agreed, that 
 the said Bank should be obliged to hold the said ^'40,000. at legal interest ; but there 
 was some diversity of opinion as to the manner in which the settlement should be con- 
 cluded, which hindered matters to be finally adjusted. But it was still understood, 
 that the Directors of the Bank were to make no progress towards obtaining their 
 Charter, without satisfying the trustees for the Manuiadures that they were to be 
 boimd to hold the ^40,000. as aforesaid. 
 
 Nevertheless, I have just now been informed, that the Directors of the Royal Bank 
 have lately, without the pri\-ity of the trustees, applyed to his Maj' by petition, pray- 
 ing a new Charter, which shall give their incorporation perpetual endurance ; That 
 this Petition was of course referred to his Maj" Advocat or Solhcitor ; and that there 
 is a Report made upon it, certifving that His Maj'" may lawfully grant a charter as 
 prayed by the Petition ; but without raking any notice of the ^40,000. to be held for 
 the conveniency of the improvement of the ^Manufactures in Scotland. This unex- 
 pefted step alarms me very much ; and the' I agree in opinion with mv Lei^d Ad- 
 vocat, that His iVIaj-" may lawfully grant the perpetuit}- sought ; vet as it is of Grace 
 only that he is to grant it, there is no doubt he may make it a condition of that Grant, 
 that the Bank do hold the said Sum of ,^40,000. as they hitherto have agreed to do. 
 
 And it seems to be the more necessary to bind them do-^Ti to this, that if they obtain 
 their perpetuit)- without it, we shall have two perpetual Banks in Scotland, whose 
 Business it will be to lend Monev, and who. if thev can agree, may carry the Business 
 of lending so far as to make it impossible for the trustees to find a suffioient secmity 
 for the public money ; at least, for answering punctually the interest of it : w" must 
 prove a great discouragement to the scheme of improvements, how successfully soever 
 it goes on at present. 
 
 After what I have said, I should still hope that it is not the intention of the Ma- 
 nagers for the Bank to do, what the manner of their application gives ground to 
 suspect ; but still it seems to me necessar)^ in a matter of this kind, to have some 
 securin' from the Company, that they will do what's expefted before the Charter 
 pass. The Assembly of the trustees stands adjourned for some days ; which is the 
 reason why I, as one of them who have the improvement of this poor Country very 
 
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 much at heart, give you the trouble of this, that you may make the proper use of it, 
 to prevent a surprize, if any is intended. 
 
 1 am, <Scc. 
 
 Dear S% Ed% Same Date. 
 
 I blush to give you so much trouble ; but there being none but yourself to whom 
 I can resort in my own & my Country's distresses, 1 must even go on as usual. The 
 inclosed Letter or Memoriall, tho' ill wTote, is intended to be ostensible, and, if ne- 
 cessary, to be made public use of. If you can take the Trouble to read it, you will 
 understand what follows in this letter, w- is only for yourself ; and which gives me 
 the spleen to a very high degree, as foreseeing what mischief to the Publick, and to 
 those whom I wish extremely well to in the management of it, such sort of Conduct, 
 and the spirit from whence it flows, may produce. The Managers for the Bank in this 
 project are. Lord Justice Clerk, Lord IMonzie, and the Advocat, who are also trustees 
 for the Manufactures. Some years ago they agreed, by a formal writing, to hold the 
 ^40,000. ; but upon being told then, by a great Man who was their Governour, 
 that they might have their Charter without this clog, they found out one difficulty after 
 another to postpone the Settlement, whilst I was in the course of seeing you in London 
 once a year. They made no attempt for seeing what fate it must probably have ; but 
 now, that my back is turned, you see they put forth the cloven foot, and in a clan- 
 destine way endeavour to steal a favoiu", w\ sued for after telling the whole truth, 
 could hardly be without some condition obtained. It grieves one to think, that the 
 projectors of this surprize to overreach the Manufactures are themselves trustees for 
 those Manufactures, and trustees who are fond of many projects, in w^ I have the 
 misfortune to differ with them. As this is a matter of consequence, w^ must in course 
 pass thro' your hands, I leave it to yourself to make what use you think fitt of what 
 I suggest to you, because you can judge much better than I can, and have at all times 
 employed that Judgment for the benefit of, &c. 
 
 No. CLXXXVIII. 
 
 From Lord Cornbury to the Lord President ; dated London, April 18*, 1738. 
 
 WITHOUT waiting. My Lord, to enquire when is the Post day, or by what hands 
 I can transmitt this Letter to you, I feel an impatience to write down my acknowledge- 
 ment for yours the moment after I have received it. 
 
 I have alwavs wished to love the Publick better than myself, as the more honest and 
 reasonable affection ; and, in my very little sphere of action, have always endeavoured 
 to prefer the interests of the Publick to my owTi ; and upon this principle, I congra- 
 tulated myself that I could feel a Joy in your being intrusted with the property of 
 Scotland, tho' the care of it called you from this part of the World, where the good- 
 ness you began to express for me would otherwise have flattered me with a prospefl: 
 of much pleasure, and of many advantages, from your acquaintance, from your ex- 
 ample, and perhaps you might sometimes have allowed from your advice too. 
 
 With these thoughts of you, My Lord, very frequent and very sincere, it could 
 not but be a great satisfadtion to me to find that you retained any of me ; especially 
 that you did me the Justice to believe that I should have a pleasure in serving you 
 wherever it was in my power ; and I could heartily have wished, if it might have hap- 
 pened without farther trouble to you, that the proof I desir'd to give of my regard 
 for you could have been in some point more material. 
 
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 You overrate this much. 1 am happy, however, that it has given me an opportu- 
 nit\' of hearing of you, which I often endeavour to do, and of knowing that you con- 
 tinue vour goodness for me, which I will endeavour to desen-e better ; and tho' 
 it is verv unhkely that it should ever be in my power to express my regard for you 
 personally, otherwise than in words, yet I shall have the pleasure to think that 
 your Character puts it in my power to serve you (unless I mistake the means) the 
 same wav in which I mean to serve myself ; which is, -with the sincerest good inten- 
 tions, and with the best of my abUit)', in serving my Countrs-, Whoever means that, 
 ■will be, as I am with verv great esteem, 
 
 • ' My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's oblig'd & obedient 
 
 humble Servant, 
 
 CORNBURY. ' 
 
 No. CLXXXIX. 
 
 M' Murdoch to M'' John Forbes. 
 ^Iv Dearest F. 
 
 I RECXmiD your'g, and am quite charmed with the account you give of your 
 affairs, and vour agreeable wav of li\'ing -with your father. I had heard a Httle of what 
 you tell me, and the same Character of the person. I knew the Brother last time I 
 was abroad, and think him a young Gentleman of good sense and temper, and I be- 
 lieve the whole family have that Character. How happy shall I be, my dearest J. to see 
 you safe in the pon of Ufe, after all the storms past, and all the dangers that young 
 adventurers are exposed to. In the mean time, your Father's ad%ice is certainly worthy 
 of his own prudence ; besides what particular reasons of Convenience he may have, it 
 is best in these cases to do nothing rashly, that a man may know his ovra heart, and 
 his Constancv. When people enter headlong into such Engagements, they as quickly 
 repent of 'em ; but when one acls upon motives of deliberate reason, as well as passion, 
 the case is different ; when not only affection, but a well-founded esteem, have sub- 
 sisted aheadv for a considerable time, enjoyment will not destroy but continue them ; 
 and the married state vd!! be of all others the happiest, mcluding all the joys of friend- 
 ship as well as love, muldplying all the tender and social Affections, and easing all the 
 pains of life, by sharing them with a faithful partner. As to my own aSairs, which 
 you so kindlv enquire after, you know I am fixt here in a 1 oc^. li^'ing, vdth which, 
 thank God 1 I am very well content, when I see the Misery that people born to no 
 fortunes are reduced to, when they take it in their heads to throw themselves into the 
 gi-and monde. The dutvs of my OfEce are bv no means disagreeable ; and the soli- 
 tude I live in, tho' sometimes a Httle irksome, has its convemencies. If I had Books, I 
 Virant not time ; and I am pleased to find, that so long rambling has not abated ray 
 love of study. When I came hither, my house was in exceeding bad order. I have 
 now fitted up a Parlour, Bed Chamber, and Closet, to my mind ; and hope to be snug 
 and decent enough next Winter. At the same time, this has emptied my pockets, and 
 disabled me from making a small remittance which I intended for my Sister. This forces 
 me to put you in mind, if you have not done it already, of that 5it', I formerly wrote 
 you of, that when you have a convenient occasion, you would transmit it to Frank 
 
 • This was the Nobleman alluded to by Mr. Pope in the following lines ; 
 Would you be blest, despise low joys, low gains. 
 
 Disdain whatever Combury disdains; > 
 
 Be virtuous, and be happy for your pains. J 
 
 Paton
 
 CUM.ODKN PAPERS. 1 49 
 
 Paton at Dumfries, for her use. I told you, you remember, that I had disbursed near 
 that sum for you when I was last abroad ; which, however, considering all that I owe 
 you, I should never once have mentioned, if necessity had not compelled me. I had 
 not saved one farthing in my last jaunt, and at the same time I found myself obliged 
 to do something for so near a relation, who, by reason of continual sickness, can do 
 little for herself. My dearest J. I have nothing to add, but that you continue to live 
 with your Father as you are now doing, and to follow his advice in all things, as the 
 best and sincerest you can use. Read history and morality for use, and other things 
 for amusement only. Cultivate friendship with the Gentlemen of yourNeighbourhood ; 
 make yourself agreeable to your relarions ; and think not of any jaunts either to Hol- 
 land or London, till you come up as Member of Parliament. Thomson • cursed like 
 a heathen, that you came not when your Father went out : perhaps it was not then 
 proper ; but now, as you will be settled hi the World, and as the Capt" will probably 
 have his turn served by the time this Parliament is dissolved, I would have you think 
 .seriously of it ; and be preparing things de longue main, by rendering yourselt popular 
 and agreeable to the Country. It gives a Man a certain distinction, and enables him 
 to serve his friends ; if he is an honest Man, gains him universal esteem ; and as your 
 Father has served the Goverm' all along upon such generous terms, I think it were 
 no unreasonable expectation in you, to hope for some easy place in the Revenue, or so. 
 When you once have a family, you will find what a difference 4 or 500^. -^ Ann. will 
 make in your affairs. But all this you ought to keep secret, and mention to your Father 
 only, upon a proper occasion. 
 
 My kind love to D' Frazer & my Brother Baillie. I embrace you with my inmost 
 soul, and ever am 
 
 Yours, 
 Stradishall, 15=" Aug. 1738. • • P.M. 
 
 No. CXC. 
 
 Offer from the Duke of Argyll of a Commission in the Blues, to the President's Son. 
 My Lord, 24 SeptM738. 
 
 THE Duke of Argyll intended to have wrote to you himself to-day ; but some 
 Company coining in hindered it ; and not to lose any time, he has commanded me to 
 acquaint you, that he has just received advice of the death of the Ouarter-lVIaster to 
 the King's troop, in the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, ofw"'' his Grace is Captain; 
 and desires to know if you please to let your Son accept of it. The Quarter-Masters 
 of that Regiment are on a different footing from other Regiments ; they have the King's 
 Comission, & severall people of quality have been quarter-masters in it ; particularly, 
 lately. Captain Fielding, Lord Denbigh's Brother, who purchased a Company of foot 
 with' what he sold that Comission for ; and that if your Son takes it, it may be a means 
 of getting forward if an opportunity offers, or he may afterwards do as he or you thinks 
 proper ; and it is his Grace's opinion he should take it. My Lord Duke desires you 
 will let him have your Answer as soon as possible. 
 
 1 am with all resped, , .' • 
 My Lord, 
 Yd'' Lordship's Most Obedient & most humble Servant, 
 
 JAMES COCKBURN. 
 
 I had forgot to tell yo-^ Ldsp, that the pay of the Quarter-master is eight shillings & 
 sixpence a day. 
 
 '.>i'i; 
 
 • The Author of the Seafons, &c.''.')' ■ -.' n;.' 
 
 Z\ No. CXCL
 
 J ^3 CCLLODEN PAPERS. 
 
 Xo. CXCI. 
 
 The Lord President to The Duke of Argyll, dated CuUoden, 6"" October 1738. 
 
 Mv Lord, . 
 
 ' LAST post brought me your Grace's Commands, m a Letter from M'' Cockburn, 
 of the 24'^ of September ; ordering me to acquaint you, without loss of time, whether 
 I would consent to my Son's accepting a quartennastership in your Troop. 
 
 It would be to no purpose for me to attempt to express my Gratitude for your 
 goodness to me, since you know, better than I can well tell you, how my heart is 
 strung ; and it was to as litle purpose, if your Grace will pardon me to say so, to have 
 asked my consent to my Son's accepting what you thought proper for him ; what is 
 usefuU and reputable for him in that way you know infinitely better than I do ; and I 
 am confident the friendship with which you have honoured me, will always guide you 
 in what tou propose for him. The possession of your Grace's good will upon princi- 
 ples that I think honest has been the chief pleasure — nay, indeed, the pride of my 
 •life. Now if mv Son, tho' not at present so perfect as I could -nish him, should under 
 your Eye improve, so as to share any part of your favour, as I am confident he is 
 honest and has an hereditarv^ veneration for your Grace, it would cut off all further 
 sollicitude about the things of this World ; and I shall dy, whenever that shall be my 
 Lot, with great tranquillit}-. If what your Grace proposes succeed, you will be 
 so o-'ood as to cause some one give me nonce ^hen I should order him to wait on you. 
 I ani at present confined to my Chamber by a sore shin I had some days ago leaping over 
 a Ditch I am makeing ; but I am in hopes of being soon at libert)', when I shall move 
 South\vard. I am most faithfully, as I ever have been. Your Grace's 
 
 Xo. CXCTI. 
 
 The Lord President to Capt. Alex' Forbes, Ropl Gray Dragoons. 
 
 Dear Sandy, , . . 
 
 YOL'fRS of the ig'"'' of July, touching the effects ot your Brother William, and 
 your Purpose of vesting that and your own money in Land, is now before me. What 
 you find in his Inventarj-, that ther is 4,000!. of his money in my hands, is true ; he 
 remitted it when he resolved to leave India : and I, by a Letter to him, acknowledged 
 the recapt of it, ■» hich Letter mav probably have come to your hands. 
 
 That sum, as soon as I could, I applyed to pay off so much of my Brother's debt ; 
 and of course it carries mterest from the time it was so applyed, which I cannot at 
 present exactly recollect, till I come at my Papers. Ther v\ill be no occasion for you 
 or Hugh to make up any title to it, other than the Will which you have already proved, 
 and vou mav count upon it as so much Cash. 
 
 As for your purpose of laj-ing out your money in Land, I approve of it in generall ; 
 but must insist \^ith you not to be over hasty, and to look well before you leap. You 
 can change hands whilst your Effects are in Money ; but when you have once fettered 
 them in Lands, you cannot so easily draw the Stake. In the Purchase of Land, you 
 ought, according to mv apprehension, to have two things in view : The one, to avoid 
 settling in the neighbourhood of this Cit)-, where lands are less improveable than they 
 are at a greater distance, where they are' dearer in the rate of purchase, and where they 
 are eternally shifting Masters ; occasioned chiefly by the mischievous turn to idleness 
 and expence, that the young Fry brought up in this neighbourhood are bred to : a 
 
 circumstance 
 
 D. F.
 
 CUEtODEN PAPERS. I5I 
 
 circumstance which every one who sets up a family, whether he has Children of his 
 own or no, ought to attend to. The other (and with respect to it I may possibly be 
 partial]) is, that you ought to think of forcing as near as may be to the nest from 
 wliich you came. Had S' David & Co" Forbes, wliom you came early enouo'h into 
 the world to be acquainted witli, settled near the nest, they would have strengthened 
 it, and made a much more considerable figure themselves than they now do, when lost 
 in the crowd of much greater fortunes in Lothian and Fife, where their Successors 
 have no friends to make them significant, or to support them ; in short, dear Sandy, 
 if we are near to one another, we may be useful to each other ; but being separated, 
 the memory of the relation is in a few generations lost, and ther springs little advan- 
 tage to either in the mean time. Having said so much, )'ou will easily observe that 
 I am against your thinking of Carkerry, & positive in my opinion that you should 
 look for a purchase in the North. Cromerty would answer that view well enough ; 
 but I take it, there is another Gentleman already in the Play, who has made consider- 
 able advances that way, and is likely to pay for it more than I should consent to your 
 paying for Land : Gold may be too dear bought. But tho' there is nothing just 'at 
 this moment fit for you in the Market, you may set your Mind at rest ther will very 
 soon. The greatest part of my neighbours are in a very tottering condition. I am 
 sorry that ther is no great appearance that Castlehill, Clava, and several others can 
 keep their estates ; and should these come into the Market, they would, I beheve, 
 answer your views, I am sure they would answer mine : I therefore think you ought 
 to have some patience. William Forbes tells me, he can find hands for your Money, out 
 of which you may easily call it when ther shall be occasion. The Interest will bring 
 more Money into your Pocket than the rent of any Lands you can meet with ; and I 
 shall have it in my Eye, whenever any Lands fit for you, according to the views I 
 have already explained, offer, to lay hold of them for your Service. In the mean 
 time, show this to Hugh ; compare Notes with him, and tell me whether you approve 
 of my sentiments. I am just going North, after being wrought to a jelly by the 
 Rascally Business I am tyed to. 
 
 I am, dear Sandy, truely yours, 
 
 DUN. FORBES. 
 Edinburgh, ") 
 7"' August 1739. J 
 
 Xo. CXCIII. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Hardwicke. ■., . 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 THE latter end of June a Letter from M' Meriot, directed to the Lord President 
 of the Session at Edinburgh, came to my hand, inclosing the Order made by the 
 House of Peers on the Lords of Session in Scotland, to make up a Roll or List of the 
 Peers of Scotland at the time of the Union, whose Peerages are still continueing ; and 
 to state in such Roll, or List, so far as the Lords of Session shall be able, the par- 
 ticular limitations of such Peerages ; and to lay the same before the House in the next 
 Session of Parliament. 
 
 "When I have acquainted your Lop that our Records, through many Cross Acci- 
 dents, at, & long before the Usurpation of Oliver Cromwell, are so broken and in- 
 terrupted, that we cannot by their help come at the limitations of Peerages ; and when 
 you reflect, that we have no Authority to bring persons possest of or claiming Peerages 
 / before
 
 Ij; CCLLODES P.VPER5. 
 
 before us, or to cause them exhibit their patents, or other titles, you will easieiy see 
 it is impossible for us to give to the Peers that satisfaction, which the Order seems to 
 expect ; and that nothing less than ane Act of Par l ia m ent, obUdgeing all Persons, 
 as' a Dav certain, to claim ic exhibite their Tides, can enable us to do it. I do not, 
 however, wonder that such ane Order shou'd be thought of, by noble Lords, who do 
 not know the state of our Records ; but I am confident my Countryman, mv Lord 
 Ilav, has not been in the House when it was made ; because he cou'd have satisfied 
 them, the execution of it, as it stands, is impracticable. 
 
 Your Lop by this time sees the Court of Session can do nothing to purpose on this 
 Order ; but what I chiefiv presume to give vou trouble on is a matter meerlv of form, 
 which alarms some of us, and in which I, as your Old Friend Duncan Forbes, dad 
 not as President of the Court, beg yoiu- ad\"ice. We are, you must know, when we 
 are seated, verv high ic mighty. Our Soveraigns, ever since the L^nion of the Cjowns, 
 when thev had anv Commands for us, did us the honour to write to us ; ?^d some of 
 us imagine, that when the House of Lords are pleased to make any Order upon us 
 (otherwise than in the ordinar\- course of Judgement on Appealls), it ought to be no- 
 tvfied to us, and transmitted to us, in some way different from what on this occasion 
 has been followed, a Letter from the Assistant Clerk. 
 
 Orders made by the Lords en the Judges of England require no Notification, because 
 the judges either are, or are supposed to be, in oie House ; but that not being our 
 case, some form of Notification ought to be established. 
 
 Orders made in Causes at Appeall are brought back to us with the cause, are part 
 thereof, &: regulate our proceedings. 
 
 I can recollect but one instance since the L^nion, until this time, in which the House of 
 Lords made any such Order as I now speak cf on the Court of Session ; and that was 
 on occasion of the Act of Parliament of the 4'^ of the late King, which created to the 
 Court of Session a new jurildiction, of hearing and determineing all exceptions taken by 
 Persons interested in Estates supposed to be forfeited, ag' the late Commissioners of 
 Inquirv, &c. : In execution of this Act, the Court of Session proceeded to give judgment 
 inmanv cases which the House of Lords thought did not fall within the jurisdiction then 
 given to them ; and therefore the Lords ordered the Court of Session to lav before 
 their Lop% thor reasons for takeing upon them to proceed in these Cases. This Order 
 was transmitted (as I have been told by my Brethren) by the late Lord Macclesfield, 
 then Lord Chancellor, and the Answer of the Court was returned to his Lop ; tho' I 
 can neither find the Order nor the Ans', nor the Lord Chancellor's Letter, in our books 
 of Sederunt : in such Order was the Business of the Court keept at that time. 
 
 For my own part, I must confess to your Lop, that I am altogether unacquainted 
 with matters of form, or rather punctilios of this kind, and as Htle disposed as any 
 man to lay any stres up'on them. But if it should be your Lop' Opinion, as I must 
 own, so fer as I have been able to form any, it is mine, that this Order, and future 
 Orders of this kind, should be transmitted in a manner different iirom that in which 
 this has been sent to us, it w! " ' .,ie to sett the matter to Rights ; and if the con- 
 trary' shall be your Opinion, - ^ns of it will very much determine mine. I beg 
 that your Lop may, with the same freedom that you have at all times honoured me 
 with, give me your sentiments on this subject, however triffleing it may seem to be ; 
 knowing that it will fo no further than for the regulation of my private conduct. Some 
 of my Brethren were desireous that i, as President, shou'd write to yotir Lop in form ; 
 but that I absolutely declined, because it might be unfitt for your Lop to retmn me 
 any answer in that Capacit}-. What you may be pleased to say, in rerorn to this, will 
 be for me and for me only. 
 
 I am
 
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 J 
 
 I ain ashamed for have [having] detained you so long on a subject that is so incon- 
 siderable, compared with what dayly occupys you ; but I know you will pardon me, 
 because 
 
 I am most faithfully your Lop's, &c. 
 Edin' 7th August 1739. > ' :• ." ■ 
 
 No. CXCIV. 
 
 -"" From Lord Hardwicke to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, ' Carshalton, Sep' 27"' 1739. 
 
 I RECEIVED the honour of your Lordship's letter of the 31" August*, which 
 should have been sooner acknowledged, if I had not been making use of the Leisure 
 of this short vacation in moving about from one place to another. Your Lordship's 
 notion of the propriety of avoiding such disputes as that now under consideration, is 
 perfectly agreeable to your usual prudence and candour ; and my mind entertained not 
 the least doubt of what was your own opinion about the conduct which the Court 
 ought to hold on this occasion, even before you particularly stated it to me. As to 
 the right of the case, I will own with great freedom, that I think no point of Right is 
 concerned in it, and am not able to add any thing to what I took the liberty to offer 
 to your Lordship's Consideration in my former letter * ; especially being at present in 
 the Country at a distance (I thank God) from all Journals, and books of that nature. 
 But as to the difference (whereon your Brethren seem to found themselves) between the 
 Courts of England and your Court, in respect of the presumption that the English 
 Judges are always present in the House of Lords, it seems to be far from being deci- 
 sive in this case. Thus much is certain, that the English Judges are called by writ, 
 and have a right to be there ; but it is settled by constant and ancient practice, that 
 only two of them attend daily by rotation ; and the House frequently makes orders 
 for the attendance of all the Judges, sometimes of the Judges of one particular Court, 
 and sometimes of such as are not gone the Circuits. These Orders are never signified 
 by the Lord on the Woolsack, but always delivered by the lowest Officers of the 
 House ; tho' when an Order is made on any particular Lord, who is absent, either to 
 attend the House or for any other purpose, such Order is always transmitted to him 
 by letter from the Speaker. This shews that the non-transmission of the Orders of the 
 House by the Speaker, to the English Judges, doth not arise from their being pre- 
 sumed to be present ; for so, a fortiori, are all the Peers, and yet Orders made upon 
 them are constantly so notified. 
 
 If the supposition of the English Judges being present, is compared to the Case of 
 a party in a Cause depending, who, after appearance, is always supposed to be in 
 Court, that also would not, according to our rules, afford any argument why the 
 Orders of the House should not so be notified to them ; for, with us. Orders made in 
 a Cause must be served either upon the Party or his Agent before he is obliged to obey 
 them, or can be subjeded to the penalty of a contempt for not doing it ; unless in 
 some few special Cases. 
 
 Your Lordship is pleased to make a very polite acknowledgement of my offer to re- 
 ceive the answer of the Court, if sent up to me, and to deliver it to the House with 
 my own hands. You may be assured that I shall never be wanting in my regard to so 
 
 * This Letter docs not appear.
 
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 CL'LLODEN" PAPERS. 
 
 great and respeclable a Judicature as the Court of Session ; more especially whilst 
 your Lordship presides at the head of it ; and you are fully at Iibert\' to acquaint your 
 brethren, that you are sure this will be done. But you must give me leave to sav, that 
 as I proposed this method by way of expedient to avoid disputes, so it must be under- 
 stood to be on this Condition, that the answer contains no obieaion or insinuation 
 touching the manner of notifying the Order ; for if it does, it must come in, in the 
 common form. — It gave me much pleasure to observe, that your lener was dated from 
 a place of Recess from Business, where I heartily "wish you the enjovment of much 
 pleasure, and the perfect establishment cf your health, for the happiness of your' 
 Country, and of all your friends ; amongst whom I bes vou will alwavs number, 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obedient 
 
 and most faithful humble Ser\-anr, 
 
 HARDWICKZ. 
 The L* President of the Session, Edin% 
 
 Xo. CXCV. 
 
 Lady Margarett Macdonald to Lord Milton, Justice Clerk, concerning emigration ta 
 
 America. Dated Sky, Jan- i, 174c. 
 
 Dear Justice, 
 
 BEING informed by different hands from Ed', that there is a currant Report of 
 a Ship's haveing gon from thiss Country \vith a greate many people disignd for 
 America, i: that Sir Alex' is thought to [have^ concurred in forceing these people 
 awav ; As I am positive of the falshood of this, & quite acquainted with the d an ger of a 
 Report of this kind, I begg leave to informe your Lod" of the reall matter of fact. 
 In Herv-esr last, wee were priuy much alarm'd w''' accoimts, from different Corners of 
 thiss ic some neighbouring Islands, of persons being seized &: carry'd aboard of a Ship 
 which putt into differant placess on thiss coast. Sir Alex' was both anger)- & concern'd 
 at that time, to hear that some of his oune people were taken in thiss manner ; but 
 cou'd not learn who were the actors in thiss wicked scrape, rill the Ship was gon. One 
 Normand M'Leod, w^ a number of Fellows that he had pick'd up to execute his in- 
 tentions, were the Real Actors of thiss affair. Sir Alex' never made much noise about 
 the thing, in hop's that thiss Norm- M'Leod might some time or other cast up ; But 
 he has never y' appaired in thiss part of the world, ^- probably never wiU as the thing 
 has made so much noise : he's accompUces have betaken themselves to the Hills, & 
 lately rob'd a Serv'- of ours comeing from Ed', out of pique to his Master ; and one 
 of them knock'd him doun, & cutt him over the head terribly. Sir Alex' is just now 
 bussv indeavouring to detect any of these Rogues that may be yet in Sky, & hopes soon 
 to apprehend some cf those who have left it. Tho' thiss is the real matter of tact. Sir 
 Alex' can't help being concerned that he shou'd be any ways mentioned in the Story, 
 tho' quite inosent. This affair has made so much noise w'^ you because of the w-ay it 
 has been represented from Irland, that possibly there may be an intention of prosecut- 
 ing Sir Alex". If that shou'd go on, tho' it cannot be dangerouse to him, yett it can- 
 not iaill of being both troublesome and expensive ; And therefore lett me begg of 
 your Lop to write to the people of poure above to prevent thiss impending Evell, be- 
 cause a little rime may bring the real Adors to a tryall, which I dare say your Lop 
 wou'd rather see in a pannel then imagenary persones that had no hand in the maner. 
 Tho' I have no reasone to believe your Lop will be remiss in any affair of such 
 
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 consiquence to us both, my anxiety obligess me to intreate you'll take this affair so 
 much into considderation, that you'll delay no time in makeing applications where 
 you judge it proper ; & trust me, D' Justice, thiss favour shall make me, with more 
 Gratitude than ever, 
 t^ •. -' •• Your most Obd' & ever devoted Serv", 
 
 MARG" MACDONALD. 
 Remember me to Lady Milton, & the Young Folks. 
 
 No. CXCVI. 
 
 Gen' Oglethorpe to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 IT is with pleasure I take any occasion of expressing my affection to your Lord- 
 ship. Captain Mackintosh gives me this opportunity, who is travelling, from the South 
 of Georgia to the North of Scotland. He has been many years in this Country ; and 
 behaved himself so well towards me, that I must intreat your Lordship's friendship to 
 him, and shall look upon any favours bestowed upon him as if done to myself. His 
 long absence from his Country is the only reason that makes it necessary for me to 
 recommend him ; for otherwise his birth, being the Laird of Mackintosh's F.rother, is 
 such as would have made recommendations entirely needless. He will acquaint you 
 with the News here. We have taken two of the Spanifh Forts in one day. George 
 Dunbar, who is Lieutenant in y Regiment here, has distinguished himself ; he has 
 taken one of the Spanish Lavmches. We hope, with the Assistance of the Neighbour- 
 ing Provinces, soon to besiege Augustine. I must not farther trespass on your Lord- 
 ship's time which is so important to the welfare of thousands, and I believe the best 
 Compliment is concluding. 
 
 I am, My Lord, : 
 
 Frederica, in Georgia, Your Lordship's most Obedient humble servant, 
 
 21 Feb: 1739-40. JAMES OGLETHORPE. 
 
 No. CXCVII. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Hardwicke. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I HEREWITH send you my excuse for not returning sooner an Answer to your 
 Lop's most obhging Letter of the 27"' of September, which determined me to undertake 
 that labour, of which the inclosed return is the result. I am in doubt \\ hether it is pru- 
 dent in me to own, that the whole trouble and fatigue of this Report fell to my share ; 
 because, of course, any imperfedtions that may be in it, bateing those that may be found 
 in some alterations made by my Brethren, must ly at my door ; but as it is not fit to 
 conceal any thing from your Loj5 I freely confess that my Brethren are not chargeable 
 v.ith any escapes that may be met with in it ; none of them having given themselves 
 the least trouble about it, except in a few alterations which are not important. 
 
 I am satisfied that when your Lop casts your Eye on the Report you will wonder at 
 the uncertainty of it, and be surprized at my talking of it as a work of so much labour 
 and fatigue ; but if your Lop was to know, as from very painful experience during 
 the course of this winter I have discovered, the absolute confusion in which all our 
 Records (except those that regard Land Rights) lye, the Insufficiency of the Officers 
 
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 generally employed in taking care of them, and the total neglect of those who ought 
 to be answerable for those Officers, and ought to keep them in order, you would not 
 wonder Avhy it gives so litle satisfaction, nor w^ould you be surprised at my speaking of 
 it as of what has given me much trouble. I ought to be ashamed, for the sake of my 
 Country, of what I am now to relate ; but it would be shameful for me not to relate to 
 vour Lop, who belong equally to ever)- part cf Great Britain, vs hat is true, that since 
 the nations have been united the most scandalous negled has prevailed in an article very 
 delicate, the keeping of our Records. The Lord Register, whose Pro\Tnce that is, 
 has now a verv large, and at the time of the union had a pretty- high allowance, for 
 taking care of the Records, Registers, and Rolls. It was his duty to enter all the 
 orders, acts, and resolutions of the Parliament of Scotland, into proper Registers ; and 
 as the Votes at Elections of Peers since the Union were to be collected by him, or by 
 his Deputies, it lay upon that Oiticer to have made some entry of the transactions at 
 the severall Meetings for Election ; but your Lop must needs be surprised when you 
 are told, that there is no Record made of anvElettion of a~Peer or Peers since the 
 union, nor any vestige of the transactions at such Elections, except that the qualifica- 
 tions, the proxys, and the signed Lists of the absent Peers at each Election, and the 
 Protestations, are tied up in bundles or bags, and tossed together into a heap in the 
 Register house, without a j>ossibihty of being satisfied as to any one question, except 
 one look throw the whole lumber ; and when you are informed of what is much more 
 astonishing, that, tho' at the conclusion of ever\' Parliament of Scotland before that in 
 which the union was enacted, all the Proceedings of Parliament were regularly 
 reduced into Registers properly authenticated, yet the Afts and transaOions of that Par- 
 liament Ive still in heaps of btmdles vmentered and unregistered ; and it is nov^' at the 
 mercy of everv Rat, by cutting the Packthread %vith which the several Bundles contain- 
 ing the Resolutions of that Parliament are boimd up, to mix them together so as to 
 make it diiEcult to separate them, and consequently to destroy the E^ndence of the very 
 z€t of the tmion. I mention this circumstance, not only xsixh a view to satisf)' your 
 Lordship that I had more labor than at first sight could easily be suspeded ; but that, 
 if your Lordship permit me, I may hereafter, when you have more leisure, make use of 
 your intercession to have this gross abuse remedied ; and at present I would only say, 
 that a verv small suia, under proper direction, will do it ; and that if the matter is not 
 speedily looked after, it will in a verv few years prove irremediable. 
 
 The hurry of Business that attends the conclusion of the Term with us hindered the 
 dispatching of this Packet by the last post ; and the fatigue of this day, which is the 
 last of OUT Term, disables me from giving vou any further trouble. I am perswaded 
 ii will be none to be told, what you verj- well know, that I am with a true heart, 
 
 ^ly Lord, 
 
 Your Lop's most faithful 
 and most Obed' hble Ser\-ant, 
 Ed' 29"" Feb*- 174c. DUN. FORBES. 
 
 P.S. I need not suggest that this is only for your self. 
 
 Xo. CXCVIII. 
 
 The Lord President to Mr. WiUiara Grant, dated 29"" Febry 1 740. 
 My dear Will, 
 
 YOU can better imagine than I can make an Excuse for my not returning you 
 sooner my thanks for the hints you so kindly obliged me with, in relation to the Re- 
 
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 port that was expefted from us on the subjeft of the Peerage. That Report is now 
 finished, and transmitted to My Lord Chancellor, to be layed before the House. Pru- 
 dence might require (because of the small satisfaction it can give, and the many imper- 
 fedions which may be met with in it) that I should not own it as my work ; but I 
 cannot dissemble ; and I do assure you, that if it was possible for you to have any 
 tolerable idea of the confusion of our Records ; the negligence and ignorance of our 
 Officers ; and the contradidion I met with from some of my fellows, from whom I had 
 no reason to expeft any ; you would rather be surprised that this, such as it is, has 
 been produced, than that it is not more perfeft. One thing, however, I think of with 
 some satisfaction ; that, though it has lost me several hundred hours extraordinary labor 
 this Winter, the Business of the Court has suffered no discontinuance. When the term 
 ended this day, no cause ripe for judgment remained undetermined ; none that, within 
 the Rules of the Court, could possibly have been decided was laid over to the next 
 Term ; a Circumstance that has not hapened within any Man's Memory, and of which 
 the Mob are very fond. When the Report comes to your hands, consider it; for I 
 expeft two things from your friendship : the one, that you will defend it, at least make 
 excuses for its faults, to the person from whose motion it arose, and for whose sake I 
 undertook the trouble ; to whom also I beg you will make my compliments. The 
 other, that when you can find so much time, you will freely censure it to me, that I 
 may avoid mistakes upon any future occasion. By my stile you will observe that I am 
 tyred ; and therefor will pardon me that I break off abruptly, by saying that I am 
 perfectly 
 
 Yours. V T 
 
 No. CXCIX. 
 
 Lord Hardwicke to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, ' ' Powis House, Mar. 13"', 1739-40. 
 
 THIS comes accompanied with a Public Letter, serving only to acknowledge the 
 receipt of the Return of the Court of SefTion to the Order of the House of Lords of the 
 12"" of June last. I had barely time to read it over, before it was laid before their Lord- 
 ships, who have ordered it to be printed ; but from so slight a perusal I am fully 
 convinced it must have been a work of great labour ; and cannot but wonder, that in 
 so short a time, and from such imperfeft confused materials, your Lordship has been 
 able to lay so good a foundation for proceeding in this great work. 1 am at present in 
 too great a hurry to enter into all the particulars of your private letter, for which 1 
 return you my sincere thanks. But your Lordship's account of the Condition of your 
 Records gives me equal surprise and concern ; and as this public occasion of looking 
 into them has brought to light so gross a neglect, I hope care will be taken to remedy 
 it, in which I shall be extremely glad to co-operate. Permit me to suggest to your 
 Lordship, whether it would not be proper, in the first place, to have some regular 
 Representation made in form to the Lord Register, desiring his directions to his inferior 
 Officers to redress this grievance, and to put the Records into proper order, and 
 preserve them with due care. If this produced no good effett, it might perhaps afford 
 a ground for some further application ; but of this you are the best judge. 
 
 I heartily congratulate your Lordship upon the ending of your fatigue for this time, 
 and wish you much Relief and increase of health from the Recess, being ever, with 
 great truth & Esteem, My Dear Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's most faithful 
 
 and most Obedient Servant, 
 
 HARDWICKE.
 
 158 CL'LLODEX PAPERS, 
 
 No. CC. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Hardwicke. 
 
 My Lord, Stony Hill, 22°'' March 1739-40, 
 
 THE letters which your Lordship did me the honor to wTite the i y'^ Inst, were 
 brought me by the last post. That which is intended for my brethren shall be com- 
 municated when we next meet, and will, 1 doubt not, give them the sam.e sense of 
 your Lordship's goodness that it gives me. The other gives me a peculiar satisfaction ; 
 as it shews that your Lordship enters into the calamitous state of our records v,ith the 
 same sentiments that possess me. The hint your Lordship gives, of making some 
 Representation to the Lord Register before any other step shall be taken, is undoubtedly 
 proper ; and whenever the noble Lord who holds that office returns to Scotland, I shall 
 take care that application be made to him ; not that I look for any remedy directly 
 from him, as, indeed, the confusion is not properly his fault, and as it mav take more 
 money than it might be just to expect from him to put the records in a proper Condi- 
 tion ; but that the applicauon for a remedy may be begun by his Lordship, which, if 
 properly seconded, must be attended with success. When I say that the present ill 
 state of the Records is not chargeable on the present Lord Register, I mean that the 
 unaccountable neglect which occasioned that state began as early as the Union, and 
 has been continued down ever since, even when men of business, who are now dead 
 and gone, were employed in that important stadon. Now, as it will be a work of great 
 labour and some expense to collect, methodize, and enter what has layen since that 
 time in the outmost Confusion, some small aid of money will be necessary, which the 
 L** Register ought to solhcite ; k when the records are once in order, he and his 
 Successors ought to be obliged to keep them so. As the return is ordered to be 
 printed, it certainly will be fully considered, and undergo a carefull examination. 
 What I earnestly beg of your Lordship is, that as you must, in course, bestow some 
 thoughts on it, you will have the Goodness, at a leisure hour (tho' I know few such 
 fell to your share), to let me have your free and friendly censure on it ; that, if it ever 
 hereafter be my lot to have such another spot of work on my hands, I may avoid the 
 inacuracies and mistakes into which I may have fallen in this. I ask your Lordship's 
 pardon for giving you so long a letter to read at this rime of the Year ; and I am very 
 perfectly Your Lordship's most faithful! and most humble serv', 
 
 DUN. FORBES. 
 
 No. CCI. 
 
 From Lord Hardwicke to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, Carshalton, April 5* 1740. 
 
 I AM just got to this place, quite fatigued and worn down by the attendance of 
 two causes from your Court : Cunninghame ag- Chalmers, and the Earl of Selkirk ag' 
 Duke Hamilton. But tho' I sensibly feel the labour of going thro' them, vet I conceive 
 great pleasure in the different degree of weight and credit with which your decrees come 
 now befc re the house, from what they did a few years ago ; an alteration which I pre- 
 saged would happen, and do most sincerely congratulate your Lordship upon the event. 
 At the same time, pennit me to ask a few questions, for mv private satisfection only, 
 concerning the single point in the last cause, about which we had a difference cf opinion ; 
 I mean the decreeing to Duke Hamilton the principal Sums due upon those heritable 
 Bonds, which were comprised in the Bond of Corroboration. 1 should be glad to know, 
 
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 CULLODEN PAPERS. t^g 
 
 whether the Lords of Session were unanimous on that point ; and, in particular, what 
 was your Lordship's opinion thereupon, as being the most prevalent authority with me ; 
 for both these facts were diS'erently represented here. Your friend, My Lord I., de- 
 bated strongly for reversing that part of the Sixth Interlocutor, and pressed us much 
 with an opinion of Dirleton's, in his short Latin Tract, De feudo pccunia Iff tiominum, 
 Ouast. 5^ Isf 6% whose authority he exalted much. With us in England, particular 
 opinions of Lawyers, delivered in Treadses of Law, are considered as of far less weight 
 than Judicial decisions ; and in this case, such decisions as were produced seemed to 
 me to favour the other way of thinking. Neither did any of the cases put by Sir John 
 Nesbit, in either of those Paragraphs, appear to me to be in point to the present. If 
 your Lordship should find a moment's leisure, during this Recess, you would do me 
 much pleasure to let me know verv shortly your own thoughts on this Question, to- 
 gether with the principal reasons which determined the judgment of the Court upon 
 it. And if you could add to that some account of the authority of the Book called 
 Dirleton's Doubts, and what weight is allowed to it in your Courts, it would enable one 
 to judge a Uttle of Quotations produced from it for the future. It seems to have been 
 a Posthumous Work, and to consist of Collections and hints for private use. I am 
 sensible how barbarous it is to trouble your Lordship, in your short retirement from 
 Fatigue, with the crambe repetlta of an old cause ; but your goodness knows how to 
 indulge the curiosity of a friend, and at the same time will not mendon that I have 
 ^i^rit to you on the Subject. 
 
 I received your Lordship's last favour, and think myself honoured by your approba- 
 tion of the hint for applying to the Lord Register about the State of your Records. I 
 did not imagine that step would, of itself, have much effect ; but it seem'd to be a 
 proper foundation for what you might think right to do afterwards. 
 
 • o J'- - ■'•I • I ^1 always, with the greatest truth and Resped, 
 
 .^..iA-. '.-.;-. .:.. My Lord, ,,:/. 
 
 Your Lordship's most obedient 
 ; i : and faithful humble Servant, 
 
 ...... HARDWICKL. 
 
 No. CCII. 
 
 ' ■' \ 
 M' Murray to the Lord President. •.,>jJ 
 
 My Dear Lord, 
 
 HEARING you was gone North, and not likely to return dll the Business of the 
 Session called you, I delayed my thanks for the last letter you did me the favour of, 
 till I could send them by Ross ; but unluckily I have lost the opportunity ; for I went 
 into the Country during the Whitsun week, to try to get rid of an ugly cough ; and 
 upon my return I found him gone. 
 
 L** C. desired me to make you many Compliments upon your Report, and it well 
 desers'ed them ; the search must have cost great labour in collecting the materials. 
 They are put together in a clear method, and the Observations made with great judge- 
 ment. It was in every body's hands, and most people who read things of that sort read 
 it. It will, I am persuaded, some time or other be the ground-work of a general 
 measure ; and in the meanwhile it will be the Rule applied to upon all Questions of 
 Peerage which may arise. Tho' I never was told, I partly guess at the reasons why 
 nothing more was done upon it this year than ordering it to be printed. 
 
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 I hope you are returned to Business in perfect health ; no man wishes it more, or 
 enjoys with greater satisfacHon the many private and public testimonies of the Wonders 
 you have wrought than, 
 
 My Dear Lord, 
 Lincoln's Inn, Your most AflF. 
 
 lo"^ June 1740. and Ob. hu. Sen-', 
 
 W. MURRAY. 
 
 No. CCIII. 
 
 The Duke of Oueensberry to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Drumlanrig, July 14'", 1740. 
 
 I AM really quite ashamed of myself for having left Edinburgh without waiting 
 upon your Lordship. It is true, indeed, that for some days before I sett out I was ne- 
 cessarily engaged in my Lord March's Affairs, which confined me from the moment 
 my eyes were open in the Morning till I went to bed, excepting the interruption of 
 being obliged to dine twice out of town ; but whatever weight this excuse may have 
 with your Lordship, to incline you in your great goodness to forgive the omission, it is 
 far from being sarislaftory to myself : in short, I cannot quiet my conscience without 
 troubling you with a letter, to assure you that I not onelv have, in common with all 
 those who are lovers of their Countx)-, the most perfect respect ic \-alue for your 
 Lordship in your pubiick Capacin-, but am, from personal regard & friendship, most 
 sincerely, 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's most obedient 
 My Wife desires me to present hum' Servant, 
 
 her Respeds to your Lord- OLTLENSBERRY. 
 
 ship. 
 
 Xo. CCIV. 
 
 The Lord President's Answer. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I AM glad the business in which your Grace was engaged whilst you was at Edin' 
 prevented the satisfaction I then wished for of seeing you, because the ver)- Obliging 
 Letter your Grace has given yourself the trouble to write to excuse it yeeld's a more 
 lasting pleasure. The good opinion of the pubiick is a flattering acquisition, and would 
 tend to make one that had it happy, if it were not sometimes, as I am afraid it is my 
 Case, more the Child of good forruine, than of merite, which with very thinking Men 
 flattens the rehsh of it. But the good opinion of a Man of your Grace's discerning and 
 disinterestedness, backed with a declaration of your friendship, is somewhat more sub- 
 stantial, and has a real value in it, which, whether it be produced bv good fortune or 
 by merite, I am determined to hold, by deserving as well as I can the continuance of it, 
 the* I may not have had a just claim to the bestowing it upon me. - I am glad to hear 
 that the Dutchess's Residence at Drumlanrig has proved so agreeable to her that she has 
 put off her journey to the Southv.-ard for some time. I hope she -nill feel the good effects 
 of her scjourning in this Country, which is with reason much more fond of her Grace, 
 than she can possibly be of it. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 9^^ Aug' 1740,
 
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 No. CCV. 
 
 Governor T^ela^\'ney to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, 29"^ Aug. 1743. Jamaica. 
 
 M' AEDIE has just now brought me the honour of your Ldp's of July last was 
 twelvemonth. Nothing could give me a greater pleasure than to find I have still a place 
 in your remembrance & friendship : to be esteemed & loved by one whom one sincerely 
 loves & esteems must give the greatest joy, as it is a mark of some virtue & honour 
 of both sides. You will excuse me for coupling myself with you in any thing ; but in 
 good intentions & disinterestedness I will not yield even to you ; in every thing else 
 I knock under, & acknowledge without envy (as I speak it without flattery) your 
 superior merit beyond any degree of comparison. Indeed, the consciousness of my 
 want of abilities to act up to the dictates of my heart has been almost the only uneasiness 
 (worth being called so) I have felt thro' life ; " but the thought that Ferdinando can do 
 no more than he can do" has at last quieted me, & I do my best chearfully, without being 
 discomfited ■«ith an oversight or blunder now & then ; but, like a horse that trips, 
 mend my pace upon it. So much for morals : as to politicks, nothing has been done 
 siiice the demolishing the Castle of Chagre. We are hourly in expectation of the 
 store ships for Admiral Vernon's squadron, convoyed by two sixty gun Ships, which 
 will enable M' Vernon to put to Sea w"' all his Ships ; & we are likewise in expectation 
 of seeing very soon my L"* Cathcart here, with 6 or 7000 land forces, w-hich, with 
 those raised in the Northern Colonies, will give us such a superiority in this part of the 
 World, both by land & sea, that I think the two Commanders may do almost any thing 
 they have a mind to. I am very warm for a project which a great many will look upon 
 as visionary & ridiculous, but I think far from being so ; & that is, to restore the Indians 
 to their liberty, and put them into the possession of their own Country, driving out the 
 Spaniards, & only keeping for aurselves a port or two at most in the South Seas to have 
 communication between the two Seas ; for the rest of the Countrv, let the Natives, to 
 whom nature has given it, enjoy it ; & let us only have a commerce with them, which 
 is more beneficial than ha^ing the land ^ which we could not inhabit. By the best 
 accounts I have, the thuig is feasible, & I think right ; so I could put my hand to the 
 Plough with pleasure. You'" will excuse- my flow^ of nonsense; I write as it comes 
 warm from the heart, & from the head too, which I am afraid is too warm, a little 
 heated ; but I could not help sitting down immediately to express my pleasure at the 
 receipt of yours, that I might give this to M' Aedie, who will have an opportunity to 
 put it into a Glasgow Ship that sails after to-morrow ; & is to dine with me to-day, that 
 I may drink Collouden w'' him tho' not in a Collouden Cup j for, tho' in a Country 
 of Coco's, we have no nut to be compared with yours, the most famous of all nuts 
 I have heard of, unless that which had Homer carved upon it. To all others it 
 undoubtedly has the preference ; esteemable for its own intrinsick merit (I mean its 
 capaciousness), as well as that it belongs to a worthy Laird, whom I sincerely 
 value & esteem, and am proud to be reckoned among liie number of his friends, 
 tho' in an inferior degree. 
 
 I am, w' the greatest respect, 
 Dear S', 
 
 Your most Obedient faithfull humble servant, 
 
 EDW. TRELAWNY. 
 
 Y No. cc\a.
 
 l62 ■ CCLLODEX P.iPERS. 
 
 Xo. CCVI. 
 
 The Duke of NeAvcastle to the Lord President. 
 
 Mv Lord, Newcastle House, Ocrii% 1740. 
 
 YOUR Lordship ■will allow me to assure you, that it was a most sensible pleasure 
 to me to receive a Leuer from you, and to find that you had not forgot one who had 
 ever the greatest regard, and, if you will give me leave to add, friendship for vou. 
 This being most sincerely mv case, you will easily imagine how concerned I was, that it 
 is not in mv power to obev your commands in that trifle you have desired. It is some 
 years since I promised mv recommendation to the Consulship of Venice to M' Smith, 
 a Merchant there (in case of a vacancy), at the request of the Duke of Richmond ; 
 & afterwards, having forgot that engagement, I gave my Lord Chief Justice Willes 
 reason to expect it for a relation of his, M' Swimmer. You vsill see by this, that I was 
 doubly engaged before I had your Letter. I wish I may have any opportimity of con- 
 vincing vou how much I am your humble sen-an:, how sensible of your great merit to 
 vour King i: Coimtr)-, & of the many civilities I have received from you during a long 
 & most agreeable acquaintance with you. I sincerely wish you all health, honour, 
 & happiness, i: am with the hiehest esteem, 
 
 " My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's most affec' 
 
 & most obedient hum' ' Servant, 
 
 HOLLZS NEWCASTLE, 
 
 Xo. CCVII. 
 
 M M'jrrav to the Lord President. 
 
 J 
 
 My Dear Lord, 
 
 I HAD the honour of vour's last night ; and I chuse to return you an answer 
 immediatelv, as I don't know how soon you may have the question started, and because 
 I have very Knle doubt mvself in what I am going to suggest to you. The nuscbief, 
 and Public inconvenience, of allowing privilege in the cases you mention is so great, 
 that no court of Justice would allow it, if thev can by any means avoid doing it. Nay, 
 in cases similar to those vou mention, no priv-ilege vras ever pretended here in England ; 
 for thev are in the nature of questions concerning Franchises. Here, if a man possesses 
 a Franchise, as that of ^layor, or any other officer in a Corporation, or is wrongfully 
 admitted a freeman, &". the way to try the right, and to turn liim out, is by an infor- 
 mation in the nature of a Quo Warranto, which is now very much considered as a 
 civil action. If a man has a right to be admitted into any of these offices, or any other 
 office or Franchise of a Public nature, and an Office as low as that of a Sexton is held 
 to be so ; the wav to be legally put into possession is by Mandamus from the Court 
 of K." Bench, in neither of these cases is privilege pretended to ; it is true, these 
 suits, in point of form, are carried on in the King's name, and conclude that the thing 
 complained of is Contra Paccm Domini Regis ; and it is Rule, that in breaches of the 
 Peace there can be no privilege. Your Actions in Scodand, I understand to be, in 
 form, C.i\-il Suits, without the interposition of the King's name, and without alledging 
 anv breach of the Peace ; but as I don't intend to propose your determining the Ques- 
 tion of Privilege one way or other, I won't pursue the Argument, how far the reason 
 should prevail, tho' the form is diiferenr. 
 
 13 Give
 
 CULLODEM PAPERS. 1 63 
 
 Give me leave to suggest to you to follow the example of the Courts of Westm'' 
 Hall, and to refuse taking cognisance, one way or otlier, of the Plea of privilege, 
 unless it is certified by some writ under the Great Seal. 
 
 There is no Privilege of Members of Parliament known to, or taken notice of by, 
 the Common law of England, except the privilege of the person from arrests ; but 
 even of this privilege the Courts of Justice never took notice, till it was certified by a 
 writ of Privilege under the Great Seal ; the form of which you may see in the Regis- 
 ter ; and thus it stood till the 13"' of W" the 3* ca. 3''. Since that statute, in the year 
 1734, the 12 Judges held, that, by reason of the negative words in that Act, that no 
 member should be arrested, &^ the privilege became part of a Public Act ; so far as 
 the freedom of the person is concerned, I mean ; and therefore the Judges were to 
 take notice of it, without having it certified by a writ of Privilege. 
 
 As to the Privilege of staying Suits against members, Sc^. the Common Law of 
 England never allowed it ; there is no formed writ in the Register to that purpose. 
 
 In the 1 2"' of Ed : 4"' a writ of Privilege was obtained by a menial Servant of the 
 Earl of Essex, suggesting such a Privilege ; the Prescription to such a privilege was 
 denied ; and the 1 2 Judges held there was no such Custom, and therefore disallowed 
 the writ and ordered him to answer. 
 
 The very next year, a like judgement was given (for this purpose. See Dyer's Re- 
 ports, N^ 60, marginal note) without going into a minute deduction. I take it, the 
 notion that Privilege of Parliament protected from suits, as well as arrests, grew 
 in the Reign of Ja: the i". 
 
 You will see in the Journals of the House of Commons, 22'' Feb. 1606, upon a 
 Message from the King desiring the attendance of all the Members, &". it was pro- 
 posed, that the Speaker should write to the Justices of Assize for Stay of proceedings 
 against any Member who should desire it. 3'' Mar : 1 8 Jac : you will see in the Jour- 
 nals that numberless letters of this sort had been sent. 
 
 The Judges took no notice of the Letters, but constantly disobeyed them ; of which 
 you will find instances in Latch's Reports, 48. and Noy's Reports 83, and Dyer 60. 
 
 As in this the Judges did their duty, it don't appear the House ever resented it ; 
 but they fell upon another way ; they considered the Party, Attorney, &= who pro- 
 ceeded, as guilty of a contempt ; and proceeded by their own summary Authority 
 to punish them. The 1 3"^ W"* the 3'' ca : 3'' has made no alteration in this point j 
 for there are no words which say they shall not be sued. 
 
 I think I may venture to say, that from the beginning to this day, the Judges in 
 Westminster Hall never allowed this privilege from Suits. They can take no notice 
 of it without a writ of Privilege ; and when those writs issued, as they did in the time 
 of Ed: the 4'^ they disallowed them, as not warranted by Law. At present, the Great 
 Seal would certainly not issue any such Writ. The only way in which this assumed 
 privilege is supported is, by the House's proceeding against the Partys, Attorneys, &' 
 as for a contempt ; but the Courts are never complained of ; and in fact they never 
 regard this Privilege, but are always ready to proceed if the Partys desire it, who go 
 on at their peril. 
 
 As this Privilege is of English growth, and communicated to Scotland by the Treaty 
 of Union, you ought to consider it as it is considered by the Courts of Justice here. 
 In its nature, 'tis a most unjust advantage, and every honest Argument is strong against 
 it ; and therefore I am sure your only doubt is in what way not to allow it ; and the 
 result of what I have been saying is, to propose to you by no means to pronounce 
 whether there is or is not privilege in that case (the Parliament pretends to be the sole 
 judge of their own Privileges), but to conceive your Interloquitur in general terms, 
 
 y a that
 
 l6^ CULJLODEX PAPERS. 
 
 that the Cause shall proceed, or that Def" shall answer, or that the matter alleged in 
 manner and form is not sufficient, or that you cannot take Cognisance of any such 
 pri\"Ilege so alleged ; and then all the doctriae I have given you a sketch of will be 
 properly used in Support of a Judgement so general. They can proceed in no way 
 but by complaint to the House against thePartys and Agents for a breach of Pri\'ilege. 
 It will then be matter of debate there, whether it is a breach of Privilege or not, and 
 vou will have taken the thorn out of your own foot, and put it into theirs. 
 
 These are my thoughts. I write them just as they occur ; and so imconnectedly, that 
 I am afraid I shan't be intelUgible. I have been broke in upon, too, so often v.hile I 
 have been writing, it is too late to send it to Geo : Ross ; so I will venture it by the 
 Post, under a common direction. 
 
 I am. My Dear Lord, 
 
 Your most Aff: & ob. humble Serv', 
 
 W. MURRAY. 
 
 The Czarina is dead, and has left her Lover, the D. of Courland, guardian of the 
 
 ' Empire during the minority of an Infant 2 months old. It is very probable they are 
 
 akeadv altogether by the ears. I hear, Lord Hyndford is going jNIinister to Prussia ; 
 
 but don't mention it till you have it from another hand, because 'tis not talked of 
 
 yet. 
 
 jjote This Letter has no date ; but must hare been written in November or December 1 740, soon 
 
 after the Czarina Anne died. 
 
 No. CCVIII. 
 
 Memoriall anent the Records of Scotland 1 740. 
 
 THE antient Records keept in his Majestie's Register House att Edinburgh, below 
 the Parliimient House, are in very bad Condition, for want of Boards to cover them ; 
 manv of the first and last Leafs of each Book being so much obUterat as they caimot 
 be easilv read, and in a litle rime will be inrirely defaced. 
 
 For preventing whereof, it may be thought expedient. That application be made to 
 the Government for procuring a fund, in order to rebind all the Records of Charters, 
 Records of Parliament, Records of Privy Seal, Records of Privy Council, &c. and 
 for the more sure preservation of the antient Charters, Sasins, and Records of Par- 
 liament. 
 
 That these be bound in Russia Leather, which no Vermin will touch. 
 
 The Charters of King Robert Bruce, K. Da. 2' K. Ro' 2. K. Ro' 3^ and of Robert 
 Dukeof Albanv, Gove"mour, are as yet in Rolls, much obliterat, not booked, not- 
 \^-ithstanding of an Act of Parliament in Anno 1469 K. Ja. 3* Pari. 5. Cap. 39. order- 
 ing them, to be put in Books, and to have Sik Strenth as the Rolls had before. 
 
 The Warrants of the Union Parliament are not as yet booked, which ought to have 
 been done by the then Lord Register, or his Deputs, keepers of the Records. 
 
 John Corss, the present keeper of Records, has not only made ane exact Index of 
 all the Rolls down to K. Ja. V ; but has compleated the Index alphabetically down to 
 thevear 1670, in three large folios of Lombard paper. 
 
 The keepers of the Records under the Lord Register before the Union had very 
 
 considerable Emoluments by their Office, extending to about 200I. Ster. per annum, 
 
 " arysdng from frequent Sitting of Parliaments and Privy Council ; but since the Union, 
 
 th'o' the keepers furnish paper and parchment, and writ all the Rolls of ParUament, the 
 
 Oaths for qualifVin^ the Members at the Election of Peers, and the returns of those 
 
 ' " 10* Elected,
 
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 Elected, yet the emoluments aryseing to the keepers do not now extend to aol. Ster. 
 per annum, notwithstanding of the great trust and their constant attendance. 
 
 The said John Corss has' lately looked into one of the Old Hogsheads in which the 
 Records and Warrants were brought from London after Cromwel's usurpation, in 
 Anno 1 66 1, and ther found a great number of very antient and valuable Writs ; some 
 whereof concern the institution of the Colledge of Justice, many Pipe's bulls, and other 
 Writs of great curiosity, which will be of singular use in after times for illustrating the 
 history of this kingdom ; and particularly two Books relating to the Commission of 
 Teinds; One whereof is a Sederunt Book of the High Commission, from Anno 1633 
 to Aimo 165c. The other, of the Sub-commission, from Anno 1638 to the year 
 
 Ther are as yet ten Hogsheads not looked into, wherein many other antient Writs 
 mav be found ; which, when found, may be put in order conform to the daits, and 
 recorded. 
 
 It is informed, that a search has bein encouraged in England in the time of her late 
 Majesty Queen Anne, and a fund provyded and given to Master Holins, Keeper of the 
 Records in the Tower of London, for collecting, putting in order, and booking, the 
 antient >STitings ther found, which had not formerly been looked into. This precedent 
 may be a mean to procure the like search to begin in this kingdom, and a competency 
 provyded for the person to whose care it may be recommended. 
 
 The Keepers here think themselves in duty bound to present this Memoriall, espe- 
 cially at this juncture, when ther appears some inclination to notice what concerns 
 Publick Offices in this Kingdom, diat something may be done for repairing the de- 
 cayed condition of the antient Records, in the first place ; and some encouragement 
 provyded to the Keepers for their care and constant attendance, and for the necessary 
 work to be performed, if the Government think to order the same to be done. 
 
 The Lidex of the Rolls, kc. above mentioned, having been of such great advantage 
 to the Leidges, that any Charter can now be found in less time than ane hour, \vhich 
 before might have taken moneths to find, and the said Lidex being the property of John 
 Corss, the compiler thereof, and not belonging to the Office ; it is justly to be feared, 
 that if this Index goes out of the Office, the Leidges wdll be in the same uncertainty and 
 confusion, and als much time will be consumed in searching out ther old Writs as 
 befor the Index was made. It is therfore humbly proposed, that the said Index be 
 purchased by the Government, and appropriated to the Office ; and that a certain 
 allowance be given to the said John Corss, to carry it down to this present time ; which 
 he thinks he can perform by closs application in something more than a year. The 
 former compila" having been finished, by great labour and industry, in the space of 
 fyve years. 
 
 No. CCIX. 
 
 Memoriall anent the antient Rolls and Registers in the lower Parliament House, 
 
 & Proposalls, &c. 1740. 
 
 Memoriall from William Smith, Clerk to his Majestie's Chancellary, anent the antient 
 Rolls and Registers of Charters, Patents of Honour, &c. in the lower Parliament 
 House, in the keeping of my Lord Register. 
 
 THESE Rolls and Registers, the Memorialist averrs, were always kept in His 
 
 Majesn's Chancellary, till ordere'd up to London by Oliver Cromvell ; at wliich period 
 
 they w ere in exceeding good Order. 
 
 These
 
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 These Rolls and Registers, the jMemorialist further averrs, after they, with the se- 
 veral other kinds of Records, such as Homings, Inhibitions, Sasines, &c. were, at 
 the Restoration, remanded to Scotland ; were for some time kept in the Castle of 
 Edinburgh, and afterwards ordered down to the said lower Parliament House ; from 
 which period their ruin commences : but more of this afterwards. 
 
 The late Earl of Marchmont, when Lord Register, having charged with Homing the 
 Director and Clerks of Chancellary, to deliver in to the s:iid House all the other Records 
 of Charters fi-om the year 1 646 to January 1727; the Director and Clerks suspended 
 the charge upon the allegation, that, in virtue of severall Acts of Parliament, they 
 were the sole Custodiers of the said Records ; which, in course, falling to be debate 
 before my Lord Streichen, and aftem-ards before the whole Lords, they by their De- 
 creet, dated the 28"^ of November 1732, after many tedious pleadings, and ia con- 
 sideration of many circumstances tencUng to explain the Generall Act of Parliament 
 ordaining all Registers to be kept in the said House, and what these Records were that 
 shou'd be kept there, •' Suspended the Letters and Charges raised, used, and execute 
 *• against them, and haill grounds and warrants whereupon the same proceeded 
 " simpliciter." 
 
 After which the Director and Clerks were thinking to have sued the said Lord Re- 
 gister for redelivery of all the Rolls and Registers of Charters then and still in his 
 keeping, as being virtually, and in consequence of the above Decreet, the sole legall 
 custodiers of the same, viz' from the reign of King Anno to the 
 
 [^yearj 1646 (and, from what is above said, could not possiblv ha%'e been a tedious 
 process}; but after consideration of the miserable circimistances these Registers and 
 Rolls were in, and daily growing worse, occasioned by the dampness of that low House, 
 and thereby incredibly productive of Moths, these eating the Parchment upon which 
 they are writ, and the other washing out the Ink ; and the great trouble and expence 
 it must put any Person to, who would, for the love of antiquity and his countrey, take 
 upon him to redeem them ; upon these considerations, I say, wee gave over further 
 thoughts of the matter. 
 
 But, however troublesome, yea impracticable to some, the redemption of these Rolls 
 and Registers from their present misery, and restoration of them to their primary cir- 
 cimistances, may appear ; The Memorialist, despising the trouble, is of opinion, that 
 the work may be put in practice, and to very good purpose, if the following proposalls 
 are agreed to. 
 
 PROPOSALLS by the Memorialist for recovering the antient, the 
 invaluable, the almost ruin'd Registers, and Rolls of Charters, in the 
 keeping of My Lord Register. 
 
 Prop. i". That, upon a Petition to the Lords of Session, thev summarily ordain the 
 said Registers and Rolls to be redelivered to the Director and Clerk of 
 ChanceUarv, as the only legal Custodiers of the same ; for, was there no more 
 in the matter, it looks mighty odd. That of Registers all of a kind, the one 
 half of them shou'd be kept in one place, and the other half in another. 
 
 Prop. 2'. That so soon as these Records are recovered and put in a rigb^^ place, secure 
 from dampness and Moth (^ which place the Memorialist has of a lc!:r titve had 
 in \iew), the Memorialist, as Clerk of Chancellary, have an annucii allowance, 
 i'' For the said Office; 2^, For Parchment to transcribe the said Registers 
 and Rolls upon ; 3"'^", For binding of the new, and rebindirg of the old 
 Records ; and 4"=^?, For Coal and Candle, and other little Incidents, 
 
 Prop.
 
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 Prop. 3''. That there be an Annuall allowance of 5^200. or ^50. quarterly, given to 
 the Memorialist for writing and transcribing the said whole Rolls and Registers, 
 till ended ; and which work, together with two IVIinute Books of the whole, one 
 in Common form and for Common use, and the other Alphabetical! and for a 
 friend. The Memorialist is of Opinion may be finisht, and the whole reduced 
 to better order than any Records yet seen in this Kingdome, in ten or twelve 
 years time at the furthest. 
 
 Prop. 4"'. That, as the Work is of a nationall concern, The Lords of Session and 
 Barons of His Majestie's Court of Exchequer, from time to time, delegate 
 certain of their number to revise the Work and Report. 
 
 Prop. 5'\ That, after the work is finished, the Office Rent, Coall, and Candle, and 
 the said £60. be continued to the MemoriaHst for his Encouragement. 
 
 ACC" of the Annuall expence for transcribitig the antient Registers and 
 Rolls. 
 
 £ 
 
 To Office Rent - -• - - - . - 14 
 
 To Parchment - - - - - - -25 
 
 To binding the severall Registers above mentioned - - - 8 — 
 
 To Coall and Candle - - - - - -6 
 
 To 4 Servants Transcribers of the said Records at i^3 j, each yearly — 'I 
 
 Inde - - - - - ./ ''+° 
 
 To the Clerk of Chancellary for overseeing & carrying on the work - 60 — — 
 
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 No. CCX. 
 
 M' Murray to the Lord President. 
 
 Mv Dear Lord, 
 
 I AM told, a Gentleman who will deliver this sets out to-day. I am unwilling to 
 lose so good an opportunity of writing, tho' I have not time at present to do more than 
 to thank you for the favour of your last, the contents of which give me pain. I am 
 sorry you have had occasion for the uneasiness you express ; but I am still sorrier that 
 the occasion has the power of making you uneasy. If I durst, I would remonstrate to 
 you upon this subject. . If your task was easier, your merit would be less ; if you had 
 not the folly and passions of many to bear, the Public would be less obliged to you 
 for the good you do ; but still I must own, tho' Philosophy can unanswerably prove, 
 that your satisfaction should depend, not upon the Conduct of others, but your own, 
 it is very natural to be mortified at such accidents. 
 
 Judge of the anxiety of many of your friends, such as M' P. L. Ch. D. of A, &". when 
 I am desired, in a manner I don't know how to refuse, to acquaint you. that it is the 
 earnest desire of all of them, you would suffer a change to be made in the Representa- 
 tion of your Boroughs. By what I collect, it is not the difference of a member which 
 could make them in any degree so earnest ; but they dread, that your not doing this 
 will be imputed to a contrary opinion, or different friendship. They want much more, 
 as I understand, not to have the credit of your name, even by implication, in the 
 opposite scale, than ten times the assistance you could or would give. 
 
 I could
 
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 I could not refuse telling you this, without saying any thing from myself ; I don't 
 know how the thing stands ; and if I did, I am not a proper judge. 
 
 As to foreign news, there is an Account come of a great Victor)- got by the Prussians 
 in Silesia, which they are following with expedition. The French fleet is coming back, 
 ignominiously they say ; if they are not, I dare say we shall hear of their being 
 attacked. 
 
 I am, My Dear Lord, 
 
 With great Truth, Esteem, and Aff", 
 Lincoln's Inn, 7 Most intirely Y", &*. 
 
 
 13"' April 1 74 1. 5 W.MURRAY. 
 
 Xo. ccxr. 
 
 Mr. Fane to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Sackville Street, 30*^ Octo''' 1741. 
 
 YOUR favour of the 27* August is now before me imanswered, occasioned by 
 the Messenger's not deUvering it ver)' quick, nor calling soon for an answer. As to 
 the question you ask me ab' mv L^ncle, I don't see him abate in his inclination to serve 
 a Man who I think treats him ill. I must own, it is with regret I go to the Treasury ; 
 sind was I so happy as to be released from my attendance, 'twould give me the greatest 
 pleasure ; for how can a Man, who for 1 7 years has given up his whole time to sen-e 
 another, see his services slighted, and a Person of jacobite principles put at the head 
 of an Office, without knowledge, fortune, or family ; enjoying not only the honour of a 
 post, but six times the profit I enjoy, whilst I continue to be an under Clerk to one whom 
 I don't think my equal in either of the three things I have mentioned. Besides, as 
 to my Uncle, has he not long been their drudge, to one or other of their familv ; and 
 at last to be joined with a raw Bov, famous for nothing but having the acquaintance of 
 one of Walpole's Sons, who has pushed him so far above himself, and all his father's 
 real friends. As I have lately so fatally experienced the uncertainties of this life, I 
 can't but look upon myself in dut}- bound to do only such things as are agreable to the 
 dictates of my conscience (without favour to any one man's way of acting to aggrandize 
 afortime to himself or family), so as to pass away this life with peace of mind, and to 
 be able to look upon the change which may happen to me without terror or apprehen- 
 sion. And how a Man can act vdth honour under one who, at the same time the 
 
 N n is undone by his measures, he & his Sons are living, & have lived, in open 
 
 adultery and fornication, scoffing at ever)- thing honest and just, and bidding defiance 
 to all virtue and Religion, I must leave to vou and wiser heads than muie to determine. 
 Upon the whole, perhaps, you may think me mad ; but the subject is so disagreable 
 that I lose my temper when I think of it. I thank God, I am contented with my for- 
 tune, wch I owe to my Uncle, and wish to pass the remainder of my days -v^ith you, 
 or some such fi'iends, to laugh at those who, thinking to leave the character of a great 
 Man to futurity-, will stick at nothing to make tliat character infamous. Pardon the 
 freedom I have wrote this, and beheve that I am, \nth the most perfect Esteem and 
 Respect, My Lord, ' , 
 
 Your Lordship's most faithful ^ Obedient humble Servant, 
 
 HEN. FANE. 
 
 No. CCXIl.
 
 CULLODEV PAPERS. 1 69 
 
 Xo.CCXII. 
 
 From Lord Hardwicke to the Lord President. 
 
 iVIy Lord, London, November i4'\ iy4.i: 
 
 AFTER a long intermission of our Correspondence, it is with pleasure that I lay 
 hold of this opportunir\- to renew it. Upon the death of My Lord Chief Baron Lant, 
 His Majesr\- has had the goodness, upon my recommendation, to appoint my Friend 
 M' Idle to be his Successor ; and as he is this day set out for the North, in order to 
 go to Edinburgh to take possession of his Office this Term, I could not let him 
 depart without intreating your Lordship's favour and Protection on his behalf. His 
 Personal quahcies would, I am confident, be sufficient to procure him all proper Regard 
 from a Person of your humane and generous Temper ; but the share, which I flatter 
 nivself that I have in your Lordship's Friendship induces me to inform you, that he is 
 one of the oldest acquaintance I have in the World ; and from that long knowledge of 
 him, I can assure your Lordship, you \^ill find him a perfectly honest worthy Gen- 
 tleman. 
 
 He was called to the Bar at the same time with myself, and has ever since diligently 
 attended Westminster Hall ; and for some years past, has had a good share of business 
 in Chancerv, in which he has acquitted himself with Ability and Reputation. 
 
 Every person who is sent from hence must at first be in some degree a stranger to 
 your forms and methods of proceeding ; but I make no doubt that, if your Lordship 
 will affiard him the honour and advantage of some advice and instruction, in those 
 matters, from so able and perfect a master as vourself, he v>ill give much satisfaction 
 in the station to which he is advanced. This I am sure of, that you cannot bestow 
 it on any one who will be ready to return it with more gratitude and faithful Service. 
 I have given it him in charge, to give his Office all the attendance that can reasonably 
 be expected, which I am sensible his owti inclination would lead him to ; and indeed 
 his Situation will make that more easy to him than to most others ; for as his estate is 
 not far from York, he can wait on you at Edinburgh vith as much ease as he can 
 come to London. 
 
 I have now said all, and indeed more than I intended, relating to my Friend. Per- 
 mit me to inquire after vour Lordship's welfare, and to pour out mv best wishes that 
 you may enjoy as much Health as you do credit and honour in the important Station 
 you fill. Will that never permit you to re\'isit this part of the World, and once more 
 glad your friends here v.ixh your company ? You would find, indeed, many alterations 
 both in persons and things ; but none in that unfeigned Esteem and Respect xdth 
 which I am always. 
 
 My Lord, ' ' 
 
 Your Lordship's most Obedient & most faithful humble Serv', 
 
 HARDWICKE. 
 
 No. CCXIII. 
 
 M' Murray to the Lord President, 
 
 My Dear Lord, 
 
 LTON my return to Town the beginning of Oct' I found y" of the 27'* of AugusL 
 The marks it brought me of the continuance of your confidence and friendship gave 
 me infinite pleasure. I am sorry you meet with difficultjs in the noble work you have 
 
 z undertaken ;
 
 CliLLODEK PAPERS. 
 
 undertaken ; I wish you felt them less. If the obstacles were fewer, vour merit wou'd 
 not be so great. I know that you accepted of the Office, which you till with so imi- 
 versal applause, against your interest and against your inclination ; but merely with a 
 \-iew of ser\ing the publick. Your success has been beyond expectation ; business is 
 now put into a regular and equal method of dispatch ; personal solhcitations are out of 
 fashion ; the people have a confidence in the determinations of private properrv ; & 
 they are respected here. This is a great reformation, brought about in a few years ; not 
 by the assistance of new Men ; but by that Authority which integrit}', assiduit}", and 
 knowledge, gives one Man over the very same persons who sat there before. The 
 People enjoy the benefit of the change, and bless you as the Author of it. I am not 
 surprized, that in political questions the influence of party or power is sometimes 
 too strong for you ; but don't let this, my Dear Lord, sower your mind ; you have 
 more reason to rejoice that you have been able to do more than any other man cou'd 
 have done, than to complain because you can't do all you wish. When you undertook this 
 arduous task, you neither consulted your interest nor your ease. Shou'd you now 
 resign, I am aft-aid it wou'd look Hke prefering vour ease to your Countr\- & your fame. 
 Cou'd vou name the successor ? if you cou'd, where is the Man who cou'd have the 
 same weight, even tho' he had the same ^-irtue and judgment ? Can you say vou de- 
 spair of doing any good ; the general voice wou'd, from experience, contradict you. 
 If you can't do all you -nish, might they not answer, " Hac satis est prodire tenus, si non 
 detuT ultra?" ISIight they not say, Tho' you can't stem the undue influence of power, 
 parts', or prejudice, in every instance, you axe able to overbear it in many, & keep it 
 out in most ? Whereas if you was gone, it might probably rule in all as much as it did 
 before. You did me the honour to ask my opinion ; I gave it you freely and sin- 
 cerelv ; I am almost tempted to give it warmly. I wou'd as soon advise a General 'to 
 desert his post in the day oi battle, because the service was too hot, as you to abandon 
 vours at present. It is not wonderfoll, that nature shou'd return to men ; it is wonder- 
 fiill that vou shou'd drive it from them so often. The event has sheAvn the resolution 
 last session, which you mention, to have been very impolitick & extreamly mischie- 
 vous. It gave the Ou. of H. a felse show of protection, Sc made her obstinate : it 
 irritated the K. of Pr. & flung him into the arms of France. I have been assured, that 
 till the K. of Pr. applied, the Cardinal never intended to stir. His language was, 
 *' God forbid that the King shou'd rob the Orphan ; God forbid that we shou'd break 
 the Pragmatick Sanction, which we have guarantied so lately ;" but as soon as the 
 K. of Pr. came in, they determined Him by shewing him he cou'd do ever)- thing with- 
 out striking a stroke, or hazarding a War. Besides the general state of Europe, now 
 absolutelv in the power of France, our ovra particular War has at a great expence 
 been most imsuccessfallv carried on. The trade has suflered by captures to a degree 
 that produces dailv Bankruptcys ; & the INIerchants, enraged with the smart of their 
 sufferings, impute most of the losses to neglect, in not stationing properly a few small 
 Ships, which was often desired to be done. Tho' the number of opposers in the H. of 
 C™' is said to be great, I don't expect they will do much, because they are greatly 
 di\"ided, & have too many heads. In questions upon comroverted elections, they may 
 perhaps make now k then a stand. S' R. W health is said to be very much broke ; 
 this is the point many have in %iew ; if it happened, I believe, no Man can foresee all 
 
 the consequences of it. Idle is made Ch. Baron of S d by the Ch', from the merit 
 
 of an old acquaintance & domestic connexion. I have a mind you shou'd take posses- 
 sion of him by all sorts of civihtys; I told him, 'I wou'd introduce Him to your ac- 
 quaintance ; but at the same tim# desired him to get a Letter to you from My L" Chan% 
 which he has. He is a good-natured Man, but not a Man of Business, or much parts, 
 
 which
 
 CULLODE>r PAPERS. 171 
 
 which will give you more opportunity of advising & protecting Him. You may hereafter 
 make use of him in conveying proper impressions to my L"* Chan', without his per- 
 ceiving it. 1 wou'd fain see it one day in your power to fill some vacancies in the Court 
 with Men whose only merit is uprightness, & knowledge in the Profession. Idle 
 went away in a hurry. 1 am to send after Him tomorrow an ostensible Letter to you, 
 to introduce Him. You may say I have wrote more particularly by another Letter. 1 
 wish you wou'd introduce Him to any people of distinction that happen to be at Ed' ; 
 as L'' Tweedale, &c". The Chan' will feel the countenance you give him. I shall write 
 to the Justice Clerk Sc Arniston, to introduce him ; but I only write to them two Unes 
 in general form, without any thing particular. I hear, Edlin, whom I don't know, has 
 been foolish enough to use him ill already, because he himself has been disappointed. 
 Geo. Ross tells me. He don't send this Letter by the Post, which makes me write so 
 freely. 
 
 I am, my Dear Lord, ever & most aff'* y" &c*. 
 Lincoln's Inn, • ' W.MURRAY. 
 
 18 Nov' 1 74 1. 
 
 No.CCXIV. 
 
 M' Murray to the Lord President. 
 My Dear Lord, 
 
 I WROTE you a long letter two days ago : I give you the trouble of this, at the 
 desire of my Lord Chief Baron Idle, who desires your acquaintance & friendship. I am 
 persuaded you will shew him every Civility in your power upon his first coming among 
 you ; and when you know him as well as I do, you will love and esteem him for his 
 own sake, and thank me for contributing to make you acquainted. 
 
 I am. My Dear Lord, 
 Lincoln's Inn, ^ Y' most ob. hu. Serv 
 
 18"' Nov. 1 741. 5 _ W.MURRAY. 
 
 The L'' President of the Session. . 
 
 No. CCXV. 
 
 [No date; but a little before the Dissolution of Pari', 1741.] 
 
 The same to the same. 
 My Dear Lord, 
 
 I TAKE this opportunity to write two or three words to you, in answer to yours 
 which I received some time ago. You do me justice in believing, if I knew any 
 thing which imported you [to] know, much more any thing which was of consequence 
 to yourself, I sl-x)uld certainly acquaint you with it. The account of the Judgement 
 you allude to, came up here seemingly so authentic, and yet was in itself so improbable, 
 that no body knew what to say. It did occasion a run for a little while ; but when the 
 truth came up, it put every body out of countenance who had given credit to the 
 account ; tho', in the manner in which it was sent, it seemed to be unquestionable. 
 I remember, I desired them to wait the Echo. Your Friend Scrope asked me about it. 
 I told him, he should know when the next accounts came, and he triumphed when they 
 did come ; but neither then nor since have I heard tfte least disrespectful thing said of 
 you. Knowing the regard I have for you, it is not likely that I should be the first 
 
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 to hear any insinuation to your prejudice ; but I have taken pains to inform 
 myself, and I cannot find that any thing has happened since you left us, which has 
 lessened the esteem everv body has for you. Your Opinion is not so much 
 followed, either when you' was here, or since, as it ought ; but that may be owing to 
 
 various causes. 
 
 L. Ch' mentioned in my hearing, with great acknowledgement, the long letter he 
 had from you; and took 'shame to himself then, which is a good while ago, for not 
 ha-s-ing thanked vou. 
 
 You know the P' is to be dissolved immediately : it has long been resolved, for many 
 good reasons. The Session will end with an Act of Pardon. I hope the Jurisdiction 
 Bill, as it now stands, may be attended with great good. It must, if the Judges are 
 well chose. , 
 
 I am ever, 
 
 most truly and Aff", Yours, &'. &:^ 
 
 W. MURRAY. 
 
 Xo. CCXVI. 
 
 Lord Morton to the Lord President. • ' . 
 
 My Lord, ^ London, Jan. 5^, 1741-2. 
 
 AFTER having heard that your Lop was very much indispos'd, I had the pleasure 
 to be inform'd last week y' you were now perfectly recovered ; upon w'" I do most 
 hearrily congratulate your Lop, but still more the honest Men of our Countrey, whose 
 number I hope will increase (as indeed it had need) if your Lop is spared some time 
 Ioniser among us. Your Lop will no doubt have heard from much better hands the 
 difficulties your Old friend S' R. has to struggle w' ; and considering what up-hill work 
 'tis like to be, I'm astonish'd to see the spirit, the intrepidit}', and chearfulness w' w'' 
 he bears it out. If he should be forced to give it up (w'*", I take it, is possible, as 
 friends look) I hope and believe he'll go out quietly. And indeed I shou'd think, 
 at his time of life, a calm retirement from business were the most desireable thing upon 
 earth ; especiallv to one who has so great a relish for Countrey business and Amuse- 
 ments ; but there is no judging of anoy" Man's inclinations by our own ; for I find he 
 
 intends to fight every inch in S' St n's Ch 1 : had we but fought as strenuously 
 
 a^^ainst the Sp ds abroad, I believe the battle wou'd have been less dubious at home ; 
 
 bv this resolution, however, he will acquire one piece of knowledge, wch till now he 
 never cou'd attain to ; he will certainly be able to distinguish who are his real 
 friends, from those who only were so by profession. At y"= same time 'tis verv possible 
 that this, like several oy' points of knowledge, may come when 'tis no longer usefull. 
 Notwithstanding this fluctuating state of things, I have good hopes, as I am not 
 
 whose countenance is so absolutely necessarj- to me upon this occasion, y' without it 
 I need not so much as make the least attempt ; and if your Lop •nill so far favour me as 
 to write to His Grace in my behalf, I beg you may do it as soon as you can conveniently 
 after this comes to your hand ; for I have now no time to lose. I don't know whether 
 I shou'd make any apology to your Lop for gi\-ing you this trouble, because I take 
 
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 it to be a part of your duty to relieve mankind from bondage, and this wou'd make 
 me a much freer Man y" I am. In one respect, I own it wou'd lay me under an 
 indissoluble bond, ever to acknowledge and approve myself, 
 Mv Dear Lord, 
 
 Your much Oblig'd and faithfull Humble Servant, 
 
 MORTON. 
 
 I have not yet spoke to any Member of either House, except my good fHend S' R' : 
 the second person I intend to apply [to] is the D. 
 
 Xo. CCXVII. 
 
 M' Murray to the Lord President- 
 My Dear Lord, 
 
 I HAD the honour of yours rvvo days ago. I did not expect formal Compliments 
 where I was sure of real aft^jction, and where I lay under real obUgarions. If you 
 recollect what I said to you, and you only, 7 years ago, in relation to* my sentiments 
 and system of Conduct, vou will see hov.- uniformly and steadily Fortune has enabled 
 me to pursue it. I was indifierent whether I ever acted a Public part or not ; but if 
 ever I did, I was determined it should be in the way I liked. I was resolved to come 
 in at the top, and to owe it to the Figure I made in my profession, without the least 
 Part)" merit whatsoever. Manv other circumstances will occur to your memorv, to shew 
 you that the Conjuncture which has happened is the very' one I pointed out to you 
 7 years ago, as that which I would choose to lay hold of, if it should ever exist *. 
 
 The moment I rece") your Commands I set about executing them. I saw mv 
 L*^ Bath ; I read him that part of your letter which related to the general point ; and 
 he was then of opinion, that the Bill should be bro' in, with an exception as to 
 Aqua VitSE in Scotland. 
 
 I said, and intend to say, nothing of your particular concern t : it might render 
 your Opinion upon the general point suspected. A general exception of private rio-hts, 
 so worded as to include your case, seems to me impossible ; no body could tell what 
 was meant by it. A particular exception adapted to your case would, I think, be \'ery 
 difficult ; and, if at all obtained, must be clogged -with many Restrictions. As there 
 has been a determination since the Union, that the Old Act gives you an exemption 
 from new duties laid on by general Words, had not you better trust to the future 
 construction of the Act, than run the risk of tr)"ing a particular exception, which may 
 be refused or clogged ? I hope, for your sake, that the general exception will be 
 agreed to. I need not tell you how ready I shall ever be to obey your commands, nor 
 with how much attachment 
 
 I am, My Dear Lord, 
 Lincohi's Inn, 7 • Your most Aff. hu. Ser\'f, 
 
 i«Feb. 1742.5 . - • W. MURRAY. 
 
 * Mr. Murray was made Solicitor General in November 1741. 
 
 f This alludes to the privilege of brewing, belonging to the President's estate of Ferintosh. 
 
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 174 CULLODEV PAPERS. 
 
 xo. ccxvm. 
 
 M' Scrope to the Lord President; dated lo"' Fabry 1742. 
 
 My dear Lord, 
 
 I HAVE had the honour of xvro of your Lfs by me for some time, wch has not 
 a little grieved me ; but in my old age I am so entangled with business, that I can't 
 find leisure to be commonly ci\'il to my friends who I love and honour. Your first, 
 relating to the Tea, I commimicated to my Lord Wilmington, and had a great deal of 
 conversation ab'' it with the M. of Tweedale & my L' Advocate ; but could fnot]] find 
 any bodv inclineable to attempt to do any thing in it this Session of Pari'. x\s to what 
 related to the Spirituous Liquors in that Bill, care is taken of the Lands of Farintosh 
 I think, there being the same Clause in it w"* you first brought into the former Bill. 
 You have sent us up such wrong-headed fellows, that we were in much danger of being 
 disappointed ; & therefore I had the pleasiu-e to represent the great merits of vour 
 familv, and the private right granted to them soon after the Revolution, which has 
 since been judicially confirmed to them. M' Waller, between jest and earnest, 
 attempted to make some opposition ; but no one regarded him. If you don't hear 
 so onien from me as vou expect, it don't proceed from want of affection and esteem, 
 but from being quite worn out;. -, 
 
 I am, I^Iv dear Lord, 
 
 Your most faithful and Obedient humble Sen-ant, 
 
 J. SCROPE. 
 
 : No. CCXIX. 
 
 Lord Morton to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, ' London, Feb. 11'-'', 171;. 
 
 AS yoiu- Lop was so ver\- kind to write to the D. of Argyll in behalf of my Bill, 
 I flatter myself it will not be disagreable to your Lop to hear y' I meet with greater 
 success in it than I cou'd even have hoped for. But last post brought me a very dis- 
 agreable paragraph in a Letter from my Wife, wch is as follows : " This morning a 
 " friend of vours told me, that as he had a regard for you, he cou'd not conceal a 
 •' thing wch had accidentaly come to his knowledge, and wch he was very certain ot 
 " the truth of, as it came from undoubted authority ; but desired not to be named in 
 " it ; this was, y' L. Amiston had yesterday express'd himself very strongly against 
 " vour Bill, and told the person who was vour friend's informer, y' he wou'd use his 
 " utmost endeavours to put a stop to it, and is actually to write this Night to his patriot 
 " friends." This is what my Wife says ; however, I have been beforehand w' L. 
 Amiston, and have clinch'd all his patriot friends ; for, since S" Rob- Walpole's dis- 
 mission, I have been at ^P Pulmey ik all y' rest, who confirm'd their promises to rae w'- 
 great kindness ; so that let his Lop do his worst, I shall get it pass'd ; at the same time I 
 wou'd be sorr\- a Man of his character shou'd appear against me ; and I'm at a loss to 
 conceive what motive can induce him to oppose me, unless it be y'" his Broy" in law, 
 M"^ Gordon (who was one of my Ork. Kn^' Lawyers) has given him a bad impression 
 of me ; if this be the case, I must beg cf vour Lop's friendship to remove it in so far 
 as you find Ive met w' foul play. Some davs ago S" Will"^ Gordon, who is my Lord's 
 Father in Law, sent to desire I might come & speak w' him ; wch I did ; when he told 
 me he had a claim of ^€10,500. Ster. upon my estate, on ace' cf a Grant of the £^22. 
 
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 few duty, obtained by him from the late King for 2 1 Years in y'' year 1 7 1 8 ; this affair 
 I have now searched to y' bottom ; and, to the conviction of his own friends, there 
 appears not the least foundation. But if there were, the Saving Clause leaves him 
 access to any just demand. The story is, y' my Father obtained a Grant, in name of 
 John Ewing, for 2 1 Years, or during the Life of the King, of this few Duty, the 
 Grant is dated the 9* of April 17 17, and, of course, cou'd not pass our Exchequer till 
 June following ; during this intervall, the Ministry was changed, and L. Sunderland 
 came into power ; whereupon, as my Uncle's grant had not passed, S' W" Gordon 
 apply'd for a stop to it, in order to get a grant made out for himself; this stop was 
 issued the 5"' of June 1 7 1 7 ; but upon my Father's geting access to the King, and re- 
 presenting the hardship it wou'd be upon our familly. His Maj'^ was pleased, by a 
 Warrant of y^ 21" June, to order the stop to be taken off; in consequence of wch 
 John Ewing's grant pass'd the Exchequer. All the Treasury Books of Scots grants 
 have been look'd over from y' late King's Accession to his death, & there is not a word 
 of S' Will. Gordon from one end to y' oy', however it is possible he may have asserted 
 this as roundly to L. Arniston as he did to me. I have sent under your Lop's cover, 
 a Letter from me to L. Arniston, wch I have left open ; if, upon reading it, and try- 
 ing him, your Lop thinks proper he shou'd have it, please seal it before delivery ; or 
 else don't deliver it at all, just as your Lop judges most fitting ; for I must leave it 
 intirely to your friendship and great knowledge of mankind. Your good advice once 
 prevented me from sending a Letter wch was certainly much better let alone. Tho' 
 I have troubled your Lop too long w' my own affairs, I can't finish w'out a word about 
 our honest friend S'' Rob' Walpole ; for whom, I own to your Lop, I am in some 
 fear. He this day went out to Richmond, never again to return to Court ; the Letter 
 of rank for his Daughter has rais'd such a torrent of wrath against him, y' God knows 
 where it may end. They now talk of a strict parliamentary inquiry ; your Lop knows 
 how little any Man can stand such an ordeal tryal after 20 Years Administration ; the 
 last time I saw him, wch was on Sunday Evening, I told him of the clamour y' was 
 rais'd upon the subject of his Daughter ; but the thing was then pass'd the Offices, and 
 cou'd not be recal'd (tho' she had not been presented), else I believe he wou'd have 
 stop'd it ; I wou'd fain hope, after he is fiiirly away, that the fury may subside ; at 
 present it is very violent ; happy had it been for him, had he but your Lop now here ; 
 last Week there pass'd a scene between him & me, by ourselves, y" afi'ected me more 
 y" any thing I ever met w' in my life ; but it is too long to trouble your Loj5 w' it ; he 
 has been sore hurt by flatterers, but has a great and an undaunted spirit, and a tran- 
 quility something more y" human. I beg pardon once more for this tedious Letter ; 
 and that health & happiness may long attend your Lop, is the most sincere wish of. 
 
 My D^ Lord, 
 Your ever oblig'd, and faithfull humble Serv', 
 
 MORTON. 
 
 "** No. CCXX. 
 
 The Marquis of Tweeddale to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, Dated Whitehall, 23'' Fefery 1741-2. 
 
 HIS Majesty having been pleased to make an alteration in his Councills, and to 
 call me to an office of great trust and dignity *, it appears necessary some general plan 
 or scheme for the Government of Scotland should be immediately concerted. 
 
 * Secretary of State. 
 
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 In this \iew, it soon occurred that yoUr great experience and abilities, joined with that 
 disinterested love you have ever shewn to your Countn, render you a fit person to be 
 adnsed v\-ith on this occasion ; and therefore I hope, for the sake of His ilajesty's ser- 
 \ice, you ^s^]l not decline coming to London immediately, now that the proper business 
 of vour Station vdll dispence with vour attendance at Edinburgh ; since it is bv vour 
 advice and assistance, jointly with your Brother Lord Arnistoun's, to whom I have also 
 wrote a Letter in the same strain, that I expect to be able to lay before his jSIajesrv" such 
 matters as may tend to create a confidence in and give more universall content to the 
 people. 
 
 As these are my only xdews, I call for your Lordship's aid ; being, at the same rime, 
 well assured that vour Opinion must be of great weight with those who have now the 
 honor to be emploved by his Majest)" ; as the whole tenor of your life has shown an 
 in^■iolable atachment to His iMajest)''s Person and Govermnent, and a warm zeal for the 
 publick weal. 
 
 I have a great many Compliments to make yoti from your friends here ; particularly 
 ^Iv Lord Carteret and M' Poulmey, who both join y.iih me in the same request ; and 
 I flatter mvself, you will add this further instance of your nriendship to the many I have 
 formerly received of you. 
 
 I am, with the greatest esteem, 
 Mv Lord, 
 Your Lop's most Obedient humble Servant, 
 
 TWEEDDALE- 
 
 No. CCXXI. 
 
 The Lord President to The Marq' of Tweeddale. No date ; but supposed to be written 
 
 about the middle of March 1742. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 LAST Sunday I received the Letter vour Lop did me the honour to write to me 
 of the 23^ of February, sigmfving your Lop's desire, & that of some others of your 
 friends, that my Brother Amistoun & I shou'd wait upon you at London, to assist by 
 our addce in settling what may be thought proper to be proposed with respect to this 
 part of the Island. The honour vour Lop does me is very great ; but not greater than 
 the desire that has possest me, since first I had the good fortune of knowing & being 
 known to vour Lop, of haveing and deser\'eing your good opinion ; and therefore you 
 will readieiy believe it was a sensible satisfaction to me to find in what your Lop pro- 
 poses so strong a proof of your good will & confidence. 
 
 The opinion I have of mv own abUitj-s is so far short of what vour Lop seems to enter- 
 tain concerning them, that were it not for the respect I have for your Judgment, I 
 should, without more words, decline a joumev which, so far as I perceive, cannot 
 possiblv be of any use to your Lop or the Publick. But such is the authority that your 
 Lop ^- the two eminent friends you are pleased to name have over me, that if you still 
 persist in your wish of seeing me, when the situation of my health may permitt me to 
 travell, tlie other incoriveniencys that attend so long a journey will not weigh in the 
 scale. 
 
 Your Lop has probably been informed, that a short fever, occasioned by Cold, con- 
 fined me to the House for many weeks diis last winter ; and tho' I got so far the better 
 of it, as to be able to attend the Court for the three last weeks of the Session, yet as I 
 have not hitherto exposed myself much to the cold, or taken sufficient exercise, I dare 
 not venture soon upon a long Journey, especially while the Weather is so severe as it 
 
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 now is ; but, as It is to be hoped that the Season will soon mend, and that two or 3 
 weeks* exercise about the Doors, as we say, may sett me up, if your Lop shall con- 
 tinue of Opinion, that my presence where you are may be of any use, and will give me 
 notice, I shall do what lyes in my power to attend you. 
 
 What I say of my own disposition to conform to your Lop's desire, I can vouch, & 
 you will readily believe, concerning my Brother Arnistoun. And I am sorry to be able 
 further to vouch, that the State of his health makes a journey less practicable for him 
 than it is for me ; but as his complaint is much owing to the rigour of the Weather, it is 
 to be hoped a small time will wear it off ; and that in the like space as I have mentioned 
 with respect to myself, he will be able to undertake the journey, if it shall be judged 
 necessary. This day we mett together. I believe he will give your Lop much such ane 
 account of his case and of his resolution as I do. 
 
 I abstain from makeing complements upon your Lop's promotion, because I cannot 
 say what I think, without saying too much for you to hear, and perhaps too much for 
 one who, of all other Characters, detastes that of a flatterer the most, to express. 
 What I am going to conclude with is, I believe, not fashionable, but then it is true, that 
 I am sincerely, but not now one bitt more than I have been for many years. 
 
 Your Lop's most faithful 
 
 & most Obedient humble Servant, 
 
 DUN. FORBES. 
 
 No. CCXXII. 
 
 The Marquis'of Tweeddale to theLord President ; dated Whitehall, 1 6"" March 174 1-2. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 IT gives me real concern, that Lord Arniston and you have, from the bad state of 
 your health, desired to be excused from coming to London. I am, however, glad 
 you are so well recovered, as to have been able to attend the Session ; which makes 
 me flatter myself a London journey may be of great advantage to confirm and establish 
 . your health. The friends I mentioned to you, who joined with me in asking you to 
 come, are as desirous of seeing you as I am ; and we all agree, that your presence 
 here might be of the greatest use to your Country, and much for the advantage of His 
 Majesty's sernce. 
 
 As I hope Lord Arniston is by this time in a better state of health, I have also wrote 
 to him ; and I know your persuation will have great influence with him. 
 
 I am, with the greatest truth ix esteem. 
 
 Your Lop's most faithfull humble Servant, 
 
 TWEEDDALE. 
 
 No. CCXXIII. 
 
 M' P. Murdoch to Mr. Andrew Mitchel ; dated Paris, 27"' March, N. S., 1742. 
 Dear M., 
 
 ACCORDING to the Orders you were pleased to give me, I have bought a 
 Summer Wastcoat of the newest fashion for 4 Louis ; and have pitched on a pattern 
 for the other, which at London \\A\\ be thought even excellent. 
 
 It is to be executed on a StuflF they call Velours de la Reine. Your other Com- 
 missions shall not be forgot. I cannot exactly say what they will amount to ; but 
 have drawn of this date upon M' And. Millar for ^25 ; what.is over or under, I shall 
 
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 keep accompt of. Literary News I have none, having much negleaed my Phiiosophical 
 acquaintances, as vou may guess by what I am now to impart to you. 
 
 You know how unsuccessful I have been in my Amours in England. I have been more 
 happy where I could least have expected it. Cpon my arrival here, I was introduced to 
 the acquaintance of a widow Lady, a British subject, and her Daughter, who have lived 
 at Paris a considerable time. By frequently visiting and conversing with them., I became, 
 acquainted with all their Schemes, one of which was to return to England. This 
 encouraged me to make my Addresses to the young Lady, with whose person and 
 character I had been long charmed ; and I have now obtained her consent, and that 
 of her nearest Relations. 
 
 Our fortunes are so well suited, that thev cannot much hurt or improve each other _ 
 for the present ; but she has rich Relations, who in all likelihood mav make her's very 
 considerable. You may judge, dear i\rL, what rses this generous usage lays me under 
 to endeavour to make her happy ; and tho' she has the goodness to assure me, that 
 there is no fortune so narrow that she coiJd not share with me, vet these t^es are 
 tor that very reason so much the more binding. M"^ V., who knows and congratulates 
 me upon all that is past, assures me, that nothing shall be wanting on his and 
 his family's part ; and to you and Forbes I need say nothing ; vour friendship 
 has always prevented my wants, and even my \\ishes. What will make me now the 
 more anxious to better my circumstances is this : her Relations, with their wealth, 
 have all the pride that naturally attends it ; and, by that odd vanity of rich people, 
 would be just so much the more liberal of their favours, as thev were the less wanted. 
 In the mean time, without founding upon vmcertaint\"S, or flattering ourselves with 
 imaginar)- views, we propose to go down to Suffolk, and live frugally on what we have. 
 A little reparation and fumittire will make the house tolerably convenient. I shall 
 leave Paris in three weeks, and they will follow in Summer, or the beginning of 
 Auromn. 
 
 These things, dear ^I., I wanted a thousand times to consult you about ; but durst 
 not venture them in writing, leners having: of late been lookt into at the Post OiEces 
 (one of your's, you know, was detained). Besides, it is but a few weeks since I 
 declared mvself otherwa^"s than by somethings of a more than ordinarv assiduity". 
 However, 1 do assure you, I have done nothing but what you must cordially approve 
 of. I have used all the deliberation and caution imaginable, and set aside every 
 prejudice that my passion might give me. TThat will surprise you most of all is, that she 
 has not yet compleated her i jth year. But, ha-ving been always imder the eye of a 
 virtuous and prudent Mother, in the very centre of folly, expence, and vanity, she 
 most heartily despised them ; longs onlv for an independent retired Life ; and, 
 innocent as a Chold of all artifice and affectation, professes to rate a husband only 
 bv the warmth and sinceritv of his affection. I desire vou mav communicate this to 
 my kind friend Millar, & to Forbes if in Town. If not, you will be so good as 
 inclose it to him. 
 
 I am. Dear M., 
 Paris, 7 Your o\^"n 
 
 27 Mar. 1742.5 P. M. * 
 
 I could wish to have a Scarf. Has the D. of Montrose no vacancy ? I did not 
 know how to direct for you en forme. 
 
 * Mr. Murdoch wrote the Life of Thomson, and several Mathematical works. Probably, it was most 
 Iiieky for him that this match did not take place : 
 
 Yet how does Lore blind the wifest i 
 
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 No. CCXXIV. 
 
 to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, 1 1"" March 1742. 
 
 NO doubt, your Lordship will hear by this post of the Duke of Argyll's having 
 laid down all his places. What I am going to say on that subject consists with my own 
 proper knowledge. When he accepted of his Employments, it was by the Advice 
 and at the request of his friends in town, who thought his sitting at the Council Board 
 of the greatest consequence to this Nation ; but as no steps have been taken, either to 
 his Satisfaction or to his friends, since his acceptance ; on the contrary, things growing 
 every day worse and worse ; his Grace Yesterday (you may be sure, not without 
 acquainting his friends] resigned his Employments to his Majesty, with all the respect 
 ^nd civility due to the King, and with all the calmness and sedetiiess becoming a Great 
 Man ; and I do assure you, every honest man approves of what he has done. 
 The D. of Montague has got the Ordnance again. 
 
 No. CCXXV. ■- "• ■' 
 
 The Lord President to the Marquis of Tweeddale. 
 My Lord, i*' April 1742. 
 
 UPON receiving your Lojj's Command of the 1 6"' of March, I wrote to my Bro' 
 Arnistoun to have his Resolution ; and had for answere, that the state of his health 
 . (which had been impared by an accidentall Cold) was such, that he cou'd not think 
 of a journey ; and he was indeed at that time much out of order ; but as this illness 
 ; was likely to be but of a short duration, I suffered ten days to pass, that he might 
 recover health and better spirits,' and then went out to Arnistoun to see him ; where 
 I found him pretty well restored from his last Complaint, but still in such a back- 
 ward way (occasioned, I presume, by the uncommon Coldness of the Season), that 
 he declared his resolution ag' travelling Southwards this Spring : and, as ane additional 
 reason for that resolution, he suggested the high improbability that our going to 
 London can be of any service to the publick, when there is not time left in this Session 
 to pass into a Law any propositions that we might off'er for the public service of this 
 part of the Island ; even if the other more interesting Considerations, in \v"^ the par- 
 liam' is at present engaged, were to give way, & leave roome for offering such pro- 
 positions. 
 
 This Determination of my Bro' Arnistoun's has gone far to determine my resolu- 
 tion on the side of my private opinion, but ag' what I shou'd have done had he con- 
 sented to the Journey ; it was my private Sentiments, that our presence at London, 
 at a juncture such as the present, could not be of any reall service to the Countrey ; 
 but such is my deference to your Lop's judgment, & to that of those eminent Per- 
 sons with whom you advised, that I had resolved to submit to it, if you persisted in 
 your purpose of seeing us ; and I guesed that what induced your Lop and them to 
 pitch upon my Bro' & me, as the fittest persons to Advise with in regard to the Inte- 
 rests of this Countrey, was, the notoriety that in our polilicall capacity, if I may so 
 speak, whilst we attended Parliam' we were generally adversary to one another ; the 
 Notoriety, that in our present stations we have dismissed all views of that kind ; and 
 the probability thence ariseing, that such sentiments as we agreed in wou'd be well 
 received, & not lyable to much exception on account of any suspected partiality. But 
 as Arnistoun is unable to undertake the journey, the view from wliich, as 1 imder, 
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 Stand it, the calling for us flovred is at ane end ; and my travelling cou'd have no other 
 fruit than the seeing some friends whom I shall be allways desireous to see, and the 
 seeing several things that I shall be allways sorry to see or hear of ; and, therefor, I 
 hope the only part which, according to my present \-iews, I can choose, that of stay- 
 ing at home, will meet with your Lop's approbation. If there is any thing relateing 
 to the Situation of this Countrey, with regaird to its Manufactorys, i^ PoUce, its 
 Revenue, or other interest, that I can give your Lop any light of, I shall be extreamly 
 glad to give your Lop all the satisfaction that is in my power, when you are pleased 
 to command me. This, if wanted, may be done in course of the post ; and before 
 ane ov- Session of Parlia', it is to be hoped yoiu- Lop will find my Bro" & me toge- 
 ther, and may then at leasure command all the light we can afford. 
 
 I am, with perfect respect, My Lord, 
 your Lop's, &c. 
 Stony hill, i'^ April 1742. 
 
 Xo. CCXXYI. 
 
 The Lord President to RF And. INIitchell. 
 D^ Sir, 
 
 I SHOL^'D have returned ane ans'' to yours o'f the 18"^ March sooner, but that I 
 waited to be determined as to the joumev which you expected I shou'd take ; but the 
 resolutions of my Bro' Amistoun, which being fixed ag' travelling, have left me no 
 party to Choose but that of staying at Home ; as I had no great Confidence, that our 
 joynt labours cou'd have done much ser\ice to the pubhck at this tiine ; and far less 
 that my presence, without Him, could have done any. 
 
 The Situation in qch you'at present are, which is owing to your own Character, as well 
 as the good judgement 5c good will of my Lord JNIarquiss, gives me a great deal of Satis- 
 faction. I am pleased on j^our account, because it will give you ane Opportunity to 
 exert your talents & to do good ; and I am pleased on the Marquiss's, because that act 
 qch was amongst the first of his Administration has been attended with universall ap- 
 probation ; and is ane earnest, that he will act with disinterested \iews, and make use 
 of disinterested persons, to carry on the Publick Senice *. As to advice, which you 
 seem to wish from me, it is quite useless, because you have a very faithfull, ^ much 
 more intimate ^linister at home, your heart ; which must, by the goodness of the Master 
 vou serve, be disposed to render him every honest peice of service he can claim ; and I 
 am very hopeful!, from the Opinion I have of Him, that the Marquis will expect none 
 other from you. The late accident qch you mention is unlucky ; and I lament it, 
 chdffly as it must necessarly be attended with some sowemess between persons whom 
 I most earnestly wished to see liveing & acting in perfect harmony. But these differ- 
 ences cannot possibly affect you with the person whom you are pleased to call my 
 friend ; who must expect to see you discharge the trust you have undertaken with care 
 and fidelitv, if he has the same opinion of you that I have. Toutching the expecta- 
 tions you entertained, of my being useful! to quiet riseing animosities, &: perhaps to 
 prevail with some persons to lay them aside, I cannot tell very well how far I might, 
 or might not, have been of use, had I been early with you ; but as things are act present, 
 I am affraid the coal! is too hot to be toutched ; and I have frequently seen, that 
 medleinw with it in that Condition makes it blaze the more. The end of the Session 
 
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 will give Men time to cooll ; and if nothing is done further, to irritate or provoke, of 
 cither Side, which I pray 5c hope may be the case, nothing shall be wanting on my side, 
 to dispose such as will in any degree be influenced by my Opinion to that Union which 
 I wish may prevaill. I have wrote to the Marquis by this Post, signifying my present 
 purpose of remaining in this Countrey. I hope He will approve of my reasons ; and if 
 he. should be too much hurryed to find time to lett me know so much, that you will. 
 
 I am, My Dear A. 
 Stony hill, i April 1742. &c. 
 
 No. CCXXVII. . . 
 
 M' Mitchell to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Whitehall, 20 April 1742. 
 
 YOUR Lordship's letter of the ist instant gave me real joy ; as you said in it 
 several kind thingS' of me & to me. I do assure you, that nothing pleases me so much 
 as the approbation of those I love and esteem ; and to deserve your Lordship's, is my 
 particular ambition. I have ever thought my acquaintance with your Lordship one 
 of the happiest incidents of my life, and 1 think I have felt myself the better Man for 
 it. When I reflect on the justice that manldnd in general do to your Character, I 
 cannot help thinking better of them than I am sometimes inclined to do ; I cannot 
 help believing • they have still some gratitude left, & some sense of Virtue. Tho' I 
 acknowledge the reasons vou give for not coming to London are of weight, still they 
 are not convincing ; for I am sure you will never allow that to be a just maxim, that 
 when people cannot do all the good they wish to do, they ought to do nothing. The 
 whole tenour of your life, & your unwearied endeavours in your own province, plainly 
 show that you adopt no such principle. I owai, I am greatly affected by the dissapoint- 
 ment ; and it is my private Opinion, that you could still be of great service to the Pub- 
 lick if you was here. I am sure the Marquis was very desireous you shou'd ; and the 
 Opinion & Confidence he has of you must have rendered your Advice useful & impor- 
 tant in that quarter. 
 
 I beg leave once more to renew my former request of the Continuance of your 
 friendship ; and, as I have a most thorough confidence in you every way, of the 
 favour of your advice upon particular occasions that may arise ; and I do assure you, 
 it will be a great comfort to me ; for tho' I am v^in enough not to suspect my heart, 
 yet I am extremely difident of myself. I know your goodness will excuse my saying 
 so much about myself. You have had an account, no doubt, of Paxton's confine- 
 ment to Newgate, & the reason of it : it is surprising that the obstinacy & villany of 
 one man shou'd be able to baffle the publick jusdce, k yet the constitution afford no 
 legal remedy. 
 
 This Letter goes by a Courier, under Cover to M' Maclaurin, as I was informed 
 your Lordship had gone North. May you long enjoy every thing that can make you 
 happy & easy ! which is the most sincere wish of 
 
 Your most Obliged 
 
 most humble Serv' 
 
 AND'^ MITCHELL, 
 
 No. CCXXVIII.
 
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 No. ccxx\7n. 
 
 The Lord President to his Son John Forbes, of the Blues. 
 
 My Dear John, _ Edinburgh, 3- June 1 742. 
 
 AS you desire in vours of the 20th of May, I have givei? you Cxedite on M' George 
 Midleton for ^100. ; which I understand you are to call for only &om time to time, 
 as you have use for it ; partly towards your Expedition ; & partly, if necessary, for 
 your support in Flanders. I give this Ciedite v-ithout hesitation at this time, because 
 your marching is necessarv ; and your past Oeconomy may make it necessary for you ; 
 but I cannot, without injustice to you and to myself, omit to tell you, that I am not 
 satisfied with the Espence which you have lately drawn yourself and me into. I or- 
 dered your bills for .^"63. and ^100. to be payed, without putting the Question to your- 
 self, how vou came to outrun your pav so far, because I did not choose to shock vou, 
 after Voiu- purposes and declarations to me when we were last together ; but I took 
 care to inform myself as well as I coidd at a distance, from some of my acquaintances, 
 concerning the cause of that expence ; and I confess I have not received Satisfaction. 
 I do not incline to put you out of countenance by asking any questions on that subject, 
 which is now over, at present ; but I must let you know, that, unless you regulate 
 vour expence better for the future, I shall be obliged, for your sake as well as my own, 
 to draw in mv hand, and to recall you from the trade you have chose ; to the doing of 
 which, I am confident, I shall have the approbation of that great Man who first engaged 
 you in it rThe Duke of ArgvU], and who must know m.v reasons for the resciution I 
 speak of, should your conduct make it necessary. My indulgence to you hitherto, 
 Dear John, passes over all past failings ; but I expect much greater circumspecrion for 
 the future ; and that I ndver shall hear of anv hxrtber demand, but v^hat shall have 
 your Cousin Hugh's Approbation ; v ho is an Advocate now for you, but not by Ar- 
 tnimpnrs that give me satisfaction. Tho' I am thorowly displeased with, and will no 
 longer endure, vour beha^"iour in point of expence, yet I hope I shall have no reason 
 to be dissatisfied with vour Conduct as a Man in point of Courage, Temper, or Care, 
 in the trade to which you have taken. I am 
 
 Your Loving Father, 
 
 DL^': FORBES. 
 
 Xo. CCXXIX. 
 
 The ^Marquis of Tweeddale to the Lord President. 
 
 MvLord, Whitehall, 5 June 1742. 
 
 I HAD the favour of vour Lordship's Letter without date, which I should have 
 answered sooner, but delayed till your retnm from the North, 
 
 The Prospect arising from the Abstract of the Manufactures, and what your Lord- 
 ship has said upon it, is extreamly satisfactory ; and I agree with you, 'that this infant 
 Manufactorv is a promising Child, and well worth nursing and bringing up. I am 
 verv sensible, that the fair appearance that now is of success in the Linnen ^lanufac- 
 tory in Scotland is chiefly owing to your imwearied and disinterested Care and Con- 
 cern about it ; and, as I am cominced nobody can give better hints than your Lord- 
 ship, I hope you will turn your thoughts toward whatever you may judge necessary 
 for the further promoting so beneficial a Scheme, and removing any Obstructions that 
 YOU may have hitherto met with ; which you will, at your leisure, be pleased to com- 
 municate to me, since I have not the least doubt of obtaining a ready Concurrence in 
 
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 every reasonable measure that shall be proposed, for bringing this Manufactory to 
 further perfection. 
 
 I hope the Warrants upon the Report from the Trustees, sent up by your Lord- 
 ship to George Ross, have met with the usual Dispatch in the Treasury. I am, with 
 great esteem and regard, . 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obedient and most humble Servant, 
 
 TWEEDDALE. 
 
 No. CCXXX. 
 
 The Lord President to the Marquis of Tweeddale [in answer]. 
 
 My Lord, June 1 742- 
 
 THE satisfaction your Lop expresses, on the progress of owr Linnen Manufac- 
 tures, and the Resolution you are pleased to declare, of giveing it your Assistance & 
 protection, in the Letter w^'' you honoured me with of the 3'' instant, give me a very 
 sensible pleasure ; not only as I am encouraged to hope for success to ane undertake- 
 ing which I am so fond of ; but as your Lop's entering so warmly into the forwarding 
 a design, which has no other aim but the good of this poor country, is to me ane 
 earnest of what 1 always wished, and indeed I hoped, to see, when your Lop shou'd 
 come to be employed, a Minister who will direct his care to its most proper object, the 
 reall interest & the prosperity of his Country. 
 
 Your Loj5, I am confident, will not doubt that I shall be ready on every occasion 
 to contribute all the lights 1 can afford towards discovering what may be fitt to be 
 done towards preserving & forwarding what has been so happily begun ; but as the 
 dangers to be avoided, and the encouragement to be expected, are such that litle or 
 nothmg can be done in relation to them without the interposition of parliament, and 
 there seems to be no time left for such Considerations in this Session, your Lop will 
 readily excuse me, that just at this time, when you are so much engaged in business of 
 another nature, and when I am so thorowly oppressed with the unprofitable (I fear) 
 drudgery of my Office, I do not enter into the particulars, which will be better 
 explained to your Lop when my thoughts are more at liberty, after the conclusion of 
 this Session, and when your Lop will iikeways be at leisure. 
 
 What I then shall offer principally to your L0J3 will be (a melancholy considera- 
 tion !) the desperate condition of the Revenues of this Country ; which are now in 
 such a declineing state, that the usuall expence of the civill Government can hardly 
 be answered ; and as the chiefF Support for executeing our Scheme of improvement 
 must arise from surpluses on the Excheq', shou'd the Revenues continue to produce as 
 litle as they have done lately, there must be ane end to our hopes as Manufacturers. 
 The Civill Government cannot without great difficulty be carried on ; and, what very 
 few people attend to, the Landed Interest, as well as the trade, of this part of the 
 Island must be undone. What I shall do is, to hint to your Lop the source from 
 whence this mischieff springs, and to suggest such remedies, as, if they shall be 
 approved of, may, by the Aid of ane Act of Parliament, releive us from Ruin. 
 
 Some further encouragements than we at present enjoy are also to be wished for, and 
 to be hoped for from Parliament, if we can qualify our demand so as to secure the 
 Public from frauds, and to satisfye the Legislature that the Revenues shall lose no 
 more than the Parliament, with their Eyes open, give for promoting the Manufac- 
 ture ; and on this subject your Lop shall hear from me when I can command a little 
 time. 
 
 As-
 
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 As to the Obstructions which your Lop may have heard 1 have mett v.ith in my 
 ISIanuiacturing Capacit}-, they have ceased in a great degree for some Months past, and 
 \vill, I dare say, give me very little trouble, so long as your Lop continues to take care 
 of the afiairs of this Coimtrey. If any thing perverse shou'd happen, I §hall not faill to 
 let your Lop know it, and to beg your Assistance. At present, I shall detain your 
 Lop no longer than till I have said what is most certainly true, that I am, with perfect 
 respect, Your Lop's, &:c. 
 
 ^ . _ . D.F. 
 
 Xo.CCXXXI. 
 
 The Marquis of Tweeddale to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Whitehall, 24'== Aug; 1 742. 
 
 I AM sorrs' that, by delating of my Journey so long, the hopes I had of seeing 
 you in Scotland' are very imce'rtain ; especially as I am informed that you are already 
 gone North. 
 
 I desired the Lord Advocate to talk vith you of a plan for the better regulating the 
 Courts of Justice in Scotland ; and particularly, for making the Circuit Courts more 
 useful to the Countrv ; of which I should be glad to have your Opinion ; for I have 
 long thought a new Law for that purpose was necessan-. 
 
 I wrote some tim.e ago to General Clayton to advise with your Lordship, Lord 
 Ai-nistoun, and the Lord Advocate, in order to prepare a scheme for presening the 
 peace of the Highlands, and preventing depredations ; and 1 hope you ^vill give your 
 assistance in framing a proper Bill, to be brought into Parliament for that purpose j 
 since all attempts hitherto made have proved ineffectual. 
 
 I expect vou will, from time to time, inform me of whatever you think may be of 
 advantage to the Manufactures of Scotland ; and you shall always ikid me willing to 
 second and promote your -views for their Encouragement. 
 
 If 1 can be of any use to your Lordship or any of your friends here, I am ready to 
 receive and obey your Commands. 
 
 I am, with xery great esteem, 
 My Lord, 
 Your most Obedient humble Sen-ant, 
 
 TWEEDDALE. 
 
 No.CCXXXII. 
 
 M' Fane to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, The i4* Sep" 1742. 
 
 MY Uncle show'd me to-day your letter of the 11'" of August ; and, in Obedience 
 
 to your Commands, vou have the trouble of this, to bring an Acco' of the welfare 
 
 of that worthy Gent" my Brother, and all the rest of us. The great civilit}- and good 
 
 manners W" w* tlie E. of W n, M' S ^ys, and the rest of the Board, treat him, 
 
 has raised his spirits, and make him go on with business cheerfully : and indeed, with- 
 out an experienced Leader, what can unexperienced Commanders do ? He is able and 
 willing to instruct them, and they are willing and desirous to gratif}' him & his friends ; 
 w"^ I have lately experienced, by their appointing me to succeed Mr. Tilson. Poor 
 Tilson was so struck at the suminons he received from the Secret Committee, that he 
 
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 never recovered his spirits, and lingered out a miserable life as long as a strong heart 
 and lungs would keep life in him. We have but bad News at present from Germany ; 
 where, I fear, the raising the Seige of Prague will make our wicked neighbours more 
 troublesome than before ; and, indeed, there is no wonder they succeed in their pro- 
 jects ; for in those Courts where their flattery won't do, they prevail on them with 
 money ; so as by one way or another they drive the world before them. I fear, my 
 
 Lord St will have no success. They are very Obstinate who are of the side 
 
 of France, tho' on the other side our friends are very clamorous ; and it's imagined, 
 some time or other, the people may be enraged ag" the French party ; for w"^ 
 they all seem to be ready, being in general for a War w"" France. I wish the K. of 
 
 Sar a may be kept steady : ' that w-as always a political Court ; and French Offers 
 
 may carry him off, and then good bye to the liberties of Europe. 
 
 Your Lordship will say I am a thorough Englishman, as I can write of nothing but 
 politicks ; that, indeed, is too much the case of all of us at present ; for the publick 
 is now-a-days much more regarded than our Shops and Estates. I do assure you, that 
 I have a very great Love for my Country ; but when I descend to individuals, I can't 
 help thinking of myself, and therefore hope I shall mind my Business, and be able to 
 get bread for myself and family. 
 
 Tomorrow I go into the West of England, to let my Wife show her husband amongst 
 her acquaintance ; and besides I must appear at Lyme the 4''' of October, to be sworn 
 Mayor of that antient Corporation. When I return, I shall be greatly honoured to 
 receive your Commands, and shall ever be glad to approve myself, w"" the most sincere 
 Esteem and Regard, 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most faithful and most Obedient humble Servant, 
 
 HEN. FANE. 
 
 The K. will soon go for Flanders ; from whence I hear, by the last return, we had 
 1390 men sick ; and if they take the field, farewell to them all. 
 
 No.CCXXXIII. 
 
 The Lord President to the Marquis of Tweeddale. 
 
 My Lord, Colloden, 18* Sept' 1742. 
 
 A SMALL excursion which I made last week in my Neighbourhood render'd it 
 impossible for me to return ane answer sooner to the letter your Lop did me the honour 
 to write to me, of the 24^^ of August. 
 
 • It is no small mortification to me, that the necessity I am under of attending some 
 affairs that concern me in this country should deprive me of the pleasure of seeing your 
 Lop in Scotland, & contributing so far as I am able (by opening fully my sentiments) 
 to your generous design of employing your power to the good of your Country ; but 
 what I cannot have the happiness of doing by word of mouth, I shall cheerfully make 
 up, so far as it is, double, conferring freely with my Lord Advocate, or any other 
 person your Lop thinks fit to advise with ; &, after such consultation, giveing your 
 Lop in writeing my sentiments, if you require it. Your Lop observes very justly, that 
 our Courts, & particularly that of justiciary, stand in need of some regulations ; but 
 the work is of great delicacy, & requires much consideration ; & in some cases, as in 
 that which your Lop mentions of the justiciary, must be attended with some expences. 
 As the Law stands, a Robber, or any other fellon, committed in this or any other 
 remote part of the Country, has a right to bring on his triall in 60 Days, or to be dis- 
 
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 mist, except his Committment should happen to be, just before the aimuall circuite. 
 If he run his letters, he must be dismist, or carry 'd to Ed' to be tryd in the Court of 
 Justiciarv, where he is probable to be acquited for lack of e\'idence, unless the prose- 
 cutor ■will put himself to ane expence for which there is no sufficient pro\-ision made by 
 the Publick ; nor can this b2 remedied, by restoreing the Oct' circuit, wtout doing 
 somewhat more than doubieing the expence that the present course of the assises costs. 
 It is manifest, that the sum allow'd to defray the expence of the itinerant judges is too 
 small ; which, possibly, may be the cause why their stay is so short in the places where 
 they hold their Aires, & consequently why they are not more usefull to the country. 
 I fling out this Obser\^ation at present, that your Lop may haye it in your Aiew, that 
 towards gjyeing the Law its just course, the Goyenmient must be at a larger expence 
 than is now bestow' d ; and, as the Revenues in this Countn.-, managed as they have 
 been, are not well able to aiford a greater expence, whoever -will give himself the 
 trouble to devise means for secuxeing the peace or improveing the pohcy of this poor 
 Countrj- must begin %vith correcting those abuses that have long prevail'd in respect to 
 the Revenues, & thereby furnish the Government \^ith means to execute such regula- 
 tions as may be projected ; and as your Lop will soon be in Scotland, I take it for 
 granted, you will think it proper to consvdt vith such as vmderstand this subject best, 
 on the fitest method of promotting & secureing the Revenue : a maner that has [been]] 
 hitherto scandallously, if not criminaly, neglected. 
 
 About 3 Weeks agoe, when Gen" Clayton was with me here, he acquainted me 
 with your Lop's commands, & I oppen'd to him my thoughts of what was fit to be 
 done for the preservation of the peace of the Highlands, & the prevention of Depre- 
 dations ; & here again, as he -will inform your Lop, a further expence again is neces- 
 sary ; but as what I oppend to the Gen'' may require further deliberation, 1 shall be 
 glad to reconsider it with L"^ Arniston & Lord Advocate when I get to Ed', if I shall 
 be so imhappy as not to see your Lop there. 
 
 The concern your Lop shows for our Manufactures would enflame my Zeal for them, 
 if it wanted any tire. I most certainly shall profite of your in^-itation, & let your Lop 
 know from time to time what we want &: what we wish. 
 
 Tho' I ver)- much fear that the shortness of your Lop's stay att Ed', & the necessary 
 length of mine here, vill be ane insuperable barr in the way of my desire of waiting on 
 you, vet I wish to know, if it may not be improper for your Lordship to discover it, 
 what is the longest term that you allow for your remaining in Scotland ; to the end, 
 that if it be at all possible for me, I may stretch a point, to have the satisfaction I aim 
 att : but whether I shall or shall not be lucky in that particular, I shall still have the 
 honour to be with perfect respect, &c. 
 
 Xo. CCXXXIV. 
 
 The Marquis of Tweeddale to the Lord President. 
 
 ' My Lord, Tester, 6'^ October 1742. 
 
 I HA^T been favoured with your Lordship's of the 18 Sept' ; and I regret much 
 
 I had not the pleasure of seeing you ; since I am sensible many matters of consequence 
 
 to the interest of this Country? could have been opened to better purpose by word of 
 
 mouth, than possibly can be done by writing. 
 
 From the little obser\Tition I have made, I have been long of Opinion, that our 
 Courts of Judicature, not onlv the Court of Justiciarv^ but even the Court of Session, 
 stood in need of some Regulations. I own, it is a work of great delicacy, and will 
 
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 requii-e much consideration ; but not of so great difficulty as not to be got the better 
 of, if your Lordship, who understands this subject perfectly, will, in earnest, employ 
 your thoughts that way. 1 have discoursed a httle with Lord Arnistoune on the head, 
 but without coming particularly to any point ; since; I told him freely, as I now do your 
 Lordship, that I neither incline to meddle in it myself ; nor, if I should, have I indeed 
 any hopes ot success, unless you two were perfectly agreed in your sentiments about 
 any scheme that could be proposed. In that case, I am apt to flatter myself, that my 
 endeavours to carry it through above would not be fruitless : at least, it should either 
 pass in the way proposed, or not at all; and in that view, if no good, no harm, could 
 be done. It will be unlucky if nothing can be attempted at this time, from the dif- 
 ference of opinions that may be amongst you here ; since if this opportunity be now lost, 
 it is not easy to say when we may have another. 
 
 I agree -with your Lordship, that it is absolutely necessary, that the Revenues of this 
 Country should be well managed, and narrowly lookt into ; without which it is in vain 
 to devise means for securing the peace, or improving the policy, of this corner of the 
 Island. I shall not be wanting in my endeavours ; and shall be much obliged to you, 
 if I am favoured with your sentiments of what may be the fittest method for promoting 
 and securing the Revenue, as well as for correcting any abuses that may have crept 
 into the management. 
 
 I have desired my Lord Advocate to talk with your Lordship, and General Clayton, 
 of what may be fit to be done for the preservation of the peace of the Highlands. 
 
 The Encouraging our Manufactures here, in which your Lordship so generously 
 employs so much of your time, is of so great advantage to this Country, that I hope 
 you shall never have any reason to doubt of my firm resolution to second your -views ; 
 and, that I may be better instructed than I am at present, I must desire, that you will 
 give orders to the Secretary of the trustees, to transmit to me the several reports that 
 have been laid before his Majesty, since he was first graciously pleased to grant a 
 patent ; that I may have a general view of the whole from the beginning, I must not 
 disguise, that I have often heard it complained, that several persons have obtained little 
 offices there, rather with other views than to encourage the Manufactures. I know 
 well, that it is not possible to remedy this altogether in this Island ; but for myself, 
 tho' I should now and then recommend vsome persons to you to be employed (and this 
 shall be in as few instances as possible), I shall never desire my recommendations to be 
 complied with, if you think the persons not proper or fit to be trusted in the discharge 
 of that duty. As there are several Vacancies of Trustees, I would submit to you, 
 whether it would not be proper that these should be filled up, both with Gentlemen 
 and Merchants of the best repute in the different Shires and principal Burroughs of this 
 Country, who might correspond with your Secretary at Edinburgh. By this means, 
 you would have a more general View of the State of the Manufactures over the whole 
 Nation ; as also these Gentlemen, by their Credit in their respective Countries, might 
 have great influence with their neighbours, the justices of the peace and Magistrates, in 
 discouraging many male-practices equally detrimental to the Revenue as to the Manu- 
 factures. I don't know in what maimer the patent for the Trustees is ft-amed, having 
 never seen it ; but I would suggest to you, whether it might not be proper, after the 
 number of the Trustees is once completed, that they should have a power in themselves 
 to fill up vacancies when they should happen, that a constant succession of them may 
 be preserved. 
 
 I shall trouble your Lordship no further. I have taken up too much of your time 
 already, in Lhro\ving out such raw and indigested hints as have occurred to me. I can 
 answer for my own intentions j how far I shall be rightly advised or properly supported, 
 
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 time will discover ; but I shall not be easily discouraged. 1 shall leave this place for 
 London the beginning of nest Week : if your Lordship has any Commands for me 
 there, you will always find me ready to receive, and willing to obey them ; being with 
 the greatest truth and Esteem, My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's most obedient 
 
 & most humble Servant, 
 
 TWEEDDALE. 
 
 No. CCXXXV. 
 
 The Lord President [probably to the Marquis of Tweeddale, about 1742.] 
 On the State of the Revenue of Scotland ; nith proposals for improving it, &:c. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 I VERY gladly lay hold of the short recess from the Business of the Session, we 
 now enjoy, to discharge in some sort my promise of exposeing to your Lop's view the 
 state of this Country, as it relates to the Manufactures, which for some years past I have 
 taken a pretty deall of pains about ; and as it relates to the Revenues, without which 
 neither can the ci\Tll Government be carried on, nor the Manufactures in any degree 
 be encouraged, or indeed supported. 
 
 The Trustees for the Manufactures are now bussy in drawing up their Annuall 
 Report to His Majestie, and framing a Plan by which the Monies allotted for Improve- 
 ments are to be issued for the 3 years next ensuing, if His Majest)' shall be graciously 
 pleased to approve of the same. And as this Repon will in a little time be transmitted 
 to your Lordp, I need not lengthen a Letter which, without such addition, will, I am 
 afraid, be too long, by entering into the particulars that are to be reported ; but it is 
 necessary for my purpose in generall to mention to your Lop what I am confident you 
 will be glad to hear, That our Linen Manufacture is in a very thriveing way ; that we 
 have hopes of succeeding in our endeavours of propagating the Manufacture of coarse 
 Linen, the fine being alreadv very well understood ; that we have expectations of dis- 
 covering a method of Bleatching or Whitening such coarse Cloath under one penny 
 per yard ; that a commendable spirit of launching out into new branches of the Linen 
 Manufacture, such as thread Stockings, Tapes, incle, coloured thread, figured work 
 for Table Linen, &c. is raised, and would most certainly be encouraged if om" funds 
 had answered our expectation ; — That our spinning, which is indeed the Basis of the 
 Manufactures, is so far advanced beyond that of our neighbours, whatever they may 
 think fitt to give out to the contrarj', that very large quantity's of our yarn are bought 
 up, and transported by the Irish ; which, tLo* it lessens the quantity of our Cloath, yet 
 proves ane encouragement to the Spinning, and may therefor be fitly winked at for 
 some time ; tho' at last it ought to be prevented, because, tho' we with pleasure see 
 great quantitys of Linen Yam carried to Manchester and oy' parts of England to be 
 wrought up into different sorts of Goods, and hope that this trade, which is of advan- 
 tage to the whole Ishmd, shall continue ; yet we flatter ourselves to have in due time 
 the favour of the Legislature on our side, to hinder our Rivalls in trade from raising 
 the Mercat of our Yarn so high as to spoil our trade, and perhaps prevent our supplying 
 the other part of this Island of what we now afi"ord for its service. 
 
 As what I have said gives a very promiseing view of this Manufacture, I must not 
 conceal that it is the cnh thing that promises any good to this poor Country. The 
 fishery has totally failled for some years ; the foreign trade of Glasgow, which is 
 
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 chiefly the West Indian & American, is pinched by the War with Spain ; that of the 
 rest of the Country is worse than nothing ; it is pilferring from the revenue, & picking 
 the pockets of the people of any ready money they have, to pay for forreign Bouvrage, 
 which supplants the consumption of the growth of our own estates. The Mercat for 
 the Serges & Stockings of Aberdeenshire has fallen, they say, by reason of the War 
 with Spain ; and there is remarkably less coin to be met with than ever was at any 
 time within Memory knovven, even in this poor Countrey ; occasioned chiefly by the 
 gradual but continuall exportation of our Bullion for Tea, Cofl'ee, & Forreign Spirits, 
 and rendered severely sensible by the great importation of Grain during the late scarcity; 
 which, falling in with a Season when the Exchange was considerably against us, raised 
 that Exchange so high, that de fa6lo almost every one who had occasion to make re- 
 mittances made them in Gold. And this circumstance has so thorrowly drained the 
 Countrey of Gold, that paper is the only coin that one sees ; and even it is far from 
 being in any tollerable plenty. Under this last Circumstance, that the Linen Manu- 
 fafture has stood its ground is more than could well have been expefted ; but how 
 long it can stand, if some remedy is not found for the evil complained of, is more than 
 I can take upon me to say. 
 
 This uhnappy situation is very melancholly ; and if at all remediable, the cure can- 
 not be compassed otherways than by slow degrees. But what immediately claims your 
 Lop's attention and what has for a great while exercised mine, is the ugly prospect of 
 immediate ruin to our Manufactures, throw the apparent faillure of the Revenues by 
 which they are supported, which in their present condition are not able to answere the 
 expence of his Majefty's Civil Government in Scotland ; so that, unless some Remedy 
 is found out and applyed, the System of Government in this part of the Kingdom must 
 stop, or be kept in motion by remittances from the other, 'iioyf palatable or practicable 
 that will prove, your Lop may easily perceive. 
 
 That your Lop may see this matter in the light in which it presents itself to me, you 
 will be pleased to recollect, that the Annuall expence of the Civill Government in 
 Scotland, includeing the equivalent Annuity, and the Annuity for the Manufactures, 
 payable at the Exchequer, runs from 51, 10^52,000; whereof j^2 9,020 [arej the 
 yearly expence of the 3 Courts; ^10,600 the Annuity due to the Equivalent; & 
 if 2000 the annuity due to the Manufactures : And the rest composed of Sums by 
 warrant, few of which can possibly be dispensed with. 
 
 That the fund chiefly relyed on for answering this Annuall Expence has been theExcise, 
 and the other Duties under the Manadgement of the Commissioners of Excise ; the Cus- 
 toms haveing for many years produced litle worth speaking of; and the Salt duty, whether 
 on a right or wrong conftruction of the Statutes relative thereto, I do not take upon 
 me to say, haveing since it was last imposed been withdrawen from answering the oc- 
 casions of the Civil Government to which it was formerly applicable and applyed. 
 
 That the Excise properly so called, I mean the Duty arising from Beer & Ale, and 
 Spirits, amounted (to carry the matter no further back than the year 1733) to about 
 .^40,000 (I take a round sume, for the nett duty of that branch at JVIidsummer in 
 that year was ££"41,543. 13. 1-I-.) ; and this with the dutys on Leather, Candles, Soap, 
 h" under the same manadgement, which one year with another runs to 8 or ^9000. 
 required but small assistance from the other revenues, to answer the expence of the 
 Civil List. 
 
 But now it so happens, unfortunately, that whilst these other revenues Club htle or 
 nothing to those Expences, the Excise has fallen nearly one half. The net produce 
 of what I call the proper Excise was, for the year ending at Midsummer last, no more 
 than a^2 2,451. 5. 7. ; and when the oy' dutys above mentioned, under the manadge- 
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 ment of the same Commissioners, are brought into the Accompt, the total! sume of 
 which the Crown can avail! itself amounts for that year to nearly ^31,240.; which 
 could not possibly defray the expence of the Civill Government, and answere the An- 
 nuity due to the Equivalent Creditors and to the Manufactures ; and, accordingly, the 
 Exchequer has been obhged, I wou* not say to stop, for that is ane ugly word, but to 
 delay payments. 
 
 The Warrand for papng the annuity- of ^2000. to the Manuiactures at last Mid- 
 summer has not hitherto, been complyed with. The IMichaelmas quarter's Sallary 
 to the Judges of the 3 Courts have not been payed ; of course, no other payment has 
 been made ; and when any payments shall be made, vour Lop will readily observe it 
 can only be 'dv anticipation ; makeing use of the Revenues as they come ia for this 
 vear, to' answer the regular charge of the last ; so that tho' things may be kept quiet for 
 a few weeks or months, unless the Revenue can really be recovered so as to answer the 
 Public expence, the outmost distress & loudest Clamour must ensue. That which 
 affects me infinitely more than the delay of pa^Tnent of that trifle which is my Sallary, 
 is the inabiUt)- we, as Trustees for the Manufactures, are imder to answer the expence 
 of our little System ; which, if it once fall to pieces, or meet with any considerable 
 check, I greatly fear nothing practicable in this Country, considering the Povert)^ to 
 which it has fallen, can restore. And I confess to your Lop I look with no small con- 
 cern on the confusion which must follow on the stopping payment of the Equivalent 
 annuit)-, and some other of the Expences of the Civil Government, besides the esta- 
 blishment for the Courts. 
 
 Had the diminution of the Excyse been ovnn^ to the casualty' of a bad Crop, which 
 frequently occasions a shortcomeing, as it did for example in the year from Mid- 
 summer 1740 to Midsummer 1741, wherein the net duty amounted to no more than 
 ^18,899 I. 3x., it would have given me no pain, because a more plentifull Harvest 
 would have repaired the loss. But the misfortime is, That this decay has been regular 
 and progressive, growing more sensible from year to year ever since 1733, and 
 must continue for ever, how plentifull soever our Crops may be, unless the cause of 
 that decay is discovered and removed. 
 
 It becomes therefor highly important for us, who belong to this poor Coimtn-, to 
 search after the cause of this mischief, and if possible to eradicate it. The iirst point is 
 easily compassed ; the second is a work of much more diiiiculty ; but it must necessarily 
 be attempted ; for if we do not destroy it, it will most certainly destroy us, and that 
 very soon. 
 
 The Cause of the mischief we complain of is, evidently, the excessive use of Tea ; which 
 is now become so common, that the meanest fanulys, even of labouring people, particu- 
 larly in Burroughs, make their morning's Meal of it, and thereby wholly disuse the 
 ale,' which heretofore w^as their accustomed drink ; and the same Drug supplies all the 
 labouring woem.en with their afternoons' entertainments, to the exclusion of the Two- 
 penny. 
 
 The Ostend Company first, and afterwards that settled at Gottenburgh, not only 
 filled the north of Europe ■with Tea, but by necessary consequence brought down the 
 price of it verv low. Severall persons belonging to this Country, of low if not of 
 desperate fortunes, were concerned in the service of these Companys, particularly of 
 that of Gottenburgh. They run their low-priced Tea into Scotland, and sold it very 
 cheap ; a poimd went from Half a Crown to 3 or 4 shillings. The good wife was 
 fond of it because her betters made use of Tea : a pound of it would last her a month, 
 which made her Breakfast very cheap, as she made no account of the Sugar, which 
 she took up only in ounces. In short, the itch spread j the refuse of the vilest Teas 
 
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 were run into this Country from Holland, sold and bought at the prices I have men- 
 tioned ; and at present there are very few Coblers in any of the Burroughs of this 
 Country who do not fit down gravely with their Wives & familys to Tea. 
 
 It is above seven years since. I forsaw or rather saw this abuse, and warned ag' it. 
 The better sort of the Commonalty first gave into it, and of course left off their Morn- 
 ing Drink of Ale, which impaired considerably the Excise. But when, by degrees, 
 the Commons within Burroughs almost universally followed their example, the use of 
 Ale and Beer for mornings and afternoons was almost wholly laid aside ; and the 
 Revenue of Excise has sunk in proportion as this villainous practice has grown. 
 
 Nor is it that revenue only that sutfers by this unaccountable abuse. The duty of 
 2 pennies on the Pint of Beer and Ale, which Edinburgh, Glasgow, & allmost all the 
 other considerable Brughs of Scotland, begged of the Parliament, and depended on as 
 the Chief fund for defraying ther Common expences, is sunk rather in a greater pro- 
 portion than the Excise ; as this pernicious practice prevaills more within Brughs than 
 in the Country. And what grieves me most, the Malt duty, which formerly yielded 
 considerable surplus's to the Manufactures, after answering the net sum of ^2000. to 
 the CrowTi, has not been able for severall years to answer the sum which the Public 
 is entitled to have. 
 
 This last article claims (in a particular manner) your Lop's attention. By the Malt 
 Act, which charges Scotland with the Dutv of three-pence per Bushell, it is pro\')-ded, 
 that in case that duty does not produce the sum of af 20,000. clear to the Crown, the 
 deficiency shall be made good by a surcharge. Now as the Sums in which the Malt 
 Duu' has been deficient for the four years preceding Midsummer last amount to about 
 ^21,000. this poor Country is, within the words of the law, liable to a Surcharge for 
 that large Sume. What distractions the exacting wou" occasion, your Lop can easily 
 figure to yourself ; nor do I mention it from any apprehension, that those who have the 
 honour to serve His Majestic in the direction of the Revenue will think of such a harsh 
 measure at this time ; but purely that your Lop may see from this, as well as the other 
 Considerations mentioned, how important a point it becomes, to devise 6c to apply some 
 effectuall remedy to the destructive evill I have been speaking of. 
 
 If I am not very much mistaken, your Lop is by this time satisfied, that the exces- 
 sive use of Tea is the principall cause of the misfortunes we feel, and are likely to 
 suffer under more smartly ; and that if some effectual remedy is not applyed, we are 
 undone. What 1 am next to trouble your Lop with is, what, upon the most serious 
 consideration, occurs to me as the only practicable manner in which to attempt relief. 
 
 Could the running of Tea be prevented, so that every pound of Tea sho** fairly pay 
 a Duty of four shillings, the abuse complained of would cease of course ; because it 
 is the meanness of the price that encourages the poorer sort to purchass ; and the duty, 
 added even to the low \^lues at which it is now sold, would prove ane effectual Bar to 
 the use of it amongst such as have deserted twopennv for it. But then, considering 
 the extent of our Coast, the small number of Officers which our Revenue can entertain, 
 and I am affraid I may say the Corruption of these Officers, it is, at least it seems 
 to me to be, utterly impossible to prevent the ruiming of this light Commodity by any 
 lavv yet enacted, or that may be devised. 
 
 It might, indeed, be very possible to prevent the use of it amongst such as could 
 not afford to pay the dut\-, and to recover the duty from such as shou'd continue to 
 use it, by very rigid excise laws, such as England wou'd not choose to submitt to, or 
 by levying a rate from the familys in which Tea is used by a sort of Capitation tax, 
 in the manner in which such Dutys are levyed in Holland ; and a Method might I think 
 
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 be contrived, not subject to a p>ossibility of fraud, whereby such persons of this Coun- 
 trey as truely made use of Tea which paid dut)' in London, might draw back that 
 dutv. But as I doubt, nay indeed I hope, that England is not so much hurt by this 
 abominable practice, either in its revenues or other interests, as we are, so that it is 
 not likely they will be disposed to make use of a remedy which to them may seem so 
 violent, however I might for my own part choose to submitt to any method of exac- 
 tion rather than be overwhelmed with immediat ruin ; yet, as it would be extremely 
 dangerous, in point of Precedent, to submit to a different tax, and a different method 
 of lersTng it, in the one part of the Island from what takes place in the other, I confess 
 I think this ought to be considered as the last shift, and every other possible method 
 ought to be first essayed. 
 
 What appears then to me to be a remedy not attended with any insuperable objec- 
 tion is this in a few words ; By Act of Parhament to prohibite, under sufficient Pe- 
 naltys, to be recovered with certaint}' & dispatch, the use of Tea amongst that Class 
 of Mankind in this Countrey whose Circmnstances do not permit them to come at Tea 
 that pays the d\iw ; and yet whose takeing to run Tea, and deserting the use of Malt 
 Liquor, occasions the Complaint. 
 
 The principall difficult)' that appears to me in this Scheme is, how to describe with cer- 
 tainty the persons intended to be prohibited to make use of Tea, and how to make the 
 prof>er pro\isions for the ready and certain execution ; for I hope the generall design 
 of prohibiteing the use of any Particular Drug to any particular sett of Subjects who 
 cannot possibly come at it in a fair wav, is iiot Hable to any just Exception. It has 
 been the Pohcy of a many of the wisest and of the freest states to regidate the Dyet of 
 their Citizens. Sumptuary laws have ?iever been thought unjust restraints ; and the 
 late instance of the Gin Bill, whereby the health of the lower Class of M a nkin d in 
 England was taken care of by Prohibitions and severe Penal r)-s, is ane answer to every 
 objection that can be offered to the generall design of the law I propose. 
 
 The East India Company cannot possibly be affected by this proposition : for, be- 
 sides that, in fact, the whole Tea intended to be prevented to be used comes from 
 Gottenburgh i: Holland, the Prohibition is not meant to affect that Class of Mankind 
 that can come up to tea that pavs the Duty ; such as is all the Tea in which the Com- 
 pany is interested. 
 
 With respect to the description of the class of persons intended to be affected by the 
 prohibition, it is evident no description of which we have Precedents, in the law of 
 Scotland will do. The distinction made in the Stat. 1701, concerning Personal liberty, 
 between Noblemen, Landed Gentlemen, other Gendemen, and Burgesses, & Persons 
 below that Rank, will not answere, nor will any other that I know of hitherto made 
 use of. But I think that, as what gives rise to the grievance is the use of vile tea by 
 such Persons whose low circum^stances will not permit them to purchase better and 
 dearer, a Rate shou'd be thought of and settied, of the fortime, or yearly income, of 
 those who mav be supposed capable of supporting the expence of Tea that may pay 
 dut)" -, and all under that rate ought to be prohibited the use of it. 
 
 For Example ; if it shall be thought that a person who has of yearly Income, whether 
 from Land, ^loney. Trade, or any Art or Profession, ^^50. j£ioo. or any other Simi 
 to be fixed in the Bill, ought to be permitted to make use of tea ; then all who cannot 
 show that they have such yearly incom.e may be prohibited ; and the makeing use of 
 Tea in their familv by themselves, their wives, their Children, their Servants, or any 
 other Persons, may be made penall, and the 0?ius Proband: of the Extent of their yearly 
 Income may be laved on them ; with a provision, that tlie e\idence offered by them 
 
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 mav be redargued by their Onths ; as also with a Provision that the offence, I mean 
 the makeing use of Tea in their faniilys, may be proved also by their Oaths it the Pro- 
 secutor thinks fit. ■ 
 
 As these Provisions are pretty severe, I think the Penalty for the first Offence at 
 least ought to be very moderate : I should propose 20 or 30 shillings; to be doubled 
 for the 2d offence ; and so to rise, either by doubling the last sum, or by adding 20 
 or 30 shillings for ever)- subsequent offence. 
 
 I would give the right of informing to the Officers of Excise, because they are subject 
 to direction, and correction in case of neglect, oppression, or collusion. I would give 
 the one half of the Penalty to the Informer, and the other half to the Cashier for the 
 Manufactures, for the use of Manufacturers, to gain favour to the Prosecution, and 
 lessen the odium that it might at first, and amongst unthinking people, raise. 
 
 I wou'd make the Penaltv recoverable upon a summary Complaint before the Baillies 
 within Brugh, or before the Sheriffs, Steuarts, Baillies of Regality, or any one Justice 
 of Peace in the Land Ward, together \dth the full Costs of Suit. But then, to 
 prevent Partialit}', in case of the Magistrat within Brugh, or the Countrey Justices, 
 acquitting contrary to evidence, I wou'd give the Informer, \\ith the concurrence or 
 approbation of the Board of Excise, a power of exhibiting a Summary Complaint before 
 any of the three Courts that shall be thought proper against such Magistrate or Judge ; 
 and I would make the Penalty of acquitting contrary to evidence deprivation, incapa- 
 city to hold again the Office forfeited, with double or treble Costs of Suit. N. B : As 
 the projected regulation, the' intended to promote the Revenue, gives nevertheless no 
 duty to the Crown, and as the Offence to be punished is the trespass of a Judge contrary 
 to evidence, there is no occasion of giveing the Cognizance to the Court of Exche- 
 quer ; and as the Chief end of the severe Provision proposed is, to frighten from will- 
 full wrongdoing, I believe the effect wou be best attained by confineing the Convic- 
 tion to the Court of Session. 
 
 As the lowest rank of House Keepers make use of Tea, so the Servants, particularly 
 the females, in better familys, m.ake it their Morning & Afternoon's Dyet : Now I 
 wou'd submitt it, whether the use of it to all Servants might not be prohibited, under 
 the like Penaltv, to affect the Master or Mistress of the familv if unmarried, and reco- 
 verable in the same manner and upon the like proof as in the other case. 
 
 It may merit consideration, how far some persons whose circumstances may bring 
 them within the Prohibition, but who by a long custom have been so habituated to Tea- 
 drinking, that ane alteration of Dyet may be extreamly uneasie if not prejudicial to 
 them, may not be allowed some indulgeance ; and if that Sentiment prevail, such in- 
 dulgence may be given to such persons as shall enter their names with the Excise Officer, 
 and pay down, for a Licence to make use of Tea for a year from the date of such Entry, 
 40 shillings or any other particular sum to be limited ; but subject to the Condition, 
 that no Tea shall be used in the Family by Servants, &c. If this small sume cou'' be 
 appropriated to the Manufactures, it wou" be convenient ; but if that meets with oppo- 
 sition, I do not insist on it. 
 
 After haveing given your Lop this rude sketch of my project, I am conscious that, 
 as it has much novelty" in it, it must appear uncouth, and requires a good dale of con- 
 sideration to bring Men to approve of it, especially in the part of the World where your 
 Lop now is. But, as it is intended only for Scotland, and is to have its execution there, 
 I should hope the necessity must appear so urgent to the Ministers with whom your 
 Lop will consult, that if no better or more eff'ecl:uall remedy can be fallen on, this or 
 some such method will without loss of time be pursued. 
 
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 194 CULLODEX P.VPERS. 
 
 As for the reception of it in this Country (and that is cheifflv to be considered, as it 
 is to affect us only), I think I can answer for the Sentiments of all sober Considerate 
 Persons, vho, besides the Considerations already stated relateing to the Revenue and 
 the ManufaQ:ures, are & must be conscious, that to this rascally practice of running and 
 makeing use of run Tea, the loss of our Bullion and the present poverty- of our Country 
 is in a great measure owing. No IVIan in the Kingdom, in Conversation, contraverts 
 this ; and those whom the Prohibition is not to affect, one shou' think, shou-^ be glad to 
 see it take place. 
 
 But, besides, there is reason to expect a hearty Concurrence of all Persons of any 
 Condition, from two separate Considerations, which I shall just mention. 
 
 The lirst is very generall, & regaurds all Heritors and Tennents or farmers in Scot- 
 land : it is grounded on this, that, except in the highlands & some particular Distrids, 
 all the Rents in Scotland arise from Grain. In many Countrvs the rent is pavable in 
 Grain ; and where it is pa\'able in monev the Teiment or farmer must make monev of 
 his Grain before he can pay the rent. Now, as preventing the Consumption of one 
 third or one half of the Grain produced must necessarily, in case of no demand from 
 Abroad (which often happens), lower the price of the whole in a verv great proportion, 
 so much must the Heritor or the tennent in the several cases lose of his reall income. 
 And if that loss sho** be rated at i-''' of the whole, or 25 per Cent, when the Brewar)' 
 is no greater than it is at present, and when there is no forreign demand, the computa- 
 tion of the loss wou'', I doubt, be too low ; and on this consideration I shou° hope the 
 Heritors &; farmers of Scotland, who can make the least use of their understanding, 
 must favour the Scheme. 
 
 The 2"^ confines itself to the Rovall Burghs that have the grant of the 2 pennies on 
 the pint already mentioned ; and in these the wrong complained of is cheiffly committed, 
 and the severirv^ of the remedy will be principallv felt. I have already taken notice, that 
 the produce of their Grants is fallen v:\i\i the Excise ; and that thereby they, and in 
 particular Edinburgh, are left in a miserable condition, stingleing \\ith their Debts, 
 without anv hopes of relief but from the recovery of the Excise. Now, tho' the 
 villanous litle Smuglers in such Burrows, and the mean Creatures who retaill or use 
 their Goods, mav raise a Cv\, \et it is to be hoped the ^Nlagistrats that are, that have 
 been, or that hope to be, and all the substanriall part of the Burgesses, will propagate 
 the contrarv opinion, and speedilv put ane end to the Clamour. 
 
 Bv the earnestness Avith which t contend for this or for some other immediate remedy, 
 your Lordship will be apt to imagine the use of Tea to be the only cause of the decay 
 of the Excise and Malt duty in my opinion, and that this cure alone adhibited -will 
 restore these Revenues ; and on this subject I must explain myself, by informing your 
 Lop that the excessive use of Brandy, & ov' forreign imcustomed Spirits, has cost this 
 poor Countrey very dear ; that it has been from the begining, and continues to be, a^ 
 verv great drawback upon the Revenue ; and that if it could be restrained, those Re- 
 venues would undoubtedly rise and improve to a certain degree ; but then it appears to be 
 certain, that the use of uncustomed spirits never did half the mischief that Tea has 
 done ; that these Spirits were as much used, I mean, by the mopenny Drinkers when 
 the Excise run to ^40,000. as they are now ; and therefor that the vast decay now felt 
 and complained of is cheiffly, tho' perhaps not only, owing to that most mischievous 
 Drug. Now when the use of it is restrained bv the intended law, or bv anv other 
 that mav answere the purpose, I shou*^ hope that, tor the further promoteing the Re- 
 venues, the strickest orders will be given, to put the Laws against the use of Spirits, 
 especially those that are uncustomed, to due execution. 
 
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 ^95 
 
 When I gather together the diiFerent sheets of which this Letter is composed, con- 
 sider the almost intolerable length of it, and ^•ie^v the scarce legible Scrawl in which it 
 is written, I have great reason to beg your pardon, and to entreat your patience. The 
 importance of the subject (as it appeared to me) induced me to bring together every 
 thing that cou'd aflbrd your Lop light ; and the recess gave me some spare time to put 
 my thoughts on paper, tho' it did not furnish me with a more legible hand ; and I did 
 not think it fitt to trust a Common Clerk with what I now lay before your Lop. If it 
 shall appear proper to you to lay this, or the Abstraft of so much of it as you may 
 think materiall, befor those whom it may be necessary to consult with, and whose 
 assistance you must have to extricate us from this difficulty, it may be Copied over 
 fair, or ane Abstradt: made of it ; and if any thing can possibly be done upon it this 
 Season, my Lord Advocat, who is with you, will be able to put a Clause or Clauses 
 in form ; and the course of the Post will fetch your Lop from hence any Eclairise- 
 ment that I can give upon any matters that may want further Explications. I shall by 
 this Post write to Mr. Scrope on the same subjed ; but, as he is possibly acquainted 
 with the state of the revenue here, my Letter to him shall be very short. 
 
 I gave Orders many Weeks ago to Copy over for your Lop all the Reports from 
 the Trustees for the Manufactures to the Crown. The Copy is now very near compleat, 
 and it shall soon be transmitted. I shall probably give your Lop the trouble of a note 
 on ane other subjett by the next post. 
 
 Upon glancing over what I ha^•e wrote, besides the imperfedions already taken notice 
 of, I observe many unaccuracys of expression, and escapes even of spelling, which your 
 Lop will be so good as to overlook ; since my paper does not allow me room to correft 
 them, nor my time leisure to make a fair Copy of what I have flung on this paper. 
 I am with perfect respect, 
 
 My Lord, &c. 
 
 No.CCXXXVI. 
 
 • 
 
 The Lord President to Sir Will™ Yonge. 
 D: Sir, 
 
 I IIVL\.GINED that I had been quite forgot by my old acquaintances, which is the 
 reason why you for some time have had no trouble from me ; but I have lately been very 
 agreably convinced that I was mistaken, by a letter from Mr. Scrope ; who assures me, 
 that upon Mr. Pelham's recommending John Forbes, a near relation of mine, for a pair 
 of Colours, you readily undertook it, \\ith such expressions of friendship for your 
 humble servant, as convinced me, that those who delight in railing at Ministers, ly, 
 when they swear that Memory of former Acquaintance is inconsistent with high and 
 busy EmploA,Tnents. Give me leave, therefore, to return you my thanks for the good 
 will you have expressed ; and to assure you, that it will heighten the relish of the 
 favour which I am ver)' desirous to obtain for the Young Man, that it 'nill carry alongst 
 with it e\'idence of the Continuance of your friendship. I am. 
 
 My Dear S' William, very truely, 
 2* June 1744. Your Most Obedient 
 
 •■ Si most humble Serv'. 
 
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 CCXXXVII. 
 
 The Lord President to M' Pelham. 
 D : Sir, 
 
 "^^TIAT brings you this trouble is, a letter I had from my old friend M' Scrope, 
 acquainting me -with the very Obliging manner in \vhich you received the application 
 made bv him for a pair of Colours to my first Cousin John Forbes. Favours I have ever 
 been shv of begging ; and never could bring myself once up to ask them, but from 
 the Man to whom I wished to owe them ; that is, whose good will I was confident of, 
 and to whom doing Service in my turn would be to me a sensible satisfaction. It 
 was for this reason, and because I did not know that any such person had for some 
 lime past the bestowing Commissions, that I made no application for my young Iriend ; 
 but now, that I learn, with very great satisfaction, that it is not pressing you (from 
 whom I have received many, and those early marks of friendship,) to go out of your 
 wav, when I intreat that vou may procure this favour for me, I without the least 
 hesitation renew the application that Mr. Scrope made in my name ; and, at the same 
 time, return vou the thanks of an Old friend & sincere well wisher for the forward 
 steps which, as he tells me, you have alreadv taken, to accomplish what I aim at. I 
 \\ish it mav be in mv power to show you, by reall serxices, how much I am, D" Sir, 
 your much obliged, and M. F. H. S. 
 
 ; 2* June 1 744. 
 
 No. CCXXXVIII. 
 
 Chief Baron Idle to the Lord President. 
 My Dear Lord, _ W^ow, Nov' 6, 1744. 
 
 A NEW correspondent arises to your \aew ; but one who will not give you the 
 trouble of sending an Answer to the message which this bears, but hopes to receive 
 yoiu- Lordship's Commands in person. It brings you my sincere wishes of health to 
 undergo the fatigues of the term ; but chiefly this is design'd to present my Lord Chan- 
 cellor's Compliments to you, which I received in command here, by Letter sent to 
 Dalrv, after I had left Scotland in August last ; and as I cannot deliver myself better 
 than' in mv Lord's own words, I shall beg leave to transcribe them: " I beg you 
 " would assure my Lord President of the grateful sense I have of his goodness to me ; 
 " and that he has' not any where a more feithful sen-ant. I heartily congratulate him 
 " on the success of his pamphlet, which at the same time does honour both to himself 
 " and his Countrymen ; to the first, as an excellent public-spirited writer ; and to the 
 •« latter, as being capable of being -n-rought upon by reason and solid argmnent*. I 
 *' cannot but wish that he would take the pen into his hand again, and \mte a second 
 " part for England ; which, in truth, wants to be converted on that subject." These 
 are my Lord's own Words ; and I think I could not have done justice to him and 
 your Lordship -without transcribing them. I fully intended [toj have been at Dairy 
 before the beginning of the term ; but have been prevented by different accidents, by 
 bad weather, and, allow me the paradox, by good weather. Add to this, my mother 
 has been so iU, that I thought she would have died ; but she is better, and I hope to 
 set out this week. I bave the honour to be, 
 
 Mv Dear Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most faithful and affectionate Servant, 
 
 I. IDLE. 
 
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 From Sir Andrew Tvlitchell ro the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Whitehall, 26*^ Jan^ 1744-5- 
 
 THE Assurances vou was pleased to give me of the continuance of your friend- 
 ship and regard will, whatever happen, be a great comfort and satisfaction to me ; as 
 the approbation of those I honor and esteem is a reward more desirable than riches and 
 reputation. 
 
 When your Lordship asked from me an explication of the late phenomenon in Politicks, 
 vou had certainlv forgot that it is far more hard to give a true solution of a Political 
 Phenomenon thaii of a natural one ; because in the one, there are certain unalterable 
 and established laws, by which from the effect produced the cause may be conjectured; 
 -whereas in the other, the principles are not fixed nor determined, and, the appearances 
 beincT generally deceitful and fallacious, it is almost impossible from the eflect to trace 
 the Cause. I shall however, in obedience to your Commands, give you my opinion 
 upon the whole. Your Lop must already be fully informed of the imperfect & un- 
 natural coalition that happened three years ago ; the consequence of which was a violent 
 and early jealousv, that shewed itself on every occasion, between the old and the new- 
 administration. 
 
 His Majest)''s going abroad, and what happened in consequence of it, gave an 
 opporttmitv to those at home to impute all mismanagements before, at, and after the 
 affair of Dettingen, to a certain person that attended his Majest)- ; and it was as pub- 
 lickly said, as it was believed, that that Noble Lord was willing to sacrifice the in- 
 terest of his country, and everv thing that was dear or valuable, to the passion of his 
 Master, in order to gain his ear and favor. How far this Charge is true, it is needless 
 for me to determine ; but it served the purpose fully ; for it was believed. During 
 his jNIajestA-'s absence, much Court was made to Lord Cobham, &c. ; but the 
 negotiation miscarried at that time, though it was intended to be put in execution at 
 the beginning of the Sessions of Parliament 1743. The business of last Session was 
 carried through with considerable opposition, and supported but weakly by those who 
 had undertaken the management of it ; and in such a way as to declare that the 
 measures then pursued were none of theirs. The perfidy of the K. of Prussia, which 
 defeated all schemes in Germany, and the late inglorious Campaign in Flanders, which 
 occasioned much discontent at home, were laid to the charge of this Minister ; as were 
 likewise the slowness of the Dutch, and the caution of the D. of Arenberg. At this 
 time when the nation had been industriously made to believe that the Minister had 
 only in view to prolong the War, in order thoroughly to establish his Credit with his 
 Master, it is not to be wondered at, that the Brothers thought proper to strike in 
 with those they had so long treated with ; and as chance had placed one of them at 
 the head of the finances, you will not be surprized that his Majesty, circumstanced as 
 the nation is at present, was obliged, tho' much ag" his will, to agree to all the 
 demands that were made — This however he could not do without showing an open 
 & a strong resentment ; and it is reported, that when Particulars have been mentioned 
 to him, that he has said. Do as you will; but, remember, yw muft anfiver for it to the 
 Nation-. Though I think the means made use of to bring about this late change have 
 been rather too rough and harsh, yet I heartily wish that the whole may not suffer 
 for it ; and that the same measures may be followed abroad which have hitherto gained 
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 favoured this nation. I might give, for instance, the news that came last night by Ex- 
 press, of the death of the Emperor on the 20" N. S. ; by which as the League of 
 Frankfon b dissolved, and Germans are once more at Uberty to chuse a Master for 
 themselves, tmawed by the perndious Arms of France and Prussia, it is to be hoped 
 that the baJlance of power \nll be recovered by restoring the imperial Crown to the 
 hotise of Ausrria. 
 
 I ever am, most affectionately, 
 iSIv dear Lord, 
 
 Your obliged and humble Servant, 
 Lord President. A. M. 
 
 No. CCXL. 
 
 The same to the same. 
 
 My Lord, Whitehall, 29 Jan'^ 1744-5. 
 
 AS I gave your Lordship, in my last, some account of what has lately happened, 
 I shall now inform you who were faid to be the principal actors ia that affair ; and 
 as your Lop is well acquainted ■with their characters and coimexions, Uttle more will 
 be necessary' than barely to name them. After the Brothers, the next in Dignit}", as 
 well as in Ability, is the Lord Chancellor, who, they say, spoke to his M. with great 
 Zeal and Steadiness. The D. of Dorset, whose caution and submission have been re- 
 markable on former occasions, yet was warm on this ; and it was said that he had 
 Ireland in view ; but his prospect since the change is greatly lengthened. The D. of 
 Richmond and Devonshire joined in the Cabal ; and the Earl of Harrington was a neces- 
 sarv man, as the only person of this Sect that was qualified to take care of foreign 
 Affairs ; but it was said that he had taken care not to involve himself so far as to be- 
 come obnoxious to his master. The managers for the Whig part of the opposition 
 were. Lord Chesterfield, Cobham, Mr. Waller, ic Mr. Pitt ; and for the other, Lord 
 Gower & Sir Watkin Williams Wynn. After the K. had parted with his minister, the 
 claims of the different pretenders were with some difficulty settled in the space of four 
 weeks ; and the changes of which I formerly acquainted you were made in consequence 
 of it ; but you will easily believe, from considering the numbers, that the party are 
 not yet satisfied ; some have already expressed their disapprobation as warmly as others 
 of the old party have their discontent, that any of the Tories should be taken in. L^pon 
 the whole, I beUeve, the Gentlemen who have come into place will have credit enough 
 with their party to prevent any considerable opposition during this Seffion of Pari' ; 
 how much ferther their influence may extend, I will not venture to guess. I "was sur- 
 prised to find my name in the Scots papers, that came by last post, for a place in 
 Ireland, which is absolutelv without foundation. There was indeed some weeks ago 
 a report of my being named Secretary to the Lords Justices ; for which as I knew of 
 no Authorit)-, I never was at the pains to trace it. I mention this because I know 
 the share your Lop takes in any thing that concerns me ; and that I desire nothing 
 so much as your advice how to regulate my conduct, whatever may happen to me. 
 You will excuse this freedom, and beUeve me, with sincere truth and affection, 
 
 Youi obliged humble Serv'. 
 Lord President. AKD. iAHTCHELL. 
 
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 nie Lord President to The Marquis of Lothian. 
 
 My Lord, ' ' 
 
 M" DOUGLAS having shewed me the last Letter he had from your Lordship, 
 on the subject of the Records, I thought there was no time to dehberate, and therfor 
 have wrote the enclosed Letter to My Lord Chancellor, which I have taken the liberty 
 to transmit to your Lop to be delivered. I need hardly tell your Lop how heartily I 
 wish you success in this undertaking ; which must peld much satisfaction to your 
 own IVIind, and procure you the esteem and sincere thanks of your Country. 1 am, 
 with very great respect, ' - - • -vi- -^ 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's most obedient 
 Stonyhill, 9th March 1745. and most faithful humble Servant. 
 
 No.CCXLlI. 
 
 The Lord Prefident to Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. 
 My Lord, 
 
 ON occasion of the Report made some years ago by the Court of Session to the 
 House of Peers, touching the state of the Peerage of Scotland, I gave your Lop a 
 melancholy account of the wretched condition in which our Records then were, and 
 had the satisfaction to be assured by your Lordship that you would contribute your 
 endeavours to have them put upon a better footing, when any proper opportunity 
 oifered. The accidents which brought them into their present unhappy condition were 
 very cross and various ; but what in part occasioned, and has now for many years con- 
 tinued, the Disorder and Confusion, was the neglect of the several persons, most of 
 them Noble, who held the Office of Clerk Register. It was their business to have 
 put, and to have keeped the Records in order, to have entered the Acts and Warrants 
 into Rolls and Books, to have provided proper Repositories, to have provided against 
 the injuries of damp air, and to have obtained and applied small sums from time to 
 time for answering these purposes. But a series of negligent Lord Registers having 
 succeeded one to another, the disease came day after day to be more deep and more 
 dangerous ; and the expence as well as trouble of the cure a disagreeable object to 
 be thought of by the possessor of the Office ; so that for some years past the disease 
 has been considered as desperate, and no Lord Register imtil the present has ever 
 troubled his head with thinking of a remedy. The Marquis of Lothian, who now 
 holds that Office, has taken the misfortune to heart very near as much as if it had hap- 
 pened thro' his own fault. His Lop, after examining into the disorders, has caused 
 make up estimates of the expence necessary tor preserving what remains, for com- 
 pleating the Books of Records, for Sorting and Inventorying packs and hogsheads of 
 Papers, which for time past memory have remained unknown, because unseen, and 
 in etfect uncomeatable (pardon the expression) ; he has found out a proper place 
 which may be made fit for lodging the Records at a moderate expence ; and he has 
 thought of a Gentleman qualified properly for executing the design, of puttng in 
 order and rescuing from imminent destruction papers of Private as well as of Pubhc 
 concern, in which the Subjects of this part of the Kingdom are interested on account 
 of their private rights ; not to speak of the gratification which the curiosity of the 
 Public may receive. Now, as the Marquis has proceeded so far, and as the estimates 
 
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 which he will shew to your Lop are (I hope your Lop will think) a mere trifle, whei 
 laid in the scale against the dishonour as well as the loss that must be sustained bv the 
 destruction of the Records, I flatter myself your Lordship will lend your advice, as 
 well as your assistance, to the Noble Lord who is engaged in sohciting this matter, and 
 thereby add a fresh obligation to the many which this Coimtry already Ives under to 
 vour goodness. 
 
 It is, I am confident, needless for me to suggest to vour Lop topicks to prevail 
 ■with those who may boggle at the espence, tho' small ; but I will venture to fling out 
 one ; which is, that besides the justice and expediency of the design, His Majest)- can 
 hardlv be advised to do a thing more popular. 
 
 It is a particular happiness to me to believe that I need not make use of many 
 words to persuade your Lop that I am, most faithfully, .. 
 
 Your Lop's most obedient and 
 ■' most humble Servant, 
 
 Stonyhill, g-" March 1744-5. . , DL^N. FORBES. 
 
 . Xo. CCXLIII. 
 
 Letter from C' John Mimro to the Lord President. 
 
 Accoimt of the Battle of Fontenoy. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I THINK it my duty to acquaint you that your Son is in good Health, and suf- 
 fered nothing but the loss of his horse, who was shot in our retreat. The Blues 
 behaved weell, and rub'd oS" the Stain of Dettingen. Poor Charles Ross of Balna- 
 gown was shot with a musket ball through the bellv, I believe early in the action ; 
 mv Servants found him in a Ditch, and I sent him away to our head Quarters, where 
 he died that night. General Sir James Campbell lost his leg, but is not yet dead ; he 
 was the first Officer that was wounded ; and, I believe, Cap" Campbell of Carrick u-as 
 the next ; his head was carried ofi" by a cannon ball at a quarter after six in the 
 morning. 
 
 Now I'll give vou a short description of the action, which I believe will be found to be 
 the bloodiest, as to Officers, that happen'd to the British in the memory of Man. The 
 particulars I cannot vet inform you with ; but I'll take all possible pains to send you 
 soon a particular accoimt. A little after 4 in the morning the 30'° April our 
 cannon began to plav, and the French batteries, with triple our weight of mettal 
 and numbers too, answer' d us ; about 5 the infantry was in march ; we were in the 
 centre of the right brigade ; but by 6 we were ordered to cross the field, and attack 
 (I mean our regiment ; for the rest of the brigade did not march to attack) a little 
 village on the left of the whole, called Fontenoy. As we pass'd the field, the French 
 batteries play'd upon our front and right and left flanks ; but to no purpose, for their 
 batteries being upon rising groimd, their balls flew over us, and hurt the second line. 
 "We were to support the Dutch, who in their usual vray were ver)- dilator*-. We got 
 ■eithin musket shot of their batteries, where we received 3 full fires ot their bat- 
 • teries and small arms, which killed us 40 men and one ensign. Here we were obliged 
 to skulk behind houses and hedges for about an hour and a half, waiting for the 
 Dutch, who when thev came up behaved but so and so. Our regiment being in some 
 disorder, I wanted to draw them up in rear of the Dutch, which their General 
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 half an hour after, the Dutch gave way, and Sir Robert Munro thought proper we 
 should retire ; for we had then the whole batteriee from the enemy's ground plaving 
 upon us, and 5000 foot ready to fall upon us. We retired ; but before we had marched 
 50 yards we had orders to return to the attack ; which we did ; and in about i o 
 minutes after had orders to march directly, with all expedition, to assist the Hanove- 
 rians, who had got by this time w-ell advanced upon the batteries upon the left. They 
 behaved most gallantly and bravely ; and had the Dutch taken example from them, 
 we had supped inTournay. The British behaved well ; we the Highlanders were told 
 by his Royal Highness, that we did our duty well. I cannot fail telling you, that the 
 Duke shewed as much real courage and temper as ever Caesar or Hannibal did. By 
 two of the Clock we all retreated ; and we were ordered to cover the retreat, as the 
 only regiment that could be kept to their duty ; and in this affair we lost 60 more ; 
 but the Duke made so friendly and favourable a speech to us, that if we had been 
 ordered to attack their lines afresh, I dare say our poor fellows would have done it. 
 The Scotch fuzileers are entirely destroyed ; so that it was not possible to rally them. 
 Duroure is mortally w^ounded ; Gen' Ponsonby is killed, Co' Erskine lost an arm, 
 Major Cotterill is in danger ; Sandy Forbes, of Cope's, lost a leg. There was a much 
 greater number of Officers * killed than private men ; but the state of the whole will 
 soon be sent you, and the situation of both armies. The French never appeared out of 
 their trenches but once ; and, to tell the truth, they made but a poor stand. 
 
 I am, my Lord, your obliged humble Servant, 
 From the Camp near Ath, JO. MUNRO. 
 
 2d May 1745. 
 
 - Since writing. Gen' Campbell is carried by here in a cart, dead. 
 
 No. CCXLIV. 
 
 Capt. Hugh Forbes of the Oxford-blues, to the Lord President, mclosing a Letter from 
 Lieut. John Forbes, describing the Battle of Fontenoy. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 THIS morning I received the inclosed from Jock ; and as it appears to be as 
 distinct as any account I have yet had opportunity to see, I thought it would be no 
 little Satisfaction to you to hear of his safety, with that of most of your Relations. I 
 read it only to Leven, and the two Willies, because of the Caution adjected to it, and 
 immediately clapt it under this Cover for your perusal. 
 
 My Lord, Your most obed' humble Sen-'. 
 Edim i6'''May 1745. ^ HU. FORBES. 
 
 Dear Hugh, 
 
 DON'T be sui-prised I have not wrote vou of late. My hurry has been beyond 
 what almost any body could bear ; and I am now the eighth night without seeing a bed. 
 I suppose you'll have heard of otir endeavour to raise the seige of Toumay, in which 
 we failed. I won't ascribe the cause, altho' I know it ; but sure never troops behaved 
 with more intrepidity than the English ; nor never has Troops suffered so much. In 
 short, there was but one way of marching into the ground where we were to form our 
 line, which was thro' the Village of Vezon, The opening could not allow above 1 4 
 or 20 abreast ; and from thence to the French batteries a rising ground like a Glacis, 
 and they at half cannon shot distance. General Campbell, with twelve squadrons, was 
 
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 ordered thro' the Defilee first, as a Corps to cover the mouth of the opening, whilst 
 the Infantn* marched in ; w hich, as they marched from the right, formed as soon as 
 thev went in ; so one Regiment covered another, till they formed all the way to the 
 left'. You mav believe this took up a great deal of time ; in which the French batteries 
 plaved incessantly on the 1 2 squadrons, and on the troops as they formed ; but as it 
 is impossible to describe a thing unless you had a Plan before you, I shall only say we 
 formed w-ith all the Regularit}- in the World, and marched up towards the enemy, who 
 were all along upon the height with their ditterent batteries ; the whole length of which 
 run a hollow way, that they had made a verj" good entrenchment. Off we beat them 
 out of this hollow wav, and gained the height, whence we had the first \-iew of their 
 bodvs, at about 200 paces distance ; an immense number of them, and numberless 
 cannon still pla}-ing upon us. Here we dressed our lines, and began to march towards 
 them ; when, pop, thev went into another entrenchment, extremely well pro\-ided and 
 flanked with batteric-s of Cannon. Nevertheless, on we went, drove them from that, 
 which was the first small shot we had any opportunity to make use of from the be- 
 ginning, which was now near six hours. Upon the flanks of our Right wing there was 
 the Village of Ribamcroix ; and betvtixt our right wing and the Dutch, there was the 
 VUlage of Fontenoy, which the Dutch engaged to make themselves masters of early in 
 the morning ; but, not having rightlv reconnoitered it, foxmd, to their siurprise, a fosse 
 round it, and that the French by cutting the roofs of the houses and letting them fall 
 in, had raised so many Cannon upon the Rubbish, as made the place impregnable. 
 This galled our left wing and keept them from advancing, and cut off the commu- 
 nication with the right wing : the left of which, being much exposed, was terribly 
 treated with the Cannon, which also raked us all along to the right flank. The High- 
 landers forced into the \'illage of Ribamcroix on the right ; but the multiplicity of 
 Cannon that played upon them made them retire. All the lines being now dress' d, 
 altho, from the narro^^ness of the ground, we were in several places fotrr or five 
 lines one behind another, the front advanced again towards the enemy, had several 
 discharges from all their Batteries ; nevertheless marched forward, and got nigh enough 
 to have a second discharge of their small arms, which made the French give way, but 
 broke our lines, from the number of men killed both by the mulketry and the batteries, 
 that never ceased. Here we endeavoured to rally ; but from an Order given (bv whom 
 God knows), the Drums began to beat a Retreat ; upon which indeed the whole went 
 to the right about, and retired with too much precipitation to the Village of Vezon. 
 The Cavalrv did the same ; but as they were obliged to pass the Comer of the Wood, 
 into which Graffin's Pandours, with pieces of Cannon loaded with grape shot, were 
 thrown, almost every squadron had a Salvo as they passed. As we retired, the French 
 cannon advanced to the height where they were first in the morning plajring upon the 
 rear till we all got thro' the \Tllage of Vezon. Here L'^ Crawford distinguished himself 
 by getting some broken battalions and some Squadrons to front the enemy, and make 
 the rear-guard, till the whole passed the Defilee. 
 
 The French remained where they were in the morning, and we rallied the Army 
 at the head of our Camp, struck our tents that night, and marched early next morning 
 to Ath. 
 
 This, My dear Hugh, is a rough Sketch not to be understood ; but what I am now 
 croing to tell you must affect you, as I have lost the best friend, bravest soldier, and 
 honestest man that ever breathed ; bv which I am most extremely miserable; and as I have 
 these 1 6 years entirely attached mvself to him, I now find myself not only without my 
 friend, but without any patron to take me by the hand. The poor General commanded 
 the ad\'anced 1 2 Battalions, and of consequence had the fire of the whole French 
 batteries on him j while the line formed behind him- A cannon-ball at last entered 
 
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 his horse's left Counter, went through his body, and broke the General's right leg 
 into a thousand pieces : it was immediately cut off, and I got him carried to a Village 
 in the rear, where he continued pretty well till towards the evening, that the army was 
 retiring; when his fever began to turn violent; it continued so. all that night; but 
 about 12 that night the French Pandours broke in upon his quarters, and carried me 
 off prisoner to the French Camp. At my return next day, I found him with his senses, 
 but speechless ; he lived in a great struggle till the morning thereafter. I then got a 
 Waggon and brought off his body here, where I interred it last night, attended only 
 by his Son and Serv'% Thus you will think me compleatly unhappy, and with great 
 reason. We have lost the flower of our ofilcers, and most of the Scots officers. I 
 have no more time. I shall send you next post a list. The President's son and all 
 our near friends are well. Shaw, Cathcart, Bob Douglass, Sir Alex. Cockburn, &c, 
 killed. Cha. Ross, L'' Cathcart, L'' Ancram, and numberless more, wounded. 
 
 Brussels, 1 5th May N. S. 
 
 The Battle was the 1 1 "'. D' Hugh, shew this only to particular friends, and give 
 no copy of it to any. 
 
 Note. — Thi.s is, probably, as true an account as any yet published, and much more to be depended 
 on than Voltaire's. The British did their duty ; but feme of the Allies did not. 
 
 No. CCXLV. 
 
 * , The Lord President to Mr. Pelham. 
 
 Dear Sir, 2"'' Aug' 1745. 
 
 i IN a state of profound tranquillity, we have been alarmed with advices, which 
 are said to have been received at London, of intended invasions ; and particularly of a 
 visit which the Pretender's eldest son is about to make to us, if he has not already 
 made it. These informations, particularly as to the visit just mentioned, I must confess, 
 have not hitherto gain'd my belief. This young gentleman's game seems at present 
 to be very desperate in this country ; and, so far as I can learn, there is not the least 
 apparatus for his reception, even amongst the few highlanders who are suspected 
 to be in his interest. However, as, when so much is at stake, no advice, how impro- 
 bable soever, is to be neglected, I have (our session* being now over) resolved to 
 make my accustomed journey northwards a little earlier than usual ; to the end that, 
 though my fighting days are over, I may give some countenance to the friends of the 
 government, and prevent the seduction of the unwary, if there should be any truth 
 in what is reported. ^ 
 
 No. CCXLVI. 
 
 M' Normand Mac Leod to tlie Lord President. 
 
 My Dearest Lord, 
 
 TO my no small surprise, it is certain that the Pretended Prince of Wales is come 
 on the Coast of South Uist and Barra, and has since been ho' ering on parts of the 
 Coast of the main Land that hes betwixt the point of Aiidnamurchan and Gleiielg ; 
 he has but one ship, of which he is aboard; she mounts about 16 or i8 Guns. He 
 has about thirty Irish or French Officers witli him, aiid one Sheridan, who is called his 
 Governor. The Duke of Athol's brother is the only man of any sort of note that 
 
 * Owing to the state of public affairs, the Court of Session, which rjs. iith August, was by act 
 of Parliament declared to stand adjourned from ist Nov. 1743 (when it ought to have met) to ist 
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 once belonged to this Country) that I can hear of that's alongst with him. His \ae-», 
 I need not tell you, was, to raise all the Highlands to assist him, &;^ Sir Alex. ^Nlacdonald 
 and I, not only gave no sort of Countenance to these people, but vre used all the 
 interest we had with our Neighbours to follow the same prudent method ; and I am, 
 persuaded we have done it ■«ith that success, that not one man of anv consequence 
 benorth the Grampians will give any sort of assistance to this mad rebelUous attempt. 
 How far you think we acted properlv, I shall long to know ; but this is certain, we 
 did it as otur duty and for the best ; for in the present situation of Affairs in Europe, 
 I should have been sorry to see any thing like disafl'ection to the Government appear, 
 tho' ever so trivial ; or that there was occasion to march a single Company to quell it. 
 which now I hope and dare say there is not. 
 
 As it can be of no use to the Public to know whence vou have this information, it is, 
 I fancy, needless to mention either of us ; but this we leave in vour own breast, as you 
 are a much better judge of what is or is not proper to be done. I've wrote to none 
 other ; and as our friendship and confidence in you is without resert'-e, so we doubt 
 not of your supplying our defects properlv. Sir Alex, is here, and has seen 
 this scrawl. 
 
 Dunvegan, \ I ever am, most faithfully, Yours, 
 
 3'^Aug 1745-i NOR^L■yS^D 
 
 The L- President, &". 
 
 ^L\C LEOD. 
 
 P. S. Last night I had the pleasure of yours of the 25"". A thousand thanks for your- 
 advice : but I'm in good health bv the verv means you mention, moderate exercise, 
 and regularity, without starving. Yoimg Clanranold has been here with us, and has 
 given us all possible assurances of his prudence, &"". 
 
 '« 
 Xo. CCXLYII. 
 
 ' The Lord President to the Marquis of Tweedale. 
 My Lord, 
 
 HA\TN'G been acquainted by the Lord Advocate and Sir John Cope with the 
 Adxices the Government has received from Abroad, concerning the Pretender's Eldest 
 Son, who is said to have gone on board in some of the ports of France bound for 
 Scotland, in order to attempt an Insurrection there ; I have resolved to make nly 
 Journey to the North Countn," earher this Season than usual ; as my presence there may 
 be of more Service to the public than it can be of here, should the Report, which I 
 look upon as highly improbable, have any foundation in Truth. 
 
 I consider the Report as improbable, because I am confident that Young Man cannot 
 with Reason expect to be joined by any considerable Force in the Highlands, Some 
 loose lawless Men, of desperate Fortunes, mav indeed resort to him ; but I am 
 persuaded that none of the Highland Gentlemen who have ought to lose will, after the 
 Experience with which the Yerj 1715 fumish'd them, think proper to risque their 
 Fortunes on an attempt which to them must appear desperate ; especially as so many 
 considerable Familvs am.ongst themselves have lately uttered their sentiments ; imless 
 the undertaking is supported bv an Arm'd Power from Abroad, or seconded by an 
 Invasion on some other part of his Majestie's Dominions. 
 
 But as it is of consequence to France to create Confusion in Britain at any Expence, 
 
 it behoves everv Dutiful Subject to be attentive tc such Reports, however improvable, 
 
 and to leave nothing -undone that might be fit to be done, in Case they should, contrary 
 
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 on which I propose to set out tomorrow Morning ; well knowing that my Years, the 
 State of my Health, and many other Circumstances, will not permit me to be of the 
 same Use that I was of 30 Years ago ; but hopeful, at the same time. That by 
 employing my Credit, small as it is, with the people of that Country, I may in some 
 degree encourage the King's Faithful Subjects to persist in their Durj", and discourage 
 the Doubtful from pursuing such dangerous measures as, being left to themselves, 
 they might be in Hazard of falling into. Besides that, by being so near the Highlands, 
 I may gain such Intelligence as, on the supposeall that the Report is altogether 
 groundless, may dissipate the apprehensions that have been entertained of it, sooner 
 than other\\ avs would happen. I have now done with what I intended when I sat down 
 to write ; which was, to acquaint your Lop with my purpose of travelling Northwards, 
 to the End that, if you had any Com.mands for me, you might know wfiither to address 
 them. But as my hand is in, Your Lop will pardon me if I fling out a few hints which 
 mv former Experience suggests may deserve the Consideration of the Government, if 
 there is any tfung real in the Rumours that are spread. ' "" 
 
 First, tho' the Government has many more friends in the Highlands than it had in 
 1 7 1 5, yet I do not know that there is at present any Lawful Authority that can call 
 them forth to Action, even should occasion require it. In 1 7 1 5, Lieutennancies were 
 estabhshed in all the Counties. If any such thing now subsists, it is more than I know. 
 2"'"'', In that unlucky Year, the King's Friends, tho' iew, in the Highlands, were 
 armed ; whereas at present they are not ; tho' the loose Banditti of that Country are ; 
 and there can be no doubt that, if any Enemy from abroad land, plenty of Arms 
 will be brought alongst. What, from these Considerations, I submit is, whether it 
 might not be proper to lodge a sufficient Number of Arms in the Forts in the High- 
 lands ; \\'ith Directions to whom, & by whom, they may be dehvered out. And, 
 3'^'', Want of Money in the Year 1715 was a great obstruction to the progress of 
 those who Arm'd on the Side of the Government ; and that Difficulty was got the 
 better of by the Zeal of private Gentlemen, who out of their own Pockets advanced 
 large Sums for the Pubhc Service ; but as due care was not then taken even to repay, 
 far less to reward, the Gentlemen who made those advances, it is highly probable, that 
 at present men will not be so ready to put their hands in their Pockets ; and thereby 
 occasions of dfikig essential Semces may be lost. What I therefore submit is, whether 
 it may not be fit at this Juncture to lodge with some proper person, or persons, Money 
 or (Ji'ecli" it to answer such Occasions, and to be accounted for. 
 
 IrHn pr.. ;g to offer these hints I have gone beyond my Line, I know you will 
 
 impute if to it's true Cause, which is Zeal for his Majesty's Service ; and that therefore 
 you will forgive. 
 
 My Lord, 
 Edin', I Your Lordship's most Obed' and most hum"= Serv', ^ 
 
 8'" Aug', 1745-) DUN. FORBES. 
 
 No. CCXLVIII. 
 
 Louis de Bouillone & the Prince de Campo Florida to the Young Pretender. 
 
 My Master, " • 
 
 THE Sinoerity of the wishes which I have formed for your R. H. could never be 
 equalled, but by the mortal Chagrin of not being able to follow you, to offer you all 
 my Blood. The Attachment, & yet more the Respect I have for your person, ^n;, if 
 I dare name it, the tender &i faithful friendship with which I am peneuated for you, 
 
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 engages to this. In effect, D' P., who would not feel all that I feel at the aspect of 
 an Emerprize so worthy of Admiration, & of the august blood from which you 
 are sprung. 
 
 On the Receipt of the charming letter vnib. which you honoured me, I flew to the 
 King, ar.d on m.y knees, w' Tears in my eyes, conjured him to sustain the Designs he 
 knew to be so lawful. I painted to him the perils to which you was exposed. In fine, 
 I said every thing that you might expect from the Sentiments that attacks [attaches] 
 my Life to your Royal Highness. Judge then the Jov that the answer he made pro- 
 cured me, in assiu-ing me that he had taken to heart, as much as it was possible for me, 
 the project that you had formed : and that I might assure your R. H. that everv thing 
 you couid possibly have occasion for was ready. I insisted w' the Min' to send the 
 Troops immediately ; but they answered, that it was absolutely necessan- to have the 
 News of yoji Arrival, before any thing should be made to part from here ; and that 
 your R. H. had but to alk what should be convenient and useful for your Designs, & 
 they should be leady. Not knowing how to acquaint your R. H. -wixh what thev had 
 done, I V rote it to M' Obrain. I dare flatter myself, that you will not leave me long in 
 this mortal inquietude, of the Ignorance of your Arrival ; it that your R. H. will again 
 permit me to assure you, that you may at your pleasure dispose of all mv Estate and 
 blood ; &: in whatsoever Sers^ice you design to employ me, you shall find fidelity ;?c 
 vivacit)' to serve You w' all mv power, and the most profound Respect j w" which I 
 shall have the honour to be while I hve. 
 
 My Master, 
 Given at Allost, 1 Your R. H.'s most H. & O. Servant, 
 
 lo'- August 1745-5 LOUIS DE BOUILLONE. 
 
 No. CCXLIX. . 
 
 Mv ^Master, 
 
 "^MiEN I received- the Orders of my Court on the Subject of your R. H., I did 
 not leave a moment to go and wait with this Court. His most C. Majesty did not 
 hesitate to promise a prompt succour of Men, iSIoney, and Arms ; and ordered, that 
 they should prepare the one and the other. I immediately dispatched %X!ourier to the 
 King my Master ; and I can assure your Highness that his Cath. Majesty has conformed 
 himself to the Dispositions of the most C. King and his Na^^' ; and that he shall fiimish 
 a Succour altogether equal to that of this Court. There are Deterniinadoos fix'd, en 
 which Your R. H. may count. But this is not all ; the most C. King added, that 
 when he learr.ed the Dispositions of your people were fortified by your presence, ;?c 
 that they had taken yoiu" Resolution, he would augment these first succours, by 
 making some more Troops to pass to whatsomever place should be thought convenient 
 to sustain them ; & I have reason to believe, that tlie Brigade of Ireland is named for 
 this Destination. The King my iNIaster shall furnish the same number of Troops. 
 I have the horiour to inform yoirr R. H. of this Disposition with a Satisfaction of heart 
 so ver)- hvely, that nothing can add to it, but the AVishes I have for the happy success 
 of so just an Enterprize. I pray your R. H. to receive this assurance, & also of the 
 most profound Respect with which I have the Honour to be. 
 
 My Master, 
 
 Your R. H. most H. & most Obedient Servant, 
 
 LE PRINCE DI CAMPO FLORIDA. 
 
 P. S. We attend here, with the utmost impatience, the News of your R. H. 
 Debarkment. 
 
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 No. CCL. 
 
 Sir Alexander Macdonald to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 PROBABLY you'll have heard, before this reaches you, that some of our 
 neighbours of the main land have been mad enough to arm and join the Young 
 Adventurer mentioned in Mac Leod's letter to you. Your Lordship will find our 
 Conduct \vith regard to this unhappy scrape such as you'd wish, and such as the 
 friendship you have always shewed us will prompt to direct. Young Clanranold is 
 deluded, notwithstanding his assurances to us lately ; and, what is more astonishing, 
 Lochiel's prudence has quite forsaken him. You know too much of Glengarry not to 
 know that he'll easily be led to be of the Party ; but, as far as I can learn, he has not 
 yet been with them. IVL Mac Lean of Coll is here with his daughter, lately married to 
 Tallisker ; and he assures us of his own Wisdom ; and, as he has mostly the direcdon 
 of that Clan, promises as much as in him hes to prevent their being led astray. You 
 may believe, my Lord, our spirits are in a good deal of agitadon, and that we are 
 much at a loss how to behave in so extraordinary an occurrence. That we will have 
 no connection with these madmen is certain, but are bewildered in every other respect 
 till we hear from you. Whenever these rash men meet with a check, 'ds more than 
 probable they'll endeavour to redre to their islands : how we ought to behave in that 
 event we expect to know from your Lordship. Their force, even in that case, must 
 be very inconsiderable, to be repelled with Batons ; and we have no other arms in any 
 quandty. I pledge Mac Leod in writing for him and myself. I come now to tell you, 
 what you surely know, that I am most faithfully. 
 
 My Lord, 
 Tallisker, 1 . Your most obed' humble Serv', 
 
 ii'" Aug' 1745.5 ALEX^ JVLiCDONALU. 
 
 The Lord President. - . 
 
 - No. CCLI. 
 
 Sir John Cope to the Officers of Lord Loudoun's Regiment, in Scotland. 
 
 By the hon""^ S' Jn° Cope, Kn' of the Bath, Lieu' Gen' and Coram' in Chief of all His 
 
 Majesty's Forces in North Britain, &c. 
 
 FROM the great distance I am at, & from the present Emergency of AiTairs, 
 thinking it for his Maj"" Service that some troops should be under the direction of some 
 Person of great weight and influence in the Country, and considering the great service 
 done K<i the Government in the Year 1 7 1 5 by the present Lord President, wherein his 
 Lodp show'd his military Abilides, and has at all times distinguished himself by a 
 Zealous attachment to the present Government : I have therefore thought proper to 
 put that part of the Earl of Loudoun's highland Regim' in the North of Scotland under 
 his Command ; whose direction you are to receive and follow. 
 Given at Edin'' this 14"' day of August 1745. 
 
 JN° COPE. 
 
 To all Officers belonging to the Earl of Lou- 
 doun's Regim'- in the North of Scodand. 
 
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 No. CCLn. 
 
 M' Normand Mac Leod to the Lord President^ ' 
 My Dear Lord, 
 
 I GOT yours here, which is i8 iniles from my House in the Road to Glenelg, 
 where I f^o armless and alone to prevent any Mischief there from their close neighbour- 
 hood -nith Knodart ; I mean, any of my people's being tempted with plenty of Money to 
 go a volunteering. As to their being pillaged, it's what I take for granted. My dear 
 Lord, 1 have all along wrote without reserve, which Sir Alex"'' last letter (which you 
 ouo-ht to have got the same day as yours was -wTote) vvill evince ; and all I have to add 
 is, that what we wrote is true, and no more. He had but one Ship, a Privateer of 1 8 
 Gtms, with about i,6co bad Guns, and as many worse swords ; about 25 Officers, 
 mostly kish, or of Irish Parents ; and there is but one of them that ever was 
 so hi^h a rank as Lieu' Colonel. I hear of no more that has as yet joined 
 them.^ He sets up his standard Monday ; and as I am pretty sure of information 
 from thence vou shall know it. The Place, Gleniinnon, which is the outlet from 
 
 Moydart andArisack to Lochaber, Except the D. of P h get at them, I really 
 
 do not see where they will find another man ; for I know from Lovat his forward- 
 ness to serve the Government ; and as to the M'Tntoshs, MThersons, &c. &c, sure 
 thev are all quiet at least, if not well affected. In my weak opinion, it would be a very 
 wrong step to draw many of the troops to Scotland, as there can be Uttle Danger here ; 
 and that thev give out there is a strong landing to come, either from Cadiz or Ferrol, 
 to the south west of England, with 30,000 stand of arms to the discontented there, 
 who are readv to take them. TbJs may be only meant to put spirit in his adherents 
 here ; but if it is true, it's worth Notice, which the insmrrecuon here hardly is yet. Sir 
 Alex' Macdonaldand I can easily raise from 1,500 to 2,000 men for the King's Service 
 if thev are wanted ; and I am sure we are willing ; but then some of our ships would 
 require to land that number of arms here ; else 1,800 Staves, with about 200 Guns and 
 Swords, would make but a foolish Figure. The Privateer is sailed away to the North- 
 ward ; and it's true, she took 3 meal barks and ransomed them, and sent some of her 
 Crew with the Ships where the yoimg Chevalier was ; they took as much of the jVIeal 
 as thev thought proper, and paid for it and dismissed them. I can think of nothing else 
 just now ; the place & paper agree. You will soon hear from me. 
 I am, with the outmost friendship and attachment. 
 
 My dearest Lord, ever yours, 
 Sconsar, Aug' 17 , 1745. NORMANT) MAC LEOD. 
 
 There is surely no Scotsman of any note come over with him, but the Duke's brother, 
 who is turned an old woman, if I can credit what I hear of my Cousin. 
 
 No. CCLIII. 
 
 The Marquis of Tweedale to the Lord President. 
 
 Whitehall, 17'*' August 1745. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 I HAD the favor of yoinr Letter of the 8* Curr'. Your resolution of going North 
 earlier this Season than usual, meets with the Approbation of His Majesty-'s Ser\-ants 
 here ; and with mine in particular, as I am sensible that your presence there may in 
 
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 many events be extremely necessar)- and useful ; and I shall not fail to acquaint His Ma- 
 jest)' with the Motives that induced you to undertake that Journey at this juncture. 
 
 I o-wn, I have never been alarmed with the Reports of the Pretender's Son's landing 
 in Scotland. I consider it as a rash and desperate attempt, that can have no other com 
 sequence than the ruin of those concerned in it. However, in the present Situation, 
 the smallest appearances ought not to be neglefted ; and I am hopeful that if Sir John 
 Cope does speedily obey the Orders he has received, to put in execution the Plan con- 
 certed at Edinburgh with your Lordship and others of the King's Ser\'ants, we shall 
 hear no more of that affair. 
 
 I am sensible of the want of a legal authority in the Highlands to call forth the King's 
 friends to aftion, in case there should be occasion for them ; but your Lordship will 
 remember the difficulties that occurred about naming Lord Lieutenants of certain Coun- 
 ties at the Time of the last Invasion, which were the reasons that prevented any Nomi- 
 nation being made at that Time. 
 
 Arms are alreadv ordered to Inverness, and a Credit is sent to Sir John Cope. When 
 I mentioned the expediency of supplying your Lordship with money for procuring In- 
 telligence, and other Services to the Government, M" Pelham assured me, that what- 
 ever Sums you advanced he would certainly repay;* I hope, therefore, your Lordsliip 
 •will have no difficulty on this head. 
 
 I must desire your Lordship will from time to time acquaint me with what you hear 
 in the Course of Intelligence ; and I hope you will freely suggest whatever may occur 
 to you, that you think wall be of use for His Majesty's Service. 
 
 As there are few Officers of Rank in Scotland, His Majesty's Sers'ants think of send- 
 ing Major General Blakeney thither. He is an old Officer of service and experience. 
 Yesterday afternoon we had Notice that Ostend had capitulated upon honorable Terms. 
 General Chanclos, the Governor, made a brave defence ; but the place was not tenable. 
 The Yachts are already sailed, and we expect His Majesty very soon. 
 
 I am, with great regard and esteem. 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obedient 
 * And most humble Servant, 
 
 TWEEDDALE. 
 
 No. CCLIV. 
 
 The Lord Advocate to Lord Lovat. 
 
 My Lord, Edinburgh, 1 5"* August 1 745. 
 
 THO' I have not had the honor of any Epistolatory Correspondence with your 
 Lordship for some time past, yet I think it my dut)' at this Juncture to trouble your 
 Lordship with a Letter. 
 
 The Government hath certain intelligence, that a Sloop from France hath lately 
 arriv ed upon the west Coast of Scotland, with certain Gentlemen, friends of the Preten- 
 der, on board ; some of whom are landed in Scotland, and are stirring up a rising 
 among the Clans. 
 
 I have not forgot your Lordship's services in the [year] 1 7 1 5, your Zeal for the Go- 
 vermnent, and your power and influence in the Highlands ; and whatever grounds of 
 
 * It is, however, certain, that the President ruined a large fortune in this Rebellion (independent of 
 what his brother John expended in 1715), and was not rewarded or repaid. 
 
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 complaint vou may have against particular persons, that they may have ungrateful me- 
 morys, yet I cannot doubt but that your Lordship retains the same spirit and regard to 
 the public peace as in former times ; especially that now you have so great a Stake in 
 this Country. 
 
 I am sorrv to be informed of your bad state of health ; but I know you have a Son, 
 who, conducted by your Coimcils, will be able to supply any defect that wav. 
 
 The Duke of Arg\^le is expected in Town in a few days. I shall be very glad to be 
 assisted with your information \\ith respect to the State of the Highlands. 
 
 I have the honour to be with the greatest respect, 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most Obedient most humble Servant, 
 
 ROB-' CRAGEE. 
 
 Xo. CCLV. ■ 
 
 Lord Lovat to the Lord Advocate. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I RECEIVED the honour of vour most obliging and kind letter, for which I give 
 yoiu- Lop a thousand thanks. Your Lop judges right when you beheve that no hard- 
 ship or ill usage that I meet with can alter or diminish my Zeal and Attachment for his 
 Majestie's Person & Government. I am as ready this day (as far as I am able) to serve 
 the King and Government as I was in the Year 1715, when I had the good forttme to 
 ser^'e the King in suppressing that great RebelHon more than any one of my rank in the 
 Island of Britain. But my Clan & I have been so neglected these many Years past, that 
 I have not twelve stand of arms in my Country, tho' I thank God I could bring twelve 
 hundred good Men to the field for the King's Service,"^ if I had arms and other Accou- 
 trements for them. Therefore, my good Lord, I earnestly intreat, that, as you wish 
 that I would do good Service to the Government on this critical occasion, you may 
 order immediately a thousand stand of Arms to be deUvered to me and my Clan at 
 Inverness ; and then your Lop shall see that I will exert mvself for the Kong's Ser- 
 vice. Altho' I am entirely infirm myself these three or four Months past, yet I have 
 very pretty Gentlemen of my family that will lead my Clan wherever I bid them for the 
 King's Service. And if we do not get these arms immediately, we vrHl certainly be 
 undone. For those Madmen, that are in Arms with the pretended Prince of Wales, 
 threaten every day to bum and destroy my country, if we do not rise in Arms and 
 join them ; so that mv people crv out horridly, that they have no Arms to defend 
 themselves, nor no protection or suppon firom the Government. So I earnestly intreat 
 your Lop may consider seriously on this ; for it will be an essential and singular, loss to 
 the Government, if any Clan and Kindred be destroyed who possess the centre of the 
 Highlands of Scotland, and the Countrys most proper by their Situation to serve the 
 King and Government. 
 
 As to my Son, my Lord, that you are so good as mention, he is very young, and 
 just done with his CoUedges at S'^ Andrews, imder the care of a Relation of yours, 
 M' Thomas Cragie, professor of Hebrew, who I truly think one of the prettiest and 
 most complete Gentlemen that ever I conversed •with in any Coimtry ; and I think 
 myself most happy that my Son has been under his Tutory. He assures me, that he 
 never saw a Youth that pleased him more than my eldest Son ; he says he is a ver\' good 
 Scholar, and has the best genius for learning of any he has seen ; and it is by ISl' Tho- 
 mas Cragie's positive advice, which he will tell you when you see him, that I send my 
 Son immediately to Utrecht, and other places abroad, to complete his education. But 
 
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 I have many a one of my family now fitter to command than he is at his tender age ; 
 and I do assure your Lop that they will behave well, if they are supported as they 
 ought firom the Government. And I hope your Lop will procure that support for 
 them. 
 
 I hear that Mad and tmaccountable Gentleman has set up a standard at a place called 
 Glenfinnon Monday last. This place is the inlet from Moydeart to Lochaber ; and I 
 hear of none that join'd him as yet, but the Camerons and the Macdonclls ; and they 
 are in such a remote corner, that nobody can kno^v• their number, or what they are 
 doing, except those that are with them. 
 
 I humbly beg to have the honour to hear from your Lordship in return to this. And 
 I am, with all the esteem and respect imagineable, 
 
 Mv Good Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obedient most humble Servant, 
 Beaufort, 23^ Aug" 1745. LOVAT. 
 
 No. CCLVI. 
 
 Lord Lovat to the Lord President. 
 
 My Dear Lord, 
 
 AFTER writing of my letter Yesterday, I conversed very seriously with the man I 
 mentioned in my letter, who is a very sagacious, sly, cmming, intelligent man. As he 
 professes great friendship for me, I examined him as narrowly as I could upon the affairs 
 of the West ; and he tells me, that they are not so desperate as we imagine. He says, 
 that he does not beUeve that there are three Clans in the Highlands, but -will send their 
 Men to them, whether the Chiefs go or not. He told me, that Glengarry was to 
 come back as last night from Athole, and that this day he was to rendezvous all his 
 Men in order to march to the West : he says, that they expect succour from Spain and 
 France every day. 
 
 I have but melancholy news to tell you, my Dear Lord, of my own Countr}' ; for I 
 have a strong report that mad Foyers is either gone or preparing to go to the West ; 
 and I have the same report of poor Kilbokie ; but I don't believe it. However, if I be 
 able to ride in my Chariot the length of Inverness, I am resolved to go to Stratherrick 
 next week, and eiideavour to keep my people in order. I forgot to tell you, that the 
 Man yesterday assured me, that they were resolved to bum and destroy all the Coun- 
 tries where the men would not join them, with Fire and Sword ; which truly frights 
 me much, and has made me tlunk of the best Expedient I could imagine to preserve 
 my people. 
 
 As I know that the Laird of Lochiel has always a very affectionate friendship for me 
 as his relation, and a Man that did him singular Services ; and as he is perfectly well 
 acquainted uith Gortuleg, I endeavoured all I could to persuade Tarn to go there, and 
 that he should endeavour in my Name to engage Lochiel to protect my Country ; in 
 ■which I think I would succeed ; but I cannot persuade Gortuleg to go j he is so nice 
 with his point of honour, that he thinks his going would bring upon him tlie Character 
 of a Spy, and that he s^^ears he would not have for the Creadon. I used all the argu- 
 ments that I was capable of, and told him plainly, that it was the greatest service he could 
 do to me and to my Countr}', as I knew he could bring me a full account of their 
 situation ; and that is the only effectual mean that I can think of, to keep the Strather- 
 rick Men and the rest of my people at Home. And I am persuaded, that Lochiel would 
 use all the interest he has to preserve my Country. He told me at last, he would take 
 
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 some days to consider of it, iintill he comes out of Stratherrick ; but I ani afraid that 
 viill be too late. I o\^-n I was not well pleased with him, and we parted in a cooler 
 manner than we used to do. Since writing what is above, I have got three or four 
 Gazenes from good hands from the West ; they assure me, that the Highland Army 
 and their Pretended Prince were last night at Laggan Auchadroum, and that they will 
 march this dav to Aberchalder. Your friend the Old ChishoLm told this to Culcairn 
 this day, as he was coniinge to dine with me : and I had it from odiers. What turn 
 thev Villi take afterwards, is what is not yet made public ; but some tiiiak they will 
 march over Corrv Yearack, which I wish vdih all my heart they may do, that we might 
 be fairly rid of them. Others say, that they will come down thro' Strathe/rick, and 
 destroy it, if they don't rise ; and others, through Urquhart, to go to Ross. A^d it's 
 my opinion, they don't vet know themselves what to do, or what they are doing. Do 
 not thiak, my dear Lord, that I am glad when I tell you that some of your fa\-orites 
 the Mackenzies are gone to ioin the Pretended Prince. I spoke to two Men that saw 
 them pass by yesterday at the head of my Countrj-, and spoke to them ; and your 
 favorite, that spoke to Culcairn this day, will send his Men to join them, whether 
 he go himself or not. You may depend on it, that Gleamoriston Sc the Urquhart 
 people will likewise join in a dav or two ; so that my people are the only left in the 
 Lurch ; but I am verj- easv : for I have your Lop's word, that neither 1 nor ray people 
 will lose any thing, but that Government ■will make up our loss effectually. I will 
 send an express tomorrow Morning to Gortuleg, and intreat of him, as he loves me, if 
 he sees these Mad people coming to go & meet them, and expostulate with the Laird 
 of Lochiel not to hurt mv Comitrv, but to preserse it from being destroyed : otherwise, 
 that he mav assure himself that I will make Reprisals, tho' I honour much the Lady 
 Lochiel, and that she is my Cousin German. I know Gortuleg has a vast regard for 
 your opinion in any thing. I therefore humbl)' beg. My dear Lord, that you may 
 write him two lines inclosed to me, & desire him to go and meet Lochiel and endeavour 
 to persuade him to preserve my Countrv ; and I trulv think it will have a good effect 
 everv wav. I shall etemallv remain, vdrh Zeal and Esteem, 
 
 My D^ Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most attach'd Cousin and faithful Slave, 
 Beaufort, 24'" Aug^ 1745. LOVAT. 
 
 P. S. I am glad now to assure your Lordship, that honest KUbokie has not stirr'd, and 
 will do nothing without my consent ; and I hope it's the same thing with the Strather- 
 rick Men. I can now assure vour Lop by people from that Coimtry, that none of m.y 
 people of Stratherrick or Abertaif, are stirr'd ; this gives me great joy ; and I have 
 just now got a letter from Sandv Culduthel's Brother, confimiing all that I have said, 
 and that the Highland Arm.y were last night at Mockomire, and only this night to be 
 at Laggan Auchadroimi ; that they were yesterday 3,000 strong. He assures me 
 that no Men out of Appin, Glenco, Stralachan, Glengarry, Knodart, or Glenmoris- 
 ton, had yet joined them. My Dear Lord, you know that you engaged to me in honour 
 never to give me as author for any Intelligence or Information that I give you : and I 
 am persuaded that you will keep youj word ; for if you do not, the nest thing you 
 must do is to cut my throat ; for of all things in the world, I hate to be called an In- 
 former. I beg you may excuse the errors & blimders of this letter ; for I never was 
 in a worse state of health than since I began to write it. 
 
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 CULLODEN PAPERS. 
 
 No. CCLVII. 
 
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 The Lord President to Lord Lovat, Sunday 25''' August, 12 o'Clock. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 THIS moment I have received yours of last night's date. I am very glad to hear 
 that your mind is easy on the subject of Foyers and Culbochie. I always thought that 
 the affection of your people would preserve them from folly, especially when your 
 interest so essentially requires prudence in them. Your directions toG******* were 
 very right, and I am surprised he bogles at them ; since the execution of them is, in 
 my opinion, consistent with the strictest honour. A letter from me, advising what you 
 directed, might (your Lop will on reflexion see) be improper ; but it is farther surely 
 unnecessary, because I, at Inverness, and at Culloden, delivered him by word of 
 mouth the same opinion in the strongest terms, and I hope he will pursue it. I have no 
 notice, that Lochiel, or any of the Gentlemen who know this Country, will think it 
 advisable to exasperate Men who, being pushed too far, must, in self-defence, prove the 
 instruments of their ruin. Suppose they should force individuals of a kindred to go 
 alongst with them against the interest & inclinadons of their Chiefs, must not they 
 depend on it, that those will take the first opportunity to leave them. They cannot, 
 ' at least they ought not to forget the desertion of your people from Perth in the year 
 1715; and therefor I imagine they must desist from such barbarous poUcy ; but if 
 they should unjudiciously do otherways I see nothing your people have to do, but that 
 the Gentlemen should get the cleverest of the young fellows together, in the best trim 
 they can, keep together, and avoid them if they are too many, &c reserve themselves 
 for your further service ; trusting, that if, on no resentment, any dammage shall be 
 done, it will be made good by the Government in whose service it was sustained. 
 Should the Gentlemen who are now in Arms know this to be your disposition, I ima- 
 gine they would think twice before they provoked you ; for they must conclude, that 
 the least Horse-play on their part would naturally dissolve any expectations which 
 ^ey might idly have entertained, concerning the conduct of some of their fi-iends, and 
 force them with a vengeance into the other side. What you have heard concerning 
 the Kinsmen of those whom you call my fa.vorites may possibly be the case ; but if it 
 is so, they he impudently, and must soon feel the bad effects of it ; but I incline to 
 think, at present, you have been misinformed. I have considered your answer to 
 the Advocate's letter, which is a very good one. As to what you have the goodness 
 to communicate to me, rely on it, it is dead and bulged, and shall never rise again, 
 unless it may rise at a proper time to do you service. This cursed weather has keeped 
 me from the Kirk ; and fearing it might play you also a trick, I dispatched -the Docior 
 this mornijig to see how you did. Send him back as soon as you can, for I feel myself 
 pretty much out of order. I rely on hearing from you dayly. I am most certainly 
 yours, &c. 
 
 No.CCLVIII. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Fortrose, 26 August, 6 at night. 
 My Lord, 
 
 SINCE noon I have received letters from Sir John Cope by Express, who was last 
 
 Saturday's night at Tuinifuir, & was to march next morning with a considerable body 
 
 of Foot, Drag", and Artillery, to find out the unhappy people that have put themselves 
 
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 in Arms. His force is so great, that I should hope they v,il\ not be indiscreet enough 
 to wait for them. As your Lordship has had your people ^ith you to-day, or at least 
 are to have them with you to-morrow, I run you this Express to suggest to you the 
 ntmess of haveing such a body of your People together, as you can assemble on the 
 sudden ; the best Arm'd you can, to be disposed of as Sir John, when he comes, shall, 
 bv the Ad^-lce of the King's friends in this Country, direct. , You can figure to 
 yourself no * good reasons for what I propose ; so that it is imnecessarv for me to 
 detain the Messenger by putting any of them in -HTiteing. !My Compliments to the 
 Ladies, &c. 
 
 Xo. CCLIX. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Lovat, c6 August, 6 at night. 
 My Lord, 
 
 THIS afternoon I had ane Express from Sir John Cope from Trinifuir, where he 
 lay the 24*^ with his Army encamp' d. He was to set out the next morning to find out 
 the unhappy Gentlemen who are in Arms, with a force which, if they are wise, they 
 will not think fit to look in the face. What you have to do on this occasion, accord- 
 ing to my apprehension, is, to give directions, that all vour people be in readiness, 
 vdxh the best acoutrements they are masters of, to conform to such directions as, when 
 he arrives, he, with the Advice of the King's friends in this Country, will give. I 
 should think it impossible, that your zeal upon this occasion should not be of service to 
 yourself i: to. your family. I need say no more to one to whora I have latelv said so 
 much on this subject. Let me hear from you as soon as possible. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 
 Xo. CCLX. 
 
 Lord Lovat to the Lord President. 
 My Dear Lord, 
 
 I WAS so very bad all day yesterday and last night, that I did not expect to see 
 the Ught of this day ; so that it was this morning before I had the honour of your 
 letter put into my hand ; and I am glad to find, that tho' I be tormented to death with 
 boils on my body, which makes me feverish and most uneasy, yet that your Lop is 
 in perfect healdi, which I wish the Continuance of; as should all those that love their 
 CounoT do. being more useful and valuable to the Commonwealth than a thousand 
 like mine. 
 
 Since Sir John Cope has such a powerful Army, I hope our desperate Countr)Tnen 
 will avoid to see him ; but if they are so mad as to fight, that unfortunate Prince must 
 fell with the bravest of his adherents most foolishly. I own, I must regrate my dear 
 Cousin Locheil, who, contrary- to his promise to me, engaged in this mad enterprize ; 
 but if Sir John Cope is beat (which 1 think next to impossiblej, this desperate Prince 
 will be the Occasion of much bloodshed, which I pray God may avert ; for to have 
 bloodshed in our bowels is a horrible thing to any man that loves Scotland, or has a 
 good stake in it, as yoiu" Lop and I have. Therefore, I pray God that we may not 
 have a Ci\il War in Scotland : this has been mv constant wish since ever I had the 
 
 * Sic in Orig. 
 
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 CULI.ODFA' PAPERS. 2 1 3" 
 
 use of my reason ; and ic shall be the same while there is breath in me ; so that they 
 must be damnably ignorant of the principle of my heart and soul, who can imagine 
 that I would endeavour to promote a Civil War in my Country. 
 
 I do assure you, my dear Lord, that if the King had taken away my house and a 
 part of my estate without any just ground, as he did my Company, that I would go 
 and live, tho' most miserable, in any Country on earth, rather than make a Civil War 
 in my owai Country. I hope this will convince your Lop that I have always been a 
 declared enemy against this mad project. Now, my dear Lord, as to what you desire 
 me, of acquainting all my people to be in readiness, I do assure you that I did so 
 immediately after coming from Inverness ; but, to obey your commands, I have sent my 
 Officers this Day with orders to them to be ready when I should call for them ; and 
 I ordered them to make short Coats and hose, and to put aside their long coats, and 
 to get as many swords and dirks as they could tind out. As to the article of arms, 
 it's needless to talk of it ; for my men have no arms, and I never will present them to 
 King or Gen' without arms. And your Lop may remember, that when you spoke to 
 me of that article at Inverness, you said at last, that I could not shew my men without 
 arms, and without sufficient orders from the Government ; to which opinion I told 
 your Lop I would adhere. 
 
 And as to my zeal for the Government, I can assure your Lordship that I have 
 as much as any Lord or laird in Scodand except your Lop, whose constant, uncommon, 
 and fiery zeal for this Government, to my certain knowledge, is, and has always been, 
 without example. But I hope, my Lord, since you have this day the same power 
 over your old Corporal that you had in the year 1 7 1 5, you will make my Court to 
 Sir John Cope. If I be able to step into my Chariot, I will pay my dut)' to him at 
 Inverness or CuUoden, and will beg of your Lop to introduce me to him. 
 
 After writing the above, I had an Express from Gortuleg. I think Tarn More 
 seems to be a little frighted. I will write a strong letter to him tomorrow, to be she^vn 
 to my Strathherick and Abertarf people. But, my dear Lord, I am in a very terrible 
 situation ; my Country threatened to be destroyed ; and they have neither Support 
 nor Arms to defend themselves ; and they see all the Clans about them save them- 
 selves by sending some men to the Highland Camp, and they only left a sacrifice ; 
 but as it is you that has engaged me to make an appearance for the Government at 
 this time (to which I had not an immediate Call, having neither Post nor Employ- 
 ment from the Government, and not having been well used, as your Lop knows), I 
 trust entirely to your true friendship and generosit)^, that you will, in the first place, 
 obtain arms for my people to defend themselves ; and in the second place, that you 
 will obtain for myself what encouragement your Lop thinks I deserve, or may deserve, 
 from the Government. I can say without vanity, that if I was so mad as to be on the 
 other side, the highlanders would have a much greater number than they have by 
 this time; and might, with such a desperate bold Prince as they have at their head, 
 become more troublesome to the Government than in the year 1715. 
 
 I refer all this to your Lop's generous Consideration ; and I beg that you may 
 forgive any Blunders that I may have writ in this letter ; for the pain in my body, and 
 the troublesome situation of my Country, have almost turned my head ; but whatever 
 situation I am in, I shall alw ays remain 
 
 Your Lop's most faithful Slave 
 
 and affectionate Cousin, 
 Beaufort, 27"' Aug* 1745. . LOVAT. 
 
 No. CCLXL
 
 ai6 CILLODEX PAPERS. ' 
 
 Xo. CCLXI. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Lovat. 
 
 My Lord, 28 Augnst, 6 at night. 
 
 THIS Moment I receive " - : T!xpress from Sir J. Cope from Ruthven. He has 
 not pass'd the Corrrvarig ; ;. -mv apprehension of opposidon, but firom suspidon 
 
 the Highlanders might gire hi m the slip, &: roarch southwards ; \rhere by the bv they 
 must be sadlv handled ; for 5 Bat^ of the Garison that was latelv at Ostend are 
 ship'd off for Leith. What he now expects is, that the Chiefs in the Highlands who 
 are affectionate to this Gover' will immediately exert themselves, & show such a 
 countenance -as shall prevent further folly Sc sufferings. The Laird of Grant has made 
 him a large offer, which he has accepted of ; & I should be very sorry if any one 
 outdid vour Lop in Zeal. ^Vhai I therefor submit to you is, whether you ought not 
 immediately to Arm as many people as you can in Stratherick Sc the Aird, and order 
 them furthwith to assemble, i: be disposed of as shall be most tit for the service* 
 Whilst your Orders are executing, I wish vou would se.i :he Master down hither 
 to me ; giveing him, at the same time, such Authority as you shall think fit. Arms 
 are order'd from Ed^ to In', & more are order'd from the Tower. I am in heast, & 
 expect your return speedily. I am heartily your friend and well wisher. 
 
 Xo. CCLXIl. 
 
 M' Thomas Fraser of Gortuleg to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Gortuleg, 29- Aug' 1 745. 
 
 I "WROTE to Lord Lovat yesterday Morning fitjm this place ; wherein I told 
 his Lordship, that I had occasi n -^ see Lochiel, and some others of that Armv, 
 Tuesdav, when they lav near F, :..s ; and gave a true Accoimt of their Num- 
 
 ber, which still is not jJxjve 2,c ; : i I recommended to Lord Lovat to let yotrr 
 
 Lordship know this, and wh?r 1 ..:. udgedwas their resolurion. 
 
 This morning I am inion. . _ . :.: vesterday thev set out early from Aberchalder, 
 and came, before Seven in the Morning, to a place called Lagganvane, tour Miles 
 from Fort Augustus, and at the foot of Coriyarack ; that then thev were assured of 
 Sir John Cope's marching by Ruthven to Inverness. That immediately they called a 
 Coimcil of war ; and the resolurion taken was, to pursue General Cope with all Ex- 
 pedition; that their whole Army was at Ganiemore about 12 o* Clock : &: that they 
 were resolved to march bv Niehr & bv Dav until they came up with their Enemy. 
 lam assured, : ^-ard Leader called for Cloaiks; and 
 
 tbat, at P/tng »/.= ......... .j ... .,.;,., ks sahmnljf declared, : ... .^ ......J be up v;itb 
 
 Mr. Cope czfors they "ivere unloosed. If this information holds true, they must certainly 
 have a brush this day. The people are in top Spirits, and make sure of ^^ctory in 
 case*thev meet. "^""-^' " ' ~ " happen, I can assure yoiu" Lordship, that they will be 
 troublesoirie N .le time ; for thev know their Situation, and they are 
 
 de> i .k rarigued by keeping some idle 1 .ed people herein 
 
 Orc=. j :::-^ i ^- ..-c_re your Lordship, that if the HEgh^^.^ -:>--iny r ema i n ed any 
 
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 time in our Neighbourhood, that even the Lord Lovat could not get some of them 
 commanded. 
 
 ' '" I have the honour to be, with all regard, 
 
 My Lord, 
 ' ' J ' :: Your Lordship's most faithful and obed' Servant, 
 
 THO: FRASER. 
 
 P. S. The Bearer is a very honest pretty fellow in whom I have intire confidence. 
 
 Strength of Rebell Army. 
 
 A True Account of the Numbers of the Highland Army Tuesday, 271'' Aug'« 1745. 
 
 Lochiel ._-...- •joQ 
 
 Clanranald, having Men of his Islanders ... 2§o 
 
 ■ The Stewarts of Appin, commanded by Ardsheal - - 220 
 
 Keappoch . - - . . . 260 , , 
 
 Glengarry's Men, including Knoidart, Glenco, and Glenmorriston - 600 
 
 No.CCLXIlL 
 
 The Lord President to the Lady Clunie. 
 
 D' Madam, CuUoden, 31 August 1745. 
 
 YOU may be sure I am extremely mortify'd by Clunie's misfortune.* What 
 endangers the hurting of his Character must touch sensibly the honour of the Man 
 who, in the warmest manner, recommended him, & undertook absolutely to answer 
 for him. I am, for my own part, satisfy'd that what happened was the effect of 
 pure inadvertence on his part, & confidence, that some, whose friendship he had 
 reason to trust to, would not have served him in the manner in which they have done ; 
 & I hope no perswasion will prevail with him, now he is in their hands, to swerve 
 from the engagements he has lately come under. It will be unhappy indeed if any 
 number of his Kinsmen join with those who have used him so ill ; for that will justifie 
 ane opinion, which I am confident is utterly false, that he was consenting to what has 
 happened. I flatter myself with expectations, that when he has got to some distance 
 his confinement will not be so strict, so that he may find means to make his escape ; 
 & I should not think it amiss if such ane advice was privately whisper'd to him by some 
 confident person ; but as to that, your Ladyship will use your own discretion. I do 
 assure you. Madam, that as I am concern'd for him, I feel extremely for you, & sin- 
 cerely wish it in my power to give you any relief. Whatever occasion accidents shall 
 offer for that end, shall readyly be made use of by, Madam, Your Ladyship's most 
 ob' & most humble Serv' &c. 
 
 N0.CCLXIV. : , , 
 
 Mem. concerning the Rebellion in Scotland. 
 
 (^Apparently addressed by Lord Stair to the Ministry.^ 
 
 S' JOHN COPE, by marching towards Inverness from Dalwhiney, where he was 
 Master of both the branches of the made Road, one of w^ goes to Inverness the other to 
 
 * He had been made prisoner by the Rebels. 
 
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 Fort Augustus, has given an opportunirv- to the Rebels, \v^" they have taken, of march- 
 ing towards Blair ; bv w''' means it is apprehended that the Rebels may make them- 
 selves Masters of Edinburgh, Si" before S' John Cope can return to oppose them. The 
 question is, what is proper to be done in this case ? 
 
 It is humblv proposed in the first place, to grant a number of blank Commissions, to 
 be distributed among the well-affected Clanns, as the Lord President of the Session, 
 &- shall think proper. Such a number of highlanders, being formed into regular Com.- 
 panies, •n-ill be in a condition not only to hinder more Men to be raised for the Pre- 
 tender's service, but a part of them may go and live at discretion in the Countrys 
 which the Rebels have left ; or, if it shall be thought necessary, either the whole or 
 anv part of them may march into the South Coimtry, according to the orders they 
 shall receive. 
 
 In the next place, it is proposed, that the Magistrates of Ed' shall be authorised, ac- 
 cording to their ovm desire, to raise a thousand Men for the defence of the Cit}-, in 
 conjunction with the regular troops. It is to be observed, that the Cit)' of Ed' is sur- 
 rounded with a good old Wall, w'^ caimot be forced, but with Cannon ; & it is rea- 
 sonable to suppose, that it cannot be surprised when guarded by such a number of 
 Men. There is already there one compleat Reg' of Dragoons. 
 
 It is next to be consider'd, that by taking proper precautions it may be render'd 
 verv difficult for the Rebels to pass the Forth. The natural precautions to be taken are, 
 in the first place, to bring all the Passage-boats to the South side of the river ; & then 
 To post at proper places such Sloops of War as may happen to be in the Firth, with 
 ■a number of other Ships, with Cannon Sc Soldiers aboard each of them. By these 
 means, the passage of the Firth will be render'd more difHcult, & must necessarily 
 consume a good deal of time. 
 
 If the Rebels should pass, they must consume some time in their march to Edin- 
 burgh, and in making the necessary dispositions for attacking it. Such necessan,- delays 
 ^vill probably give S' John Cope time to arrive before the Rebels can make themselves 
 Masters of Edinburgh : as Sir John Cope's march ^vill at all times be free Sc uninter- 
 rupted, he being master of Stirling Bridge. 
 
 But supposing that S' John Cope should not arrive in time, S: that the Rebels should 
 be Masters of Ed', & march into England before his arrival, & even supposing that the 
 liighlanders should be joined by an Invasion from France, it will be proper to consider 
 vrhat force there is in England to resist the Enemy in that case. 
 
 There are now in England four Battall. of Guards ; four other Battall. ; besides 
 three to be formed of the additional Companies. There are now actually embarked at 
 Williamstadt five Batt"" of Dutch Troops, ofw'^ one is to go to Scotland ; the four 
 Tv^ come into England are to be instantly followed by three more Battallions. With 
 these seven Batt : of Dutch added to eleven British, with two Reg" of Horse & three 
 of Dragoons, L"^ Stair thinks he can answer for the quelling of this Rebellion. 
 
 If it should be thought expedient to make use of any other helps, such as raising a 
 number of Batt. in the nordi of Ireland, or in indulging any of the considerable 
 people in G. B. well affected to the Govemm' to raise Regiments, it is certain that such 
 precautions will not be useless, nor the money ill employed ; for next Spring there 
 will be opportunity to make use of those forces against France, in such a manner as 
 may be both honorable and advantageous to G. B. & very hurtful to France. L'^ Stair 
 [considered] it was his duty to lay his thoughts before His Majesty in this Memorial, 
 w*^ may give his Majesty an opportunity to examine the several facts contain^ in it 
 thoroughly, & at leisure. If it should happen, that any of the facts, or the reasoning 
 upon them, should be disputed, it is humbly desired, for His Majesty's further infor- 
 mation.
 
 CULLODE^r PAPERS. jly 
 
 mation, such objections may be put i-- writing, w"" is certainly the best method & shortest 
 to come at the knowledge of the truth. 
 
 Since the delivery of this Mem. it has been resolved to send over for ten Battall. of 
 the Brit. Troops of the Army commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, w'*" has been 
 done accordingly. . 
 
 August 1745. 
 
 No.CCLXV. 
 
 The Marquis of Tweeddale to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Whitehall, 4 September 1745. 
 
 I WROTE to your Lordship on the 24* of August, which I hope you received. 
 Last night I had an Express from Edinburgh, which brought us intelligence, that the 
 Rebells had passed Sir John Cope, and were to be on the ;^o^- at Dalnacairdick. This 
 account, you will easily judge, has not a little surprised us ; since, it is to be feared, the 
 Rebells may make a considerable progress in the low Countries before Sir John Cope 
 can overtake them. 
 
 The Earl of Stair has proposed, that a number of blank Commissions be sent down 
 to be distributed among the well-affected Clans, as your Lordship shall think proper. 
 This I heartily seconded ; as I know your Lordship will make a right use of this mark 
 of his Majesty's confidence. Such a number of Highlanders being joined into regular 
 Companies will not only prevent more men from rising for the Pretender's Service, 
 but a part of them may go and live at discretion in the Country which the Rebells 
 leave ; or, if it shall be thought more necessary, either the whole or any part of them 
 may march into the South Country with Sir John Cope, according to the orders they 
 shall receive. 
 
 This proposal His Majest}- has agreed to, and accordingly a number of blank com- 
 missions are sent down by this Express, which will be forwarded to your Lordship 
 without loss of time. 
 
 In my Letter of the 1 7 Aug' I acquainted you, that M' Pelham had assured me, that 
 whatever Sums of Money you should advance at this juncture, for the Service of the 
 Government, should be punctually repaid. I am hkewise to inform you, that Sir John 
 Cope has a credit to answer the exigencies of the Government. 
 
 I shall long much till I hear good Accounts from you. In the mean time, be as- 
 sured that I am, with great truth and esteem, • , 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's most Obed' 
 
 humble Servant, 
 
 TWEEDDALE. 
 
 No. CCLXVI. 
 
 Sir Andrew Mitchell to the Lord President. 
 
 Whitehall, 5"-^ Sept' 1745. 
 My Lord, 2 o'clock afternoon. 
 
 IT is with most sincere Joy that I write you this ; as this Letter will be accompa- 
 nied v\ith the most honourable mark of trust and confidence that His Majest)- can 
 bestow. It has been thought proper, at this juncture, to raise t^venty independent Com- 
 panies in the Highlands ; and your Lop is the person pitched upon to choose the 
 OtEcers. Your Zeal for his Majest)-'s Service, at a time when Zeal is no epidemick, 
 ! -i F F 2 and
 
 22C CL'LLODEX PAPERS. 
 
 and your integrity' and justice, are so well kno\m, that ever,- body thinks the choice is 
 not the effect of hivour, but of judgment. I can easily conceive what use would have 
 been made of such powers, had they been granted to some people ; pri\-ate interest 
 wou'd have been strengthened & extended ; private resentment glutted with insolent re- 
 veno-e • and both at the expence of his INIajestie's Service ; but your Lop can never act 
 from such motives ; and the noble opportimity that is now put into your hands will 
 make vour impartialitT and forgetfulness of injuries as conspicuous to your Countr)-, as 
 your love of Justice has been. Your Lordsp will forgive me if I mention one thing 
 more ; which is, that, as this trust is very great, your enemies, for such you have, will 
 if possible endeavour to find fault ; and tho' I am con%-inced that no Commission will 
 be oiven bv vou, but to such Persons as are well affected, and capable of being of im- 
 mediate service to the Government, I think you should pay Sir John Cope the Compli- 
 ment to acquaint him that you have received such Commissions ; and even to seem to 
 advise with him ; for as he can know nothing of the state of the Highlands, he will 
 certainly Aield to you in every thing. Your Lordship's judgment, and the State of 
 Affairs m Scotland, will be the best guide to direct how far the Commissions are to be 
 made use of at all, or what part of them may be proper to give out. There are 
 twenty blank Comniissions for Captains, Lieu", & Ensigns, of Independent Companies, 
 which the Lord Advocate has directions to forward to you as speedily and saiely as 
 possible. We have not heard from Sir John Cope since the ii^ Aug' ; and a letter 
 from the D. of Athol, of the 30'" Aug', has greatly alarmed People here ; more indeed, 
 I think, than there \vas reason for ; but it is the feshion to fear, or at least to seem to 
 be affi-aid. I long to hear from your Lop. Your beha%-iour on this occasion, and the 
 part vou are now acting, meets with the universal applause of every Whig Subject his 
 Maiesrv has, a verj^ few excepted. I write this in great hurry, and you'll excuse 
 blunders. It is the language of my heart. 
 
 I am most affectionately, 
 
 ]SIv Dear Lord, Your 
 
 AKD' MITCHELL. 
 
 r - Xo. CCLXVII. ' 
 
 . . , Sir John Cope to the Lord President. 
 
 Aberdeen, 12'^ Sep' ^lAS- 
 THE Information given bv the two Gentlemen arrived this Day from Angus is in 
 Substance as follows, yrz.. 
 
 That they were informed in that Countrv, that the Young ChevaUer had at most not 
 above 4CC0 Men at Perth last week ; the greatest part Highlanders ; that many of them 
 had no fire-arms, Sc were otherwise very ill armed. 
 
 That the Duke o^ Perth had join'd him with his people, most of whom he had forced 
 to follow him; that the (D: of P:) had killed one Man, & wounded one or two 
 more, who had refused to go. 
 
 That Lord George Murray had likewise join'd the Che\-alier with about \zzz Athol 
 Men, Sc that he had left about 500 at Blair of Athol, and Dunkeld ; at which last 
 place the Marquis of TelUbarden lav sick. 
 
 That the Highlanders, on their coining down, had demanded pa^Tnent cf the Excise 
 at Cowpar of Angus ; & that thev had tien a small simt from some of the Officers of 
 the Revenue in that place. 
 
 That about zoo of them entered Dundee on Saturday last, ^: left it again on 
 ^Monday, earning off with them some Ships Guns, some pewter & Lead for Musquet 
 
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 Balls, & some small quantity of Powder. But that the Magistrates had shipp'd oflF 
 some small Arms on Board the Custom house Yacht, who had got out of the River 
 a few hours before the Highlanders came to Town. 
 
 That it was confidently reported, that Lord Ogilvie had been in the Chevalier's Camp, 
 & that he intended to have join'd him with his Father's people, having provided some 
 Ammunition, as supposed, for that purpose; but that he seems now to have laid aside 
 that Intention, & even denies he ever had it. The Copys of two letters, said to 
 have been wrote by the Spanish Ambassador & the Duke de Bouillone, to the young 
 Chevalier *, were deliver'd to the General. 
 
 That the Highland Army were in Perth on Tuesday last at i o of the Clock ; that it 
 was talk'd there, that they were to move ; and there was a Rumour of their demanding 
 ^'500. A letter, dated the 9th Curr', Montrose, says, a Perth Man informed the 
 Author that the Louis D'orspass'd at 17'^ j but that soon after it was ordered by the 
 young Chevalier, that they should pass at ai"*" ; and that some persons were obliged to 
 take Bills, instead of cash, for payment of work done for them. 
 
 Another Information says, they were making Targets at Perth, & that they got 
 about 2 dozen Lochaber Axes out of the Town of Perth. The Duke of Perth Sick at 
 Crief. The Pretender's Son is in a fine Highland Dress laced with Gold ; wears a 
 Bonnet laced ; wears a Broad Sword ; had a Green Ribband, but did not see the Star; 
 a well made Man, taller than any in his Company. Collected ^22 at Cowpar in 
 Angus. The talk was, they wanted to take the Army before join'd with the Dragoons. 
 They Intended to attack us upon the Corryarick. They talk'd of the Landing of Earl 
 Marshall. Had 15 or 16 Boats on the South Side of the Tay ; on which they keep 
 constant Guards. It was said in Perth, the Duke of Perth had killed two people that 
 refused to rise. This Informer left Perth Tuesday, the i o"", at four in the Afternoon. 
 
 &c. 
 
 No. CCLXVIII. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Lovat. 
 
 My Lord, 19 Sept' 1745. 
 
 THE moment I received Authorit)' to dispose of the Commissions for some Inde- 
 pendent Comp*', you may be sure your Lop came into my eye ; & tho I had been 
 forgetful!, the care of your good freind my Lord Stair would not have permitted it to 
 have been long so ; for a Note from his Lop, which came just after to me, made kind 
 mention of your Lop, & pointed at your 2^ Son ; as your Eldest was destined to another 
 course of Life. I should have wrote to your Lop then on the subject, but that Mac 
 Leod was going to you, & I charged him with mentioning it ; but finding that he has 
 not brought me, as I expected, your Lop's resolutions, &: being under a necessity of 
 reporting soon what I have done, or am a doing, I am obliged to give your Lop the 
 trouble of this, to beg to know how you like the proposal! ; & if you do, to have a 
 List from you of the persons names to whom you would have the Commissions for 
 Cap'", Lieu', and Ensign given. My labour for the best part of 30 Years is lost, if I need 
 to employ many words to convince you that I wish your family heartily well. I have 
 heard no news but from Ab'', that Sir J. Cope, who weigh'd Sunday night, had a fair 
 wind all Monday, which was supposed there to have brought him sate into Leith road. 
 As to the reports that are coin'd &: spread to animate either party, they make no impres- 
 
 * See pp. 205, 2o6. ^ 
 
 sion
 
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 CL'LLODEN" PAPERS. 
 
 sion on me, no more than they ought to make on any wise man. One of them, how- 
 ever I will mention, from a Letter of the Lyon's, who came home last night from his 
 expedition to Ab^ ; which will shew yom- Lop how senseless & impertinent their tales, 
 with which thev attempt to keep up spirits, are : He says, that in his way home he vr^s 
 assured by Ladies, who had it from J. Hamilton in StrathBogie, that your Lop's Strath- 
 herick Men were immediately to join Glenbucket ; & that, as your own health was 
 bad & the Master of Lo%-at but Young, you had sent for your cousin Inveralachie to 
 command these, & to raise your other Men. If such silly storys pass upon any body, 
 it must be upon those who do not know what you have done for the present Gov'-, 5: 
 the value you have for vour honour, 6c for the Estate of Lo\-at. As to Inveralachie's 
 part of it, tho' I am not personally well known to that Gentleman, yet the Character of 
 prudence & discretion which I have had of him from Sir Arthur Forbes, Lord Strechin. 
 & severall others of his freinds, satisfv' me that he is not giddy enough to enter into the 
 views which Mr. Hamilton might present him with ; so that, from this ridiculous 
 instance, one may easyly see what stress is to be laid now-a-days on private historv-, & 
 
 on reports. 
 
 I am, my Lord, 
 
 Very heartily your's, Sec. 
 t - 
 ^'^ -' Xo. CCLXIX. 
 
 The Duke of Newcastle to Matthew Ridley, Esq. Mayor of Newcastle. 
 
 Su.;" Whitehall, Sept^ 25'^ 1 745. 
 
 I DISPATCHED an Express to you on Monday night %\ith an answer to your 
 letter of the 20'^ Inst. I received yesterday morning the melancholy account of the 
 defeat of His Majest>-'s forces by the Rebels in Scotland* ; and some hours after, I was 
 favoured with vour letter of the 22"^ inst. and laid i: immediately before the King. His 
 Majesty saw ■with the greatest satisfaction the spirit of Loyalrs- and Zeai which animates 
 his faithful subjects in Newcastle and in the County of Northumberland to exert them- 
 selves in the support of His Majestv-'s Government, and for the preservation of our 
 happy Constitution ; and I am commanded by His Majesry to desire that you would 
 return his thanks to the Gentlemen who have thus distinguished themselves on this 
 
 Occasion. 
 
 I have already answered that part of your letter in which you desire to have an 
 officer of Note sent down to you. Major General Huske, whom his Majesty has 
 appointed for that Service, and whose Character I am persuaded you are not unac- 
 quainted with, set out last night for Newcastle ; and as he proposed to make great 
 expedition, he will probably be with you soon after you have received this letter. 
 
 As the two Dutch Reginaents, which I acquamted you in my last were ordered to 
 proceed bv sea to Newcastle, were detained in the River by contrary winds, it has been 
 thouo-ht proper, upon the news of the action in Scotland, in order not to divide the 
 force*' which is immediately to march against the Rebels, that they should be disembarked 
 and be added to that Corps. Marshall Wade has received his Majestv-'s Orders to 
 take upon him the Command of those troops ; part of them are already marched, and 
 the whole -will make up a very considerable army, and will be provided vrith. a large 
 Train of Artillery of all sorts, 'and march immediately to whatever place Marshall Wade 
 
 • In the Battle of Preston Pans. 
 
 shall
 
 CULLODEN PAPERS. 32* 
 
 shall have notice the Rebels army is : His Majesty being determined, by the Blessing 
 of God, to do his utmost immediately and effectually to suppress this Rebellion, to 
 protect his Majesty's faithful Subjects, and to relieve and defend the several Counties 
 which lie most exposed to the insults and attacks of this lawless and rebellious multi- 
 tude, which his Majesty had before hoped that his Army in Scotland might have been 
 able to have done. Two Regiments of i ooo men each will be immediately transported 
 from Dublin to Chester, in order to preserve the peace of those parts, and to join his 
 Majesty's Army when it shall be advanced northwards. 
 
 As we have an account that the greatest part of the two Regiments of Dragoons, of 
 Hamilton and Gardiner, that were in the Action, are now at Berwick, orders will be 
 immediately sent for them, and any other part of Sir John Cope's troops that may have 
 been got thither, to march immediately for Newcastle, and to be under the Command 
 of Major General Huske. 
 
 I have the satisfaction to acquaint you, that besides the Army marching immediately 
 under the Command of Marshall Wade, Ten Regiments of His Majesty's forces, and 
 all the Dutch Auxiliary troops, being now arrived from Williamstadt, there will remain 
 a very considerable force in the Neighbourhood of London fop the defence and security 
 of the Capital, and for the preservation of the peace in these parts. 
 
 Give me leave. Sir, to assure you (and I desire you will do the same to the rest of 
 the Gentlemen), that I shall with the greatest pleasure do every thing in ray power to 
 forward any assistance and support that you may want in this critical conjuncture j 
 being glad of all occasions to shew myself yours & their 
 
 Most obedient humble Servant, 
 (Sic Subscribitur) HOLLES NEWCASTLE. 
 
 P. S. I should be obliged to you if, as you shall have occasion, you will acquaint the 
 neighbouring Gentlemen with the Steps His Majesty is taking for the Suppression of this 
 Rebellion. 
 
 No. CCLXX. 
 
 The Mayor of Newcastle to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, ^ Newcastle, Sept' 26'^ 1745. 
 
 BELIEVING it may be for his Majesty's service, and also acceptable to your 
 Lordship, to be informed of the true state of matters here at present, I take hold of 
 the opportunity of a vessel ready to sail for Aberdeen to acquaint you, that I received 
 an Express last night from the Duke of Newcastle, dated the 23'* Instant, which 
 brought his Majesty's sign Manual, authorising me to form Companies of His Ma- 
 jesty's well-affected Subjects in this place, and to grant Commissions to Officers for 
 the Command of the same. Also, that store of Arms and Ammunition are ordered 
 hither forthwith, that the place may be put into the best posture of defence against 
 the Enemies of his Majesty, in case they make an Attempt upon it. The Gentlemen 
 of Northumberland and Durham met yesterday, and made a noble appearance, and 
 have entered into Associations to raise a body of Men for his Majesty's service. The 
 Dukes of Bedford, Rutland, Kingston, Bolton, Lord Halifax, Malton, Irwin, Her- 
 bert, & several other L'' Lieut" have Commissions, & are raising Regiments of Horse, 
 at their own Expence, to be employed as occasion shall require. 2,200 Swiss, five 
 Companies of Maj' Gen' Blakeney's, Duke of Montagu's Horse, S' George's Dra- 
 goons, are on full march into the North, commanded by Gen' Wentworth. Two 
 
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 224 CULLODEN PAPERS. 
 
 Regiments of Dutch on board Transports are now between London and this place, 
 to remain here mider the Command of Major Gen" Huske. 700 of the Dutch are 
 landed at Berwick ; and the ten Battallions of British landed at Gravesend on Sunday 
 last ; so I doubt not but a great Body will soon be in this part of the kingdom, 
 suiKcient to quell all further attempts of the Rebels. By the Acco" we yesterday 
 had, they remained encamped near Edinburgh, and were in number now about 8000. 
 
 I am, my Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most Obedient h"' Serv', 
 
 To the R*- Hon"' M. RIDLEY, Mayor. 
 
 the L'^ President. 
 
 Xo. CCLXXI. 
 
 General Wifrhtman to the Lord President. 
 
 My L. P. Newcastle, 26" Septem' 1745. 
 
 I CA^IE to Edinburgh from Potosi on the 10"' instant, after having sett my 
 Smelt Miln agoing, S: put ever\' thing in such order, under the direction of an active 
 agent, as my affairs will go on successfully in my absense, without any interruption. I 
 found the honest people in the Cit%- very zealous, and G. D. & L N. very active ; but 
 soon perceived the Provost was a dead weight upon them, acting in the little subtil 
 sly way. I assisted M' M'Laurin in forming a plan for fenceing the Cit)', in some 
 such manner as \%^s done A- 1 7 1 5, which somewhat was done before I left the Cirj' on 
 Monday the 1 6' at noon ; but nothing to the purpose. I soon saw the Provost's 
 Plott ; which was, to render all the efforts of the honest people of the Town vain, by 
 arming the train'd bands, & critically raising a tumult in the City, w hich would have 
 issued in their utter ruin. I therefore apprized mv friends of their danger, & put the 
 enclosed paper into G. D.'s hands ; the effect whereof was, that the Volunteers laid 
 down their Arms about 5 hours after I left the Cir)\ The Prov*" ha\ing declined to 
 consent to the admission of the Dragoons, or even to in%ite 1 00 of them to assist in 
 its defence, next morning betwixt 5 & 6 o'clock the Rebells entered, by a concerted 
 surprize, whereof you have doubtless heard the particulars before this can come to 
 your hand. 
 
 I retired to Cockence without a servant or Clog-bag, mounted on a borrowed 
 horse, having only about 5 Crowns in pocket ; and next morning I sett out for 
 Dunbar, to find out S' Jo. Cope, and found lum there disembarking the troops ; 
 where I continued till Thursday, and then accompanied him in his march, acting the 
 part of a detached Volunteer, to get intelligence of the Rebells, without being so 
 much as known to the G", or having any communication with the Ministers of State. 
 Mounted on my old Uttle Cropt Gallowav, I was determined to witness the issue of that 
 march (tho' I did not approve of it), and to be a near spectator of the Battle, if any 
 such thing should happen ; and therefor I posted myself by break of day on Saturday 
 morning on the Rear of Hamilton's Dragoons, about a Muskett shott fi-om them, 
 and had not stationed mvseLf above 3 minutes, when the scuffle begun (I say scuffle, 
 for battle it was not), which lasted about 4 minutes, and no longer ; for Hamilton's 
 Dragoons, who were upon the left wing, wheel'd to the right, thereby disordering 
 If Loudoun's Highlanders, who stood next to them, and fled towards Coll. Gardner's 
 House, upon the approach of the Edinburgh Riff-Raff Volunteers, without firing, or 
 being fired upon, and without drawing a sword. The fix Field Pieces, w^hich were 
 placed on the right ^\ing, were discharged only once, and only 1 2 platoons were fired. 
 When all was in Rout, I stayed in my station, calm & fearless, till I saw all the Dra- 
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 CULLODEN PAPERS. 225 
 
 goons quite out of the field, & the foot surrounded on all sides ; and then marched 
 off, accompanied by Lord Drummore (who lay w' G. D. & me, at M' Mathie's house 
 in Cockence all night), through Prestonpans, & through his Parks to Pinkie Mains, & 
 thence directly to Carberry ; whence we travelled very gravely by Cranston to Falla, 
 where we stopt, & awaited the G', who came thither with about 500 of the 700 
 Dragoons, accompanied by L"* Loudoun, L'^ Hume, & Geo. Drummond, who would 
 needs fight among the Dragoons, mounted on an old Dragoon horse of M' Mathie's, 
 q"* he bought for £4, Sc employed in drawing his cart. He could not get up to the 
 right to joyn Gardner's Dragoons, as he intended, betore the scuffle began, and 
 therefor joyned Hamilton's, by whom he was swept away out of the field, to his great 
 good luck, & my great comfort. He is now at Berwick, acting the part of Secretary 
 to G" Cope. I accompanied him to Gingle Kirk, and then left him on his way with 
 the Dragoons to Lauder, and traveled gravely, as I used to do, to Coldstream, by way 
 of Grindley, and came thence hither, accompanied by S'Ja. Carnagie, from Wooler- 
 houghhead to Morpeth, where I found Baron Clerk and his family, who passed 
 through this place yesterday to Durham. 
 
 I came hither with a design to be of some use to my friend in his present active 
 sphere, for which he is the only person in the Corporation who is qualified, and purpose 
 to stay with him while I can be of any use ; lodged with him as usuall ; and, thus 
 opportuned to know all that passes, possibly I may once more go out to get intelli- 
 gence into the antient kingdom, and even go as far as Cockence, mounted on one of 
 the best of his horses, attended by a servant. I am of opinion, the Rebells \,\ ill move 
 Westward into the shire of Air by way of Glasgow^ ; there to await the arrival of the 
 Ferrol squadron, and then march thro' Nithsdale to Carlisle by way of Dumfries. In 
 which case, Edinburgh & the 3 Lothians may be recover'd by a handful! of Men, with 
 whom I will go home ; and if I find I can be of no use in the City, He return to 
 Potosi, if another shoal of pestilential attorns does not come South from your Region. 
 
 The true English spirit is roused, and I'm in no pain for the issue, tho' every High- 
 land man, and all the Jacobites in Scotland, were collected under the Pretender's 
 Banner, & advanced into England. But if the French land an army from Flanders 
 near London, then the abomination of desolation encompasses our Metropolis, and we 
 are in the utmost danger how soon his reign commences ; the issue whereof I very 
 well know, and will ad%ise all my particular friends to quit the Island, unless they have 
 a mind to take the mark of the Beast on their forehead ; i. e. go to Mass, thereby 
 declaring themselves Papists ; or on their right hand, by acting for a Popish Pretender, 
 as, alas ! shoals of my poor Countrymen are doing, at the expence of being tormented 
 with fire & brimstone for ever & ever. 
 
 A letter from you, directed hither, will be a mighty solace to one who is unaherably 
 your's, 
 
 ROBERT WIGHTMAN, 
 LoDowIC: XV. 
 
 DCLXVI. 
 
 The foot are almost all prisoners, 1300 in number, together w' 60 Officers, who are 
 
 in the D. of Q ry's house; among w^hom is Coll. Hacker & Tam Lindsay, who 
 
 were thought to be killed. — Honest, pious, bold Gardner died in the field, & was 
 stript very nigh to his own house, as is said. I believe he prayed for it, and gott his 
 desire ; for his state of health was bad, & his heart was broken with the behaviour of 
 the Irish dogs whom he commanded. 
 
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 225 CULLODEX PAPERS- 
 
 No. CCLXXII. 
 
 The Same to the Same. 
 
 My Dear L.P. Newcastle, Septem^jjc' 1-4.^. 
 
 THE Ship bound for Aberdeen not being as yet failed, Lord Loudoun brings you 
 this packer, in which you have a Copy of the paper found in Hickson's Clog-bag, 
 which occasioned his cutting bis own throat in Prison on Saturday morning. He is 
 imder the Surgeon's hand, 5c v.ishes to Uve ; if the wound superat [suppurate] he 
 will recover, and probably make great discoveries of the Persons -nith whom he was to 
 traffique, who, I'm aitraid, are not a few in this town 5c county. Herewith you'll also 
 have a copy of the D. of N: Castle's last letter to y' Mayor, if I can get it copyed ; by 
 which vou'U see the state of things from an authentic voucher. 
 
 The 600 Dutch who landed at Ber^yk are on their way hither, that the whole corps 
 may be collected here. I'm sorry for it, because I think it will encourage the Rebells 
 to make an attempt upon Bemyk, which otherwise they would not have dared to do ; 
 and perhaps induce them, after they are masters of it, to try what they can do here, 
 and win have other mischievous consequences, if they get hither before our Army is 
 formed ; at the same time that it will discourage the people left for the defence of 
 Berwvk, who are only 3 Companys of Blakeney's, & the townsmen. As to other 
 particulars, I refer you to L"* Loudoun, and ever am 
 
 Innolablv vour's, 
 
 R. \Y. 
 
 Xo. CCLXXIII. 
 
 rNSTRL^CTIONS by the Young Pretender, before his March into England. 
 
 YOlJ are hereby authorized and directed to repair forthwith to England, and 
 there notiiie to mv friends, and particularly those in the North & North-west, the 
 wonderful success with which it has hitherto pleased God to favour my endeavours for 
 their dehverance. You are to let them know, that it is my full intention, in a few day^ 
 to move towards them ; and that they will be inexcuseable before God &: Man, if 
 they do not all in their power to assist & support me in such an undertaking. What 
 I demand & expect is. That as many of them as can should be ready to joyn me ; and 
 that they should take care to provide Pro%-isions & Money, that the Country may suffer 
 as little as possible by the march of my Troops. Let them know that there is no more 
 rime for dehberariou ; now or never, is the word. I am resolved to conquer or 
 perish. If this last should happen, let them judge what they &: their posterit)- have 
 
 to expect. 
 
 C. P. R. 
 
 N. B. Hickson was apprehended & put into Newgate at Newcastle, on Friday the 
 27'" of Sept', and came from Edinburgh on y* 24'\ the day after the skuifle of 
 Preston. 
 
 Xo. CCLXXIV. 
 
 Sir Andrew Mitchell to the Lord President. 
 
 Mv Lord, Whitehall, 2'' October 1745. 
 
 I HAD the honour to write to your Lop the 5''' of Sept^. Since that time the 
 
 face of affairs in Scotland is sadly altered. Sir John Cope's defeat, which leaves the 
 
 Rebels in the possession of Edinbiirgh &: of all the South Coimtry, has justly occasioned 
 
 1 2t a very
 
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 cullodp:v papers. 227 
 
 a very great alarm here. The first effect that this produced was, a run upon the 
 Bank, which is now happily stopped, by the numerous Association of the principal 
 Merchants to receive & make payments in Bank Notes ; and by it the publick credit is 
 re-established. 
 
 The King has ordered a very large body of troops, Dutch & English, with a train of 
 Artillery, to march directly to Scotland. They are upwards of gooo, and are to be 
 commanded by Marshal Wade ; besides, it is probable that more will be sent to join 
 them, as all the British troops are to come from Flanders. Who could have imagined 
 that the P.'s son landing in Scotland with 7 or 8 people, & joined by such people as 
 Kenlock-Moydart, cou'd in two months have been in possession of Edinburgh, and 
 have occasioned such an alteration in the affairs of Europe as the recalling of our troops 
 must necessarily proi. ace. 
 
 Lord Loudon was to set out from Berwick some days ago ; but as he might be some 
 time at Newcastle before he cou'd find a Ship for Inverness, I hope your Lop in this 
 time of danger will act by yourself if any opportunity offers. When he arrives, he will 
 ease you of much trouble, and I dare say will on every occasion be ready to follow 
 your advice. 
 
 As the motions of great Bodies of Troops, under old & cautious Generals, is alwavs 
 very slow, I own 1 cannot help flattering myself, that in case the Highland Rebels 
 shou'd march into England, leaving only a small or moderate guard to blockade the 
 Castle, that your Lordship may have the honour of recovering the City of Edinburgh, 
 and of relieving the Castle ; but of this your Lop can much better judge : I speak only 
 what I wish. 
 
 Every body here is sensible of what ser\ice your Lop's presence has been in the 
 North. Your influence has prevented many from rising ; and if, notwithstanding the 
 present unhappy situation of Affairs, your Lop shall be able to raise the Independent 
 Companies, ^ as to act before the Arrival of the Troops, you will have done the 
 most essential service to the Government that has in my memory been performed by 
 • any subject. 
 
 I need not mention to your Lop the unfortunate situation of this Country ; a di\ided 
 and a diffident Ministry ; the rage of Party still so strong, that they are more animated 
 against each other than against the common enemy. 
 
 Your Lop must be sensible that the late mark you have had of his Majesty's con- 
 fidence has already occasioned some reflections from a quarter, that I believe wou'd 
 rejoice if you was not able to raise one man ; but I hope your Lop's prudence, interest, 
 and address, will be superiour to all difficulties, & at last confound the malicious 
 schemes of those who wish well to themselves only. I have time to add no more, but 
 that your success is the constant prayer of. 
 
 My dear Lord, 
 
 Your most obedient humble Scrv', 
 
 AND- MITCHELL. 
 
 No. CCLXXV. 
 
 Lord Lovat to the Lord President. 
 
 My dear Lord, Beaufort, 7"" Odober 1 745. 
 
 I WAS very glad to hear, by my Cousin Macleod, that your Lop was in your 
 • ordinary good Health, notvnthstanding of the fatigue that you must undergo in these 
 confused & troublesome times. 
 
 I send your Lordship a letter from my dear Cousin, and your real friend, the Laird 
 of Macleod. And if it will be agreeable to your Lop, as it is truly to me, I shall be 
 
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 228 CCLLODEX PAPERS. 
 
 mighty glad of it ; and I shall steadfastly observe i- stand by the Terms of that letter ; 
 and whatever turn the ASairs of State may take, I shall always live with vour Lop as a 
 Neighbour, Relation, and real Friend ought to do, &: will never forget the obligations 
 I owe to vour Lop and your r<imily. 
 
 There has been several \'iilainous, malicious, and ridiculous report?, that vex'd me 
 verv much ; but as there was nothing ever out of Hell more false, 1 despise them and 
 the Scoundrels that invented them : and since the whole business, trade, and conversa- 
 tion, of manv in Inverness is, to invent and tell lies, I hope your Lop will believe no 
 ill or mean thing of me, till you have z real and iniallible proof of it ; as I am resolved 
 that this shall be my conduci: to\vards vour Lop. And if your Lop pleases, let us live 
 together as we did since vou came North, communicating to one another what news 
 we .hear, & inquiring for one another's health. 
 
 If it was not for the exce^ve pains that I have in my knees and hmbs, I would cer- 
 tainly have paid mv respects to your Lop at Cuiloden before now, notwithstanding of 
 all the villainous Iviug stories ^ reports that have been going, much to my disadvantage, 
 & a little to vour Lop's ; and I am very sure that it is the advantage of mv tamily and 
 person to be in iriendship with vour Lop, and I am resolved to obser\"e that friendship 
 in\iolab!v, if vour Lordship does not reject it, which I by no means apprehend. I shall 
 long for an answer of this letter ; and I ever am, with a very great Esteem & Respect, 
 
 My dear Lord, 
 Your Lop's affeoionat Cousin, <5c most faithful Slave, 
 
 LOVAT. 
 
 P. S. I salute mv imkind relation Duncan Fraser of Achnergaim. 
 
 *o~ 
 
 Xo. CCLXXVI. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Lovat. 
 ' ^ • CuUoden, 5 at night. 
 
 My Lord, 7" Ocr 17^5. 
 
 I HAVE yours incloseing Mac Leod's. Both Letters breathe what I should 
 expect to meet with from both, stark love & kindness. I have spent my time ill for 
 manv vears past, if vour Lop is not convinced that I wish in a ver\- imcommcn way well 
 to vour famUv ; & die drumlv times in which we now live may perhaps show it, more 
 than perhaps would be imagined. If Mac Leod has told you all he knows, he has 
 gi\"en vou a strong instance of this ; & I do once for all assure you, that no accident 
 that can hapen will divert me from pursueing the resolutions which I was possess'd of, 
 as you well know, with respect to your Lop, 30 years ago. I mightily approve of 
 voiu- purpose of conforming vourself to the resolutions of the friends you speak of; as 
 vou know for them I have the greatest respect. The tales you have b^::. .. ught 
 not to make anv impression on vour Lop, as thev have made none upon me, turiher 
 than to induce me to take that sort of care of myself, without which I should have 
 been laugh'd at. I was ver\^ sory to hear that the cold weather had affected your Lop. 
 Upon the sudden change you ought to have been more carefull ; but the cold bath, 
 & abstaining from cold air, will certainly remove your complaints. If you have any 
 occasion for the lazv^ D', tho' I have some occasion for him, he shall attend you. If 
 I hear anv thing that is new, which I do not look for for some days, as the communica- 
 tion is intercepted, vou shall hear from me. ^ly Compliments to my Pupill the Master. 
 I am, with wishes that have remain'd almost from my Cradle, 
 
 Yours, &:c. 
 
 No. CCLXXVn.
 
 CULLODEN PAPERS, 129 
 
 No.CCLXXVII. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Lovat. 
 
 My Lord, '_ Culloden, ii'" Oct' 1745. 
 
 AS you desired I might give you notice of any thing new that comes to my 
 knowledge, I send you this Note to let you know that E. Loudon came hither last night : 
 a Frigate brought him to Cromertv' yesterday morning. All the News he brings is, 
 that, besides the auxiliary Dutch, & the ten British Battal lions already landed, 8 more 
 Britt. Batt'' & 9 Squad, lay actually embark'd at Williamstad, waiting a wind for the 
 north of England, befor he left Newcastle. That 2000 men from Ireland are landed at 
 Chester ; that the Troops are in full march northwards, with some Reg" of Horse & 
 Drag% all to be commanded bv your old acquaintance M. Wade ; that there is a pro- 
 digious spirit up among the Nobility & Gentry of England, severall of whome are by 
 permission levvong Troops & Reg" of Horfe at their own. expence ; & that the anger con- 
 ceived at our unhappy Countrymen who have given this disturbance is extreme. That 
 what my Lord says is truely his belief, I do not at all doubt ; & I must confess, I further 
 believe that what he says is true. I heartily wish your faith were such as mine is ; it is 
 not yet too late. Nothing can equall the concern I have for your Loj5's family, but the 
 Joy it would give me to be the instrument of saveing & doing it good. I write this 
 freely, because you, I hope, believe me a sincere well-wisher. My service to the 
 Master. I hope to hear that your Complaints are vanished. I am, without ceremony. 
 
 Yours, &c. 
 To my L'' Lovat. 
 
 No. CCLXXVin. 
 
 Lord Lovat to the Lord President. 
 My dear Lord, 
 
 I RECEIVED with great pleasure the honour of your letter ; & I'm exceeding 
 glad to know that your Lop is in great health and spirits. I am so unlucky that 
 my Condition is the reverse ; for I have neither health nor spirits. I have intirely lost 
 the use of my Limbs ; for 1 can neither walk nor mount a horseback with the help 
 of three or four men, which makes my Life both uneasy and melancholy. But I 
 submit to the will of God. 
 
 I am very glad that my relation and friend the Earl of Loudon is come safe back to 
 this Countr)^, after the great danger he was in. I have great reason to love and honour 
 him ; for, besides his own merit, I was in intimate friendship & comeradship with my 
 Reladons the Earl of Loudon his Father, who was certainly a wise and great Man ; 
 and with his worthy Uncle, the General, with whom I liv'd as with a Brother ; so 
 that I have great reason to wish this Earl very well ; and I humbly beg of your Lop 
 to make my CompUments to him. I am sorr\' tliat my faith is not the same with your 
 Lop's ; but I hope our friendship for one another will always be the same ; that is, full of 
 sincerity and affecdon. As to the Earl's news, I am sorry that the people of this Country 
 will give it only such Credit as your Lop will give to the News that I send you from the 
 Highland Camp. A man told me yesterday, that he saw a Gentleman immediately 
 come from the South, who assured that there were 10,000 French landed in England, 
 and the Chevalier's second Son with them. This is an Ardcle that I truly do not 
 beUeve myself; but there is another piece of news, that I had from pretty good autho- 
 rity. That the Duke of Beaufort, Sir Watkins William Wynne, and JMorgan of 
 
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 2-^0 CfLLODEX PAPERS. 
 
 Trade^n, have put up a Standard, and are already 6,cco strong, to join the young 
 Adventurer. This I know vour Lop will not believe, tho' the Earl of Loudon must 
 have heard of it. That there is a great spirit through all Scotland for this young 
 Gentleman, is ver\- manifest. All the Gentr\- in the Shires of Bamf, Aberdeen, Perth, 
 and Stirling, are in motion to join the Prince, as they call him. Your Cousin, old 
 Lord Htsligo, was last week at Perth, with loc Gentlemen well equipp'd, going to 
 ioin the Hiehland Armv. There are four squadrons formed already at Edinburgh, all 
 "of Gentlemen and Freeholders, to be a Life Guard to their Prince, commanded by 
 Lord Elcho, whom I never saw, tho' he is my very near Relation. Sir James 
 Campbell, of Auchinbreck, and other Gentlemen in Argyleshire, have march'd with 
 1 200 Men to join the Highland Army ; and without all doubt the Spirit of the most of 
 Scotland is manifestly for that voung Adventurer ; so that he is much wiser than I, 
 nav I think he must be a real prophet, that can tell which of the sides will carry. 
 
 I am verv sorrs" that this spirit is come to so great a height in this Country- ; for the 
 Clanchattans rendezvousing to go and join tie Highlanders has so intoxicated my 
 people, that I find it morally impossible for me to stop them. The oldest Men, that are 
 substantial Teimants, say, that they will not stay behind, to be upbraided with cowardice 
 by their Neighbours. Your Lop mav remember that I had a vast deal of trouble in 
 keepincr mv Men from rising at the beginning of this AJtair ; but no\s- the contagion is so 
 universal, bv the late success of the Highlanders, that they laugh at any Man that would 
 dissuade them from going ; so that I really know not how to behave. I wish I had 
 been in anv part out of Britain these twelve Months past, both for my health and other 
 Considerations. As a true friend is always best known in time of great need, I humbly 
 
 . beg that your Lop will give me your best advice, & forgive this freedom, which I would 
 use with no other Man but vour Lop. And believe that I am, in all situations of Life, 
 w- a sincere Esteem & great Respect, 
 
 My dear Lord, 
 Beatifort, 7 Your Lop's most affec' Cousin, 
 
 I I Oct-"' i~4.T S ^ most faithful Slave, 
 
 ' LOVAT. 
 
 No. CCLXXIX. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Lovat. 
 My Lord, Culloden, iS*^ Od^ 1745. 
 
 I WOULD have acquainted your Lop sooner of the idle attempt that was made 
 on this house in the night between Tuesday Sc Wednesday last, by my relation Foyers, 
 & some others, whome your Lordship acquainted me some time ago you could hardly 
 govern ; but that I ven.- well know it woiUd give yoirr Lop more pain than it did me ; 
 tho' no Man of common equity, who knows that they carr\-'d off my Sheep, robb'd 
 mv Gardener, & the poor Weaver who is a common beneft*e to the Country, & carry'd 
 off some of mv tenants Cattle, will immaeine that there was the least countenance from 
 any one about your Lop to this transaction ; nor should I now give you any trouble 
 on a subject so disagreeable, but that I am teased every hour with reports, that the 
 Gentlemen who fail'd of their principal aim give it now cut, that they are to pillage, 
 bum, and destroy my innocent tennants. These reports, I confess, I give no credite to, 
 knowing that I never deserved any such usage at the hands of those who are said to 
 intend it -, but as things very unforeseen ncw-a-days happen, I have judged it proper to 
 acquaint your Lop with what I hear, in full confidence that you will take as much 
 
 pains
 
 CUlLODEN PAPERS* ' 23 1 
 
 pains to prevent such hurt to me & my tennants, as I most undoubtedly should to 
 prevent damage to your Lop, or any one that belongs to you. I have no news, sup- 
 ported by such authority as is fit to convince you, whose faith is on one side stronger, 
 & on another weaker, than mine : else I should give you them. But I hear enough to 
 satisfv me, that our unhappy contentions will soon be at ane end. God grant they may 
 end with as little harm to our poor Countr)- as possible. I need not repeat what I have 
 so often assured, that I am to your Lop & your family a reall well wisher, kc. 
 
 Note. — The Caftls of Culloden, being very ftrong, & having feveral pieces of cannon on fts rampart, 
 was not to be taken by a coup-de-main. Ji- 
 
 Xo. CCLXXX. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Lovat. 
 
 My Lord, Culloden, Ocl' ip-i- 1745. 
 
 YOUR Lop's letter of the 17"' *, w^hich I received this morning, gave a smarter 
 concern than any thing I have met with of a great while. What portends no less than 
 ruin to your Lop & to your family, for which I have been so zealously interested dureing 
 the best part of my life, <Sc at the same time threatens imminent destruction to that young 
 Man in whose favours I am strongly prepossessed, cannot fail to afFeft me with very 
 sensible uneasiness ; & all the consolation I ha^■e is, in the good opmion I have of the 
 young Gentleman, and hopes thence arising, that, however violent the present sally 
 of his youthful inclinations may be, he v,i\\ consider the unavoidable effeds of his 
 rashness to your Lop, & to his family, befor it is too late. I write, your Lop per- 
 ceives, not as a Man in any Character or Employment ; but as a hearty well-wisher 
 to your family, so far as my allegiance will permit : &: in that light give me leave to 
 sav, that I carmot permitt mvself to believe, that if the consequences were duely re- 
 presented to the Master, he would persist in a resolution so dangerous & so big with 
 mischief. His birth, his fortune, his hopes (except those that may of late have been 
 put into liis head), he owes to your Lop, & must with half ane eye see that, however 
 innocent your Lop's inclinations may be, as Men are now made, his act will be imputed 
 to you ; & the consequences of that imputation, or even the suspition of it, at this 
 time of dav, & in the present situation of your Lop's health, I confess I, who, in respect 
 of him, am but a stranger, cannot think of without great uneasiness ; & when I reflect 
 on what I feel within myself, I cannot but hope that my young friend, who I'me 
 shure has parts, & I perswade myself has naturall aifecUon, will, upon serious recon- 
 sideration, drop this dangerous enterprise, if the case is but fairly stated to him. i 
 therefor wish, & earnestly entreat your Lop, without loss of time, may have these 
 things stated to him as they are : your Lop will judge of the fittest person to do it by ; 
 for my part, I know of none so proper as Tho' of Gortuleg, whose understanding is 
 equall, in my oppinion, to his fideUty to your Lop ; &: that is a bold word. I shall 
 be impatient till I hear of the success from your Lop. I am sory the idle attempt upon 
 my house has given your Lop so much pain. By a letter wliich I wrote your Lop last 
 night befor I received yours, you will see my sense of it. The people loiter'd at 
 Essich for some hours to taste my Mutton in day-light, Sc by these means were all 
 kno\\'n ; but let them do no more harm, & I freely forgive them ; only I %vish they 
 
 This Letter does not appear in the ColleSion. 
 
 would
 
 I^l ■ CCLLODEN' PAPERS. 
 
 would send back the poor Gardener & Weaver their things. And if they do not send 
 the Tennant back his Cattle, I must pay for them. The poor fellow that was wounded 
 in the foot show'd so much resolution, that, without asking him any questions, I caused 
 dress his wounds, & sent him to the place he chose to be at, with a protection for 
 himself &: his Landlord. There is advice that the 2'^ transport of British Troops from 
 Flanders are arrived at Newcastle ; so that a vast number of forces will immediately 
 be pour'd into Scotland ; the consequence whereof, to many ane unthinking Man, I 
 ver\- much dread. I am, my Lord, more than perhaps you think, your well wisher, 
 & most humble Serv', Sec. 
 
 Xo. CCLXXXL 
 
 Lord Cromertie to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 
 
 WHEN I saw your Lop last at Culodden, we then concerted that I should look 
 out for some Men, to have them in raddiness when there might be occasion for them. 
 In consequence of which, I spoke to several of my friends to know w' I might expetl 
 from them : and to others at a Distance I wrote, & us'd such arguments as I thought 
 might be most apt to exceet them to come into measures. I am sorry to hear that I am 
 misrepresented ; & that my endeavours, when I meant them for the best, are miscon- 
 strued by some ; tho' I hope your Lop, who know mv sentiments of these matters, will 
 give no credite to any idle storvs ; on the contrary, I would expect you wou'd contradici 
 them, & take my parte ag' any that, out of ill will, endeavour to assperce me. But 
 I believe there is none at this time free of being, in some shape or other, misrepresented : 
 I must take my share in a generall calamiu'. When I see y' Lop I will tell you a great 
 deall more of this then I can trouble you with in a Letter. In the mean time I beg leave 
 in this way to assure you, that I am, 
 
 w^ great truth, My Lord, 
 Tarbat, 1 9^ 00:=^ 1 - y"^ Lop's most obedient & most humble Sers^ant, 
 
 1745. 5 CROMERTIE. 
 
 No. CCLXXXII. 
 
 Lord Lovat to the L* President. 
 
 [No date; but, certainly, of the 20^^ Oct^ 1745-3 
 My dear Lord, 
 
 I RECEIVED the honour of your letter Yesterday Morning by an Express from 
 Baillie James; and, truly, the generous and moderate way that your Lop writes of that 
 base, barbarous, inhuman, and distracted attempt and beha\-iour of the Stratherrick men 
 at Culloden, rather augments my trouble of mind and vexation than diminishes it : tor I 
 could never imagine, that any man that had the honour to know your Lop, or to hear 
 of you, should be so villainous and unnatural as to hurt your Lop, or the meanest 
 person belonging to your Lop ; since your goodness and liberality to mankind in dis- 
 tress is as well known as your Name and Emplo)Tnent ; so that those that acted this 
 ^•illainous attempt and plunder has been Ruffians \nthout the fear of God or Man, 
 and they will have what they deserve some day or other. 
 
 If unhappy Foyers has been there, which I hardly can believe, he has been strangely 
 imposed upon by the greedy subtile Rogues that were \\'ith him ; for he is na- 
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 turally a weak. Man ; but tho' he was never so weak, it is a surprizing thing that 
 Foyers, whose Grandmother was a daughter to Culloden, and your Lordship's Grand- 
 aunt, should go and be witness to such a barbarin' acted against your Lordship, and 
 against your people ; it is hardly credible. I can freely declare upon honour and con- 
 science, that I never heard Foyers speak disrespectfully of your Lop, and tl;is year or 
 two I don't remember to hear him mention your name ; so that I cannot well compre- 
 hend what madness possessed him if he was there. I sent your Lop's letter to Gortuleg, 
 and desired he would communicate it to my Son, and that they would seriously reflect 
 on the horrid barbarity of this action ; and that they should order immediately to send 
 back all the plunder that remained of what they took away. I ordered particularly 
 Gortuleg to send back all your Lop's Sheep that could be had ; that I would give double 
 the value of them, rather than that your Lop should want them. I am very much 
 persuaded, that my Son and Gortuleg will use their outmost endeavours to see what 
 they can find out of the plunder sent back ; and if your Lop's Sheep c?Jinot be had, I 
 have about a hundred good fat wedders, and I shall divide them with your Lop with 
 pleasure, and send you the half of them, if you will be so good as to accept of them ; 
 and, as they say in the Highlands, Good my Common ; for I owe more obligations to your 
 Lop and to your family, than all the Sheep, Oxen, Cows, & Horses, that ever I had, 
 were worth. I did not know that there were Oxen stolen lately from vour Lop from 
 Bunchrew, till I got your Lordship's letter last night : that thieveish action has cer- 
 tainly been done by the Urquhart and Glenmorrison men, who stole your Lop's Oxen 
 before, that were tracked by your own Servants, and by my Tenants, and got back. 
 This Country is in a very bad situation, with bad neighbours both to the South, and 
 North, and West ; and in such troublesome times as we have, the Rogues thinks it is 
 their Harvest to plunder, and steal, and give themselves loose Reins. This last fort- 
 night my Cousin Wilham Struie's Uncle, that is married to Kilbokie's Daughter, and 
 who is a very honest man, and she a good Woman, had Twent)' fine Cows stolen 
 from him. The Country went upon the Tract,' and went into Lochaber, to Brae 
 Lochaber, 5; to Rennach, and came up with the Thieves in my Lord Braedalbine's 
 Forest in Glenorchy ; a much longer way from this than Edin' is. The Thieves, upon 
 seeing the party that pursued them, abandoned the Cattle and ran off; and William 
 brought home his Cattle, but had almost died, and all that was with him, of fatigue, 
 cold, and hunger ; but indeed it was the best followed Tract that ever I heard of in 
 any Country. You see, my Lord, how loose the whole Country and Highlands is, 
 when four villains durst come a hundred Miles and take up the best Cattle they could 
 find in this Country ; for they think there is no Law, and that makes them so insolent. 
 I pity all honest men that are subject to the Insults of those villains. 
 
 I beg vour Lop's pardon for this digression ; and I now beg leave to answer, the best 
 way I can, the most kind and obliging letter that your Lop did me the honour to write 
 me Yesterday ; for which I give your Lordship a million of thanks. It is impossible 
 for me to express the grateful sense I have of the vast concern that your Lop has and 
 always had for my family. I pray God reward you for it, since I cannot. Your Lord- 
 ship must own, that my present troublesome situation is to be regretted ; for you can- 
 not but remember, that I was all the Summer fully determined to go abroad for four 
 or five Years, to recover ray health & the use of my Limbs, and to pay all my debts, 
 that I might leave the best Estate in this Shire free from all incumbrances to my Son. 
 And this Prince's Landing in the West Highlands was as great a surprize to me as it 
 was to any Man in Scotland : but who can prevent accidents, or the designs of Proii- 
 dence ? It is certain, that what he has done since he landed seems rather to be a Miracle 
 than the effects of Men's heads or hands ; and how far that favourable Providence may 
 
 H H follow
 
 234 CCLLOD^N PAPERS. 
 
 follow him or conduct him God alone knows ; for he seems at present in a fair and 
 probable way of succeeding. For those of his part)- have quite diflerent accounts from 
 those that your Lop has, and their faith directly opposite to yours ; aiid I can assure 
 vour Lop without any party View" or Influence, that those that are resolved to stand by 
 him are much more numerous than your Lop imagines ; and they flatter themselves that 
 he will have succours from France and Spain, of jNIen, Money, & Arms. So, as I told 
 your Lordship before, he must be a very real prophet that can tell what side ■will gain 
 or lose ; and that makes exevy person go to the side that they love most. It is certain, 
 that almost all the Highlanders in Scotland love the Pretender, and his Interest, more 
 than they do the Literest of the present Government ; and if he be assisted bv the 
 English friends oi the Pretender, & by a Foreign Force, he believes he ■nill succeed in 
 his Enterprize. But I do solemnly declare to your Lop, that nothing ever vex'd mv 
 soul so much as my Son's resolution to go and join the Prince, and ventiu-e his person 
 with him ; and this mad resolution struck him in the head as soon as he heard of the 
 Prince's Landing ; and after what M'Leod said to him, and w hat Gortuleg said to him, 
 and what myselt said to him, I know by his answers to M'Leod, Gortuleg, and me, 
 that aU the creation will not keep him from going to live & die with that Prince. I 
 refer it to yoiu: Lop, who has a true sense of the danger of my Familv by his going 
 out, what a load and weight of grief must be upon my Soul, to see my Son, mv self, & 
 my family, in such danger & jeopardy. But I cannot help it. I must submit to the 
 Will of God, &: there I must leave it. I sent your Lordship's last letter with a clever 
 Man to travel all night, that he might deliver it to Gortuleg as soon as possible ; to 
 w hom I wrote the strongest exhortations, to entreat of him to use all his credit ik good 
 sense with my Son to dissuade him from his very rash & inconsiderate resolutions ; and, 
 for my part, as my Son only smiles and laughs at me w hen I make strong remonstrances 
 to him against his resolutions, I am resolved never to write nor open my INIouth to him 
 upon that subject. And, as God Alniight)" has at many times wonderfully delivered 
 me out of many dangers and difficulties by Land & Sea, I throw myself on his Di\-ine 
 Pro\idence, and triist mvself entirely to it ; for ii God, in his Providence, save mv 
 Estate, I do not give three halfpence for my Life ; for it is but wemsome to me & full 
 of troubles. 
 
 I beg, my Lord, that you may not be in the least apprehensive that any of those 
 Rogues, or any in my Country, go &: disturb your Tenants ; for I solemnly swear to 
 Gortuleg, that if any Villain or Rascal of my Country durst presmne to hurt or dis- 
 turb any of your Lop's Tenants, I would go personally, tho' carried in a Litter, and 
 see them seized & hanged *. So, my dear Lord, I beg you may have no apprehen- 
 sion that any of your Tenants will meet with disturbance as long as I hve in this 
 Country ; and I hope that any Son that represents me vdW follow my Example ; so 
 let Monarchys, Governments, and Commonwealths, take up fits of Revolutions 6: Wars, 
 for God sake, mv dear Lord, let us live in gocd friendship and peace together. This 
 is mv sincere wish & desire ; since it is impo?;:ble for me to forget the obligations I owe 
 your Lop & your Family ; for which reason you shall alwrays find me your most 
 aflfectionate Cousin, & faithful Slave, 
 
 LOVAT. 
 
 P. S. I grs-e my kind humble ser^-ice to mv Cousin Dimcan of Achnagairn. My 
 Cousin Baillie James, in his letter last night, tells me, that he is sorry that the Lady 
 Achnagairn disobliged me. He is highly in a mistake ; for the worthy Lady never 
 
 • This language, addressedto the first law officer in Scotland, may serve to shew the state of the 
 Highlands at that period. 
 
 1 2t disobliged
 
 eULtODEN" PAPERS. 2-55 
 
 disobliged me in her Life : but, on the contrary, was always mighty kind and ci\'il 
 to me. But Baillie James's sayiiig proceeds from a mistake that happened this last 
 week ; the Lady Achnagairn wrote to Gortulcg, to beg of me, that I should give her 
 mv protectioi^ I desired Gortuleg to give my liumble duty to her Ladyship, & tell 
 her that I was not well pleased that she should ask any other man of mv Countrv for 
 any fevor that was in my power, and not ask it of myself ; but that he might assure her, 
 that I would be always as ready to serve her, as I would be to serve my Mother, ray 
 Sister, or Daughter. This is the real fact ; so that Baillie James was mistaken when 
 he thought that I was angr\- at the Lady Achnagairn. I have not been out in my 
 Chariot these three weeks ; otherwise I would have done myself the honor to wait of 
 the Lady Achnagairn. 
 
 No. CCLXXXIII. r S 
 
 .-■- - .... -, t 
 
 The Lord President to the Earl of Gromertie. " -■ " 
 
 My Lord, Culloden, Oct' 21, 1745. 
 
 THE letter which your Lop did me the honour to write of the 1 9"' was delivered 
 to me yesterday by And. Monro ; it came to me seasonably to relieve me from abun- 
 dance of uneasiness, occasioned by very many reports to your Lop's prejudice ; to whicli 
 nevertheless I could not give credite, as they were flatly contradictory to the hearty 
 declarations of your Zeal for his Majestie's Service which your Lop made to me when 
 I last had the honour to see you at this place. But as nothing is more possible, than 
 that the very steps taken by your Lop to forward the intention which you declared to 
 me might, in this age of rumors & suspitions, be construed by those who dislike the 
 Govermnent into so many evidences of your purpose of sideing with them ; & as your 
 Lop has again assured me, that your disposition is & has been the same as you formerly 
 declared to me ; I dismiss all doubts, & leave those idle reports to be entertainment for 
 those that made them ; & I'me very hopeful! that if any such reports have found their 
 vra.j Southward (which I assure your Lop they have not from me, or bv my means), 
 what I from your Lop's declarations can sav, together with your future conduct dure- 
 ing these Commotions, which I pray God &: hope may be soon over, \\\\\ be efFectuall 
 to dissipate all surmises that have hitherto prevail'd amongst the Makers and Retailers of 
 News in this Country. 
 
 lam, with great respect, my Lord, 
 
 Your Lop's most ob'" & most humble Serv', ^c 
 
 TVo. CCLXXXIV. ' ! 
 
 From the Lord President to Lord Lovat. 
 My Lord, 25'" Oct' 1745. 
 
 PARDON the anxiety I have to know the effect of the last letter I wrote, which 
 your Lop said you sent to the Master. My good opinion of the Master's understanding, 
 & of his reguard for your Lop and for your family, gives me some hopes that he will 
 think seriously hefor it is too late ; & the necessity I am under of saying somewhat about 
 the situation of this Country, by a Vessell that is soon to sail to the southward, quickens 
 the strong desire I have to hear good news from him ; because nothing could give me 
 greater satisfaction, than to have it in my power to prevent those misfortunes which I 
 dread from his Conduct, should he persist. If what I am now doing is not sufficient 
 e%ddence of my good wishes, it is in vain to employ words to assure you that I am your 
 reall friend, & most humble Serv", &c. 
 
 H H 3 No. CCLXXXV.
 
 2^6 fCLLODEN" PAPtHS. 
 
 \o. CCLXXXV. 
 
 Lord Lcvat to the Lord President. 
 
 « 
 Mv dear Lord, 
 
 I HAD the honor to receive your Lordship's letter two days ago ; but this House 
 has been so full of ail sorts of strangers, that it was impossible for me to make ane 
 answer. Still waiting, that Gortuleg might have a good opportunity to speak to my 
 Son about the essential afiair that vou was so good as to acquaint me of in your letter, 
 in such a kind and affectionate manner for my Son and for my family, that he and I 
 would be most ungrateful monsters if we did not remember it in the sincerest gratitude 
 and strongest friendship to your Lop and to your family. Gcrtuleg declares to me, 
 that he could not yet get a ftill occasion, to speak to him thoroughly as he could wish, 
 because of the strangers that are still here, v/ho, I believe, blows him up in his folly ; 
 and Gortuleg is as much against his project as your Lop is. For my part, my Lord, 
 I solemnlv protest to your Lop, that since my Son was determined on that mad, foolish 
 proiect, I never spoke to him about it, but he always flew in my face like a wild cat 
 when I spoke to him against any of his distracted opinions ; and any thing that I got 
 done with bini was bv Gortuleg's means, who has a great deal to say -w-ith him. I have 
 earnestly begg'd of Gortuleg, within this hour, to use all his interest with him not to 
 go awav this week ; for God knows what a week may produce. 
 
 As Gortuleg told me, that he heard it whispered among the Gentlemen that were 
 here these two days ago, that Barrisdale was resolved to go to Assrnn with 4 or 500 
 men, and raise the people of that Coimtry to go with him South ; and if they refused 
 that he was resolved to destrov the whole Country. As I -w-as very much concerned 
 for Genias, and for my dear Cousin, your neice, his Lady ; I spoke to Gortuleg in 
 verv strong Terms, to tell my Son, that if he sent a man %\ith Barrisdale on that 
 Expedition, I would never speak a word to him while I Uv'd. So, as he has a great 
 friendship himself for his Cousin the Lady Genias, he easily followed Gortuleg's advice, 
 and refused to give a man to Barrisdale ; which broke & blew up that Project. I am 
 very glad in being any ways instrumental in overturning such a base inhuman design. 
 
 I wrote to vour Lop some time ago, to beg of you, as you wish'd me well, to give 
 me your advice how to behave in the distracted situation that this Coimtry is in. If I 
 knew where to go in safety out of it, I certainly would hot stay in it ; and I am so 
 unlucky with the weakness and pain in my knees and limbs, that I am not able to 
 mount 2L horseback, nor walk the length of your Garden wthout assistance, if it was 
 to save my Life. But if I was able to ride, I would be in no pain ; for I could go and 
 visit all my friends in the Shires of Murray, Ross, Sutherland, ;$c Caithness, where I 
 never was, tho' I have a great many relations in those Countr\s ; and discoursing vdth 
 different persons every other day would divert my m.elancholy, which is truly hea\-y 
 upon me at present ; and if it increase, it %\ill very soon make an end of me. I would 
 go straight to Edin', if the Highland Army was not there, and thereabouts. But since 
 I am fully resolved to have nothing ado with them, I dare not go to Edin'. So that my 
 situation is a little perplex'd ; and I again most earnestly and humbly [beg] your Loji 
 may give me your advice about it. 
 
 Gorcuieg joins with me in our most humble duty to your Lop ; and I give my kind 
 humble Service to my Cousin the Doctor : he knows, if he pleases to tell it, that my 
 Son is of a very positive, obstinate, Sc contradicting Temper. For my part, I can 
 declare, if it was my last, that I never reasoned ten sentences with him, but he contra- 
 dicted every one ; and since he has begun this affair, his Contradiction is turned to 
 
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 CULLODEN PAPERS. 235' 
 
 passion ; so that I really durst not open my mouth to him, for fear I should turn into 
 a violent passion, as sometimes 1 have, and then be guilty of some unnatural inhuman 
 Act that might be fatal to him & to me. So I chuse to let him alone. If he succeeds, 
 the whole merit v.'ill be his own ; and if his mad Enterprize bring misfortunes upon 
 him, he has himself only to blame. 
 
 All the effect that my strong Remonstrances and Intreaties, in my letter to Gortuleg, 
 to Stratherrick, had, was, to get back Eight of the Cattle that was taken from your 
 Tenant, the rest being killed before I wrote ; & faithful promises and assureances tliat 
 none of your Lop's people would ever after this be molested by those wicked Rogues ; 
 and that they would send back as much as could be got put together of the things taken 
 out of the Gardener's and Weaver's Houses. I shall long to hear from your Lop ; and 
 I ever am, with true zeal & attachment, 
 
 Mv dear Lord, 
 Your Lop's most afl'ec' Cousin, 
 
 & most Obed' faithful hum"' Serv', 
 Beaufort, Oct's;'" 1745. LOVAT. 
 
 No. CCLXXXVI. 
 
 From the Lord President to Lord Lovat. ' ' ■ 
 
 My Lord, Oct' 29, 1745. 
 
 I WAITED with much impatience for the Answer to the letter which I wrote to 
 your Lop of the 25'^ ; & yesterday, when it came, I must acknowlege it gave me 
 very great uneasiness ; chiefly as it left it extremely difScult for me, if at all possible, 
 to give your Lop what you so earnestly desire, advice. Should the unlucky Youth 
 persist in his purpose, & should his Authority wth that kindred for whom you have 
 done so much, & who with reason were so passionately fond of you, prevail over your 
 Lop's, & induce them to march, without regard to your Commands, or even to the 
 safety of your person, the case would stand in a very odd light ; & in this age of 
 jealousy & suspition, it is impossible to say what construction might not be put upon it, 
 even if a man had no enemy to improve such suspicions by hints ; on the other hand, 
 should the young Man yeild to your Lop's representations, or should your Authority 
 prevail on your kindred to desert his rash undertaking, & to save you 8c your family 
 from ruin, as they very remarkably did 30 Years ago, when they were much more 
 deeply engaged than they are at present, it is to be hoped that conduct would wipe off 
 every circumstance of suspition, & attone for any act of temerity the Master may have 
 fain into ; at the same time, that the joint force of those who in this Country are dis- 
 posed to stand by the Gov', will be sufficient to protect your Country against the 
 resentments of those who may have flatter'd themselves with the hopes of assistance 
 from it. In those circumstances, what is left for me to advise, or rather to wish, but 
 that your Lordship may prevail, either by Argument or by Authority, over the Master, 
 or over your kindred, to forsake the dangerous course to which they are disposed, and 
 to join with the gross of the North in defence of the Gov' ; in which case, nothing 
 within my power for your service shall be left undone. But should what I presume to 
 advise, & most earnestly wish, not take place, whatever my inclinations may be, I 
 greatly fear my power will not be able to answer them. What your Lop suggests con- 
 cerning time to resolve, or bring the Master to resolutions, does not depend on mej 
 that there has been so much is oweing to the winds, which have not permitted the 
 
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 238 CL'LLODEN' PAPERS, 
 
 Vessell to come up from Cromem- ; & so soon as she arrives I must write ; Sc when '1 
 do, shall be extremely sorry if I have not somewhat that is comfortable to say con- 
 cerning your Lop : & I submin to you one other consideration on the article of time ; 
 whether, as such a step as I propose, taken early, may be of infinite service, the same 
 step taken a week too late might not be absolutely useless. You see, my Lord, I write 
 widiout reserve ; you cannot do better than consult w" Gortuleg on a matter that imports 
 vou & your family so much. Company breaking in, leaves me time only to say, that 
 
 I am very much your's, &c. 
 
 Xo. CCLXXXVII. 
 
 "* Lord Lovat to the Lord President. 
 
 My dear Lord, 
 
 I RECEnTD the honour of your Lop's letter late last night, of yesterday's date; 
 and I own that I never received one like it since I was bom ; and I give your Lop ten 
 thousand thanks for the kind freedom you use with me in it ; for I see by it, that, for 
 mv misfortune in having ane obstinate, stubborn. Son and ane ungrateful Kindred, 
 my family must go to destruction, and I must lose my Life in my old Age. Such 
 usage looks rather hke a Turkish or Persian Government than like a British. Am I, 
 mv Lord, the' first Father that has had ane unduriful and unnatural Son ? Or am I the 
 first Man that has made a good Estate, and saw it destroyed in his oviTi rime by the 
 mad fooUsh actings of ane unnatural Son, who prefers his own extra-vagant fancies to 
 the solid adN-ice of ane affectionate old Father ? I have seen instances of this in my o-«ii 
 time ; but I never heard rill now, that the foolishness of a Son would take away the 
 Liberty and Life of a Father, that lived peaceably, that was ane honest Man, and well 
 inclined to the rest of Mankind. But 1 find, the longer a Man lives, the more wonders 
 and extraordinar)- things he sees. 
 
 Now, my dear Lord, I beg leave to tell you my Mind freely in my turn. I thank 
 God, I was born with yerv little fear. In my greatest difficulries and dangers, by Sea 
 and Land, and by God's assistance, I often saved my Life by the firmness and sted- 
 fasmess of my resolurions ; and tho' I have now but a hftle remains of a Life that is 
 clogg'd with'infirmiries and pains, yet, by God's help, I am resoh-'d to preserve it as 
 lono- as I can ; and tho' mv Son should go away with the young people of his clan, yet 
 I'll have six hundred brave Erasers at home, many of them about my own age, that 
 will lose the last drop of their blood to preserve my person. Since I am as peaceable 
 a subject as anv in the Kingdom, and as ready to pay the King's Taxes, and do every- 
 thing else that a faithful subject ought to do, I know no Law or Reason why my person 
 should not be in safet\-. 
 
 1 did use, and will use, the strongest arguments that my reason can suggest to me 
 with my Cousin Gortuleg, that he may repeat them to my Son ; and if they should 
 not prevail, is it just or reasonable that I should be punish'd for the faults of my 
 
 Son? 
 
 Now, mv dear Lord, as to the Ci^'il War that occasions my misfortune, and in 
 which almost the whole Kingdom is involved, on one side or other ; I humbly think 
 that men should be moderate on both sides ; since it is morally impossible to know the 
 Event. For thousands, nav ten thousands on both sides, are posirive that their own Party 
 will carrv ; and suppose that this Highland Army should be unerly defeat, and that 
 the Government should carry all in Triumph, no Man can think that any Eling upon 
 the Throne would destroy so many ancient good Familys that are engaged in it. 
 
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 King Williaui was as great a King, as to his knowledge of Government and Poli- 
 ticks, as sat for many hundred years on the Throne of England ; and when his General, 
 who was one of the best in Europe, was defeat and forced to run to save his Life, and 
 all his Army routed at Killicrankie by a handful of Highlanders, not full 2,000 in 
 number, King "William was so far from desiring to extirpate them, that he sent the 
 late Earl of Braedalbine, with .^25,000. sterling, as a compliment to them ; and sought 
 no other return nor condition from them, but that they should live peaceably at Home. 
 IVIy Lord, we cannot imagine, that, tho' the Highlanders should be defeat at this Time, 
 and mor-t of them killed, and the Government full master of the Kingdom, that any 
 administration would be so cruel as to endeavour to extirpate the whole remains of the 
 Highlanders. Besides, it would be a dangerous enterprize, which neither we nor our 
 Children would see at an End. I prav God, we may never see such a scene in our 
 Country, as subjects killing and destroying their fellow-subjects *. 
 
 As your Lordship's family and mine has always lived in great friendship together, 
 and that I have not only a particular experience of your Lop's good friendship and 
 great service done me, but likewise of the goodness and friendship of your worthy 
 Father tow^ards me, and of your brave Brother, who was my intimate and faithful 
 friend, your Lop may be assured, that while there is a drop of blood within me I will 
 be a most faithful friend and servant to your Lop's family and person ; and who know^s 
 but Providence may give me ane occasion to show the gratitude I owe to your Lop, & 
 to your W'orthy Father & Brother ? • ,.,^, M,,-,'. r ,; , . ■ 
 
 I hope your Lop has not forgot, that in the year 171 5, when the Rebellion was 
 great and dangerous, I did more effectual good service to this present Government 
 then any Lord Barron in Britain ; for which I had three letters of thanks from the late 
 King, my good Master, and a favorite of his present Majesty when he was Prince of 
 Wales and Regent, and received Marks of his favour. I think the remembrance of 
 that should have some regai'd for ane old infirm Man ; and it is my belief that I will 
 be still safe under the Protection of my Lord President, while he has the full power 
 and command of the North of Scotland. I beg leave to assure your Lop of my most 
 affectionate Respects, in which Gortuleg joins me ; and I ever am, with zeal and 
 attachment, , ; 
 
 My dear Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most affectionat Cousin, 
 
 & most obedient faithful humble Servant, 
 Beaufort, 30'" October ) LOVAT. 
 
 J 745-) 
 
 * It is certain, that the news of the battle of Preston Fans very much changed the ide.^.s and language 
 of Lord Lovat. 
 
 There is extant a printed copy of a letter, chiefly verbatim the fame as the above, and principally dif- 
 fering in tills, viz. After the coneliision of lliis paragraph, the printed one omits the rest of this letter ; and 
 concludes with the following paragraph, which, as it is not in the original letter (extant as all the others 
 now offered are), must be a forgery : — " For my part, my Lord, I am resolved to live a peaceable Subject 
 " ii' my own House, and do nothing against the King or Government ; and if I am attack'd, if it was by 
 " the King's Ciuards and his Ciptain General at their Head, I will defend myself as long as there is breath 
 " in me; and if I am killed here, it is not far from my Burial-place ; and I will have, after I am dead, 
 " what I always wish'd, the Cron.ich of all the women in my Country to convey my Body to the Grave ; 
 " and that has been my ambition when I was in my happiest situation in the world. 
 ' •' I am your Lordshiji's, &:c. 
 ^ E rt, October. «' (Signed) B T." 
 
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 240 . CULLODF.N" PAPERS. 
 
 Xo. CCLXXXVIII. 
 
 Copie Memorandum to M' Donald Fraser*. 
 
 Nov. 4, 1745. 
 THE President told me the reason he had sent for me was, that he knew me to be a 
 zealous and an imsuspected friend to my Lord Lo\-arand his Familv ; that the last letter 
 he had from his Lop convinced him that what he had wrote was misunderstood ; at the 
 same time, that in the present conjundure, it was somewhat too deHcate, to attempt to 
 set the mistake to rights by a letter ; that my Lord Lovat was pleased to construe the 
 expression of his concern for the danger to which his person 5c fennly must necessarily 
 be exposed, should the Master hurni- awav the Clan into the present L^ndsrtaking against 
 the Gov\ as a threatening ; as if, after so long an acquaintance, he had net known my 
 Lord better, than to think him capable of being bully'd ; &: that therefor he chose, by 
 word of mouth, to deliver to m.e, what he wish'd my Lord should know 5c consider. 
 He said, it was demonstratively clear, as far as demonstration could take place in such 
 Cases, that no weight of interest whatsoever could prevail with the Gov" to act gently 
 with such as, contrary' to their expectations, took Arms against them upon this occa- 
 sion ; that the errors of the Master would in all Ukelyhood be imputed ; that a Parlia- 
 ment ■was sitting, which had already suspended the Habeas Corpus Ad ; & might pro- 
 ceed to make other Laws, the effects whereof could not easily be foreseen ; that one step 
 further than had been already taken would put things beyond any possible remedy, to 
 him known, except a totall subversion of the Gov- ; which, as things at present stood, 
 was the most unlikely of all events ; that an inmiediate alteration of Measures, and the 
 Master's desisting toolly from his enterprize, considering his youth, could not fail to 
 procure forgiveness, if the matter was prcperlv represented ; and that the Necessity of 
 making such a representation now, or not at all, was what moved bim to write to ray 
 Lord the Letter which his Lop misconstrued ; that he is now to send off to London, 
 by Sea, dispatches, in which the state of this Country must be described ; that if my 
 Lord shall not enable him to sav anv thing that is favourable, he must make the repre- 
 sentation such as it is generallv believed to be. & as it appears to him ; that if my Lord 
 would have him charge the Motions of the Clan upon his Son, he will give that Ace' of 
 the matter as received from his Lop, and will make every other representation for him, 
 that shall be competent widi truth and his alledgance ; but that what would give him 
 the greatest satisfaSion would be, to be enabled by his Lop to assure the Gov^ that his 
 Lop has quieted all the motions amongst his people that threatened to give any disturb- 
 ance. He further said, that the Ship must sail in three Days at furthest ; which was 
 the reason why he was so earnest to see me ; as any resolution that came thereafter 
 would come too late. 
 
 The above is the Substance of the President's Communication to M" Donald Fraser, 
 for Lord LoA^at. 
 
 Xo. CCLXXXIX. 
 
 Lord Lovat to the Lord President. 
 Mv dear Lord, 
 
 MY old Chaplain, Mr. Donald Fraser, is with me ; who tells me, that he had the 
 honour to see vour Lop two davs ago, and that you was so good as to expre^ youi 
 kind and real friendship for my person and Family. I have great Experience of your 
 Lop's generous friendship to me and to my Family, since ever I had the honour to be 
 
 * C'naplaia to Lord Lovat. 
 
 known
 
 known to you ; and I do sincerely assure your Lop, that wliile I have a minute to h've,. ■ 
 I will have a most grateful remembrance of your Lop's goodness and your family's friend- 
 ship towards me ; and I'm still in great hopes, that in the present most cruel situation 
 that I am in, your Lop's friendship will appear more essentially for me than ever it did ; 
 since I have now more need of it than ever I had. As to my condition, the sincere mat- 
 ter of fact is, that whenever it was known in the Highlands, that the Venturer Prince, 
 the Son of the Pretender, landed, a sort of Madness seized all the West Highlanders 
 with ane eager desire of joining him. The contagion soon spread ; it came at length to 
 my Country ; and many of my people, on both sides of Lochness, were infected w-' it, 
 and fully resolved to go oft" then, if my precise authority had not stopped them ; which 
 cost me a vast deal of trouble and pains, and to my chief doer Gortuleg ; which I did 
 communicate to your Lop at that time. Foyers and Kilbokie, whose familys always 
 used to be the leading fainilys of the Clan on both sides, were the madest and the. 
 keenest to go off"; and when they saw that I absolutely forbid them to move or go out 
 of the Country, they drew up with my Son, and they easily got him to condescend to 
 go at their head. The whole Gentlemen followed their example, and the Commons run 
 the same way that the Gentlemen did ; so that I was left a contemptible old infirm fellow" 
 in my House, and no more notice taken of me than if I was a Child ; so that if I had 
 been able to travel, I had not stay'd a Night in my House after the beginning of my 
 Son's operation with his Clan ; and this I told your Lop in one of my letters. If that 
 does not exoner me, I know not what can. Ane other strong argument your Lop may 
 make use of for me is, that I spoke and sent Emissaries to those that I thought had loved 
 me most of my Clan ; and in spite of my Son's endeavours, and his Captains, I have 
 got a Regiment of good men to stay at home, and most of them pretty fellows, tho' 
 some of them is betwixt 60 & 70 years of Age. So that, tho' I had ten thousand lives 
 to save, I could do no more in this aft"air to save myself than I have done ; and if the 
 Government would punish me for the insolent behaviour of my Son to myself, and his 
 mad behaviour towards the Government, it would be a greater severity than ever was 
 used to any Subject. Since I have not strength to mount a Horseback and leave the 
 Country, I am resolved to live quietly and peaceably in my own House, and be a faith- 
 ful subject to the King, and observe & obey the laws of my Country. And to let your 
 Lop farther see my sincere Resolutions of encouraging no disturbance, but on the con- 
 trary to keep the Country peaceable and legall, I intend to list 200 of my Men that 
 stays at home, and put pretty Gentlemen at their Head, that they may watch & guard 
 the Country from all Robbers and Thieves, and loose men that come from the High- 
 land Army ; and to seize them, and to send them to Inverness. By this project I hope 
 to contribute to the preservation and peace of the Country, as much as any two Inde- 
 pendent Companies that are at Inverness. I hope this will not be disagreeable to your 
 l,op that wishes me and my country well. I know your Lop has and will have more 
 power than what would save me, and ten families like mine ; otherwise the King and 
 Governntent will be most ungrateful to you ; for your Laj5 has done more service to 
 King George, and to his f;\mily and Government, than if he had ane Army of 5,000 
 men in the North. For if it was not for your Lop's great Zeal, extraordinary and un- 
 heard of adivity and fatigue, the Venturer Prince would have 10,000 before he went 
 South, instead of Two ; and with that number would have marched straight to Lon- 
 don without any opposidon. So that the King owes more to your Lop on this occasion 
 than to any subjetl: in Britain ; and I do assure your Lop that the King's Enemies arc 
 very sensible of it ; and that you are more obnoxious to their hatred and revenge, than 
 any Man on Earth. I wish with all my Soul that you may always escape the fury of 
 their resentment, till you are hnppily and gloriously out of their reach ; for my good 
 
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 •wishes wiil attend your Lop -wherever you are ; and I have firm hopes, that your Lop, who 
 has saved the Government In the North, by bringing in so many brave families to sers-e 
 the Kino-, that vou would be so good as to save one family that was always friends to 
 yours, and an old infirm IMan whom your Lop saw behave well enough in the King's 
 Service against the Rebells. I will truly expect this great mark of your Lop's friend- 
 ship ; and I ever am, in all conditions of Life, with unalterable attachment, gratitude, 
 & respect, 
 
 Mv dear Lord, 
 Your Lop's most aflectionat Cousin, 
 and obedient and most faithful humble Serv', 
 Nov. 6% 1745. LOVAT. 
 
 P. S. Your Lop must be informed, that my House and Green has been like a Mar- 
 ket-place for sometime past ; and my Son was such a fool, that he entertained and does 
 entertain ever^- man that he thinks favours his part, and he is ten times more master 
 of this House than I am ; but I have resolved from the beginning, and still continue firm 
 in mv resolution, let them do or say what they vnll, I will never black paper with them ; 
 and as soon as ever I am able to travel out of this house, I'll stay no longer in it ; for 
 I am do^s-nright killed with vexation of heart and spirit, to see my health much hurt, 
 my family in danger, and any IVIoney and Rent I have, foolishly spent and squandered 
 awav. There is no help for it ; I must submit to Di\TQe Pro\idence. Sly Cousin 
 Bailiie James acquaints me, in a letter, that he has a young James. I give your Lop 
 and mv Cousin Achnagairn jov. I love my Cousin Bailiie James much, and I have a vaft 
 reo-ard" for his Ladv, who I tlunk has a great deal of Merit. INI" Donald Fraser & other 
 two Gendemen heard me say the strongest things this Day to my Son that ever a 
 Father could sav to a Child ; but got no other satisfaction but insolent contradiction. 
 The Earl of Cromarty & Lord M'Leod came here this Night, and a Battalion of the 
 IM'Kenzies crossed the Ferry of Bewly this Night, that he is to take South with him ; 
 and as manv more of the INIackenzies will go South in a day or two ; so your Lop sees 
 that the wise & worldly people of the iVl'Kenzies are infected ; so that it's no wonder 
 that the Frasers, that were never thought worldly or wise, should be infected \*"ith a 
 Contagion, tho' never so foolish and dangerous. I prav God, that their Madness may 
 not overturn mv family ; & I shall be very easy about the rest, either as to myself, or 
 to my unnatural Son Sc Kindred. 
 
 Xo. CCXC. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Lovat. 
 
 My Lord, Culloden, 8 Nov^ 1 745^ 
 
 I HA\T just received the Letter which your Lop did me the honour to write to 
 me yesterday, after conversing with Mr. Donald [Fraser] . The representation vshich yotir 
 Lop makes, I shall fairly transmitt, if your Lop insist on it ; tho' with verj^ great concern 
 for the unhappy young man. But I should not act the part of that reall friend I have 
 always profess'd to be, if I did not freely express to your Lop my apprehensions that 
 the account given will not answer the end proposed, & which I so earnestly wish, the 
 preservation of your Lop's family. The aSection of your Clan, & their attachment to 
 you, in the year 1 7 1 5 & downward, will be remembered ; it will not be easily beheved, 
 that your Lop's Authorit)- is less with them now, than it was at that time ; it will not 
 be credited, that their engagements or inclinations were stronger against the Gov', when 
 
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 CULLODE\ PAPERS* 243 
 
 the present commotions began, than they were thirty years ago when the Clan was at 
 Perth. It will be alledged, that the people were not universally forward to enter upon 
 the present spot of work ; that many of them were reluctant, h some actually threatened 
 & others forced into the service ; & I do not know whether, if jealousy were to pro- 
 mote ane inquiry, many Circumstances might not come out which I choose not to think 
 of. Si hope never to hear of. These considerations, I must confess, fill me with great 
 uneasiness, which I must ever feel when any danger threatens your Lop or your family, 
 which my abilit}'s or interest cannot avert. My errand to this Country was, to preserve, 
 if possible, the peace, & to exert the little credite I had with my friends & Countrymen 
 to prevent their ruining their familys. I am vain enough to think, with your Lop, 
 that my endeavours ought to give me some weight with the Gov', tho' far short of what 
 you imagine. I doubt not at all but I should have interest to prevail with them to 
 overlook the indiscretions already committed by the young Man ; but should he actually 
 carry away the Clan into the Rebellion, that very event would lessen the credite of my 
 endeavours in this Country, & prevent the effect of any intercession on my part for your 
 Lop, for whom my partiality is so well known to his present Majestie, from the days 
 that he was Prince, &; to such of his Ministers as were men of business in his Father's 
 reign, when your Lop's interest stood in need of the small assistance I could give. I say 
 not these things as declining to do your Lop every Service that a sincere friend & ane 
 honest man, consistent with his alledgance, can perform; but to prevent your Lop's 
 laying stress on my ability to serve you further than it truely can bear ; & I do it the 
 rather, that it appears to me your Lop does not at present see the necessary & natural! 
 consequences of things with the same clearness of sight as heretofore ; for example, to 
 obviate all jealousy of your Lop's conduct, you propose to keep a guard of 200 Men, 
 to watch & preserve the peace of the Country. Now tho' this (were the Clan to remain 
 quiet at home) would be a very commendable purpose, and what the Gov* 
 would very readily bear the expence of, yet I submit it to your Lop, whether, if the 
 rest of the Clan go into Rebellion, that guard can be looked on with a favourable Eye 
 by the Commanders of His Majefly's Troops in this Country ; & whether I should not 
 draw even myself under suspicion, if I pretended to justify the keeping them afoot. 
 For God's sake, my Lord, think of these things ; & believe that what I express are the 
 genuine sentiments of a considering man, & of a reall friend, who wishes nothing more 
 earnestly than to pull you out of all your Difficulties. If your Lop understand what I 
 now write as it is meant, I need no argument to persuade you, that I am your faithfull 
 friend, & most ob' humble Serv', &c. 
 
 No.CCXCI. 
 
 Lord Lovat to the Lord President. ' ' 
 My dear Lord, 
 
 I RECEIVED with the utmost gratitude and sincerest thanks the letter that your 
 Lop did me the honor to write to me by the Bearer ; and I beg your Lordship a 
 thousand pardons for keeping him so long. But my House was so throng, by the 
 Earl of Cromarty's being in it these three or four days past, and the Officers of his 
 Reg', that are going South, and several other Gentlemen, that I had not a minute to 
 myself till the Earl of Cromarty went away. 
 
 It's impossible for me ever to forget the singular marks of friendship your Lop has 
 given me in these dangerous and troublesome times ; and your most generous and kind 
 friendship in your endeavours to serve my family, and to keep back that unhappy and 
 
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 244 - CULLODEK PAPERS. 
 
 obstinate yonth from going South, and engaging in ane Affair so ver\- dangerous fcs 
 his person and famih". I have still hopes, -when his eyes are opened, that he will have 
 a true sense and ackiiowledgement of your Lop's kind and geiierous friendship towards 
 him ; and for my part, my dear Lord, I do frankly assure vou, that my gratitude for 
 your Lop's repeated acts of Goodness towards me shall last as long as my life. 
 
 As soon as I received your Lop's Express, I called for my Son and Gortuleg to 
 speak to me ; and after having made the strongest remonstrances, the returns I got 
 put me into such a passion, that I had almost done ane unnatural thing that certainly 
 I would repent of all the days of my life. In short, there is no retrie^-ing of that mad 
 young Man : he will go with all those of his Clan that he can get ; but I am sure he will 
 leave a great number of the best of my Clan behind, and all the Gentlemen past fifty ; 
 so that there is a very good Battalion left at home, as they pretend, to live and die 
 with me. I can make no judgment of the Armvs in the South, nor of their situation, 
 for I never went the Carlisle Road to London ; but if the troublesome Prince have 
 near so good ane Army as his friends give out, it will be a very difficult thing for 
 INIarshall Wade to force them to fight in those hilly Countr^s ; for they are positive 
 that he marched from Edin'^ with Eight thousand good Highlanders, besides those that 
 are upon the Road to join him. He had several thousands of low Country Gen- 
 tlemen, and Commons, that marched with him ; and as their Game is desperate, they 
 ■will certainly fight, especially the Highlanders, and beat double their Number of English. 
 ^Militia, even tho' mix'd by regular troops. So that the Fate of the next Battle is very 
 doubious. Those of the Highland Partv^ that were here are ridiculously uppish ; they 
 say, that if the Prince had stay'd eight days longer at Edin', he was to send t\'. o thousand 
 Highlanders, with a Train of Artiller}-, to demohsh the Castles of Inverness and Cul- 
 k)den, &:c. That he told those who were soliciting him on that affair, that as soon as 
 he was anyways settled in England, he would send 3,000 men to chastize his Enemies 
 in .the North. They say, that the only thing brought him from Edin' was, the pressing 
 Invitations he got from his friends in England ; who begg'd of him to march up 
 towards London, and that they would declare for him. So that he is in great hopes 
 of success, tho' he should get no succours from France or Spain ; which he says he 
 is sure to recen-e, and expects them everv dav. They say, that there is another great 
 Ship within these few days landed at IVIontrose wiih ^loney. Arms, and Ammimirion, 
 and twenty French Officers ; and that they carried over a Man of great consequence, 
 that wears a Star on b"s Breast. Thev sav, that it is the Duke of Berwick, or his 
 Brother, INIy Lord Fitz James. They are both Lieutenant Generals of the King o£ 
 France's Army, and both of great reputation. Those Gentlemen likewise told me, 
 that the Earl of ]Moray and the Earl of Lauderdale have gone into their Prince's Ser- 
 vice. This is all the News and accounts that I could hear from them. I was both 
 surprised and mortified, that in the letter your Lop did me the honour to write to me 
 before the last, you seemed not pleased that I should propose to list 200 good 
 men of my CJan, that I have staved at home, to preserve my Coimtry or my person,, 
 if I was attack' d, and to take up all Thieves, Rogues, and Villains, and to send them 
 into Inverness. I flattered myself, that this little project would have pleased vour Lop ; 
 but since it has net, if your Lop and the Earl of Loudon %vill give me vour words of 
 honour that I will not be molested, or my Country, but that my person, and those of my 
 Clan that have stay'd at home in spite of the Endeavours of my Son and his partisans,, 
 shall be safe in their persons and effects ; then I will give, not only my word cf honcur,. 
 which is dearer to me than my Life, but any other engagement your Lop pleases that is 
 in my power, that sis men shall not appear in Arms in mv Countrv, except a very 
 few that will be in the HiUs to guard their Caule. I huuiblj beg"your Lop may let 
 
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 CULLODEV PAPERS. «45 
 
 me know if this proposition be agreeable to your Lop and to the Earl of Loudon ; to 
 whom I olier my most humble duty ; for I would most heartily do any thing in my 
 power to please your Lop ; since I always am, in spite of all the troubles that hap- 
 pened or can happen, with a sincere attachment and respect, 
 
 My dear Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's most affec' Cousin, 
 
 And most obedient faithful humble Servant, 
 Beaufort, Nov' loth 1745. LOVAT* 
 
 No. CCXCII. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Lovat, dated 1 1 "' Nov. 1 745.. ", 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 THIS morning I received your Lop's letter of the i oth, and observe with very- 
 great concern that you have not been able to prevail with the Master or his Advisers- 
 to relinquish their desperate course. If such ridiculous intelligence as the Highland 
 Gentlemen entertain them with can be credited, it is vain for those, who sincerely 
 wish they may recover their senses, to attempt giveing any information that should 
 disabuse them ; and therefore I shall not trouble your Lop with what I further hear 
 and believe. Nor should I now vn-ite, but that it is just, to give your Lop all the satis- 
 fattion I can v.ith respect to your proposition for the security of your person, and of 
 vour people who remain, and their effects ; concerning which I could say nothing w'out 
 the consent of the E. of Loudon, who commands his Majestie's forces in this Country.. 
 And as to the first, I easily prevail'd with his Lordship to agree, that neither your 
 perfon or family shall in any degree be molested, unless express orders come from the 
 Gov' for that purpose, which I hope and pray may not be the cafe ; but as to your 
 people, I have not succeeded so well. He says, he is certainly inform'd, that violence 
 has been used to drag men out of their Beds into the Rebellion ; Sc that by the terror 
 of destroying their cattle & effects, others have been prevail'd on to list : in those cir- 
 cumstances, he insists he cannot be answerable to sulfer such as have been guilty of 
 those practices to remain quiet, neither can he abstain from attempting to fetch those,, 
 who left the Country, back again by the same means which prevail'd with them to 
 march ; but he promises to give no disturbance to any Gentleman, or Commoner, who 
 in 8 days shall return ; nor to the eifects or family of any man who has not by him- 
 self, or some of his Sons, join'd in the present RebeUion. I wish I could give your 
 Lop a more satisfactory answer, because I have the strongest desire to show that I am. 
 to yourself & your family a reall friend & Serv', &c. 
 
 No. ccxcin. 
 
 The Lord President to the Marquis of Tweeddale. 
 
 My Lord, 13"' Nov' 1745; 
 
 THE last letter I had the honour to write to your Lop was of the 10"' of Ocf; 
 by the Glasgow Man of "War that carried E. Loudon to this Country. As his Lop- 
 brought some Money, & as we had some Arms at Fort George, orders were imme- 
 diately issued for bringing such of the Independent Comp'* as were nearest, & as we-: 
 could immediately arm, together: accordingly, a Comp^ of 100 came to liis of the:- 
 Mimro's the 23'' of Oct' ; one of the like number from the E. of Sutherland the 25"' ;■- 
 
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 J., 5 CVLLODEX P.iPERS. 
 
 oae from Grant the 3° Nov'' ; one from L-^ Reay the 4'° Nov' ; and ane other Com- 
 pany from, the E. of Sutherland, of the same number, on the S'^ of Nov' : so that we 
 are at present more secure from insults in this Neighbourhood than vre xrere here- 
 tofore. When Loudon first arrived, we had our handsfuU to do. The Rebells' suc- 
 cesses at 8c near Ed', together with the numberless lyes that were told, had blown up 
 the spuit of mutiny to such a pitch, that nothing was heard of but cabalhng, & 
 fathering together of Men in the neighbourhood ; even,^ pett)- head of a tribe, who 
 «as in anv de<Tee tinged with Jacobiteism, or desperate in his circumstances, assembled 
 >.■<; kindred, 8c made use of the most mutinous to drag the most peaceable out of 
 h ' beds & to force others to list bv threatning destruction to their Cattle & other 
 '^ects • whilst we were unable to gi^'e them any assistance or protection. Loudon was 
 S" ane'open defenceless Town, with no more than 150 Highlanders of his own Reg', 
 Table to the insults of a very restless neighbourhood ; but his vigilance secured his 
 handfull of men, & the peace of that Town, untill the Independant Comp" arrived 
 ccessively • & I vras obliged to take more than ordinary Care of m\-self ; as upon a 
 tion which did me too much honour, that I obstructed more than any body the 
 Rebells' game in this Country-, they had formed a design of laying hold of me, which 
 thev attempted in the Night between the 15"^ & 16'-^ of Oct', by attacking my house 
 with a party of about 2co iVIen ; but they were repulsed, & the attempt did them 
 rather harm than good ; as it was generally disaproved of by the gross of the Country-. 
 Whilst we were m this Situation, the zeal of the Jacobites exerted itself not a Uttle : 
 manv^ Emissaries were sent North\^^rds from Ed' ; fie amongst those, Angev Mac 
 T) nell Gleno^rv's ■z^ Son, who calls himself Coll'. Mac Donald of Barisdale, & Mac 
 "D nald of K^och Muidart. By their industry' disturbance was raised which we had 
 not expected, & were not able altogether to prevent. Some Tribes, dependant on 
 the Clanchatran, such as Macgil\-ray's, JNIac Bean's, ficc. began to stir ; and notwith- 
 standino- all the means that could without force (which we had not) be used, march'd 
 to the Southward to the number of about zzo, k were as last Saturday got no further 
 than Perth. The Erasers also, in the Aird fie Strathharrick, that is, on the North 
 ade fie South side of Lochness, began to stir, headed by the Master of Lovat, who 
 bad been debauch'd by those Emissar)-s, as the Lord Lov-at affirms, & forced the 
 Kindred to take Arms, much against his Lop's inclinations, h in defiance of his Au- 
 thoritv. These Gentlemen began with blocking up Fort Augustus, by cutting off the 
 communication bet^vixt it & Inverness, & with attemptmg to surprise me ; fie they 
 have since proceeded to form themselves into regular Comp", which, it is sa:d_, will 
 consist of ten or eleven, fie may amount together to 5 or 600 men. Your Lop will 
 eisilv believe I left nothJng that was m my power undone to prevent, or at least to 
 protract, their marching ; and tho' I have not succeeded so as to make them lay 
 aside their design, vet the means used have had such effect, that they have not as yet 
 march'd out of this Countrv ; fie I have still some hopes, that if the additional! force, 
 which we look for from Sir Alex' Mac Donald & Mac Leod, come ia time, they will 
 consider better befor they leave this neighbourhood. This commotion among the 
 Frasers I did not look for ; but what surprised me more was, ane intrigue, carry'd on 
 bv means of the E. of Cromertv, to debauch the Mac Kenzies from thefr Chief the 
 Lord Fortrose, who is extremely zealous for his Majestie's Gov', fie to draw them into 
 RebeUion. This design \i-as so well masked, that tho' 1 had severall hints of it, I 
 could not' trive credite to them. The Earl ^-isited me at this place full of the strongest 
 assurances of zeal for his Majsstie, with offers of all his Men to be employed m the 
 Service- fie tho' he afterw^ds declined accepting one of the Independant Comp", 
 which "^I offered to his Son, vet he wrote me a Letter, ass-oring me, that his sole in- 
 
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 tentlon in bringing Men together was, to make out his original Declaration to me ; 
 but when it appeared that he was acting in conjunction with iVIac Donald of Lari.'dale, 
 already mentioned, who was employ'd in forcing the Men of Assint and Lr chtruam 
 into the Rebellion, all means possible were used to disappoint the design. Barisdale 
 miscarry'd in his project, & Lord Fortrose brought down some hundreds of his KintaJI 
 & Loch Carron Men, who bridled the Mackenzies \vith whom Lord Cromerty had 
 been tampering ; so that he has not been able to prevail with above 150 or 160 of 
 them to march. ^Vith those he & his Son march'd last Saturday to Urquhart, on 
 the North side of Lochness, with intent, as was said, to wait for the Frasers, & witli 
 them to march Southwards. Haveing thus given your Lop a sketch of the disagreeable, 
 it is reasonable, in the next place, to give your Lop some view of the agreeable side 
 of our situation. Lord Fortrose is as zealous as it is possible to be ; &, but for the in- 
 trigue I have just mentioned, would have had his clan intirely unanimous. He has 
 named Oificers for 1 Independant Comp- ', & the men have hitherto been placed at 
 Brahan Castle, & the neighbourhood, to prevent the operations of those that intend 
 to foment the Rebellion. When there shall be no further occasion for that Service, 
 they shall be disposed of otherwise ; &: his Lop has promised to furnish a 3'' Comp", 
 Sir Alex' Mac Donald and Mac Leod have been of vast use for preventing the growth 
 of the Rebellion: their example & influence has done much good; & as the other 
 Highlanders had flattered themselves with the hopes of their assistance, the disappoint- 
 ment exasperates them, & has made them vow revenge, v.hich by all means possible 
 must be prevented. Should the Highlanders, after they are repulsed, return in any 
 thing like a body, they have had notice to furnish rv\'0 Indepen' Comp" each ; & tho' 
 their Country is very distant, I expect them at Ins houriv. When that happens, we- 
 shall be able to check the Rebells' further recruiting. What has prevented the more 
 early arrivall of those Compy"', & retarded the raiseing of others, is, that till the 
 arrivall of the Saltash Sloop of War, vnxh. the Tender that brought the Arms & some- 
 money, we could not set about raiseing more than we could arm & pay. That vessell, 
 with the Tender, was, it seemes, detain'd at the Nore by order of the Admiralt)', for 
 Convoy, for 10 days after the date of your Lop's Letter to me of the i" of Oct' ; & 
 after she arrived at Cromerty, was prevented to come up to the road of Inverness by 
 cross winds till the 31"; since which time she has been there, takeing in waier, & 
 waiting for the dispatches which she now carries. So soon as we were possest of the 
 Arms, the necessary directions were given for bringing together theComp" I have already 
 mentioned, with a Company to be form'd of the Rosse's of Balnegown, & ane other 
 Comp* of the Grants, besides some Comp'" more, which I am endeavouring to bring 
 together for immediate service. When we are possest of this force, we shall effec- 
 tually prevent any further recruiting for the Rebells, & dispose ourselves to do what, 
 according to circumstances, shall appear to be further necessary to distress them. The, 
 service that seems to claim our first & earlyest attention is, the opening the communi-. 
 cation with, & supplying Fort Augustus, which we shall set about immediately ; & 
 the next seems to be the delivering Murray, Bamf, & Aberdeen shires, from partys of 
 the Rebells, who have come North to lexy money & raise recruits in these Countys, 
 under the direction of ane unhappy young Man, Lord Lewis Gordon : his Brother, 
 the Duke of Gordon, has not been in good health for some weeks past, & has for 
 that reason not been able to do that service to the Gov' that might have been ex- 
 pected from him ; but the Rebells have not had the least encouragement from him 5 
 & to that it is in a great measure oweing, that they make very small progress in re- 
 cruiting in places where, in former times, multitudes would have joined them. We 
 shall, however, soon 6nd ourselves in a condition to send some Independ' Comp'" that 
 
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 wav, which \rl!l prevent the cprei^^oa that is felt ia that neighbourhood, where I 
 am sjlad to be able to assure vour Lop, that, in place of what was impudendy asserted 
 bv the Rebells at Ed', th 2 Freeholders of Aberdeenshire, except four, had 
 
 join'd them, of about fou:.^ ^ Freeholders, who voted at .the last Election for a 
 member of Parliament, tw.o only join'd the Rebells. After performing those Services, 
 we shall appiv ourselves to do what shall, according to circumstances, appear to us 
 the most conducive to the putting ane end to the present Rebellion, unriU particular 
 directions shall be received from his ilajesrie, or from those that have the Command 
 of his forces ; & to the end that we may receive these with as httle ! :ime as 
 
 possible, I have prevail'd with Capt^ Pitman, of the Saltash, to make :... _-c: or his 
 way to Newcastle; droping, if possible. Letters ai Bensick for the Commander in 
 Chief of his IVIajestie's Army in the North, giveing an Account of our present con- 
 dition, Sc from Newcastle to forward the dispatches he carries, by land, to London 
 bv express. He agrees to remain at Newcastle, takeing in what provisions he 
 wants, S or 10 days, untill he may receive dispatches from London for us, 8c 
 then to return with them to this Ccimtry. I say he has agreed to those things 
 at my request, because he does not appear to have had orders to foUow such 
 directions as he should receive from me ; but, on the contran.-, by his last orders 
 from Capr Rodney, of the Ludlow Casde, -nas directed to renim to^s-ards the Firth 
 of Fonh, & to take further orders from such superior oficers as he should meet 
 with. He has however, from his zeal for the service, agreed to what was proposed ; 
 & I have given him a letter to any superior omcer he may meet with, requesting 
 that he may be permitted to proceed in the execution of what he has undertaken. 
 Now, that this mav be effectuall, what I humbly suggest to your Lop is, that Capt° 
 Pitman be ordered by the Admiralty to proceed with such disparches as he may receive 
 from voiu- Lop, from Newcastle to Inverness, & to receive directions there, from E. 
 Loudon and me, or either of us. The necessity of haveing such a Vessell constantly 
 employ'd between England & this Country, untill the communication is perfectly open, 
 is obvious ; and the reason whv I propose Capt^ Pitman for that sers^ice is, besides his 
 bdno' a careftdl officer, that he is now acquainted with this nrth, and can make better 
 dispatch than any other. The Arms which the Saltash brought us are just 1 500 
 stand ; & those, with what we had before, is Htde more than suficient to arm the 26 
 Independent Comp", supposeing them to be compleated, &: kept up to their present 
 establishment. Now, as several! Kindreds in this Countr\ have, on the present occa- 
 sion, shown their Zeal for the Gov', 5c thereby render'd themselves obnoxious to its 
 Enemvs, it seems highly just as well as expedient, at this jtmctvu-e, to trust them with 
 some Arms, that they may be enabled to defend themselves as well as they can against 
 any who mav think fit to attack them ; especially whilst the Comp-" which they have 
 fiirnish'd for his Maiesde's Service mav be employed elsewhere ; & therefor I must 
 humbly submitt it to vour Lop whether it may not be fit, without loss of time, to send 
 us down from the Tower some more Arms to be delivered out, as occasion shall re- 
 quire, from Fort George ; upon the receipt of the respective Gendemen whose Kin- 
 dreds are to make use of them, obligeing themselves to return the Arms when required. 
 Another thing which your Lop will think of is, a fiuther supply of money. L' Lou- 
 don brought some alongst with him, which has set us a going. The Saltash has 
 brought ^4000 of the money, imprest into the hands of Geo. Ross, as Agent for the 
 Independent Comp". This is all the corn we have, to answer not only the pay of 
 Troops, but all other incidents, which, considering our situation, &: the tools we [have 
 to work with, must b^ numerous, and attended with some expence. We must, there- 
 icyr, make use of the Cash we have, to answer all necessar}- purposes, without being 
 
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 confined to its originall destination ; & as all trade & crcdite is in these parts, by the 
 interuption for so long a time, now at a full stand, what I humbly submitt lo your Lop 
 as fit to be done is, that some more money may without loss of time be by sea sent 
 down to us, to be deliver'd to E. Loudon, or me, for the publick service, &c to be 
 accounted for. Your Lop may easily believe neither he nor I would choose to entangle 
 ourselves with such ane account ; but the thing seems necessary to be done, and we 
 have now gone too far to stick at any thing that is for the service. Your Lop will 
 observe, that unless the cash can be furnished at Newcastle, to come North with the 
 Saltash, it must be sent from the River. I should be to bhuTie, if i did not inform 
 your Lop, that the E. of Sutherland has shewn a very becomeing Zeall on this occa- 
 sion. The Comp*' that were expected from him were brought together, & join'd us 
 without loss of time ; & nothing in his power will, I am confident, be wanting to 
 promote the service. L'' Reay sent us his Son, with a very handsome Comp' ; & the 
 Munro's, whose situation is indeed the nearest, were, as your Loj3 will observe from 
 the I " paragraph of this Letter, the first that came in. What the Event of all our 
 endeavours may be, I cannot foretell ; but this much we have to say, that of the 
 many thousands whom the Rebells boasted they expected from this Country, after their 
 success at Prestonpans, & for whom they waited so long, no one, except Macpherson, 
 of Clunie, & his posse, have as yet join'd them ; & that, except those whom I have 
 already observed to be in motion, & of whose proceedings I have at present no cer- 
 tain intelligence, no one will in all probability be able to stir from this Neighbour- 
 hood. The case of Macpherson, of Clunie, is, that he had very lately a Capt"' Com- 
 mission in the E. of Loudon's Reg' ; he attended Sir John Cope on his march to Ins, 
 & was allowed to go to his ov/n house for a night, in order to bring his Comp'' toge- 
 ther, to join Sir John on his march. He was seiz'd by tlie Rebells that Night in his 
 house, whether with or without his consent did not then appear, nor does it now, 
 otherwise than as, after haveing been carry'd about with the Highlanders as a prisoner 
 for some Weeks, he at last listed in their service, return'd to Badenoch, &, partly by 
 perswasion, partly by violence, prevail'd with the greatest part of his Kindred, to the 
 number of about 300, to go along with him to the liighland Camp, which they 
 reach'd before the Rebells left Ed'. I have great cause to ask your Lop's pardon for 
 this very long, confused, & ill wrote letter, which I wish you may be able to read ; 
 but as I had a multitude of things to say of which your Lop will judge better than I 
 can, what was, or was not, materiall to \Se made known, I chose, knov/ing your Lop's 
 patience, to lay them all before you, that you may make the proper use of them. It's 
 possible the Vessell may be detain'd a day longer ; in that case, I shall, either by a 
 postscript or a separate letter, acquaint your Loj5 with any thing material that happens. 
 
 I am, with perfect esteem, 
 My Lord, your Lop's most ob' & most humble Serv', &Ci 
 
 No. CCXCIV. 
 
 The Lord President to M' (afterwards Sir And") Mitchell. 
 
 My Deaf Andrew, 1 3 Nov', 1 745. 
 
 I AM mortally tired with writeing a letter to the Marquis of ane immoderate 
 length, &: in a hand so like Arabick that I doubt your help will be wanted to decipher ■ 
 it ; but it was impossible to make it shorter, and I am but a bad scribe; besides that, 
 1 have much more business on my hands at present to disturb' my attention than I 
 
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 should have had, if the Rebells had permitted me to go throw the course of the Ses- 
 sion att Ed' ■when I came ilrst into this Country, tho' I •was not iust treading in the 
 path of a Chief Juftice. The prospect was very nanering, & the errand I came on 
 had no appearance of difficult}" ; but the Rebells' successes at Ed" & Prestonpans soon 
 changed die scene. All Jacobites, how prudent soever, became mad : all doubtfull 
 people became Jacobites ; & all Bankrupts became heroes, & talk'd nothing but 
 hereditarv rights ^- ^-ictorv- : &, what was more grievoos to men of gallantry, i if vou 
 will believe me much more mischievous to the pubhck, all the line Ladys, if you will 
 except one or two, became passionately fond of the yoimg Adventurer, ic used all 
 their Arcs & Industrs* for him in the most intemperate manner. Under these circum- 
 stances, I found myself almost alone, without Troops, without Arms, without money 
 or credite ; pro\-ided with no means to prevait extream folly, except pen 6c ink, a 
 tongue, & some reputarion ; & if you will except Mac Lecd, whom I sent ior trom 
 the Isle of Skv, supported bv nobody of common sense or courage. Had Arms & 
 money come when thev were first call'd for, befor these vmexpected successes blew up 
 folly to madness, I could have answered it with mv head, that no Man from the North 
 should have join'd the original fiock of Rebells diat pass'd the Forth ; and even as it 
 has happen'd, it is no small consolation to me, that, except Macpherson, of Clunie, whose 
 force does not exceed 30c, none from the North have reach'd them in time to march 
 alongst with them South^\-ards from Ed': that no more than 2co of the Clanchattan 
 have march'd, who had got as last Saturday no further than Perth : & that, notwith- 
 standing the restless endeavours of the E. of Ciomertie, the Master of Lo\-at, & others, 
 no more than 150 or 100 of the Mackenzies have been debauched, &: that even those 
 have not as yet pass'd the Coriyarrig ; no more than the Erasers, who, to the number 
 of 5 or 60Q, have flock'd to Arms, & who possibly may think bener, if the weather 
 permitt the force which we. hoorlv expect from the Isle of Sky to join us quickly, be- 
 for thev leave their Country exposed. By this diversion, his Majestie's Army will have 
 a much smaller bodv of Highlanders to deal with to the Southward, than otherwise 
 they should have had : & if a small number of Troops could be spared from it, to 
 take possession of Ed", & secure the foords on the Forth ; as on the one hand, the 
 small number of Highlanders that are marching towards Ed' could not join their 
 Brethren ; so on the other, the retreat of those who march'd towards England would 
 be cut off; but this, if practicable, has doubtless been done befor this time. As to 
 the Indepen' Comp"^, I have diqxjsed of such of them as are hitherto given with the 
 grsit^t discretion I was master of ; following this rule, to bestow them on such as 
 could be trusted, & could most quickly bring their Men together for the service. I 
 shall have a dozen of them together soon, & some more in a httle time ; and in this 
 operation I should have succeeded better, but for the foUy and roguery of mankind, 
 which finds manv ways of exerting itself. You will naturally observe, that the cutting 
 off the communication with the rest of Scotland confined the nomination of the Offi- 
 cers of these Companvs to the North. 
 
 E. Loudon's Arrivall has been a vast relief to me; his skill Sc dilligence, join'd to 
 parience and a very obhgeing behaviour, must be of very great service to the Publick 
 at this Juncture, when tiose talents are so much wanted, 8c so scarce. As I am pretty 
 much fatigued with wielding the Pen, give me leave to conclude ; but befor I do so, 
 to put you in mind, that I have hardly seen a common London print for a month 
 past ; & that any thing that vou mav be pleased to oitertain me with, ia my L" Marquis's 
 packet, will come probably safe. 
 
 I am, my Dear Andrew, truly yours, &c. 
 
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 No. CCXCV. 
 
 Lord Lovat to the Lord President. 
 My Deai- Lord, 
 
 I RECEnilD your Lop's most kind letter, of the ii'" of this Month, by the 
 Bearer ; and mv heart is as full of thanks and gratitude as any Man's can be. I beg 
 your Lop a thousand pardons for not dispatching the Bearer sooner ; but the truth is, 
 that I had almost died the night before I received your Lop's letter. I had taken, the 
 night of the lo'", mv vomit as usual ; but I no sooner was in Bed, then I was seized 
 with a most terrible sdtch in my left side. I could not speak nor draw my breath, 
 but upon the least movement I was tormented most horridly. I continued so all y' 
 night, and am very little better ever since; so that I am in a very bad way. I caused 
 rub some warm Brandy to my side before dav-light this Morning, which has given me 
 some Ease ; or then 1 would not be able to dictate this letter ; but my Stitch still con- 
 tinues ; and if it does not go off, it will soon make an end of me ; and then I'll be 
 no further troublesome to mv dear Lord President, or to any other of my friends ; 
 and the mad Youth will be then Lord Lovat, as well as Colonel of his Rebellious 
 Regiment. I do assure vou, my dear Lord, that I will not regret dying at this time, 
 that 1 may not see the Evils that threatens my family, which was always regarded as 
 arie honest brave family in this Country. I am very easy about my obstreperous and 
 unnatural Son, and the mad people that feed him in his false ambition ; but the thoughts 
 and fears of seeing the honest Family of Lovat demolish'd and extinguish'd in our days, 
 pierces my heart and soul with the most melancholy thoughts ; which would be enough 
 to kill me, tho' I had no stitch nor pains in my Body, considering what I have done 
 and suffered to restore it, and bring it out of the hands of the Mackenzies. 
 
 I give your Lop a thousand thanks for speaking to the Earl of Loudon in my 
 Favours. 1 would expect civility and friendship from his Father's Son, who was my 
 good and intimate friend. It is certain, my dear Lord, that while vou please, and 
 the Earl of Loudon, I vAW be safe and unmolested in this Uttle Hut ; for the Ministry 
 will never give a Warrant against me, or against any Man in this Country, but on 
 your Lop's representation, or the Earl of Loudon's. So that, as long as I have the 
 honor and good fortune of having you two my Friends, I'll fear no molestations in 
 this troublesome and dangerous Conjuncture. As to mv Clan, I wish with all my 
 heart that the \'illains and rascals of them that were guilty of any illegal, base, and 
 barbarous Actions were seized and severely chastized and punish'd ; but I believe 
 they are marched South, in the Regiment of that unhappy Youth, to screen them- 
 selves from Justice ; and I would be very glad that the fifth Man of them were hanged. 
 But, my dear Lord, as to the honest Gentlemen and Tenants that have stay'd at home 
 for love of me, and for love of Peace and Quietness, it would be the hardest case in 
 the world, that those honest people should be molested in their persons or effects, 
 since they have done no harm, and that they are fully resolved to live peaceably & 
 quietly vnth me in my Country, and be as obedient and submissive to the King & 
 Government as any people in the North of Scotland ; which I will answer for, or re- 
 nounce any Protection to myself or to my people from the Government. I therefcfre 
 most humbly beg, my dear Lord, you may save those poor people that staid at home 
 for love of me, notwithstanding of the Threats and Menaces that was used against 
 them. 
 
 As to what the Earl of Loudon sa) s, of dragging Men out of their Beds, to force 
 them to the Rebellion, it's what I never heard of, till I had the honour of his [your] 
 
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 Lop's letter. I truly think it was not done in this Countn-, other\\-ise I would have 
 heard of it ; and I was told every day, that the Fellows was madly inclined themselves 
 to go, without any Force. I was likewise told, that several voung fellows from other 
 Countrys came and offered themselves as volunteers to mv Son, that he never saw- 
 before. As to the news that the Gentlemen of the Highland Army endeavoured to 
 spread, they are so very foolish, ignorant, and ridiculous, that no man in his senses 
 or judgement can believe them, or take notice of them. 
 
 Your faithful Servant, and my honest Relation, Tho' of Gortuleg, has been my 
 Companion in Affliction ; for he has been since Wednesday last lying in the next room 
 to me at death's door, vvith bis old cruel horrid distemper, zn Inflamation in the Kid- 
 neys. He was let blood, which I beheve saved his Life ; for mv friend Doctor Clark 
 told me (who is much subject to that terrible Distemper), that letting much blood, 
 wlien he was attack'd with it, was the only thing that saved his Life. 
 
 Gortuleg and I, sick as we are, offer our most afiectionate and dutiful respects to 
 your Lop ; and I am, while I have any remains of Life, %\-ith imalterable Zeal & 
 Gratitude, 
 
 My Dear Lord, 
 Beaufort, Nov' 14'", Your Lordship's most affectionat Cousin, 
 
 1745. & most faithful Slave, 
 
 LOVAT. 
 
 Xo. CCXCVI. 
 
 The Earl of Stair to the Lord President. 
 My Dear Lord, 
 
 I HA\TE not heard from you since your letter of the ii"^ of October, which 
 came long ago by the Sloop. Since that time, many things have happened on this 
 Side, of Vvhich I should have ben verv glad, from time to time, to have talk'd to your 
 Lordship ; because I am very well assured, that your end and mine is the same ; nz. 
 the Greatness and Happiness of this Nation in general, and of otur Country in parti- 
 cular ; free from the hrtle Views of Partv, which have unluckily prevailed too much. 
 
 Till within these few days, I had not heard that the Sloops with Money and Arms 
 were arrived at Inverness. Till they came, and till it was a little plain how the Young 
 Pretender's Affairs vv-ere like to go at Edin', I suppose several Leaders of the Highland 
 Clans would endeavour to keep themselves in a manner unengaged, that they might be 
 the more at Liberty to follow whatever Party they should find most advantageous to 
 themselves. At present, when the Nation of Scotland sees that the Young Pretender 
 is unable, in the first place, to support himself at Edinbiu-gh, and in the next place 
 unable to force himself into England with any appearance of Success, I do not at all 
 doubt but that you will find plent)- of Highlanders, both to accept, and to fill up your 
 Comm.issions j but you v.ill soon foresee that vou are to meet with Difficulties of 
 another kind. As long as the whole was in great danger, there was no body found 
 to say, that they were not very glad that your Lordship was in the Way, to struggle 
 and to hinder the whole Highlands from falling into the Hands of the Pretender, and 
 so, by consequence, their whole united strength to be brought to lldinburgh, in the 
 Way to England, where the appearance of such an united Strength might probably 
 have encouraged France and Spain to send rery considerable Supplys of Money, 
 Arms, and Men, to their Friends in Britain and Ireland, both by Diversion and other- 
 wise. At present, when Things seem to be taking a different turn, much less dan- 
 gerous to the Public, as to the overturning the whole Machine of our Goveniment, 
 
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 you will find that the great Question will be, not what is to be done, but by whom. 
 This is what for some daj's I have foreseen ; in the mean time, I am anxious to know 
 the Steps that Lord Loudoun and you have taken, the number of Commissions that 
 you have given out, and in what manner vou have posted, and do propose to employ 
 the Highlanders raised, iuid to be raised. I should think it might be in such a manner, 
 as to cut the Communication between that Part of the Highlands where the Rebellion 
 was raised, and the Pretender in the South. I should be very glad, when I have 
 the pleasure to meet with You, to learn a great many Particulars relating to the Be- 
 haviour, both of the Clans and of particular persons in the Clans, which are subjects 
 not proper to be freely treated of in Letters ; and on my part I shall have a great many 
 curious things to say to vou. In the mean time, according to the best of my Under- 
 standing, I shall go on my Road straight ; which, God knows, has no other End than 
 the happiness and Independency of my Country, and of the King that governs us. 
 
 This letter goes by your Son, who sails from hence in a Sloop appointed to carry 
 every thing that is necessary and ready for the E. of Loudomi's Regiment. Hence- 
 forth I hope we shall have a free Communication with Inverness, and the Country on 
 that Side, by the way of Edinburgh. I am ever most faithfully and affectionately, at 
 all times and in all places, Y' Serv' 
 
 STAIR 
 
 I camiot send my Letter without telling you, that it is impossible to speak of you 
 with more Esteem, Value, and even Friendship, than his Majesty has done of you fre- 
 quently. 
 
 London, i8*Nov' 1745. 
 
 No. CCXCVII. 
 
 Sii' Andrew iVIitchell to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Whitehall, 1 9"^ Nov 1 745. 
 
 SINCE I had the honour of yours of the 10"' October, I have with the greatest 
 impatience expected the return of one of the Sloops that sailed with Arms, k^ for In- 
 verness on the 7'" October. Soon after I had the pleasure of your letter, a report was 
 spread here, that you had been atacked in the night between the 1 6"* and 1 y'^ Oc" 
 by about two hundred of the Erasers, and that your Lop was actually a Prisoner in 
 their hands. I need not tell you what concern this gave me m particular, because, in 
 general, every body that wished well to the present establishment appeared affected with 
 the news, and the loss of you was considered as the loss of the Northern part of Scot- 
 land. We were in a few days relieved from this anxiety, by the accounts of the defence 
 you made from your house, & of the Rebels failing in their attempt. I will not pre- 
 tend to guess who was at the bottom of this infamous scheme, because I am morally 
 certain, that without the consent, & perhaps contrivance, of a certain person, whom no 
 tyes can bind, nor no favours oblige, that Clan had never dared to endeavour to 
 seize your person. I need not describe to you the Effects the surrender of Edinburgh, 
 & the progress the Rebels made, had upon this Country. I wish I cou'd say that 
 they were confined to the lower sort of people; 'but I must fairly ovm, that their 
 betters were as much touched as they. The reflections were national ; and it was too 
 publickly said, that all Scotland were Jacobites ; the numbers of the Rebels and their 
 adherents were magnified for this purpose ; and he that in the least diminished them, 
 was called a secret jacobitc. Your Lop, I think, is the only person that has escaped 
 this national scourge ; but if you have escaped this, you have been attacked from 
 
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 another quarter ; the particulars of which would be so like scandal, that I am ashamed 
 to write them. Some people now begin to see that they have gone too far, and been 
 too severe ; for, after all, considering the unexpected and great success of the Rebels, 
 it begins to be matter of surprise that they marched from Scotland only joco or 8000 
 strong, St being joined bv almost nobodv of note, is likewise a proof of the Jacobite 
 interest being by no means so formidable as it was represented. I will not trouble 
 vour Lop with accounts of any thing that has happened in Scotland, as you will pro- 
 bablv be informed of them before this can reach vou. 
 
 Last Saturdav, it was said, there was an end of the Rebellion ; for, the bravery of 
 the Mavor of Carlisle had obliged the Highlanders to retreat to Brampton, 7 miles 
 N. E. of that town ; .S: that thev wou'd cerrainlv disperse immediately. This gave 
 great spirits, even to some in high rank ; but all this brave defence happened to be 
 no more than the firing a few cannon from the Walls on an advanced parr\ that came 
 to reconnoitre ; for they returned the dav after, and the lovra oi Carlisle capitulated 
 on the 15", to pay i^soco to avoid being plundered. The 2 Companies or Invalids, 
 and some of the ]\Iilitia, have retired into the Citadel, under Colonel Durand. On 
 the news of the Rebels investing Carlisle, ^l. Wade proposed to march from Newcastle 
 on Saturdav the 16"- to B^-well, on Sundav to Hexham, Mondav 10 Grindon, and on 
 Tuesday to Haltsw esel, which is about 9 miles from Brampton. He has with him i o 
 English and 8 Dutch batalions of foot, and 2 Reg" of Horse, and one of Dragoons ; but 
 I hardly believe the Highlanders will stay for him, unless they should think fit to attack 
 him on his march. 
 
 S' John Ligonier sets out to tomorrow : the Rendezvous of his troops to be at Litch- 
 field on the 25"". He has with him 9 old Batalions, 2 Reg"' of Dragoons, &: part of his 
 own Reg" of Horse. I send vour Lop a paper enclosed, with the names of the Cor{>s. 
 I am sorr\- I cannot at present give an exact list of the staffs, as there has been 
 chopping & changing among them. 
 
 The raising of 1 3 new Reg" of toot, and 2 of Horse, has occasioned great debates 
 and division in the H. ot Commons, and some severe reflections against some of the 
 noble Lords who are to command them ; tho' it is certain, that no Job was intended 
 bv those who made the first proposal ; but vour Lop knowes this Coi3ntr)' too well to 
 believe, that in the time of public danger anv man would attend to his own pri^-ate ad- 
 ^*antage, What gave most disgust was, the insisting for rank to the Officers of the 
 Corps, which is certainly a hardship to the Officers in the Army ; but that too was car- 
 ried, with great difficulty, and some Art, in the House of Commons. For the mmibers 
 in the Di^^sion, I refer vou to an inclosed copy of the most material questions that have 
 yet been moved in Parliament. 
 
 Your Lop will likewise observe in the same Paper, that an enquirj- into the Causes of 
 the progress of the Rebellion in Scotland has been moved for ; and tho' every Man in 
 the House agreed as to the reasonableness & necessitv of it, vet it was thought improper 
 to begin it while the Rebels were actually in possession of Edinburgh ; but I hope the 
 time will soon come to have that matter cleared. The Advocate, I hear, spoke well on 
 this occasion. 
 
 Mr. H. Campbell has lately moved for a Bill to indemnify the Judges for the Court 
 of Sesaon for not meeting on the i"' of Nov', &:c. 1 can find no Act of ParHament 
 that subjects them to Penalties ; but he seems to have taken Scotland under his pro- 
 tection. It is delayed for i o days, and surely never can pass in the shape it now is. 
 
 Afiairs in the House of Commons are not now carried on in the manner they were 
 when your Lop sate in Parliament ; their proceedings now are like the operations of 
 an Army composed of different nations, where all the leaders must be satisfied ; and 
 
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 where there is properly no Commander in Chief; tho' the influence of some be great, 
 yet in many points they must )ield to their new Allies, &c. In the Cabinet, I fear, 
 there is as little harmony as elsewhere ; the consequence of which must be, an un- 
 steadiness of Councils, and want of all scheme or plan of action. By this the 
 publick must unavoidably suffer ; and all the opportunities of doing good that may 
 arise, even from our misfortunes, will be neglected. But 1 hope your Lop will seri- 
 ously think of this matter, and give your opinion of what mav, of what ought, to be 
 done for our distressed Country. I am thoroughly sick of pubhck life from what I have 
 seen, and what I could not have believed had I not seen it. 
 
 I took the liberty to mention, in one of my former, M' H. Gordon, who goes along 
 with Capt" Forbes, on purpose to offer his service. His Brother says he can raise Men 
 in Aberdeenshire ; and if your Lop has not already filled up the Commissions, I once 
 more recommend him to you. He has made a campaign in Flanders, and is a de- 
 . serving young man ; and I have a great regard for his Brother & him. 
 
 As it is now very late, I shall not trouble you \\ith an Apology for the length of this. 
 My Lord Tweeddale desires his Compliments, but delays writing to your Lop till he 
 hears again from Inverness, which is expected hourly. I beg leave to offer my Comp* 
 to Lord Loudon ; and I hope you will continue to believe. 
 
 My Dear Lord, ^ 
 
 Your's affectionately, 
 
 AND-. MITCHELL. 
 
 P. S. If I had not lived long enough in England to know the natural braver)' of the 
 people, particularly of the better sort, I should, from their behaviour of late, have had 
 a very false opinion of them ; for the least scrap of good news exalts them most ab- 
 surdly ; and the smallest reverse of fortune depresses them meanly. 
 
 No. CCXCVIII. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Lovat. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I HAD the honor of your Lop's letter of the 1 9"", with an account of your Son's 
 proceedings in Urquhart, according to the Information you had received. That ac- 
 count gave me no small surprise ; and I must confess to your Lop it would have given 
 me no small satisfaction if I could have depended on its being true ; because it would 
 have been evidence of the Master's giving up the desperate cause into which he had been 
 unhappily seduced ; and so early a change, before any considerable mischief was done, 
 would, I should hope, in a reign so clement as what we have at present the happiness 
 to live under, obliterate the past errors of a youth, whose want of years and experience 
 might make him an easy prey to designing men. But then, my Lord, before I can 
 permit myself to receive ahy real pleasure from this prospect, or to depart from the reso- 
 lutions with which I acquainted your Lop in my last, I must be thoroughly satisfied that 
 the Information your Lordship received is true ; that the Master has return'd to his 
 duty ; and that all the men who had been brought together are return'd to their habi- 
 tations. Of the certaint)' of these things your Lop must be sufficiently inform'd before 
 this time ; and I have hitherto defer'd writing to your Lop on that subject, that you 
 might be able to satisfy me. I now give your Lop the trouble of this Message, beg- ■ 
 ging that, without loss of time, I may know what I am to believe and rely on in re- 
 spect to those matters ; to the end I may proceed in my resolutions, or vary them ac- 
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 cording to circumstances ; and en supposition that the men have been dismissed, and 
 are retum'd to their homes, what security I am to expect, that _they shall not again be 
 assembled to give further disturbance to his Majesty's Government? That this may be 
 effected with as little inconvenience to them, or disturbance to yovir Lordship, as pos- 
 sible, is what I earnestly \iish ; because I am, &:c. 
 Inverness, 22 Nov. 1745. 
 
 Xo. CCXCIX. 
 
 Lord Loudon to Lord Lovat. 
 MvLord, _ [Nov. i;45-J 
 
 THE first part of the letter which you did me the honour to -RTite to m.e the 22% 
 acquaintino- me that all vour people had retum'd to their homes from L^rquhart, where 
 thev had been alongst with vour Son, protecting the tenants of his Cousin the Laird of 
 Grant from the IMacdonell's, who are in Arms against the Government, gave me much 
 pleasure : because I expected, before I had done, to have read that, to so good a 
 step, the Master had added one more, the abandoning that ruinous Enterprise into 
 which his youth had suffer'd him to be dragg'd, and the giving all reasonable satisfac- 
 tion that the Government should meet with no further disturbance from your Lop's 
 Clan. But I must confess, my Lord, I was somewhat surprised, that a letter which 
 be<nm so hopefullv, should conclude with apprehensions that your Son may still persist 
 in his m.ad project, and draw numbers of your kinsmen, with whom he has twenty 
 times more to^ sav than yoiu- Lop, allongst with him ; and notwithstanding all this, 
 hopino- that I will not blame your Lop, nor harrass your poor Coimtry, or begin what 
 your Lop calls the cruel part of the war in it. 
 
 That even to vour Lordship there appears to be danger tliat this unhappy yovmg man 
 (for whom I have all the compassionate concern possible) may draw the greatest part 
 of vour clan after him into the rebellion, lays m.e under an absolute necessity- of trying 
 to prevent it, coufe quil coute ; for I cannot answer the suffering a body of men, who 
 have been in arms attending a voimg Gentleman, whose avowed piu^ose it is to lead 
 them ac^inst his Majesty-, to assemble again in the like manner. My durv", and the 
 oaths I am under, forbid it ; and I am confident of your Lordship's inward approba- 
 tion, as vou are under the same oaths. 
 
 As to what vour Lop writes, of begiiming a cruel war in your Country-, it is the 
 thin<T in the world the furthest from my thoughts. The people have no more to do, to 
 be absolutely safe, but to be quiet, and to give me reasonable satisfaction that they will 
 continue to be so ; but if thev put or continue themselves in a warlike posture, it is 
 thev that be^ the war against his Majest}- ; and it is just they should expect the conse- 
 quences ; for, lo tell your Lop the truth, when a kindred is illegally assembled, as 
 your LoS's has been frequently of late, to draught men, some for marching directly to 
 make war upon the King, and others for staying at heme to protect their Coimtry, 
 the distinction beuveen these classes of men, in point of gmlt or innocence, is too fine 
 for me to perceive. And, were it the case of any clan other than your own, for whom 
 your Lordship has so warm an aitecrion, I am persuaded you would no more relish it 
 than I do ; and tho' it be vour own, when yoiu- Lordship recollects how barbarously 
 thev use vou, in siding with yoiu- Son against you, to the imminent ruin of your 
 faniilv, and even to the danger of your person ; should the Government entertain 
 ' suspicion, and give orders on account of their conduct, I should hope your Lop will 
 not feel for their sufferings, should that, because of their obstinacy, be the case, so 
 suuch as you do at present. But what I fiatter myself w' ', because I earnestly wish it, 
 
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 is, that all this may be prevented by their remaining quiet, and giving me reasonable 
 satisfaction that they shall continue so ; the nature of -nhich I hope to have your Lord- 
 ship's ultimate thoughts of, in answer to my last of the 22"'' ; at least, in answer to this ; 
 
 for which I shall wait till ; unless what I am inform'd of, that the Stratherrick 
 
 people continue assembled in two different places (^notv\ithstanding of what your Lop has 
 assured me of), shall be confirmed j or that there shall be fresh gathering of men in 
 the Aird. In either of which cases, your Lop will, I know, exeuse me for doing what 
 my duty requires of me ; because when that does not absolutely interpose, it will be 
 a great satisfaction to me to shew how much I am, kc. 
 
 P. S. I am sensible of the confidence with which your Lop treats me, when you 
 open to me some of the incidents that have lately happen'd in your private life ; and 
 am very sorry for such of them as have proved cross. From the great concern which 
 the President expresses for you and your fainily at this ver)- time, I should have 
 imagined you never gave him any offence ; and I am sure, if you did, none of it sticks 
 with him ; from my Lord's behaviour, I collect the same disposition towards your 
 Lop ; and as I am well inform'd your Lop and he were in perfect friendship some 
 weeks ago, and as you have not suggested what it is he has done of late to give vour 
 Lordship offence, I cannot imagine what he has to answer for ; but should be glad to 
 know it, that I may contribute to remove what I am confident can be no more than a 
 pure mistake. 
 
 _ No. CCC. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Lovat. 
 My Lord, Nov. 1 745. 
 
 I H AMi the honour of your Lop's letter of the 1 4'^ inst. and am sorry to be 
 obliged to say, it has not given me the satisfaction I expected ; the protection, however, 
 given to your Lop and to your Family shall be exactly maintain'd, unless express orders 
 to the contrary come from the Government ; which may come by a Sloop of War 
 which I look for soon from the River. I have learned with no small concern, that 
 considerable numbers of your Lordship's kindred have at last left their homes, and are 
 in their way Southward, tho' they have not yet marched many miles off; and I have 
 received certain information, that violence & severe threats have been used with some 
 of them, before they could be pre\'ailed •with to go allongst. Now, as my duty 
 absolutely requires my endeavouring by all means possible to prevent the junction of 
 these Men with the Rebells, and as my wishes are strong to prevent the destruction of 
 these Men, by bringing them back to their dut^' before it is too late ; I find myself 
 oblidged to march into your Lop's Country, with a body of his Majest)-'s Troops, to 
 lay hold of such as have been accessary to the stirring up the rest ; to endeavour, by 
 the same means that have been used to force them into the Rebellion, to draw them 
 off fi-om it ; and to take an account of the names of such of them as I shall not find at 
 their homes ; to the end, their return to live again in quiet, after they shall have givea 
 all the disturbance they can to Iiis Majesty's Govemm.ent, may be for ever prevented. 
 And as no Man is more deeply concerned to have those inconveniences obviated than 
 your Lop, or better qualifj-ed to ob\iate them, by letting the unhappy Men timeously 
 know their danger if they do not immediately return to their homes ; I have presumed to 
 give your Lordship this notice of my resolutions, previous to the putting them in execu- 
 tion ; that as little harm mav happen to your Lordship or to your people as is possible : 
 and I shall look for a precise answer from your Lordship to what I now have the 
 
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 honour to acquaint you with, by to-morrow, because I cannot be answerable to defer 
 useing the means that are in my hands any longer. It will give me great satisfaction, 
 if the step I now take shall be the mean of preser\-ing your Lop, and your People ; and 
 this pleasure I shall have, even if it miscarn,-, that your Lop must be satisfied I have 
 done all in my power to avoid extremitjs ; and that I am, See. 
 
 No. CCCI. 
 
 To Simon Fraser, Master of Lovat, (afterwards Gerf Fraser). By H. F. * 
 
 My dear Master, Culloden, i""' Dec 1745. 
 
 I AM not certain that it is safe for me to correspond with you ; and yet I must, 
 because I love you, and e%*idently see you pulling destruction upon yourself, your 
 femilv, and your aged Father ; who cannot retire ; and who is by your act to be 
 brought under that suspition, which mav make it necessarv' to seize : the immediate 
 confequence whereof may be, the putting an end to him ; and, by your carrying away 
 his People, is rendered unable to secure himself against suspition or seizure. These 
 consequences, if I know you, your nature abhors ; and it is that you may give some 
 attention to them, I trouble you •with this letter. Your principles, if you have not 
 verv much dissembled with me, did not force you upon the course into which you are 
 at present engaged ; and I take it for granted, nothing but the expectation you have, 
 by your declarations, raised in those who sollicited you to act in the prevailing folly, 
 and the apprehension of dishonour to ensue upon failing in the fulfilling those expecta- 
 tions, urges vou to do what your father must have so just reason to complain of. Now, 
 dear Sir, uithout enquiring by what means you came to be induced to engage so far, 
 by what fictions, falslv published and credulously believed, and without mentioning 
 the state of vour experience, on which such an imposition has been put ; give me leave 
 to ask you, if, as a philosopher (for such ever)- man, that meddles ■with politicks, ought 
 to be able to justif)' his actions to), you can acquit yourself, for answering any rash en- 
 gagements which vou mav have been insidiously dra'mi into, at the expence ot unavoidably 
 destroving the Father that gave you breath, and that immediately ; ruining such of 
 your kindred, as may be mad enough to follow you ; and losing, in all appearance for 
 ever, the opportunitv of doing good to your kindred and to your Country, which your 
 birth intitled you to. For God's sake, mv dear Master, think on what 1 suggest ; and 
 be perswaded that, all circumstances considered, this could not come but from your 
 reall friend. 
 
 No. CCCIL 
 
 Lord Lovat to the Lord President. 
 My dear Lord, 
 
 I HAVE had many prooffs of vour Lop's sincere friendship for my person and 
 familv ; but there was never a period of my Life that made me fo much the object of 
 Compassion as I am at writing this letter. ?^Iy very Enemies, if they knew the ujisup- 
 portable Grieis of my Soul this Morning, must svmpathize with a Man so disconsolate 
 and void of Comfort. I dare not descend to particulars. My Son has left me under 
 silence of last Night, contrary to my advice, contrar)- to my expectations, and to my 
 
 Perhaps Hugh Forbej. 
 
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 earnest request; and ihe consequences of his doing so are to me terrible beyond 
 expression ; tho', I declare, I could not have done more to save my own Life and the 
 Lives of my Clan, as well as the Estate of Lovat, than I have done, by smooth and 
 rough usage, to detain him at home. 
 
 This is a subject so melancholy, that I can neither write nor talk upon it ; rnd 
 therefore I have sent the Bearer, who has the honor to be known to your Lop, to 
 make a faithful report of the uprightness of my Conduct in this matter ; and I hope 
 your Lop will give credit to what he says. I pray God, your Lop may meet with no 
 Event in Life so disastrous and afflicting as this is to me ; and that you may live long in 
 perfect health, as the honour of your Country, the support of your friends, and the 
 Comforter of the afflicted ; and, whatever happens to me in Life, I shall always con- 
 tinue with unalterable Zeal, Gratitude, & Respect, 
 
 My Dear Lord President, ■ ■ 
 
 Your Lop's most obed", most obliged, 
 
 Beaufort, ") & most faithful hum'''- Serv', 
 
 } 
 
 Dec' 1, 1 745. J " LOVAT.. 
 
 No. CCCIII. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Lovat. 
 
 My Lord, Culloden, 2" Dec 1745. 
 
 YOUR Letter of yesterday, w^hich was delivered to me this afternoon, gave me 
 infinite concern, as it shews me too evidently to what hazard the act of that rash 
 (but in my opinion deserveing) young mail exposes not only himself & your kindred & 
 family, in a very little course of time, but even your person ; for which he of all 
 mortalls ought to have the greatest regard ; & that immediately. You never did, as 
 far as I have seen your correspondence with the Earl of Loudon, absolutely engage 
 that the Young Man should not play the fool ; nor that severall idle people of the 
 Clan might not follow him ; but by your Letter of yesterday to his Lop you took the 
 merite of dispersing some of his Companys, & prevailing with severall of his Officers to 
 remain at home. Now, my Lord, supposeing the Master should actually march ; and 
 that, notwithstanding those hopes given, any considerable number of the kindred 
 should attend him, without mentioning what Orders may come from above, upon the 
 report of their arrivall at Perth ; what do you think my Lord Loudon must instantly 
 do, who may look upon himself as duped by the security into which the hopes flung 
 out by your Lop drew him, &: may apprehend the severest reprimand, for haveing 
 suffered himself to be luU'd asleep by the fair words given by your Lop, whilest he 
 had 1300 Highlanders at Ins. & 200 not far from it, ready to prevent the March of any 
 numbers to join the Rebells. I will not say to your Lop what service my advice may 
 have been of for your Lop's protection hitherto ; but I should not act the part of ane 
 honest man, if I did not tell you, that, however strong the inclinauon may condnue to 
 be, the power may fail, if the Master, with any number of the kindred, pursue the 
 course which you mention ; & should the Master, for a whim, prove so unnaturall, the 
 kindred that dare presume to follow him, leaveing your Lop exposed to misfortunes 
 inevitable in so advanced ane age, will be of all monsters the most ungratetull, con- 
 sidering what you have done & suiier'd for them. I wish I could prophecie ; & I would 
 fairly tell you, what would become of the Master ; but as I cannot, I must be silent 
 upon that subject, since I have not Authority to say he \\ill be safe, & I would not 
 mislead ; but if my earnest wishes do not mislead me, I should hope much will be 
 
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 26o CTXXODEX PAPERS. 
 
 indulged to his years, if he carry the matter no further than hitherto he has done ; 
 tho' if matters go further, & he should stand in the class with those that are now at 
 Perth, I cannot ansvrer for what may happen, not only to him, but to the Estate to 
 ■vfhich he is the presumpdve heir, tho' your Lop was inrirely out of the question. 
 I have menticn'd severail things to the bearer, which he will relate to your Lop. All 
 that I shall sav is, that I doubt whether your Lop wishes safety to vourself & 
 
 TOUT farnilv mc:^ .^ ■ than does 
 
 Tours, 5cc. 
 
 No. CCCIV. 
 
 Lord Lovat to the Earl of Loudon. 
 Jilv good Earl, 
 
 YESTERDAY I had the honor of vour Lop's letter of the 2** of this month ; 
 wherein you are so good to ace : re march tou then intended, and have 
 
 ance made to Fort Augustus ; ^.^ - L -3 had suspended your march to the 
 
 Aird, and was r^olved to put m^ :- jatherick under no hardship in your 
 
 war through that Coimrry. This instance oi vour Lop's moderation lays me under 
 fresh cbligaiior:- '^ ^ :. which I would as gladlv repav had I ane opportunity, as at 
 all times Ishal Iv acknowledge them; and till that opportunitv fall in my way, 
 
 I hope vou -St, to look upon me as a man attached to your Lop by aU the 
 
 ties of c~ "^---ect. I hope vour Lop met with nothing in Stratherick to 
 
 provok; u .:.::: : vcur friendly purpose with respect to that country; and, 
 with v: ::: cation, I know vour Lop has too much goodness to do it. It's true, 
 the?;; i-c ^^^:::e Rascalls belorr'nr "' —at place, who deserve the worst of treatment 
 for their misconduct; and . :_ .; - ::e of that stamp even in this Coimtry ; but, as 
 I have ii to your Lop, I hope vou will never think that misfortune a sutEcient 
 
 reason ; - ^.;_: essing the rest, and rr^ .:ch Irfs to fix anv load of blame on me, who had 
 no more accession to their faults z:.-:. \r Child imbom ; but, on the contrary, have 
 used, and shall continue to use, mv ur:: - , ieavours to keep them and all the other 
 people upon my estate within the bound? .; i : i.cir duty. I must acknowledge, indeed, 
 that I have not had that influence with them that I expected ; but srill, mv Lord, the 
 greatest and better part of them have listened to me, and I hope will allways do. — The 
 information of my Son's having left this house came, it seems, to your Lop's ears 
 sooner than it did to mine ; for, I declare to you, with unfeigned sincerity-, that I 
 neither suspected such a thing, nor had the least whisper of it, till the forenoon of the 
 day next after that ia which I had the honour to write last to vour Lordship : and when 
 it was told me, I declare, before God, I was thunderstruck with the dismal! report. 
 I have not yet been able to learn what influenced him to take that step, nor the views 
 hemav have form'd to himself from it : '"i' 'his 1 dare affirm with truth, that not a 
 man of the Companies I dispersed have . . ^ ?ne to him, or expressed j]an intention] 
 of doing it ; so that in this last particular vour Lop's informers are injurious to me and 
 to these people. — ^What he or they may do, my Lord, 1 cannot take upon me to answer 
 for ; as I will never report to your Lop anv more than the bare truth, nor undertake 
 for any thing but what I am sure to accomplish ; but this I still affirm as a truth, that 
 I dispersed t\% o or three companies, r" r^ ' - "■ :he promises of their leaders in the manner 
 I intbrm'd you in my last. Thus v . . '.. i? sees, that vou have no reason to accuse 
 
 me of any mask or design in this matter ; and I am extremely sorr%" that you should 
 listen to any c?i ■•^-:- - ,-,.•, .'-^^ jj^^- gp-.-^j^-^ hrve hatch'd, to make vou think so 
 
 Ul of me, — ^I L _ . _ o much p.;..::--;oa and knowledge to be blinded by 
 
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 CULLODEN PAPERS. 26 1 
 
 aiiy man : I hope you believe that I am neither fool nor knave enough to attempt it. No, 
 my Lord, my intentions are honest and upright towards all mankind ; and it is my 
 misfortune, and not my fault, if theirs are not so with regard to me ; so that I beg your 
 Lop may not give ear to those wicked insinuations against me. The report brought me 
 by the Gentleman of my name that waited of your Lordship Sunday last, of a conversa- 
 tion 'twixt your Lo]5 and him, gave me great concern, because I observe, that the 
 mahcious accounts brought your Lop by my enemies gain too much ground v/ith you. 
 It has been my misfortune to be traduced and calumniated thro' all the stages of my 
 life ; but my dear Earl of Loudon I thought was among the last men on earth would 
 listen to these calumnies ; and I still hope your Lop will not. My instructions to this 
 Gentleman were, to communicate to your Lop the situation of this country, and the 
 conduct of my son and myself; and as he knew every particular of that matter, I am 
 sure he would have given you ane honest account of it, had your Lop listened to him ; 
 but I am sorry that the informations of others seem to gain more credit with your Lop 
 than mine do. However, I have ordered ane other Gentleman, who is equally well 
 known in the situation ot the country, and the integrity of my conduct, to wait of your 
 Lop, and give you a faithful account of both ; and I beg your Lop may rely upon what 
 he shall tell you : his name is Mr. Fraser, of Gortulegg, who has the honor to be very 
 well known to my Lord President. Whether in Adversity or Prosperity, I shall 
 allways subscribe myself, with a most sincere zeal and respect, my D' Earl of Loudon, 
 your Lordship's most obedient, most obliged, and most affectionate faithfull humble 
 Serv' and Cousin, LOVAT. 
 
 Beaufort, 
 
 4"" Dec' 1 745. 
 
 No. CCCV. 
 
 Sir Andrew Mitchell to the Lord President. 
 
 My dear Lprd, Whitehall, 7"" Dec'' 1741;;. 
 
 AS I send this by post to convey our monthly intelligence, I shall not venture to 
 give any answer to your's of the 1 3'" of Nov", which I received last Saturday, till I 
 have a safer way of conveying it to you. 
 
 On the 30"' Nov', the Provost was taken into custody. I hear, Ch. Smith is like- 
 wise in custody. The Rebels were last Wednesday, the 4"", at Derby ; the advanced 
 Guard of his R.H. was to return to Northampton in order to get before them as last 
 night. M. Wade is at Doncaster. All your friends are well, and wishing to hear of 
 & from you. 
 
 As soon as the present hurry & alarm is over (which is indeed too great), a Sloop 
 will be sent to - - - - with every thmg, I hope, that you desire. 
 
 I ever am, most truely, Your's, &c. 
 
 A. M. 
 
 We have been alarmed w' reports of Invasions from France ; but I think there is 
 now reason to believe, that the preparations were not made as was said : our own 
 apprehension & fears are our most powerful eneni) . Who could have believed what 
 has happened ? 
 
 No. CCCVI. 
 
 Professor Maclaurin to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I TAKE the opportunity of saluting you by M' Grant, who goes to offer his ser- 
 vice to your Lordship. He has been employed in a Military way these ten years ; and I 
 
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 hope and intreat that his being Son to your cousm german may be no prejudice to him 
 at this time. I believe you may depend on his fideht)-, and that he ^nll be found to 
 deserve your consideration. 
 
 If vou have curiosity to know my histor>' these last three months, take it briefly as 
 follows. As soon as the Danger from the Rebells seem'd imminent, I left the Countr)- 
 & continued in To^^"n, endeavouring to promote the spirit that began to appear amongst 
 the Gentlemen, in hopes it would have been raised likewise amongst the burghers & 
 trades. I was amongst the first Volunteers, Sc signed for a Dozen of the Town's Regi- 
 ment. The Care of the Walls was recommended to me, in which I laboured night ic 
 day, under infinite discouragements from superior powers. When I was promised him- 
 dreds of Workmen, I could hardly get as many dozens ; this was daily complained of; 
 redress was promised ; but till the last two davs no redress was made ; and then it was 
 late. However, the Town was in a Condition to have stood out two or three days against 
 Men improvided with Artillery, unskilful, & then ill armed ; and there was a double 
 expedarion ofreUef; viz. from the Dutch, & Sir John Cope. On the fatal Mondav I 
 was loading the Cannon at the west port, & pressing the finishing of some works there, 
 when, in a pack'd Meeting (400 Volunteers, mostly substantial burghers, being under 
 Arms elsewhere), it carried to capitulate. When I heard of this, I called for the 
 P — t for orders what I should do with the Cannon. The answer was, he had not time 
 to speak to me. The case [which] had been often put to the Pr — t actually happened ; 
 for. Cope was off Dunbar, and could have been up on the Wednesday. The Monday 
 Night, neither were the Towns' Arms carried to the Castle, nor did the To-rni stand 
 on its defence till terms were granted ; and therefore they had none, tfto' by ***** 's 
 Message it had been offered, that no Highlander should enter the Town ; but there w^as 
 a plain collusion. 
 
 After the Rebells were masters of the Town, I Hved retired till they issued a Pro- 
 clamation, offering an indemnirv- to such Volunteers as should make Submissions in 20 
 days. Resolved to make no submissions, I crossed the EngUsh border before the Davs 
 expired. At Newcastle, I had a pressing in\-itation from the jArchbp of York to go 
 & Uve with him till 1 should return to Edinburgh. I went there, & hved for some time 
 as happy as vras possible for a Man who had left his Countrj' in such a Situation, and 
 his family in it, behind him. I left York, with a view to overtake Mareschal Wade near 
 Edinburgh ; but on the Road, I foimd the Rebells had moved Westward, and had left 
 the Way to Edinburgh clear. 1 travelled from Morpeth to Waller on the bad Thurs- 
 day the 14th of November ; and diis Day, & the next two dap, got the most dange- 
 rous Cold I ever had, from which I am not vet recovered *. 
 
 I have said enough of my own history. The Archbishop, secure of your fidelity and 
 Zeal, was »s: is always anxious about you &c your Success ; and this Day I had a letter 
 from his Grace, asking chieflv about vou. I know vou will have better accoimts of 
 Public matters than I can give you. Wishing you success, health, Sc all prospenty, 
 I am with the utmost zeal & attachment. 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obedient 
 College of Edinburgh, most aff. humble fervant. 
 
 Dec^ 9° 1745. COLIN' IVL\CLAL'RIN. 
 
 * Professor Mackurin never did recover from the effeSs of this cold. 
 
 His Son, Lord Dr-ghom, ereded a Monument to this eminent Man, upon the South Wall of the 
 Grcvfners Church in Edinburgh, the Inscription on which hzs been much adrnired. 
 
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 No. CCCVII. ' 
 
 M' Rob' Dundas, Solicitor General, to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Edenburgh, Dec. 29"" 1745. 
 
 THE enclosed Packets I have taken the liberty to enclose to your Lop ; M" Whitney 
 insisting to send her Caithness friends some whig preachings h pamphlets to strengthen 
 their faith. 
 
 The Letter to her friend is sealed -within : if your Lordship incline to read the' 
 printed papers, & then send them forward, they may be opened. 
 
 As a Boat is to sail tomorrow uith an Express to my Lord Findlater from the Ad- 
 miralrv', ordering an Embargo to be laid on all Ships laden with provisions, I would 
 not omit this opportunit}^ of writing from this Country, especially as I do not know if 
 your Lordship is anv how acquainted with what is passing here. 
 
 The Duke of Cumberland having advanced to Newcastle under Line, the Rebels 
 turned off to the left, k got the length of Derby ; upon which, His R. Highness, by 
 a forced march, got to Loughborrough, to prevent their going Southwards, which it 
 was given out they intended. They then began to retreat with astonishing rapidity, & 
 the D. pursued them wuth his Horse & Dragoons, & 1,000 foot mounted on Coimtry 
 Horses. The particulars of this Retreat are not worth mentioning, further than that 
 the D. came near them at Lancaster, & drew up his small Army in expectation that 
 they would have attacked him ; but in the night time they went off. Between Kendal 
 & Penrith, near to a small Village called Clifton, an advanced party of 60 Dragoons 
 came up with them. The main body of the Rebels marched forward, leaving about 
 1,000 Macphersons, Camerons, & Macdonalds, who under the Command oi L. G. 
 Murray posted themselves along the sides of the Enclosures. Soon after, the D. him- 
 self came forward with about 400 of Bland & L. M. Ker's Dragoons, & part of Ligo- 
 nier's Horse, &, dismounting some of his Dragoons, attacked them, & put them fairly 
 to flight. A good number of them was killed, wounded, & taken. The D. lost 9 
 Dragoons, and about 20 or 30 wounded. The Highlanders got forward to CarUsle, 
 where they left most of their Baggage, all their Cannon except three, & about 4 or 500 
 men, in Garrison. On Friday the 20" they passed tiie River Esk very deep, the Foot 
 being to the neck in water, & several of them were drowned. They (hen marched in 
 two Divisions ; the one under Command of L. G. Murray, by Moffat, Lesmahago, 
 Douglas, &c. to Hamilton, & thence to Glassfow. The other under Command of their 
 P. &: the D. of Perth, by Dumfries, Drumlanrig, Douglas, &c. bemg one riay's march 
 behind the others : The last of them entered Glasgow on Friday Afternoon, & continued 
 there last night when our latest accounts came away. They have done a great deal more 
 mischief in their retreat, than when they marched up to England. At Dumfiies, they 
 demanded £ st. 2,000., of which they got 1,100., & carried off Hostages for the re- 
 mainder ; which is since sent to them. They likewise demanded 1,00c pair of Shoes; 
 but, as there was not such a number in the town, they provided themselves by taking 
 them off the feet of the Inhabitants in the Streets. They burnt and pillaged some houses 
 at Lesmahago and Douglas, because the Country people had been active in laying hold 
 of some of them going towards E.igland, & particularly at Kenlochmoydart. We are 
 here in great uncertainty, whether or not they intend us another visit. We have with 
 us the two Battalions which came from Stirling on the Highlanders passing the Esk, 
 with about 800 Miiitia trum Glasgow & Paisley, above 500 raised in Edenburgh ; & 
 our Commanders have declared, that they are to defend the town, & ordered every 
 family to take in some days' provision. 
 
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 The number of the Highlanders is greatly diminished ; h by the best accounts they 
 are far from being 4,000 strorg. 
 
 As to our Troops in Englai d, Marechal "Wade returns to London, & L' Gen. HaNvley 
 is to command here ; & we are assured, that one division, consisting of r^vo clU Re- 
 giments, ■will be at Ber-o-ick tomorrow, & vdll directly proceed for this place ; & two 
 other Di\"isions of the like number of Foot follow the first Class, & some Horse 
 
 after them. 
 
 I had one came in this day from the D.'s Army who left it on Friday evening 
 blockading Carlisle) that nc.ie iright escape. The Garrison offered to capitulate, if 
 thev were allowed to march out Drums beating, 5cc- ; wnich w^as refused. But the D. 
 havino' got up some Cannon from Whitehaven, the Batteries were near finished, & it was 
 thou<^ht that the Cannon would begin to phy upon the Castle yesterday or this day. 
 
 This is a short accoimt of our situation here ; which will, 1 hi^pe, daily uim better, 
 once a few more troops come into this Country- ; 8c the news we have tins day, of the 
 Peace being concluded between the K. of Prussia 6c Empress -nith the K. of Poland, 
 will likewise contribute to prevent foreign Invasions. 
 
 As I wrote in my last letter to your Lordship, that I only writ facts without any re- 
 marks, I shall trouble vou no more on pubhck maners. With regard to my private 
 concerns, nothing has for some time given me gi eater pleasure, than hearing from a 
 • Gentleman that dined with you on the 2 a'', that you was in good health. I sincerely 
 wish, mv dear Lord, that it mav continue amidst all the fatigues you are enduring for 
 the Sernce of vour Country ; which, God knows, is a motive has linle im.pression on 
 
 ■ some of us R — Is. I am, with the greatest esteem. 
 
 Your Lop's most obedient humble Servant, 
 
 RO : DL^'DAS. 
 
 P. S. Just as I was sealing this Letter, there is a person come in from Kirkintedsal, 
 6 Miles from Glasgow, with intelligence, that last night at 1 2 the D. of Perth passed 
 Calder Bridge with ico horse & ico foot, which is the Road towards the heads of Forth. 
 A Highlander (he says) ha^^ng lost his way came into Kirkintulloch this morning, & 
 said the whole were to leave Glasgow to-day the same Route. 
 
 Xo. CCCVIIl. 
 
 The Duke of Newcasde to the Lord President. 
 
 ■ My Lord. Whitehall, 11 "^ Janry 1745-6. 
 
 THE Marquess of Tweeddale having resigned the Ortice of one of his Majesty's 
 Principal Secretaries of State ; and his Majesrv having been pleased to direct, that the 
 Correspondence with Scodand should be carried on by My Lord Harrington and me ; 
 I could not but take the first opportunir\- of assuring you, that I shall have a particular 
 pleasure in renewing a correspondence wiih vour Lordship, with whom I have had so 
 long an Acquaintance, and for whom I have always had so sincere a regard. 
 
 Mv Lord Tweeddale ha\Tn2: laid before the Kin? vour Lordship's and the Earl of 
 Loudoun's late letters to him ; I have the satisfaction to acquamt you, that his Majesty 
 
 ■ was pleased to order, That 1,000 Stand of Arms should be immediately sent, as de- 
 
 ■ sired bv vou, with a Sum of Money for the Payment of the Troops, And the Lords 
 ' Commissioners of the Admirah}- were ordered forthwith to provide a Sloop for con- 
 
 - ve\"ing them with the utmost Expedition to Inverness. 
 
 Tour Lordship will have heard, that his Majesey has been pleased to appoint Lieu" 
 General Hawley, an OiEcer of great Abiiit)- and Experience, to be Commander in Chief 
 
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 of the "Forces in Scotland. And I have tliis day an Account from M' Ilawley, that he 
 was arrived at Edinburgh, and was making a disposition of his Forces. lie will soon' 
 have fourteen old Battalions of Foot, and three Regiments of Dragoons, besides the 
 Troops that have been raised at Edinburgh and Glasgow ; and will also be joined by 
 4,800 Hessians that are ordered to land at Leith ; which, with the Troops raised in the 
 Highlands, will make such a Strength, as there is the greatest Reason to hope mav, by 
 the blessing of God, put an efteftual and speedy End to the Rebellion. 
 
 His Majesty is persuaded your Lordship will correspond with Lieu' General ILiwley, 
 and from Time to Time send him such Intelligence, and give him such Lights, as you 
 shall think may be useful to him in carrying on his Majesty's Service ; and that your 
 Lordship will continue that Zeal, Adivity, and Vigilance, which you have so eminently- 
 exerted on Occasion of the present Rebellion, and of which his Majesty has the truest 
 Sense. 
 
 I shall be always glad to receive your Lordship's Commands, and to shew myself, 
 with the greatest Truth and Regard, 
 
 My Lord, 
 :• ■ Your Lordship's most obedient hum'''" Serv', 
 
 ■ ' . HOLLES NEWCASTLE. 
 
 ■ -, No. CCCIX. ,;:■, -^ , .'. '; •..•:,-..„. ' 
 
 Gen' Hawley to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, ^ Ed' 12'" Jan'M745-6. 
 
 I HAVE the favour of your Letter from Inverness ; the others were forwarded by 
 Express. I am a stranger to all occurrences with you, as well as to those parts. Were 
 I not, I should not, nor don't now, pretend to give any Advice. I can only inform 
 you how matters are here. I have been here five days ; have brought up ten weak 
 Battalions ; I found two as weak, & much worse, here ; two more will be up in two 
 days, & a Reg' of Drag' (Cobham's) who can hardly crawle. 
 
 There is no Cannon yet come from Newcastle : the Train at Berwick, & that here, 
 can neither of them move for want of ev'ry thing. Coll" Campbell is at Dunbarton 
 with 700 Men, I am going to push a post forward to Lithgow of 4,000 Men, & have 
 order'd Coll. Campbell to come from Glasgow nearer towards Kilsyth. This will at 
 least give us ane oppurtunity to drive Lord Kilmarnock from Falldrk ; & then see what 
 countenance they will have at Stirline ; where they are, as I guess you'll have heard, 
 ever since last Tuesday, preparing to attack the Castle, the Condition of which I can no 
 ways as yet learn for certain ; & all depends upon that. They are drawing all tlieir 
 People from the North, there, to make as large a body as they can. If we were in a 
 Condition but to march, we should not mind their numbers *. Whether this motion 
 of theirs will give you more Liberty, I am no Judge ; but I know that Montrose is the 
 most easy purchase that can be imagined, could you get there ; but that I am no Judge 
 of. 'Tis a favorite scheme of mine ; but Stirline has deferr'd all that from hence. 
 The six Battalions of the Hessians are to come without the Horse to Leith j but are 
 not yet conie, nor no news of them. 
 
 * Gen' Hawley had reason very soon to be convinced of his mistake in thus appreciating the Kig-h- 
 fenders ; as his Army (and the Dragoons at the very firll onfet) was thrown into complete confusion and 
 retreat by them at Falkirk ; tho' he had often boasted, tliat 2 Regiments of Dragoons were sufficient to 
 tide over the whole Highland Army, • 
 
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 We have had a small brush ^th them yesterday at Airth, up the Firth, with 300 men 
 In Boats ; killed Sc wounded about fifiy, w-ith their Chief French Insiineer ; cripled 
 two of their Guns, burnt all their Boats, & hindered their transporting their great 
 Cannon from Allowav for some days. The Marquis of Tweeddale has resigned. This 
 is all the News I have to tell your Lop, 6c am, My Lord, your most ob' humble 
 Serv', &c. 
 
 No. CCCX. 
 
 Gen' Wightman to the Lord President. 
 
 My L: P: Edinburgh, ;2 Jan'^ 1745. 
 
 I WROTE you last Week by the Vessel which the J ce CI — k dispatched to 
 
 ycu. I know a digested genuine account of the late Battle will not cnlv be agreable 
 to you, but usefull ; I therefore herewith send it you ; and send this special Messenger 
 \fith it, that I may ascertain myself of a Letter from you, and give you an Opportunity 
 
 of writing to your friends with moreLibertv than vou can do under the J ce's Cover, 
 
 ■who, you know, ioves to peep, and, like all Tyrants, is jealous of everv one, even of 
 his own tools, I send you also herewith a corredied copy of the Edinburgh Packet, 
 ■which contains the Speech, printed A" 1 7:: ;;, in wbach I declare against Part^ship in the 
 strongest terms : In which Sentiment 1 still continue. 
 
 After having said this, you'l be surprized to hear, that I supped with L'* Am n 
 
 ■when he passed through Newcastle, and am become acquainteid -with his Son the Sol- 
 
 licitor ; and at the same time am declaredlv antipode to the J ce ; in so much that 
 
 I do not so much as see him, much less speak with him, on account of his misbeha'viour 
 to me when he was a Refugee at Berwick, notwithstanding the Ci^■ilit^"S I shewed him, 
 and the Seridces I did him when he was at Newcastle ; and this I do deliberatelv &: reso- 
 lutely, though I very well know that he is at present drunk with Power. The Marquis 
 having demitted, the Duke comes into the same Situation he was in before the Patriots 
 
 prevailed against S' R. W le ; and consequently the J ce is once more depute 
 
 Vice Roy. He governs all : even H y does not do little things which concern the 
 
 Army ■without his concurrence : so that he is Generalissimo, to the great Damnage of 
 the Publick. For instance, there lye 3 Ships on the ground at Boristooness, driven up by 
 the Storm in which the Fox Man of War was lost, ha\Tng Linen and Woollen Manufacture 
 aboard to the Value of ^£"2 5,000. Sterling. These have been in no small danger since 
 the Battle, for want of a party of Men posted there, or at Blackness, where thev would 
 
 be in absolute safety from being surprized and overpowered. I applied to G' H v, 
 
 ■who remitted me to the J ce CI — k. I sent the Master of one of the Ships to hirn, 
 
 nith a Representaticn & Petition ; whom he used rudelv, on no other Ground, than 
 that the honest Man has not thought fitt to truckle to Collector Mid — n, his tool, as 
 
 ha\Tng a suspicion of him as a J te. I mention these things to you, that you may 
 
 see the Necessity of your being here, rather than at Inverness ; that vou may cheque 
 him, and apply some remedv to the present disorders here, and prevent some of his 
 Blunders. This is the more needful!, that the Earle of Hume 2c his Brother are de- 
 claredly in opposition to the Vice Rov. The Sq — n is routed ; and thus the whole 
 nation is in the Opposition, his tools excepted, G: D: is still at London ; Aid. Ridley 
 ■wrote me lately, that he heard from a friend of his, that he ■was married ; but 1 doubt 
 it, and am more afraid of it's being true than of it's being false. I have writtoi him 
 pres^ingly to come home, and not squander his time in London, dancing Attendance 
 to G" Cope, tho' he has procured a pair of Colours to his eldest Son George by hJs 
 meanSj •without paying any Money for it. 
 
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 eULLODEN PAPERS. 26y 
 
 I am sorry to tell you, that L"* H e and L** Gl n abandoned the Glasgow 
 
 Reg' on the Field of Battle, before they were formed, and fled as fast as the Irish 
 
 Dragoons. G' H y is in much the same situation as G' C — e ; he was never seen 
 
 in the Field during the Battle ; and every thing would have gone to wreck, in a worse 
 manner than at Preston, if G' Huske had not acted with judgment & courage, and ap- 
 peared every where. H y seems to be sensible of his misconduft ; for when I was 
 
 ^vith him on Saturday morning at Linlithgow, he looked most wretchedly ; even worse 
 than C — e did a few hours after his scullle, when I saw him at Fala, 
 
 This is an odd scene of things, and altogether an unexpeded occurrence ; and will 
 
 doubtless schock the K. k the M ry, as wel as the whole English Nation, more 
 
 than the Preston affair did ; but does not at all schock me : I see no one bad conse- 
 quence from it, unless H y's disgrace be reckoned one ; and I apprehend sev" good 
 
 ones ; such as the Duke's coming down hither, and our having an Army of 20,000 
 Men in this Country for some Months ; to which I add G' Huske's advancement, who 
 is indeed an excellent Officer, and open, honest Man. I say this, because we com- 
 menced intimat acquaintance at Newcastle, which will continue during life ; v. hereas 
 
 I despised the Fop M 1, your old acquaintance ; he has made his exit just as I 
 
 expected. I only add, that Pottosi Affairs go on without intermission successfully ; 
 and I fmd ways and means to get a little money when nobody else here can do it. I 
 give my humble Service to Lord Loudoun if he is still with you, and ever am. 
 
 My dear Friend, 
 
 W inviolable attach", yours, 
 
 R. W. 
 
 P. S. 1'"° under little apprehension of Stirlin Castle's being taken, if the Governor 
 & Garrison do their Duty ; and tho they get itt, they must quitt it on our Army's 
 Approach. The Hessians are hourly expecled, the thaw having sett the Transports 
 at liberty, and the Wind &c Weather being favourable. Let me begg of you to 
 come hither as soon as you can 5 your coming will do an infinite Service at this 
 Juncture. Adieu. 
 
 N. B. I must not ommitt to tell you, that a filrious Storm of Wind & Rain arose 
 critically, which blew direttly in the faces of our Men when engaged in Battle, and 
 prevented the pursuit of the Rebells. This I was opportuned accurately to observe ; 
 for I saw it coming, & put on, to get in to Boristouness ere it came on. This is pro- 
 vidential, and looks w' a bad aspect upon us ; it is as if owr defence was departed 
 from us, yea acted against us. Please pay the bearer out of public money, for 1 have 
 none to spare. 
 
 No. CCCXL 
 
 Sir Harry ]\tonro, of Fowlis, to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 
 
 1 THINK it my duty to acquaint your Lop of the deplorable situation I am m» 
 The Engag" between the King's troops and the Highlanders on Thursday last, w'in 3 
 mile of Falkirk, proves to me a series of woe : There both my dear father & uncle 
 Obsdale were slain : The last, your Lop knows, had no particular business to go to the 
 Action ; but, out of a most tender love & concern for his Brother, cou'd not be dis- 
 suaded from attending him, to give assistance if need required. My father, after being 
 deserted, was attacked by six of Locheal's Reg', & for some time defended himself 
 w' his half Pike. Two of the six, I'm inform'd, he kill'd j a seventh, coming up,. 
 
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 fired a Pistol into" mv father's Groin ; upon w^^ falling, the Highlander w^ his sword 
 gave him vao strokes in the face, one o\er the Eyes & another on the mouth, w^ in- 
 stantly ended a brave Man. 
 
 The same Highlander fired another Pistol into my uncle's breast, & w*" his Sword 
 terriblv slashed him ; -nhom w° killed, he then dispatch' a Serv' of my father's. That 
 thus mv dearest father 5c uncle perish'd, I am informed ; 8c this information I can de- 
 .pend on, as it comes from some who were Eye-witnesses to it. My father's Corpse was 
 honourablv interred in the Church-vd of Falkirk by direction of the E. of Cromertie & 
 ' the INI'Donalds, & all the Chiefis attended his fiineralls. Sir Robert's was the only 
 bodv on the field on our side that was taken care of. Now, my Lord, you may easily 
 conceive, all circumstances dulv weighed, how dismal my situation is. I depend ou 
 y' advice & assistance. 
 
 I am, with great regard, 
 Edin'' Your Lordship's most obed' Cousin & Serv', 
 
 Jan. 32" 1746- HARRY ML^XRO. 
 
 Xo CCCXII. 
 From the Lord President to 
 
 Culloden, 26''' Jan'" 1746, 
 THIS day I had letters from Edin. dated Wednesday 22**, from a Gentleman who 
 ■was present at the Action at Falkirk on the 1 7' . He says, it began in the Afternoon, 
 by the Highlanders marching up to attack the King's troops ; that the troops, upon 
 their Approach, marched hastily from their Camp to meet them, without their Artillery, 
 which did not come up during the Action ; that at the first onset, part of the Dragoons 
 posted on the left were put in disorder, and some of the foot nearest to them obliged to 
 reel by the Dragoons falling foul of them ; but that the Foot quickly recovering them- 
 selves, and some of the Dragoons returning to the Charge, soon obliged the Highland- 
 ers who made this impression to retire. That the Highlanders advanced \nth a rapid 
 motion, about 20 deep, to attack the Center, and put the first line in disorder ; but the 
 2^ advancing, soon forced them to retire with great loss, and were pursuing them, when 
 a vast storm of Wind with rain, which \^"as readv to make their Firelocks unserviceable, 
 together with the night's approach, obliged the General to beat a retreat. That when 
 they came back to their camp, they found manv of their Baggagemen and most of their 
 Artiller)-men gone with the Horses ; amongst which last was one Cuimingham, an 
 Irishman, and an Ofiicerof the Train, who, to avoid disgrace, has since cut an Artery- ; 
 and then they took this Parr\- off, retiring to Linlithgow, and from thence to Edinburgh 
 the next day. This Gentleman says, the loss of the Highlanders, at the lowest compu- 
 tation, was supposed to be icco ; ancj that there were no morejthan2coof the regular 
 troops (who called out aloud to be led to another brush) missing. The Messenger who 
 brought this letter, and who seems to be a sensible fellow, says, he also saw this En- 
 gagement, and describes it pretty much in the same manner the letter does. He makes 
 the Loss of the Highlanders from common Report, and from his o^ivn opinion of the 
 gaps he saw made in them, above double the number that is mentioned in the Letter. 
 He says, the troops lost but part of their tents and baggage ; that they carried alongst 
 with them so much as they found horses to carry off ; and that they burnt what they 
 could not carrv off on the field. He savs also, that ther nailed up the Field-pieces 
 which they could not carry with them ; and that thev marched away vdth the greatest 
 regularity, impursued. He says, the Regiment of Jlilitia under Lord Home behaved 
 
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 Veil; and suffered a little, and that they retired alongst wth the troops. He says, the 
 Arirylcshire Highlanders were, when he loft Edinburgh, quartered in Oueeusierr)- and 
 the* neighbouring Farms, ready to march back with the troops, who have received a 
 reinforcement of n\o Regiments of foot, and one of Dragoons ; and he says, it was re- 
 ported and believed, that Lord John Drummond, the Duke of Perth, & Lochiel, were 
 wounded ; the first dangerously, the last two slightly. He asserts, that tiie Preston 
 prisoners, who were detained at Glamis, were rescued by a Gang of Maltmen and other 
 tradesmen from Dundee, mixed with a multitude of Seceders, who pressed Boats to 
 ferry them over the Water ; and that he actually saw some of them at Edin', w^here, he 
 says, the Duke of Cumberland, as well as the Hessians, were daily expected. 
 
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 No. CCCXIII. - ^ 
 
 Mr. Corse to the Lord President. , .; ::,.!':... •/ 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 I HAVE unluckily miss'd several opportunities of writing to your Lop by Sea ; 
 partly owing to my having been in a very unsettled way since these troubles began ; 
 & the rest I charge upon W. Forbes, who omitted to give me notice when the Ships 
 were to sail. I beg leave to return your Lop my most sincere thanks for your recom- 
 mendation in my favour to a Professorship in Glasgow ; which has so far prevail'd, that 
 I have seen a Letter from the Duke of Argyll to the Provost of Glasgow, that he had 
 recommended me ; and that some days after M' Pelham told him, that hi> recommend- 
 ation was to take place. I suppose you have heard something to the same purpose ; so 
 that, though it is not yet done, it looks almost as well as things of that nature can do. 
 I mention this only to thank your Lop ; for in such times these things ought not to be 
 thought of. I wish they may have a good Historian ; for, that about 4,500 Men should 
 come from the remotest parts of Scotland, penetrate into the heart of England, fight 
 battles, and lay siege to Castles, seems pretty odd, & must contain things worthy of 
 our Curiosity. The little of it that I imagine fell w'in my Ken I send your Lop ; which, 
 as it contains little more than the Newspapers, you may either read or lay aside. 
 
 The Highlanders left us the i"& 2" of November, & march'd for England ; and a 
 few Days after, both Ministrys, properly attended w" the Gentlemen of y' neighbour- 
 ing Coundes, enter'd Ed' w*" ringing of Bells k under a discharge of the Cannon of y* 
 Castle ; w"'' last Circumstance had near spoil'd the Cavalcade. They intorm'd us, 
 that Two Regiments of Foot & 400 Dragoons were behind them ; which we thought 
 very probable ; & accordingly in Two Days they arriv'd, & were quarter'd within 
 Ed', where the Troops have been constantly quartered since. As these Troops were 
 but few, & the Rebels beginning to assemble about Perth, k it was fear'd they might 
 ky hold of Ed', a project was set on foot to raise Militia at the Expence of the Country. 
 The Burghers of Ed' otfer'd to raise &: subsist for Three Months 1,000 Men. It was 
 agreed that the E. of Home should command the Regiment ; and he got a Brevet 
 Colonel to command y^ Forces to be rais'd at Ed' and Glasgow. '> From this Time the 
 L'^ Jusdce Clerk took the management of affairs. L'^ Home went to Glasgow, & I 
 ■was desired to go along with him, where in ten days a Regmient of 600 Men effective 
 was rais'd & march'd to Stirling at the expence of the Inhabitants. The two Regiments 
 of foot lying at Ed', & about 50 dismounted, were sent thither. The foot were not 
 above 600 iVIen, including incorporated Straglers from y' Regiments w^hich had been 
 at Preston . We had been there about ten days or a fortnight, amused w'' Storys of y"^ 
 Highlandlers being shut up in Lancaster j when at last the true intelligence came, oc we 
 
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 \rere all order'd to Ed' about the 2i-"' of Dec' ; & were to have gone to Benvick, if 
 thev had come to Ed'. We were in some apprehension, between Stirling &c Ed' ; for 
 the march was forc'd in less than 24 hours ; but, luckily for us, thev took the Road 
 to Glasgow. That place \t"as in no small consternation ; the Militia was gathered into 
 the Town; thev had about 1,200 stand of Government Arms, & Blakeney had pro- 
 mised to come to their Assistance. But upon the Troops 8c their own Regiment march- 
 ing to Ed', they sent their Arms to Dunbartcn Castle, and submitted. The Rebells 
 entered the town on Xmas day, lived at free quarter, & new cloath'd their Men at the 
 Town's espence, which amounted to about ^"8, coo excluding the ^5,500 they had 
 paid before. They staved there only ten days, & then mov'd to Stirling, for fear the 
 Troops, which had then begun to arrive at Ed', should get bet\veen them and their 
 friends ; and hkewise to lay siege to the Castle of Stirling, where they made a verv poor 
 figuce. 
 
 The Troops were march'd to Ed' by Detachments of Two Regiments at a Time ; & 
 with one of the last arriv'd M' Hawlev, who, upon his coming, enquir'd for the Provost 
 and v^ Judge Advocate, & caus'd immediately two pair of Gallows to be set up ; one 
 in v^ Grass Market, ^ the other between Leith and Edin'. This was his first Exploit. 
 His Army was to have consisted of 1 4 BattaHons, Cobham, &: Mark Ker's, Hamilton, 
 & Gardner's Dragoons, besides the Glasgow &: Argyleshire Men. But so soon as he 
 had got 1 2 Battahons together, w'out anv other Dragoons than Hamilton and Gardner's, 
 he sent five Regiments of foot & the Dragoons on to Lithco, &: the Glasgow Regiment 
 to the Oueensferr%- ; whose approach was so sudden &c unexpected, that they had very 
 near surprized i,^oo of the Rebels at Lithco, who retir'd immediately to Falkirk. 
 This motion, made upon the Monday before the Battle, was generally disapproved of, 
 because we then knew if all the Highlanders were ioin'd ; & it was thought to be ex- 
 posing almost y* one half of the Armv to the Enemy's whole force, who might have 
 surprised them by a night march, when they were at too great a Distance to be sup- 
 ported from Ed'. However, nothing happen'd ; and next day three more Regiments 
 Vere sent to suppon them ; &: on the Wednesday three more, with whom, M. Gen" 
 Husk march'd on the Thursday to Falkirk, 8c encamp'd on the North side of the Town, 
 the front of the Camp towards Srirb'ng ; 8c the same Evening he was join'd by another 
 Regiment of foot, with ten pieces of Cannon, from Six pounders to a pound and half. 
 The same Evening M' Hawley arriv'd at Callendar House about 8 o' Clock at night, Sc 
 tum'd me and some more of us out of our Beds. He left that place, & went to the 
 Camp about 5 o'Clock of the Morning ; about 9 o'Clock we were join'd by about 8co 
 Argvleshire Alen & Cobham's Dragoons, who had march'd from Lithco that Morning j 
 & then the whole was together ; viz. 1 2 Battahons of foot, w"^*", to the best of my com- 
 putation, might show in the field, one with another, about 400 Men a-piece. Three 
 Regiments of Dragoons about 200 a piece* 8oo Argvleshire Men ; in which were 
 three Companvs of L"* Loudoun's, 8c one of L** John Murray's ; besides the Glasgow 
 people, who then were about 700 strong, 5c tolerably disciplin'd. 
 
 The Highlanders lay behind the Torwood, having left about 800 Men before Stirling, 
 300 of which were French-Irish, as some of these Men told me themselves. I am 
 pretty sure the Army they led on that day to the Battle did not much exceed 5,000 
 Men of all kinds. Causa Sdentia when I was at Stirling, I saw M' Blakeney's Intelli- 
 gence, 8c the people who gave it were mostly Glasgow people ; which made them on 
 the North Side of Tay about 2000 strong, to which I add 500, as an allowance for 
 ' what accession they got after we left Stirling. On this side they were counted at Glas- 
 gow by 18 different people, whose accounts ran from 3,400 to 3,900. 
 
 About 10 o'clock M' Hawlev went out to a little eminence on the left of the Camp, 
 & 500 yards nearer the Enemy, to reconnoitre the Groimds between our Camp cc y* 
 
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 Torwood ; where I heard some of the Officers say, they saw them moving on this Side 
 of the Torwood Southwards. This proved true ; though I saw nothing, neither did 
 M' Hawley. However, about eleven o'clock we got the alarm, & in a very short 
 space were all under Arms, & remain'd so a quarter of an hour. Then we found out 
 it was a false Alarm, & we all turn'd in again, & went to look out for Dinner, which 
 "was not easy to be found ; & after it was found we got no time to eat it ; for a little 
 before two the last Alarm came, when the Enemy was within a Mile & a half of us. 
 I never was used to these things ; but I was surpriz'd to see in how little time y" regular 
 troops were form'd (I think in less than half an hour) on y" left of y" Camp, in two 
 Lines, with the Dragoons on y"" flanks ; all fronting the South, & just along the side 
 of the high road leading to Stirling ; the Road in their front, & Falkirk on their left. 
 We all thought that there we were to wait for the Enemy, who was now plainly in 
 view, coming along the hills from the South-west. M' Hawley, it seems, had another 
 notion ; for no sooner was the Army form'd, than he marched them straight up a steep 
 Hill w'^'' lyes to tL.; South-west of Falkirk, in two Columns ; in order, I suppose, to 
 gain a large Moor which they say is on the top of that Hill, & w'' may be so for me, 
 & I believe for His Excellency too ; for neither of us saw it, at least before the action. 
 All the Dragoons were sent on before, & form'd upon the top of the Hill ; and there 
 the Action began. 
 
 The Argyleshire Men, who had been quartered out in y" neighbouring Villages, Sc 
 could not be got so soon together, were posted, or posted themselves, on the right of 
 the Army at y^ bottom of y' Hill ; our post was behind the two Lines of foot, & to the 
 left ; Si we had got something more than two thirds up the Hill when y' firing began j 
 upon w""" we form'd there, but not in very good order. Our Cannon, that was to have 
 been in the front, stuck fast somewhere about the bottom of the Hill ; &: indeed no 
 force could have drawn it up to the top. The Highlanders' first Line (as I was told, 
 for I could see nothing almost y' was done on the top of the Hill) outstretch'd our Left 
 considerably; their right, I saw, did not pass the Centre of our Line of foot. The 
 Dragoons being all on our left, helped to lengthen our first Line, and there the affair 
 began. Certainly, while the foot was marching up the Hill in Columns, & the heads 
 of the Columns had just reach'd the top of the hill, & the rest marching up as hard as 
 they could, running & quite out of breath w'' the fatigue, the Dragoons charg'd very 
 briskly ; but upon receiving a very sharp popping kind of a fire, they went oft. I 
 believe they suft"er'd a good deal ; for in one part of them nearest us I saw day light 
 through them in several places. When the Dragoons were beat, y' right of the Higli- 
 landers chasing them (as they took straight down the Hill among the foot) appear'd 
 upon our flanks. The flanks of both Lines gave way, down to the Centre; and then 
 the whole first Line went oft", all running down the Hill, except Ligoniej-'s Regiuient 
 of foot, which was quite on the right, and near the bottom of the Hill. L' Col Stan- 
 hope, a fine lively young lad, a brother of Lord Stanhope's, fac'd that Regiment (w'' 
 ■was not quite 300 Men) to the Hill, &; stood alone for near 5 INIinutes, nil Barrell's 
 Regiment, of about 400 Men, came out of the 2'^ Line & join'd them, and there the 
 first stop was made. The enemy, instead of following in where the Troops gave way, 
 ■w' they might have done, took it into their heads to stretch their left down to the bottom 
 of the Hill ; in doing of which, it was so warmly received by these two Regiments, 
 that they all scampered up the Hill again. Gen' Husk formed a pretty strong Line of 
 foot by rallying the runaways at the bottom of the Hill ; 5c then they all march'd into 
 the Camp, not in very good order. 
 
 The great storm of Rain & Wind w'' began about ten minutes before the action had 
 rendered their arms useless, & wet all the Soldiers Cartridges; so the Bagga^^e Horses 
 
 7 were 
 
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 272 ' CrLLODEV PAPERS, 
 
 were order'd to be loaded (few of them -were found), & the Tents to be burnt. Three 
 pieces of Cannon were drawn otF bv the Soldiers ; the rest were left, because the Ar- 
 tillery Guard had fled, and the Country people had cut out all their Horses. As to 
 the Glasgow Regiment, we march'd up the Hill verj- stoutly ; when the firing begun 
 on the top of the Hill which was out of sight, we seem'd a little too attentive to it ; Sc 
 when some of the fleetest of the Dragoons came down among us, we did not at all like it. 
 In a little, about 60 Dragoons of Hamilton's came do^^-n the Hill in a body at the Gal- 
 lop, & carr}-'d off" about a Company of our people ; among whom I was, & would then 
 have given my life for a shilling. Some of us they rode over, and some of us ran and 
 rode so well that we got quit of them in about 5 or 6oo yards, w^ the utmost difncult}'. 
 I tum'd up the Hill again, after being disengaged, but saw the Glasgow Regiment no 
 more. Those whom I could most trust told me, that they got a fire from about 70 
 Highlanders, who immediately retired up the Hill a little, and then came do-wn again 
 vdth about 200 more, & gave them another fire ; upon which they remm'd a few scat- 
 tering shots ; then fell into confusion, & finally ran a\s-ay. They Ifad an Oiiicer & 
 iSMenldll'd; some wounded-, three Officers 6c 26 private Men taken Prisoners. 
 This was prettv well for INIilitia ; & there are but 2 Regiments of foot that have any 
 title to reproach them. The Argjleshire Men were not engaged ; however, a good 
 many of them fell into the Enemy's hands ; one whole Company in particular, com- 
 manded by one M'Neil. That same night the Army march'd to Lithco, ^- next Day to 
 Ed", where we were much insulted by the Jacobites. 
 
 This is my Account of the Battle : part of it I saw, & part I took from others, which 
 corresponded \\ith what I saw. It lasted but a short while, as I beHeve all actions with 
 these people do ; but why they did not use their advantage, & enter where the Troops 
 were broke, sv%-ord in hand, as is their -way : & in the next place, why they did not 
 pursue when the Army marched to Lithco, when all fire-arms were useless ; is not to 
 be comprehended. They cannot, in all human probabilir\% ever have such another 
 opportunity. 
 
 The faults on our side seem to be ob\-ious to ccmjnon sense ; but there may be 
 excuses for them, according to the art Militarv-. 
 
 Had it been fair Weather, I believe the Troops would have beat them at last, not- 
 withstanding all the disadvantages they were laid under ; &: greater could not be. I'm 
 told the Duke has alter'd the method of fighting -with Dragoons on the flanks ; & in his 
 line of Battle he has thrown them with y' Irregulars into the Rear. "What has happened 
 on this side since His R. Highness came down. Captain M'Kay can inform your Lojj ; 
 & as the scene is shifted nearer your Quarter, you vcill know more than we. I wish to 
 God you may not know too much. They would fain persuade us here, that they are 
 dispersing ; but the Duke's sta^•^ng at Perth does not look hke it. Your Lordship's 
 friends are in great apprehensions here ; as they may do a deal of mischief before the 
 Troops can come up ^ith them. We can see no help for you, but shipping, in case 
 they do come in a body ; &: we are not sure that you have that at hand. We form 
 many schemes for your safet}-, & are ver)' anxious ; as, by their discourse here, you 
 was the chief objecl;' of their resentment ; especially when they came back from England ; 
 for it was their fixed opinion, that with the McDonalds & M^Leods of Sky, the MKenzies 
 & Frazers, they might have been Masters of London, had all these joined them soon 
 enough ; the failing of which they place to your Lordship's account. However, we 
 hope for the best. '^ One thing we are all agreed in ; that if you escape the Dangers of 
 War, your health will not be worse for the want of a Whiter Session. Lord Elchies 
 becnns to languish ; the want of a Summer Session upon y' back of this hiatus 'calde 
 deflenJus would certainly finish him. What is become of poor Rattray God knows. 
 
 I tr^-'d
 
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 27: 
 
 I tr)-*d to get Tiis friends to send for him to Glasgow; but, after mature deliberation, 
 & consulting \v'' the Doctor, they resolv'd to let it alone. He is the only Gouster & 
 Ruffian that is with them. L"" Balmerino is dead ; & Peter Boyle talk'd of for his 
 Successor, at the Duke of Queensbur)''s request. Our Glasgow Regiment is dismiss'd • 
 & we are now upon a scheme of petitioning for reimbursement of the town of Glasgow's 
 fines ; which if we bring to bear, I must go to London, though I have no great hopes 
 of succeeding. If your Lop has read thus far, it may be reasonable to suppose that 
 you are sufficiently tired ; so I take my leave, -with assuring your Lop that I am, with 
 the greatest truth and respect, 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obliged obed'- humb. Servant, 
 Ed' 15"' Feb^ 1746. WILLLV^I CORSE. 
 
 ' . No. CCCXIV. ' 
 
 The Young Pretender's Protection for the House of Culloden. 
 
 . - CHARLES Prince of Wales, &c. Regent of Scotland, England, France, and 
 Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging ; To all his Majesty's Officers 
 Civil or Militarv. 
 
 These are requiring you to protect and defend the House of Colloden and furniture 
 from any insults or violence that may be done by any person or persons, except such 
 Orders as are issued by us. Given at Inverness, 28'' Feb. 1746. 
 
 By His Highness's Command, 
 
 JO. MURRAY. 
 
 No. CCCXV. 
 
 Pass and Protedion from the Earl of Cromertie. 
 
 By GEORGE Earl of Cromertie, Commander in Chief of His Royall Highness Charles 
 Prince of Wales's Army, North of the River Buley. 
 
 These are requiring all Officers of His Royall Highnesses Army, and all others 
 v.home it concerns, to allow all S: sundry the Heritors, Tenants, Sc Possessors of the 
 Shire of Ross that are employ'd in carr)-ing their farm Meal, to pass to & return from 
 Inverness to their respective homes, Avithout any molestation to theirselves. Servants, 
 Horses, &" ; hereby certif) ing that such as coimtervene these, or give them disturb- 
 iince of any kind, shall be highly culpable, & punish'd accordingly. Given at Ding- 
 well, tliis 7"" of March 1746. 
 
 CROMERTIE. 
 
 Xo. CCCXVI. 
 
 Lord Reav to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, ' Edin' 28* April 1746. 
 
 I WISH this may find your Lop & Earl Loudoun safely arrived at Inverness. I 
 have been very anxious about you since you left Sutherland : meantime I judge it's 
 agreable to you, that you was not disappointed in the confidence your Lop put in some 
 of your Friends. You'l have heard of the threatning Letters I had from the Earl of 
 Cromert)- ; which, as I could not follow my men thro' the Hills in case we had been 
 attacked, obliged me to come up here. But I find the concert made at Tongue ere I 
 
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 left it has had the desired Success, and his Lop has time now to repent that he did not 
 take your Lop's kind advice. As my People were constantly on their Watch till hi? 
 Lop was made Prisoner, and that the Rebelis in Caithness hindered our getting seed 
 from thence as usual!, I'm much afraid of Ley Land on my estate : and should ray 
 Son's Company be called out till Bear seed is over, it may do much harm &: make it 
 difficult in my absence to get out the best men, which would be the reverse if seed-time 
 was over. This I leave to your Lop. My Sons will obey your Commands as far as 
 they can. Pray make my Com.pliments acceptable to the Earl of Loudov%-n, I am, \sith 
 sincere Respect, 
 
 jNIv Lord, 
 
 Your Lop's most obedient 
 
 most aff"" humble Servant, 
 
 RLAY. 
 
 No.CCCXVII. 
 
 The Lord President to Mr. Pelham. 
 Dear Sir, liis, 13 May 1746. 
 
 "WITHOUT troubleing you with my Adventures for Nine Months past, which, 
 so far as they may have been of service to the pub lick, you have probablv heard of; and 
 so far as thev have been entertaining, may possibly hear of, one time or another, from 
 myself: I come direftlv to apply to you as ane old friend, for whom you have often 
 show'd more reguard than he had a just title to, on a particular occasion, which I shall 
 in as few words as possible explain. When I first flung mvself into this Country, to 
 stop bv all possible means the progress of the Rebellion, his Majesty's pleasure was 
 signiiy'd to me, bj' the Marquis ot Tweeddale, then Secretary of State, that I might 
 supply mvself with monev, for extraordinar\- Services, by Draughts on you or on the 
 Paymaster Gen". That expedient faijed by the totall interruption of correspondence. 
 I made use of my o^-n money, so far as I could come at it ; &; when that fkil'd, I foimd 
 people, who, tho' thev did not choose to take Bills, lent me small sum.s on my own 
 notes, which I employ'd for the publick ser\ice. The same necessit)^ obliged E. Loudoun 
 to take up monev in the same way, & compell'd us both to employ the money that was 
 sent down for the subsistance of the Indep'- Comp", promiscuously, for tlieir support, 
 & for defraying the extraordinary contingent tho' necessary expences. This, you see, 
 can only be set to rights by an accoimt which it is impossible to settle, unrill L. Loudoun 
 returns, & has seme leisure, from the expedition in which he is at present imployed in 
 the highlands with the Indep' Comp" which I put together. But what at present pinches 
 nie is, that, as tranquillir)- is restored by the glorious success of the Duke, the particular 
 persons whose monev I had at a pinch, when the service required it, demand with 
 great justice re-payment ; which, as I have not been accustom'd to .dims, gives me 
 some imeasyness. The sum they are uneasv about does not in the whole exceed ^1,500. 
 Now if vou will be so good as to impress this sum into the hands of George Ross, who 
 will deliver you this, to be remitted to me, to account of the extraordinary expences 
 that have been layd out ; or if you will authorise me to draw upon you, or any other 
 person you think proper to name, for so much money to account of these expences ; 
 it will deliver me from a species of uneasvness,^ that I have hitherto been unacquainted 
 with. The almost totall interruption of correspondence, & the extraordinary marches 
 which I have been obliged to make amongst the INIountains, have hitherto prevented 
 my returning anv List of the names of die Officers of the new-raised Independ' Comp'^', 
 & of the dates of their Commissions, which I am told is necessary towards forming aa 
 establishment for issueing their subsistance. I have now transmitted such a List to
 
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 M' Geo. Ross, the Agent for those Compos & have, by his R. H. the Duke's advice, 
 reported the dates of the deliveiy of the respective Commissions, which was not done 
 till after those Comp*' were conipleat. It was his oppinion, that, on a fair representa- 
 tion of that case, their pay would be made to commence from an earlier period ; to 
 indemnify them, I mean the Officers, of the expence that attended the raiseing those 
 Comp"' before tlieir Commissions were delivered to them ; & I doubt not (his will appear 
 reasonable to you also. I have touch'd both those subjects in a letter of this date to his 
 Grace the Duke of Newcastle, of whose good will I have had many proofs ; & I have 
 full confidence that you will do what is proper to be done in them, because you know 
 me to be, very faithfully, dear Sir, your most ob' & most humble Serv'. 
 
 No. CCCXVIII. 
 
 The Lord President to Mr. Geo. Rcss. 
 
 Dear George, Inverness 1 3"' May 1 746'. 
 
 MY peregrination is now over. Some accountof my Adventures you surely have 
 had fi-oni different hands. To give ane exact one is the work of more time than I can 
 at present afford. The difficultys I had to grapple with were many : the issue, on the 
 main, has been favourable ; & upon a strict review, I am satisfyd with my own con- 
 duct. I neither know nor care what criticks who have enjoy 'd ease in safety may think. 
 The Commilfions for the Indep' Companys I disposed of in the way that to me seem'd 
 the most frugall k profitable to the publick. The use they have already been of to the 
 publick is very great ; preventing any accession of strength to the Rebells before they 
 march'd into England was no small service ; the like prevention in some degree, & the 
 distraction of their forces, when the Duke was advancing, was of considerable use ; & 
 now they are by the Duke employ'd, under the command of E. Loudoun, in Gkngarry, 
 & must be the hands by which the Rebells are to be hunted in y' recesses. My other 
 Letter of this date gives the reason why the return of the Officers names, &c. was not 
 sooner made. I hope the Certificate will be sufficient to put them upon the establish- 
 ment, & to procure the issueing of money for them. The returns of the several Com- 
 panys in the military way, E. Loudoun will take care of. What distressed iis most in 
 this Country, & was the reall cause why the Rebells came to a head after their flight 
 from Stirling, was the want of arms & money ; which, God knows, had been long 
 enough called for and expected : had these come in due time, we could have arm'd a 
 force sufficient to have prevented their looking at us on this side Drumuachter. The 
 men were prepared ; severall hundreds assembled in their own Gountrys, & some hun- 
 dreds actually on their march. But, unluckyly, the Ship that brought the few arms 
 that were sent, ik the sum of Money that came, did not arrive in our road sooner than 
 the very day on which the Rebells made themselves Masters of the Barrack of Ruthven. 
 It was then too late to fetch unarm'd men from distances ; it was even unsafe to land 
 the Arms & the Money ; so we were forced to suffer them to remain on board, & to 
 retreat \vith the force we had, to preserve them for the further annoyance of the enemy. 
 Another ill consequence the scrimping us of Money had, was, that, as there were a 
 great many contingent services absolutely necessary, Sc as all the Money that could be 
 raised on Loudoun's credit & mine, was not sufficient to answer these extraordinary 
 Services ; we were obliged to make free with the cash remitted for the subsistence of the 
 Companys : this, at the long run, will come out as broad as it is long, ^ when accounts 
 are made up, & allowances made for the contingent expence ; but in the mean time it 
 sadles us with the trouble of settleing & passing an account. 
 
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 276 CL'LLODEX P.IPERS. 
 
 If any one will reflect on the situation I was in, & consider what I had to do, he v.Hi 
 soon be con-\-inced, that the expence I lay'd out could not be small. So far as I could 
 command ^loney of mv own, you will easyly believe it was emplov'd %vithout anv hesi- 
 tation ; & of that I say nothing at present ; but when the expedient proposed bv the 
 Marquis of Tweedale, of taking up Bills to be drawn on M' Pelham, fail'd, I had no 
 resource but to take up monev where I could find it, from well disposed persons, on 
 my own proper notes. That Aloney so pick'd up was at the time of great ser\'ice ; & 
 now that peace is restored, the Gentlemen, -ttith great reason, expect to be repay'd. 
 You can guess how ill I like a dun ; & I should hope, now the confusions are over, there 
 can be no great difficult^- in procureing me a remittance, or leave to draw on M' Pelham, 
 or some other proper person, to the extent of the sum thus borrowed, which does not 
 exceed .6^1,500. I have on this subject wrote to the D. of Newcastle, M' Pelham, & 
 M" Scroope, whose letters yoti will forthwith deliver : to the Duke & M' Pelham I have 
 wrote also on the subject of the Indep' Companvs, & mention'd you as their Agent : 
 if the ^1,500 is advanced me, it must be to account ; & I shall find it a very trouble- 
 some matter to make up that account, particularly, without great loss ; tho' I can, to 
 the meerest trifle, what in gross I expended for the service. So soon as the Duke leaves 
 this place, which will be in a dav or two, I shall move Southw^ards ; so that your Let- 
 ters for me must be directed to Edin' ; whether I shall remain there, or go further, I do 
 not at present know. I am heartA ly tired of the erratick course I have been in ; but as 
 the prevention of any future disturbance is a matter of great moment, & which requires 
 much deliberation & some skill ; if those on whom it lies to frame the scheme for that 
 purpose imagine I can, with mv knowledge of the Country, be of any use to them, J 
 should not grudge the additionall fatigue of a journey ; but it is not impoffible their reso- 
 lutions may be already taken. You may speak on this subject to my good freind the 
 Soil' Gen", & shew him this paragraph ; & shall be glad to knew how he does, cc if 
 poilible to hear from him. I doubt not you will look after the money article. 
 
 I am, Dear George, 
 
 Yours, Sec, 
 
 LIST of Officers of the Independent Companvs raised in the North ; specHyong; 
 the dares of delivering to them their Commissions, their Companvs being then 
 complete. 
 
 Captaic!. 
 
 Lieutenants. 
 
 1 Dates of completeing 
 Ensigns. 1 ^jj^ Compsnys. 
 
 George Monro Esq- 
 Alexander Gun Esq* 
 Patrick Grant Esq' 
 George Mackav Esq' 
 Peter Sutherland Esq' 
 John Mac Leod Esq' 
 Normand ]\Iac Lepd 1 
 
 of Waterstein Esq' J 
 Normand Mac Leod \ 
 
 of Bemera Esq' J 
 
 Adam Gordon 
 John Gordon 
 William Grant 
 John Mackav 
 William jNIackav 
 Alex' Mac Leod 
 
 Donald M'Leod 
 
 John Campbell 
 
 - 
 
 Hugh Monro 
 Keueth Sutherland 
 James Grant 
 James IMackay 
 John Mackay 
 John Mac Askill 
 
 John Mac Leod 
 John Mac Leod 
 
 174, October c;^ 
 ■n- .^"•-i 
 
 - ■ ^ 2j, 
 
 November 3"^ 
 
 Nov 4'" 
 
 Nov- S-^ 
 Nov' 15'^ 
 
 D' D^ 
 
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 CULLODEN PAPERS. 
 
 277 
 
 Captains. 
 
 Donald Mac Donald ") 
 
 Esq^ J 
 
 William IMacintosh 1 
 
 Esq' i 
 
 Hugh Mac Leod Esq' 
 Alex' Mackenzie Esq' 
 Colin Mackenzie of \ 
 
 Hiltown Esq' J 
 
 Jauies Mac Donald \ 
 
 Esq' i 
 
 John Mac Donald Esq' 
 
 Hugh Mackay Esq'' 
 William Ross Esq' 
 
 Colin Mackenzie Esq. 
 
 Lieutenants. 
 
 William Mac Leod 
 
 Keneth Mathisom 
 
 George Monro 
 John Mathison 
 
 Alex' Campbell 
 
 Alhm Mac Donald 
 
 Allan Mac Donald 
 
 John Mackay 
 Charles Ross 
 
 Donald Mackattlay 
 
 Ensigns. 
 
 Donald Mac Leod 
 
 William Baillie 
 
 Roderick Mac Leod 
 Simon Morchison 
 
 John Mackcrae 
 
 Dates of completeing 
 the Companys. 
 
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 James Mac Donald 
 
 Donald Mac Do- 
 nald 
 
 Angus Mackay 
 
 David Ross 
 
 Kenneth Mac- 
 kenzie 
 
 1745 Nov^ 15" 
 
 Nov' 1 8 
 
 Nov' 28 
 
 Dec' 10 
 
 D'' D' 
 
 1745-6 Janry 6'" 
 Jaury 8'" 
 
 Febry 2^ 
 
 Inverness 1 2"' May 1 . 
 
 1746. - j _ ; , 
 
 I hereby certify, that, pursuant to the trust reposed in me by His Majesty, Commis- 
 sions were by me delivered to the Officers of the Independant Companys above men- 
 tioned, on the days also mentioned ; and that these Commissions were not delivered 
 until their respective Companys were compleat. 
 
 (Signed) DUN. FORBES, 
 
 No. CCCXIX. ' ': 
 
 Sir John Cope to the Lord President, . . 
 
 My Lord, Clarges Street, June 1 2"', 1 746^ 
 
 I AM afraid of intruding on your Lordship's time, yet must send my congratula- 
 tions on the troubles in the North being (I hope) perfectly ended. All mankind in these 
 parts did your Lordship justice in your warm, active, and sincere Zeal for the Govern- 
 ment ; and that all was done that could be done by man in your unhappy Situation. 
 
 The hardships I have and still do lie under is most cruel. I hope his Royal Highness 
 from having seen the Country, and I flatter myself your Lordship and Lord Loudoun, 
 have, in regard to my care and attention to the Service, endeavoured to put my Actions 
 in a true light (and, indeed, I am informed your Lordships have done so) ; I say, from 
 H. R. H. seeing the difficultys attending a march of troops into the Highlands, par- 
 ticularly in carrying provisions, &c. and hearing truth from some who were eye-witnesses 
 of my Adions during that unfortunate Campaign, that he will not com.e up in the same 
 opinion, as, from misrepresentations, had been conceived of mc before he left London. 
 Being unfortunate, in this Country, is a Crime in the mouths of the enA-ious, and these 
 who are ready to defame a man when fiibhion is against him. I have the Comfort of 
 
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 a.y$ crxLODrx papess. 
 
 an honest man, that f neglected no part of my dun-, and cannot reproach myfelf vr'nh. 
 any thing that ought to reject en mv CharaQ:er. This has enabled me to stand the 
 reproaches of others. I have been hardly and unjustly used by som.e of your Countr.', 
 ■who I did not desen-e if from., if truth only had been theix guide {^they being incensed 
 at mv ha™?^ the Command in Scotland). I should not have wondered at their making 
 use of truth ; but false insiHuaaons axe base and cowardly, when made behind a man's 
 back. I aik pardon ; I will have done upon this Subject. The friendship your Lordp 
 honoured me with in Scotland intitles me to claim a continuance of it, since I know 
 not an Action of mine which should forfeit it. 
 
 Four BatiaEoris from hence, three from Penh, are ordered to prepare for Flanders, 
 imder the Command of Sir J"' Ligenier, M. G. Howard, Brigad' Mcrdaunt, 5: Douglas. 
 S' Clair's troops are embarked ready to sail on the expedition ; y'' 15 new-raised Regi- 
 ments are to be forthwith disbanded. The destination of the Brest Squadron not yet 
 known. Putting all these Circumstances together, people are amazed ; and Lord Lons- 
 dale has summoned the Peers, as this day, to consider of the State of the Nation, in 
 order to oppose the sending abroad troops at this jimctur . - ^ the Lords are now in 
 debate. Several mails are due from Holland, which /»r.. _ ■ --■ determine the above 
 meastires. The keeping Cape Breton, at all evemts, is become the fcivourite tof»ck of 
 the Town, and will become the papular cty for an opposition to work upon. To be 
 siu-e. Fr-nce is so subdued that we mav make our czl'p. terms. If your Lordship has 
 an} -is in London for me, I shall gladly be employed. I. have frequent oppca:- 
 
 tiniiuei 01 talkiacr of your Lordship with Lord Harrington, who retains a high esteem 
 of your Lordship's worth. I hear we have some probability of seeing your Lordship in 
 London this year. George Drummond has beai with me ever ance we came out of 
 Scotland ; he is a perfect honest man, and one to whom 1 owe infinite obligaaoBS. He 
 desires his b^t Respects to joiur Lordship, 
 
 I am with the greatest truth and sincerity. 
 My Lord, 
 Your most obliged <k faithful humble Serv"^ 
 
 P COPE. 
 
 Note. — ^Except in proceesiir- "rirS t:> T-?-Terness, instead of falling back to cover Perth, Stirling, 
 and the Forth, when the Pretendt: e Corriarick Mountain, Sir John Cope does not appear 
 
 to merit censure : he was, in fact, _ : : .rate talents, and not fat for the conduct of affairs out of 
 
 the ordinarr roctine of business. It need not here be stated, how much mifchief has been done by Gene- 
 rals of middling abilities, and fettered by antient prejudices, when opposed to men of genius uarestiaineti 
 by obsolete theorie?. 
 
 No. CCCXX. 
 
 Prom Mr. ^lurdoch to Afr- John Forbes. 
 
 My Dearest F. Stradishall, 14'^ June 1746. 
 
 I HAVE this' moment the pleasure, the long-looked-for pleasure of yours •, for 
 which I thank God, oiu- gracious presener. M'B. writes me this ven- day, that he is 
 only to make a jaunt to Holland for a Month or so, where my attendance may be spared: 
 so when you return to England you may nnd me snug in my hnle closet as formerly. 
 If you have time to call in, you know you are to quit the great road at Cxxton, and the 
 tiifference will not be above nventy miles ; but, my dear, I beg you may not hurry 
 yourself on this account, or let your impatience to see me interfere 'with your a5airs. 
 You seein to have a good claim to preferment, if you had anv body to suppon it ; and 
 
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 I think you ought to bestir yourself. It gives me the greatest joy to hear that the worthy 
 President has borne up under all his fatigues of mind and body. His life was always 
 valuable to his Country ; but we may now say, that he has saved it from Ruin and 
 Infamy both. It is not to be imagined, how gross the ignorance and prejudices of 
 people w^ere, even of some from whom other things might have been expected. Al- 
 most every individual that had any relation to Scotland was looked on with an evil eye ; 
 but his character and behaviour supported our Spirits. We could show at least one 
 Abdiel, w'hose faith the most wrong-headed themselves allowed to be uncorruptible. 
 All this was most artfully and successfully fomented by the Jacobites, but will now I 
 hope subside. Happy are you, my dear F. to have such a pattern to encourage and 
 direct you. 1 make no doubt but you will closely copy him in all the essential parts of 
 his Character, in Virtue, Honour, and Bravery. I have nothing to say ot my own 
 affairs ; I pray for you all every day ; and ever am, Dearest F. 
 
 Your's, P.M. 
 
 My Love to all friends, particularly M' W. Forbes, Hugo, G. Hamilton, & John 
 Steil. 
 
 No. CCCXXI. 
 
 The Earl of Dunmore to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, London, June 18"' 1746. 
 
 MY unhappy brother's being brought hither amongst the Rebells from Inverness, 
 determines me, by the advice of all my friends here, to make the enclos'd application to 
 His Royal Highness. After perusal of the Letter and Case inclosed, you'll be so good 
 as deliver it ; and should you think of any alteration proper or necessary to be made in 
 the State of the Case, I hope you will be so kind as do it, and cause make a fair Copy 
 of it. I have taken what care I can to prevent my Brother's tryall coming on till His 
 R. H.'s arrival. And I flatter myself that you will have so far succeeded in your Idnd 
 endeavours, as to make my part of it meet with that reception I so earnestly wish for. 
 Some of your friends give me reason to expect your intercession will have success. 
 Whether it has, or has not, your readyness in undertaking to serve me in a matter that 
 concerns me so much shall always be most gratefully acknowledged by. 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your most obedient and most humble Servant, 
 
 DUNMORE. 
 
 Xo.CCCXXII. 
 
 The Lord President to Sir Everard Fawkner. 
 
 D'S', Edinburgh, 21" June 1746. 
 
 I SHOULD have given you trouble some time ago, on what makes the subject of 
 this, had not his Royal Highness been expected in this Country before this time. 
 Amongst the many fools whose guilt has made them debtors to punishment is M' W" 
 Murray, E. of Dunmore's Brother ; who, haveing surrendred, was carried prisoner to 
 Inverness, & there I presume shipped, to be carryed to England in order to take his 
 tryall. This Gentleman I know litle about, farther than that, in the Opinidn of his 
 Companions, he is a person of no great consequence to either side, & therefore I feel 
 
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 no concern for him ; but I confess to you, I feel very smartly for his brother Lord 
 Dunmore, "who must be brought under the most painfull uneasiness by the frenzy of 
 this unhappy man. As none of the Brothers have issue, excepting this William, 
 Dunmore locked upon his Children as his own, <ic destined the eldest for his successor 
 in his fortune, as in time he must succeed him in his honoures ; little dreaming that the 
 Knight-errantrv" of his Brother, who by the bye shone in the Character of a dvil officer 
 only (never haveing been once t>"ed to a sword, or any other warlike weapon), would 
 risk the corruption of his blood, 5c thereby intercept the descent of his (Duinmore's) 
 honours to his nephews. New as poor Dunmore, who detests his brother's treason, 
 & must be infinitely provoked at his ungratefulness to him, as well as his undutifullness 
 to the Crown, cannot submit to become an intercessor for so criminal a Brother ; & as 
 at the same time it must give him ver\- great unea si ness to see that his fomilv, 6; the 
 honours in it, must be sunk, should his brother meet with the punishment he deserves ; 
 I, who am connected ■with him by the t\-es of friendship only, cannot abstain from be- 
 seeching you to lay his case before his Roval Highness, who, in it, will find (if I am 
 not mistaken) a proper instance, m which compassion is to be exercised ; not compas- 
 sion to an offender, but to an innocent & very deserving man, who, by the folly of a 
 weak brother, is like to become the last man of his own family, if good nature does 
 not interpose. I know the Duke has on former occasions distinguished Dunmore by 
 marks of his good will ; & that no man Uveing is more sensible of the honour he has by 
 his Roval Highness's favour. Now should he owe deliverance from his present Distress 
 to the Duke, which may easily be compassed by delaying the tr\"all of his Brother, I 
 leave it with you to consider how sensible the obhgation, how deep the imprellion must 
 be. Had I had the honour to see his Royal Highness, after this view of the case pre- 
 sented itseU to me, I should have presumed to have laid it before him ; but as it may be 
 uncertain when I may have that honour, ^: as this case may require a speedy resolution 
 to be taken upon it, I take the Uberty to intreat of vou that you ■nill lay the matter be- 
 fore him, trusting that he will forgive me for suggesting this hint ; as my doing so pro- 
 ceeds from no other motive than what his nobleness of mind must approve of, and that 
 you will also pardon the trouble I give you on the same score. 
 
 Tho' I pity you on Acco' of the many hardships which I am sure you suffer in the 
 villanous Situation in which you find yourself, vet as I obsers'e with pleasure that the 
 Duke is in the way of doing effectually his business, & as you all seem to keep yoiu: 
 health, & keep up your spirits, your condition is the less to be lamented. You •will, 
 I hope, soon get out of it, and then "O/Zm meminisse jirjabit." I insist upon it, that you 
 believe me to be, with perfect esteem, d' S', 
 
 Your faithfull & verv humble Serv' 
 
 D. F. 
 
 No. CCCXXIII. 
 
 The Lord President to ZMr. Geo. Ross. 
 
 D-G. Ed^24--^ June 1746. 
 
 I HA\T! received yours of the 17% of the iS"*, & of the 19'" ins' ; the first and 
 last by the post, the other by the express that brought the Earl Dunmore's, The last 
 brought the Bill for ^500, which shall be presented for acceptance. What you mean 
 by telling me that the D. of Newcastle has wrote to me I know not ; it's possible he 
 may have said to Mr. ^L that he intended to do so ; but he surely has forgot ; a 
 thing too incident to great men, when there is no immediate occasion for ser\ice. I am 
 
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 CULLODEM PAPERS. ' 28 1 
 
 Still very deslreous to hear from Mr. Scroope ; if he has not as yet wrote, I wish Mr. 
 Fane would put him in mind of doing it. Before the Earl of Dunmore's Express ar- 
 rived, I had dispatched a Letter to S' Everard Fawkner, to be laid before the Duke ; 
 whereof the enclosed is a Copy. As it is impossible for me to find timfe to write to his 
 Lop this night, you wll put the Copy of that Letter in his hand, &c beg that he will 
 excuse me for any freedom I have used in it vith his Brother : I have taken the thing 
 on the corner that is most likely to take effect, & have made such an excuse for the 
 Earl's not interposeing, that I am not sorry that no occasion has presented itself of 
 transmitting his Lop's letter to the Duke, since it came to my hands ; & I would 
 gladly hear from S' Everard before I send it ; because if S' Everard's Answer is favour- 
 able, I should rather have my Lord write a proper letter of thanks than a petition ; if S' 
 Everard's Ans' is not satisfactory, or if it do not speedily come, I shall by a safe con- 
 veyance put the Earl's Letter in his R. Highness's hand, unless he come soon hither. 
 But as you have given me hopes that the tryal will not be speedy, I have chosen not to 
 dispatch what came to me by express to the Duke, for the reasons I have assign'd, 
 which I flatter myself my worthy and much esteem'd friend will approve of, as it is 
 intended for his Service. The Express reached Sunday Morning ; so I have let no 
 Post slip without owning the receipt of it, Sc acquainting you with what I have done. 
 I am in haste Yours, 
 
 D. F. 
 
 No. CCCXXIV. 
 
 • The Lord President to Sir John Cope, K. B. 
 D' S', Ed' 21 June 1746. 
 
 I HAVE had the Honour of yours of the 12"' ; Sc with it a great deal of pleasure, 
 as it satisf)'s me that you are not as yet got into the fashion of suffering distance of 
 time or place to interrupt friendship, or of joining in with the Cry of Fools, who will 
 take upon them to censure, without knowing what they judge of. I have got at the 
 end of a troublesome task, checkered with various incidents ; ^' I am sensible I meet with 
 many criticks ; but as I am conscious I have done, according to the several exigencies, 
 the best that appeared to me to be in my power, I remain quiet, and despise the Ob- 
 jectors, as I laugh at the Objections ; which cannot possibly be judged of, but by such 
 as know the situation in which I was ; & these are very few. 
 
 You have been truely informed about Lord Loudon and your humble Serv'. We 
 have never varied our style, because Truth is stubborn ; it will not vary, and those 
 who have a true respect for it dare not attempt to violate it. What impressions may 
 have been given of your Conduct in the North, I, who was at a distance, caimot guess 
 at ; but it is to be hoped, that the Duke, who has had experience of the nature of 
 Marches through the Highlands, and whose eyes must show him what sort of Ground the 
 Corryarrick is, must have a more perfect knowledge of the difficulties you had to grapple 
 with, than he had w hen he left London ; & I should think that his OfBcers who 
 were present at Falkirk would hardly venture to make observations on what happened 
 at Preston ; so that it's highly probable, the stile may change, if ever this matter comes 
 to be the subject of consideration. The Duke is at present where he has been for 
 sometime employed, at Fort Augustus, in receiving the arms and the submission of 
 the Rebels ; his patience, w hich surprises in such Years, is equal to his fire, k in all 
 probability will do very great service to the public. 
 
 The young Pretender is, I think, still in the Country ; and the probability is great, 
 ;hat he will not get out of it ; the spirit of the Rebells is quite broke ; and it requires 
 
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 no more than some skill to contrive Regulations \^-ith Judgement, which under a proper 
 Execution would secure the future tranquillit)' of this Country. I wilh our Resolutions 
 with respect to the Continent may be directed by temper and discretion. With resped 
 to these matters, as I have not sufficient Understanding, I have nothing left but to wish 
 in o-eneral that thina:s may be well. If I mav trust mv observations, I fear we have been 
 rather too quick heretofore. 
 
 The remembrance you tell me Lord Harrington has of me, gives me great satisfaction ; 
 I value not the opinion of any ISIan, but of him of whom I have a good one mvself ; and 
 as I must have been senseless, not to have concurred with Mankind in the estimation of 
 his Lordship's Merit, it must surely flatter me much that he is pleased at any time to 
 think of me, or what I am about, with approbation. 
 
 It is possible, that when our Term is over, 1 may think of seeing London once more, 
 to wait of his Lordship, and to renew that acquaintance by which I have been so 
 much honoured. 
 
 This will be dehvered you by George Ross, who has frequently acquainted me with 
 vour goodness to him on ray Account, and how much I am indebted to your good-wilL 
 If he should have occasion hereafter for your Recommendation to my Lord Harrington, 
 in a matter he has in view, you may safely say that he is honest, and that employing 
 him ^^^ll be a favour done to me. I am sure, D' Sir John, I have wrote enough in this 
 villainous Scrawl to plague you w' decvphering it ; and therefore that I can do nothing 
 better than to have done, when I have aflured you that I am, very faithfully. 
 
 Your most obed' and most humble Servant, 
 
 DUN. FORBES. 
 
 •^* The view which in this letter is taken of the conduct of Sir John Cope is very characteristick of 
 the President, who was among the few that did not prefs his misfortunes upon him as faults. The triumphs 
 of the Rebels, and the disappointment of the well-affected, had equally contributed to throw that unfortu- 
 nate commander into contempt ; and ridicule was kept alive by every art of song and anecdote. 
 
 No. CCCXXV. 
 
 Opinion relative to Attainders. 
 [In the President's hand-WTiting. Perhaps June 1 746.3 
 
 IN relation to attainders, it must be considered. That the Act of Attainder will be 
 of small significancv, especially in the Highlands, except the execution of that Law is, 
 by particular provisioiis, secured. If the Leaders should escape beyond Seas, the At- 
 tainders will urge them to perpetuall endeavoiu-s to create fresh disturbances, in hopes 
 of recovering what they have lost ; and the danger that may ensue from such attempts 
 will justif)- extraordinary remedys. If, therfor, as it is at present by law High Treason 
 to correspond with the Pretender or his Sons, it were by Statute made High Treason, or 
 (if that sounds too hJgh) Felony, to harbour, entertain, receive messages from, or 
 correspond, either by word or writing, with any of the persons attainted, to be named 
 in the act ; if a proper Reward, proportioned to the ranks of the different persons, 
 were proposed for seizing, or giveing information on which any of the persons attainted 
 might be seized, if they were discovered in any part of Brittain or Ireland ; and if a 
 force fit to execute the purpose of seizing were properly disposed over the Highlands, 
 it is to be hoped that Rebells would find practising in the Highlands dangerous ; and 
 that such as should attempt it might be seized. 
 
 It desers'es to be considered, whether the Security of the Government requires the 
 like extensive execution of the law against the Low Country Rebells in the rank of Gen- 
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 tlemen ; and the matter to be weighed Is, whether, as tliis class is not near so dan- 
 gerous to the publick peace as the other, a totall and undistinguisliing execution of the 
 law might not sour the minds of their innocent Relations and Friends, who are numerous, • 
 and create a generall commisseration, which might with time have more dangerous 
 eitects than those that could result from the ingratitude of such of them as should be 
 pardoned. But to the attainders of such of them as shall be judged necessary to be 
 pimished, it would appear proper the same guards should be added as to those of the 
 Highlanders. 
 
 But, whatever Resolution shall be taken touching the Acceptance of the Surrenders 
 already mentioned, and on the Conditions already hinted, or others, a law ought to be 
 made, without loss of time, making it Felony, v.-ithout benefite of Clergv, to wear, or 
 have ia the Custody of any persons inhabiting the rebellious Districts, Arms of any kind, 
 after a day to be limited. Some Exceptions and Provisions, to qualifv' this generall 
 regulation, may be necessary, and may be hereafter more deliberately proposed. 
 
 The Security of the Government may also require the disarming that part of the ' 
 Highlands which has of late she\vn a very commendable and useful Zeal. But that 
 measure, one would think, ought not to be taken, untill the Rebells and the rebellious 
 Districts are effectually disarmed, and untill all apprehensions of immediate efforts to 
 be made by France or Spain, in the course of the present "\Var, are over. 
 
 In the course of the Rebellion, numberless excesses were committed by the Rebells, 
 by which innocent Subjects suffered ; and those were of 2 kinds. In some Cases, ge- 
 nerall taxations were forcibly levied, by certain Rules of proportion fixed by them ; in 
 others, particular persons, and some times Bodys Corporate, were taxed, pillaged, and 
 oppressed, on account of their zeal for the Government. 
 
 Whatever Resolution may be come to, as to the first of those Cases, it seems highly 
 just, as well as expedient, that the 2^ Class should be indemnified, if not rewarded, for 
 their fidelity ; and as, in law, every accessary to that great Ryot, the Rebellion, would 
 be liable to make good the damage sustained by ever)- Indi\-idual against whom the force 
 that did the damage was directed, one should think that some Provision should be made, 
 either by act of Parliament or by the act of the Crown, for the indemnification of such 
 persons out of the Estates of the forfeiting Rebells ; and it would be well if a distinction 
 could be thought of, between the case of those who payed their severall taxations by reall 
 compulsion, and such as wanted compulsion only for a cover ; and this may be fur- 
 ther considered, as well as the method to ob\iate frauds in the Settlement of Rebells 
 Estates. 
 
 As numbers of Persons in this neighbourhood, who say they are innocent, and (as 
 they have Certificates) have probably been guilt)- of no overt act, are Suitors for pro- 
 tection, apprehending ravage from the march or neighbourhood of the Troops, it would 
 seem protections ought to be ordered for them ; because these will prevent the imme- 
 diate ruin of Men who may be innocent, and will not prevent their punishment if 
 sulKcient information shall make them objects of tr)-all. 
 
 In hke manner, where any person may have been committed on suspicion without 
 sufficient Evidence, such person may be dismissed for the present, to avoid Complaints 
 of imnecessary severits", and the Compassion thence arising. 
 
 In some Districts, particularly amongst the IVIackenzies, where Lord Fortrose zealously 
 exerted all his power to keep ills kindred In order, severall Gentlemen whose principles 
 were dubious keeped themselves within the law ; but some of their tennents, and the 
 idlest poor of the young fellows in their Estates, were said to be forced out by the 
 E. of Cromartie, Barisdale, & others. Their Masters are now soliciting protections. 
 May they not be told, they shall have them, on condition that they give exact Lists of 
 
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 their tennents, and other Inhabitants on their Estates, who have been in arras ; and 
 search for, and deliver up, their amis and their persons so far as xhex can come at 
 them ? 
 
 In deliberatinfj on what is suggested concerning the surrendering of the Commons, 
 consideration ought to be had of what may most probably happen, if such Surrenders 
 are not accepted of ; which probably will be, that some of the nimblest and most de- 
 sperate vdll, with some of their Leaders, keep the Hills, &: shift about from IMountain 
 to Mountain, making inroads from time to time into the adjacent low Countrvs for sub- 
 sistance ; and that the gross of those Mountaineers will, shifting their Garb, disperse 
 themselves over the Countrvs adjacent to the Hills, where a mixture of Irish is spoken, 
 and where the Inhabitants are friendly to them, and there lurk imdiscovered, whilst the 
 hunting them is contiimed ; ready to join in Rebellion, should any fresh Standard be 
 set up, or to resort to any Gangs of Banditti that may take a ftincy to try to live 
 upon prey. 
 
 No. CCCXXVI. 
 
 [The following (also in the President's hand-wTiting) appear to be detached ideas 
 briefly recorded as they occurred ; with the intention of their being afterwards 
 digested, and laid before Ministers :] 
 
 NO severit}- that is necessarj- ought to be dispensed v.'ith. The omitting such 
 severitys Cruelty to the Kingdom. 
 
 Unnecessary severirs's create pity. Pity from imnecessary severitjs the most dan- 
 gerous ; nurse to disaffection, especially if continued for any time. And therfor it is 
 of the outmost consequence, on this Occasion, to weigh well what is necessary to be 
 done in the way of just punishment ; to the end it may be speedily done ; and to con- 
 sider whether, and how far, it is consistent with the future tranquility of the Kingdom 
 to restrain merited pxmishment, and to extend immerited mercy. 
 
 No reasonable person can think the punishment of the Leaders of this fierce & de- 
 sperate Rebellion severe, since the abuse of the lenirj- shewn in the prosecution of the 
 last Rebellion aggravates their Gmlt, and shows it to be unsafe for the PubKck to trust 
 to that Gratitude which might be expected from mercy shewn to men of such principles ; 
 and if the punishment of such shall be resolved on, it may be speedily executed by the 
 iimnediate tryall of such as are in custody, and by the attainder of others. 
 
 It is to be doubted, whether affecting the Crowd of the common people with the 
 punishment legally and justly due to their Crimes might not be construed an imne- 
 cessary severity, and therefore do more harm than good, by raising Pity : the rather, 
 that it is most certainlv true, that great numbers of them were compelled to join the 
 active Rebells, by threats which were justly terrible to them. 
 
 On this head, it may not be improper to recollect, that all those whose Principals 
 are Jacobites have not actually rebelled ; that their numbers are much greater than 
 those of the Rebells who were in arms j and that they \\ill, probably, be disposed to 
 
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 propagate such Sentiments amongst the lukewarm, or even amongst the weaker part 
 of the well affected, as niav be most mischievous to the Government. 
 
 Of the Rebells present at the late Battel, supposed to be 8000, about one half are 
 probably destroyed, or in Custody. Had the whole perished there, the Pretender's - 
 parr\- would have been by so much the weaker, and their fete would neither have 
 moved pit}', nor furnished any Argument to Jacobites to sour weak minds against the 
 Government. 
 
 But if the common people who escaped from that Battell are sought after, and to 
 a Man destroyed, tho' the Pretender will thereby have lost so many hands, it is a 
 question, whether the Complaints of the disaffected, and the Compassion thence 
 naturallv arising on the minds of weak persons that are not disaffected at present, may 
 not furnish a much stronger recruit to that villainous cause in a short time. 
 
 If any method can be fallen upon, at the expence of pardoning the least mischievous 
 of the Commons of the Plighland Clans, to transport the most active and dangerous to 
 America*, where they might be of use to the Crown and to the King-dom, it would 
 probablv be to the taste of all that part of Scotland that borders with them, could be 
 complained of by nobody, and would in some degree yield the securitj' proposed. 
 
 And it is probable, that if they were in a proper manner given to understand, that, 
 upon a fair surrender of their arms and of their persons to the King's mercy, no 
 fiirther hardship would ensue, than the draughting some of their able-bodied Men 
 for the defence or improvement of some foreign Colonies, a surrender might follow. 
 
 But such hopes of mercy ought only to be given upon the Clan or Districts giving 
 an exact List of all who in such Clan or District carried Arms ; upon a fair re- 
 gistering the names of all such as shall surrender, and entering also the names of 
 such as may stand out ; and upon a Consent by such as shall surrender to forfeit the 
 indulgence expected, if ever they shall be found wearing arms on any occasion, or 
 harbouring any of their Clan or District who shall not have surrendered. 
 
 And as to the thieving Countries of Glengary, Lochaber, Sec. it may be considered 
 whether the Inhabitants mav not, by a temporarv law, be confined to their own Dis- 
 tricts, under the penalty of Fellony if they shall be found 6 miles -nithout the limits 
 prescribed ; except they have a licence from a proper officer, to be named by the 
 CrowTi. 
 
 No. CCCXXVII. 
 
 The Lord Lyon to the Lord President. 
 My dear Lord, 
 
 THE latter end of last week, I was obliged to go to the Country ; else had 
 then acquainted your Lop that I show'd your letter where I thought it proper ; & at 
 
 ♦ This suggestion of the Lord President's would appear to have been acted upon ; for, about the begin- 
 ning of Ju'.y 1746, a special free pardon passed the Great Seal to upwards of 100 rebels ; provided they 
 would transport themselvet to His Majesties plantations abroad. 
 
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 last the D. of Newcastle took it from me, to show to the Chancellor ; and I am told, 
 they do not propose to bring in any Bills relative to Scotland this Session, except 
 the Meeting-house bill, and that for discharging the Highland dress ; which, I am just 
 now told, would be brought into our house by the Attorney General in a day or two. 
 For my own part, I am yet, in my private opinion, for the bill ; not being comdnced 
 against it ; but as I understood that your Lo'p Iff my friend M^Leod ivere agaimt it, I 
 
 have objected to it, and asked the Duke of H what Crimes had the Campbells, 
 
 Sutherlands, IM'Leods, INTunro's, IVrKayy, Sec. been guiln' of, that ti.ey should -be 
 punished by the legislature whilst they were in arms for the Govenunent ? which did 
 puzle ; & was answered, the Whig Clans might be excepted : which I said would not 
 do ; the thing must be general, or could have no effect. Meantime, I skould be 
 glad to be con\Tnced, & armed ■with proper objections. As to the Meeting-house bill, 
 my Lords Tweeddale, "Winchelsea, & Sandvs, have shown great zeal ; & at first in- 
 sisted on all those forfeiting their emplovments who had been twice at a IMeeting-house 
 since Sept. 1 745. But this is over-ruled ; only they have this day agreed to incapaci- 
 tate for the future all persons in Scotland from holding employments .that resort to 
 the nonjuring Meeting-houses ; and to incapacitate Peers from voting in Elections that 
 have been twice at a nonjuring Meeting-house since Sept. 1745. And in short no such 
 person can vote in the chusing of a magistracy at Edin' & other places, whereby they 
 think thev can secure a Whicr maristracv. 
 
 I have mentioned your Lop's great expenses in this and the last Rebellion ; and I 
 find the Duke of Newcastle chooses to see you here, before any further Scotch laws 
 are made, of which you will be more properly acquainted. 
 
 ^Iv Lord Stair, who opposes the Dress Bill, bids me make you his Compliments ; 
 and the Duke of Newcastle assures me, that, notwithstanding his differing o.fr/j you 
 as to Mercy, that you are a great favourite of the Duke's. 
 
 I have the honour to be. 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your's most faithfully, 
 London, July 1" 1746. ALEX'^ BRODEE. 
 
 Xo. CCCXXVIII. 
 
 The Lord President to Mr. George Ross. 
 
 D^ G. 2" July 1 746. 
 
 THO' I have very Utle time, I cannot abstain from, transmitting to you the in- 
 closed Copy of so much of a letter from S' Everard Fawkner as I received this 
 afternoon, in answer to mine concerning M' W"" Murrav. I presume his Brother has 
 seen a Copy of the Letter from me, to which the enclosed extract is an answer ; and 
 as I (for the reasons which I mentioned in my last to you on this subject) have not 
 as yet forwarded my Lord's to Fort Augustus, I am still in doubt, whether it is better 
 now to do it, or to let it alone imtill I have the honour to see the Duke ; unless my 
 Lord should direct otherways upon seeing my last to you on this subject ; and it is 
 mv present purpose, to keep m.v Lord's in my hands untill the Duke come this 
 way, if I shall not be otherwise directed ; as judgeing that teizing the Duke at 
 present is not so likely to have a good effect, as suffering things to cool a litle. I 
 shall, however, depend upon it that I shall soon hear from you what my Lord wishes, 
 & I shall conduct myself accordingly. 
 
 Let my Lord know that by the very first opportunit)' I shall write again as from 
 myself to S' Everard. 
 
 No. CCCXXIX.
 
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 No.CCCXXIX. 
 
 Copy of the Paragraph of S' E. Fawkner's Letter referred to In the preceding. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 AS the bag was opened under his Royal Highness's Tent, I laid before him the 
 letter your Lop did me the honour to write to me of the 21'', before I had read it. 
 Since, his R. Highness has been pleased to tell me, I might send your Lop's Letter 
 to the D. of Newcastle ; but how far he may think fit to interfere by application to 
 his ISIajestv, I cannot take upon myself to say. Your Lop's Letter sets poor Lord 
 Dunmore's distress in a very strong light, &: I feel for him sensibly ; but there is a 
 ■wildness in the conduct of those people that one does not know how to account for, 
 but from the blind dependance they are all in upon France. I suppose the late very 
 extraordinary Letter we have seen will make them quite mad, &c. 
 
 Fort Augustus, June 25"' ^ 
 
 1746. 
 
 Xp. cccxxx. 
 
 The Duke of Newcastle to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Whitehall, 3"* July 1746. 
 
 I HAVE received the honour of your Lordship's Letter of the 19"" past; and have 
 acquainted his Majest)^ with the Representation which the Court of Session had desired 
 you to make, with regard to the appointing a Judge to supply the place of the late Lord 
 Balmerino. Your Lordship, I believe, is acquainted with his Majesty's intention to 
 nominate M' Craigie, late Lord Advocate of Scotland, to supply that vacancy ; and I 
 conclude it will not be long before that Promotion is made. In the mean time, I hope 
 the Judges of the Court of Seffion, who have been indisposed, will be so far recovered 
 as to be able to attend the dut}^ of their Oiiice ; and that the delay there has been in 
 supplying the present Vacancy will not have been attended with any Inconvenience to 
 the public Service. 
 
 I take this opportunit)- of returning your Lordship my thanks for your Letter of May 
 the 19"' from Inverness. The several points therein mentioned (relating chiefly to the 
 Commissions which were sent to your Lordship in September last, for Twenty 
 Independent Companies, and to the pav of these Companies) will not fail to be duly 
 considered, and settled as soon as possible. 
 
 Your Lordship will give me leave to congratulate you most heartily (as I think I may 
 now do) upon the total suppression of the late wicked Rebellion. His Royal Highness 
 the Duke has upon all occasions done ample Jusdce to the active and unwearied Zeal 
 your Lordship has shewTifor promoting His Majesty's Service, & for defeating & disap- 
 pointing the views and designs of the Rebels. I have already, by the King's Order, 
 expressed to his Royal Highness His Majest\''s entire satisfaction in your Lordship's 
 Conduct ; and it is with great pleasure I take this opportunity of assuring you, that the 
 King has the truest sense of the great and useful Services your Lordship has performed 
 in this critical Conjuncture. 
 
 I am with the greatest truth and respect, 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant, 
 
 HOLLES NEWCASTLE. 
 
 , . No. CCCXXXL
 
 a88 CULLODEX PAPEES. 
 
 Xo. CCCXXXI. 
 
 The Duke of Cumberland's Commiffion to I\Ir. James Fraser, of Castle Leathers. 
 
 (His Royal 
 Highness's Seal.) 
 
 WHEREAS Simon Lord Fraser, ofLo\'at, has been guilty of various treasonable 
 practices Sc acts of Rebellion against his ^lajestie Sc his Goverimient, and is for the 
 same detained in Custody in order to abyde the tryall of his Peers ; and as he is possest 
 of several Lands now in Culture, many of w hich have now quantities of Grain and Corns 
 growing on them, and Likewise of the Rights of Saimond Fishing in various waters : 
 To the end, therefore, that the Corn and Grain growing upon the Lands, and the fish, 
 may be preserved for the use & support of his ;Majest}"'s forces in these parts, rill his 
 Peers shall have given sentence upon those matters he stands charged vdxh ; it is fitting 
 &: convenient that a proper person should be appointed to take care of the same. A 
 verie good Report ha\dng been made of the suiEciency & abiUty of you, James Fraser, 
 of Castle Leathers, you are hereby authorized & impowered to take into your Charge 
 the several Lands belonging or lately belonging to Lord Lovat hereafter named ; that 
 is to sav, the Lands of Castledouny, Westerdouny, Cullrinie, Fanellan, Tomach, Lovat, 
 Muniack, Bruiack, and the fishings of the water ; and' you shall carefully presers-e 
 the Grass growing thereon for the L'^se of the Troops in the Winter, and the Corn of 
 the several sorts you shall cause to be gathered for the use of the Troops likewise, 
 keeping ane Account thereof ; nor shall you suffer any Cattle to graze on the ground, 
 but such as ther may be orders for from the Commanding OfEcers of His Majesty's 
 forces at Inverness. And such Fish as mav be taken in the Waters vou shall send to be 
 divided among the King's Troops at Invernes ; except such Ouanritv^s as it may be neces- 
 sary to sell, to raise INIoney for defraj-ing the expence of fishing. And you are hereby 
 likewise impowered to appoint such other persons as vou may think fitt in the perform- 
 ance of this service. And for your so doing this shall be to Intents and Purposes your 
 full ard sufficient Warrant and Authorit}-. 
 
 Head Quarters at Fort Augustus, the 4" day of July 1746. 
 
 By his Royal Highness the Duke's Command. Signed Everard Fawkener. To 
 James Fraser, of Castle Leathers, Esq'. 
 
 No. CCCXXXII. 
 
 The Lord President to the Lord Lyon. 
 
 My ven" good Lord Lyon, 
 
 I AM ob%ed to you for yours of the i'' Ins'. I think our Ministers do well in not 
 precipitating the projefted Bills, v^hich I imderstand are intended for preventions of any 
 future Rebellion, until the projects are well weighed, & so adjusted as to have the Ef- 
 fect without doing any considerable Mischief. I am not satisfied that what I have heard 
 spoken of, relating to the Ward-holdings and jurisdictions could be of any great Service. 
 The Meeting-house Bill bids fair to put an end to a practice, illegal in itself, which has 
 been attended with bad Consequences. The most important Medicine for the E%-il un- 
 der which the Nation has so long suffered, & from which it has lately been in so great 
 Danger, is the Disarming Bill ; which I am told is ordered to be brought in. If this 
 Bill is properly framed, & the due Execution of it judicioully pro-vided for, it may be of 
 
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 of infinite semce ; as it must in time make the Inhabitants of the Mountains as inoffensive 
 & as Httle dangerous to the State, as their Neighbours in the Low Cuunirv ; and I hope 
 the Undertakers of this Bill know the Condition, the Temper, & the iVIanners of the 
 Highlanders, together with the Defects of the former provisions, & the Ways of supply- 
 ing them, W'cll enough to enable them to make the Scheme now projected complete. 
 
 With respect to the Bill for altering the Highland dress, which, if I understand any- 
 thing, is no more than a chip in porridge, which, \nthout disarming, fignifies not one 
 halfpenny ; and, an eflectual Disarming supposed, is of no Sort of Inconvenience to the 
 neighbouring Country or to the Government ; I do not wonder that you, & a great 
 many wise men w here you are, who know nothing at all of the Matter, should incUne 
 to it. The Garb is certainly very loose, & fits Men inured to it, to go through great 
 fatigues, to make very quick Marches, to bear out against the Lidemency of the Weather, 
 to wade through Rivers, & shelter in Huts, Woods, k Rocks upon Occasion ; which Men 
 ■dress'd in the Low Country Garb could not possibly endure. But then it is to be con- 
 sidered, that as the Highlands are circumstanced at present, it is, at least it seems to 
 me to be, an utter Impossibility, without the advantage of this Dress, for the Inhabitants 
 to tend their Cattle, &: to go through the other parts of their Business, without which 
 they could not subsist ; not to speak of paying Rents to their Landlords. Now, be- 
 cause too many of the Highlanders have offended, to punish all the rest who have not, 
 and who I will venture to say are the greatest Number, in so severe a manner, seems to 
 me unreasonable ; especially as, in my poor Apprehension, it is unnecessary, on the 
 supposal the disarming project be properly secured ; and I must confess, that the 
 Salvo which you speak of, of not suffering the Regulation to extend to the well-affected 
 Clans, is not to my taste ; because, tho' it would save them from Hardships, yet the 
 making so remarkable a Distinction would be, as I take it, to list all those on whom the 
 JBill should operate for the Pretender ; w hich ought to be avoided if possible. It is for 
 these reasons, which my Occupations make it impossible for me to explain at length, 
 that I wish this Clause might be dropp'd ; the rather that if any Reasons of State, which 
 I cannot judge of, because I have not been acquainted with them, make it necessary, a 
 Bill to that purpose might be contrived, with much less harm to innocent persons than 
 probably the framersofthis project have thoughts of. 
 
 I cannot possibly take time to say any more than that 
 
 I am your 
 Edinburgh, S"* July 1746. . DUN. FORBES. 
 
 Note. — President Forbes's ideas regarding that part of the bill affefting the Highland dress seem very 
 just. The Enghsh Readers, and most of the Scotch, will be surprised to understand that the Kilt or 
 Pheliebeg was not the antient Highland garb, but was introduced into the Highlands about 1 720 by one 
 Thomas Rawlinson, an Englishman, who was overseer to a Company carrying on iron works in Glengarr)-'$ 
 Country. The convenience of the dress soon caused it to be universally adopted in the Highlands This 
 circumstance is fully explained in a letter from Evan Baillie Esq. of Aberiachan, a gentleman of undoubted 
 veracity, dated 1769, and inserted in the Edinburgh Magazine for 1785. 
 
 -No. CCCXXXIII. 
 
 The Earl of Dunmore to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Kensington, July lo"', 1746. 
 
 BEING in waiting here, I received late last night from M' Ross a Copy of Sir E. 
 
 Fawkener's Letter to your Lop of the 25"" of June, and hkewise of your Letter to him ; 
 
 by which I am extreamly pleased to see that you intende to write again to Sir E. 
 
 r P Fawkener
 
 290 CULLODEX PAPERS. 
 
 Fawkener upon the same subject, and to give the Letter to H. R. H. that I had the 
 honor of -nriting to him, when he comes to Edinburgh. Both which, with vour Lop's 
 friendship and intercession, I hope %vill have the wish'd-for success ; for which I shall 
 have such obligations to you that I can never forget. I am extremely concerned to hear. 
 Reports have been raised to mv Brother's disadvantage, which is not of a piece with 
 his surrendering himself to [the] King's mercy, and remaining three weeks without a 
 Guard ; nor A^ith a Letter I have had from him since he surrendered himself prisoner ; 
 and I flatter myselfe it is so inconsistent with his Character in generall, that I hope those 
 Reports are not well founded ; and that therefore they \nll not be added to his too 
 jfreat folHes and crimes already committed. He has acquaintances who know more 
 of his private Character than 1 do ; and I hope, if there should be occasion for it when 
 H. R. H. comes to Edinburgh, that they may be asked about it. I am, with the 
 greatest truth and regard. 
 
 Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant, 
 
 DLTs^MORE. 
 
 No. CCCXXXIV. 
 
 " The Lord President to the Earl of Dunmore. 
 
 My Lord. Ed' 2 2 "i July 1746. 
 
 THO' the Duke has been long expected, he did not arrive till late last night ; 
 & his stay was no longer than between nine that night, & 3 this morning. I waited 
 on his R. H. & thought it was proper to dehver to him your Lop's Letter ; which, I 
 told him, confoimded for your Broyr's offences, you would not have taken the libert)' 
 of writeing unless I had sollicited you to do it. I said what appeared to me to be fit 
 on that occasion ; &: H. R. H. said, he was concerned for what you must feel, & that 
 he would speak to vou so soon as he saw you. I take hold of the quickest convey- 
 ance I can meet with, to let you know what happened on this occasion. As the Duke 
 exprest himself with sentiments of great kindness to your Lop, I doubt not you will 
 feel the effects of it in relation to what you have so much at heart, ;?c with so great 
 reason. I delivered yours also to S' Everard. Your Lop will not doubt, that on this 
 occasion I have done what you had reason to expect from 
 
 Your most faithful! ^ most humble Ser', 
 
 D.R 
 
 No. CCCXXXY. 
 
 Lady Margaret IMacdonald to the Lord President. 
 
 3*Iy Lord,- 
 
 YOUR Lordship can't yet be a Stranger to the trouble which has been lately 
 Ijrought upon this Island by the indiscretion of a foolish Girl, with whom the unhappy 
 disturber of this Kingdom landed at this place ; tho' I cannot but look on myself and 
 family as peculiarly favoured by Heaven, in drawing that unlucky Visitant so quickly 
 away from the place of his landing, that there was no room for considering Him as a 
 Person in Disguise ; far less my knowing any thing of it. I must, at the same time, 
 not onlv lo> k upon myself, but the whole Countrv, as greatly suffermg from the hurt 
 it is likely he has done to the Man into whose House he intruded himself that night ; 
 I mean Kingsborrow ; a Man well known for his singular honestv, integritv and pru- 
 dence, in all occurrencies of Life, before that unhappy night ; a man of such con- 
 
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 CULLODEN PAPERS. 
 
 291 
 
 sequence, and so well lik'd in this Country, tliat if the Pretender's Son had done no 
 other hurt to it but the ruining this single Man, it could not but render him odious to 
 their posterity. This is, my Lord, what occasions giving you this trouble. I'm very 
 sensible of my own insufficiency, and what a bad cause 1 have to plead for ; but when 
 I reflect what esteem your Lop has for worthy Men, and how much of your Life has 
 been employed to serve them m distress, I must upon these Considerations, and the 
 regard your Lordship has always shewn to Sir Alex' and his family, without ceremony 
 beg your Lordship to contribute your good Offices in behalf of this Man, whose crime 
 I won't venture to extenuate ; but yet I am certain it was accidental, and proceeded 
 rather from an Excess of Good-nature, and Compassion upon a miserable person, who 
 threw himself into his Mercy, then from any disloyalty or rebellious principles. I am 
 not mistress of Eloquence enough to flatter myself with being able to persuade your 
 Lop to do any thing in favours of this unfortunate Gentleman, who indeed I have much 
 at heart to serve, both on account of his own personal Merit, and the use he is of in 
 Sir Alex" Affairs. I must once more beg your Lordship will undertake his Cause, and 
 I shall not be afraid of any Enemies he may have drawn upon himself, as it is much in 
 your power to give this affair quite a different turn from the Light it has been repre- 
 sented in to the Duke. His Majesty's Clemency and Mercy will certainly extend to many 
 of the unhappy Transgressors ; and as several of the worst of the people may chance 
 to escape punishment, it would be great Pity one of the best should suffer, for a Crime 
 he never intended against the State. 
 
 Your Lordship will do me the Justice to believe I'm not ungrateful for the least of 
 your favours ; and if I am at this time so happy as to procure your friendship to ICings- 
 borrow, I shall reckon it among the luckiest Articles of my Life, and the greatest 
 obligation you can put upon, . . 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's 
 
 Most obd' humble Serv' 
 Sky, July 24'", 1746. MAR. MACDONALD. 
 
 Note — Lady M. Macdonald was a Daughter of the Earl of Eglintor, and a Lady of great worth and 
 accomplishments. 
 
 No. CCCXXXVI. 
 
 Sir Alex' Macdonald to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Fort Augustus, 29"' July 174(1. 
 
 AS my campaigning is now at an end, and begun under your inspection, you 
 might reasonably expect from me some Account of that part of it which has passed since 
 we parted ; but your Lordship will forgive me, as I am no good Historian, and take it 
 in scraps as I have the pleasure to chat ■with you sometimes when we meet. One thing 
 I will venture to give you a minute detail of ; the misfortune of Kingsborrow, now sent 
 a prisoner to Edin'. When the young Pretender made his unhappy visit to Skye, from 
 South Uist, in a small boat, he landed near my house, in woman's clothes, by way of 
 being maid-servant to one Florence Macdonald, a Girl of Clanranald's family, now a 
 prisoner with General Campbell. Miss Macdonald went and made a visit to Lady 
 Margaret, dined with her, and put her into the utmost distress by telling her of the 
 Cargo that she had brought from Uist. She called on Kingsborrow, who was at 
 Mugstot accidentally, and they had a very confused consultation together ; and it was 
 agreed to hurry him off the Country as fast as possible. The method Kingsborrow 
 
 p p 2 took
 
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 CULLOBEN' P.VPERS. 
 
 took ■was, to meet him about two miles from my house, in the way to his own. He 
 (the Pretender) accosted him with telling him that his life was now in his hands, which 
 he might dispose of ; that he was in the utmost distress, ha\Tng had no meat or sleep 
 for two days and two nights, sitting on a Rock beat upon by the rains ; and when they 
 ceased, ate up bv flvs ; conjured him to shew compassion but for one night, and he 
 should be gone. 'This moving speech prevailed, and the visible distress, for he was 
 maiofre, ill coloured, and overrun with the scab ; so thev went to Kingsborrow's house, 
 where he lay that night ; and he furnished him a horse to carry him seven miles next 
 day to Portree. There he found, accidentally, a small Rasay boat, into which he put 
 foot and disappeared all at once. A few davs after. Gen' Campbell came to my house, 
 which Captain Ferguson had already searched. Kingsborrow was called upon to assist 
 in tracting the Pretender, which he imdertook to do as far as he could, and told the 
 General, that he had seen him, but in such misery that he could not lay hands on him ; 
 and the General promised not to discover what he had done. Kingsborrow was active 
 to the General's satisfaction ; but the Bird was flown, and had got to the main land. 
 The Women about Kingsborrow's house, being examined, discovered the Pretender 
 had been there. When I went to wait of General Campbell, he told me he could not 
 be answerable not to secure him, on the e\idence of the women ; but that he should 
 have his choice either to remain a prisoner with him, or go with me to the Duke, and 
 that he would write to His Ro\^ Highness in his favours. Kingsborrow chose to come 
 to this place, and got the General's letter, which he read to us and sealed. On ar- 
 rrvine here, the Duke ordered Sir Everard Fawkener to examine him ; and since, he 
 has been confined, and now sent to Edin". I used my little Rhetoric with the Duke ; 
 but he stopt my mouth, by sa\Tng, that this man had neglected the greatest piece of 
 Service that could have been done ; and if he was to be pardoned, you have too much 
 good sense to think this the proper time ; as it would encourage others to follow his 
 example. 
 
 I need not tell vour Lordship how much I am concerned for the man's misfortime ; 
 nor need I beo- vour assistance in a thing I have so much at heart as the Safetv of this 
 man, because I have alwavs found you friendly in every thing that concerned me. I 
 am with the usual attachment, 
 
 * Mv Dear Lord, Yom^, 
 
 ALEX\ ^LVCDONALD. 
 
 Along with this is a scrawl from my Wife, who does not know that her name has 
 been mentioned. 
 
 Xo. CCCXXXVII. 
 
 ^Ir. Donald Macdonald, of Castletown, to the Lord President. 
 
 'My Lord, 
 
 I BELIE\T1 ere this leter shall come to your hands, you shall hear of the 
 death of S^ Alexander Macdonald, who died at Bemera, in Glenelg, on Sunday the 
 23^ of last month. He arrived at that place on Wednesday the 19'\ was that night 
 taken ill of a pkuresv, which carried him off in four days. Your Lordship's intimacy 
 with this Gentleman for many years made you thoroughly acquaint his character ; and 
 therefore I sh^ll not ventvtre to speak much cf it in this leter. Only allow me to say, 
 that he was a downright honest Man, true to his friend, & firm to his word. By his 
 death we of his Clan lost a father, and the King a good subject. Lady Margaret bears 
 her afiliction with chat patience and resignation which become a Christian and a Woman 
 
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 CULLODEN 1»APEKS. 293 
 
 of prudence ; and there is nothing wherein his friends can show a greater regard for 
 his Memory, than by doing all the good offices in their power to his Lady & Infant 
 Children. There is, my Lord, one particular in which she has ordered me to solicite 
 your interest, at a time she is not in a condition to write to you ; and that is, in behalf 
 of Mr. M'Donald, of Kingsborrow, now a Prisoner in the Castle of Edinborough. 
 That Gentleman has been a principal manager of the affairs of the family of Macdonald 
 for twenty-eight years, and did always discharge his trust with faithfullness and dili- 
 gence. And, as by his long management, he is best acquainted with the affairs of the 
 family, so there cannot be no greater service at present done her and her Children, 
 than that he should be sett at libert)', and reinstated in his former Office. Your 
 Lordship also knows how serviceable Sir Alex' Macdonald also was in suppressing the 
 late Rebelhon : and, tho' he has not lived to receive any favors suitable to his services, 
 yet it is hoped they are not so forgott, but that they shall be remembered to his Lady 
 and Children ; and they would take the liberation of the Gentleman in the Castle as 
 ■d'A earnest of the regard of the Government for them ; but how or in what manner 
 this favour can be procured Lady Margaret leaves entirely to your Lordship's Judge- 
 ment. I am, as I ought to be, with the greatest esteem. 
 
 My Lord, • - '- 
 
 - Your most obedient, and most 
 
 obliged humble Servant, 
 Armldale, 1 DONALD MACDONALD, 
 
 } 
 
 Dec's'', i74'5. 
 
 No. CCCXXXVIII. 
 
 Mr. Mac Leod to the Lord President. 
 
 My dear Lord, ' London, Dec' i8'\ 1746, 
 
 THE enclos'd came here last night from Scotland. I waited on the Duke of 
 Gordon, & recommended M' Neil M' Leod to him, to be Minister of Laggan. You 
 may remember he was of the Church Militant, & attended me in my Expedition 
 eastward, & stayed w' the Men constantlie till they were sent home ; & preached 
 sound Doctrine, & really w"as both zealous & serviceable. The Duke agrees, that 
 anie one you recommend have his interest ; & as M' Clark is gone to Hornwa, I 
 hope you will recommend M"^ Neil ; k -wTiteing to M' Gordon, the Curator, will be 
 sufficient, & what the Duke desires. The Curator likewise told me, he would be very 
 willing to serve him on my Ace'. 
 
 I saw unhappy Lovat to-day. Except for the feebleness of his Limbs, his looks are 
 good. He asked me several general questions, & particularlie about you ; said he 
 was resigned & ready to meet his fate, since it was God's will ; asked after his Chil- 
 dren, &c. I- did not stay till he was dismissed from the Bar of the house of Peers j 
 so I know not what they have done w'' the Petition he w-as to present ; nor if a day 
 is apointed for his Tryal. We continue to gape for news, as no Mail or Express is yet 
 come over. 
 
 Yours, 
 
 NORIVLAND MAC LEOD^ 
 
 No. CCCXXXIX.
 
 a94 Cl'LLODES PAPERS. 
 
 Xo. CCCXXXIX. 
 
 The same to the same. 
 
 My dear Lord, 
 
 I \^'A3 verv glad to find vou safe att Stonyhill the 13". I dare say, all your 
 philosophy was required on the loss of our friend. The first th-ng occurs to rae, w' 
 respect to udlity to his children and family, is Kingsborrovr's Lberation. He is the 
 onlv ]Man of his family fitt or able to manadge the afiairs of his Estate, & the 
 only one of that Ccuntrv kno^y^ to them. W' regard to anie- thing else, vou •vdll be 
 so good as allow John ^PKenzie Dehin talk to you ; as he was his doer, &: pritty 
 much trusted. Probablie, he will know if he has made anie SettlementSj & what they 
 are ; Sc vou can then judge what is net to be done. I only obser\-e to you w' regard 
 to K — , I have made no applicadon till I hear from you, ^- that vou act & direct 
 me as vou see cause. 
 
 Lovatt behaved well at the Barr of the House of Peers, &: they say w^ spirit. 
 Gr?.^'.:".'^ i: Bach spoke verv strongly w- regard to the seizure of his Estate & Effects ; 
 :\ ■':.:.: .. .: r is ordered to be rectified, except in as far as pri\-ate Creditors come in 
 the way. Some sav, the Austrians &: Piedmonrese are moving towards Toulon, & 
 others towards Aix 5c Marseils. It's certain, BelLLlle retires before them, Sc that the 
 Spaniards had not joined him. We had ane odd Story firom Court to-day, that the 
 iS.oco Dutch Prisoners in France had made their escape: some say to Holland; & 
 others sav, have joined the Austrians in Provence. A good many Austrian Omcers 
 have been kiil'd in the Insurrection att Genoa. It was reported, the K — said ves- 
 terdav, att his Levee, that they had brought that misfortune on themselves. Many 
 of vour friends 6: acquaintances here enquire after you. S' Arthur is at Bath, w* I 
 believe I told you before. 
 
 Tours, 
 London, Dec' :o-, 1746. N. M. L. 
 
 Pray remember my Militant Churchman, Neil Mac Leod. 
 
 Xo. CCCXL. 
 
 Sir Andrew Mitchell to the Lord President. 
 
 My Dear Lord, London, ::6''^ December 1746. 
 
 THIS will be delivered to you by our friend M' Dmnimond, who will give you 
 an account of his own transacdcns, & of what he has seen and obser\ed here. The 
 part he h;s engaged to act appears to me extremely diScuit ; and, as his friend, I 
 have charged him to have often recourse to yo'or Lordship's judgment and opinion. 
 
 I had the honour of your's of the 1 6th, which gave me sincere pleastrre: as I cou'd not 
 avoid ha\ing a great anxiety about vou, for attempting so long a journey in an untryed 
 machine, and at so rude a Season of the Year : but I thank heaven, that you are got 
 safe home, and have had spirits to bear the severe shock which the loss of so 
 valuable a friend as Sir A. Macdonald must justly occasion. Believe me, my Lord, 
 and I am enthusiast on this point, that, firom what I have observed of your manner of 
 bearing the cruellest losses and disappointments, I am persuaded, that pro\-idence in- 
 tends you shou'd once more save vour Coimtry : and as an earnest of it, I consider 
 your decree in the case of Capu Hamilton } the hoEour of which is ascribed to vou, 
 
 tho'
 
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 tho' the Bench were unanimous ; for, to speak in the language of the Mathematicians, 
 
 Loid is = o, and 1 find he is so considered here. One circumstance gives 
 
 me pleasure, th ;t the decree vas made before the order of the House of Lords 
 for putting Lord Lovat into possession. Your Lop will have heard an account of 
 Lord Lovat's behaviour ; and therefore I shall not trouble you with the particulars; 
 only I must observe, there was neither dignity nor gravity in it : he appeared quite 
 unconcerned; and what he said v. as ludicrous and buflbonish ; but his petition was 
 bold and well worded ; which, however, would have been passed over without notice, 
 had not L ' Granville bounced, and Lord Bath vapoured, and procured an order to be 
 entered in the Journal ; and have by that acquired to themselves a sort of popularity 
 which you know they very much wanted. No Scots Nobleman spoke on this occasion; 
 they are prudent and cautious. God bless them! 
 
 As to the affairs of Scotland, I am convinced that no Man in the Administration has 
 had one serious thought about them since you left this place ; one only excepted, 
 whose labours for the good of his Country are incessant ; but as he chuses to work 
 in the dark, I can give no account of his progress, only that I fear he will be suc- 
 cessful!. 
 
 I will not trouble you wich the foreign news, as that will reach you by the Gazettes 
 before this can. The Duke is expected over soon ; and it is given out, that the Dutch 
 hava agreed to every thing. However, some people talk of secret stipulations as to 
 certain articles of expence. One thing I must mention to you, as it is still in your 
 power to retrieve it. You have done an injury to Hercules, without intending it. Your 
 motives of action are, to Rlinisters of State, incomprehensible. Take this for an Ex- 
 ample, and be convinced : A Gentleman that I can trust, but who is unknown to your 
 Lop, told me, he happened to be by when your Son was spoke of to M Pelham ; 
 and somebody said, he deserved a mark of the King's favour. M'P. said, if you had a 
 Son, sure you must know him best ; and, had he been fit for any thing, wou'd cer- 
 tainly have mentioned him, as he (M' P.) and you were upon so good a footing. This is 
 hard & unjust to poor Hercules, who will never be a discredit to any family ; audit is 
 a pity that the father's virtue should be imputed to the Son for folly. I, therefore, take 
 the liberty to propose, that you should write a letter to M' Pelham, to be delivered by 
 Hercules, & to serve as an Introduction. I will go along with him, or any other of 
 . your friends that you please to name ; and I need not add, that y.u will take no notice 
 of the fact above mentioned. 
 
 Another thing is likewise fit that you shou'd know, because the Parties concerned 
 imagine you have done them ill offices. My neighbour Sir J. Gordon, soon after you 
 was gone, hinted to me, as if some expressions of yours concerning the E. of Cromarty 
 had retarded the favours he expected from the Crown. I said, that was impossible, 
 because I knew your opinion was that the mercy shou'd be compleat ; and that I 
 was well assured, that you had signified so much to the Ministers. He told me, I 
 was mistaken ; that his Authority was too good to be doubted, and alluded to some- 
 thing that had passed between the P. of Wales and your Lordship. As he spoke 
 with an air of mystery, I seemed not to understand him, but insisted that he was the 
 dupe of his own jealousy and anxiety, &c. I find likewise, that all the nonsense and 
 stuff that G. R. has talked is very unjustly imputed to your Lordship ; and I make no 
 doubt, a certain Brother of youis has had hints of this ; which at the same time will 
 serve (if he succeeds; to magnify the talents, interest, and industry of my neighbour. 
 
 Amidst your greater occupations, I should not have troubled [youj with these httle 
 matters ; but thai I cannot bear that you, or yours, should suffer unjustly. M' Stan- 
 
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 hope sends you his Compliments, and speaks of you with affection. Ld Harrington 
 has been ill by a surfeit, but is now in a good way. Macleod, I hear, has declared- 
 his Marriage j but I have not seen him nor the Lady since it was pubhck. 
 
 I ever am, with great truth and affection. 
 My dear Lord, 
 
 Your most obUged humble Sers-', 
 
 AND'- IVUTCHELL. 
 
 Xo CCCXLI. 
 
 The Earl of Dimmore to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, . , London, Dec 27*^, 1746. 
 
 ]\r ROSS promised to acquaint you, by the first post, of His Majest)''s great 
 goodness in granting a Pardon to my Brother. I need not say any thing to convince 
 you how easy and happy it has made me ; nor of the satisfaction I have, to find so 
 true a friend in vour Lordship ; whose cordial assistance upon this occasion I shall 
 always remember with the strongest sense of gratitude ; and I shall think myself ex- 
 tremely happy if any opportunity should offer in which I might be of any ser\'ice to 
 you or any of your friends here. I am, with the greatest Regard, 
 
 M\ Lord, 
 ' - Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant, 
 
 DUNMORE. 
 
 ': Xo.cccxLii. 
 
 . The Lord President to Mr. Poyntz. 
 
 D'Sir, _ 27Dec^i746. 
 
 THE great libertj-s which your Benevolence has engaged me to take with you, 
 in talking over what appeared to me to be for the berWce of the Pubhc, are, 
 you see, productive of more. I with great Freedom explained to you what I thuught 
 ought to have been done with respect to M' M Donald of Kingsburrow, S' Alex' Mac- 
 donald's Steward, who contributed to the Young Pretender's escape out of the Isle of 
 Skv, before I left London. It was then my opinion, & it is so still, that in Con- 
 sideration of S' Alex"s signal sentices, his Kinsman and Steward, who had been dra«Ti 
 into this offence bv the Intreatj- of a woman, My Lady M Donald, who was herself 
 surprized mto that request in the manner you have heard of, might wirh considerable 
 advantage to his Majest)-'s service have been pardoned ; &; I was not without Expec- 
 tation, that persons of greater Judgement, on reflection, would sooner or later have 
 come into the same sentiment ; S: to their consideration I left it. But the imexpected 
 Death of S' Alex' M'Donald at Glenelg, as he was on his way to pay his duty to 
 his Majesty and to the Duke at London, lays me under a necessity, from regard to 
 his family, now fatherless, and in dut)' (as the matter appears to me) to the King, to 
 state the matter as it presents itself to my view to you, that you, if it touches you as 
 it does me, may lay it before his Roval Highness on his return from Holland, 
 
 I would not bestow many words in stating to you the loss the Public has met, by 
 the Death of Sir Alex , whose merit the Duke was sufficiently acquainted with. He 
 had gratitude enough to the Crown, from which he had received favours, to make 
 him deliver himself from the Fetter of a Jacobite Education, 6i to arm in support of 
 
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 His Majesty's just Government ; and he h'ad interest enough with liis numerous Kin- 
 dred, whose turn had formerly been malevolent, to bring them to act in conjunction 
 with him totis viribiis. This Gentleman, and at this juncture, is now dead, leaving 
 his Children Infants, his Widow a stranger to the Country where his Estate lies, and 
 no relation of any Consideration to take care of his Fortune or Family ; and, what 
 aggravates their misfortune, M' M' Donald of Kijigsburrow, who had been Sir i\lex''' 
 Steward for many Years, & who alone is acquainted with the state & management 
 of his aifairs, a prisoner for the Crime which 1 have mentioned in the Castle of Edin'. 
 In these Circumstances, that his assistance is very much wished for & wanted, you 
 will readily agree ; that if his Liberation is not inconsistent with the security of the 
 Government, His Majesty's gracious acceptance of the services of Sir Alex', who now 
 is no more, could not be more amply testified to that Kindred, than by making them 
 a present of a Man so necessary for the taking care of the private affairs of the 
 Family. I am sensible it may be suggested, that it is not fit to trust a Man (who, 
 during Sir Alex'' Life, took so wide a step) with the care of the family, now Jie is 
 dead ; but the other side of the Question is also to be attended to ; what may be the 
 consequence, if a Kindred lately recovered from Disaffection shall see a person so 
 necessary for the management of S"^ Alex''' private Fortune, after a long Imprison- 
 ment, tryed, &, if convicted, put to Death ? I would not put the Case of his being 
 tryed and not found Guilty, because the consequence of that would be worse in every 
 view ; & to tell you, without Disguise, my opinion, I should feaj-, that if the Law is 
 carried to its full Extent, there will be great danger of alienating a Kindred, of which 
 His Majesty at present has and may keep possession, and of making them a prey to 
 any Attempt to be made by France & the Pretender. Whereas, if this Man's Dis- 
 mission was made a present of, to the Memory of Sir Alex', I cannot think of any thino- 
 that would be m.ore beneficial to the Family, or agreeable to the Kindred. Ai^d I so 
 little think that he would make a bad use of his Liberty, that I am ready to become 
 Bail for his appearance when called, & for his good behaviour, & I believe M' M-Leod 
 will be willing to join with me in the Securit)'. You see, D' Sir, that I write with 
 some Earnestness on this subject ; & when you are informed, that I have not the 
 least relauon to Sir Alex"^" Family, nor any Connection with his Kindred but what 
 grew from the Service they were of to the Government, I hope you will be satisfied, 
 that Affection and Concern for the Government is what guides my pen on this 
 Occasion, as it has determined my Actions since I could first reason. It" what I have 
 suggested affects you in any Degree as it does me, you will, I knov/, take a proper Oppor- 
 tunity of laying it before the Duke on his arrival ; or make such other use of it as 
 you judge proper. I shall inclose this within one to M' M'^Leod, to be by him sent 
 or delivered to you. 
 
 I hope I need not make use of many words to persuade you, that I am heartily, 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 Your most faithful & most obedient humble Servant, 
 
 DUN. FORBES. 
 
 No. CCCXLIII. 
 
 Some Thoughts concerning the State of the Highlands of Scotland. 
 [In the Lord President's handwriting. Perhaps 1746.3 
 
 WHAT is properly called the Highlands of Scotland, is that large tract of 
 mountainous Ground to the Northward of the Forth and the Tay, where the natives 
 speak the Irish language. 
 
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 The inhabitants of the lands adioimng to the mountains to the north^^-ard of those 
 Rivers, in the shires of Perth, Foriar, Kincardine, Aberdeen, Bann", and Murray, 
 where some sort of Industry has prevailed, and where the soil is tolerable, have for 
 manv vears left off the Highland dress, have lost the Irish language, and have discon- 
 tinued the use of Weapons ; the consequence whereof is, that they cannot be considered 
 as dangerous to the Public peace, and that the laws have their course amongst them. 
 
 The inhabitants of the mountains, unacquainted with industry and the fruits of it, 
 and united in some degree bv the singularit)- of dress and language, stick close to their 
 anrient idle way of life j. retain their barbarous customs and maxims ; depend generally 
 on their Chiefs, as their sovereign Lords and masters ; and being accustomed to the use 
 of Arms, and inured to hard UAing, are dangerous to the public peace ; and must con- 
 tinue to be so, untill, being deprived of Axms for some years, they forget the use of 
 them. From Perth to Inverness, which is above 1 00 measured miles, and from thence 
 to the Western Sea, including the Western Islands, there is no Town or Village of any 
 conse.quence, that could be the Seat of any Court of Justice the least considerable, 
 except Dimkeld, which is within i □ computed miles of Perth ; neither is there any 
 sort of Inn or Accommodation for travellers, excepting a few that have been built on 
 the King's Roads made by Marshall Wade. Of this large tracl: of land, no part is in 
 any degree cultivated, except some spots here and there in Straths or Glens, by the sides 
 of Rivers, brooks, or lakes, and on the Sea Coast and Western Islands. The Grounds 
 that are cultivated \ield small quantities of mean Corns, not sufficient to feed the In- 
 habitants, who depend for their nourishment on milk, butter, cheese, &c. the product 
 of their Cattle. Their constant residence during the harvest, -ninter, and spring, is at 
 their small farms, in houses made of turf ; the roof, which is thatched, supported by 
 timber. In the summer season, thev drive their flocks and herds many miles higher 
 amongst the mountains, where thev have large ranges of coarse pasture. The whole 
 fermly follow the Cattle ; the men to guard them, and to prevent their straj-ing ; the 
 women to milk them, and to look after the butter and cheese, Sec. The places in 
 which they reside when thus employed thev call shoelings, and their habitations are the 
 most miserable huts that ever were seen. 
 
 A Highland Clan is a set of men all bearing the same sirname, and belie^-ing them- 
 selves to be related the one to the other, and to be descended from the same common 
 Stock. In each Clan, there are several subaltern tribes, who own their dependance on 
 their own immediate Chief; but all agree in o-wing allegiance to the Supreme Chief of 
 the Clan or Kindred, and look upon it to be their duty to support him at all ad- 
 ventures. 
 
 The power of this Chief has no foundation in the Laws of the Country. Some chiefs 
 there are that have neither propert}" nor jurisdiction, and the cutting off the present 
 Chief does no more than make way for another. 
 
 Those C!ans or Kindreds affect to herd for the most part together, not choosing (if 
 they can help it) to mix with other kindreds ; tho' sometimes accidents oblige them to 
 take up their habitations in the districts of other Clans ; but still they retain their alle- 
 giance to their proper Chief. 
 
 As those Clans or Kindreds live by themselves, and possess different Straths, Glens, 
 or districts, without any considerable mixture of Strangers, it has been for a great many 
 years impracticable (and hardly thought safe to try it) to give the Law its course amongst 
 the mountains. It required no small degree of Courage, and a greater degree of power 
 than men are generally possessed of, to arrest an offender or a debtor in the midst of 
 his Clan. And for this reason it was, that the Crown, in former times, was obliged to 
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 lands, who by their respective Clans and followings could give execution to the Laws 
 witiiin their several territories, and frequently did so at the expence ot" considerable 
 bloodshed. 
 
 But as the notions of good order and government have been very much improved of 
 late years over all Scotland, excepting the Highlands ; and as the disarming Ad: in the 
 year 1716 disabled the Lords of the several Jurisdictions, who complyed with it, to sup- 
 port the execution of the Laws against armed Highlanders who found means to be pos- 
 sessed of arms ; it seems absolutely necessary that some expedient be devised to restrain 
 and civilize those lawless Highlanders. The description of the Highlands already 
 given shows why, whilst the rest of the Country is generally improving, they continue 
 the prev of their accustomed sloth and barbarity. The Want of Roads, excepting the 
 King's Roads already mentioned, the Want of Accommodation, the supposed ferocity 
 of the inhabitants, and the difference of language, have proved hitherto a bar to all free 
 intercourse between the high and the low lands, and have left the Highlanders m posses- 
 sion of their own idle customs and extravagant maxims, absolute strangers to the ad- 
 vantages that must accrue from Industry, and to the blessing of having those advantages 
 protected by Laws. 
 
 Arms in the hands of men accustomed to the use of them, brought up so hardily as 
 the Highlanders are, obedient to the Will of their Chiefs, who as well as themselves have 
 generally little or nothing to lose, and who entertain strong notions of their o\\-n military 
 prowess, are dangerous to the public peace, and must therefore be taken from them. 
 Tho' all the Arms now in the possession of Highlanders were taken from them, the Go- 
 vernment would not be absolutely secure, so long as the present race, acquainted with 
 the use of Weapons, exists ; because France or Spain, by supplying them with arms, 
 might make them hurtful. But if the Highlanders can be eifectuully debarred from the 
 use of Arms uniill the present generation die out, their Successors, unacquainted with 
 the use of Gun, Sword, or Durk, must be as harmless as the commonality of the ad- 
 jacent Low Countries ; and when they can no longer hve by Rapine, must think of 
 living by Industry. 
 
 It will be no difficult matter to have the disarming Aft executed am.ongst the well- 
 affected Highlanders ; but it will require a considerable standing force, and that for 
 some years, to disarm, and effectually to prevent the use of Arms amongst the rebellious 
 Highlanders. For, as the Districts in which they reside, because of the asperity of the 
 Surface, and the total want of accommodation, and of the common Conveniencys of 
 living, with which his Majestie's other Subjects are accustomed, are seldom if ever 
 visited by Strangers ; the Clan or Kindred may continue to do amongst themselves what 
 they think fit. Offences against the disarming Act may be committed without discovery ; 
 and when discovered, it will be no easy matter to bring the Offenders to justice ; not 
 to mention the possibility of attainted persons, or other emissaries from France, coming 
 amongst them, without the danger of being heard of, far less of being seized* by the 
 Government. 
 
 To obviate these difficulties, it seems absolutely necessary, that some force more or 
 less be placed in the several Straths, Glens, or districts, where those lawless Highland- 
 ers reside ; to keep a constant Communication with each other, to observe whjft passes, 
 and give notice to the next Com.manding Officer, and to execute such orders as they 
 shall receive. 
 
 To effectuate this in the Way the most practicable, and which at the same time would 
 be attended with a train of other advantageous consequences, it is proposed, that five 
 or six different stations in the body of the Highlands be pitched upon ; in each of which 
 .10 or 12 Companies may be placed ; and from which small parties may be detached 
 
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 to the several Straths or Glens, &c. in the neighbourhood of such Stations, to prevent 
 the weariag arms, and all intercourse between the Inhabitants and attainted persons, 
 and to assist in the execution of all Warrants by Civil Officers ; that each Station be 
 secured bv some slight fortification, in the most unexpensive Way, as they are to be 
 made use of no longer than till the disarming Scheme is sufficiently executed. 
 
 That at ever^- such Station a parcel of ground be set off to be built on, bv Sutlers, 
 Butchers, Bakers, Maltsters, and all other tradesmen and dealers who may find their 
 ^\ccount in carr}-ing on their business at those Stations for the Accommodation of the 
 Troops. That power be given to some proper person at each Station to set off the 
 ground that may be fit for anv Undertaker to build on, and that a Properrv in the 
 ground be given to the Undertaker. 
 
 That at the several Stations, Spinning-schools be set up, to draw the idle females of 
 those Countries into that Manufacture ; and that Weavers be stationed there as soon as 
 there is Spinning sufficient to set them to work. 
 
 That so soon as any Collection of industrious people is thus brought together, his 
 Maiest^-do erect the Village, with such further Lands as he shall judge convenient, into 
 a Burgh of Baronv, to be held immediately of the Crown ; and do appoint the ordinary 
 Judo-e the Baron Baillie, to issue all Warrants in hjs INIajestie's name ; in the execution 
 whereof he v,-ill be assisted by the Troops, untill that Country shall be brought to reve- 
 rence the Authoritv of the Law. That in such of those Stations as mav be fijxed on the 
 Sea Coast, encouragement be given to introduce Fishery ; not only for the Convenience 
 of the Troops, but for promoting the trade oi the Nation. 
 
 If such a Project, as it may with attention be improved, were followed, these effecls 
 would probably ensue : 
 
 1'' The Highlanders would be effectually disarmed, and keeped from using arms. 
 2*^'-' The Communication with attainted persons would be rendered difficult, if at all 
 practicable. 
 
 3'^'-'^ In case of anv Invasion, or attempt to raise an insurrection to favour it, early 
 advice would be had ; &, 
 
 4^"'-, Upon such adnce, the troops at the several Stations might draw themselves 
 together, or dispose themselves in the best manner to defeat the design. 
 
 ^tL-.y ^j processes of Law would be executed securely ; Criminals might be brought 
 to justice before the Judges of Affize, or other Courts; and Witnesses might effectually 
 be subpcsnaed. 
 
 6''''^' So scon as the Boroughs intended to be created can ^■ield convement Accommo- 
 dation, the Judges, if it shall be thought proper, may in their Circuits hold Courts for 
 trying Crimes in them.. 
 
 j'^^ If any mines or improveable grounds shall be found to be amongst the moun- 
 tains, men mav be disposed to take leases of them, by the Security to their persons and 
 propertv that will attend this Plan. 
 
 g-Ay "Yhe numbers of troops posted at the several Stations, and the numbers of Sutlers 
 and Artificers that must necessarily follow them, will, imdoubtedly, produce some Gar- 
 dening, and some better kind of Husbandrv^ in the neighbourhood of those Stations, than 
 has been known amongst the mountains heretofore ; and if those experiments shall 
 succeed, as it seems certain thev must in some degree, it is to be hoped that one of two 
 things will follow ; either that the natives may follow the example, ha\-ing the advantage 
 of instruction in these particulars at the Station to their Children ; or, that the Lender- 
 takers for supph-ing the Station will take leases of proper Grounds at greater distances, 
 and improve them properly. 
 
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 g"''y When the Tlighlandei's are deprived of their Arm?, and thereby that diversion 
 which is the greatest incentive to their idleness, i. e. hunting, is cut -^ft, it is to be hoped 
 the advantages which they must, see in their neighbourhood acrueingh.^mindusiiy, may 
 naturally lead them to it, or, at least, may induce them to send their c'^lujon 10 the 
 nearest stations, to be instructed in husbandry, and the other arts and manufcc Lures 
 that may be there acquired. 
 
 • lo"''*' As the demand at the Stations for provisions, and necessaries of all kii.ds, must 
 raise considerably the Value of all the Commodities whch the Highlands produce, and 
 thereby encourage the inhabitants to that industry which may produce those C(n. modi- 
 ties in greater quantity and in greater perietlion ; if feeling the benefit thence flowing 
 can induce the Highlanders to put some value on property more than they at present do, 
 it is to be hoped the enthusiastic regard for their Chiefs will subside, and some regard 
 for the Security of their property, the Laws, may take place of it. 
 
 It is remarkable, that in some distridts bordering upon the Highlands, where within 
 memory the inhabitants spoke the Irish Language, wore the Highland dress, and were 
 accustomed to make use of Arms, upon the accidental introduction of industry, the 
 Irish Language and Highland dress gave way to a sort of English, and lowland Cloath- 
 ing ; the Inhabitants took to the Plough in place of Weapons ; and, tho' disarmed by 
 no Att of Pirliament, are as tame as their Low Country neighbours. 
 
 If the hints now flung out are deemed worthy of being carried into execution, the 
 particular manner of establishing those Stations, and the Boroughs consequent on them, 
 and ofeifeduaily disarming and establishing Posts for that purpose, may be considered in 
 detail ; as also the manner of givmg a free course to the Laws in that wild Country. 
 
 No. CCCXLIV. 
 
 Mr. Normand Mac Leod to the Lord President. 
 My dear Lord, 
 
 THIS day Lord Lovat was brought to the Bar of the house of Peers, to give in 
 Answers to the Articles of Impeachment exhibit against him ; which he did ; his 
 answers were a denial, but seemed to be well drawn up, and properly worded. He 
 then presented two petitions to the Lords : the first set furth, that the Factor apointed 
 on his Estate had not complied with the Orders of the House ; nor had Capt" Ferguson 
 restored his strong box with his money, tho' ordered so to do by a Warrant from the 
 D" of Newcastle by His Majesty's Command ; saying, he was in the same Condition as 
 before, destitute of money to support himself, or to provide for his defence ; prayed for 
 rehef, &c. 
 
 The Chancellor spoke first, and shewed with great eloquence the fittness of all that 
 had been done in Scotland to suppress the most unnatural and unprovoked Rebellion 
 that ever was raised ; shewed its conformity to the Laws of England, the laws of Nations, 
 and of Common Sense ; mentioned precedents of things done in the Irish Rebellion, 
 after the Revolution, and cited opinions of some English Lawj'ers. The D. of New- 
 castle made a very proper encomium on what the C r had said, and told the 
 
 steps that had been taken, by order of his Majesty, with regard to the money Ferguson 
 had, and with regard to his Estate ; and read a part of the Advocate's letter, shewing 
 he had comply'd with the first Order from the Crown, as well as with that from the 
 house of Peers: he then said, as to the money Ferguson had, he had b.en ordered to 
 deliver it up ; but on his representing that he looked on it as fair prize, belonging 
 to himself and the Seamen with him, it would be hard to rob him of it, till it was 
 knovi^a whether it was so or not ; which could not be certainly ascertained, till the 
 event of Lord Lovat's Trial ; so that matter was to rest there. In the end, he moved 
 
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 for rejecting the Petition. Lord Granville spoke nest, agreed entirely with the 
 
 C r's exposition of the Law, and said he would even go further, and cited 3 
 
 very learned and eminent Lawyer of our Countr)-, M' Craigie, who had lately, in the 
 Case of Hamilton, -nTOte a very fine paper on that Subject ; and made an encomium 
 on him in much finer words than I can pretend to remember ; but said, that they were 
 to support their own order and dignir\-, and do justice, without shewing favour or re- 
 sentment. That the Prisoner had made a legal Demand, and that it must have a legal 
 ansv^er ; and that the Petition could not be rejected, but on the supposal of falshood 
 in the Allegation. On which, the D. of Newcastle said, it was on that Supposal he 
 moved it, and referred to the Advocate's letter. The D. of Argyle then said, that the 
 debate might have been much shortened, as it was only Allegation, and r.o proof ottered 
 to support it ; which the house ought not to notice ; said, that something more was 
 couched in the petition than appeared openly, and meant, if possible, to throw dust in 
 their eves ; that if it was real want of Support to defend himself, that the petitioner 
 knew well little or nothing could be got out of his Estate, or any other Highland one, 
 for that purpose, • by the unhappy situation those parts had been in for some time past. 
 So it carried, to reject that Petition ; on which the prisoner desired to be brought to 
 the Bar ; and told the Lords he had heard that it had been thrown our [becausej he 
 had no proof of the Allegations in his petition : he said, he came prepared with full 
 and legal proof, and had an instrument or protest in has hand, taken against the Factor, 
 for not comphong with the Orders of the house ; but that paper was refused. He said 
 some strong things with regard to his unhappy situation, and read some strong epithets 
 with regard to Ferguson and the Factor, and seemed to be very much moved on the 
 order for his withdrawing the second time. There was a ver\' full house ; and his Royal 
 Highness the Uuke attended, as did almost all the members of our house in Town, 
 you may be sure. His second petition was, desiring leave for his Agent, Will'" Fraser, 
 to have access to him ; which was granted, with the proviso of an OtEcer of the Tower 
 being present ; which pro\aso was proposed by the Duke of Arg\ie, and agreed to. 
 Several of your acquaintance enquire frequently for you. 
 
 I ever am yours, 
 London, Jan-' 13% i747. N. ]M. L. 
 
 Xo. CCCXLV. 
 
 From Sir Arthur Forbes to the Lord President. 
 
 London, April 9% 1747. 
 it's astonishing w' what resolution and sang-froid Lovat dyed to-day. He said, 
 one of his predecessors 500 Years ago had dyed in the same way for his principles ; 
 that his principles had been constant and invariable ; that in the course of his life he 
 had never betrayed them, nor any body ; nor should any Peer or Comm.oner be hurt 
 from what he should say. He ended at Dulce et Decorum est, Sec. and laid do\v-n his 
 head. His Conversation in the Tower has all along been in the same strain. He said, 
 the Day before he dyed, he was never in better spirits ; and did tell Doct' Clark, that 
 the Tower was a better receipt for the spirits than the Vomits he used to give him. 
 
 Yours, &c. 
 
 A. F. 
 
 The' Macleod could write you many more thJngs (at least as I suppose), he desires 
 to be excused till Saturday. Lovat said, he dyed as a Chrisdar, and as a Highland 
 . Chief should do ; that is, not in his Bed. 
 
 " I'm seized w' a Maladie du fats j so must see ye soon. 
 
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 No. CCCXLVL 
 
 Mr. Alex. Brodie to the Lord President. 
 My good Lord, 
 
 AS Sir Arthur and M''Leod write to you so frequently the occurrences here, I 
 need not trouble you with a repetition of them ; especially as, since Tuesday last, there 
 has nothing remarkable happened, except Lovat's d)dng * with courage and decency, 
 forgiving all Mankind. He, I am told, blamed your Lordship & M Leod for some- 
 what ; but I have not heard the particular. I hear, he blamed Gortuleg, to whose 
 care he trusted some of the papers produced against him ; and said, that Gortuleg was 
 a Pupil or a Spy of your Lop and M'-Leod. Sir Lud. Grant tells me, he regretted ever 
 having differed with his Family ; and that his provocation ag' Sir James Grant was, that 
 your Lop told him, Sir James had solicited to take away his Company from him. 
 
 My good Lord, 
 Your Lop's most faithful, most obed', 
 
 and most obliged humble Servant, 
 London, April ii'", 1747. ALEX'^ BRODIE. 
 
 No. CCCXLVII. . ; 
 
 . The Earl of Stair to the Lord President. • 
 
 My dear Lord, Eds Ap' 30^^, 1747, 
 
 I GIVE your Lop the trouble of this Message, to thank you for the many marks 
 of your friendship which I have received ; and to beg of your Lop, that you will now 
 & then take into your Consideration, & give your best Ad^ace to my fainily, which 
 very probably may fall into distress ; tho' for many years past the family has been, 
 without varying, attach'd to the Honor & Interest of their Country ; & tho' I myself, 
 personally, have had the good luck to be usefuU more than once to the present Royal 
 Family. My dear Lord, I shall not make you any other compliment on your behaviour 
 as to publick matters of late, than of my haveing seen & approv'd of most of the things 
 you transacted dureing the Rebellion ; &, as far as I understood, of what your Lop 
 propos'd for makeing an end of this unhappy Rebellion. I am, wth the greatest 
 affection & esteem, my dear Lord, 
 
 Your most obedient & most h*"'' Servant, 
 
 STAIR. 
 
 No. CCCXLVIII. 
 
 Mr. Fox to the Lord President Forbes. 
 
 My Lord, War Office, June 1", 1747. 
 
 I AM commanded by H. M. to write to you, & to desire that your Nephew would 
 
 use the utmost expedition in raising a Company, of which he is to be Captain, to consist 
 
 of xoo Men, 4 Serj" 4 Corporals & drums ; which are to be at Portsmouth Ijy the 25^^ 
 
 * He indeed died nobly, repeating several quotations in Latin, especially the Duke et decorum est pro 
 p^tria mori of Horace. He ate heartily during his whole confinement, even the morning of his execution, 
 and went to the scaffold in cheerful and easy conversation with those about him. He gave the executioner 
 same instructions and ten guineas. The purse brought to him for holding the money was not so handsome 
 as his Lordship wished ; but he said, few people such as the executioner would refuse it with ten 
 guineas, 
 
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 of August next ; where thev will find Arms, Accoutrements, i: Cloathing : and it is 
 H. M'" particular direction to me, that I desire you not to be nice as to the principles 
 of those you enlist ; but, on the contrary, rather to chuse those whose lopJLT has of 
 late been most suspicious. They are desig*^ for foreign & not European service. Your 
 Nephew has been wiote to, by order of i\r Pelham ; but there is not time to wait-for 
 his answer. These Companys are much sought, because it is thought they are to go 
 to the E. Indies ; and, in confidence, I vnll to you own. tliat I beheve they are. The 
 i" L' is an i-pay Ensign, 5c a Scot, a good Officer, cc the two 2' L'" are left for your 
 recommendation of such as are most serviceable to you in raising Men. Should y"^ 
 Nephew decline this Command, you will, I hope however, employ two 2** L* to be 
 recommended by you in raising the Company in the Manner above prescrib'd, & let 
 me know it. I am, with great Respect, 
 
 Mv Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obedient humble Serv', 
 
 . H. FOX. 
 
 IVIr. Adair, who is Agent to these Companys, will send you this Letter by Express ; 
 together with the beating-order, & Commission to y' Nephew ; v.hose Commission in 
 Fowkes's, vou may be assur'd, will not be vacated nil I hear he accepts of this. 
 
 Xo. CCCXLIX. 
 
 Mr. (afterwards Lord) Lyttelton to the Lord President. 
 
 i\Iv Lord, Arg)-le Street. November y* lo* [1747.] 
 
 NOTHING could give me more pleasure than any Occasion of shewing the sense 
 I had of your Lordship's great merit, and endeavouring to deserve the honour of your 
 friendship, in the onlv way I can hope to deserve it, by sincerely and cordially giving, 
 you mine. But had I not had the happiness ot being personally known to your Lord- 
 ship, I should, meerly as a firiend to my Country, have w-ish'd that some proper returns 
 might be made to the eminent Services vou have done it, at a rime when thev were so 
 necessary, and when a Zeal of that kind was so rare and unfashionable in your part of 
 the world. Nor can I persuade myself, but that M' Forbes wdil feel the effects of his 
 Father's Merit, in a manner more fitt for him than what I askt would have been ; and I 
 am confirmed in this way of thinking, by M' Pelham's assurances that he had ver)^ 
 strongly recommended his promotion to the Duke, and did not doubt qf success. 
 
 I shall, however, take the first opportunitv to remind him of it again ; and let him 
 know how grearly I think the honour of the Government will be concern' d, not to 
 suffer your Son to have any reason to quitt the service, unless it should be more agreable 
 to him, and to you, to have him rewarded by a ci\il Emplcraent. 
 
 I am proud that your Lordship approves the manner in wiiich I delivered my sen- 
 timents on the Jurisdiction bilL As I was thoroughly sensible of the dehcacy of the 
 subject, it was not without some apprehension that I communicated my Speech to your 
 Lordship, and am verv happy in its hr.ving received the Sanction of your Judgement. 
 Nor am I less pleased with vour approbation of the little work that I sent you in print*. 
 "When I venttired to publish it, I was well aware that I should draw on myself the 
 censure and ridicule of the Fashionable World, and of manv of those who are esteem'd 
 
 • This must have been his D'u:eriation en lie Csnvertion of St. Paul. 
 
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 the wisest among us ; but, I thank God, that did not dishearten me : on the contrary, I 
 thought it the more my duty, convinced as I am of the truth of the Christian ReHgion, 
 to resist the torrent that runs so strongly against it, and not to be ashamed of pro- 
 fessing it openly, or giving my reasons for that profession ; when it is almost taken for 
 granted, that whoever thinks with any freedom has given it up. I have tlie satisfac- 
 tion to hear, that my having done this has made some people consider it with more 
 attention and candour than they would have otherwise done ; which alone is more than 
 enough to overpay me for any Contempt that I may sufler from others on this account. 
 I hope, as in this, so in all other instances, that I shall always preserve as much dis- 
 regard to unjust censure or scorn, as desire of meriting a well-founded esteem ; and 
 prefer the good opinion of one such Man as you, to that of thousands whom fashion 
 or prejudice may bias against me. Allow me, dear-Sir, to return you my warmest and 
 most gratefuU thanks for the friendship you offer me, which I accept with the greatest 
 joy, and shall be ever ambitious to deserve and improve. I have not yet had con- 
 versation enough on the subject of Scotland with the friends you refer me to for an 
 account of the state of that Country, to be able to say more to your Lordship con- 
 cerning it, than that I heartily wish rewards to those who have merit, there, may not 
 be too long forgot or delay'd. Certain I am, this is a time when the utmost attention 
 is due from the Government both to its friends and its enemies in that part of the 
 Kingdoui. 
 
 I am, with the truest and most respectfuU Attachment, 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's most obUged 
 
 and most obedient humble Servant, 
 
 G.LYTTELTON. 
 
 No. CCCL. 
 
 M' Will. Forbes to M' John Forbes, of Culloden. 
 
 D'Sir, ' Edin^ 17th March 1748. 
 
 I RECEIVED your's ; and in answer to that part of it, by which you want to 
 know how your Father, on his Death Bed, expresst himself with regard to the losses, 
 dammages, & expences which your Uncle the late Culloden, and his Lordship, sus- 
 tain'd by the two late Rebellions in Annis 1 7 1 5 & 1 745 ; you'll please mind, that I 
 told you, the second day after his Lordship's interment, that he had, upon the first 
 day of December last, sent for me, and enjoyn'd me, how soon you came to Scot- 
 land, to communicate to you several particulars which he then told me; and all 
 which particulars, immediately after I parted with his Lop, I took down into wryte- 
 ing, in way of memorandum ; which memorandum I read over to you. But, as his 
 Lordship told the same things to M' Forbes, Writer to the Signet, which he says he also 
 took down in wryteing, and that you was so lucky as to come in time to hear the same 
 things from his Lop's own mouth, a very short time before he dyed, you must cer- 
 tauily know the whole as well as I do. However, to satisfy you, I do sincerly 
 declare, upon the word of an honest man, that amongst the many expressions and in- 
 structions he told me to be communicated to you, the following was one : 
 
 " You will also tell my Son John, that his Uncle had been a great looser, as he 
 " himself was, by their outlays during the Rebellion 17 15. That his Lordship was 
 " a vast looser by the Rebellion 1 745 ; for that his factor Thom. Steuart had ex- 
 
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 *' pended about three vears rent of his Estate of Culloden on it, and putt hiin in 
 *' debt otherwise considerably ; which he never discovered untill he returned from 
 " London, nor until the death of Stew-art ; that he himself had thrown out and spent 
 " great sums of Money otherwise, whilst the late Rebellion subsisted ; which he had not 
 *' adverted to, nor demanded Pa\Tnent of, and for which he thought himself highly 
 *' blameable." 
 
 What is above, is exactly the meaning Sc substance of what his Lop exprest upon 
 this Article ; and I shall not be positive, if he did not express it in the same words. I 
 hope to see vou before you leave this place ; and if I shou'd not, I wish you a happy 
 journey ; and that you may believe that I am, most sincerely, 
 
 D^ Sir, 
 
 Your affectionate Cousin, 
 
 and most obedient faithfuU Serv', 
 
 WILL. FORBES. 
 
 No. CCCLI. 
 
 From Sir Andrew Mitchel to the Rev'^ jNF Murdock. 
 
 My Dear P. Richmond, in Surrv, Saturday, 27 August. 
 
 OUR dear friend Thomson died this morning about four o' Clock, after a very 
 short illness. His distemper appeared first in the shape of a tertian ; but soon ended 
 in a continued fever. I am here to see the last duties fairly paid. I am almost sunk 
 w' this last stroke. 
 
 Your's, affect'', A. M. 
 
 No. CCCLII. 
 
 D' Armstrong to the Rev- M' Murdock. 
 
 Dear Peter, London, Aug* 30, 174S. 
 
 YOU must have seen a piece of News, bv this time, that could not fail to sur- 
 prise and shock you. Poor Thomson died last Saturday morning of a fever, which 
 at first appeared to be an intermittent ; but in a short time degenerated from a fever, 
 which I hoped would do him a great piece of service, by scouring his habit, into the 
 low nervous maHgnant one which soon proved fatal to him, as it has to many. This 
 blow makes a hideous gap ; and the loss of such an agreeable Friend turns some of 
 the sweetest scenes in England into a something waste and desolate ; at least for the 
 time : it will be so for a long time with me ; for I question whether I shall ever be 
 able to see Richmond again without sorrow & mortification. I am obhged to you, 
 my dear Friend, and my Brother too gives you many thanks, for the hint in your last j 
 but he is not yet so sick of London as I am. 
 
 I had a Letter not long asro from mv Brother at Ruthwell, who desired his Com- 
 phments to you and John Lindsay. I dined in Company with I\r Sargent to-day : he 
 told me, you had favour'd him lately with a Letter. Mehol and all other Friends are 
 well ; and whenever the toast goes round, John and Peter are amongst the first. I 
 vaited on M'' Millar and Miss Peegy this morning, but did not see Rlillar himself. 
 
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 They arrived last night, and bestow great encomiums botli upon the Country and 
 people where they have been. George offers you his best compliments. I beg you 
 will write to me soon, and let me know whether you are not to be in town soon. 
 Farewell, my dear Peter ; and may you live long and happy, is the selfish wish of 
 
 Your affectionate 
 
 JOHN ARMSTRONG. 
 
 ■ No. CCCLIII. 
 
 The Rev.. ]\r Murdock to M' John Forbes. 
 
 My Dearest J. Naiton, 2'' Sept. 1748. 
 
 you will have had the most unwelcome news of the death of our dear friend. I 
 received it only this morning ; and must o'wn that nothing in life has ever more shocked 
 and afflicted me : it makes such a gap, as the D' in his Letter to me calls it, in the circle 
 of our acquaintance, as nothing can repair ; yet we must bear this and every thing else in 
 life, tU we ourselves are released. My first concern, dear F. after I was able to re- 
 collect myself from the shock, was the pain and misery it must give your affectionate 
 heart, and which nothing but time can alleviate. Yet remember, dearest J. there 
 remain a few still, that love you as he did ; and all we have to do is, to unite closer, 
 and cherish his memory, and each other, till we are called where he is gone. I beg 
 to have if it were but two lines, immediately on receipt of this ; and altho' your 
 friends in TowTi will have wrote you particularly on this melancholy occasion, I have 
 thought fit to enclose the two Letters I received, v.hich you will keep till we meet, 
 which I hope may be in two or three months. I beg my kind remembrance to the D' 
 & J. Steel, and ever am. Dearest F. 
 
 . - Your P. M. 
 
 Xo. CCCLIV. 
 
 D' Armstrong to M' John Forbes, of CuUoden. 
 My Dear John, London, Sep. 3'', 1 748. 
 
 GOD grant you the continuance of vour health ; and may you prosper in every 
 thing while you live ! It comforts me not a little, that, besides your natural right to 
 outlive me, there are other circumstances in your favour ; for, of all mortifications, 
 the loss of a dear friend with whom one has been often happy, is to me the most in- 
 supportable. The loss of such an agreeable friend as poor Thomson is so much the 
 more shocking, that it was unexpected by every body. He died of a malignant ner- 
 vous fever, that came upon the back of a tertian ; and I had no notice of his being in 
 any danger till I saw it in the most formidable shapes. It is certain, nature was 
 oppressed in him with a great load of materials for a disease, not to be easily thrown 
 off bv a constitution so much worn as his was : and if he had struggled thro' that 
 Fever, there are many reasons to believe, that it must almost unavoidably have been 
 followed by some lingering disease, much worse than a speedy death : this is the most 
 comfortable light in which I can view this shocking loss. Besides, I think him 
 greatly to be emied, to have got fairly rid of this rascally world, and to have left it 
 so universally regretted. We are to be pitied that ai'e left behind ; and if it was not 
 for a very few friends whom I have still remaining, and who I have reason to hope 
 •will live as long as I, life would soon become too tedious and melancholy to be sup- 
 
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 ported. I hzve often been tempted to -wish, that nature had made me a little more 
 callous ; but then we should lose sensations too that give perhaps the most exquisite 
 pleasures : there is even a luxury in melancholy ; and I do not kno%v, whether it is 
 not best to indulge it, at first, and give it a full vent, that it may exhaust itself, 
 and leave the mind restored to its natural serenity, after those heavy clouds have 
 fallen. 
 
 I have the pleasure to tell you, that all other friends are well ; Mitchell, Millar, 
 Melvil, Sargent, are all well. I had a short letter to-day from poor Peter, who is 
 quite inconsolable. I beg, my dear Forbes, you will vrrke to me soon, and let me 
 know how soon we may hope to see you here. George offers you his best compli- 
 ments ; and I am always, 
 : _ . . Mv dearest Friend, . . 
 
 . Your most affectionate 
 
 JOHN ARMSTRONG. 
 
 - Xo.CCCLV. '■' ^ ■ 
 
 - The Rev'* M' Murdock to M' John Forbes of CuUoden. 
 
 My dearest Forbes, Ipswich, 8'" Sept' 174S. 
 
 ALTHOUGH I wrote you but t%vo posts ago, I cannot let pass any opportunity 
 of conversing wixh you ; now, that I know vou to be oppressed with the deepest me- 
 lancholy, and in aieed of all the consolation your friends can lend. But, alas! what can 
 I say ? who myself as much stand in need of a comforter. We have lost, my dear F., 
 our old, tryed, amiable, open, and honest-hearted Thomson, whom we never parted 
 from but unwillingly ; and never met, but with fresh transport ; whom we found ever 
 the same delightful Companion, the same faithful depository of our inmost thoughts, 
 and the same sensible svinpathising adviser. To pretend to be stoical on such a loss, 
 would be an impertinent beh-ing our characters ; our tears must flow, and time alone 
 can dry them. Yet we ought not entirely to abandon ourselves, nor overlook such 
 considerations as may be useful on this occasion, and which ought indeed to have a 
 very great weight with us ; such as the happiness which oiu: dear friend now enjoys ; 
 to doubt of it, of a Soul like his, would, 1 think, be litde less than arraigning the 
 divine goodness. "We may likewise rest persuaded, that this so early period of his life 
 (alas ! too early for us) was yet for him the very fittest and best. Infinite wisdom 
 does nothing in vain ; and, without prying too curiously into its designs, it is easy to 
 imagine a variety of events that might have rendered his life imcomfortable. Now he 
 is risen from the banquet of life, not cloyed nor disgusted ; his fame unsulhed, his spirit 
 unbroke ; without tasting the distress and misery of old age : and perhaps it were too 
 selfish, as well as impious in us, to murmur at what Heaven has undoubtedly ordered 
 for his good. Think Hke\\'ise on his own beha\iour on the like occasions. He lost 
 Charles Talbot, as we have him ; and tho' he retained to his latest hour a most de- 
 vout veneration of that excellent person, yet he did not consume himself in unavailing 
 grief. He remembered, and commemorated him, in that pious and affectionate man- 
 ner, that we shall ever remember them both. At the same time he acquiesced in the 
 sovereign will of P^o\^dence ; and bore his loss (the greatest, in all respects, that could 
 possibly befill to him) with a manly fortitude. Think likewise, that if any thing earthly 
 could disturb the happiness of our departed friend, it would be to see an unbecoming 
 
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 309 
 
 excesj? of grief in those whom he loved. I thmk I hear him kindly chide us, and 
 point to a passage in his Seasons *, that admirably suits our case. 
 
 Besides all this, my dearest F. you know you always stricktly enjoyn me to take care 
 of my health : I am doing so at present ; struggling hard against every thing that would 
 sink me, in the dear hopes of being yet happy in your embraces ; but remember, dear 
 F. the tye is reciprocal ; you must take care of yourself for my sake. You must call 
 in the assistance of Company, business, and visits. And tell J. Steel, as he loves me, 
 to see to this. I have time to say nothing more on this subject, which it were easy to 
 enlarge on ; but your own thoughts will supply the rest. God Almighty bless and 
 preserve you. Let us ever cherish the Memory of our dear friend ; profit by the in- 
 imitable lessons he has left us ; and love one another with that affection which united 
 the little Circle of his bosom friends, and with which I shall to my death subscribe 
 myself. 
 
 Dearest F. Yrs. 
 
 P.M.. ' 
 
 No. CCCLVL 
 
 M'' Millar to M' John Forbes of Culloden. 
 Dear Sir, London, 10 Sept. 1748. 
 
 I THANK God, we all arrived safe here, after a most agreeable journey, on y* 
 29"* of Aug'. But ever since I have never been able either to act or think ; for y' 
 very evening our dear friend Thomson was buried. How it's dampt all my joy, you, 
 who knew him well, and how I loved him, can best feel. I realy was not able to write 
 you ; and if y' inclosed had not come last night, I question if I sh'' now. Mr. Mitchell 
 spent the evening with me ; we remembered you Idndly, and all surviving friends. 
 Poor M' Lyttelton is in great grief, as indeed are all his friends ; and even those y' 
 
 * The Passage alluded to- by M"' Miirdock, very probably, is this, the conclusion of Thomson's Winter ; 
 " 'Tis come, the glorious morn, the second birth 
 " Of heaven, and earth ! awakening Nature hears 
 " The new creating word, and starts to life, 
 " In eveiy heightened form, from pain and death 
 " JFor ever free. The great e ernal .scheme, 
 " Tnvolving all, and in a perfect whole 
 " Uniting, as the prospect wider spreads, 
 " To reason's eye refin'd clears up apace. 
 * " Ye vainly wise ! ye blind presumptuous T now,. • ' . 
 
 " Confoiuidcd in the dust, adore t'nat Power 
 " And Wisdoai oft arraign'd : see now the cause,. 
 " Why unassuming worth in secret liv'd, 
 " And dy'd neglected: why the good Man's share 
 
 «' In life was gall and bitterness of soul : ■ . : / 
 
 " Why the lone widow and her orphans pin'd 
 " In starving solitude ; while luxury, 
 " In palaces, lay straining her low thought 
 " To form unreal wants : why heaven-born truth,.. 
 
 " And moderation fair, wore the red marks ' 
 
 " Of superstition's scourge : whv licens'd pain, 
 •' That cruel spoiler, that embosom'd foe, 
 ♦' Imbittered all our bli,';s. Ye good distrcss'd ! 
 " Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand 
 " Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up a while, 
 " And wliat your bounded view, which only f.ur 
 " A little part, deem'd Evil is no more : 
 " The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pas$, 
 " And one unbounded Spring encircle all." 
 
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 did not know him ; but I can add nothing to y' inclosed, afid therefore shall leave that 
 melancholly subject to us, tho' to him full of joy ; on w" Ace'"- we ought to submit. 
 
 M" Millar and ]Miss Johnston not only like but admire Scotland : the Country was 
 all in its beaurv', and the people all ^^ed w' one another to make us happy ; and indeed 
 \re vreie compleatlv so ; so much y'" we are quite in love w' it, and think we shall be 
 soon there again. We are extreamly obHdged to you for y' kind entertainment at Belton- 
 ford. Honest Mr. Baxter dined w^ us there ; but was sent for, so y"- he could not 
 spend v" evening. We remembered you w'^ great affection. M"^ Millar and her sister, 
 vr^ my litde boy, join w'"^ me in remembering you w* great affection ; and I ever am. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 Y' most affectionate hum. Serp", 
 
 AND'' MILLAR. 
 
 Note. — How xrcU all the Letters regar&g Thomson show the truth of Johnson's remark in his Life, 
 that he was much beloved by his intimate friends ! 
 
 No. CCCLVII. 
 
 From the Rev. M' Murdock to M' John Forbes. 
 INIy Dearest F. . [probably Sept. 1748.]} 
 
 I RECEHTD vours long e">rpected ; and would have answered it last Week (when 
 I was in Town), but for the hurrv I was in the tew davs I staid there ; and because an 
 Affair, which was then under Consideration, has been just now settled. It is this : when 
 my pupil ■was designed to go abroad, as he will in a fortnight, enquLn,- was made con- 
 cerning a proper place for him, and a proper person to go along with him ; and great 
 difficulties occurred as to both. At last, to relieve the worthy father from this em- 
 barras, I have consented to conduct him to Geneva, and see him fairly entered upon 
 his studies and exercises ; after which I am to leave him in the best hands I can find. 
 We are to set out in a fortnight, the direct Road by Calais, &;c. and it may take me near 
 three months ere I can be back at London, where I shall then hope to meet you, and 
 shall write vou often while I am absent. This is a piece of service to my worthy pa- 
 tron which I could not shun, and all my friends approve of it ; they are all affec- 
 tionatelv mindful of you, and in good hopes of success, with patience and time. I 
 shall -write you once more before I go. The Admiral drinks your health r«ice a Day; 
 and, v\ith my love to J. Steel & D. F. I ever am, 
 
 Dearest J. 
 
 Your P. :\L 
 
 Mess" Lyttelton & Mitchell are acting a most excellent part in regard to our poor 
 deceased friend's * afiairs. 
 
 No. CCCLVIII. 
 
 The Rev"^ M' Murdock to M' John Forbes. 
 My Dearest F. 16 May 1754. 
 
 I HA\"E received yours of the 20'^ April, in which you complain that I owe you 
 rwo Letters ; but you %vill have received one of mine since ; and I nted not repeat the 
 excuse I then made. You will have heard, perhaps more particularly than I, the turn 
 of ^L's T affairs. He wTote me nothing himself (being always in hurr\- and uncertaint}'-, 
 
 * Thomson the Poet, who died Aug. 27, 1 748, leaving the Gentlemen here named Lis Executors, 
 ■f Probablj- Sir Audrew Mitchell. 
 
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 and In deep concern for the last sickness of poor Warrender, who died at his house 
 this day s'ennight) ; but what I can gather from Millar's Letters is, that the Minister 
 desired him not to go down, and gave him hopes of another seat. So that he is, one 
 would think, in honour bound to take care of him ; and if he does, it will be a saving 
 of the great charge and fatigue which that Journey must have cost him. For in all 
 pohtical matters, it ought to be one's chief care to preserve his own private fortune 
 free and independent, however small it may be. You ought therefore, my dearest F, 
 not to indulge either grief or resentment on what has happened ; and keep your mind 
 to yourself. M — bears all with the greatest composure ; and for my own part, I 
 can foresee, \\athout being a prophet, that this will in all probability end to his Ad- 
 vantage and Satisfaction. Did you ever read or hear of an eminently good man, that 
 had not the envy and artifice, and lies, of bad men to struggle with ? It is impossible 
 it should be otherwise ; because his virtues are a continual reproach to them ; and it 
 happens often, that their Machinations fall upon their own heads, and cover them -s^ith 
 eternal shame. But in whatever manner the great folks behave to him, I defy them to 
 make him unhappy, as long as Virtue, and Conscience, and Chai'acter can support a 
 Man ; which I believe they can do, were he wedged down to a galley. His honest)', 
 and superior talents for business, are acknowledged and adinired ; and what he is 
 in private life you and I best know. Has he not been as a father to us both ? the same 
 to M'Laurin's family, to Thomson, and of late to Warrender ; and to many others 
 that we never heard of? and all with a narrow fortune, and moving in an inferior 
 sphere. In a word, I can find no one to compare with him, but Sir Charles, in 
 Richardson's last book. I beheve our friend would in most cases act just like that ideal 
 Baronet, whose Character you should be acquainted with, if you are not already ; and. 
 then tell me if you do not think the same. There are, no doubt, many Gentlemen of 
 great worth in that house, both from ,this side of the Tweed, and from yours ; but none 
 his superior in all the essential qualifications of a senator : and it will do no honour to 
 the Politicians concerned, to see him sacrificed to the mean resentments of a man whom 
 nobody loves, and who visibly derives his importance from the weakness and indolence 
 of others. But enough of this ; since our friend himself is easy, we have nothing to 
 do but to be quiet, and wait the issue. There is nothing new in my own affairs ; when- 
 ever there is, you shall be the first informed. I enjoy good health and spirits ; to which 
 your Letter, and the Acco" you give me of M'' F. and Dunkie's welfare not a little 
 contribute. My hearty prayers for continual happiness to all of you ; and I am ever, 
 
 Dearest F. ^ • 
 
 Your own, Sec. &c. 
 
 M- 
 
 -r -RTites me he has done his part ; and I hope you will very soon have put 
 all your afi'airs in perfect good order. 
 
 No. CCCLIX. 
 
 The Rev. M' Murdock to M' John Forbes. '-■ ' 
 
 Deareft F. Stradishall, 26'" May 1757. 
 
 I HAVE this moment received two Letters, which I shall transcribe for you as 
 fast as I can. 
 
 " Convent
 
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 " -Convent of S' Margaret's, near Prague. 
 "DearPattie, _ Friday, 6^^ May 1757. 
 
 " Tiiis Dav the K. of Prussia has gained a most glorious and compleat Victory 
 " over his Enemies, upwards of 100,000 men. His Army, that fought, consisted of 
 " 70 or 8o,coo. He and all the Princes are w-ell. We have lost the brave and 
 *' worthy Marechal Schwerin. All your friends are well. 
 
 " Yours affectionatelv, 
 
 "'a. ]\nTCHELL." 
 
 The other is from M' Symmer (24''' I\Iay). 
 
 " M' Mitchell's Valet de Chambre was dispatched the Day after the Action, with 
 ■" letters to the Duke, and thence hither ; but had the misfortune to be detained at 
 " Helvoet Sluvs by contrar)^ winds ; so that he arrived here only this morning. He 
 " tells me, M' Mitchell was left by the K. under the protection of General Keith, who 
 *' was posted on the west of Prague vdth about 30,000 men, together with the 
 " Prince Royal and Prince Ferdinand. To the South of that, Prince d'Anhalt Dessau, 
 "" with about i c,coo men, was posted. This to bridle the garrison of Prague, and secure 
 *' the K.'s retreat if he should have been obHged to give -svay. TheK. with Mareschal 
 *' Schwerin, Pr. Henn,-, and other Generals of an inferior rank, engaged the enemy. 
 " The Action began at 9, and did not end till 3, and was most desperate & bloody. 
 " The Prussians at the beginning were fwice repulsed, or rather checked, in their 
 *' attack. Upon this, the brave ^lareschal Sch\^erin snatch'd a pair of Colours out 
 " of an Ensign's hand, and, calling to his men, marched in upon the enemy. The 
 " Enemy then gave way ; but unhappily the ]\I. dropt. By all we can learn of the 
 " Battle, it appears to have been one of the greatest Victories that have been 
 *' obtained since that of Blenheim. ISP Mitchell (as his sers'ant tells me) saw it 
 
 •' from an eminence, in company with Mareschal Keith, and the two Princes." 
 
 I have time onlv to add, that I am, vou know with what affection, W Forbes's, 
 Dunkie's, and 
 
 Your faithful humble serv', 
 
 P. M. 
 
 Communicate this with Kemnay. 
 
 Xo. CCCLX. 
 
 M' John Forbes to Alexander Rose. 
 
 Sanders, Hampstead, June s'\ 1764- 
 
 OUR dear kind friend Doctor John Armstrong, who is takeing a jaunt through 
 Scotland for his health and amusem-ent, will deliver you this. Let him want for 
 nothing that the Sea, the River, or the Hill, can produce. Be as kind to him as you 
 
 would be to 
 
 DUNCAN FORBES. 
 
 WILLIAM FORBES. 
 
 P. MURDOCH. 
 
 Poor Little ARTHUR FORBES. 
 
 JOHN FORBES. 
 
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 CULLODEy PAPERS. 313 
 
 P. S. You must go allongst with him, and show him Bunchrew ; my father did so 
 to those he lov'd. 
 
 I desire that Bell Fraser, Dunkie's nurse, may sing M'Gill Tou Kerou to him. 
 Take good care of your honest old Father and Mother, and yourself. 
 
 1 am your sincere friend, 
 To Alexander Rose, . - JOIiN FORBES. 
 
 Factor of Ferrintosh, ; 
 
 at CuUoden, • ' ' 
 
 No. CCCLXI. 
 
 The Lord President to the Rev" M' W. H. 
 
 [No date.] 
 R.S. 
 
 I HAVE with no small Entertainment to myself penned M' H.'s papers, which yotr 
 sent me. When you desire to have my opinion of his undertaking, you pay by much 
 too great a Compliment to my Learning, which is but poor, in what relates to his 
 subject. To judge of his Design, a thorough knowledge (so far as such a thing can 
 be come at) of the Hebrew Language is necessary ; and my Lot in Life has been so 
 chalked out for me, that the duties of the station I have gone through have never left 
 me leisure sufficient to gratify an IiKlination, which was very strong, to enquire accu- 
 rately into that matter. I know enough to be entertained with what is curious, and 
 wish to know more ; but I do not know enough to qualify me to decide. 
 
 hi this situation, tho' I cannot take upon me to pronounce, that M' Holloway's 
 System will answer the Expectations he has conceived of it ; yet I must confess, I uish 
 he may meet with due Encouragement to go on with his design ; that the world may 
 see what Industry & Ingenuity such as his seems to be, guided and prompted by a zeal 
 for Truth and Religion, may produce. Were the true sense, & proper Idea, intended 
 to be conveyed by all or the greatest part of what are called Roots in the Hebrew 
 Language, settled so as to be acquiesced in by the learned, M' H.'s undertaking might 
 seem unnecessary ; but as, confessedly, nothing that has given universal satisfaction 
 hitherto has been hit on ; and as the obtaining such satisfaction seems of the highest 
 consequence, I think a man of Learning, Industry, and Invention, cannot better employ 
 his leisure, than in trying to discover what so many ingenious Men have labour'd to 
 find out in vain. For, tho' he may perhaps fall short of his main aim, some things- 
 useful, and many things curious & ingenious, may be the result of his labours ; whereof 
 there are several Instances in the Papers which I have perused. Some of these Instances 
 are very flattering ; & if the principle he goes on is just, the gross of the language 
 must have been found in the same manner : one cannot, however, give an absolute 
 assent to what even one wishes were true in the particulars proposed, without examining 
 how far the same sort of analysis, applied generally, will answer ; because tho? 
 accidentally some words may be so formed, that a fruitful imagination may (using 
 Industry) discover Roots from the combination whereof they might have been com- 
 posed ; yet if the bulk of the language does not comply with such rules, the conclusion, 
 that the Account given of those particulars is just, will not follow. And therefore it 
 is, that I wish M' Holloway may meet with encouragement to enable him to go on^ 
 and exhibit to the public his further Meditations on this Subject. 
 
 I foresee, however, that he must meet with several difficulties to grapple with ; one 
 whereof is, that as we have not one Line of Hebrew now extant, but what is contained 
 
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 "^14 CL-LLODEV PAPERS, 
 
 in the Old Testament, a vast number of Roots, & Words, must necessarily be irrecover- 
 ably lost ; which, had as many books been possessed in that language as have been in 
 Greek & Latin, would still be forthcoming. Now from this it may, &: indeed must 
 happen, that tho' ISP Hoiloway's Rule were absolutely true, it may not be in his power 
 to assign the several Roots irom whence many important words may be supposed 
 to have been taken.; and yet if he fail in many particulars, his principle vnU be 
 supported. 
 
 Another diiBcultv is, that the inquisitive part of Mankind are not agreed as to the 
 causes ic manner of the production of physical ettects : now, as he is -willing to derive 
 words that signify the actions & perceptions of the Alind, from Roots expressive of the 
 Conditions, OuaHties, k effects of material agents, tmtii Philosophers are agreed as to 
 the mechanism by which the operations of Nature are carried on, his observations, 
 however ingenious, & possibly true, must have the less universal Influence. And a 
 third difEcultv he will have to surmount is, the vanity & the obstinacy of those who 
 have grown old in pursuing the hitherto beaten Path ; who have given up their under- 
 standing to the fanciful conceits of the lowest Rabbles, and of several ingenious 
 Christians, who have ever relied on the sim.ple Grammar, or who have rummaged all 
 that remains of the Chaldean and Syriack, togetlier with the infinite store of Arabick 
 that has been produced later (I think ever)' line of it) than the Hegira of ?.Iahommed. 
 To fix the original and genuine sense of words made use of in the Scriptures 2 or 3,000 
 years ago, those Gentlemen will be ver\- imwilling to give up the learning they pride 
 themselves in, and some part whereof I believe mav be useful ; and from those I fear 
 he Asiil meet with discouragement. But I should nevertheless hope, that the Generality 
 of the Curious, who are not bigotted to any particubr set of Notions, will be glad to 
 see how far M Holloway can cdsry his Principles ; which, if they are to be maintained, 
 will open a new and a very agreeable scene of Meditation. 
 
 From the rejections which I have hastily fitmg out, you will observe two 
 things ; the one, that I truly am that unlearned person that I honestly professed 
 myself to be at the beginning ; the other, that I without Ceremony obey your 
 Commands. 
 
 I herewth retiun you the Papers, 5c am, with the greatest Respect, 
 
 R. S. Yotir most obedient 8c most humble Ser\'', 
 
 DUN. FORBES. 
 
 No. CCCLXII. 
 
 M' James Thomson to M' John Forbes. 
 
 [No date.] 
 Dear Forbes, 
 
 EXCUSE me : this unseasonable cold weather has given me a Head-ach, which 
 forbids me the pleasure of waiting en you and the company that is to dine ^Wth you, 
 I have received too a Letter from Gray, wherein he tells me he has got a sore throat, 
 and cannot venture out to-morrow. But, to make myself some amends, we will dine 
 together to-n:orrow, either here, with you, or at the Bohemia Head. The "Walk will 
 do us no harm. 
 
 Yours, &c. 
 
 JAIVIES THOMSON.
 
 CULLODEN PAPERS. . 315 
 
 No. CCCLXIII. 
 
 ^i'' James Thomson to M' John Forbes. 
 
 [No date.] 
 
 I SENT about seven of the Clock to the Rainbow ; but they told you was 
 gone to the Play, and would return after it. If you please to come hither, I shall be 
 very glad of your Company. I am at the Bedford Arms, in the Piazza of Covent 
 Garden. 
 
 , Tours ever, • 
 
 Near 9. • J. THOMSON. 
 
 No. CCCLXIV. 
 
 M' James Thomson to Mess" Forbes, Warrender, Sc Gray. 
 
 [No date.] 
 Chers Messieurs, 
 
 I DID not get Millar's Note till after three ; so cannot pretend to be at Brentford 
 time enough to dine with you. Besides, my own Dinner will be ready at four. 
 So soon as I have dined, I will walk down the Lane, either to find you at the three 
 Pidgeons, or meet you by the way, and so conduct you hither. I wish you had given 
 me a Line by Yesternight's Post. 
 
 Yours, &c. 
 
 J. THOMSON. 
 
 No.CCCLXV. 
 
 D' Armstrong to M' John Forbes. 
 
 [No date.] 
 My dear F. 
 
 AS the T) 1, my particular Enemy, would have it, I can't go with you. God 
 
 send us good Luck in the Lottery ! If mine comes up a ten thou'', I intend to turn 
 Gentleman ; for if I drudge more, poyson me. My service to Thomson. 
 
 I am ever yoors, 
 Sunday, near ten. J. A» 
 
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 ' * No.CCCLXVI. 
 
 - . • State OF Things IN 1696^, 1 ' 
 
 [This Statement is by M' Duncan Forbes, of Culloden, who was Member in the 
 Scotch Parliament at the period of which he treats j and was alleged to have con- 
 tributed to the Protestant Succession, and to have supported it as ably as anj 
 Person of his time : he is repeatedly mentioned in Carstares' State Papers.] 
 
 rpHE Providence of God puts often occasiones in Mens hands of advancing his Glorie 
 •'■ and ther own good ; which occasiones (by the misguiding of those in whose hands 
 they are put) being once lost, God in his judgments sufl'ers Calamities to increase ; and 
 then Men in their Misery have nothing left them but a ground of dispute anent the 
 reasones of their miscarriages, and a debeat who are most to be blamed. 
 
 It can hardly be found that ever Scotland was in a worse taking than that it was in 
 before this last Revolutione ; or that any people had a better occasione of redressing 
 their wrongs, & settling y' liberties, to the honour of God and good of Posterity, than 
 they had by this Revolutione. And yet hardly shall it be found that ane occasione of this 
 nature was ever more mismanaged than this has lately been, when ther has litle more 
 arrisen to us yet than the unhapie debeat amongst ourselves of who is most to be 
 blamed ; and that is pursued so closly with calumnies against some, and artifice in 
 vindicacone of oy'', that, without a true informatione of matter of fact from some who 
 perfectly know it, its hard for honest men to distinguish who have been in the right, 
 or who in the wronge. 
 
 Therfor it is thought fitt to make a Memorandum of what passed since the meetting 
 of the Estates in some few articles. 
 
 The Estates haveing mett, it was soon found that the stronger partte ther was of such 
 who wished the freedoms of ther Church from Prelacie, and the freedom of ther State 
 from arbitrarie Government. Any who was led by both or either of these Principles 
 cemented so close together in favour of the Revolutione, and to sett up this present 
 King, that every point seeming to retard or delay was by them thrown out of dours^ 
 
 Upon the oyr hand, the adverse Partie, being solely made up of Prelates, and such 
 as, under the notion of serving them in the last Government, had persecuted and ad- 
 vanced tyrannic, believing, from a guilt of conscience, no salvatione to be iot them but 
 in the standing of King James, used all ther endeavours, t>y force and artifice, to hinder, 
 or at least retard, all proposalls in favour of King William. 
 
 And though (as is said) the far greater part of the Est,^tes were for him, yet those who 
 were for him were not so for him as to throw the Government blindlie in his hand, 
 without declareing the priviledges of the nation, and makeing the preservatione of 
 these rights and priviledges the conditione of the conveyance that they were to make of 
 the Crown. ,ji , „. . • , . ..
 
 2l8 CULLODEN' PAPERS. [aDDEXDA. 
 
 It is to be observed, that those who were against the declareing of the vacancie were 
 , no sooner overcome in that, but they were all (excepting one man) for giveing of the 
 Crown to King William without any condition or reserve. 
 
 It is next to be observed, that when they were overcome in that, and a Commit- 
 tee was named for declareing the rights and prinledges of the natione, and what 
 was grievous in the last Government, to the end it might be redressed ; then these 
 Opposers brought in the proposalls anent ane Union \\ith England, to take oft' the ne- 
 cessity of distinguishing any rights or priviledges that belonged to us as a people ; 
 having this befor their eyes, that if we gott the union quickly, it behoved to be -with the 
 loss of the freedom of the Church, and the want of reparatione for all the oppressions 
 we had formerly lyen under in the State ; or else, if it came to a longsome treaty •with 
 England, then ther was a tyme of respite for those of their partie in Scotland to gather 
 strength in behalf of King James, who was then in Ireland. 
 
 It is also to be remarked, that amongst those who were most pressing for ane union, 
 8' John Dalr\Tnple appeared, as one who till then had said but Htle, and at his comeing 
 into the Esteats had promised fair enough to the presbiterrane interest. His election 
 from the Burgh of Stranraer being questionable. Sir William Hamiltown, who had 
 great authorirv in the Committee of Electiones, put the question to the presbiteriane 
 partie, whether they wished S' John's electione to be admitted or rejected ? Whereupon 
 they sent for S' John, received assurance of his friendship, and believed the same with- 
 out the least jealousie, while that argument arose anent the unione. However, by a 
 Vote the Union is laid as\-d, and the clame of right proceeded upon ; to the effect, that 
 after the Crov.-n v/as given the union might be trved ; and if it miscarried, then at worst 
 thev had ther own Priviledges in reser\-e, if those in England were denied them. 
 
 Hithertill had matters succeeded wel ; but upon the dav of Aprile ther arrose 
 
 an Argument amongst some of the most active and honest men in the house, at a private 
 conference, how far it w^sntt to push the interpretatione of that article anent thefre- 
 quencie of ParliXts ; for it was easiUe understood, that the only determined settlement 
 that ever this natione had since the joyning of the Crowns \\-as in the Parliat 1641 ; 
 wherein the trienniall Parliats were esiabhshed, and the power of consent reserved to 
 these Parliats Ln the King's nonnnatione of Men to places of trust. 
 
 As to the first pairt, anent the trieimiall Parliats, it was thought fitt to leive the pointe 
 generall, and not anticipate England, who might perhaps make better conditions for 
 themselves, which would be a coppie to us, rather then that wee should determine 
 in a matter which mi^ht be a disadvantatreous Precedent for them ; so it was left in 
 the generall. 
 
 But as to the 2d parte of it, anent the King's putting Men in the Government with 
 consent of Parliat, it was so absolutely necessarie to the securit}" & well being of the 
 Natione, that all things els without it behoved to be but loose worke ; for, to our 
 former sad experience, we had still found the evill effects of the Counsels of Men chosen 
 at random ; and that it was impossible to keep Princes (though never so good), if 
 Strangers to our laws, from acdng contrarie to them, but by having Men in trust by 
 them, of whome the natione might be confident, and who wold dissuade the invading of 
 the Lawes. 
 
 Therefor it was thought necessarie that some one should overture, in the Committee 
 of Estates, that, the King being a stranger, places of trust might be filled up with 
 consent of Parliat, w out makeing mendone of the Parhat 1641, because Du\e Hamil- 
 town, who was our President, could not hear of it. And accordingly the next dav 
 
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 ADDENDA.^ CULLODKN PAPERS. ^ig 
 
 the overture is made by a Member*, seconded by Sir Patrick Home of Pohvarr, 
 the Lord Cardross, & Sir James Montgomrie; opposed by the Earl of Craufurd, the 
 Lord Mehill, and some others, -who thought it a circumscribing of the King in too 
 narrow boimds, and a distrusting of him. The Duke of Hamihoun being out of the 
 House that day, severalls of the Committee were not free to enter upon the pointe in 
 his absence. The next day, the Duke being there, the proposall is made of new, and 
 opposed by the Duke with a great deal of heat, as being a stratening of the King, not to 
 leave him free to make use of what Servants he pleased, or to bestow his places and 
 offices to whom helyked. • ■ ' ... 
 
 To which it was replyed by Pohvart, that ther was nothing sought now but what 
 former Kings had granted, and that had been practised, and was the Law of the Land, 
 Nay further, what if the King, through -u-ant of knowledge, being a Stranger, or by 
 bad advise, should imploy any of those iji public trust now who had been grievous in 
 the late Govern'. To which it was answered by the Duke & several oyrs, that that 
 was impossible, and it savor'd too much of distrust to think that the King will doe any 
 such thing ; and that he himself had so great confidence in the King, that, bad 'his 
 advice being taken from the beginning, our matters had been referred wholie to the 
 King himself. To which it was replyed by a Member t that they had trust and confi- 
 dence great enough in the King ; but it was certain that the King could not live for 
 ever ; and who knew what maner of Man might succeed him ? and that the proposall 
 was not made to abridge the power of any good King, but to have the marches ready in 
 case of a bad one. To which it was also added by S' James Montgomrie, that tho' the 
 King were never so good, yea though he were als good as King Josiah, ther were some 
 things that he wold not reffer to him (meaning, as was supposed, the Government of 
 the Church). The Duke being insensed at S' James, and my Lord Cardross haveing 
 taken the Debeat off of S' James's hand, the Duke and my Lord fell so foule that the 
 Motion was laid asyd at that tyme, and never after revived in the Committee. S' Wil- 
 liam Hamilto\\Ti being challenged t why he did not assist, his answer was, because he 
 knew the Duke wold goe madd ; and also he found it would scarce carrie on the Com- 
 mittee ; and that ther was no remedy now, but to have the King rightly informed ; and 
 when he knew the interest of the natione, certainly he wold condescend to any thing 
 that might secure them ag' the invasione of futur Princes, or els he did not ans' the 
 termes of his own declaration, viz' of s«tleing the Government upon lasting found* 
 ations. 
 
 Within 2 or 3 dayes y'after S' Patrick Home, of Pohvart, brought in a Memoriall, 
 in full Conventione, upon his overture ; which was opposed not only by the Duke <fc 
 oyrs, but even by Skellmorly ; and gave that as his reaione to S' Patrick in private, 
 that those who were to goe up vdth the offer of the Crown might make the proposall to 
 ^ the King himself ; and he wold certainly doe in Scotland as he did in England, viz' 
 imploy Men in publick trust with advice of Parliat ; for he had done so there. Thus 
 ended this Debeat ; and this I reckoned the first of our vTong steps. 
 
 The dame of right, and list of our grjvances, being clos'd, the next thing adoe is, 
 to provyd honest men, three of a State, to goe with the offer of the Crown ; and who 
 might tell y' King what o^r Men, with themselves, were fittest to be trusted with the 
 Rule of the Natione, This design was not well sett on foot when it was broke by S' 
 
 • This wai CuUoden himself. f Cullodcn. J By Culloden. 
 
 - ,^- * James
 
 «20 CCLLODEN' PAPERS. [aDDEN'DA. 
 
 James ^lontgomrie, who either persuaded the Duke, or at least gave It out so, that If 
 anv more went up but one of a State, the Duke wold leave the Conventione, and goe 
 himself. Thi.s had weight amongst the IMembers, who were studious to stop him upon 
 two considerationes : ist. Because the Countrev could not well want his presence, being 
 of oreat authority in that interraign of afi'airs ; 2d, They dreaded he would be no good 
 ad^'iser with the King ; either as to the freedom of the Natione, or as to the persons to 
 be employed in trust ; but that he wold enhance all to himself and family, which in 
 that case behooved to become too weightie for the natione ; so that when they found 
 the nameing of one only of a State to be the wav to keep him at home, it was pu:t to 
 the vote, whether one or more of a State should be sent up ; and it carried, one : this L 
 take to be the 2'^ ^^Tong step. 
 
 The Estates haveing resolved to send up but one of a State, making in all three, then 
 ihe questione came, who these should be. The far greater part of the House judged 
 the Earle of Aigyle, as a Peer (to honour him for his father's sufferings) ; S' James 
 MontCTomerie, as a Barron (because of his distinct wit and forwardness in the conven- 
 tione") ; and S' William Hamikoim, as a Borrow (because of his known integrit}- and 
 knowledf^e of the lawes), to be the three fittest persones could be imployed, since there 
 were none to goe up but three. 
 
 This proposall had its first dash by the nyseness of S' William Hamiltown ; who de- 
 clared positively that he could not goe, that he wold not goe, nor could he put himself 
 bv diet to rs'd post upon any termes ; but he recommended to the Members the choosing 
 or S^ John Hall, Provost of Ed', in his stead. As the Members are deliberating anent 
 this, there is a slie insinuatione made by severall emissaries, that now we had put the 
 natione in a great hazard, because the sending up of Skellmorly -nith Arg^le and S' John 
 Hall, was the same thing upon the matter as if we had sent Duke Hamiltown all alone ; 
 it beincr endent, that Skellmorly was altogether in the Duke's interest, and the other 
 two not of such mettle as to oppose him ; or, though they were, the one so much 
 adicted to the Duke, and the oy'^ * so much wedded to Skelmorly, that his word would 
 give the law ; and v'fore ther was ane absolute necessit)" to jojTi somebody ■with him in 
 the Commission that could ballance him ; which ver)' properly might be 8" John 
 Dalrymple. 
 
 This proposall took impresslone upon very many honest men ; in so farr, that when 
 the benches were separated for making the Electione, the votes were goeing very fast, 
 especially amongst the borrowes, for Arg}-le, Skellmorly, and S' John , which made 
 some of the borrowes come to the Barrons and Peers, telling them that S' John Dal- 
 rymple wold carry the vote imless S' William Hamiltoun came to compeet vrith him j 
 and that now S' W"-> was content to imdergoe the travell. This put the House in a 
 confusione ; so that ther was a necesside of adjoming of that vote untill the Morrow. 
 
 That night was a night of insessant solicitations ; some implcreing the Members in 
 behalf of S' W^ Hamiltoune, & oy'' in behalf of S' John Dalrymple ; and these tvro far 
 more dilligent beseeching the members that they wold not pass from ther votes alreadie 
 given to S'' John ; that they would remember, S' WiUiam Hamiltoun was also addicted 
 to the Duke, and that he had parricullar prejudice againest S' John and bis family, which 
 Tvas the great reasone he so malicisusly medled in his game. 
 
 It is indeed true, that in the Committee of Estates S' William Hamiltoim had brought 
 mv Lord Stairs his dealing with the Advocats in ATiXio 1 6 under ccgnisence, as being 
 
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 ADDEKKA.] CULLODEN PAPERS. 32 1 
 
 contrarie to law ; and was vehemently opposed by S' John Dalrymple, upon his suppo- 
 sitione that S' William designed to re; ch his father. The Debeat continued warme 
 betwixt them for tvvo dayes, without the interpositione of anv one persone of the Com- 
 mittee ; and ended in a vote, that the practice in general should be narrated in the clame 
 of right as contrarie to law, only to prevent the lyke for the futur, but without comeing 
 any nearer my Lord Stair. 
 
 However, upon the occasione now in hand th'S was made use of as ane argument of 
 Sir W^'s medling in S' John's game out of pique. It was suggested againest S' John 
 Dalrvmple, that he had favoured the Presbiterian interest in nothing ; that he had stuck 
 with the Jacobites upon the Unione, and so had retarded the giveing of the Crown ; 
 that he had appeared rather for scrimping than enlarging the clame of right ; and that 
 he had been shey in owning the proposall of turning the estates into a Parliat : all which 
 weigh'd much with serious people to make them believe him to be ane unfitt persone 
 for redressing of the oversight that was in the clame of right. Yet, so blinde were 
 some of the honestest men in thenatione, such as the Lairds of Grant, Brodie, Ormis- 
 toun, & some oy", upon whom these had influence, that by the next daye's vote S' 
 John Dalrymple carried it over S' William Hamiltoun by 5 or 6 votes ; which I take to 
 be the third wronge step. 
 
 These Commissioners, with the offer of the Crown, no sooner arryved at London, 
 but they fell in a jangle amongest themselves. S' James Montgomrie, who found him- 
 self feeble against the oppositione he mett with (from his Colligue S' John his father, 
 my Lord Stairs, who had been constantly there, and my Lord Melvill, who was newly 
 come up, and supposed to be much advised by my Lord Stairs), did write down seve- 
 ral letters to my Lord Ross, who was President of the Committee of Estates in the 
 Duke's absence ; complaining that, if the Committee did not assist him, by informatione 
 from them to the King anent the inclinations of the Natione as to persones to be put in 
 trust, he could not answer for the success of any thing : upon which the Committee 
 wTote, and in generall termes acquainted the king that he might beware of employing 
 persones in publick trust who had been obnoxious in the late Government, and pre- 
 sumed that His MaSe would doe that thing with advice of Parliat. 
 
 When the estates mett, the Corrunittee gave ane accompt to the full House what they 
 had done, had the House's approbation y'upon ; and a new Letter was sent from the 
 full meitting, asserting what was WTote befor by the Committee, and furder desyring 
 that his Matie would be pleased to delay the sitting of the Parliat for some dayes, and 
 allow the Duke of Hamiltoun, the Laird of Polwart, and some oyrs, to come up to 
 London, that his Matie might have clear and plaine informatione anent what was to be 
 treated of in the Parliat. This was done to retry ve the tvvo last errors, in sending up 
 but three, and Sir John Dalrymple one of them. 
 
 The return this had was ane absolute Command to the Parliat to sitt. Within a very 
 few days after ther sitting, they receive the King's nominatione of a Privie Counsell 
 mixt with severals of those that had most appeared against him, and a Sessione wherin 
 my Lord Stairs was President ; and several named who would not daine to own him 
 alledgance ; and a Commissione to S' John Dalrymple as Lord Advocat, all docked by 
 the Lord Melvill as sole Secretary of State. 
 
 This is also to be remarked, that severall honest Men, such as Grant, Brodie, Or- 
 mistoun, &c. were, out of gratitude, named upon the Councill, for ther favour to S'" 
 John Dalrymple in sending him up. 
 
 It is also to be remarked, that Cardross, Polwart, Collodin, kc. had been criminat 
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 of Parliat. Skellmorly, being challenged for it by one of the persons * concerned, 
 declared, that he -was quarrelled upon that head himself, and that the thing had been 
 ill interpret there before his arrj-vall. Stair, being also challenged upon it, ^\Tote his 
 >indicatione ; declaring that he knew not -nho had been the first makers of the motione, 
 until Skellmorly, by putting it oit Ipnself, had laid it upon oyrs. However, now 
 beo-ane every ]\Ian to see that the Esteates of Scotland were wise behind the hand, and 
 they had not made their Bed as they wished to ly down. Instead of remedy, the first 
 expressions were but mere annimosities againest S' John Dalr^-mple and his fay', \%ith 
 some resentment ag' the Lord Melvill ; but, upon soberer thoughts, it was projected to 
 di%7d my Lord MelvilL, who was ane honest well principled suffering man, from the 
 interests'of my Lord Stair, who had been in ane e^^ll Government so long, and had 
 left his Sone behind him in it untill the last ; so that the grudge begane to cease againest 
 Melvill, allowing of any favors that he gott, and severall Letters are writen by some 
 persones to himself, inviteing him to jo)Tie with such as were for a Countrey interest. 
 Endeavours also are used with his Sone the E. of Levine to bring him off S' John Dal- 
 r)Tnple's interest here at home ; and, generally, Men were satisfied how much ]Mel\-ill 
 had of the King's Ear, provyding that he himself were free from the Councills of my 
 Lord Stair. 
 
 It is here also to be remarked, from the Circumstances following, that the generall 
 prejudice agst my Lord Stair was not personal ; for Mr. David Feame, who had formerly 
 been a Servant to that Lord, did upon seall occasiones insinuate vrkh. some of the Mem- 
 bers of Parliat, and pleaded in behalf of Stair, that he had no hand in the abbruptness 
 of the King's late nominationes. In testimonie whi^of. Stair himself had refused to the 
 Kino- to accept of his President's place, unless he could be there -with the concurrence 
 of men of knowledge and integritie ; and y'for besought the King that he wold sist any 
 furder nominatione, whill he gained the favour of honest and worthie Men, with whom 
 he was as yet under a misconstrue tione, &c. To make out something of what he said, 
 he letts some of my Lord Stair's Letters to himself, & to some of my Lord's sons, be 
 seen, regrating that he should be so ill interpret : upon which some of these Members 
 wrote to him, and had returns, ^•indicating himself, Sec. in generall termes as to the 
 rest ; which, being taken in the best sense, was made known to sealls of the honestest 
 Members in the House, nay to those who were judged most averse to him, such as 
 S' W^" Hamilto-n-n, RickertowTi, my Lord Ross, &c. ; from all of whom there was 
 this return, that pro\7deing he mean'ed faithfidly, and wold promot the common mterest 
 by getting a bench of honest Men upon the Sessione, they wold doe y' endeavours in 
 Parliat to get the thing aproven, and would very -vnllingly allow of all die respect, pro- 
 feit, and honour, it pleased the King to convey his way. 
 
 One particular instance is that of Commiss' Monro's, which may show how hi it -was 
 m Stair's power that t)'me to obliterat disoblidgments. It being told the Commiss' as is 
 above said, and that Stair meant not to accept the Chair, unless he obtained the fa- 
 vour of honest men, and had such to sitt upon the Bench with him, &^ the honest 
 Man's reply was, if that be true, altho' that man -nTonged me most of any man, and 
 tho' I hated him formerly as I did the Devill, yet now I not only forgive him, but I 
 will putt him in my bosome ; and to lett see how acceptable the Lord Stair might have 
 become, as well as mv Lord Mehill, had- he imployed his favour ■nith the King for the 
 common interest, the same M' David Fearne, with consent of sealls of the ^lembers. 
 
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 was immediately dispatched away to London, by Pohvart and some oy", 'with condi- 
 tions of friendship, all tending to the common good ; and the mynd of the Parliat 
 turned quyt off him, and sett itself then merely upon debaring of such from trust 
 as had really been persecutors in the last Government, such as Queensberry, Tarbat, 
 S' George M'Kenzie, Athole, Aberdeen, Perth, Melford, Ballcarras, Dundee; per- 
 haps not soe many, and I am sure not one more. 
 
 It's true, that befor this S' John Dalrymple had been staged by Skellmorly upon 
 some things that past betwixt them at London ; such as that S' John wold have had 
 the request for tumeing the Estates to a Parliat waved until the acceptance of the Crown 
 were over ; and debeated that it ought not to come in pari pjssu with the offer of the 
 Crown ; which points were thought too nice by most of the Parliitt, and y'for waved ; 
 and so was all oy' animosities ; so that many good people begane to hope that if they 
 could gett Melvill & Stair right, they might easily retryve what was amiss in Privie 
 Counsell or Bench of Sessione, and gett a law made to prevent the intrusione of wicked 
 persecuteing Men upon the Government. 
 
 The first thing that became difficult to the Parliat about this t^'me was, the matters 
 of the Articles ; the King, in seall instructions to his Commissioner *, giveing some 
 concessions, but never comeing up to the height of satisfieing the grievances, because 
 he stuck close to his Officers of State ; whereupon ther past a vote debarring them from 
 being supernumerary. During the continuance of this Debeat, the Parliat were ready 
 to have ill thoughts of D. Hamiltoun, because of his vehemencie in marring their de- 
 signe anent the articles. S' John Dalrymple had also been verie ill thought of for his 
 obstinacie in the same matter. But when he was challenged for it, he excused him- 
 self with the necessities of his office t, which oblidged him to say something ; and 
 lest the Duke might delate him as remiss, he said so much ; but he bade us observe, 
 that he should never be found to speake t\v^xe upon one head. 
 
 These insinuations of S' John's helped well to irritate people ag' the Duke, and lay 
 more of the load upon him than either upon Stair or Melvill; tho' many judicious sus- 
 pected vehemently them to be the only obstructers, because none but they were by the 
 King at that t^-^me. 
 
 Two arguments more were under debeat In the House ; one anent the Lords of 
 Sessione, and anoy' anent the quahties that might render men incapable of Trust. To 
 divert the House from proceeding upon these, the Government of the Church was 
 brought in head, by the Duke telling that he had particular instructions to setle that 
 before any thing els were done. 
 
 Many well-meaning Men were satisfied in that point ; so y* they were uilling to see 
 the Draughts of some ads brought in in refference yrto ; and serdls indeed were 
 brought in by the D. himself, by S' Thomas Burnet, and ovrs which were so ridicu- 
 lously conceived for the interest of Presbitry, that the Duke lost twice as much favour 
 amongest the Presbiterians upon y^ sight of his acts, as he had gained amongest them 
 upon his first proposalls for Presbitry. The result was, that the most of the Members 
 made serious applicatione to the best ministers and best Lawyers, for drawing Draughts 
 to that purpose which might be good and valid, for a right and true establishment of 
 Presbitry ; and while this is a doeing, it was surmised by most of the Members, that 
 if the Kirke Government were once setled, the Parliat would be immediately dis- 
 
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 solved ; and that the only thing which keept it together was, a necessitie on the King, 
 by some words in the act abolishing episcopacie ; whereby he bound himself to setle 
 Presbitrv bv the advice and consent of this present Parliat ; and Lf that were once 
 done, the Parliat would dissolve, lest it should become uneasie upon the incapacitating 
 act. Lords of Sessione, and oy' grievances. 
 
 This is no sooner suggested, but is als soon by very many believed ; Stair and IMel- 
 ^•ili given to looo'' Devills, and the Duke commended as ane honest man. However, 
 this surmise received not imiversall Credit ; for it being put to the Vote, w-hether the 
 Church Government should be first expeded, or if any oy thing should be preferred 
 to it, it carried, by two Votes only, that ov' things should be preferred to it. And so 
 to work the house goes with the rest of ther votes, wherein S' John Dalrymple had 
 occasione to show all his pairts, and debeat himself out of all favour. The Duke often 
 t)'me calmly beholding fair play, yet stopeing the votes often with unseasonable ad- 
 journments : however, in end, a vote is obtained upon both these points ; but in that 
 obtained anent the incapacity, Skellmorly, Polwart, and the rest of y", were outwitted 
 by S- John Dalr)-mple. They had putt in a great many instancies in the generall qua- 
 liticationes, with a resolutione to pass from some, when contended for, upon conditione 
 they could obtain the rest. But S' John, finding the act to be such, in the termes 
 they conceived it, as might in a manner reach all men, he very wittily lett it pass in 
 these termes, because it might give the easier ground to cast it ; as indeed it after- 
 wards happened, the very contrp-ers ymselves passing from it, and conf)-ning it a great 
 dale more narrow in ther Address then they had voted it. 
 
 In the mean t)Tne, the Duke had brought in ane Bill for money to pay the army. 
 Enquyrie is made into the Thesaury, and into the Conditione of the Army ; and it being 
 found ther was a Stock to pay them whill November, the Parliat delayed imposing of 
 ;Money while some of the grievances were redressed, which might encourage the 
 people to pay y' taxes the more pleasantly ; and immediatly upon recept of this an- 
 swer, the Parliat is abruptly adjourned to the S'^ of Ocl', to the great surprise of the 
 whole House. 
 
 Now it was that honest I\Ien begane to examine themselves and y' conditione, and 
 to put the question, whether past oversights should be rectified or not. They had 
 made y' own conditions loose, and found no remedy for that but to have good men 
 about the king, who would inform him trew ly of the conditione of affairs. They once 
 had some expectatione of jNIelvill & Stair, both professing ane honest principall ; of 
 whom now they were become uterly diffident : the Duke they never laid great stress 
 upon ; so that now they found themselves so difficulted that they knew not what hand 
 to turn. They see that whoever should goe to Court, in a private Capacity, to inform 
 the King, behoved to be of far less Credit than those who already swayed him ; and, 
 the Parliat being up, they could not informe as from a House ; but judging generally 
 one thing to be true, viz' That the King acted meerly upon misiiiformatione, they 
 thought a general applicatione by the most of the Members, the' extra-judicial, could 
 not choose but weigh with him. 
 
 And y^or they entered upon that soe-much-spoke-of Address, consisting of fyve 
 Articles already voted, and proffering Money to maintaine the Army upon the passing 
 of these Articles into acts; which were, i. the reponing of the ministers; 2. the 
 repealing the act anent the supremacy ; 3. abolishing the Articles ; 4. the incapaci- 
 tating of some for publick trust ; and, 5. the nameing a Bench of Sessione in this 
 tyme of a total vacancie with consent of Parliat. The stile was smooth, and humble j 
 
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 the grounds and inferences radonall ; and the persone employed to delyvcr it * pretty 
 intelligent, and supposed favourable enough with the King ; so that this Address was 
 subscribed and dispatched away under hopes of a very good answer. But the King 
 had taken such bad impressiones of it before it came up, that when it came, the 
 Bearer could receive no admittance. 
 
 It is to be remarked, that Duke Hamiltoun had vindicat himself from it to the 
 King ; and the better to plead himself free, had deciphered those Noblemen and 
 Gentlemen of the Parliat who, from subscribing the Address, were called the Club, 
 to be a hot-headed precipitant people, of a wicked temper, and unsatisfiable ; upon 
 whom also he laid the blame of his abrupt adjournment, because they could neither 
 setle the Government, of the Church, nor provyd for the Army, undl they had satis- 
 fied their old caprices and privat piques ; so that he could proceed no further in a 
 Parhat with them, until he knew from his Made how far it w^as his pleasur he should 
 give them way. 
 
 Howbeit, whatever the Duke said, perhaps he was but little believed ; Stair and 
 Mehill haveing before hand borne in upon the King, that the Duke complyed with 
 the Club, in so far as he suflered them to bring any of y^ proposalls to a vote, espe- 
 cially those three, of the Articles, Incapacide, and Sessiones ; by the first of which he 
 derogated from the prerogative ; and by the last two, meant to destroy Melvill and 
 Stair, at least one of them. 
 
 About this tvme the Earl of Amiandale, my Lord Ross, and S' James INIontgomrv,. 
 came to Hampton Court, with some other Members of the Scots Parliat ; all which 
 .■was improven by those who were Enemies of the Address to the disadvantage of it ;. 
 they representing the reflectione that the noise brought upon the King's justice ; 
 which, as ane Insolence, behoved to receive some Check, and vfor Annandale, Ross, 
 and Skellmorly, are debarred the King's presence, as being Counsellors come up sine 
 'venia. This aSront done to these persons was very ill taken by many, and was inter- 
 pret as a bad omen to the success of y' Address. 
 
 It is true, it was quickly removed, and the King allowed my Lord Portland to 
 examine the desyres of y' Address ; but desyred it might not be presented to himself. 
 It was told, y' it behoved to be presented, or els the trust were not answered which 
 was reposed in them by y' neighbours ; which ansrs the King took ill ; and this 
 brought such as were there of us, that haunted in Court, to deliberat what was best 
 to be done. 
 
 It was now we saw the absolute necessitie of .having the King out of evill hands, 
 -because he stuck so close to his impressiones, in so far as he had scroupled to accept 
 of the address, haveing once thought ill of it, altho' Mv Lord Portland had told him 
 y' was nothing of difficulty in it ; and in- this our consultatione we splite amongest our-- 
 selves ; for S' Ja. Montgomry and some ovrs with him, were of opinion, that a- 
 solemn presenting of the Address wold compell the King to hear Debeat upon it, 
 and give it a good answer. S' Patrick Home \^ as of the contrary opinion ; and thought 
 that if the King's own Conseiit were not obtained to the presenteing of it, it might doe 
 at least this prejudice, of Icseing the King's favour to all such as did present it ; and. 
 since ther designe at bottome was to carry the King out of evill hands, to ii-ritat hiin 
 would never be the w'ay to carry him. S' Patrick had some ground for what he s-" ;_ 
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 termes of that Address : some things in it he was free to grant ; oy''' he made mor 
 difficultie of ; but, however, he said he -vras goeing to NewTnercat at that tyme ; and 
 at his returne he would receive the Address in his closet, without noise, wold reason 
 upon it, and give such returns to it as was suitable. This Accompt being brought 
 back to y^ rest of our number, pleased them well enough, all to one thing ; which 
 was, that it looked Ivke a postponeing of t}'me ; since the Parhat was to git the eighth 
 of Octo' ; w-hich difEcult)- being represented to y^ King, the Parhat is adjourned to the 
 ao"" of Decer. 
 
 At this r\-me, and dureing the Interval whill the King's returne from NewTnercat, 
 ther were seall attempts made for bringing of parties to ane understanding ; and then 
 certainlv, if Stair and IMelvill had run the same wav w' those of the Clube, evill men 
 might have been debared from the Government, a good bench of Lords named, and 
 the most forward of the Club put in some imployments, which had imdoubtedly made 
 the nation peaceable ; but one thing at that t}Tne became apparent ; A'iz. however my 
 Lord Stair might profess that he desyred pretr\- men to sire with him upon the Bench, 
 yet revera he shuimed anv who he thought would debeat with him, and took in (in 
 so far as he could) none but such as he knew woold comply wdth him. 
 
 The reasone of this position is as followes : the night befor the Secretarie & the 
 Advocat went to Newmercat, the Advocat, S' Pat. Home, and ane ov member * 
 were ver\' late at the Fountaine taveme, wher ther discourse had been altogether upon 
 the termes of accommodatione, and removeing of diiferences ; which was supposed 
 to be pretty well imderstood. When thev were readv to part, S' John asked of S' 
 Pat. what if the Sessione should sitt dowTi the first of Nov" ; to which S" Patrick re- 
 plyed, it could not choose but break squairs, since the Parhat did not sitt befor y" to 
 admit y"". Then, sayes S' John, you had best guard the Secretary of it befor he goe 
 to Newmercat. According to his ad^^ce, S' Patrick & y' ov' member were at y* 
 Secretary by daj^-Hght the next day and guarded him anent the thing ; to which he 
 replved shyly, that he knew of noe such designe as to make the Session sitt the first 
 of Nov% and that he wold make no such overture himself ; but if the King were 
 positive in it, he knew not how to gett it hindered, &' ; which ans^ giveing great 
 STound of distrust, mv Lord Annandale and mv Lord Ross are advised bv the rest of 
 the members to goe forthwith to Newmercat, and ob^^iat any thing they saw passing 
 anent the fors'* motione. Accordinglv, thev w^ent thither, tarried dureing the King's 
 aboad, and came back with him, without smelling any thing ; and yet the thing was 
 done under hand, and nothing of it known in England ; while the report of y^ sit- 
 ting came up from Scotland ; which clandestine precipitation was interpret generally 
 to be best. If parties should agree, my Lord Stair might be obhdged to take in some 
 upon the Bench that would not stoop to him. However, thus it was done, and the 
 Sessione at y' downsitting in Scotland, when the address was presented in England j 
 which was much after this manner : 
 
 The King, being returned to Hampton Court, had some discourse with S' James 
 Montgomrie, which Ivked hini ill. He lett him know that he thought ill of him ; and 
 whatever trust he had formerh" meaned to put upon him, he would now doe it but 
 according to his good beha\iour. S^ James, finding himself at a loss, explained the 
 matter to us as if the King dealt so to terifie him from presenting the Address, which 
 went verie ill doun with most of us : only S" Pat. Home said, that of a certain tliat came 
 not of himself ; and yrfor to deal briskly with him, were to lock him in, in the 
 
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 hands that had him, rather then take him out of them. Therefor, since the King had 
 promised that he wold receive that Address in private, he besought they wold not pre- 
 cipitat the delivery of it while he had first spoke to y" King. Three or four days wer 
 spent in Arguments of this natur. S' James (who had carried my Lords Anniindale & 
 Ross) still persuading y' was no wayes to doe y" bussines but to put it home, and 
 particrly that the Duke of Hamiltoun wondered why we were so long adoeing of it ; 
 S' Patrick, Upon y" oy hand, perswading that to be abrupt in it was the way to marr it, 
 unless the King would goe back of his word, and refuse to accept it in privat ; be- 
 seiching they might have but Patience for a Week ; and if in that time he did not gett 
 the King perswaded to receive it privatly and give it a good answer, he wold yralter 
 joyn with them, and prosecute the matter in what termes they pleased. 
 
 These Arguments, being often reiterated, could in end procure no more delay ; for 
 upon the day of November was S"^ Pat. Home taken sick out of his Bed at 
 
 Ditton by Annandale, Ross, and Skellmorly, to present that Address himself, or els- 
 to suffer them to doe it : he acquiesed unwillingly ; but had .this Condition in it, that 
 they should present nothing until he had the returne of a note which he instantly gave 
 in to the King, desyreing that liis Matie might speake to him. In the mean tyme,. 
 befor y arryvall in the Bed-Chamber the King had called in one of the Members* to- 
 the Closet, with whom he spoke prettie fully of all that had past in Scotland ; made 
 show as if he had been satisfied to receive and answer all that Address, excepting that 
 Article anent the Sessione, upon which pointe also he wold reasone ; and as to the 
 Capacity, there should be no need of ought publick to that purpose ; for lett us con- 
 descend against whom we excepted, and he should assure us that none of those should. 
 ever be named to any place of trust by him, &^ That Member was newly come out 
 of the Closet, and found all the Gentlemen there in the Bed-Chamber who were con- 
 cerned in the Address ; with whom he retired to the outter roome, and was giveing 
 them ane accompt of what had past betwixt the King and him ; and whilst he was 
 about the Close of his discourse, the King haveing come out and passing over the- 
 roome, my Lord Annandale put knee to the ground, and gave him the paper. The- 
 King asked what it was ; my Lord told him it was ane Address from the Members oE' 
 the Parliat of Scotland ; to which the King made no reply. 
 
 Whatever speed S' Pat. Home might have come with his calme courses, is uncer- 
 taine ; but one thing now we have found certaine, that, by abrupt presenting the Ad- 
 dress, we came just no speed at all ; all we gained by that was, to put ourselves quite- 
 out of doors ; so that whatever outward shew of Civility some of us had formerly, we- 
 had then lost it all, and in plaine termes saw we had no more to doe at Court, and 
 every Man imployed himself as his Humour led him. S' William Hamiltoun and S'' 
 James Ogilvie went home; the Duke of Hamiltoun, divested of his Commissione, fol- 
 lowed within a litle yrafter ; Skellmorley, Annandale, Ross, &', stayed at London, and.- 
 conversed with the English Statesmen ; Polwart and CoUodin \\ ent out to Kingsintoun 
 with their families, and passed y tyme there ; and if at any tyme they happened to. 
 mett y friends, all ther conversation was upon the general! confusione that all things. 
 were lyk to turne into in Scotland, England, and Ireland. 
 
 It was remarked, that Skellmorly and-those oy Gentlemen frequented all maner of. 
 Companies, whether Jacobits or oyrs ; they advised much among the Parliiit men in 
 England, that no money might be given the King ; and amongest the Cittizens, thaL 
 
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 none might be lent : they spoke incautiously upon any \n'ong steps made in the State ; 
 all which discourses, and perhaps much more then ever they spoke, was brought to 
 the King's Eares, ■which irritat him mightily against them. The Address also came to 
 oe %"indicat in print at that t)'me, and seall ov' passadges fell out, which displeased the 
 King verie much vdth these Gentlemen. 
 
 There was onlv one matter of Import which seemed to take its rise from them ; viz'. 
 Some of the English Oiiicers of State and Bishops had been with the King desyreing 
 him to put a stop to presbitrie in Scotland ; assureing him, that the Parliat of that 
 natione was not so much inchTied to Presbitrie as was imagined ; that they were in- 
 formed, Episcopacie had not been abolished, had it not been to gratitSe him ; and if 
 His Matie pleased to call that Parliat together presently, and giye y" freedome to setle 
 the Ci^ill rights of the Natione, thev wold stop any fiirder advancement of Presbitrie ; 
 and that this might be very confidently asserted ; for these very Men, to witt, the 
 Clube, who were the abolishers of Episcopacie to pleasur the King, wold be the hin- 
 derers of the advance of Presbitery to obtaine y' civill rights, Sc^. 
 
 iMy Lord IMehill spok of this to S' Patrick Home with a great dale of regrate ; by 
 whom he was not beleived, but in a maner laughed at ; however, w ithin some few 
 daves y-' is a 2^ onsett made upon the King by the same persons to the same purpose, 
 without receiveing any possitive answer from him, who, within ane hour after they 
 were gone, called for Sir Pat. Home, upon whom he had looked but very shyly since 
 the presenting of the Address. 
 
 It's true S' Pat. had contribut to keep himself out of favour by seall memorialls he 
 gave in to the King from t}"me to rj'me, wherein he missed not to vindicat still all 
 those of our Clube which was then become unwelcome to his Watie. But he inclyned 
 to distinguish betwixt such persones as advised the Parliat men of England to 
 give money for the comon defence, and those oy" who made it y-" worke to 
 diswade them. 
 
 This was it which at y' tyme inclyned the King to call for Sir Pat. Home ; but S' 
 Pat. hapening not to be about the Court, CoUodin ^vas brought to him, who hap- 
 pened to be there. With him he had seall questions anent the conditione of Scotland 
 and the Parliat ; particularly, if the Presbiterian Partie wer the stronger ; and if the 
 peace of the Coimtrey could be secured, without setleing the Government of the 
 Church ; and if SkeUmorly's interest with his Adherents were such in the Parliat as 
 could oblidge the natione to lay as)-de v Church Government. To all which y' were 
 plain and positive ans" given, with reasons to inforce what %vas s^, wherwith the K. ap- 
 peared satisfied : after which he broke out in ane expostulatione of the notorious in- 
 juries he received from S' James Montgomry and some ov"*, in creating him all the 
 troubles and mischiefs imaginable ; reackoning y' as one amongest the rest, that they 
 had put the Church of England upon him, either to break with them, or break with 
 the Presbiterian interest in Scotland ; adding, that those persones who had last gon out 
 from him were soHcitars in that affair. This was no small occasione of admiration to 
 CoUodin, who could doe no other thing but call the verit)" of the matter in questione : 
 whereupon the King gave him libert\^ to inquire for his own satisfactione, which within 
 a day he did, and found S' James ^Iontgom^y own y" the Presbiterian part)* were the 
 least, and least considerable in the Parhai of Scotland ; that the interest of the Natione 
 behoved not to be lost for our Presbitrv ; and that Queensberry, Atholl, &;^ were very 
 honest men. This pass'd at the Blue Posts in Hay-marcat, in presence of Annandale, 
 Ross, Ricartoun, & S' W'^ Scott, after a full accompt had been given by CoUodin of 
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 S' Pat. Home was spoke to by the King to the same purpose, who believed It als 
 litle as Collodin ; and judged, as he did at first, that the Englishmen had said more to 
 the King then ever these oyrs had given them ground for : however, sundry passages 
 occurred yrafter, which made Sir Pat. Home and Collodin see that yr friends were fal- 
 lene in too great ane intimasie with thofe of the Jacobit Partie ; and y' to y' great re- 
 grate, because it put ym still more and more out of the King's favour. Of ym they 
 gott many advertisments, ansi-ed with as many excuses and appollogies ; but it appears, 
 that this haveing missed, which was last in hand with the King, it helped S' James 
 Montgomry forward to make his acquantance in plain termes with K. James, and thence- 
 forth drive his interest. 
 
 It was about this tyme that the King conferred with S' Pat. Home, and Collodin, 
 anent what wold please the Parliiit of Scotland to that degree, as to persuad ym to give 
 money for maintinance of the Army in y' own defence. There was a Memoriall given 
 in, in writing, containing the fyve Articles in the Address, and some things more ; 
 upon which nothing followed, until a new proposall was made to the King, a litle 
 befor the tyme that Annandale, Ross, and Skellmorly, left London ; which was, that 
 since the King knew that the Presbiterian Partie was by far the stronger in this Parliat, 
 and y' these Presbiterians will give no Money bot upon two peremptor conditions, viz. 
 1° That he should sett up a strick presbitry, in Scotland, which wold disoblige Eng- 
 land ; 2° name a Bench of Sessione of new, which wold dishonour himself ; to pre- 
 vent both which, it was proposed that he might dissolve this Parliat, and, by the help 
 of some great Men that were in the last Government, gett a new Parliat not so biggot 
 as to Presbitrey, and also indifferent as to my Lord Stair and his Lords of Sessione as 
 the King pleased ; who wold give money in abundance, and apply it to the maintinance 
 of his Armies, and defend his Prerogative, which they had been accustomed to sup- 
 port ; wheras those whom his Matie trusted now were meere Republicans, and Ene- 
 mies to the very monarchie itself. 
 
 My Lord Melville was the first who took the allarme at this proposall, of which he 
 made a heavy regrate to S' Patrick Home ; who told him, that if the Parliat were not 
 adjorned till March, the King wold quickly find how much the members of it had been 
 belyed, and that they wold give money for y^ own defence. My Lord Melvill, who 
 distrusted this, as being mighty diffidente of the parliament humour, went ane oy^ way 
 to work, viz' To plead the povertie of the natione to borrow i i^ool. sterline from the 
 theasury of England, to be subsistance money for the forces in Scotland for a while ; 
 to break some of the most useless Regiments, and gett the rest by degrees brought on 
 upon English pay ; and so keep off with long weapons, while the Parliat cooled and 
 came to its self. 
 
 There was the remedy proposed by y' Secreetarie, which S' Patrick Home con- 
 demned als litle better then the disease ; and y'for, the King haveing called him, he 
 utterly diswaded it, and brought the King to beheve that Scotland was able to main- 
 tain its own army, and wold willingly do it, whenever the King did these things which 
 he found him satisfied to doe ; upon this, the King called for Collodin, who spoke in 
 the same termes with Polwart, and then enquired for the last Memorandum given in 
 by Collodin, and made the Secreetary and Polwart deliberat upon the Articles of it ; 
 satisfied himself fully anent it, keept one double of it, gave ane oy' to the Secreetary, 
 and the 3'' to Polwart and Collodin, whom he immediately appointed to goe for Scot- 
 land, and try how these proposalls relished with the people ; and, according as encou- 
 radgements were given by ym, the Parliat should either sitt or stop. 
 
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 33^ 
 
 CCLLODEN PAPERS. [ADDENDA. 
 
 The proposalls -were, (i.) To take off the articles ; which was acquiesced to, provyding 
 the Kintr had some of his Oiiicers of State present in the Committie, to speak, but not to 
 vote •, (2°) To enlarge the Barrens' Bench; (3") To take away the supremacy, and repone 
 the outtedjMinisters; (4") To settle presbitr)' according to act ofParhat 169^ : (5") To take 
 away the patronadges; (6") To secure the peace of the couatrey by garrisons at Inverlochie, 
 and other hio-hland places ; (7'') To reduce all f)-nes and forfeitures by act of parliat y' 
 passed in the late reigne, and that he should acquiese in whatever the ParUat proposed 
 for reparatione of losses sustained in the late gover' ; all which articles were acquiesced 
 into in term'mis as they were proposed ; (8°) as to the Sessione, the King desyred the 
 Parliat mi^ht leave it tree ; but as to the constant President, he was clear ane act should 
 pass abolishing it fro futuro ; and, in tlie mean tyme, my Lord Stair will be brought to 
 demit presentlv ; he was verv free for it, and will give him incouradgment to doe it ; 
 but if v' would not doe, he was unwilling to put ane afront upon him by retracting what 
 he had already given. (9°) As to the incapacitating, he had supphed the oiEces of 
 trust by commissiones already ; in w^hich he had been cautious to put non ag"" whom he 
 had ever heard anv objections ; and as to the sutEciencie and msufEciencie of such as 
 he had now named, he cannot answer for it, because he knows them not ; but the 
 thino- being only ad tempia, if there be anv error found in that, it may be easily rectified 
 thereafter, &a And this is the substance of that paper which Sir James Ogih'y was 
 first pleased to nickname compromissione, and which some fools since were pleased in 
 ther ignorance to scoff at. 
 
 In the beginning of Febry 169 1, Polwart and Collodin came to Edinburgh ; where, 
 imediatelv upon y' arrivall, they found the King under the grossest misconstrucriones 
 with ail good men, in a manner both in Church and State that ever a Prince was under 
 with a people. What filthie uncleanesses were reported of him and the Queen, and 
 borne in upon good people, are incredible ; and as to the expectations might be had of 
 him, thev were all summed up in these three words, he neither will, can, or dares 
 doe a good actione, ^'c. ; all which stuff, as it shows a great change of humour in the 
 people, so it shew a malicious industry in some Informers, which could have no less at 
 the Bottome then a turning of the scene. However, it was a great ground ofsatis- 
 factione to Polwart 3c his Comerade to fj-nd a readines in honest Men to believe them 
 ■when they spoke good things. All that was formerly said by others to the King's 
 and Queen's disadvantage, they endeavoured to rim Aovm, and give the nation some 
 satisfaction anem y' Address, by telling; what the King was free to doe, according to the 
 tennor of the paper left with him ; much of which was so far beyond the mean expecta- 
 tiones the\' had latelv conceived of him, that they greedily closed \\ith it, and longed 
 for a Parliat to lav on the INIoney. 
 
 These two Gentlemen's first endeavours were w* Sir Ja. Montgomry, and the rest of 
 there own Comerades ; designeing to have carried their assent with them, that yrby the 
 King might have been convinced, as they were most for him from the beginning, so 
 they wold be most for him to the end ; which was the plainest way to comince him not 
 only of yr good \^ill, bot of the weight they did bear in the natione, and consequently 
 might bring him to make amends for any shght he had done them, and put them in such 
 places of trust as they deserved, and slight y' enemies, whose interest he wold find but 
 ineffectual! for his service. 
 
 It is also to be remembered, that Polwart, when he parted with the King, told him 
 expressly, it was by means of these Men that he meaned to prosecute his undertakeing ; 
 and if he succeeded in it, would not his Matie deal kjTidly with him ? The King told 
 
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 ADDENDA.] CCLLODEV PArER.*:. ^jT 
 
 him, he was too good a friend, and was m\-ndful of those whom he believed would 
 be very litle so of him ; but if these men turned frendly, and changed ther way, he 
 could be als ready to doe them kyndneeses as thev would be to merit them. 
 
 This particular passadge thev were informed of, as also of ane other lyke it which 
 passed betwixt My Lord Portland and Collodin ; but no argument, reasone, or temp- 
 tatione of favour, could prevail with them to trust the King, or condescend to give any 
 money, until he had granted them the outmost of there desyres ; particularly until he 
 had subjected this bench of Session to the pleasure of the Parliat. It was told, that then 
 the Parliament would breake if they continued so obstinat ; to which it was answered, let 
 it break : in a word, ther was first ane indifferancie shown whither it brok or not, 
 which within a very few days improved itself to ane apparent desyre in sealls to hare 
 it broken. 
 
 However, the soberer part of the Parli?it, finding that if it came to break they 
 should lose the prospeft of their Church Government, restranratione of forfeitries, 
 abolishing of the articles, and inlarging the Barrons' Bench ; nay not only lose the ex- 
 pectatione of these, but perhaps fall into (God knows what) greater mischeiffs ; either 
 by the want of the Parliat, or by getting ane ill one ; they positively conclude with 
 PoKvart and Collodin to accept of the King's offer at present, provyd for the army in 
 the mean tyme, and hope for better things in tvme to come ; which gave Polwart and 
 Collodin ground, from tyme to t\'me, to acquaint the King, and assure hjm that he 
 might safely suffer the Parliat to sitt. 
 
 In confidence of what they assured the King of, my Lord Secretarie MelvLll, who 
 ■was sent down with a commissione to hold the Parhat, how much he demurred upon 
 it through diffidence of the strenth of y' partie that was to be for him, was visibly seen ; he 
 had mens promises and assurances to act according to the proposalls made by Polwart 
 and Collodin ; bot the boisterous noyese of a contrar partie, who had brought in all 
 the Jacobits to be ther abettors, did so discouradge him, that he wold not adventur 
 upon a Parliat without furder assurances, and therefore adjorned it once and againe for 
 a tyme. 
 
 It was this diffiddence of my Lord Melville that induced the Members to write and 
 signe conjunctly a declaratione of ther mind, how they meaned to proceed in the House j 
 which paper, in a mock, was termed the clearing. However, when that clearing had 
 made a considerable progress, so as to assure the Commissioner, in termes which could 
 not afterwards be denyed, as verball promisses might be, he adventured to lett the 
 Parliat sitt ; and as he adventured to lett it sitt, had he also but adventured to tell that 
 he meant and was free to doe the things which really thereafter he did, he had brok 
 the neck of oppositione the very first day ; but his diffident tugging in smaller matters 
 keept life in a contrary partie, w'hich had no force but what it borrowed from jealousies 
 that good men had, \\hether the Commissioner wold doe these things that were promised 
 in his behalf, or not. 
 
 With what difficultie did the articles goe off"! yet in the end they went. How long 
 stuck the supremacy upon a needles notion ! yet it passed ; and every thing that was 
 brought in agitatione was besett with difficulties ; as, particularly, the Government of 
 the Church. But, blessed be the Lord ' that is so setled, that the Ministers are pleased ; 
 the patronadges are taken oft', to the satisfactione of both Ministers and people ; for- 
 fculturs and fjTics reduced, to the comfort of the oppressed ; the Barons' bensh inlarged, 
 to the satisfacuon of the freeholders ; the Parliat vindicat from the bondage of constant 
 Committies ; and seall oy' things done, which if the Parliat had not sitten perhaps had 
 never been done. So that it is a wonder how men, who have been €ye-\\'itnesses to what 
 
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 332 CULLGDEJJ PAPERS. [aDDEN'D.U 
 
 is past, can say that h had been better the Parliat had not sitten ; whereas it is so evi- 
 dent, that had it not sitten we had lost what we now have (perhaps for ever), and 
 fallen in inevitable misen^ ; and, indeed, it was ten to one that it did sit ; for if Polwart 
 had not been at London to inform the King right, it had not sitten; or if, after he 
 came down to Scotland, he had jo^-ned with Skellmorly, and those oy' Gentlemen, in 
 ther wavs of pressing affairs, which is the great objection in some mens mouths (with- 
 out considering Skellmorly's meaning), it had never sitten. If the Commissioner, after 
 he came doun, had not found himself assured that the Parliat members wold be satis- 
 fied vnih the King's offers, it had never sitten ; so that, as it is e^adent that all the good 
 we have is by the sitdng of that ParliSt, it is also evident, that it had never sitten if it had 
 not been for Polwart's endeavours. And in so far as Skelmorly was oy^ ways engadged, 
 and did notjc^■n in the same course with Pohvart, I reckon that, both in him, and all 
 thatw^ent his way, a step verie far wTong ; and had they known all that was at bottom 
 with him, I have the charitie to think that few or none of them had gone his way. 
 
 Ther is nothing that this ParUatt is disappointed of from the King, but in that of the 
 constant President ; nor is ther any thing the King is disappointed of from the Parliat 
 but. that the money is paid in four years which ought to have been paid in two. And 
 I ame confident, neither King nor Parliat are to be blamed for either of these two wrong 
 steps ; for they are both my Lord iNlelviU's, and are indeed two m.aster-pieces of need- 
 less mishapp to him, for each of which I am svire he is doeing peimance this day. 
 
 To radicat the King as ro the constant President, it is well known how- he made Stair 
 z Viscoimt with no other designe but to in\ite him to demitt. He also gave way to the 
 Parhat's proposal, toent no nobleman's being ane ordinary Lord of Session. He thought 
 the ParHat had voted that act, and woundered since why they did it not ; but it stood at 
 my Lord Mehill, who, had he given way to that, then perhaps he had not had the 
 master of Stairs to be his conjunct Secretary now. 
 
 As to the di\-)ding cf the Cess in so many termes, the Parliat was not to blame for 
 that ; for i ' att granting of the 2 y months, they offered to pay it in two years ; but 
 my Lord Melvill stopt that, and took a retentione money ; delating the Cess for four 
 years ; (2") the error of his retentione money being quickly seen, and the Parliat called 
 xk novo to rectifie it, they offered yet to pay the cess in two years, and give four months 
 more payable at that Martimass, in lieu of the retentione money, which was not worth 
 six pence in the terms it was granted. But my Lord MeUill had the mishapp to 
 marr that also, by rejecting the proposall, and taking the chimney money in place of 
 it ; which, being ineffectual as to the maintaineing of his forces, brought him to be 
 highly misconstructed by the Inghsh statesmen, who fotmd that he had slighted the 
 tymous payment of the Scotts supplv meirly (as he had cnce ingadged so) to keep the 
 Scotch forces upon Inglish pav, which rendered those Inglish statesmen active in pro- 
 curing him a conjunct : and in the mean time he's left Scotland to lett its own po^Tits hold 
 up its own hose ; which can never be well done till the Parliat accellerat the termes of 
 the cess ; and which the Parhat wold doe with the better will, that the constant Presi- 
 dent were taken aw-av, which is ver\- easv for the Kin? : and therefor let honest men 
 hope that, when the King letts the ParUat meitt, both ther interests so much requiring 
 it, they will doubtlessly please ane another : to which I am sure every honest man will 
 say Amen. 
 
 Our present condition being such now as it is, by what is said any man may satisfie 
 himself how and by whose means it comes to be so. 
 
 i^ Our first wrong step was, the refuseing to clame it as our right, that the King 
 should not name the persons to publick trust but with the consent of Parliat. The 
 
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 ADDENDA.] CULLODKN PAPERS. 333 
 
 occasione of this error was doubtlessly the Duke of Hamiltoun, and some others who 
 opposed it, such as Crafurd, Melvill, &c. 
 
 2°. The second wrong step was, the sending up S' John Dalrymple, instead of S"^ 
 William Hamiltoun ; for which S' W" himself was first to blame, and then Grant, 
 Brodie, Ormistoun, &^ who were obdurately blind in it, and would not open their 
 eyes to see the error of it. 
 
 3^ The 3** wrong step was, the sending up of only one of a state, with the offer of 
 the Crown ; for which the Duke and Skellmourly, or rather Skellmorly alone, was 
 to blame. 
 
 4°. The 4"" wrong step was, the makeing of the incapacitation act too extensive ; 
 or els we might easily have been quit of some few persones who are lyk to be burden- 
 some to us now. For this, want of witt in the contryvers of the act is to be taxed, 
 rather than any designe. 
 
 5°. The 5"" wrong step of honest men (for it is the wrong steps of such only that 
 I reckon) was, y' not waiting of the King's pleasure, while either he should receive 
 y' Address in private, according to his promise, or els refuse it ; for which I think 
 Skellmorly was mainly if not only to blame. 
 
 6". The 6"' wrong step was, not joyning in frankly with Polwart in April 1690, and 
 keeping one intire way, which was phesible, when they found ther own way was im- 
 possible. This is rescinding from what was at the bottom, for which I suppose Skell- 
 morly only was to blame. 
 
 7°. The 7" wrong step was, the not putting Grant's act to the vote ; for which my 
 
 . Lord Melvill only was to blame, who hindered it, and no other bodie. 
 
 , 8°. The 8 ■'' wrong step was, the refuseing of the 28 months cess payable in two 
 
 years and four months more at Martimes last, for a pityfuU chimney money ; for 
 
 ■ which also my Lord Melvill was to blame. May the Lord put a good occasione in 
 
 their hands for rectifieing the two last errors, which may be easily done ; as for the rest> 
 
 they are irremediable. 
 
 No. CCCLXVIL 
 
 Memorandum ancnt the Viscount of Tarbat. [1701.] , 
 
 ' 1". The Viscount of Tarbat, in the yeare 1663, fell in disgrace with the King and 
 Court, for contriveing of the Act of Billeting ; and did run a risque of being declared 
 incapable of publick trust. 
 
 2''. After haveing confined himself severall yeares at home, he changed his side, 
 and solicite earnestly for Lawderdail's favore ; whoes answer was, that there was nether 
 grace, mercy, nor peace for him : yet when the House of Hamiltoune became heavie 
 upon Lauderdaile, he passed from his prejudice agst Tarbat, received him into favor, 
 and made him Justice Generall. 
 
 3''. The prosecution against the Presbytirians turning hot, Tarbat became a notable 
 deviser of mischief agst them ; for which he was made Clerk Register. It was he 
 that found out the way of puting men to death for silence ; and of shooting of men on 
 the highways without either process, jurie, or record ; for which services, it appears, he 
 got a pension from King Charles IP of £^400. sterling yearly dureing liie j ta be paid 
 him out of the crown-rent of Ross. 
 
 4"'. In King James his time, he was a member of that secret committee who were 
 for introduceing of popery, and takeing away the penall statuts (which he tearmed 
 
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 334 CULLODEX PAPERS. [aDDEXDA. 
 
 Eanguinarie laws) ; dodng his outmost for abolishing of them, and thereafter vras the 
 contriver of a letter of thanks to King James, for assuming the dispenceing power by 
 his proclamation to that purpose. 
 
 c'-. By these things he had become so odious to the nation, that upon the revolution 
 he was possessed w' terrour, and stood up in Parliamt confessing his sins, and that he 
 had been ane ill man ; crjing out, was there no mercy for a penitent siner ? and prof- 
 fering to confine himself at home for the rest of his davs, prov\-ding the Parliat would 
 but spare his life and fonune, which he acknowledged he merited to lose because of 
 the many ill things that he had had a hand in, &". Yea, so strong were his com-ic- 
 tions, that, notwithstanding of all the comfortable promises he had from the D. of 
 Hamiltoim, he disguised himself and fled to England upon the night. 
 
 6^. What ser\-ices Tarbat hes done to King William we know not ; but he was 
 Terie quick) V made of his CounciU and Exchequer : and then reponed to the office of 
 Register, which in anno 1696 he made offer to demit, because it was in\idious in his 
 person, whom the countrie partie look'd upon with so ill an eve ; suposeing by such a 
 piece of self-deniall to engage the King the more to him. But the King, not under- 
 standing him fully at first, took him at his word, which made him go to court, and 
 show all his shapes,- whereby he 's obtained from the King as follows : 
 
 Item, having got a gift of recognition of the estate of Cromertv, which estate had 
 ane heritable jurisdiction of Shirefship over two parishes, the Viscount of Tarbat 
 obtains from the King a patent for adding his Lop's other estate within the shire of Ross 
 to the said heritable jurisdiction of Cromerr\' : upon which ground the Viscount has 
 taken in a great pairt of the shyre of Ross, even fi-om the East Sea Bank to the West, 
 under a pretence of property, superiority, reversion, or other tvTle ; so that its hard to 
 know what belongs to the Royalty-, or what to his Lop, which spoills the administra- 
 tion of justice there, for non in Ross knowes when to execute ane inhibidon. 
 
 2^, He has got from King William a ratification and possession of the 3^400. ster- 
 ling out of the croun rents of Ross ; which was given him by King Charles as a 
 re'Hard of prosecution ; and of that fund he 's already received ^24,000. Scots. 
 
 3*. He is just now, by means of the D. of Queensberrie, to obtain a discharge of his 
 own few duety, amoimtingto 15 chalders A-ictuall, and 700 merks of money ; and this 
 by and all over the 40olb. sterling pension. 
 
 4''^. The D. of Queensberrie has also imdertaken to get him a gift of the Cham- 
 lanrie of Ross, which hes a thousand pounds Scots of seljar)- anexed to it ; and he to 
 count to the Excheq' for the superplus, &•■'. 
 
 5"". In or dinar)- yeares the croun rents of Ross, according to the exchequer fiers, 
 will be htle (if any at all) bevond joocl. which v»ill not compleat all the Viscoimt's 
 pretences ; so that he will have nothing to count for, unless it be in time of great 
 prices, which the King and his thesaurie mav probably forget to crave. 
 
 6'^. The Viscount hes also obtained a gift of his Majesrie of all that pairt of the 
 bishop's rents of Ross which were paved out of his Lop's interest, either in possession 
 or reversion ; which, I ame told, amounts vearly to 300 bolls of beare, or thereby ; 
 nor doe I question, if the King had any more in Ross to give, but his Lop wold be 
 at it. 
 
 If the Viscoxmt get the Chamlanrv^, it mav be easily believed that he will not readilie 
 count for any superplus ; for if his own few duetv be discharged, there •will be no- 
 thing to count upon ; in which case he -will imdoubtedly cause the fewers pay the bolls, 
 without regard to the exchequer ners, as the former chamerlans did ; and then his emolu- 
 ments may be as follows : 
 
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 Item, 2130 bolls victuall ; for which, according to his manadgement, he may draw 
 ten merks per boll communtbus minis (for he does no less for the rest of his estate) ; 
 tuentie one thowsand ami three hundred merks more of money rent ; tuo thousand 
 seven hundred and fiftie-four merks : which makes his emolument above tuenty-four 
 thousand marks a yeare, by and allover his heritable jurisdiction. 
 
 Saveing his Majestie's pleasure, it were better to hold things as they are, and not 
 take away his incouradgement who serves in the chamlanry ; nor put the superplus of 
 the croun rents out of the thesaurie's hand, which might serve for a farr better use in 
 payeing pairt of those mony precepts wherewith the King meant to gratifie some who 
 has done him acceptable service ; which is certainly better then to put all in the hands 
 of a man repute as he is, who so very lately sought no more favour but his lyffe. 
 
 '■ . '* '■* 
 
 No. CCCLXVIII. 
 
 The Earl of Sutherland to the Laird of Culloden. 
 
 Dunrobin, 15th June 1704. 
 I CANNOT express, dear Sir, the surprize and sorrow that the account of your 
 father's death gave me. At the same time, it is not only a loss to his relations and 
 friends, but to all honest men and his countrey at this juncture, when men of prudence 
 & sense were never more needed or wanted. I long to hear how you and your 
 worthy mother, and others of the family concerned, are, under so sudden and unex- 
 pected as well as great loss ; which I hope, as Christians, you will submitt to, as 
 coming from a high hand, by whose mercy it is that we are continued in the land of 
 the living, and who has been so good as to give you some former warnings, by some 
 fitts of sickness your father took, soe as to expect the worst some time. 
 Excuse this freedom, coming from the sincere heart of. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 Your affectionate cousin & humble Servant, 
 
 SUTHERLAND. 
 My hearty respects to my Lady 
 your Mother, your own Lady, 
 & all other friends. 
 
 ■} 
 
 No. CCCLXIX. 
 
 Copy of a Letter laid before the Lords Justices. 
 [Supposed, 1714.2 
 
 The Manner of proclaiming the King at Inverness. 
 
 THE Shirriff Depute & his Clerk came to the Cross when all *:he honest people in 
 town were at church att the weekly sermon. The Shirriff caused his Clerk read the 
 proclamation ; and one of his officers repeated the words after him. Some of the 
 magistrates were present, mocking the Shirriff ; and when the Clerk ended the read- 
 ing, and cryed God save the King, the magistrates, and some they had present for 
 that purpose, cryed, God damne them and their King. When the Whiggs came from 
 church, and heard the news, they came to the magistrates and expostulate w' them, 
 for not having the usual solemnity on this occasion. Att which the magistrates were 
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 ^3^ CL-LLODEN P.U>ERS. [ADDENDA. 
 
 much offended, and bid some of them goe hang themselves ; but, norn-ithstanding of 
 this, the WhiggS; in the afteraoon, put on their booniyres, illuminate their wuidows, 
 caused ring the bells, in spight of what the magistrates could doe to the contrary, and 
 were solerrmizing the occasion with all possible joy, till about nyne at nigh:, that the 
 magistrates thought fitt to stirre up a mob and rable them, by breaking their win- 
 dows, scatering their boonilres, and allmost burning their houses ; and further, when 
 youno- Castlehill and some others went to complain of this abuse to the magistrates, 
 they thought fitting, by way of redress, to send him to prison. And as ^iFj this 
 were not enough, thev themselves went with some of the custom house officers, such 
 as collector & surs-eyors, and dnmk avowedly King James's health ; and, as some 
 say, confusion to King George & all his Adherents. This is true coppy of y' account 
 given y- Regents. 
 
 ROBERT MUyRO. 
 
 • • . Xo. CCCLXX. ' 
 
 A Petition to his Majesrv-, in behalf of Lord Lovat. .- 
 ^Probably in Dec. 17 14. See Lord Lorat's Letter, No. XLIT.] 
 
 WE vour Majestie's most dutiful and loyal subjects, under subscribing, who have 
 always endeavoiured to distingtiish ourselves bv oiu: zeal for the protestant succession 
 m your Majestie's Roval Faroily, which has now taken place, to the happiness of these 
 nations, and the disappointment of all the enemies to Hbern- and the protestant reli- 
 gion ;— do humbly implore vour royal mercy for one of your subjects, who, though 
 banished and a prisoner *, has now latelv, when the greatest dangers did seem to sur- 
 roimd us, by the influence he has over a numerous clan, supported Avith us that cause, 
 which, in defence of your Majestie's undoubted title to the crown, wee have to the 
 utmost of our power endeavoured to maintain. This unhappy Nobleman, my Lord 
 Lovat, for whom in all hiuniiit\- we offer this petition, would not be so presumptuous 
 as himself to make any request to your Maiestie; but has appealed to those who are 
 known to have openly and iirmly devoted themselves to your Majestie's ser-sice. And 
 his relations desireing us to be witnesses of the truth in his behalf, we could much 
 less in justice then in compassion, refuse to bear this evidence to youi Majest)' ; that 
 by the assistance and power of those by the name of Fraser, who are almost all imder 
 his direction, we have strengthened ourselves in the defence of the present happy con- 
 stim'tion in church and state. These are the motives which have compelled us in the 
 most humble manner to lay my Lord Lovat's case before your Majesty- ; and we are 
 so sensible not only cf his power, but of his sincere intentioris to io\-n with us, in the 
 supporting in\-iolably the au:horit\- ci your Majestie's Government in the North ot 
 Scotland, that if we can be so happy as to obtain the royall favour for him, we humbly 
 make offer to become boimd for his loyal, faithful, and dutifull beha\iour to your 
 Majesr\-, in whatever sum your Maiest)- shall be graciously pleased to appoint. 
 
 He was e-idawec, and had been put iato the Bis:;lle at Paris. 
 
 A List
 
 ADDENDA.] CULLODEN PAPERS. 3^7 
 
 A List of the considerable Persons of Inverness, Morray, and Nairne, who sign'd 
 this Adress to his Majesty in favours of the Lord Lovat ; and who are known to be 
 zealously affected to the present constitution, and the most landed men in those 
 shires. 
 
 Alex' Grant, Sheriff of Inverness Shire, Member of Par'. • 
 - " , Alex' Dunbar of Bishop Mill, Sheriff of the Shire of Morray. 
 
 Sir Henry Innes, of that ilk, Barronet. 
 
 Sir Archibald Campbell, of Clunes. " • - ' '> 
 
 Hugh Rose, of Killravock. 
 
 Hugh Rose, of Killravock, yo\ . ' • 
 
 James Brodie, of Brodie. 
 
 John Forbes, of Culloden, Member of Parliament for Liverness-shu'e. 
 
 Alex' Brodie, of Lethin. 
 
 David Dunbar, of Dunphaill. 
 
 Thomas Brodie, of Pitgavenie. ' " '.' • 
 
 Lodwick Dunbar, of Grange. 
 
 Alex' Cuming, of Logic. 
 
 George Cuthbert, of Castle Hill. 
 
 John Cuthbert, of Castle Hill, yo'. 
 
 Robert Urquhart, of Burdsyard. 
 
 Alex' Dunbar, of Moy. 
 
 Lodwick Dunbar, of Moy, yo'. 
 
 CoHne Campbell, of Delnes. . " 
 
 John Rose, of Blackhills. '■■ ^- "• ' 
 
 James Sutherland, of Kinsterie. ■ * " ' 
 
 James Sutherland, of Greenhall. . 
 
 Jonathan Dunbar, bf Tulliglens. ■■ ' " 
 
 Hugh Rose, of Claver. . - 
 
 John Rose, of Bradlies. .• ' -^ >• 
 
 Thomas Tullock, of Fanochie. • • " , - . 
 
 John Brodie, of Windie Hills, •■.. - ^ ; . ' 
 
 James Brodie, of White Hills. ■ ■■*• 
 
 James Dunbar, of Cleves. "• ' 
 
 John Roy, Baillie of Forress, ' ''■ ' 
 
 John Finlay, Baillie. ■ \ ' . • 
 
 Robert Logan, Baillie. • *-.-.. .^' 
 
 Robert Ephington, Baillie. " • - 
 
 Thomas Urquhart, Dean o,f Guild. 
 • Alex' Paterson, Theasurer. . ' 
 
 Robert Urquhart, Counseller. ' • • 
 
 John Brodie, Counseller. ..,,*, * 
 
 William Davson, Counseller. ' ^ ' . •. - ■ 
 
 Alexander Piterkin, Counseller. . ■ . ',,';. -r^j 
 
 M' William Stuart, Minister of Inverness, 
 
 M' Robert Baillie, Minister of Inverness. ■ \ ■ 
 
 M' Alex' Fraser, Minister of Croy. _ .' . 
 
 M' Thomas Fraser, Minister of Stratherick. ■ 
 
 M' James Calder, Minister of Calder. 
 
 M' George Brodie, Preacher. / 
 
 George Mackay, ShirifF of Nairne. , ..-^ i ; i; J . - .. - ..^ 
 
 XX A List
 
 ^*% eULLODEN PAPERS. [ADDENDA. 
 
 A List of the considerable Persons of the Shires of Ross and Sutherland, that sign'd 
 this Adress to his Majestv', in favotirs of the Lord Lovat ; and who are known to be 
 zealously affected to the present constitution, and the most landed men in those 
 
 Shires. 
 
 Earle of Sutherland. • . 
 
 Lord Strath Naver. 
 
 Husjh Rose, of Killravock, Shiriff prin'" of Ross-shire. 
 • ■ Sir Robert Munro, ofFouUs. 
 
 Robert Munro yo' of Foulls, Member of Parlliment. 
 Sir John Gordon, of Embo. 
 
 Sir William Gordon, of Dalpholly, Barronet, Member of Parll'. 
 George Munro, of Cullraine. 
 John Sutherland, of Clyne. - 
 
 David Ross, of Kindeas. * • , 
 
 Malcomb Ross, of Pitcalny. • 
 
 Thomas Ross, of Aldy. • . 
 
 John Ross, of Achnailoich. 
 George Munro, of Cullkairne. 
 Andrew Munro, of Wester town. 
 
 George Munro, of Ne-mnor. ■ . 
 
 Hugh Munro, of Teaninish. 
 Hector Munro, of Novar. 
 John Munro, of Novar, yo' 
 Alex' Gordon, of Ardoch. 
 Adam Gordon, of Killfedder. 
 John Gordon, of Garthie. 
 William Robertson, of Craigmill. 
 William Ross, of Easter Fearn. 
 William Ross, of Breatangaill. 
 Arthur Ross, of Torroy. 
 , • Alex' Munro, of Kilsehoan. 
 
 Farq' Munro, of Wanard. 
 - • Hugh Munro, of Ardullie. 
 
 Hugh ^Munro, of Killcairne. ' ■ 
 Alex' Gordon, of Wnehper. 
 Hugh Ross, of Folly. 
 
 Xo. CCCLXXL 
 
 The Laird of CuUoden to his brother INIr. Duncan Forbes. 
 Dear Brother, . London, 14"' May 17 15. 
 
 The report from the Committee will be before the House of Commons next week' 
 Yesterday in the Committie of Supply we have voted his Majest)' seven hunder thousand 
 pounds sterline per annum for the maintenance of his civil list. The Tories made all 
 the opposition to it they could, but in vain j for after a very hote debate, that was 
 
 stuffed
 
 ADDENDA.] Ct'LLODEX PAPER*, ^jg 
 
 Stuffed with a deal of scurrilous reflections from both parties, and that lasted from 
 twelve at noon to eight at night, the Tories lost it ; noes 138, yeas 244. 
 
 Ther's no oyr newes but what vou have in the print sent with the votes as fully as I 
 can write. By it you may perseave that tho' Jacobitism be decaying with you, as you 
 think, yett it is prevailing here ; and indeed I most own it is so, much more than ever 
 I thought it would have done. I cannot express the endeavours that are used to allienat 
 the hearts of the people from his Majestie, and to create a disUke of his person and 
 government in them. But I hope God \vill disappoint our just fears, and overthrow 
 the \\icked desyres of his enemies. . , ■ , 
 
 Mind me to our mother, to Ahnagarn, and to Tibie. 
 
 I am yours, 
 • • . JO : FORBES. 
 
 No. CCCLXXII. 
 
 Copy of Lord Lovat's Grant. 
 
 By His Royal Highness the Prince Guardian of the Kingdom. 
 
 George P. C. R. 
 
 Let a grant be passed under His INIa'" Pri\7 Seal of Scotland, in the words or to the 
 efl'ect following : 
 
 Our Souvereigne Lord, with the advice and consent of the Lord Cheif Baron, and 
 the rest of the Barons of his Ma"' Court of Exchequer in Scotland, for the many brave 
 and loyal services done and performed to his Ma'-' by Simon Lord Lovat, parucularly 
 for the zeal and actinty he showed in suppressing the late unnatural rebellion in the 
 north of Scotland, and for his known affection to his Ma'- '* person and government, 
 ordains a letter of gift to be made and passed under his Ma"' Privy Seal of Scotland, in 
 due and competent form ; giving, granting, and disponing, like as his Ma'*', -with advice 
 and consent forsaid, gives, grants, & dispones, to and in favours of Simon Lord Lovat, 
 and his heirs and assigneys, the escheat of all goods, gear, debts, and sums of money, 
 Jewells, gold, silver, coined and uncoyned, utensills and domicills, horse, nolt, sheep, 
 cornes, cattle, bonds, obligations, contracts, decreets, sentences, compromitts, and 
 all othep good?, gear, escheatable whatsome\er, as well not named as named, which 
 pertained of before to Alex' M'Kenzie, of Fraserdale, the time of the sentence given 
 and pronounced ag" him by the Lord Justice Clerk and Comm'''' of Justiciary, for the 
 causes after mentioned ; or which have accressed, pertained, or belonged to him at any 
 time since ; or which shall happen to fall, accress, pertayn, or belong to him in any 
 time coming ; together with the said Alex' M'Kenzie his life-rent, escheat of all lands, 
 heretages, tenem", annual rents, tacks, steedings, roomes, possessions, and others 
 whatsoever, pertaining and belonging to him, with the whole mails, ferms, kaines, 
 customes, casualtys, profits, and dutys of the same ; and that of all years and termes 
 bygone since the pronouncing of the aforesaid sentence, and of all years and terms in 
 time coming during his life-lime, now fallen and become in his Ma'" hands, and at his 
 gift and disposition, by the sentence given and pronounced by the Lord Justice Clerk and 
 Com" of Justiciary in North Britain ag" the said Alex' MXeji^ie, of Fraserdale, upon 
 - ■ •- X X 2 the
 
 340 CULLODEN' P.iPERS. [aDDEKDA. 
 
 the 13''' day of Oct' last 171 5 years, for his contempt and \rilfull disobedience, in not 
 compearing at Edinburgh the foresaid day and vear, according to tlie summons given 
 him for that purpose ; conform to and in the terms of an act of parliament of Great 
 Brit^, primo Georgii, entituied an act for encouraging all superiours, vassalls, land- 
 lords, and tenants in Scotland, who do and shall continue in their duty and lo%-alr\' to 
 his INIa'- King George ; and for discourageing all superiours, vassalls, landlords, and 
 tenants there, who have or shall be guilrv of rebellious practices against his Ma'-"^, and 
 for making void all fraudulent entail, tailzies, &: coavevances, made there for barring 
 or excluding the effect of forfeitures that mav have been or shall be incurred there on 
 any such account-; as also for calling any suspected person or persons, v^-hose estates or 
 principal residence are in Scotland, to appear at Edinburgh, or where it shall be judged 
 expedient, to find bail for their good behaA^iour ; and for the bener disarming disailected 
 persons in Scotland. As also his Ma'^, with advice and consent foresaid, hath given, 
 granted, and disponed, and hereby gives, grants, dispones to and in favours of the 
 said Simon Lord Lovat, and his foresaids, the sum of ^500. sterline monev, fallen 
 and become in his Ma"^" hands, and at his Highnesse's gift and disposicon, bv the fore- 
 said sentence given and pronounced upon the said day and year, by the Lord Justice 
 Clerk and Comm'* of Justiciani- in Scotland, against the said Alex' M'Kenzie ; whJch 
 said sentence is now remaining on record in his ^Nla"^'" said Court of Excheq' ; whereby 
 it appears, the said Lords, for the causes and upon the acco"^ forsaid, did fine him in 
 the said sum of ^jco. sterhng, and declare his single and life-rent and escheat to be 
 forfeited to his Ma"', conforme to and in the terms of the aforesaid act of parliam^ ; as 
 the same act of parliam' and sentence at more length bears ; with full power to the said 
 Simon Lord Lovat, and his foresaids, to intromit viith uplift, ask, crave, & receive 
 the foresaid goods, gears, debts, sums of money, and others above mentioned, fallen 
 under the compass of the said single escheat ; and to pursue for and recover the said 
 sura of ^500. sterling of fine fallen to his Ma^ and hereby gifted bv him in manner 
 above written ; and to possess, labour, & manure the said lands and others aforesaid, 
 pertai n i n g to the said Alex' M^Kenzie, either by themselves or tenants ; and to intromit 
 with uplift, ask, crave and receive the haills maills, farms, profitts, &: dutvs thereof 
 and others foresaids, fallen under the said liferent escheat, and that of all years and 
 terms bygone since pronouncing of the aforesaid sentence, and in all time coming 
 during the said Alex' IVLKenzie his life-time ; and to call and pursue, sett, raise, use, 
 and to do all & even,' other tiling upon the premises sick like, and as freely in all 
 respects, as the said Ales' INI^Kenzie might have done therein at any time before the 
 said sentence was pronounced ag" him, or that his 3Ma'' might have done therein at any 
 time sincesTOe, freely, quiedy. Sec" without any revocation, Sec' ; and that the said 
 Ire of gift be extended in the best form, with all clauses needfull. 
 
 Given at the Court of Hampton Court, this 23'' day cf Aug"* 17 16, in the y 5-ear 
 of his Ma" reign. 
 
 By His Royal Highness's command, 
 
 R. WALPOLE. 
 
 W-^i ST OUENTIN. 
 
 R. EDGCUMBE. 
 
 No. CCCLXXm.
 
 ADDEKDA.J CULLODEN PAPERS. 341 
 
 No. CCCLXXIII. 
 
 Memorial for Lachlan Mackintosh, of Mackintosh. 
 
 [1716.] 
 
 THAT the Memorialist's ancestors, the people of his name, and vassalls, have at all 
 times been faithful servants to the Crown and their country, and have constantly ad- 
 hered to the pairty of the reformation in Scotland, and have been ahvays reckoned a 
 harmless and inoffensive people. 
 
 That, to their great misfortune, the small estate that remains to y' Memorialist, charged 
 with much debt, is adjacent to the liveings of the Macdonalds & Camerons, and others, 
 who for the most part have since the revolution, & most eminently at this time, shewne 
 their disaffection to the Government. 
 
 That in a pardcular manner y Memorialist & friends, vassalls, & tennants, were ex- 
 posed to the fury & resentment of the Mackdonalds, who have within these eight 
 or nine & twenty years invaded, pillaged, & plundered, that part of the country which 
 belongs to him, be had the boldness to attack his father &: a body of Mackintoshes, 
 supported by two companies of regular forces, and, after a considerable slaughter of 
 y' Memorialist's relations, to make his s'' father prisoner. 
 
 That the Memorialist's father haveing, at the revolution, refus'd to jovn those who 
 took up arms against King William, did of new incurr the envy of his neighbours ; & 
 the same McDonalds did again burn & waste his country ; of which he nor his friends, 
 vassalls, & tennants, were never able to recover reparation. 
 
 That your Memorialist was never concerned in the money that was distributed in the 
 late reign to the Clans, nor indeed gave any evidence of disafiection, till the late fatal 
 time of his being engaged in this rebellion. 
 
 That when the S't unfortunate & unjustifiable rebellion broke out, the Memorialist, 
 his friends, vassalls, & tennants, being surrounded with enemies, and he having too 
 great a facility and reliance upon some of his neighbours & relations, was engaged, 
 partly out of desire to preserve his country, where he could not remain in safety 
 neutral, partly out of weak compliance to those friends & neighbours, manifestly 
 against his duty, & against the intreaties &: councils of some of his best & nearest 
 friends & relations. 
 
 That, being thus unhappily engaged, he & too great a number of his friends &: fol- 
 lowers, that were in the rebellion, did behave themselves with all possible moderation j 
 and at home his wife did assemble to the amount of 400 men to defend the country 
 ag'' the Rebells that remained In those parts, & who were marchuig m a body cross 
 the country. 
 
 That about that time S^ John M' Kenzle, of Coul, who was governor for the Rebella 
 in Inverness, finding his garrison weak, did much solicit the Memorialist's wife to assist 
 with 200 of these men ; but she refused, & stood upon her own defence ; to which 
 refusal may be ascribed. In some part, the bloodless surrender of that important place 
 to the Lord Lovat, Capt. George Grant, brother to brigadier Grant, the Lairds of Kil- 
 raik, Culloden, and others. 
 
 That the said Ivlemorialist's wife, so soon as my Lord Lovat & those with him were 
 
 masters of Inverness, came to that place, & made offer of what men she had to joyii 
 
 the L'' Lovat, &". But his Lop & the other gentlemen with him, being jealous of that 
 
 part of the Memorulist's followers, on account of the ill conduct of your Memorialist 
 
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 342 CCLLODEN PAPERS. • [^ADDENDA* 
 
 &; his Other friends in the rebellion, refus'd to admitt them to joyn, & desired they might 
 give up such arms as thev had : to which the Memorialist's ■wife gave ready comphance, 
 & those arms were brought in Sc delivered accordingly. 
 
 That this transaction, of oflering to jo^-n, &: disarming of the men, happened before 
 any treaty with the Earl of Seafort or Marq' Huntly, & when the Rebells were in great 
 expectation of foreign assistance, &: the aryval of the Pretender, who did arvve accor- 
 dingly in a very short time thereafter. 
 
 That the garrison of Inverness, under the Earl of Sutherland & the Lord Lovat, 
 &". being in extream want of provisions, Sc desiring relief from the s"* Memorialist's 
 wite, she sent in an hundred cows for the service of the Government, & took bills for 
 them, chiefly that it might appear that what assistance she gave was of choice & not by 
 compulsion ; & in fact the s" garrison of Inverness was so satisfied w' the sincerity of 
 the ^lemorialist's wife Sc friends, that they allow'd her to possess her house, v.hilst 
 garrisons were put in the houses of other Rebells. 
 
 All which facts the jMemorialist presumes \\ill be attested bv persons of undoubted 
 credite Si afFecdon to the Government, to whom the Memorialist's person, 5c the cir- 
 cumstances of his familv, friends, & followers, are known. 
 
 That from thence \o' Memorialist humbly presumes to plead the merit of the long 
 service of his familv, tideUty of friends, name, 6c followers, to the Crown, Countrev, Re- 
 formation & Revoludon ; as well as the just Sc fair proceedings of the Memorialist's 
 uife 6c his reladoas &; followers in his absence, as a leviation and abatement to the guilt 
 of his being concerned in this most unnatural & most unjustifiable rebellion ; into which 
 he hath been drawn chiefly out of fear for the wasting of his estate, & abuses to be com- 
 mitted on himself, friends, 6c followers ; 6c out of too great simplicirv Sc reliance on 
 some of his friends 6c neighbours. 
 
 No. CCCLXXIV. 
 
 The Laird of CuUoden to his Brother M' Duncan Forbes. - 
 
 Dear Brother, Lond. 25"" June 1717. 
 
 In answer to your angry letter, know that the Lord Oxfoord's tryall came on 
 yesterday at 1 2 o'clock in Westminster Hall ; wher the King and both Houses of Par- 
 hament were present. Oxfoord was brought to the barr, and the ax caried before 
 him, and stood by him all the tyme. The ardcles of impeachment and his Lordship's 
 answers were read, which took up a great deall of tyme, even till after six at night. 
 But, tho' it was late, the managers for the Commons desvred the first ardcle to be read 
 again ; and when it was read, and Sir Joseph Jackell began to speak to it, my Lord 
 Harcourt moved. That the Lords should adjourn to ther own house ; which was ac- 
 cordingly done, and we also adjourned to ours, wher some bills were read ; and about 
 eight o'clock we had a messadge from y* Lords, sheweing that ther Lops were again 
 gone to Westminster hall, wher they expected the Commons. We accordingly went ; 
 and then my Lord Steward told us that the Lords had come to a resoluuon that the 
 Commons be not admitted to proceed on the articles of high crymes and misdemeanours 
 against E. Oxford and Mortimar, till first judgement was given on the articles of high 
 treason that were exhibited against him. To which the Sohcitor Generall, in name of 
 the Managers, answer'd, that the resolution taken by ther Lops was of such fistal 
 consequences to the liberty of the Commons, that they could not take upon them to 
 answer, till they bad furder directions from the House, to which they now were obliged 
 
 5 to
 
 ADDENDA.] 
 
 CULLODEX PAPERS. 
 
 343 
 
 to resort ; so we both parted, and mett again litis day att ten a clock. In the interim, 
 the Managers had prepaird ther answer ; and att twelve a'clock we had a messadge from 
 the Lords, showeing that ther Lops were in Westminster Hall, rady to goe on with 
 the tryall, and that Oxfoord was at the barr. To which the Commons, in answer, 
 sent a messadge to the Lords by M' Cartright, that the resolution ther Lops had come 
 to last night was of such a nature, and might be of such dangerous consequencies to 
 the hbertys of the Commons, that they nmst have some tyme allowed them to look 
 out for precedents ; and after some debate in the House, ther Lops allowed till Thurs- 
 day next at eleven a clock. Niu\', d' Brother of myne, this is all has passed since Ox- 
 foord came on the stadge at Westminster. The bill impowering the Commissioners of 
 Inquirie to play the Devill and all with mankynd is past our House ; but I am tolld, 
 by a very good hand, that it will not pass the Lords, att least not so easily. Tho' I 
 am now wearie, and has writ a good deall, I know you'll think it all tryfling, and not 
 so good as the tale of a tub. I own it ; but by G — d I cannot help it ; for I tell you 
 all I know ; and if your oyr correspondents are as ttyfleing as I, lett them answer for 
 themselves. 
 
 ' . , ; . JO. FORBES. 
 
 The generall oppinion is, that the Commons will not agree with the resolution of 
 the Lords; so Oxfoord will get offscott free, and the Pai-liat will be up very soon. 
 
 • • No.CCCLXXV. 
 
 OUESTIONS put to the Magistrates of Glasgow, the 15'" July 1725, in presence of 
 Generall Wade, Collonell Spotswood, and Col' Guest, by His iVIajesty's Advocate ; 
 together with the Answers then made. 
 
 V' Question. 
 Was it not reported, and did -\ The Provost 
 you not hear, on or before the I -n c i- 
 22'' of June last, that the Mob \ p' '^'"^'^ 
 would deny the Malt Oflicers j " 
 
 line 
 B. Johnson 
 
 access to survey 
 
 B. Mitchell 
 
 D. of Guild 
 
 Stark 
 
 D. Convener 
 
 {Did hear of such reports amongst in- 
 ferior people. 
 
 Did not hear any such report. 
 Did not hear of any such report. 
 
 {Did hear such a report amongst the in- 
 ferior people. ! 
 - f Heard it so reported by some, &c the 
 -(, contrary reported by otiiers. 
 
 Answers the same as the D. of Guild. 
 But upon hearing the questions, with 
 the answer, read over again, the D. of 
 Guild and D. Convener say, they did not 
 hear any such thing reported. 
 
 34 
 
 Did you not know, on the^ 
 "" of June, or the day pre- [ 
 
 n ! 
 
 ceding, that the Officers were so (^ The Provost 
 
 intimidated with those threats, f 
 
 that they durst not attempt to | 
 
 survey the malt ? J B. Sterline 
 
 B. Joi'inson 
 B. Mitche 
 
 Sayeth, that he believes the threats of 
 the mob intimidated the officers from mak- 
 ing their survey ; and adds, as tlie reason 
 of his belief, tliat the officers came to 
 complain to him. 
 f Knew nothing of the matter, having teen 
 \out of town. 
 
 r Believed on the said 24"" of June that the 
 D. of Guild, 8c < officers were intimidated from demanding 
 D. Convener, gentries by the llircats of die mob.
 
 S44 
 
 CULLODEN PAPERS. 
 
 [addenda. 
 
 Did you not hear, or believe, 1 
 that the Mo'ebish Assemblies, 
 ■which vou saw- in the Streets on I 
 the 24' -, down till the Evening, j 
 •weremeantagainstthe Malt tax, I 
 to hinder the levying thereof ? J 
 
 GEORGE WADE. 
 A. SPOTbWOOD. 
 . JOS. GUEST. 
 
 The Provost 
 
 B. Sterline 
 B. Johnson 
 
 B. Mitchell 
 
 D. of Guild 
 D. Convener 
 
 ■{ 
 
 Says, he believes those riotous assemblies 
 ■were intended to prevent the laying the 
 malt tax. 
 
 Knew nothing of the matter, for the 
 same reason as before. 
 
 Saw no ryoto'js assemblies that day ; 
 having withdrawn to his house a little after 
 ten in the morning, where he stayed with- 
 out hearing of any disturbance all that day 
 and night. 
 
 i 
 I 
 
 >■ Say as the Provost has said. 
 
 Were there not such Mobbish >. 
 Assemblies on the Streets in I 
 Anno 171 , when first the K 
 JSIalt tax was by Law to have j 
 taken place in Scotland ? J 
 
 5*. 
 Did vou not know, or was 
 you not informed, that the in- 
 tent of sending the 2 Companys 
 of Forces to your Towti was to 1 
 enable you to suppress Mobs, 
 and to assist the Officers of the 
 Revenue in the Execution of 
 their Office ? 
 
 6^. 
 
 Was the Guard room deli-' 
 ^rered to the Troops that nijrht ? 
 ar.J why did you not order the 
 Door to be broken open ? 
 
 r Saw no such mobbish assemblies as men- 
 The Provost -s tioned in the question in that year ; but has 
 ^ heard and believed there were such. 
 Knows nothing of the matter. 
 
 B. Sterline 
 B. Johnson & 
 B. IMitchell 
 D. of Guild 
 D.Conveener 
 
 } 
 
 Answer the same as the Provost. 
 
 Knows nothing of the matter. 
 Answers the same with the Provost. 
 
 The Provost 
 
 Sterline 
 Johnson 
 
 B. Mitchell 
 
 D. of Guild 
 
 D. Conveener 
 
 Knew that the troops were sent to assist 
 the Civill Magistrate in the suppression of 
 mobs, and in the execution of the malt tax 
 -law. 
 
 Knew nothing for the former reason. 
 
 Knew that they came to the town, from 
 
 his son in law's coming to him to complain 
 
 that two soldiers were quartered on him, 
 
 and believed that they came to preserve the 
 
 . peace of the place. 
 
 /Says, that he knew the troops were in 
 town ; but did not know, neither was he 
 j informed, what the design of their coming 
 V was. 
 _ J Believed they came to preserve the peace 
 '\ of the place. 
 
 The Key of the guard room having 
 been carried off by the mob, he ordered his 
 officers to break open the doors ; and the 
 officers having reported that they were beat 
 oW by the mob, he proposed to go in per- 
 The Provofl fays,<^ son to see open doors made ; but was dis- 
 swaded by some Burgesses who stood by 
 him ; namely, Ja. Henderson, & R. Hun- 
 ter, who said the attempt might endanger 
 the troops, as weell as the citizens, and his 
 ^own person ; upon which he desisted. 
 
 Know nothing, for the former reason. 
 
 B. Sterline 
 B; Joiinson 
 
 -/ 
 
 ^o>
 
 ADDENDA.^ 
 
 CULLODKX PAl'ERl- 
 
 345 
 
 1th 
 
 Was there not tlie same dan-"' 
 ger of a Mob the next day, 
 
 after Shaw field's house was de- 
 stroyed ? and how came you 
 then to venture to break open 
 the Guard Room Door ? 
 
 B. Mitchell 
 D. Guild - 
 
 D.Conveener 
 The I'rovost 
 
 B. Sterline 
 B. Johnson 
 
 B. Mitchell 
 
 D. of Guild 
 D. Conveener 
 
 Did you, ever since the Re-" 
 volution, know that the Town 
 of Glasgow was one night with- 
 out a Burgher Guard, till the said 
 24'** of June, except when the 
 regular Troops had possession 
 of the Guard ? 
 
 GEORGE WADE. 
 
 A. SPOTS WOOD. 
 
 JOS. GUEST. 
 
 When you had notice that tlie" 
 Mob was attacking M' Camp- 
 bell's house at ten o'clock at 
 night, and when the Provost 
 and Dean of Guild went to ex- 
 hort the Mob to be gone, how 
 many of the 13 Town Officers 
 had you allongst with you ? 
 "VVhy did you not call for the 
 whole, and other assistance .'' ^ 
 
 Knew nothing, being at home. 
 
 r Knows not from proper knowledge ; hav- 
 
 - ) iiig been abroad in the fields taking a walk, 
 
 "j from four o'clock till the troops were in 
 
 V^ quarters. 
 
 r Knows nothing but from hearsay ; hav- 
 -< ing been out of the way when tlie Provost 
 
 Lwas dissvvaded to break open the door. 
 
 r Believes there might have been the same 
 i danger of a mob ; but then he had time to 
 gather together a good number of the 
 citizens of condition, who attended him to 
 the guard, and might as he hoped be able 
 (_to disperse the mob. 
 
 ' V Knew nothing, for the former reason. 
 
 Knows nothing ; having left the town 
 between nine St ten that morning, in order 
 to go and be married. 
 
 I Say the same as the Provost. 
 
 The Provost, 
 B. Sterline, 
 B. Johnson, 
 B. Mitchell, 
 D. of Guild, 
 D. Conveener, 
 
 Say, that uniformly & regularly, by the 
 rules and statutes of the town, a Burgher 
 guard ought to be mounted every night -, 
 and that generally, antl universally within 
 
 J his memory, such guards have been keeped ; 
 
 ■\ but that sometimes it has happened, that 
 the citizens summoned to the guard have 
 neglected their duty, and there was no 
 guard ; and then they have been finedj or 
 ^were lyable to be fined. 
 
 The Provost 
 
 B. Sterline 
 B. Johnson 
 B. Mitchell 
 D. of Guild 
 D. Conveener 
 
 y T 
 
 Says, that when first he heard of the 
 mob's attacking Shawfield's house, he or- 
 dered the Town Clerk to order all the 
 Town Officers to attend -, that he with the 
 Dean of Guild, and 4 or 5 other Burgesses, 
 went up to the rioters, and ordered them 
 to disperse ; doing all they could, by en- 
 
 . treaty, to disypate them ; that when they 
 ^ came as far as the mob, he did not obser\'e 
 above four or five of the Town Officers 
 allongst with him ; nor could he of the 
 sudden get any other assistance at that 
 time ; a town guard of Burgesses, which 
 he had ordered to mount on the troops 
 going into quarters, havmg neglected to 
 
 Income to their duty. 
 
 I Know nothing, for the former reason. 
 
 Was a-bed, and so knew nothing. 
 
 Agrees with the Provost. 
 
 Was a-bed, and knows nothing. '■
 
 Why was not the Proclama-^ 
 tlon read tor dissvps-.in.^ '•^^ "> 
 Wob? 
 
 CULLODEN' PAP£B.S. 
 
 ^ADDENDA. 
 
 The ProTOJt 
 
 D. cf Guild 
 All the res: 
 
 D:i net the Omcer who com-" 
 Riar.deJ the Troops send a Ser- 
 jeant to the Provost between 
 eleven and nveke o'clock Thurs- 
 day's ni^h:, to offer the assist- 
 ance of the Troops ? And 
 whether was that ofier rejected, 
 er for what reason ? 
 
 Ceteri 
 
 On Friday's morning, when' 
 it was resolved to mount a 
 Burgher Guard, and when the 
 Pean of Guild, with a Com- 
 mittee of Merchants, met in the 
 CoSeehousetOietlethatmatterj i -p ^f Guild 
 was it not proposed by one of ' 
 the Company, that they should 
 assemble in arms ; and was not 
 that proposition over-roled -, and 
 was not the Dean of Guild of 
 opinion with the majority ? 
 
 GEORGE WADE. 
 - A. SPOTSWOOD. 
 
 JOS. GUEST. Ceteri 
 
 .1. 
 
 Was not James Falconer, 
 maltman, and Henry Luke, 
 tookbinder, who are now pri- 
 soners for having pursued the I ... 
 troops out of town, two of the ,' 
 persons that were ordered to 
 mount guard for the preserva- 
 tioQ of the peace : 
 
 2 1 
 
 ■J 
 
 Tlie Provost -< 
 
 Had copys cf the proclamation ready 
 
 written in his pocket, with ane intent to 
 
 read it ; but when he was about to read it, 
 
 -<( he was diswaded because of the danger 
 
 from the mob when he had no suScienc 
 
 force to support him ; besides that, he saw 
 
 three of his oificers knocked down by themolK 
 
 f Did not think of the proclamation at the 
 
 " (.tin-e. 
 
 r Knew nothing, tor the same reason as 
 " \_ above. 
 
 Sav5, the Serjeant came to him at the 
 time mentioned in the querie, ■with a ten- 
 der from the officer of the assistance of die 
 troops. Hie Provost answered, that tho' 
 he should be verv ?'.ad of their assistance, 
 yet he was afraid it was impossible to have 
 it ; because, as the men were a-bed in sepa- 
 rate quarters, the mob might knock them on 
 the head before they could be got together ; 
 to which the Serjeant replied, that that was 
 the case ; and the provost dismissed the 
 Serjeant, after he had further told him that 
 the mob, having got possession of the 
 
 every 
 before 
 
 room, the 
 
 house, with lights m 
 afiaire would be over 
 could come to assist. 
 
 Knew nothing from proper knowledge. 
 
 the troops 
 
 < 
 
 Says, that at the time and place men- 
 tioned in the querie, a question was moved, 
 whether the merchants to be drawn out of 
 each company were to mount with arms, or 
 •with staves onlv ; and the majority was 
 of opinion they should not carry arms ; of 
 which opinion the Dean of Guild then was ; 
 having been told, and believing at that time, 
 that it was contrary to law to mount with 
 arms ; but upon the Provost's giving his 
 fanall orders concerning that guard, they 
 were ordered to mount with arms ; and 
 that when the resolution was carried to the 
 Provost by the Dean of Guild, and two or 
 three other merchants, no mention was 
 made, whether the guard was to mount 
 with or without arms. 
 
 Knew nothing. 
 
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 ADDENDA.] 
 
 CULLODEN' rAPERS. 
 
 347 
 
 I4'\ 
 By whose orders was the 
 Burgher guard mounted that 
 Friday's night ? and was not 
 the said Henry Luke one of V j) ^f Qy^jj 
 that guard ? and was there any 
 other of those who pursued the 
 souldiers employed in that ser- 
 rice ? 
 
 A 
 
 I). Cunveener 
 
 Ceteri 
 
 Says, that when the mob had run out of 
 the town in pursuit of tlie troops, he, with 
 the Deacon Convener, and several other 
 respectable Burgesses, bethought them- 
 selves of takeing hold of tlie guard with as 
 good a number of well-afTected citizens as 
 they could bring together, in order to secure 
 the town against pillaging by the mob j and 
 accordingly they got about 50 or 60 In- 
 habitants into the guard-room, and the 
 D. of Guild stayed there till the mob re- 
 turned with the prisoners ; but then, being 
 informed that the mob had a personall 
 design against him, he left the guard to 
 Dec. Conveener's care, and went out of 
 the way. He saw not Luke, nor any other 
 person who had followed the troops on 
 
 ^that guard. 
 
 Agrees in every thing, except that he 
 saw Luke in the guard doing duty ; but 
 J that was after the Dean of Guild was 
 
 >i gone •, and he with the guard remained till 
 
 I 5 o'clock in the morning, and mounted the 
 
 (_next night on the same design. 
 Knew nothing. 
 
 B. Sterline 
 
 When did Bailly Sterline' 
 leave the Town .'' How came 
 he to leave it at that juncture ? 
 Did he not say to His JNIajesty's 
 Advocate at Edinburgh, on Fri- 
 day's forenoon, that he was just I 
 going to put his foot in the f 
 stirrup to return home on the 
 first news of the mob ? Did 
 he return directly to Glasgow, 
 & how long did he tarry by the 
 way ? 
 
 GEORGE WADE 
 A. SPOTSWOOD. 
 JOS. GUEST. Ceteri 
 
 ■< 
 
 ' Left Glasgow the eighth of June about 
 business ; thought there was no danger in 
 the juncture ; acknowledges that on Friday, 
 after eleven o'clock, being called on by the 
 Advocate, and spoken to on the subject of 
 the first night's riot in Glasgow, he said 
 he was going to Glasgow, but did not say 
 he was going straight to Glasgow, or that 
 he was going to put liis foot in the stirrup ; 
 he further sayeth, that he went to Bor- 
 roustoness, where he had business ; and 
 having there heard dismall storys of the 
 Friday's ryot, he sent into town, to know 
 how all was, and what use there might be 
 for him ; with orders, in case he could be 
 of any service, to send a horse express for 
 him ; but having had no call from Glasgow, 
 
 _he staid in Borroustoness till Tuesday. 
 Knew nothing. 
 
 16"-. 
 Whether did Bailly Mitcheir 
 appear in the streets the even- 
 ing of the first mob to attend 
 his duty in dissipating the 
 ryoters ? How did he dispose 
 
 of himself that 
 what company 
 
 night, 5c in )> B. Mitchell 
 Whether he | 
 
 ' Is present Trades Bailly, and a maltman ; 
 went home between ten & 1 1 on Thurs- 
 day's forenoon ; keeped his house all that 
 day and the night following till 5 o'clocl* 
 in the morning; hea,rd of no mob; and 
 tho' his sou-in-law came in to him as 
 above, and the servants were frequently 
 *\ going in and I'.ut, they told him no tidings 
 I of any such thing; so went to bed that 
 
 y y 2
 
 CCLLODEX PAPERS, 
 
 [addenda. 
 
 did not Stay in town till the 
 next day ; and \vhether he did 
 not then leave it in the fore- 
 noon, £c for what reason ? Is 
 he not present Trades Bailly 
 and a maltinan ? 
 
 17*. 
 Whether did not the Deacon' 
 Conveener absent himself from 
 the Provost on Thursday's night 
 before the mob invaded Shaw- 
 field's house r How did he 
 dispose of himself for that night, 
 and in what company ? 
 
 Ceteri 
 
 ;. D. Conveener -<( 
 
 Ceteri 
 
 night at ten. Nest morning, by 5, went 
 to his malt kiln ; went and saw the ruin of 
 Shawfield's house ; and after nine went to 
 Port Glasgow to be married ; but did not 
 call upon the Provcst, or any other Magi- 
 strate, to take measures for the security of 
 the place, before he went. The reason 
 why he keeped the house the night before 
 was, that he was preparing for his mar- 
 _riage. 
 
 Knew nothing. 
 
 Sayeth, that he left the Provost and went 
 into a change house, with two or three 
 acquaintances, to drink a bottle ; not be- 
 lieving there was any danger from a mob. 
 He says, he knew the mob had run away 
 with the keys of the guard room ; but did 
 not imagine any danger was to ensue from 
 that. Stayed in the change house till 
 9 o'clock at night, and then went home, 
 ha\-iiig heard of no mob. 
 
 Knew nothing. ' • 
 
 \\Tietherdid the Magistrates," 
 or any of them, and by whose 
 order, take ane examination into 
 the conduct of the officer who 
 commanded the guard of regu- )> B. Scerline 
 lar troops, and the behaviour of 
 the mob ; and who took the said 
 examination ; and whether it is 
 Still entrant, or where ? j 
 
 B. Johnson Sc 
 D. of Guild 
 The rest 
 
 Says, that upon receiving the Caledonian 
 Mercury from Edinburgh, several! of the 
 inhabitants importuned the Magistrates that 
 a true account of the transactions should 
 be taken from witnesses, because they ap- 
 prehended there were severall injurious 
 reflections in the printed account ; and 
 
 ^ accordingly, in presence of Biillv Sterline, 
 B. Johnson, and the Dean of Guild, several 
 Burgesses of credite gave declarations of 
 what they saw and heard ; from which the 
 account was drawn that was signed by 
 B. Sterline and B. Johnsone in a letter sent 
 
 _into Edinburgh in order to be printed. 
 
 v Agree. 
 
 Knew nothing. 
 
 19^. 
 
 Whether did Bailly Sterline' 
 ?c Bailly Johnson write or sign 
 the letter now produced, bear- 
 ing their subscriptions, and con- 
 taining a pretended narrative of 
 the tumults at Glasgow, in- 
 tended to be inserted in the 
 publick News Papers, and after- 
 wards printed and hawked about 
 
 ia a detached 
 
 piece of paper .' 
 
 B. Sterline Si "1 Agree that the letter produced is the 
 B. Joluiaon J original signed by them. 
 
 GEORGE WADE. 
 A. SPOTSWOOD. 
 JOS. GUEST. 
 
 :. ■-'<
 
 ADDENDA.] 
 
 CULLODEN PAPERS. 
 
 549 
 
 20" 
 
 Why did not the Magistrates ■ 
 seize any of the OlTendcrs in 
 those ryots after the tumulr was 
 over ; or search for, or secure, 
 any of tlie stolen goods ? 
 
 The Provo;t - 
 
 Ceteri - 
 
 S3yeth, that he was so terrified with the 
 virious reports of the threats of the mob, 
 th^'t he was forced to leave the town and 
 abscond for his safety. 
 
 r That the reason why they took no steps 
 against the ryoters was, t'-.t they were 
 J afraid of their rage and forte, which they 
 J coulil not deal wuh without assistance ; and 
 j therefor, thougli all seemed quiet, it was 
 Lnot safe lo provoke tliem. • 
 
 21". ' 
 
 Were not workmen employed' 
 bv the Towns Magistrates, be- 
 fore the troops came up, to re- 
 pair such parts of the roof of 
 M' Campbell's Iiouse as had bien 
 destroyed ? and why was that 
 done before the condition of the 
 house was regularly viewed, .ud 
 a fair estimuion made of tiie 
 damages sustained ? 
 
 Did not His Majesty's Ad-' 
 vocate charge De's; of Guild 
 Stark, and Baily Ramsay, at 
 Edinburgh, as the best way of 
 cle-....g the Magistracy of sus- 
 picion, to emptoy all diligence 
 in discovering the chief ryoters, 
 together with the proper evi- 
 dence against ihem ? Did not 
 the said D. of Guild Stark, and 
 B. Ramsay, report the same to 
 the Counciii ? Did not Bailley )> 
 Sterline, immediately on the 
 Advocat' '? anivall at Gla?gbw, 
 acquain. ri.r, that the ^Majji- 
 strates 
 
 B Sterlrne, 
 V B Johnson, 
 ^ and 
 
 rheD.Conveener 
 
 list ; an.i 
 in prase i: 
 on Sati 
 deliver i 
 
 d " ade out such a 
 did not the Provost, 
 
 the Magistrates, 
 the tenth instant, 
 Advocate the list 
 now produced, containing the 
 names of 4 women and 3 men 
 only as offenders ? 
 
 Did the Magistrates then, at' 
 any time before, or since tliat 
 time, exhibite to the Advocate, , 
 or any other person, any other ( 
 information concerning their In- 
 habitants who were offenders ? 
 
 Ordered the roof to be repsired, for no 
 other end than to preserve th? floors, and the 
 timber of the roof that stiil was left, from, 
 .the rains. 
 
 The Dean of 
 
 Guild 
 
 B. Sterline 
 
 f 
 
 Declares, that the Advocate gave in 
 charge to him and Ramsay as in the querie ; 
 j and that they reported accordingly to the 
 v-Magi.-:rates. 
 
 {Acknowledges, th u upon the Advocate's 
 coming to town,^ ai'.d questioning him whe- 
 ther the Magistrates had prepared such a 
 list ; he s.,;d they had. 
 f Says, that the ii.>t produced referred to 
 I in the querie, coi.taniing the names of 
 
 The Provost - ^ 
 
 B. Sterline 
 
 & 
 The D. of Guild 
 
 B. Sterline 
 
 three men and four women, is the very 
 1 paper he delivered to the Advocate in pre- 
 1 sence of the JNJagistrates on the tenth 
 (^instant. 
 
 Say, that tho' they cannot be positive 
 that the paper produced is the individual! 
 wTiting which they saw delivered by the 
 ■^ Provost ; yet, upon comparing it with the 
 originatl thr.t was produced by the Provost, 
 it contains tiie very same persons, and none 
 other. 
 
 Reform.s his first answer to this querie, 
 affirms, he told the Advocate no more 
 that he heard there was a list, which 
 elieved tlie Advocate should see. 
 
 {Re 
 and a 
 than 
 he be 
 
 All 
 
 Agree they did not. 
 
 GEORGE WADE- 
 A. SPOTSWOOD. 
 JOS. GUEST.
 
 35<? 
 
 CCLLODEN PAPERS. 
 
 [.VDDENDA. 
 
 24^= 
 
 Why did the Magistrates' 
 omitt to do their duty in that 
 respect, since it could not pos- 
 sibly be attended with danger 
 after the troops came into the 
 to^m ? 
 
 The Provost 
 
 > 
 
 f Declares, that what hindered him to 
 I make that inquisition which his duty re- 
 'j quired was, that he was afraid of the future 
 presentment of the mob. 
 
 {Enquired at severall people who were 
 present, in order to recover information of 
 the actors, but could meet with no dis- 
 covery. 
 
 Did the like, and had the same ill luck. 
 f Wade no enquiry, and was frequently 
 - < out of town with his wife, and had no in- 
 L timation of the Advocate's directions. 
 
 {^lade no enquiry at all ; having been 
 charged with nothing by the Advocate, but 
 to acquaint the Magistrates ; and was like- 
 ways afraid. 
 r ^lade no enquiry, because the Magi- 
 D . Conveener - <; strates never acquainted him they had 
 L directions to that purpose. 
 
 B. Sterline 
 
 B. Johnson 
 B. MitcheU 
 
 D. of Gudd 
 
 How came it about, that on" 
 Saturdav, after the Burgher 
 guard was mounted by the 
 Conveener, they suffered the ^ D. Conveener 
 mob to pull down the leads and 
 slates from the roof of the house 
 in broad day-lighi r 
 
 ' Tho' his guard did their business in the 
 
 night, yet they were dismissed in the 
 morning : and it was not safe to meddle 
 with the ryoters. 
 
 This and the six preceding papers, on each of which we have signed our names, 
 contain the original examination taken of the Magistrates of Glasgow, by His Majest}'s 
 Advocate, on Thursday the 15" instant, before us. General ^Vade, Col' Spotswood, 
 and Col Guest, In witness whereof, we have signed this and every other page of this 
 examination ; and have also signed our names to the originall letter, and to the list of 
 offenders said to be produced in this examination. 
 
 . . ■ - - ' GEORGE WXDZ. 
 
 ■ - ■ A. SPOTSWOOD. 
 
 ■ JOS. GUEST. 
 
 No. CCCLXXVI. 
 
 M' Delafaye to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 My Lord, "Whitehall, July 29" 17^5. 
 
 I HA\T laid before the Lords Justices yo"^ Lop's letter of the 20"^ inst, with the 
 several Papers inclosed ; by which their Ex=; % with great approbation, saw the pains 
 & care you have taken in the execution of their orders to you, with relation to the late 
 tumults at Glasgow. 
 
 Their Ex-7s have commanded me to signif)- to yo' Lop their further directions, that 
 you prosecute with \-igour, not only the persons concerned in those tumults, but also the 
 IMagistrates of that town, who, by the examinations you have taken, appear to have 
 been guilrv- of gross malversation, in not taking due care (to say no worse) to pre- 
 vent or suppress the riot ; and as you mention, that you have proofs against some of 
 
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 ADDENDA.] CrLLODEN PAPERS. 351 
 
 the criminals, as having been in pursuit of the King's troops, which involves them in 
 the guilt of high treason, their Ex"=." have thought fit, that, notwithstanding their for- 
 mer directions, if yo' Lop find it proper to prosecute any of them for tliat crime, you 
 should do it : and a particular commission of oyer and terminer being necessary in that 
 case, their ExO's -would have you send them the names of such persons as you shall 
 judge proper to be put into such commission. 
 
 I cannot conclude, without mentioning, that nothing could be more clear & satisfac- 
 tory than the method in which your narrative is drawn, and supported by the several 
 papers to which it referrs. And indeed the abilitys you have show n, in all your pro- 
 ceedings in this affair, & your manner of writing upon it, give all possible reason to 
 expect that, thro' your care and good management, the success of it will be such, as 
 must redound to your own honour, and to the ease and securin' of His Maj'>'^ Govern- 
 ment, and the preservation of the peace and good order in your parts ; in which I 
 heartily wish you success, and am, with great truth and respect, 
 
 My Lord, 
 Yo' Lop's most obedient humble Servant 
 
 CH: DELAFAYE. 
 
 No. CCCLXXVII. 
 
 The Lord Advocate to M' Delafaye. 
 
 Sir, Edinburgh, 3'' August 1725. 
 
 I HAVE received your's of the 29"' ultimo, signifying the Lord's Justices com- 
 mand to prosecute with vigour, not only the persons concerned in the late tumults 
 at Glasgow, but also the Magistrates of that town ; with this further direction, that 
 such persons as can be proved to have been in arms in pursuit of the King's forces 
 should be prosecuted for high treason, if I should think it proper to prosecute any of 
 them for that crime ; and that the names of fit persons be transmitted to their Excel- 
 lencies, towards making out a commission of over and terminer. 
 
 As to this last matter, tho' the crime of the otfenders may in a verv proper construc- 
 tion amount to high treason, and tho' the present conjuncture undoubtedly demands 
 the most exemplary punishment ; yet there are so manv difficulties that lye in the 
 way of making that punishment effectual, that I must humbly submitt it to their Ex- 
 cellencies, whether it is not more expedient to carr)' on a prosecution which will be 
 attended with abundance of terrour, and probably mav end in a severe punishment, 
 than to attempt a tryall which, as matters presently stand, would certainly be fruitless. 
 
 In the disposition in which the country now is, it would be utterly impossible to pick 
 up a grand juTv, for example, that would find bills against these rioters, or that could 
 be convinced that their offence is within the construction of law- high treason ; and 
 this the Lords Justices may thorowly be convmced of, when they reflect upon the 
 success of commissioners of oyer and terminer sent into this Country five or six 
 years ago. 
 
 Another difficult)' is, that supposing bills were found, yet the liberty of peremptory 
 challenges is such, that we could not possibly promise, out of the county where Glas- 
 gow lyes, to find a jury that would bring the offenders in guilty. 
 
 Whereas a prosecution for felony, or any lesser crime, is not by the law of Scotland 
 liable to either of these inconveniencies. For, i" there is no occasion for finding of 
 bills or presentments 5 His Majesties Advocat, by his single act, Virtute Officii, gives the 
 
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 9<2 CULLODEX PAPERS. ^ADDENDA. 
 
 indictment ; and in the next place, by the law of Scotland no such thing is knowii 
 as a peremptcr challenge ; so that if ■«e can find 15 honest men for the jun-, which 
 is the number of jurors in criminal tryalls in Scotland, we may have just hopes oi 
 success. Besides that in tnalls for felony, &c. v\-hen the prosecution is carrved on 
 before the Court of Justiciar)- at Edinburgh, we are not confined to a jury of the 
 county where the ofience v.-as committed. 
 
 ~ These are the considerations that determine me to tliink, that it is more expedient to 
 carry on these prcsecurions according ro the first directions which I had the honour 
 to receive, than to attempt a tryall for high treason, which imdoubtedly must pro\ e 
 successless ; and therefore if it should prove agreeable to the Lords Justices, I purpose, 
 v;ithout loss of time, to proceed against the rioters as guilty of felony, by the act of 
 the first of the King against riots ; and as guilt)' of taking up arms, and invading in a 
 hostile m.anner His Majesn-'s forces, that were posted in the toToi for the presers^acion 
 cf the publick peace, and for assisting the ci\-ill Magisuate in the execuc" _n of the laws, 
 and in levving the duties granted to his Majestie by act of Parhament ; founding on 
 certain Scotch acts of Parliament, and particuUarly on the act 83** Parliament c^-^ of 
 Oueen Mar^-, which makes convocations of men in arms within burghs, without li- 
 cence of the -Sovereign or the Magistrates, capitall. 
 
 At the same time that this prosecution is going forward, I shoxild incline to have the 
 trvall of the Magistrates carried on, whose guilt I conceive to be by much the greatest, 
 tho' thev have used art successfully to bide it ; and whose punishment will be of 
 greater consequence to the public peace than that of the more obscure ofi'enders. 
 
 The tryail, indeed, of the rioters ought I think to precede that of the Magistrates 
 two or three davs ; because in it the extravagance of the Mob's proceedings, and of 
 the outrao^es bv them com-initted, -nill be explained to the people ; so that in the tryall 
 of the ZVIagistrates nothing will remain, but to shew, by their criminall inaction and 
 neglect of durv", their accession to the guilt. 
 
 I am very sensible the evidence I am at present possessed of against the Magis- 
 trates will amount to no more than a proof of malversation in office ; the consequence 
 ■whereof may be deprivation &: incapacity ; but even that punishment, I am confident, 
 ■will by its example do a great deail of sernce to the pubhck, in comincing Magistrates 
 every where that it is not safe for them to be passive. 
 
 If this course of proceeding shall be agreeable to the Lords Justices, I shall take 
 care to have matters so prepared, that, upon the very first notice from their Excellen- 
 cies, the prosecutions shall -without lo^ of time be commenced. 
 
 I have nothing to add to my last, concerning the state of the Maltsters in this lovrti, 
 ■who continue in the same obstinacy as formerly, but that endeavours are used to con- 
 vince them, if possible ; and that a very strict eye is keept over them, to prevent ail 
 disorders, imtill I shall have received the Lords Justices commands concerning them. 
 
 I am. Sir, with great respect. 
 
 Your most humble 
 
 Sc most obedient Serv'. 
 
 No. CCCLXXVill. 
 
 M' Delafaye to the Lord Advocate. 
 My Lord, ' Whitehall, 5* August 1 725. 
 
 UPON my laying before the Lords Justices the letters I had the honour to re- 
 ceive from you of the 27'° and z^'^ of the last month, the last of which relates to the 
 
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 ADHENDA.] CULLODEN PAPERS. 353 
 
 confederacy among the brewers at Edinburgh, and the proceedings of the Lords of 
 Session thereupon ; their Exc>' commanded me to signify their approbation & thanks to 
 their Lordships, which I have accordingly done in a letter to my Lord President. 
 
 I am also commanded to acquaint your Lordship with their Ex'" intire approbation of 
 your conduct upon this occasion ; of whose vigilance, care, and wisdom, they have such 
 signal proofs, that their Ex'" judged the best direction they could give for your fur- 
 ther proceedings in this matter was, to leave them entirely to your own discretion ; 
 who from its circumstances, which as you observe are subject to much variation, are- 
 best able to judge what is most fit to be done. Their Ex'*' have, therefore, thought 
 it most proper that, according to what I have formerly signify'd to you by their order, 
 you should continue to act in these affairs according to your own judgement, on 
 which they have a very well grounded r^lyance ; and will not enter into particulars, 
 but approve of all your sentiments ; in which you will continue, or not, as the state 
 of affairs for the time being shall suggest to you to be most adviseable. 
 
 The Lords Justices greatly commended your care and diligence in the affair of the 
 imprisonment of the soldiers at Elgin; and were extremely well pleased with the Magis- 
 trates' ready compliance with what you recommended to them ; and as their Ex'^* in- 
 tention in that respect is answered, yoa will please to return me the letter I had been 
 ordered to write to those Magistrates, in the stopping of which you acted with your usual 
 prudence. 
 
 I heartily wish you success, and am, with great truth and esteem, 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lord'" most obedient humble Servant, 
 
 CH. DELAFAYE. 
 
 No. CCCLXXIX. : ■ 
 
 M' Delafaye to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 My Lord, "Whitehall, 10'" August 1725. 
 
 I RECEIVED yesterday the honour of your Lordship's letter of the 3'' instant, 
 which I shall lay before the Lords Justices at their meeting next Thursday ; in the mean 
 time you will give me leave to acquaint you, that their Ex'*' meaning, in what I wrote 
 to your Lord"" by their command on the 29"' of the last month, was by no means to put 
 you under any restraint ; but, on the contrary, to leave you at liberty to prosecute any 
 of the rioters at Glasgow for high treason if your Lord'' should think it proper; by 
 taking off the restriction they had before laid you under in that respect, for those very 
 reasons which your Lord'' mentions in your letter, 
 
 , These matters, my Lord, must, as I have already mentioned in my former letters, be 
 left entirely to your discretion; and you have shown so right a judgment in every 
 step you have taken, that I am sure you need be under no manner of apprehension, 
 but all you do will be approved by their Ex"*" ; as what you have already done, so far 
 as is come to the King's knowledge, has already received his Majesty's entire appro- 
 bation ; the King's pleasure being signified to my Lord Duke of Newcastle, who is at 
 present out of town, by a letter from my Lord Townshend of the 3'' 1 4"' instant, re- 
 ceived yesterday, that his Grace should acquaint you therewith in his Maj'^' name, and 
 assure you that the King was perfectly well satisfied with your conduct, and desired you 
 would continue the same diligence and care in the affaiis you are entrusted with.. This 
 
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 "354 CULLODEU PAPERS. [ADDEyOA* 
 
 you •will have under his Grace's own hand ; but as the letter came to me in his absence, 
 I could not forbear taking the first opportunity of acquainting vou \vith it ; as what, I 
 doubt not, will give vou very- great satisfaction, and contribute very much to support 
 you, under the labour and trouble, which the present urJiappy conjuncture has brought 
 upon you. 
 
 What your Lordship proposes in relation to the prosecutions to be carried on, both 
 of the Rioters and Magistrates of Glasgow, is so agreable to the directions already sent 
 you, and to -what I apprehend to be the intention of the Lords Justices, and is so "well 
 concerted in every respect, that I am persuaded vou need make no manner of difficultr 
 of going on, in that method, even before you receive their Ex*^' particular orders for 
 it ; which I doubt not but I shall be com.manded to send vou next Thursday ; services 
 of this nature being sometimes hurt by delays. But of this your Lordship is the best 
 judge ; and therefore I hope you will forgive my freedom, in troubling you with my 
 own poor thoughts, which I beg you will believe is entirely owing to the zeal and re- 
 spect with which I have the honour to be. 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lord"" most obedient humble servant, 
 
 CH. DELAFAYE. 
 
 No. cecLxxx. 
 
 Mr. Delafaye to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 My Lord, Whitehall, June 3o'^ 1726. 
 
 I RECEIVED the honour of your Lop's letter of the 21'' ins' and gave it to my 
 Lord Duke of Newcastle, who laid it before the King, & has ordered me to acquaint 
 you that his Ma'-' was extreemly pleased with the accounts you give of the state of 
 affairs in Scotland ; the quiet and peaceable situation of which is in verv great measure 
 imputed to your care and pains to bring people into a reasonable way of thinking. 
 
 We have no domestick news ; matters abroad have a very fair prospect ; the chicanes 
 in Holland are over, and we shall now very soon have their accession in y' manner we 
 desired, and that of Sweden. 
 
 I send Mr. Campbell, by this post, the instrument for Baron Lant to be Chief Baron. 
 •I shall not fail, in a post or two, to send you the commission for a clerk of the peace ; 
 it has been prepared long since ; but my masters can hardly be got to do what they 
 think will wayt. Indeed, I must do them justice, this has been a time of hurrv ; I 
 jnvself went to bed this morning by broad daylight at i ho. past 3. 
 1 am, with y' most sincere & hearty respect. 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lop's most obedient & most humble servTint, 
 
 CH. DEL.\FAYE. 
 I have a thousand compliments ) 
 to you from my Lord Duke, j 
 
 No. CCCLXXXI. 
 
 Lord Lovat to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 My dear General, London, y' 7'" of July 1726. 
 
 I DO not often trouble you w' my letters ; but I canot forbear soUciting of you, 
 
 in favours of my near relation Ranald ISlc Doiiald of Binbekula, now the true & 
 
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 JLbDENDA.i CULLODEK PAPERS. 355 
 
 ilghteous heir of Clanrandalt. I spoke to the Duke of Argyle several tymesof him ; 
 & his Grace promised to do any reasonable favour & fredship y' y' Lady Clanrandalt 
 would ask of him, in favours of the heir male and head of the family ; so I am con- 
 vinc'd y' y'^maner of doing y' affair essentially right for Clanrandalt depends very much 
 on you ; I knowe you are naturally inclin'd to do good, & you never could resist y* 
 solicitations of such a fine woman as v' Ladv Clanrandalt : nor do I think v" vou will 
 be y"" slower in doing this gentilman service, y* he is my near relation, & that I te- 
 commend his affair to you as my own ; since you know y' no man is more zealously 
 8j affectionatly your most feitlifull slave than 
 
 LOVATl". 
 
 No. CCCLlCXXn. 
 
 M' Scrope to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 I HAVE y' honour of yours of y* 1 5"^ ; &, whatever I think of other psons Xc 
 things, nothing relating to you will ever be looked upon by me w"" indifference. Y* 
 hints in your letter were so very material at this dme, y' I thought I should be wanting ' 
 in my duty to my master, & in my triendship to you, if I did not shew it to him ; 
 & therefore I ventured to doit, notw^*standing y" caution you gave me. He read your 
 letter w"" great attention ; said y kindest things possible of you ; & concluded, y' no- 
 body could hurt you w '° him. He was uneasy about the old gentleman's affaire, & 
 said he knew not your concern for him till it was too late. Y*" pticulars of y' managm' 
 I cannot communicate to you by letter ; but do assure you I was not privy to it, nor knew 
 any thmg of it til! y" blovv was struck. He desired you.to be in town by y' middle of 
 January at farthest. I have not yet seen the Earle of Hay, but am told y" new commis- 
 sion of excise does not please him. I am at present prety much hurryed ; but if any 
 thing comes to my knowledge necessary to be communicated to ycru, you shall be sure to 
 hear from me ; in y' mean time, let me beg you not to give yourself a moment's 
 thought about what we are doing ; for I can assure you, if our friends cared as little 
 for money as we do, there would be an end of y"" moonshine we have been amused w"*. 
 This hint, I guess, will be soon explained. 
 
 I am, w'" great affection & regard. 
 My Lord, 
 Yo' Lordship's most faithfull & most obedient humble serv*, 
 Nov. 24=" 1726. J. SCROPE. 
 
 No. CCCLXXXIII. 
 
 The Lord Advocate to the Duke of Newcastle. 
 My Lord, 
 
 THIS coimtry continues in the same tem.per and tranquility as when I had the 
 honour to write last to your Grace. ; , ■ - ' 
 
 M' Gordon, of AchintouU, who has a small estate in the county of Banff, who was 
 a Major General in the Muscovite service till the year 17 11, and in the late rebell'on 
 was employed by the Pretender, is lately come to Scotland. It was, I believe, intended 
 to attaint him ; but in the act of parliament, the i"' of the late Kong, he happens to be 
 described by a false Christian name ; and the misnomer is so considerable, that in a 
 contest between him and the late commissioners of forfeitures, who seized the estate as 
 forfeited, it was, after taking the opinion of all the Judges of England, adjudged in the 
 
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 House of Lords, that the act of attainder was ineffectual, because of the misnomer ; 
 and the sentence appealed from, decreeing to him the property of his estate, was 
 affirmed. 
 
 This Gentleman came to me this morning, and told rne, that, tho' eve- since the date 
 of that judgement, which vr^s in the year 1 720, he looked upon himseli as at libertv to 
 return with safety- to Scotland ; yet he chose rather to withdraw from those persons ■with 
 whom he had been formerly confederat^ed, and tn live retired at Buloigne, in France, 
 whilst any jealousy or suspicion might be entertained in respect to his coming over ; but 
 now, perceiving a general prospect of universal peace and tranquility-, and obser\Tng the 
 Kino- placed upon the throne with the unanimous consent and approbation of his people, 
 he apprehended his return to his native country would give no manner of umbrage, and 
 therefore he had chosen the purtx of coming over, with an intention to pass the re- 
 maining part of his life at home in quiet and obscurin". He said, it was his design, in 
 talkino- to me, that I might, if I thought fit, lav his case before his Majesty ; protest- 
 In<T that, hov.ever secure he thought himself in the protection of the laws, yet if it was 
 his Majest}^'s pleasure that he should \\ithdraw from his dominions, he would readily 
 give him that mark of his obedience. 
 
 I thought it mv duts'to acquaint vour Grace with this matter, to the end that if vou 
 think proper you may lav it before his Majesty. 
 
 I am, ^%^ch the greatest dut)' and respect, 
 Mav it please your Grace, 
 Your Grace's most obedient and most humble serv', 
 Ed% August 8^^ 1727. 
 
 D. Newcastle. 
 
 No. CCCLXXXIY. 
 
 General "Wade to the Lord Advocate. 
 
 D- Sir, London, Norem" y'23'', 1727. 
 
 I WAS in hopes, by delaying to answer your kind Letter, I should have been 
 able to have acknowledged your favour by sending you some news ; but my old dis- 
 temper the ague has confined me to mv chamber for a fortnight past ; so that I know 
 nothing of what passes in y" Grand blonde. They tell me, S' Robert "Walpool is 
 very much mortified, to find, at his comeing to town, that Lord To-mishend is in so 
 verv bad a way. The Physitians are not agreed in the nature of his distemper ; but 
 most of them are of opinion, that his life is in great danger, and Freind only seems to" 
 be of a contrar)' sentiment. The town take the Ubertj- to name severali persons as 
 his successor, according to the severali inclinations of the polititians. Some say Me- 
 thuen, others Horace Walpool, L'' Carteret, and Ambassador Stanhope. 1 hope they 
 will all be disappointed ; but believe, if the vacancy happens, Methuen may have it 
 if he pleases. Stanhope was with me two davs agoe, and says, the difficultys that 
 hindred the meeting of the congress are in a fair wav of being removed, and he ex- 
 pects his instructions very soon for proceeding to Canibray. I hope my Governor has 
 discharged his commission, and wrote vou a budget of news. I am told, that Orders 
 are actually sent to recall Dormer, and that the Marquis of Montendre will be sent to 
 Lisbon in his place. I hope you continue in the good state of health I left you in, and 
 hope to meet you at S' Stephen's Chappell after Christmas. 
 
 I am, D' Duncan, ever vour's, 
 
 ' GEORGE WADE. 
 
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 T spoke to the D. of Newcastle concerning your examining the two state prisoners 
 now in the Castle. He told me, he would send you an order to doe it ; but I fear he 
 has either changed his mind, or forgot it. 
 
 No. CCCLXXXV. 
 
 The Lord Advocate to the Laird of Culloden. 
 
 i)ear Brother, London, 19"" Aprill 1728. 
 
 I AM just now going out to the Duke of Argyll's, to enjoy a few days the 
 recess that the Easter holidays give us ; and that I may not miss to-morrow's post, 1 
 write this note to-day. 
 
 The chief mtent of it is, to complain of you, for not letting me know that you 
 was ill ; when most people here, who belong to our country, assert that they have 
 Letters saying that you was very much out of order. You know I have courage to 
 bear the worst news tollerably ; but it pains me to think that you can hide any ailment 
 from me, and that I should possibly be merry when you are pining. This, dear Bro- 
 ther, is easily mended. Letting one know when one is touched with a slight indispo- 
 sition eases the mind, because it prevents suspicions & fears ; whereas permitting the 
 same news to be heard from other hands awakens apprehensions. Sir Robert Walpole 
 has taken advantage of the recess, which is to endure till Monday se'nnight, to go 
 down to Norfolk. The King goes down next Tuesday to Newmarket, and to visite 
 Cambridge. We have no tidings of consequence. 
 
 I am, your's, &c. 
 
 No. CCCLXXXVI. 
 
 M' Hamilton to the Lord Advocate. 
 My Lord, 
 
 AS the friendship you have shewed me in several instances occasions you this 
 trouble, so I hope your goodness will at this time excuse it. 
 
 It is generally believed here, that our Attorney and Soil' Generalls will in a very 
 few days be advanced ; the first, to be L'' Chief Justice, with a considerable encrease 
 of the sallary of that office, and be created a Peer ; the other, to be Lord Chancellor, 
 and be also created a Peer. The Attorney to have the Peerage first ; occasioned partly 
 (as it's said) by a generous declaration of his, that he would receive no pensfon from, 
 the crown, but such a sallary as liis successors in office should for ever after be 
 entitled to. 
 
 It is alwise usual, upon the coming in of a new Chancellor, for him to appoint 
 about fifty or sixty gentlemen, some of them counsel and some of them solhcitors, to 
 be commissioners in matters of bankruptcy ; which is not only an advantage to each of 
 them of near one hundred pounds p' ann. but is also an introduction and increase to 
 their business in other respects. 
 
 The favour therefore I would humbly beg of your Lordship is, to let me have a 
 Letter from you to M' Talbot (the Chancellor that is to be); wherein you will be so 
 good as to recommend me to his favour, to be one of such Commissioners of bank- 
 ruptcy, or in any other station he should think proper. I have no reason to doubt, but 
 such a recommendation from your Lordship, with some others I shall he able to pro- 
 
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 cure, Avill, together with M' Talbot's knowledge of me, be SuiBcient to procure me 
 Success. To prevent your letter being either too early for congratulating, or too late 
 to be of use to me, I beg you'll please to send it imder cover for me to deliver at a 
 proper jimaure ; for mv success mav lq a great measure depend on that. It is generally 
 believed, the sealls vrill be delivered to M' Talbot ab' the 5"" of nest month ; so that 
 I must beg your Lordship's letter by the return of the post. Please to beHeve I am, 
 
 Mv Lord, 
 Your most obed' and most humble Servant, 
 
 ^L HA:^iILTON. 
 
 } 
 
 My Brother offers his most himible semce to you. 
 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields, 
 2o'*Oc£. 1733. 
 
 No. CCCLXXXMI. 
 
 The Lord Advocate's Letter to M' Talbot. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 IT is with the greatest pleasure I learn from W Hamilton, who will deliver you 
 this, that you are speedilv to quit the station wherein for some years I had the happi- 
 ness of your acquaintance, to fill another wherein you are to make the whole nation 
 happy. 
 
 Bv the change, I mav lose the familiarity of conversation I enjoyed ; I hope I shall 
 not lose vour friendship ; and I am sm-e no change of fortune can make you lose in 
 me a ver\" sincere humble Ser\"ant. 
 
 What brings vou this trouble is an opinion of M' Hamilton's, that I have some 
 interest ■with vou. He is desirous to be appointed by you one of the Commissioners 
 in matters of Bankruptcy ; and beheves that mv intercession for him inay add some 
 "weio^ht to his own merit. If you did not know him personally, I should trouble you 
 ■with his character ; but as he has had the honour often to have waited on you, I need 
 sav nothing on that subject ; but content mvself with recommending him to your favor 
 ias a friend of mine, to whom a good office done will very much obhge. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 Yeur most faithfull & most obedient humble Ser'. 
 
 Xo. CCCLXXXVIII. 
 
 Mr. William Grant to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 
 
 The last time I had the honour to see vour lop at your own house, you ■was so good 
 as to promise me some private advice, which I -was resolved to claim as soon as yoiu- 
 leisure shou'd permit ; and the rather, that I had no conjecture touching the subject of 
 h, but I was sure it must be well worth my hearing. 
 
 Since that time, the incidents of Friday & Sat\irday last, in the case of Brechin, have 
 probably given your lop more to say to me, & have given me a fresh occasion to wish 
 for an audience, which I rather choose than any message ; th^' Lo. Elches told me, he 
 had a kind one from your lop to be deHver'd to me. 
 
 I am one of the sincere admirers of your lop's ■virtues, proud cf the kindness you are 
 pleased to express towards me, & ambitious to deserve it ; &:, that I may do this, ready 
 
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 to receive any advice or admonition from your lop with the utmost submission, tliank^ 
 fulness, & docility. I desire opportunity both to hearken, & to get audience of my 
 apology, where I any have ; and the errors of which I am convinced, I will confess, & 
 strive to amend. 
 
 As to the Brechin affair, suffer me to anticipate, so far as to say a little before I hear 
 the grounds of my charg-e. 
 
 Against a s"* diligence craved by petition, & that intimated on purpose that the 
 respondent might show cause viva voce, I was entitled to be heard. 
 
 1 intended to have set forth briefly the very matters in the petition from my side, 
 signed by three of us, only to show that we all thought the matter thereof pertinent & 
 competent to be urged : — of the merits you were to judge. 
 
 On the 27"', I was not heard out; & onceSc again moved, or pressed, that I might 
 be heard. So far I apprehended I was using my right, &c that of the subject, to be 
 heard out, at an occasion when to be at all heard was surely competent. This, I thought, 
 the meanest or youngest of my brethren might crave or insist for. I do not know or 
 remember that I did more than this, or used any improper terms. If I did, I appre- 
 hend it to be so contrary to r.iv temper & practice, that I should hardly forgive myself 
 for being so indecent, or undutiful towards the Court; but if there was nothing of this 
 sort, is it not pardonable in any man at the bar to be upon occasion somewhat earnest 
 for audience in it ? My spirit, God knows, is none of the most keen or violent ; nor 
 am I conscious, that it is incident to me to be often or much heated ; and whenever I 
 am at all warmed, it is excited by nothing but the apprehension of some wrong done, or 
 a doing. I may surely be much mistaken, & doubtless often am so ; as every counsel has 
 a side, or a party, which naturally & almost necessarily gives some bias to his judgment. 
 But sometimes mistakes will fall out in the most knowing & upright judges, who are 
 but men ; and what must the bar become if some scope be not allowed, even to genius, 
 & at all times a just hberty, & a calm & patient audience till the thing be understood, 
 & providing we do not trespass by prolixity or repetition. But I fear I am now tres- 
 passing one of these ways, & writing too much for a letter, which was intended singly 
 to beg the favour of your lop's sending me word when you will have a leisure hour to 
 be attended by. My Lord, 
 
 Your Lop's most humble & most obed' servant, 
 
 WILLIAM GRANT.. 
 Ed^Feb^ 3^ 1741. 
 
 No. CCCLXXXIX. 
 
 General Wade to the Lord President. 
 
 [No Date ; but seems to have been about the latter end of 1 742.3 
 
 My dear Lord President, 
 
 ALTHOUGH I have not been so successfull in obeying your commands as E\. 
 could wish, I can with sincerity assure you, that had what you desired been in my 
 power to have obtained, I should have had more pleasure in serving or oblidging you, 
 than any man who inhabits between London and John of Grott's. When George 
 Ross delivered me your oblidging letter, he imparted to me the state of the agreement 
 between his friend Gordon and Cap' Price, without entering into particulars ; & I was 
 in hopes this had been so secretly managed, as not to be known to the Master Generall ; 
 but when I waited on his Grace this morning, I found he had been apprised of the 
 
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 agreement between them from the time he first entered upon his office ; & told me, he 
 had been often solicited both by Gordon's & Price's friends, whom he had absolutely 
 refused : that, as tliere wzs an express paragraph in his instructions against the buying 
 or selling any offices or employments in the Ordnance, he would never give his consent 
 to estabUsh a president so pernicious to the sendee, and directly repugnant to his 
 Maiest)''s orders ; and as I had nothing to alledge on the other side of the question, I 
 was fors'd to give up the cause : however, if it happens at any time that I can be of 
 Service to him, it will be a sufficient inducement to me, when I remember he was 
 recommended bv my good friend Colloden ; ror whose former civilitvs, & present 
 
 kind remembrance, I shall ever retain the utmost sence of gratitude & respect. As 
 
 to Caulhcld's affair, I can hardly think of it with patience : I had obtained the Royal 
 Consent, Sc the commission was drawn & at the closet door in order to be sign'd ; 
 when a malicious gent", to put a stop to it for the present, positively asserted, that the 
 L'' Gov' was not dead. This I had heard, but took no nonce of it, since I knew the 
 next post would clear up that matter ; but fresh objections was raised ever)' dav, & the 
 nation raised, to support the most malicious & ill-natured act ever was done bv one 
 gentleman to another ; & was very near determining me to turn countrv gentleman j 
 which when it was apprehended, to palliate matters, I had my new emplovment given 
 me, without asking. The L' Governm' is not yet given to any bodv, &: the commis- 
 sion remains unsign'd in the Secretary's bagg. There are some other circumstances not 
 proper to be coimnitted to writing. 
 
 Matters ha^•e a very good aspect both in Germany & Italy. The army of Malebois 
 is to be at Neuremberg the last of tliis month, O. S. : & then they have 1 5 davs march 
 to Prague ; & nobody imagines they can hold out near so long. I A\ish this prosperity 
 don't elevate us too much, & draw us into a warr with France. But let the world goe 
 as it will, I shall ever remain, d' Sir, 
 
 Your most faithfull 8c obedient hum-'" serv' 
 
 GEORGE WADE. 
 
 Xo. CCCXC. 
 
 The Lord President to General Clayton. 
 
 * [About the end of 1742.3 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 WHEN I first heard of tlie orders given to the Highland regiment to march south- 
 'B'ards, it gave me no sort of concern, because I supposed the intention was only to see 
 them ; but as I have lately been assured, that they are destined for forreign servdce, I 
 cannot dissemble my uneasiness at a resolution that mav, in my apprehension, be 
 attended with very bad consequences ; nor can I prevaill with myself not to communi- 
 cate to you my thoughts on this subject, however late they may come ; because, if 
 ^vhat I am to suggest has not been already under consideration, it's possible the reso- 
 ludon may be departed from ; and if those, who see clearer <5: farther into such matters 
 than I in my situation possibly can, are not moved with the apprehensions that alarm 
 me, and shall think proper to persist in the measure, their doing so A^ith their eyes 
 open will go far to remove my fears ; and I am confident the liberty I am now takeing, 
 pretty much out of my sphere, cannot be misconstrued to proceed from any oy^ cause 
 tiian my imalterable regard for his Majesde k the peace of his kingdoms, 
 
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 ADDENDA.] CULLODEN PAPER?. ^S^l 
 
 What moves me is, not the many disorders & depredations that naturally will ensue, 
 upon the removeall of that regiment, in the northern parts of this countrey ; those con^ 
 sequences are too obvious not to have been thought of; and 1 dare say (as the strongest 
 equity requires) measures have been devised, & will be pursued, fit to prevent that, 
 evill ; but my apprehensions are of ane oy' & a much higher nature ; and to explain 
 myself you must permit me to go a Uttle out of my depth, and to talk like a politician. 
 If I am mistaken, & my supposalls have no foundation in truth or probabilit)-, I shall 
 be very glad of it ; and in writeing thus, I shall have done no more harm th;m to shew 
 ray ignorance & my zeal. 
 
 I suppose, then, that the generous efforts his Majestie is makeing to preserve the 
 libertvs of Europe -will provoke the invader of those libertys, and may produce a war 
 with the Crown of France ; and I suppose in the next place, in case such a war happen, 
 France may espouse the interest of the Pretender, and attempt, if not seriously to sett 
 him on the throne, at least to make a very important diversion, at the expence of 
 risquing a very few battaHons. If there is no probability of such a rupture, or no 
 danger that in such an event France may think of playmg the game I have mentioned, 
 what follows is useless ; and you may throw iiside this letter without reading any more 
 of it ; but then if there is any liklyhood that France may enterprize w hat I dread, to 
 me it wou'd seem in common prudence highly necessary not to faciUtate that enterprize ; 
 but, on the contrary, to do every thing that might render it dificult, or rather 
 impracticable. 
 
 I take it for granted, that if there is any liklyhood of a rupture, due care is and will 
 be taken of England, by keeping such a body of troops in readiness as must be supe- 
 rior to any force that can be landed there ; which will prevent the attempt ; as the 
 sending over a small body wou'd be, in eflect, sending them to certain destruction ; 
 since there cou'd be no hopes of their being joyned by any force in England to support 
 them. But I beg that you may consider, whether the case is the same in Scotland ; and 
 if it is not, what is then fittest to be done? The case of Scotland, so far as I under- 
 stand it, is, that Jacobitism is at a very low pass, compared with, what it was •^o a ears 
 ago ; that the Pretender is very much out of men's thoughts ; that his antient adherents, 
 who suffered for him, and who find themselves now tollerably at their ease, will con- 
 sider well before they risque a second time ; and that, in all appearance, upon his own 
 bottom he never will be able to cause the least disturbance in this countrey. But tho' 
 this is (I verily believe) the case, yet I will not be so sanguine as to say, that the fire 
 is totally extinguished ; that there is none of it lurking under the embers, or even that 
 what lurks may not possibly be blown up into a flame, if France, besides ivords, which 
 she has always ready, will give some money, and the countenance of force ; 1 say, the 
 countenance of force, because I fear a small one, seconded with money & pronuses, 
 might spirit up unthinking people, who caraiot perfectly judge what force mav be suf- 
 ficient to secure the execution of the design. 
 
 If I am in the right in what I have suggested, put the case, that France, in alliance 
 with the Pretender, shou'd, by his missionaries, back promises with money, and treat 
 for ane insurrection upon their actual landing of troops ; and suppose, that, as she has 
 of late been sparing of neither money nor troops, she shou'd fling half a dozen or half 
 a score of battalions into the Highlands, a fond perdue, and that these shou'd be joyned 
 by 3 or 4,000 banditti ; what sort of confusion must that make on the island ; what 
 diversion to his Majestie's troops, what interruption to his designs I The enterprise, I 
 verily believe, wou'd at last be baffled, and the invaders wou'd be lost to France ; but 
 {^till ane infinite deal of raischeifl^ wou'd be wrought, at a small expence to that Crown ; 
 
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 j62 ' • CULLODEN- PAPERS. ^ADDENDA. 
 
 and this is what distinguishes ane attempt in the Highlands of Scotland, trom one in any 
 place to the southward. In the last, the invaders wou'd be swallowed up in a moment, 
 if thev did not come in numbers more than can v^ell be conveyed at once -ttithout dis- 
 coverv ; in the first case, a small number wou'd suiiice to raise, with those that might 
 be brought to join them, a lasting & a very dangerous confusion. 
 
 Having thus stated to you the danger I dread, I m.ust, in the next place, put }ou in 
 mind, that the present system for securing the peace of the Highlands, which is the 
 best I ever heard of, is by regular troops stationed from Inverness to Fort William, 
 alono-st the chain of lakes which in a maimer divydes the Highlands, to command the 
 obedience of the inhabitants of both sides, and by a body of disciplined Highlanders, 
 wearing the dress & speaking the language of the countrey, to execute such orders as 
 require expedition, and for which neither the dress nor the manner of the other troops 
 are proper. These Highlanders, now regimentc\l, were at first independent companys; 
 and tho' their dress, language, & manners, qualyfied them for secureing the low 
 countrey against depredations, vet that was not the sole use of them ; the same qualirys 
 fitted them for everv^ expedition that required secrecy & dispatch ; they served for all 
 purposes of hussars, or light horse, in a country where mountainss ik bogs render 
 cavalrv useless ; and if properly disposed over the Highlands, nothing that was com- 
 monlv reported &: believed bv the Highlanders cou'd be a secret to their cormnanders, 
 because of their intimacv with the people, and the sameness of the language. 
 
 Now, Sir, lett me slrppose, that France was to attempt ane insurrection in the 
 Highlands, which must be prepared by emissarys sent to cajole, to cabale, to pro- 
 mise, to pay, to concert, &c. and by arms & ammunition imported ^- dispersed ; and 
 lett me suppose this Highland regiment properly disposed, and properly commanded, 
 is it not obvious, that the operations of such emisarys must be discovered, if not trans- 
 acted with the outmost secreq- ; that the Highlanders who suttered themselves to be 
 tampered with bv them, m.ust do so under the strongest apprehensions of being taken 
 bv the neck by detachments of that regiment, if their treason were heard of; and 
 that, of course, thev must be shy of meeting or transacting with the agent of the Pre- 
 tender, or of caballing, m.ustering their followers, or receiveing or distributemg arms. 
 
 Now, on the other hand, lett me suppose the same attempt to be made, and the 
 Highland regiment in Flanders ; lett me "beg to know, what chance cou'd you have 
 of discovering or preventing the effect of anv tampering in the Highlands. Cou'd any 
 officer, or other person trusted by the Government, go through the moimtains with 
 ane intention to discover such intrigues with safety ? Wou'd the Pretender's emis- 
 sarys, or the Highlanders who might favour them, be in any apprehension from the 
 regular troops ? Cou'd you propose, with any probability of success, to seize arms 
 or attainted persons ? Nav, suppose the Government had direct intelligence of the 
 projeas carried on, where, and by whom, cou'd they hope to surprise, or lay hold of, 
 anv one person ? These questions, I dare say, you can easily answer, and, with me,^ 
 can see, that if France shou'd stumble upon such a design as I have been supposing, — 
 remove but that regiment, and there is nothing to hinder the Agents of that Crown 
 to have their full swing, and to tam.per with the poor unthinking people of the High- 
 lands, with as great safetv' as if there were no Government at all in the Island. I \*ill 
 say more ; I doubt not but in many places of that country, if the people could be 
 prevailed with to rebel, they might receive arms, & be in some sort disciplined, for 
 manv v.-eeks before the Government cou'd have certain notice of it. 
 
 As, therefore, I think removeing the regiment I speak of, is removing one of the 
 principall obstructions to the raischieff I dread the most, on the supposall of ane 
 
 open
 
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 A6DENDA.] CULLODEN PAPEHS. 36 
 
 open rupture with France, I have taken the liberty of bringing my thoughts on that 
 subject together, & laying them before you, to the end you may make such use of 
 them, as to you shall seem most proper. If you think of this matter as I do, and 
 find it necessary, you may mention it to the King as a suggestion of mine ; he may 
 find fault with my umidity, or want of judgment in things of this nature ; but he 
 will remember so much of me as to believe, that the hint I presume to give proceeds 
 from duty to him, & from that only. 
 
 I wish you may be able to read my wretched hand writeing ; but the subject wou'd 
 not permit me to make use of any other. My service to the Major. 
 
 I am, Sec. 
 
 No.CCCXCI. * -^ • 
 
 • 
 
 From the Lord President to the Lord Lyon. , 
 
 My Lord Lyon, 
 
 THE last post brought me your's of the 24"", complaining of the remissness of 
 our countrymen in making the necessary aplication, for obtaining relief from the 
 masterfull depredations that destroy the neighbourhood of the Highlands. I am hear- 
 tily sorry to hear it, and unwilling to belive that a man of honour, who was so zealous, 
 and for so good reasons, last harvest, to have this mischief obviated, as the Earle of 
 Murray was, can slacken in his aplication when the evil to be prevented is growing 
 daylie more dangerous. I am hopefull his Lop's deferring is rather the effect of 
 judgment, as thinking it more adviseable to wait till the hurry which attended the first 
 part of the Session was over, than to importune Ministers, overloaded, with what they 
 won'd be apt to think a trifle, compared with their other much more interfeering af- 
 fairs. But then, though much depends on the timeing properly an application, I 
 hope his Lop, and all of you, will consider, that you may sett your time, and that 
 unless your project is prepared and agreed to before shutting up the Committee of 
 Supply, if it must be supported by public money, it cannot take place untill ane other 
 Session. 
 
 As to what you mention touching the disarming Act, without entering into the 
 question how far it was expedient to have enacted that law at the time, I believe no 
 one will think this a fitt season for repeating it ; and I am confident, that to the effect 
 of it is owing, in a great measure, the disorder we now so sensibly teel. Had the 
 host of thieves who now plunder us been thorrowly disarmed, and keeped from the 
 use of arms since the date of the first act, we shou'd have had no complaints at 
 present ; or if that act hade never past, and if the Highlanders adjacent to the thieve- 
 ing countrys hade remained armed as formerly, those robbers durst never have 
 ventured to prey upon them, and must even make their inroads on the lowest coun- 
 tries with much more precaution ; but at present, as the bandittie are armed, whilst 
 their neighbours are disarmed, they roam about in troops in broad day-light, without 
 any aprehension from the country which is disarmed, or from the troops who cannot 
 follow so as to come up with them. This, my Lord Lyon, is manifestly the case ; 
 and this is what creates the most just of all demands upon the publick ; because it 
 ihc Government have taken awav from the people their defence, by disarming them, 
 they that moment become debitors to the people for protection, and ought in justice to 
 afford it, whatever it may cost. But, besides this consideration from justice, there i:< 
 ■ane other from policy, that one should think must weigh, especialy at this juncture ; 
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 ^64 Cn.LODEX PAPERS. [aBDEKDA. 
 
 and that is, the danger of pennitaiig a gang of ruffians disaffected, if any in the vvhole 
 Highlands are so, to his Majesrs", to range and lord it over the whole country without 
 any restraint. If any enemy to our happy establishment -were now to attempt to seduce 
 the inhabitants of the mountains into treasonable measures, v> hat could prevent their 
 tampering at least ? How could any orders from the Government be executed amongst 
 the hills? and who can answer at this day whether there arc, or are not, emissaries 
 from bevond seas trving to corrupt the minds of those poor Highlanders who not long 
 agoe vrere favourable to them ? For m.y ov%en part, I never think on this subject 
 without concern ; and I am satisfied, that if our great men saw this matter in the 
 same light with me, they vvould not be at rest one moment untill they hade a force in 
 the Highlands of Scotland sufficient to keep those bandittie, and all other low people, 
 in order, sufficient to execute the King's lawfull commands in that countrv', as suffi- 
 cient to prevent the easy access of the emissar].-s of the King's enemys to unthinking 
 people, who do not look upon themselves to be favourites to the Government ; at 
 least, doe not feel, so much as they with reason might expect, the fruits of its pro- 
 tection. 
 
 These preferences, with many more of the same kind, which will naturally occur, 
 cannot faill, when laid before our great men, to rouse their attention, and produce the 
 desired eit'ect. I should gladly, for my owti part, contribute every thing in my power 
 towards the design ; but, as I am left out of the play, I doubt it would not be thought 
 any part of my province to meddle in such matters, or to give any advice before it is 
 asked. If the application to be made by all of you, which will be concurred with by 
 the Duke ci Acholl, who by this time is with you, have the effect to more any of 
 the IMinisters to call for my poor opinion, they shall have it readily ; in the mean time, 
 I hope no time will be lost in making the application : the further delay of a very few 
 days may render the whole design impracticable. It will cost you, I doubt, some 
 trouble to read this scrawl ; but you know I never w as a good scribe. 
 
 I am yours, 5«:c. 
 Stoney Hill, 31 Dec' 1743. 
 
 Xo. CCCXCII. 
 
 The Marquis of Tweeddale to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Whitehall, 1" Feb-M 743.4. 
 
 YOUR Lordship's zeal and affection for his ^Majesty, and your extended interest 
 and acquaintance in the Highlands, m.ake it necessary to give your Lordship the present 
 trouble. We have certain intelligence, that a squadron of :o ships of war sailed from 
 Brest on the 26'^ Jan-, and were seen last Saturday morning steering Northw ards. 
 There are no certain accounts of any troops being on board ; but it is said they have 
 15,000 niusq" with them ; and as we know that the Pretender's Son left Rome some 
 time ago, and landed at Antibes the 1 1*^ of Jan*', there is reason to suspect an attempt 
 may be intended to be made on some part of Britain. I have wTote to the Justice 
 Clerk, the Solicitor, & General Guest ; since it is necessary that his Majesty's servants 
 should, on this occasion, be duely informed of what pardculars are come to our 
 knowledge here. 
 
 I am, with great truth and esteem. 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obedient and most humble Ser^-ant, 
 Lord President. TWEEDDALE.
 
 ADDENDA.] CULLODEM PAPERS. ^^^ 
 
 No.CCCXCIlI. 
 
 The Lord President to the Marquis of Tweeddale. 
 
 My Lord, Edim, 5'" Feb. 1744. 
 
 THIS morning Lhad your Lordship's of the i" by express. You judge exceed- 
 ingly right of my affection to his Majesty's person and government, but too favourably 
 _ of m\ abihties to be of service to him in the Highlands. At the s;une dme, whatever 
 is within my abihties he has vcy good reason to depend on, because it is my inclination 
 as well as it is my duty. 
 
 I am very hopcfull the destination of the French fleet will not be found to be for 
 Scotland, I shall be greatly deceived if ane attempt of that nature meet with any 
 encouragement from the Highlanders. Their turn, a very few months ago, I am 
 very confident, was very adversary to views of this nature ; and the' for some time I 
 have been out of the way of conversing with them, or having their sentiments, yet I 
 cannot suffer myself to believe that they can have been so far debauched as to give 
 encouragement to any invader that did not bring alongst with him force sufficient to 
 make the party equal. Besides, the season of the year does not leave it possible for 
 a debarkation ihade amongst them to make any progress, or for them to subsist in 
 bodies amongst the mountains ; and a small number of foreign regular troops landed 
 in the low country, though in their neighbourhood, must fall a sacrifice before they 
 in all human probabilit)' could be reinforced. However, as your Lop has thought the 
 intelHgence worth communicating, I have wrote to a friend of mine in the neighbour- 
 hood of the Highlands to exainine ; a person whoni I confide in, and who 1 am sure 
 will let me know what he has observed ; and if I learn any thing by this inquiry, I 
 'shall do myself the honour to let your Lop know it by M' Solicitor Gen', who gives 
 himself the trouble to dispatch my letter to the North Country by express. May I 
 beg (as you see this letter is wrote in haste) to put your Lop in mind of a letter 
 which I wrote above twelve months ago to Gen' Clayton *, and which he sent to your 
 Lop, about the Highland Regiments ; and to ask you whether you are not now con- 
 vinced that the reflecdons therein made were just, and whether the King's service does 
 not absolutely require (to say nothing of the doubtful subjects) that a force of that 
 kind should remain estabhshed in the Highlands ? Your Lordship, I know, will for- 
 give the imperfection of this scrawl, and behave me to be, with perfect esteem. 
 
 My Lord, your's, 
 The Marquis of Tweeddale. D. F. 
 
 No. CCCXCIV. 
 
 The Marquis of Tweeddale to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Whitehall, 15 Feb'" 1743-4. 
 
 I HAD the favour of your Lordship's of the 5"', which I took the first 
 opportunity of laying before his Majesty ; who has commanded me to signify to you, 
 that he is very sensible of your zeal and affection for his person and government ; 
 and to desire, that you will, from time to time, communicate any intelligence you 
 shall receive that you think for his service. 
 
 This day the King sent a Message to both Houses of Parliament, of wliich I send 
 you a copy, together v%rith the Address thereupon. 
 
 I ani, with great truth and respect, My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's most humble Servant, 
 
 , .:.: TWEEDPALE, 
 
 * See No. CCCXC.
 
 366 CULLODEX PAPERS. ^ADDENDA.' 
 
 No. CCCXCV. 
 
 The Lord President to the Marquis of Tweeddale. 
 My Lord, 
 
 , I AM very glad that the various enquiries and observations I have made since;, you 
 first acquainted me vith the advices his Majesty had of the impudent undertaking of 
 France, have not hitherto furnished me any thing worth troubling your Lordship with. 
 All the accounts I have from the Highlands agree, that there is no appearance of stirring 
 there, nor any such caballing as used tormerly to be, upon the least rumour of anv 
 attempt from abroad ; and it fells within my own observation, as well as within thar 
 of all those whom I converse with here, that those who formerly were counted very 
 zealous Jacobites (and, I am afraid, wish that way still) shew not in their countenance 
 or conversation the least symptom of expectation, from what is now going forwards ; 
 which is a behaviour so very difterent from that of former times, that it disposes me to 
 believe they really know nothing ; and yet this is perfectly consistent with the reality 
 of the undertaking of France ; since preparing a Part}- here before-hand might have 
 contributed to a discovery, which would have prevented the intended surprise ; and 
 France may have depended on the zeal of the Jacobites for an immediate insurrection 
 so soon as any considerable force from abroad appeared. To give an opinion whether 
 this expectation is well or ill-founded, is a matter of some delicacv ; as it would be of 
 very dangerous consequence to neglect to provide against what France may expect, 
 whatever Government's opinion may be of the probabilit)- of that expectation. Bur 
 I must confess to your Lordship, it is my poor opinion, that France will be in a great 
 measure disappointed if this is her expectation ; for the condition of the Highlands of 
 Scotland Is at present very different from what it was when the last great push was 
 made for the Pretender. 'At that time, the Clans, who for some years had been Usted 
 by the Queen's minisrrv in Scotland for the service of the Pretender, were bv much the 
 majorit)' of the Highlands ; in so much, that it was dangerous for any of their neigh- 
 bours who were well ali'ected to the Protestant succession to shew their zeal, and seemed 
 safe for the disaffected to risque a Rebellion ; as their numbers presented hopes of 
 impunit}-, and the difficult access to their countr}' made it unlikely that regular forces 
 would reach them to put forfeiting laws in execution ; besides that, many noble families 
 who had large dependences in the low country, but are now extinguished, were to be 
 sharers of the same fate ; whereas at present, not to mention the extinction of those 
 families, with their influence, in the low country, the many lucky accidents that have 
 brought over several noble and very considerable femilies in the Highlands, if not from 
 an adversary, at least from a very dubious state, have left those who may be supposed 
 inclined to the Pretender the minorirv of the Highlanders ; in so much, that lading treason 
 and the regal authority out of the question, if a private feud \\ ere to be determined bv 
 force, as frequently heretofore has been the case, between the clans and families that at 
 this dav profess dutv and zeal for his Majestv, and those that are suspected of favouring 
 the Pretender, the odds would be greatlv against those who are supposed to favour 
 confusion ; for this reason, besides that in my apprehension several of the families 
 supposed disaffected, that have had no immediate favours iirom the Crown, have 
 severely smarted under the folly of their ancestors, and have been sensible of the 
 indulgence of the present clement Governm.ent ; I feirly confess I think, and the 
 opu;ioa gives me much satisfaction, that his Majesty is not to expect any uimatural 
 disturbance from this corner of the countrv, unless a superior force appear, and unless 
 
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 ADDENDA.] CULLODEX I'APEUS. 367. 
 
 there is an unreasonable remissness in those who espouse his Majesty's interest in exert- 
 ing themselves ; which I cannot so much as suspect will be the case. 
 
 Yesterday I had the honour to see the Duke of Gordon, who tcld me he had heard 
 from your Lordship, and that when the business that brought him hither was over, or 
 sooner if the King's occasions required it, he would (departing from his purpose when 
 he left home) return to his countr)', and exert the utmost of his power, if the malice 
 of the King's enemies gave him occasion, to maintain his rights and the peace of the 
 country. Youi- Lordship will readily believe I commended his purpose ; but you will 
 also bear with me when I tell you, that I am a little surprised that this young Lord's 
 unexpected and fixed determ.ination to serve his Majesty, is not distinguished in another 
 manner than it seems to be. Ths influence of that family, whilst Popish and disaffected, 
 was smartly felt. It is now happily otherwise ; and the young Duke has rather courted 
 occasions to shew his zeal for his Majesty. Nevertheless, and though his genius dis- 
 poses him for the army, he has had no mark of his Majesty's favour, that should make 
 hiin approve of the step he has taken, or dispose him to risque every thing in defence 
 of the just sentiments he has entered into ; neither is he enabled, by any encourage- 
 ment given him, to invite other people, who are generally guided by expectation, to 
 follow his example, or to depend on him. This (if it is not wrong) I am sure your 
 Lordship \^all think is unfortunate, and that it ought as soon as possible to be set to 
 rights. It is of infinite consequence to the strength of the United Kingdom, as well as 
 to the security of his Majest)'s Government, that the enemies to both should have no 
 expectation from assistance in the Highlands of this part of the island ; and I am con- 
 fident, cherishing the good dispositions that now are, Mill banish with a little time all 
 apprehensions. 
 
 I am not certain, that by entering into an argument of this kind I do not go some- 
 what beyond my line ; but if I do, the King knows my presumption on former occasions 
 has led me to do so with himself ; and therefore I am confident he, should he hear of 
 it, will forgive me. And as my hand is in, I will venture to say more, by way of 
 asking a question or two. What can the Duke of Gordon, who is not so much as a 
 Lord or Deputy Lieu' in the county where his Highland force is, legally do ? What 
 influence can he have on the side of the Crown, when he cannot put arms in the hands 
 of his vassals (now disarmed) ? And what should hinder the putting him in the way 
 of following his natural bias, by giving him a regiment when there are so many in being, 
 and an authority such as we this day see for levying more. 
 
 My Lord, if the zeal which this letter shews for his Majesty's service make not my 
 excuse, I will offer none. Your Lordship mav make what use of it you think fit. . 
 I am, with perfect esteem. 
 
 Your Lordship's most faithful 
 
 Stoniehill, 7 '^d most obed' humble servant. 
 
 .1 
 
 1" March 1744.5 DUN. FORBES. 
 
 P. S. Tho' the consideration with which I have hitherto troubled your Lordship is 
 uppermost, yet I must confess I cannot be quiet untill I hear somewhat from your Lop 
 about the project concerning our revenues on which our maiiufactures depend. 
 
 No. CCCXCVL
 
 • 65 eriLODEM p.iPEuS. [addenda. 
 
 No. CCCXCVI. 
 
 The Marquis of Tweeddale to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, "Whitehall, 20*^ March 1 743-4. 
 
 I HAME been favoured with your Lordship's of the first current ; the receipt of 
 which I would have acknowledged sooner, but took it for granted that the contents of 
 the Letters I have lately wrote to the Justice Clerk & Solicitor were communicated to 
 vour Lordship. 
 
 I had the honour to read to His iMaiesr\- your Lordship's Letter ; who was very well 
 pleased with the account vou gave of the present state of the Highlands, and which I 
 had the sadsfactiou to find was perfectly agreeable to what I had before represented to 
 the King" as my o\ni opinion. 
 
 As to what vou mention about the Duke of Gordon, I entirely agree with you ; and 
 mv endeavours shall not be wanting to procure him soon some mark of His Majesty's 
 favor ; tho' some of the things your Lordship points at are not so easily to be accom- 
 plished as possibly is imagined. 
 
 No courier is yet arrived from Admiral Matthews. The French still continue the 
 embarf^o at Dimkirk ; and give out, that, notwithstanding of their late losses and dis- 
 appointments, thev are resolved to make a second and a more vigorous attempt ; but 
 since the Dutch troops are landed, I rather beUeve that they will thank no more of this, 
 whate\er they may think proper to attempt elsewhere. 
 
 I have transmined to Scotland by this post the Warrant from the Treasur}- to the 
 Barons of Exchequer for pacing the sum of ^2,770 : 4 : 35, the surplus of the malt 
 dutv to Midsummer 1738, to the trustees of the fisheries and manufectures ; which 
 I hope will be of more real service for their encouragement, than some schemes that 
 have been latelv pushed with more zeal than knowledge. 
 
 I am, ^\^th great truth and regard. 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, 
 
 TVTEEDDALE. 
 
 Xo. CCCXCVIL 
 
 The Lord President to the Marquis of Tweeddale. 
 
 My Lord, 31" March i -44. 
 
 I OL^GHl' sooner to have acknowledged the receit of vour Lop's of the 2o'"^ ins', 
 and to have retiuned you thanks, in the name of this poor country as well as in my own, 
 for the trouble vou have taken in procuring the War' for the surplus of the malt ; 
 a favour which I looked upon as not verv easy to be obtained, and which comes 
 exceeding seasonably, because, without it, I do not know what we should have done. 
 But I cannot omit putting vour Lop in mind of what you already full well know, that 
 this remedy is palliating onlv ; it saves us from destrucdon one year, and unless the 
 evil — I mean the disease — that affects the revenue is removed, we shall be the next 
 year just where we were the last — and I do this the rather, that the care your Lop has 
 already taken of the manufactiu-es, is to me an earnest that you will leave nothing 
 uutryed that may support them. 
 
 I am
 
 ADDENDA.] CULLODEV PAPERS. 369 
 
 I am glad the opinion I presumed to give, of the present situation and disposition of 
 the Highlands, is agreeable to your Lop's, and has been confirmed by all the observa- 
 tions that I have hitherto been able to make on the behaviour of the persons most liable 
 to suspicion, on ace' of their own fornicr, and of their ancestors' sentiments ; and 1 
 heartily wish, that as this critical juncture has brought the condition of that part of the 
 country under consideration, it may be duly weighed, and proper measures may be 
 fallen upon to improve the disposition that now is, so as to prevent future apprehen- 
 sione. I am far from thinking this impossible ; nay, I am sanguine enough to imagine, 
 that the Highlanders, at a very small expence, may be brought not only to be harmless, 
 but to be useful. 
 
 As the weather has remitted pretty much of its rigour, I think in a week or two to 
 take a trip northward, whither my little affairs call me. If any thing worthy of your 
 Lop's notice occur, you shall hear from me ; or if your Lop has any commands for 
 that part of the world, I shall receive them with pleasure. 
 
 I am, with perfect esteem, 
 
 Stoneyhill, 1 ^ IVL L. Y' Lop's M. O. & M. h. S. 
 
 .} 
 
 31 March 1744. 
 
 No. CCCXCVIII. 
 
 Sir John Cope to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Clarges Street, 16* Oct' 1744, 
 
 I HAVE the honour of your Lordship's letter of the 22'' Sept'. The inactivity of 
 the British troops in Flanders is universally beheved to be owing to the contrivances of 
 Duke d'Aremburg. A battle proposed, he was for a seige ; a seige mentioned, he 
 raised difficulties ; and the opportunity lost, he was for a battle. I cannot doubt the 
 truth of this, as it comes from every party (if parties there are) in our British army. 
 M' Wade, Honeywood, and Campbell, are coming home. Ligonier commands during 
 the winter ; it is difficult to guess who will have that charge in the spring. M' Wade 
 wore out in body and mind ; Lord Orford having accepted a pension of ^£"4,000 per 
 annum this year causes great murmuring, which, and the inactivity of the last cam- 
 paign, will make that at Westminster sufficiently active. The great men draw together 
 for mutual safety. No other account of the battle in Italy but from France. We still 
 hope Coni is safe. The King of Sardinia acts a noble and steady part ; the first mail 
 will probably bring us an account of a battle bet^veen the King of Prussia and Prince 
 Charles ; I really wish success to the latter for the good of the common cause. People 
 begin to allow, that the King of Prussia has parts and spirit ; his prudence not great in 
 plaving so deep a game. The Dutch go on as they did, and so do we, by sea and land. 
 Balchen, in the Victory, supposed to be lost. I'll say nothing of the Mediterranean. 
 Lord Harrington has charged me with his compliments and thanks to your Lordship for 
 civility shewed me in Scotland ; he is in universal esteem with mankind, well with both 
 courts, consulted by all ; and the moderate and blessed peace-maker, where temper is 
 wanting, and ambition causes disagreements. Two Lord Presidents in this isle, without 
 a precedent. 
 
 I think it likely that another attempt may be made in the spring, towards an alarm at 
 least, which they may think will cause our sending for some troops home from Flanders ; 
 probably I shall see your Lordship sooner than I did last year. I have great reason to 
 speak of Scotland with satisfaction and gratitude. And, from the civilities I met with, I 
 
 X 11 flatter
 
 --0 ■ ctxtotiEy ^Ajpers. rAbbiNbA* 
 
 flatter mrself thatmy behaviour hitherto has given no offence ; it vrill "be my study to 
 conduct mvself so as not to deserve an alteration to the kindness shewed me. If your 
 Lordp has any commands for me, I shall take it as a favour to have an opportunity of 
 pa^^n'^, bv degrees, tliat debt I owe of ci^dlities, by my utmost endeavours for your 
 ser\'ice. 
 
 I am, with great respect and truth, 
 My Lord, 
 Your most obedient & obliged humble ser\-ant, 
 
 .-: jxo. COPE. 
 
 Xo. CCCXCIX. 
 
 Sir John Cope to the Lord President. 
 
 Viv Lord, Edmb' I3'-'' Aug* 1745, at nighty 
 
 I HAD last night a letter from the Duke of Argyll. I hope there is a sloop of 
 16 guns, and another of 12, by this time gone from Greenock to the northwest coast, 
 to visit that one ship, if there is no more, or get true intelligence of what there is. As 
 yet, the acc^' v3.t\ so much, we can't tell where the storm is most likely to break out 
 first. I have reinforced Fort William bv Inveraw's Comp- , as well as others march- 
 ing thither. The troops we can spare from this capital encamp this day at Perth & 
 Stirling^ Bread and biscuit will be verv soon ready : we shall then be able to march at 
 an hour's warning. . I dare say, by the information I shall send to the Duke of Argyll, 
 he \vill immediately repair hither, where I want ad\dce and assistance extreamly. I am 
 glad vour Lordp is in the North, where your known military abilities, & great weight 
 and influence over all mankind, will be of more public service than any other man ; as 
 I know. I hope the arriis, &:c. have got safe to Inverness, and that your Lordp ■will give 
 directions for the employing of them as you see best for the King's service at thJs critical 
 juncture. The intelligence received from Inverness y' Lordp is acquainted with ; that 
 from the northwest tallies pretty much v,ith it ; so that, upon the w hole, we may con- 
 ■clude the design is deeply laid, and will be try'd. Whatever your Lordp approves of 
 in your parts, I dare say the military- persons there wiU make no dispute in comph-ing with. 
 I am ready to join the troops myself at an hour's warning ; but -wish much to see the 
 Duke of Argyll before I set out, who I think by this time must be upon the road hither. 
 
 I hope you will be able to form a body from Lord Loudo"»Ti's recruiters, which you 
 •will employ as the emergency requires. 
 
 1 am, my Lord, 
 
 Your most obed' humble ser\-', 
 
 JXO. COPE. 
 
 P. S. Hearsay from Perth tells, that the Duke of Perth was seen Thursday last near 
 Grief in disguise ; &; that Aberkarny is gone to the lile of Sky^ 
 
 No. CCCC. 
 
 The Lord President to the Duke of Gordon. 
 
 ■My Lord, Culloden, 14''' August 1 74 j, 
 
 YESTERDAY I arrived at this place from Edin' ; & as my Lord Lyon, who 
 
 came hither to-day, acquaints me, that you have had severall rumors stirring with you 
 
 about the landing of the Pretender's eldest Son on ciie west coast. Si. that your Grace is 
 
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 ADDENDA.] Ct/LLODEM PAPERS. 37 1 
 
 justly desirous to know what we in this country have learn'd on the subject, to the end 
 you may take the most proper measures for the preservation ot the peace of the coun- 
 try ; I have presumed to send you this note, to let you know, from the various-reports 
 we have had, what to me appears the most probable. 
 
 I take it to be certain, that 12 or 14 days ago, that young Gentleman landed on the 
 coast of Arisaig, belonging to the Cap'" of Clanranald, from ane armed vessel of war 
 of 18 guns, with 20 or 30 or 40 persons along with him. Some reports make the 
 number 300 ; but the most credible mention the number I first spoke of ; & if there 
 has been but one ship, which is commonly agreed to be the case, there could not 
 well be any more. Amongst these, the Marquis of TuUibarden Sc Old Lochiel are said 
 to be ; & they publish, that they expect a further force to follow them ; which again 
 has not the most probable air ; as, beginning in that corner, unless the country was 
 universall to favour them, would seem to be beginning at the wrong end. Those 
 persons have hitherto kcept themselves very quiet ; nor do I hear of any one who has 
 join'd them. Sir Alex' Mac Donald & Mac Leod, I am satisfy'd, will discourage any 
 such phrensy ; & I should hope that Glengary & Lochiel will not suffer themselves to be 
 seduced, tho' the rumors over this country insinuate the contrary. 1 have some 
 confidence in my old friend Glenbucket's prudence & temper, that, if he hear of the 
 thing, he will give Glengary good advice, to prevent his certain destruction ; & I doubt 
 not he will be ready to take it. The allarm which this attempt has already given the 
 Government, will occasion the immediate march of a body of troops into the Highlands. 
 Two companys came to Blair the night I lay there, & these are to be follow'd by a 
 considerable body of foot & drag"', at the head of which Sir John Cope will put himself 
 if there shall be occasion. With this force, any insurrection that is likely to be at' 
 tempted will probably be suppress'd, & the adventurers obliged to leave the country ; 
 but as it is made in the King's absence, probably with intent to divert the attention of 
 the Government from the affairs on the Continent, & thereby to make some diversion 
 in favours of the ambitious views of France, it would, in my apprehension, be of great , 
 service to the publick, & could not fail of being exceedingly well taken at present, if 
 men of fortune & figure were to show their dislike to this attack (I may say) upon the 
 libertys. of Europe, as well as the libertys of this country, by putting themselves & their 
 followers in such a posture as should leave no hopes of success to those rash adventurers. 
 The Duke of Atholi has call'd the Gentlemen that depend on him together, & has 
 directed them to have some hundred of men listed, & ready to act at ane hour's warn- 
 ing when required ; and they have also directions to have the whole posse ready in case 
 of need. How far your Grace may not think it improper to make some such disposition, 
 I leave with yourself. This note my Lord Lyon has undertaken to forward to your 
 Grace by express. If any thing furder arrive, worthy of your Grace's being acquainted 
 with in heast, I shall have the honour to acquaint you with it in the same manner. I 
 am, with hearty wishes, <^c. 
 
 No. CCCCI. 
 
 The Lord President to Sir John Cope, K. B. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 AFTER what I wrote to you from Airdmore, of the 12"" at night, I should not 
 have given you the trouble of another letter so soon, were it not for the note I had from 
 Caulfield to-day by your orders, inclosing a copy of the Governor of Fort "Williams's 
 
 3, B 2 letter
 
 3/2 cvlloden: papers. [addekda. 
 
 letter of the 7'^ which talks of the arrival of several transports with a number of 
 troops on the west coast. It was his dutj- to give you notice of any intelligence that he 
 believed to be true ; & his ad\ace possibly mav be so. But it is my duty to acquaint 
 you, that, tho' I have heard rumors of that kind, I could not meet -nith any reason- 
 able authorit)' for them ; on the contran-, all the credible pieces of information I have 
 been able to pick up from the neighbourhood of the coast, where these troops are 
 supposed to be landed, of later date than the j", take no notice of any ship but one ; 
 or of any persons landing, but the few that came with that ship. Had there been 
 any such second landing, it is hx from being probable that it would not have made 
 noise enough amongst the well-wishers of that cause in this neighbourhood ; and I 
 think I could not well have fail'd to be inform'd of it, by such as I have already sent 
 for, &; conversed with, who are not a few. But as what I can say on the subject 
 amounts to little more than negative evidence, I dare not desire you to rely absolutely 
 on it. 
 
 When the return of the expresses which I have dispatched shall come to hand, I 
 shall be able to say with greater certainty. In the mean time, I thought it proper to let 
 you know that our apprehensions are not such as they were at Fort William on the y'*". 
 Tho' my present belief is, that there has been no second landing, yet I give ear to other 
 reports, which say that there is reason to fear that several of the ^lacdonalds of Clan- 
 ranald, & G lengarrj-, are convocating in arms ; & that the Camerons are also assem- 
 bling ; & that between them they are endeavouring, by threats, to force their neigh- 
 bours, the Grants of Glenmoristone & Urquart, to join them in arms. That Lochiell 
 should play the madman in this manner surprises me ; &: I have still some faint hopes it 
 is not true, tho' I have been by some well-wshers erf his informed that he has absconded 
 for some time, upon hearing that a warrant was out against him. I wish no such war- 
 rant had ever been granted. Yesterday my Lord Lyon, who came hither irpon hear- 
 ing the night before that I came home, acquainted me with the Duke of Gordon's great 
 desire of knowing what truth was in the various reports that were flving about, to the 
 end he might take the proper measures for shoviing his zeal for the Government : & I 
 by express acquainted him with the attempt upon the western coast, together with your 
 intended march vAih. the troops, & the resolutions which the Duke of Athole had taken^ 
 which I hope his grace will follow. 
 
 This day the Lord Lovat came to dine with me. He said, be had heard with uneasi- 
 ness the reports that were scattered abroad ; but that he look'd on the attempt as very 
 desperate ^ that tho' he thought himself but indifferently used lately, in taking his 
 company from him, yet his \^-ishes still being, as well as his interest led him, to support 
 the present Royal Family ; that he had lain absolutely still, & quiet, lest his stirring in 
 any sort might have been misrepresented or misconstructed ; & he said, his business vnxh 
 me was, to be advised what w as proper to be done on this occasion. I approved greatly 
 of his disposition, & ad\-ised him, untill the scene should open a little, to lay htmself 
 out to gain the most certain intelhgence he could come at, which the situation of his 
 clan will enable him to execute, & to prevent his kinsmen from being seduced by 
 their mad neighbours ; which he readily promised to do. 
 
 If what 1 have before mentioned is true, that the Highlanders, who have joined the 
 Adventurer from France are beginning to use threats to compel their neighbours to 
 join them, it will naturally occur to you that the immediate presence of the troops is 
 necessary. I am. Sir, ^c. 
 
 DLTN. FOEBES. 
 
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 P. S. This moment I have an express from the Isle of Skye, from the person whose 
 
 leiter I shewed you the morning I left Edin'. It is dated 1 1"' ins' ; it takes notice of no 
 
 second landing, & mentions only apprehensions that the Macdonalds of the family of 
 
 Clanranald, & Glengarry, are in hazard of playing the fool, as I have already hinted. 
 
 The bearer of that letter says, he heard nothing of any shipping or landing, except the 
 
 first. • . ' 
 
 «■ • 
 
 . , No. CCCCII. • 
 
 The Lord President to Sir John Cope, K. B. 
 
 Dear Sir, • • » • , • Culloden, 1 7'*" August 1 745. 
 
 THO' I have nothing v.-orth troubling you with since my last, which was from 
 hence the 15"" at night; yet, as the post goes from Inverness this day, I drop you this 
 note, that you may know I have not learned any thing with certainty since that time ; 
 except that Lord Fortrose has sent me a letter, which he had from Glenelg, dated the 
 1 2"" ; by which it appears, that there was no second debarkation, such as you heard of 
 from Fort William. 
 
 Upon the rumor that those who had got together in arms were resolved to compel! 
 their neighbours, by threats and force, to join them ; the Lord Lovat has dispatched 
 orders to such of his kindred as are nearest to those that are said to be in arms, to put 
 them on their guard against any such attempt. 
 
 You see. Sir, tho' I mention those precautions, I treat the thing, intended to be 
 obviated, only as a rumor ; because I have not hitherto had any certain information ; 
 the Messenger whom I dispatched to gain natelligence not having hitherto returned ; 
 and it is for that reason that I cannot at present, with any certainty, tell you what truth 
 there is in another report, that the Highlanders, w hom I mentioned in my last as 
 assembling inarms, are, on Monday next the 19''', to meet their young chief on the 
 west coast, near Arisaig ; and there and then to set up his standard, as they call it. 
 This report comes to me from several quarters ; and tho' I cannot assert it to be true, 
 yet I believe you will not think it improper to quicken your march, as if it were. The 
 sloop is arrived, and the arms are lodged in the Castle. I wish some more may with- 
 out loss of time be sent ; since, without them. Gentlemen, however zealous, can do 
 no more than talk for the Government, and not even that with confidence. I wish all 
 the letters I have wrote to you, which are three in number before this, may have come 
 safe to hand. 
 
 N. B. This and the two last went under cover to the D. of Athol. - . 
 
 No. ccccm. 
 
 M' M'Pherson, of Cluny, to the Lord President. 
 
 Mv Lord, 
 
 I AM sorrie to acquaint your Lop that, much contrary to your expectation and' 
 inclination, it is now beyond all doubt, that the generality of the Highlanders to the 
 west of us are in arms, and forming themselves into a body, bet\vLxt Gleninven and the 
 head of Lochiel ; and I have this morning got intelligence, to crown all, that Keap- 
 poch, with his people, Thursday last intercepted three companies of the regular troops 
 (I me;m the three that march'd thorrow this country from the South lately) at High- 
 bridge, who, as I am told, immediately on the Highlaudsmen appearing on the Fort 
 
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 "VVilliam side of the bridge, turn'd directly back, in order to make Fort Augustus, 
 and were pursued by the rebells ; and ia their re-passing thorrow Achedroum, the 
 Glemrarrie men shew'd themselves in their way to Fort Augustus ; who sent the troops 
 message to surrender, wliich was refused, and at the same time the troops tir'd upon 
 the Glengarrie men, as is said ; who ail this while kept at such a distance, that the 
 fire did them no hurt, and the mihtary continued in that way, till they were run out 
 of armnunition. Upon which, the rebells fired upon them, and wounded one of their 
 officers, and kill'd three of the private men ; in consequence of which, the troops sur- 
 rendered, and were carried prisoners to Achnicarr}-. This is all I have to say that is 
 ■worth notice. TVe have had such deludges of rain here these few days past, and the 
 rivers and small bums were so impetuous, that it greatly stopt our connnunica- 
 tion. 
 
 It is generally believed, that the Highland annie will come in a body, in, upon the 
 braes of this country, tho' at the same time I have no good authority for this. I 
 leave it to your Lcp to judge what condition this coimtry will be in if that happens, as 
 you may believe there are severall amongst them that are not quite well affected to us 
 here, on accoimt of their not being allow'd these two years past to run on in their 
 ordinary practices. 
 
 I read your Lop's letter to Killihuntly in his own absence ; and it is certain that 
 Glenbucket pass'd thorrow this countr)- in his way to Glengarrie Wednesday last ; he 
 being seen and convers'd by severall of the countrymen in> his march that day ; and 
 Peter Gordon, some time the Duke of Gordon's baiiie and factor in this countn,', went 
 along vrith him,^ and he is not yet rettim'd. He commonly acted here as Bailie Deput ; 
 but we have at this time neither priiicipall or deput ; which is of very great loss to us, 
 especially just now when the troops are passing. Not a man by authority we have ia 
 Badenoch that can regulate carriages, &c. ; so that your Lop sees we are ill off in 
 different respects. Breakachie is not yet returned, which makes me believe he did not 
 find Lochiel at home ; but upon his arrival shall inform your Lop what further I am 
 acquainted of. 
 
 I am, w' great regard, 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lop's most obliged S: most obedient Serv*, 
 
 J. jMTHERSON. 
 Cluny, I S'^ August 1745. 
 
 P. S. — ^I have it just now connrm'd, that to-morrow is the dav that the pretended 
 King's standard is to be display'd, and he himself proclaimed, at Gleainveh. 
 
 No. CCCCIY. 
 
 M' !M'Pherson to Sir John Cope, K. B. 
 
 AT my. Lord President's desire, I have sent a Gentleman on a message to the 
 Land of Lochiel, with his and toy serious friendly adrice for making him \rithdraw 
 from the Pretender's Son's parde, who now begins to be formidable pretty closs in 
 this nighbourhood. All the answer I have is the inclos'd prints. 
 
 The reason, therefore, of my giveing your Excellency tlie trouble of this express 
 is, to show you that all the iniormatioa I have (and that from good auihorit)) is, 
 
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 ,ADDEN'DA.] CrLLODEN PAPERS. ^75 
 
 that this Gentleman (I mean the Pretender's Son) is this day in a place they call 
 Gleninven, not far from Fort William ; 1 believe w'in much less than a day's march of 
 it ; where he displays that which he calls the Royall Standard ; that most of all the 
 Highland Chieftains are there ; that they propose forthwith to niarch southward, imd 
 burn and slay in all such countries as will not immediately join them. If the forces 
 do not march towards them before they have time to become more formidable, it will 
 goe very hard with such as lie in their way, and particularly with this country of Ba- 
 denoch, against which the greatest threatenings are already. 
 
 All I have to say is, that I thought it incumbent on me to give your Excellency this 
 information, of which you'll make the use you shall judge most proper for his Ma- 
 jcstie's interest. I presume your Excellency has been already inform'd how a partie of 
 about an hundred men of the King's forces, that were to reinforce the garrison of Fort 
 William, were seized by a body of the Rebells on the sixteenth of this month, w" the 
 loss of three men of the forces, and one of the officers v/ounded. 
 
 I am, Sic. 
 
 ■ ' ■ '^- ■-■' '■ No. CCCCV. ■ " 
 
 M' M'Pherson of Cluny to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 
 
 BREAKACHIE is just now return'd, and the inclos'd prints is all the answer I 
 have from my friend. As he's now dip'd far enough, I find the fate of the Gentle- 
 man that publishes these papers (be what it will) he resolves will be his. In the mean 
 time, my Lord, I wish you wou'd take my case, and that of my poor country, to con- 
 sideration. Probably this army, more or less as it is, will march immediately south- 
 ward. This country, as you know, lies directly in their way ; and if the Government 
 does not forthwith protect us, they must either be burnt or join. I have this from un- 
 doubted authority, and there is no reason to doubt of it. At the same time I hear 
 that the King's forces are to incamp at Stirling ; that is a help £ir from us ; and what 
 to do, so as to save this poor country from immediate ruin, is a very great question 
 to me. All on Spey side have a great chance of running the same risque in this 
 country ; tho' it's very certain we must be the first sufferers. But, be it as it will, I 
 have nothing more for it, than to run this express for your advice ; and at the same 
 time to aske of you, that you may represent our situation to the Government, that they 
 may fall on means for our preservation. 
 
 Our case being so very bad, I may say w'in a day's march (of the invaders) to ruin ; 
 for my part, I cannot pretend to give advice in ane affair of so very great moment ; 
 • but I humblie beg leave to give my oppinion ; which is, that the King's troops shou'd 
 immediately march Northward, so as to intercept this body ; which I take to be the 
 only way not only to save a good part of the North from the impending danger, but to 
 crush this invasion and conjunction, which promises to be pretty formidable if not 
 prevented in the bud. My friend told Breakachie, that Sir Alex' M'Donald and 
 M Leod will be at displaying of what they call the Royall Standard this day ; and if so,, 
 that their men will join, will be depended upon. What this country, the rest of Spey 
 side, or even more countries in this North of the kingdom, may do when force is at 
 their doors, I leave your Lop to judge, as force has often made people to commits 
 that which was no choice ; but, to save them from a necessity that may be fatall, I 
 heartily wish the Government did in time, for their own good and ours, look to our 
 
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 • -6 CriLODES' PAPERS. LADDE?:DA. 
 
 and the ccrrunon safety. In a word, it is hard to judge what burning, starving, and 
 kiilinc, inav determine a defenceless people to do for their immediate safetA*. All this 
 (and worse, if worse can be) is dayly threatened, in the event of not joining w"out com- 
 pulsion. Our next nighboilrs, whom you'll find out w'out naming them, had, if I had 
 not been in the countr\' with the few of mv company, brought all that lives here of 
 such as they call their namesakes or followers w'- them. But by my being at home, 
 thev are vet mostly disappointed, tho' a few fellows have stoU away. I have writt to 
 Generall Cope, per express of this date, a coppie whereof your Lop has inclosed. I 
 still am, with great truth and sinceret)-, 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lop's most obliged <5c most faithful SerA'ant, 
 
 . - . r MTHERSON. 
 
 Cluny, 19*^ August 1745, 
 6 in the afternoon. 
 
 ' Xo. CCCCYI. " - 
 
 The Lord President to Sir Alex' Macdonald. 
 
 My dear Knight, CuUoden, 19''' August 1745. 
 
 I HA\"E your*s of the 1 1"" from Talisker *. As you know the alfection I have 
 
 ■ for you and the Laird, you will not at all doubt that your conduct and resolution 
 give me verv' great satisfaction. "What you suspected of Lochiel is, I am afraid, too 
 true. I have had no return of the message I caused to be sent him from Badenoch ; 
 and his people and Glengarry's have already begun the horse-play, by attacking, and, 
 as is said, making prisoners, the two additional companies of Sinclair's that were 
 marching from Fort Augustus to Fort William. The truth and particulars of this 
 transaction you will know better from other hands in the course of the post, than I, 
 who know nothing but by report, can inform you. This success, supposing it to be 
 true, I am afraid will elevate too much, and be the occasion of farther folly. Two 
 companies of the Roval made prisoners, soimds pretr\- well, and will surely be passed, 
 for a notable achievement ; but when it is considered that these companies were not 
 half compleat ; that they were lads picked up last season in the Low Coimtry, without 
 any thing of the Royal but the name, and that their officers were raw, the achieve- 
 ment is not by any means so important. Lord Lovat was with me here last Thursday, 
 and has by the bad weather been detained at Inverness till this day. He has declared 
 to me his full purpose to be prudent and follow your example ; and I verily beheve 
 him ; but as he, doubtless, vnll write you bv the bearer, I need say no more about 
 him. Lord Seaforth was with me on Saturday ; and he also declares, in verj' strong 
 terms, his resolution to prevent the spreading of the infection as much as he can. Want 
 of arms is the general complaint : loco stand are arrived at the castle of Inverness ; 
 and I suppose, on remonstrance made, more will soon be sent. The Duke of Gor- 
 don last Thursday set out from Gordon Castle for Edinburgh ; I presume, to ask for 
 directions and orders : this I learn from the Duchess, who is at home, and, upon 
 
 ' hearing of my arrival here, acquainted me with it- I am also told, that Sir James 
 Grant is to leave Strathspey this day, in his way to Edinburgh, and so to London ; 
 and the young Laird is to protect the coimtry. I am heartily glad to hear of the wise 
 
 • TaKjker, a place in Skye. 
 
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 resolution of my friend Coll. The kindred will by his advice, I am confident, remain 
 quiet ; and will be apt to consider their Chief, now at London, as an hostage for their 
 good behaviour. Of news from the South I can tell you little more than Willie Muir 
 can inform you of : a regiment of foot lay encamped at Perth on Thursday. 
 
 The dragoons, with a small field train, were going about by Stirling ; and Sir John 
 Cope had set out from Edinburgh on Wednesday to lead them Northwards. If the 
 post, which is expected to-day, fetches any thing to me worth your knowing, I shall 
 send it in a note to the Laird ; if not, he must be contented with this ; since writing to 
 one, is the same thing as writing to both of you. My compliments to Lady Margaret. 
 
 I am, my dear Knight, 
 
 Most faithfully your's, 
 X.: ,.■: ,;■.. -v ..-. DUNCAN FORBES. 
 
 ' •■ ^ ^' Ko. CCCCVII. 
 
 Lord President to Sir John Cope. 
 
 Dear Sir, Culloden, August 20'" 1745. 
 
 I HAVE the honour of your's of the 1 3'\ and wait with impatience to hear from 
 you. My last to you was on the 1 7"", by the Inverness post, whom I directed to be 
 escorted through Drumnauchter by some of Clunie's people. The three former letters, 
 I am confident, you have received. The officer of Fort Augustus has, doubtles.^, 
 acquainted you with the report which we had from then'ce, and which is believed over 
 all this country, that Sinclair's two additional companies were made prisoners in their 
 way to Fort William, which puts me in pain for Inverraw and his company, lest they 
 may have had the same fate. It is now past a doubt, that all the Highlanders whom 
 I mentioned in mine of the 1 5"" are in arms, attending their Chief in the Highlands. 
 The most credible report I have heard is, what I wrote you in my last, that they were to 
 assemble as yesterday upon the confines of Suinard, and march from thence towards Fort 
 William. What success they are to expect there I cannot imagine ; but as they now 
 have drawn the sword, it is likely that they will fling away the scabbard, and that they 
 will not be long idle. What their force may be I cannot tell. The force of the Clans 
 that are said to have joined is above 2,000, if they are compleatly assembled ; and from 
 all the accounts I have had, I believe no other Chief has joined them ; though it is 
 possible they may have picked up here & there some zealous individuals, to what num- 
 ber one cannot guess. It is impossible with any certainty to conjecture what course they 
 are next to steer. It must, however, be either towards you or towards this country ; and 
 if they go southward, their view must be to pick up some addition to their strength in 
 Athol, Breadalbane, and the skirts of Argyleshire ; and it will easily occur to yourself 
 and to the Duke of Argyle, if he is with you, of what consequence it is to prevent that 
 design ; and I should think it no difficult matter for those noble Lords, supported by 
 the troops, to effect it. If they come this way, their intent must be, by threats, to 
 give countenance to the defection of some of the followers of those Chiefs who are 
 disposed to support the Government. Should that be the case, Lord Lovat, Fortrose, 
 and others, weil disposed in this neighbourhood, will be under considerable difficulties, 
 as their men are not armed ; and after resernng m hat is sufficient to arm that part of 
 the Earl of Loudon's regiment which is to be formed at Inverness, the remainder to be 
 divided will make an inconsiderable figure ; and the occasion for sending more arms 
 here is obvious. Lord Portrose was \vith me Saturday last ; he has sent orders for all 
 
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 his people on the main land to meet him, to act in defence of the Government. Lord 
 Lovat, whom I saw yesterday, assures me he has done the like. I have dispatches from 
 Sir Alexander Macdonald and Macleod, from the Isle of Skye, assuring me that thev 
 have etiectually prevented the invaders from having the assistance of so much as one 
 man from the estates depending upon them. In these circumstances, it is vers* unlucky 
 that, for want of arms, and a proper authority-, a handful of men should be able to 
 lord it over the whole country, which I am afraid wll be the case, should thev direct 
 their march this way. The recruits for Earl Loudon's regiment come in slowly ; as 
 they must come from distant regions. Should the Highlanders direct their march 
 southward. Lord Loudon's men mav be soon in condition to do some service, as they 
 receive arms when they arrive ; but should the rebells turn their whole force this way. 
 Lord Loudon can do nothing but retire before tliem, as the town of Inverness is not 
 defensible. 
 
 As numbers of loose Highlanders have infested the road from Badenoch to Athol, 
 and have almost entirely blockaded up the road from Fort Augustus southwards, I have 
 adnsed Captain Macpherson, of Clunie, to remain, with as many of his company as he 
 has listed, in Badenoch, to keep, if possible, the commuaicauon with Blair open from 
 those freebooters ; and to escort the passengers and expresses that may be sent, as well 
 as to gain intelligence. Last Fridav morning the Duke of Gordon set out for Edin- 
 burgh ; I presume, to receive directions ; and I am told that Sir James Grant was to 
 have set out yesterdav for Edinburgh in his way to London, leaA-ing his son, the young 
 Laird of Grant, to take care of the countrv. It would have been good for the service 
 that the Laird of Mackintosh had been in the country, could he have been spared from 
 where he is. Whenever the gentlemen in arms draw nigher either to you or to us, the 
 conveyance and intelligence will become the more difficult : perhaps even this may not 
 reach you. 
 
 I am, ?cc. 
 
 DL^'. FORBES. 
 
 Xo. CCCCVllI. 
 
 The Lord President to the Duke of Atholl. 
 
 Culloden, 2 c'-'' August 1745, 4 o'clock afternoon, 
 THE Inverness post deUvered me yesterday your Grace's of the 17'°. I' me sorry 
 I hear nothing of the troops being advanced further than Perth. Yesterday, our reports 
 from all quarters sry, a gen" assembly of all the gentlemen in arms was to be held at 
 Gleninven, near Lochiell. What their resolution has been, God knows. To the 
 northward. Sir Alex' Mac Donald & Mac Leod have prevented any junction from their 
 dependants. Lords Fortrose & Lovat declare, that they are to support the Govern- 
 ment ; & the young Laird of Grant (whose father is gone or going for London) speaks 
 the same language ; but should the Highlanders, who are compleatly arm'd, turn their 
 force this way whilst we are unarm'd, I do not know what mav happen ; on the other 
 hand, should they turn their face soudiward, I should hope there is, or soon will be, 
 such ane imderstanding benveen your Grace, the Duke of Arg)-le, 8c Lord Braidalbine, 
 supported by the troops, as shall secure you from all apprehension. Which of us 
 soever they approach, the communication vrHl be prett)- much intercepted, ^ the intelli- 
 gence between cut off, unless your Grace give directions to have pardes in Drumnactor 
 
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 & Menigay, to clear the hill from loose fellows ; as, on the other hand, I have directed 
 Cluny to escort this, k to have some of his lads alongst the hill for the same purpose,. 
 Some watchword should be contrived between them. The inclosed to Sir John Cope 
 your Grace will forward. I shall expect to hear from you by the messenger that 
 carries this. 
 
 I am, Sec. 
 
 No. CCCCIX. 
 
 The Lord President to Clunie. 
 
 Dear Sir, Culloden, 20 Aug', 4 o'clock, afternoon. 
 
 I HAVE yours of the i S"" by the Ins post, & am sensible your situation at present 
 is difficult ; as the hills must be fill'd with abundance of loose people. What you have 
 to do, as it appears to me, is, to keep the best look, out you can towards the Corryyarig, 
 & the braes of the country, in which your country guide will be of use to you ; & also 
 towards Drumnacher & Menigay, that you may have intelligence & give notice what's 
 a doing in your neighbourhood. I have acquainted Sir J. Cope that I have desired you 
 to remain where you are with the men you have listed for the reg', in order to preserve, 
 so far as is possible, the communication with Blair ; to give guards for expresses, & to 
 observe the motions of your neighbours. You will therefore forward with care the 
 letter which I have sent to J. Mac Pherson for the D. of Atholl, incloseing one to Sir 
 John Cope. You will direct the Messenger to be sent with it to go by Drumnachtor, 
 Menigay, or Searsich, as you shall judge safest, & give him sufficient escort ; because 
 intercepting my letters may be of bad consequences. Should the unhappy gentlemen 
 who are in arms march towards you in numbers that you cannot resist, your own dis- 
 cretion will direct you to retire before them, takeing alongst with you all the able 
 bodied men, that you may make the best use of them you can upon occasion. 
 
 It is to be hoped that, howsoever zealous they may be, they will do no unnecessary- 
 mischief to the effects of their friends & relations that are left behind ; & if they should, 
 that will raise a just claim for making good of damages. I intreat that you will let me 
 know, day by day, what your people observe, however small consequence it may be of. 
 I am prodigiously concerji'd for the folly of our friend Lochiell ; and I am, &c. 
 
 No. CCCCX. 
 
 The Lord President to John Mac Pherson. 
 
 Honest John, Culloden, 20'^ Ag", 4 o'clock afternoon. 
 
 I HAD your's of yesterday's date firom Dunachton this morning. In my appre- 
 hension, you are too soon allarm'd. I dare say there are no forces at all landed ; tho* 
 such reports must be spread to encourage on the one side, and discourage on the other. 
 The officer of the barrack surely will not be so mad as to quit it, to secure himself & his 
 stores anywhere else, without ane express order from the gen". He may, I dare say, 
 remain long enough safe where he is ; & it is time enough to think of giveing it up, 
 when he has made the best defence he can. The inclosed for the D. of Atholl must be 
 forwarded to Blair wth all the precaution possible, & by a fresh express ; as Clunie, 
 
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 ■*So CULLODEX PAPERS. [ADDENDA. 
 
 \rho vnll send a f^tiard, shall think most fitting. Let him have carefully the letter 
 directed for himself, Sc let me have his answer as quick as possible. You are in the 
 right not to grudge expresses, which I shall pay for. In the mean time, I have givea 
 to this bearer, as I did to the former, half a crowTi only to drink. 
 
 I am, See. 
 
 No. CCCCXI. 
 
 The Lord President to the Earl of Stair. 
 
 Same date. 
 My Lord, 
 
 UPON the receiveing the Commissi* for the Independent Comp-" the ij"" in', 
 I wrote to the jSIsu-. of Tweeddale a letter of the same size with this, which I hope is 
 come safe to hand, because I know it reach'd x\bd^, &; was dispatch'd by sea after 
 Sir J. Cope. I did not then write to vour Lop, trusting you would see mine to my 
 L^ Marq. &: avoided carefully the multiplying letters, which run a considerable risque 
 of being seiz'd, even as this does ; for since Sir J. Cope left us, Glenbucket, vnth a 
 few Highlanders, takeing the advantage of the D. of Gordon's state of health, which is at 
 present bad, is in the neighbourhood of Strathbogie, & alongst Divemside, busy trjing 
 to lene men for the Pretender's service, 8c prowling about to intercept all intelli- 
 gence. His success, according to the best of my information, is but indifferent, as to 
 his recruiting. No gentleman of any consideration has as yet join'd him ; & his money 
 has nm so scarce, that he is leviein^ a guinea upon the plough of land ; but the 
 diiligence of his adherents is such, that most letters are intercepted. I mention this as 
 the cause why I wrote not formerly, 8c why I write in this small volume, & with a 
 further intent, that vour Lop mav press what I have of this date Sc formerly recom- 
 mended to mv L° ^lar. that some small clever slocp be sent to keep the correspondence 
 open. 
 
 I cannot as vet take upon me to acquaint your Lop, with any certaint}-, what effect 
 the Commissions sent to me will have ; tho' I am sanguine enough to hope tor good 
 ones. Yoiur Lcp may be very sure I will make use of ail the discretion I am master of, 
 in the disposition of them ; & it is mv present expectation, I shall get a considerable 
 body of people that may be trusted together, under the favour of them, so soon as 
 arms, & money, or credit, come ; without which they cannot be made use of. But, 
 for want of room, I refer your Lop for this to what I have now & formerly wrote to the 
 Mar. Each Comp-', so far as I find it necessary to give out Commis°% I propose shall 
 at present consist of i oo. The Commiss'^ to be given to such as can bring those numbers 
 together immeuia*^ely. 
 
 As to the state of this country, in short, for the paper will not admitt of much 
 writeing, the rebells have not had, so far as I know, 20 men dependent of S" A. McDonald, 
 Mac Leod, L'' Fortrose, L'* Cromert}-, L'^ Sutherland, L"^ Reay, Grant, L"* Lovat, 
 Macintosh, or Chisholm, to join them. I need not mention the Monro's, whose signall 
 service Sir J. C-ope has doubtless acquainted the Administration with. That drawback 
 has doubtless been ane important disappointment of the expectations that were enter- 
 tained by the rebells ; and if in this conjuncturej when the most restless zeal on the 
 
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 side of the Jacobites exerts itself, things can be kept in this part of the world in the same 
 condition in which they are, I flatter myself your Lop will not think the Commis'", at 
 least so many of them as I shall dispose of, ill bestow'd ; but I am hopefidl they may 
 have still better elfects, provided our correspondence can be kept open in the manner I 
 have mention'd, & that we can speedily be supply'd with arms & money. Your Lop 
 easily will perceive, that literally I have not room for particulars, & therfor I shall only 
 add, thai 1 am most faithfully yours, &c. 
 
 No. CCCCXII. ' ' ;- -ri 
 
 The Lord President to Sir J. Cope. Same Date. 
 D' Sir, 
 
 I HOPE this will find you safe in the latitude of Ed' ; & that mine of the 1 2"' & 
 13"', which foUow'd you by sea, have been deliver'd you. What I now write goes in 
 company with one of the same size to the Mar. of Tv\ eedale, & ane other to L"" Stair,, 
 pressing the establishing a correspondence betwixt you & this country by sea, &: fur- 
 nishing money & crediie to make the independant comp'' efFectuall, as I hope you will 
 dispatch arms to us. As to our state, it is the same in this neighbourhood as wh^^n you 
 left it ; & to keep it even, costs me no small trouble. Glenbucket is levieing, but 
 without the desired success, troops in the shire of Bamf & skirts of Aberdeenshire. 
 His force is not as yet said to exceed 300 ; & money is become so scarce, that he levys 
 it by force. He pretended to stop Culcairn & the Munro's at Bamf; & gave it out, 
 that he was to disarm them ; but upon the Munro's advancing to that town, he thought 
 proper to leave it three hours before their arrivall ; & they pass'd by this house to-day, 
 in their way homewards to their harvest in great spirits. 1 long to hear from you, &: am, 
 
 I)' Sir, 
 Faithfully yours, &c. 
 
 P. S. Since writeing what is above, I have received a letter from Sconsar, in the Isle oF 
 Sky, dated the 1 7"' 2 o'clock afternoon, in answer to one of mine sent by express. It 
 is from the same gentleman whose letters I show'd you att Ed' without allowing- you to 
 name him ; & bears in substance, that there was att that time no other ship^arived be- 
 sides the first ; that the young Invader had not with him above 25 persons, mostly Irish, 
 or descended of Irish ; that none of these ever was above the rank of a Lieut. CoH" ; 
 that there was no Scotsman of figure, except the D. of Atholl's brother ;, that they had 
 alongst with th.em 1600 stands of arms, which were said to be bad; that the ship, 
 which was of 18 guns, is gone north about ; that, by the care of Sir Alex' Mac Donald 
 & Mac Leod, no man has join'd them from that island ; that they both are ready to 
 arm their kinsmen to the number of 1500 or aooo, as the Gov shall require, for the 
 defence of it ; that they have between them hardly 200 guns & swords, &: these in very 
 bad order ; that, so arm'd, they at present cannot defend themselves if attack'd ; & 
 that if arms were sent them, which may easiely be done by sea, they will, on the first 
 authority from the Gov', make use of them. The letter adds, that the Invaders talk 
 confidently of ane invasion on the south-west part of England from Ferroll, & boast of 
 30,000 stand of arms, which are to be distributed to persons ready to receive them in 
 England ; but this the writer looks upon to be gasconadeing. Now, D' Sir, as tliis 
 
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 ktier is of the highest authority, with respect to the disposition of the two gentlemen 
 from whose iland it comes, & as I have reason to be perfectly satisfv'M they are in 
 earnest, you will not fail to give it due attentioru If the D. of Argyle is with you, vou 
 may show him what I write, 6c name to him the person from whom the letter comei 
 to me. 
 
 Xo. CCCCXIII. 
 
 The Lord President to Climie. 
 
 D' Sir, 20"-^ August 1 745, late at night. 
 
 I RECEIVED your's of the 19* late this evening; but about two hours befor 
 your messenger came, I dispatched ane express to John Mac Pherson with a letter to 
 you, which I hope will com.e safe to hand ; but lest it should loiter by the way, I 
 inclose a copy of it- The advice I there give is my sincere opinion ; paper bullets 
 {such as the printed Declaration, for the transmitting of which I thank you) do gene- 
 rally but small execution ; & I should hope prudence, as well as humanity, -v^-ill prevent 
 those necessary severities, v hich will tend, with men of resolution, only to exasperate. 
 Should steadvness to their duty bring any country under hardships, I trust, as in my 
 former letter I have mention'd, that ane indemnification for losses \\ill ensue. Tour 
 letter to the Gen" (whefof you sent me the copy) is exceeding right ; there is only one 
 thing which I wish vou had not express'd so strong ; & that is, when you say, that 
 most of all the Highland chiftains are with the young Invader. For, contrarj- to what 
 vou have been informed of concerning Sir Alex' M' Donald & Mac Leod, I do assure 
 you, that they are both in the same disposition that you & I are ; that thev have abso- 
 lutelv refused to join, & have prevented the stirring of ev'ry man of their dependants ; 
 & mv authoritv for saving so is no less than letters under the hands of both ; the last 
 of which 1 received this day about one o'clock ; it is dated the 17'- instant, 2 o'clock 
 afternoon, & written by M'^ Leod in answer to one that I sent him by express from this 
 place after mv arivall. I mention this to you for your private satisfaction, that you may 
 not be imposed on by reports which \rill be purposely raised to intimidate some &: 
 delude others ; but I would not have their correspondence with me spoken of, except 
 to friends, because it is unnecessary it should vet be publick. If they had any expecta- 
 tions of your freind Lovat, they are vastly mistaken ; & Seafort acquaints me, he has 
 order'd a randivous of his people. Corrununication is open by a sloop, & there must be 
 some coin to begin with. As to Sir J. Cope's conduct, I think in my conscience he 
 acled wisely, Sc for his Majestie's service, in not attempting the Corrsarig, where want 
 of success might have such terrible consequences to the publick ; 8c without knowing 
 the state of his orders, & the state of his provisions, I cannot say he ought to remain 
 in Dalwhiny. The appointing L' Lieuts. I think would, as things now are, be too 
 laje. This is a strange scrawl, to be justify'd only by necessitv-. 
 
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 No. CCCCXIV. 
 
 The Lord President to Sir John Cope. 
 
 D' Sir, 2 1 August, 7 at night. 
 
 THIS goes by William Chisholm, a surgeon's mate to Coll" Lee's reg', who has 
 been in this country for st^me time by leave ; & is now, by Coll" Halket's order, to 
 join the reg'. His father is a good freind of mine ; & as the young man is deserveing, 
 I shall take the liberty, on a proper occasion, to recommend him to your favour. In 
 mine of yesterday's date, I acquainted you that the D. of Gordon had set out for Ed' 
 last Thursday. I have since learn'd that he went no further than Haddo-house, & has 
 return'd to Gordon Castle. I have heard nothing from him : when I do, you shall 
 know. By a letter from Mr. Mac Donald, of Lochgerry, of yesterday's date, which 
 I saw to-day, it is assured, that Glengarry, who had not at all join'd the gentlemen in 
 arms, was to set out as that day for Blair, to put himself into the hands of the D. of 
 Atholl ; & by a letter just now received, I am inform'd, that the Duke of Atholl, dis- 
 pairing of support from the troops, who he was inform'd had orders to retire from Perth 
 to Stirhne, had set out for Ed' to meet you &: the D. of Argyll. If this shall prove to" 
 be so, the fruit of fetching G'.engary to Blair may be lost. When it is known here, it 
 will be attended with considerable discouragement ; & the communication by Blair, 
 should the Highlanders advance that way, will be entirely cut off. In this situation, 
 I will be much at a loss what to advise the people of this country to do ; & the more so, 
 as I have heard nothing from you since the i ^'^. If my dispatch to you, of yesterday's 
 date, come safe to hand, as I trust it will, I hope you will consult with the Dukes of 
 Argyll & Atholl about the contents of it, 6i contrive some mean to let me know what 
 we are to expect. Once more I presume to mention the necessity there is of sending 
 more arms, if you would have any thing done in this country. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 
 No. CCCCXV. 
 
 Sir John Cope to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Trinifuir, 24"" Aug' 1745. 
 
 I HAVE just now rec"* your letter of the 20'*' August. 
 The great quantity of provision, ammunition, &c artillerv, I have along with me has 
 made it impossible for me to make stronger marches than I have done, without leaving 
 men or provisions behind me, I have been marching from five o'clock this morning, 
 & fear, from the horses being very weak, the provisions for the men will not arrive rill 
 ten or eleven at night ; so that whether I shall be able to march from hence, or not, 
 to-morrow I cannot yet determine. The men are well and in high spirits, & I doubt not 
 but I shall keep them so. I'll certainly write to y' Lordp from Del Whiimy ; & by that 
 time I shall be able to tell your Lordp when I shall get over the Coriaric. Your letter 
 pleases me very much. I make no doubt but we shall bring the imprudent gentlemen 
 who have engaged against us to repentence for their folly. x\. letter Lord Loudoun sent 
 to Cluny was intercepted last night ; it was of no great consequence, having reason to 
 believe that might happen. The attention I have for the preservation of the troops I 
 have with me takes up too much of my time to allow me to be particular. 'Tis true, 
 two of S' Clair's additional comp' are taken ill, I'm inform'd, upon the road. A man 
 
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 of vr3.r of ours lays before Fort William ; & rhey tell me here many from the enemy's 
 canip, who were forced away, left them. I wish your Lordship would let some body 
 write in my name (which I have not time to do myself) to the lords in the north in our 
 int ; that I am marching with a body of troops too formidable for the enemy to dare to 
 attack ; & we only wish they may give us an opportunity of attacking them ; that tho' 
 .those noblemen may not have their clans completely arm'd ; yet as they are numerous, 
 & probablvbv accident some of them may have arms, I hope they will be readv to joii 
 with me as shall be concerted amongst us. I am surprised to find an expression in vour 
 Lordp's letter, " The Duke of Argyll, if he be ■with you." I must conclude from 
 hence, that my letters are miscarried ; for I not only writ to your Lordp of mv intended 
 march, but Hkewise have writ since I set out. I have just now rec^ yours of the 21" & 
 2;^ ; & am more surpriz'd to find you think me still at Edin". 
 
 I hope all our friends in the north will think themselves safe under the protection of 
 our troops. I saw Glengary the father at Crief with the Duke of Athoi : 'tis said, none 
 of his followers are yet out, tho' there is some doubt of his youngest son ; the eldest 
 (as Glengary told me) is in France. Letters from your Lordp will find me upon my 
 march. I shall write to you when I can have time. 
 
 I am, my Lord, 
 Your most obed' humble Serv' 
 
 JNo COPE. 
 I march from hence to-morrow. 
 
 Xo. CCCCXVI. 
 
 The Lord President to Sir John Cope. 
 
 D' Sir, 24 August, 1 2 o'clock. 
 
 YOUR'S of the 18'" was deliver'd me last Thursday. I doubt the Duke & Earl 
 ■will find it more easy for them to bring their men to serve in the shape of militia, under 
 their own masters as officers, than by being incorporated -with the troops ; & somewhat 
 of that kind ought, undoubtedly, to be done. I hear that Cap^ Switenham, and the 
 officers of the two comp"^' of the Royall Reg% who were taken, have been treated with 
 abundance of dviUty. Cap"^" Switenham is released on his parole ; & Capt^" Scotf, who 
 •was wounded in the shoulder, is in like manner sent to Fort William to be taken care of. 
 I am told also, that the Highlanders assembled receive regular pay : it is ridiculous, that 
 those in this neighbourhood who are disposed to ser^-e the King cannot be supply'd in 
 the same manner. I need say no more about arms than vvhat I said in my last. I am 
 confident you will be inform'd, by the time this reaches you, of their numbers, as they 
 stood three days ago, by a person who knows it better than I do. They talk confidently 
 of their being soon to be join' d by greater numbers ; but as to that, I continue ane infidel ; 
 their destination I can as little guess at, as formerly w hen I wrote you. However scanty 
 our uitelligence is, theirs is plenty ; they lately have heard of troops haveing been march'd 
 back &om Perth to Sterline, & are in high spirits upon it. If you suspect that the cor- 
 respondence by Blair & Ruthven may be unsai'e, why may not messengers be sent by the 
 coastwav? This moment I have letters from the Isle of Sky, dated the 20"" 12 at 
 night. The tvvo chiefs of that countrj- have effectually prevented any junction from thence ; 
 they are dayly threaten'd : it's pit)' some sloop is not order'd to carry them arms. 
 
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 No.CCCCXVII. ■ ■ . .. 
 
 The Lord President to the Provost of Aberdeen. . . 
 
 My Lord Provost, 24 August 1745. 
 
 YOUR letter of the 21", desircing to be inform'd toutchhig the msurection in the 
 West Highlands, was this day deliver'd to me. What you say you have been inform'd 
 in relation to it is true. The eldest son of the Pretender landed about 3 weeks ago on 
 the coast of Arisaig, with a few gentlemen, not exceeding 30 in number, & some hun- 
 dreds of stands of arms, but wtout any troops : the Mac Donalds of Clanranald's 
 family, & Keppoch, & some of Glengarry's, together with the Camerons, have flock'd 
 in to him ; but I do not hear of any other kindred that have, or are disposed to join 
 him. Some of their loose people surprised the two new-rais'd comp'' of the Royalls, 
 as they were marching from Fort Augustus to Fort William ; &, as I presume, encou- 
 rage themselves pretty much on tliat score, tho' the atcheivement is not of so great 
 consequence, as the cop'' which had been lately draughted were not half completed, 
 & as they were composed mostly of raw lads. I l-oiow nothing of the destination of this 
 body that is now in the fields, which are not as yet at all in a condition to deal with the 
 troops whom they will soon meet if they march to the southward, & who must be, I 
 should think, discouraged, because none of the clans to the northward will dip in their 
 folly, but are, on the contrary, disposed to oppose them. As this disturbance is now 
 on foot, which I hope will soon be quell'd, the town of Aberdeen is surely much in the 
 right to be upon their guard, to take care by all proper means that the peace be pre- 
 served, & to discourage as much as possible fools from running upon certain ruin : the 
 means, you & the magistrates are much better able to judge of than I am at such a 
 distance. I am, my Lord Provost, to you & the town of Aberdeen a sincere well 
 wisher <?c most humble serv', &c. 
 
 No. CCCCXVIIT. 
 
 The IMarquis of Tweeddale to the Lord President. ■ - i 
 
 My Lord, Whitehall, 24 August 1745. 
 
 Since my last to your Lordship of the 17"* instant, there have been transmitted to 
 me, from Sir John Cope, and others of his Majesty's Servants in Scotland, several 
 pieces of intelligence so very extraordinary, that they did not gain the least credit with 
 me ; and yesterday I received a letter from Sir John Cope, with a copy of one from you 
 to him, dated from Colloden, the 1 q"', late at night, which confirms what little credit 
 ought to have beengi\'en to the various reports he had heard before that date. If Sir 
 John Cope shews your Lordship the letters I have wrote to him, since the first of this 
 alarm, you will, I hope, see that they all tend to one point ; viz' his marching imme- 
 diately with a body ot troops towards Fort Augustus, as the most effectual means to 
 deter the disaffected from assembling, and to prevent a set of loose and disorderly peo- 
 ple from threatening with ruin and destruction those of their neighbours who will not 
 concur with them in such desperate mad measures. 
 
 I am glad to find that Sir John Cope has at last begun his march ; for I must own in 
 confidence to your Lordship, that there appears to me to have been some unnecessary 
 delay in this matter. In my own opinion, 1 can have no notion but that Sir John, even 
 with the lew forces he has, keeping them iit a bcdy, and going directlv to the place 
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 pointed at, will be able to quell verj' soon any insurrections that have or may happen ; 
 especially as we have no reason as yet to think that they are Hke to be supported by any 
 debarkation of foreign trooj>s. 
 
 Your Lordship's said letter to him is written with so much good sense, and so agreable 
 to the character of the man who truly ■wishes well to his King and Country, that I hope 
 your Lordship will continue to give him your advice often ; and w^ I hope he will pay 
 a due regard to. I must likewise beg to hear frequently from you. 
 
 His Majest)' is expected here on Monday or Tuesday next ; when I shall not fail to 
 let him know of what use your presence in the north has been at this juncture. 
 
 I am, with very great regard. 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, 
 
 TWEEDDALE. 
 
 No. CCCCXIX. 
 
 ^r T. Mulloy to . 
 
 Dear Sir, Ruthven, inBadnock, August 25* 1745. 
 
 I SHOL^LD have sent you some Scotish occourances before now, but waited to 
 send vou matter of fact. Last night Cap' Swettenham came to this barrack, who was 
 prison' eight days in the pretended Prince Charles Regent his camp (as he stiles him- 
 self). The Cap' was taken about a fortnight agoe, goeing from this place to Fort Wil- 
 liam to command three companys of the Regim' which is in garrison there. He is 
 released upon his parole of honor, through the intercession of some Irish Gentlemen 
 who are along •with the Prince, and came from France vnih him ; particularly one Col. 
 O'Sulevan & Col' Kelly. The Capt° has a passport signed by the Prince : he is not to 
 act against the enemy, and is to return when required. I have read the passport. The 
 day after the Capt° was made pris', there was two Companvs of the Royall Scots and a 
 Serg' and 1 2 men of Guise's taken, and is now prison" in the Prince's camp ; they 
 were going to reinforce Fort William. I shall not trouble you with the particular dis- 
 tance of places which I shall, in the title of the rebellious clans, relate ; but refer 
 you to the map of Scotland ; but shall suffice that this barrack is not much above 26 
 miles distance (the near way) either from Fort WUliam, Fort Augustus, or Fort 
 George, where our regim"^ are at present in garrison 3 and not much farther from the 
 enemy's camp, from whom we expect a visit hourly. 
 
 The Prince landed in the northwest islands above a month agoe, in a small vessell 
 caring 1 8 guns. He was separated from a French man of war, who was to conduct him 
 with a number of men on board ; but fell in with the Lyon man of warr, as you had it 
 word for word in the publick papers, which gave his ship opportimity to make off. 
 At his first landing the Highlanders refused joyning him, and told him it was madness 
 to attempt, and would have him go off; but the Prince made answer, that he was often 
 these 3 years past in\-ited by them, and by others in England and Ireland, and that he 
 would not return until he had gained his point or loose his life in the attempt, and be 
 no longer a begar in France, or in any other Court ; which answer prevailed upon the 
 Highlanders to joyn him (as follows) : 
 
 1 ' Clan-Rannell with his clan ; Kinlogh Mooder & clan; Logheal Sc clan ; Capagh 
 and clan ; Glan-Garry^ and clan ; Glan Puckett k clan ; besides petty Lairds & their 
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 Last Monday the Prince's standard was sett up, and carryed by the old Duke of 
 Atholl, a man above seventy years old. Such loud huzzas and schiming of bonnetts 
 up into the air, appearing like a cloud, was not heard of, of a long time. Last Thurs- 
 day they drew up in their order, and the Prince re\'iewed them to the number of 
 1,500 ; which was the day the Capt. left them. No Gentleman could be better used 
 than he was when he got among the Gentlemen ; neither was there any thing that was 
 taken from him, but what v.as return'd, except his horse's saddle and sword ; and 
 the Prince had order'd a pair of horses to be given him in lieu of his own ; but that was 
 neglected. Gen' Cope is within two days march of this place, with four regim" of foot 
 and two of dragoons, with some artillery, in order to meet the enemy ; and the enemy 
 is preparing to meet him, and thretens high. The Lord only knows how it will end. 
 The enemy has neither foreign troops nor artillery, but about 1 8 pattararoes of one 
 pound each. They told the Capt. that they will be in England in a very little time, 
 where they are sure to meet with friends enough. There is none of those we call 
 loyalists here has joyned us yet ; they say they have no arms. God send they may prove 
 lovall. I have been called upon severall times since I begun to write this scraul, by 
 false allarms. This redoubt has no fortification nor defence, but a shallow wall, and 
 our small arms ; which hurry, 1 hope, will make excuse for the imperfection of 
 this lett'. 
 
 I recommend you and your family to God's care ; and I make no doubt of your ac- 
 customed goodness towards my people. I thank God I enjoy good health, and am in good 
 heart. There is no way of sending my wife relief of money as yet. I have lost most 
 of my things at Aberdeen. My sincere respects to your fire-side. D' S be pleased to 
 make my complem" to M' & M ' D'Anvers, to Alder" Rogers and M'' Rogers, to 
 Alder" Re\'ins j and be pleased to accept of the like from your most sincere humble 
 servant, TER. MULLOY. 
 
 No. CCCCXX. : 
 
 From M' Tho' Fraser, of Gortuleg, to Lord Lovat. 
 
 My dear Lord, 
 
 THIS goes by Tho' M'' Alister, or William, one of the Chelsea pensioners ; he 
 begs your Loj3's good offices uith Gen' Guest. I am sure nobody needs recommend 
 him to you. 
 
 I am still here, endeavouring to keep your Lop's people in order ; I am afraid the con- 
 tagion ',- ike to spread more than 1 at first imagined. The people from the wes tthreaten 
 all their neighbourhood with destruction, if they do not join. Menaces of this kind, 
 and other circumstances that I shall not trouble your Lop with at present, gives me my 
 handfuls ado to keep the people in order. 1 have seen Capt° Thomson, Lieut' Ferguson 
 and Rose, and five Serj" and two or three men of the Comp- " tiken prisoners last week. 
 They talk a good deal of the civilities they met with from the young Pretender ; they 
 were liberate upon their parole of honour, to return when summoned thereto. They 
 are discharged from touching at any fort or garrison, or conversing with any officers 
 belonging to the enemy, as they call them, untill they are at Edin". And while here, 
 they reiigicusly observed their engagement ; for they would not go near the fort, or 
 converse with any of the officers in it. They call the Highland camp upwards of 2,000 
 strong. I go this day to Strathherick if I can, to take care of some idle people there j 
 but a great deal will depend upon the civilities of the Highlanders, as we are left at 
 
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 their mercy. What the devil keeps Sir John Cope ? I shall have the hon' to write your 
 Lop how soon I have any thing to say ; and I expect to hear from your Lop how soon 
 vou receive your post letters ; and it is very necessary that your Lop write very strong 
 things, that I shall communicate to your Lop's people. 
 
 I ever am, &" 
 
 26'" Aug* 1745- 
 
 Xo. CCCCXXI. 
 
 ' . ■ • The Lord President to IMajor Grant. 
 
 My d' George, =6 Aug', 6 at night. 
 
 BY a dispatch, which I received tlais afternoon by Cap'" Stewart's man, from 8' 
 John Cope, dated at Trinifuir the 24"^ at night from his camp, he was to march next 
 morning in quest of the adventurers, who, I should hope, will not think fit to wait 
 for him. I am willing to believe, that the intelligence you sent me from Urquhart is 
 not precisely true. That fools might have join'd I doubt not ; but I flatter myself their 
 numbers are small ; & yet I shall give notice to Sir John of tlie rumor. In my opinion 
 you ought forthwith to acquaint your nephew with the lurivall of Sir John amongst us, 
 that he mav give the proper directions to hold his people in readiness to join him, & to 
 act by his directions, if there shall be occasion. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 
 ,, , Xo.CCCCXXIL 
 
 The Lord President to Sir John Cope. 
 D' Sir, 26 August. 
 
 YOUR dispatch from Trinifuir the 24'^ was this day dellver'd me at 2 afternoon. 
 I had none besides since the 1 8* ; so that if you wrote any other letters, they have mis- 
 carrv'd. Upon receipt of vours, I have dispatched messengers to L** Fortrose & L^ 
 Lovat, entreating they may have their people in readyness to answer occasions. I have 
 also wrote to Major Grant, Gover' of Fort George, that he will give notice to his 
 nephew, the voung Laird of Grant, to the same purpose ; & I have used the freedom 
 with the Laird of Macintosh's Kinsmen, in his absence, to ad\-ise them to hold them- 
 selves in readiness against the time they may have his directions : he, I understand, is with 
 you ; Sc he will give the proper orders, when you judge it necessar%-. Where this 
 letter may find you, I cannot exactly tell ; the messenger, however, has orders to put 
 it into your hands as carefully as he can. What numbers you are to meet with, I can- 
 not certainly know ; only report from their neighbourhood, which seldom is under the 
 truth, makes them no more thim 3,000 : in my apprehension they are not so many, 
 especially if Clanranald's men from the island of Uist, have not join'd them ; & I am 
 certain, by a letter from Mac Leod from Sky, dated the 22'' 1 2 at night, that they had 
 not sail'd from Uist at that time, & v%ere then unwilling to risque. Tho' you left old 
 Glengary behind you, I have strong suspitions, that the gross of his clan have joined 
 the other Highlanders ; & this day it is rumor'd, that Glenmoriston, who was quiet 
 Saturday morning, has also marcht to their assistance : that he has done so I hardly 
 believe, tho' its very possible that severall Mac Donalds and Camerons in his hands, 6c 
 in Urquhart's, may have been seduced ; & after ail, the numbers, with their addition,- 
 cannot be what they are called : what they give out is, that they are to wait for you on 
 the north side of the mountain over which the road of Corr)-arig leads, in a precipitous or 
 
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 boggy ground, where cavalry cannot act ; but if the bushes are weell beat, there can be 
 no surprise in day -light, 8c I have no notion that they will look the troops with artillery 
 in the face. I shall look for your further commands with impatience. L^ Loudoun's 
 compan' here were yesterday hardly 150. The distance of the places, where Mac 
 Leod's, Mac Kay's, & Sutherland's company* are rais'd, in the cause. ? . 
 
 I am, d' Sir, heartily yours. 
 
 Culloden, Monday, 26 August, 
 ■ 7 at night. 
 P. S. I ask your pardon for the impertinence of suggesting to you, what will most 
 certainly occur to yourself, that the Highlanders caii at pleasure mar the made roads, 
 & thereby prevent the carriage of heavy artillery over steep or boggy grounds. 
 
 No. CCCCXXIII. 
 
 Sir John Cope to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Ruthv.-in, Aug' 2y'^, 1745. 
 
 THE reason of my coming here shall be fully explained to your Lordship when 
 I have the honour to see you. The only message I have had since I left Stirling, that 
 has the appearance of countenancing the King's troops, is from the Laird of Grant 
 this morning : his kinsman is returned to him ; rjid I have desired, if possible, that he 
 ■will meet me with some of his men, and the rest that he can gather together, the next 
 day, or as soon as possible. I bend my course directly to Inverness. If your Lordship 
 approves it, I think it may be right for Lord Loudon's men, and any other armed men 
 you may have at Inverness, to join me on the march : it will give a spirit and appear- 
 ance at least of some consequence to the friends of the Government, and deter waver- 
 ing people from going lengths to hurt themselves. The accounts of the enemy vary 
 extremely as to numbers, but not as to situation. Lochiel's people on the north-west 
 side of Loch Lochy ; another body at Loch Garry on the west of Loch Oyich. Their 
 whole plan, by all we can learn, has been to wait for us at and near the Corriarick 
 Hill, where they expected us to-morrow. What turn next they will take is at present 
 very uncertain; but I am hopeful their followers, when they are apprehensive that all 
 their dwellings may be destroyed if they venture southward, may leave them ; and 
 our troops being here, may raise the spirits of our friends. I have ordered more arms, 
 &'. to Inverness, as likewise biscuit and other provisions. 5000 arms are coming 
 from London ; and some, if not all the garrison that came out of Ostend, being 5 good 
 battalions, are actually onboard for Leith. This I can take upon me to assure you to 
 be true by the last good authority I had from London. TEo' I have mentioned L** 
 Loudoun's men, I beg to leave it to your Lordship's discretion and ordering, and i 
 shall approve of every thing you are pleased to do. I have passed the Spey, and in- 
 camp just on the north side of it. M'Intosh goes off to-morrow at break of day to his- 
 people. I have lugged along with me about 200 arms, not thinking it possible to come 
 thro' so many friends country without meeting some hands to put them into ; but not 
 one as yet. I am in great hopes from Grant and M'Intosh. Cluny has been with me; 
 his men I ordered to meet me at Garvimore, and first bent my march that way this 
 morning. I have sent Cluny home this morning, to bring bis men to me as soon as 
 possible. I have not time for more. 
 
 I am your Lordship's most obed' Serv', 
 
 J^^o. COPE. 
 
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 No. CCCCXXIV. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Fortrose. 
 
 M7 Lord, 28 August, 6 at night. 
 
 THIS moment I have a letter from Sir J. Cope, from Ruthven. He has not 
 pass'd the Corr%-v"arig ; not from anv notion of opposition, but from ane apprehension 
 the enemY mav give him the slip, and march southwards by the skirts of Argyleshire. 
 If thev did so,' they must be unhappv, because they must meet with 5 banaUons of the 
 late cr^rison of Ostend, who were order'd for Leith, & ship'd many days ago. Sir John, 
 is desireous, from the countenance which the Gov' expects from it's freinds, to crush 
 this insurrection as speedily and with as httle loss as possible ; and is therefore solici- 
 tous to have, from the well-intentioned, as many men together as may easily be com- 
 press'd. What I therefor humbly suggest to your Lop is, that, without loss of time, 
 vou -would order as many men as you can arm quickly, to be immediately brought to- 
 gether as near this country- as possible, arms for the rest being hourly expected ; & that 
 you would be so good as to give me notice what's to be done in this way. 
 
 I am, with perfect good "nill, &". 
 
 No. CCCCXXV. 
 
 The Lord President to Sir J. Cope. 
 
 Dear Sir, CuUoden, 28 August, 10 at night. 
 
 SO soon as I received your's of yesterday's date, from Ruthven, I dispatch'd 
 messengers to Lord Fortrose 6; Lord Lovat, who have both given assurance of their 
 assistance. What I press'd them to, was, the bringing immediately together as many 
 as they can arm, i the prepareing others to receive arms, which are soon expected. 
 Their answers vou shall soon be acquainted with ; but their assistance is hardly to be 
 depended on for immediate service ; I sent also for the Commanding Officer of L'* 
 Loudon's at lii', & for the Gov', &; acquainted them with your commands. There is 
 no doubt the men, who are 150 and no more, as I wrote you, can be spared safely 
 from Inverness ; &: they therefore are this night order'd to hold themselves in ready- 
 ness to march at ane hour's warning ; but, as vou have not sigmifv'd when vou in- 
 tended to sett out, or where you would have had them meet you, they are not to be put 
 actually in march till they receive further orders ; but upon the shortest \vaming they 
 will move. If Macintosh carrv anv orders to this neisrhbourhood, or if bv his direc- 
 tions given to him your design can be collected, Loudon's people shall be order'd to 
 answer it. There are no other arm'd men in this neighbourhood ; and there neither 
 has been nor is there as yet, any authority for bringing them together, nor any mean of 
 subsisting them. Besides, tliat no danger seem'd immediately to press. Concerning 
 the numbers of the Highlanders, I know nothing further than what you have in my 
 last ; their situation, by what I can learn, is more easterly, towards Corryyarrig, with 
 ane intent, as they pretended, to meet & surprize you. What course they vv-fll take, 
 upon your altering your route, is uncertain. You do not mention when you propose to 
 leave the Spey ; & I presume you have consider'd what is to be done in case they, 
 lea\ing their miserable huts to mercy, should resolve to pass the Corr)-\-arig, &; march 
 southwards. But it seems to be fitting that you acquaint us, without loss of time, & 
 
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 in such way as that the advice cannot come into the enemy's hands, what course you 
 propose to take ; &, as nearly as can be guess'd, when ; to the end, any thing that can 
 be done in this corner may answer it. In my last I acquainted you that I had a letter 
 from MacLeod of the 22' from Sky, giveing ane account that Clanranald's men from 
 Uist were not sail'd from thence : in that letter, he is extremely pressing to have arms- 
 sent to him & Sir Alex' Mac Donald by sea ; as they have render'd themselves ob- 
 noxious to the CL '■js in arms by opposeing them ; & if that may not be, he proposes, 
 if he may have but 200 staiid of arms att lii' for his immediate protection, he will 
 send down so many men to fetch them. I could not take upon me to dispose of so 
 many of the small store "^hat is here, not knowing but you might have more immediate 
 use for them ; bll^ I detain'd his messenger untill I have your orders ; & if you think 
 it proper that I should pi oiiiisc him those arms, I shall direct him to send the men for 
 them : in the mci.n time you will think, how far it is proper, or possible, to supply 
 those two Gentlemen, who have been of vast service to the cause, by sea vidth arms ;. 
 & you \nll give immediate directions with respect to this last proposall of delivering 200 
 at Inverness. I expect to hear from you as soon as possible ; and am most faithfully, 
 
 D' Sir» your's. 
 
 No. CCCCXXVI. 
 
 Lady Cluny to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I HOPE you will easily believe, that the situation of affairs at present in this 
 family may have been cause sufficient to put me so much in disorder, as not to have the 
 presence of mind your Lop may judge might be necessary, by letting you sooner know 
 of the unhappy transaction happened here last night ; which was, that Cluny was 
 seized in this house, 'twixt ten and eleven o'clock, by a party of about a hundred and 
 twenty men from the Highland camp, which arrived yesterday evening at Garva ; when 
 we were but just then assured they had taken the Strathherick road. The party that 
 came here guarded him, & surrounded the house all night ; and this morning there 
 came two hundred men more ; they brought him then away ; & my sister with me fol- 
 lowed, to beg of the Gentlemen who had the principal! command of the army to allov/ 
 him return home on parole ; but, after all our intercessions, it was not in our power 
 to prevail with them to part with him one minute. They marched towards Dallchimy 
 this afternoon, and have brought him allong. How far they propose to bring him,. 
 God knows. The case being thus, and as your Lordship will judge of what is proper 
 much better than I can think of, I beg you advise what you see necessary to be done 
 for Cluny's interest. 
 
 I beg you will be so good as forgive this trouble, & believe that I am. 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lop's most affectionate k obliged humble Servt, 
 
 JANET MTHERSON.. 
 Cluny, 29"' August 1745. 
 
 No. CCCCXX\TI.
 
 9gt CULLODEN PAPERS. f ADDENDA. 
 
 No. CCCCXXVII. 
 
 Lord Reav to the Lord President. 
 
 J 
 
 INIy Lord, 
 
 I'M extremly glad your Lop is in the North at this time, when your advise and 
 assistance can be of such ser^-ice to the Government. 
 
 When I first got such intelligence of the insurrection in the West Highlands as I 
 could give credit to, I wrote immediately to S' Jn^ Cope, that I and my clan were ready 
 to do all in our power for the support of the present Government ; but that we 
 wanted arms & ammunition • which is so far the case, that vdchout a supply of these 
 we could scarcely defend the passes of our own properties, in case of attempts to carry 
 off our cattle or so. I believe my letter did not overtake S' Jn° Cope ere he left 
 Edin' ; nor mav he, as he is a stranger in Scotland, know or advert to the necessity' of 
 our having- arms, &". Therefore, as your Lop is well acquainted with him, and as, 
 no doubt, he'l have the greater regard to your judgment, I beg leave to give your 
 Lop the trouble of this, that vou mav be so good as to take your owTi method to lay 
 our situation before him. Your Lop knows that in the vear 17 15 what effect the 
 junction of the people of this country with the well-affected in Ross & Inverness 
 shires had ; so far as it helped to divide our enemies ; and perhaps it may be necessary 
 to plav the same game over again ; of which your Lop is best judge. I was lately 
 informed, that some people in Caithness, who were never looked on to be well affected 
 to the Government, have entered into a resolution to raise their militia as for the Go- 
 vernment ; and that, with that view, one of most note amongst them was soon to be 
 sent to L — d S — r, A\ho was lately in that countrv, to inxdte him to be their com- 
 mander. If their intentions in this are sincere, I shall be glad of it ; tho' I can't help 
 " suspecting the reverse. I hope your Lop \nll not name me as your informer in this. 
 As these are my neighbours, I want to live with them as well as I reasonably can ; but 
 should the case be as I suspect, the necessitv of our getting arms &; ammunition is still 
 the greater. This your Loj5 can easily see bv the situation of the country ; therefore I 
 need not explain it. 
 
 The Earl of Sutherland and I have concerted to joine all our men for the service of 
 the Government, as liis father & I did in 17 15. I wrote of this date to S'' Jn° 
 Cope under Governor Grant's cover, calling for 400 stand of arms. I reckon Earl 
 Sutherland acquaints the number he'l need. 
 
 As I have not the honor of Sir Jn° Cope's acquaintance, I did not mention the 
 Caithness story to him; but leaves it to your. Lop to conununicate it, or not, and in 
 what m.amier you see proper ; but in any event, I beg leave to think that their militia 
 should get no arms. As I said aireadv", I know vour Lop's advice and opinion will 
 have more weight & effect with respect to all I have represented to you, than any- 
 thing I can w^rite ; particularly as I am in manner a stranger to him. As I had allwise 
 the greatest regard for your Lop, and that I know none has a more sincere zeal and 
 affection for his Majesty's person & Government ; so I make no doubt but you'l forgive 
 this trouble from him who has the honor to be, with great truth and esteem. 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obedient, 
 
 most affectionate humble Ser\-ant, 
 Tongue, 30 Aug. J 745. REAY.
 
 ADDENDA.] ' CULLODEN PAPERS. 393 
 
 No. CCCCXXVIII. 
 
 The Provost of Aberdeen to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I -" RETURN your Loj3 the town of Aberdeen's most hearty thanks for the 
 favour of your Lop's letter in relation to the troubles in the Highlands. A merchant 
 of this place haveing ane express about privat business from Montrose, dated Sunday, 
 one a'clock afternoon, in vi'hich is the following paragraph, I thought it my indispensable 
 duty to lett you know the same by express, lest the enemy may have shutt up any 
 communication by the Highland road ; and, in caise of intercepting, thought it more 
 prudent to send it under cover of the Earle of Findlater. The paragraph is as follows : 
 " The Provost of Perth has sent ane express to the Provost of Brichen, adviseing that 
 «' he hade just then a letter from the Duke of Athol, telling that the Highlanders were 
 " within six miles of Blair, and on Saturday night was to be in Perth, and that they 
 " were fj've to six thousand strong. Sir John Cope having retired to Inverness, this 
 •« express from Perth was going for Sir John at Inverness. But six Highland Gentle- 
 " men, comeing into Brichen when he came there, went out a little from that before 
 *' the express, and turned back the guide that was sent along, and carried oft the ex- 
 *' press." This is all I know, and give you the information in the very words of the 
 letter, which I believe not altogether fictitious, but desire it may have no further in- 
 fluence on the Government's management, than the stress your Lop may lay upon such 
 information. I hope you have more certain advice ere this comes to hand, but £Ould 
 not excuse myself without acquainting your Lop with what's above, and have the ho- 
 nour to be, with great esteem and regard, 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lop's most obedient and most humble servant, 
 
 JAMES MORRISON, Provost. 
 Aberdeen, 2'' Septe' 1 745, 
 2 a'clock, morning. 
 
 No. CCCCXXIX. / • 
 
 Lord Findlater & Seafield to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I BEG leave to congratulate your Lordship on General Cope's arrival in the 
 North with his army. I flatter myself that his military skill and prudence, johied with 
 the bravery of our troops, and assisted by your Lordship's good advice and knowledge 
 of the country, will defeat the rebells, or oblige them to dissipate ; because, whatever 
 their numbers may be, their men cannot be very well trained ; neither are they led by 
 persons remarkable for great abilitys or experience in the souldier trade. I am sure the 
 King and Country is much oblig'd to the diligent and prudent care which I understand 
 your Lordship has used upon this occasion ; and I most heartily pray God may crown 
 your Lordship's endeavours, and those of His Majesty's other servants, with speedy 
 success. 
 
 In the situation in which I am, in a corner where tho' far the greatest number of 
 
 my tenants are really well affected, yet they have no arms, and have never been ac« 
 
 customed to use them ; and there are many popish and disafi'ected persons in the neigh- 
 
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 bourhood ; you may be sure I am under ven^ great uneasiness ; and my anxiety must 
 be very great, especially as we are dayly alb.rmed and entertained with various storys 
 totally differing from one another. I hope therefore, however unwilling I may be to 
 take up anv part of your Lop's time, which I know is so well employed, you will ex- 
 cuse my begging to have such truth from you as you think tit to communicate, and 
 what advice and direction you think proper, I have in various ways been most faith- 
 fuUv using rav endeavours to keep up the spirits of the well affected ; and to demon- 
 strate to those, whom I suspected not to . be so, the folly and rashness of this very 
 extraordinary enterprize ; and I imagine I have had some success. Among others, I 
 have had a pretty frequent correspondence with the Magistrates of Aberdeen, who have 
 indeed always expressed the greatest zeal and most firm attachment to His Majesty's 
 service, and the Ubert}'s of their country. This correspondence has, I suppose, occa- 
 sioned their sending the enclosed letter open to me ; and I shall take care to forward 
 v.ithout delay whatever answer your Lordsliip may think fit to give. 
 
 There is an incident happened near this place last night, which, altho' it may per- 
 haps be but trifling, I chuse to mention. A boat came about one a clock in the morn- 
 ing to Portknocky, a fisher-tov.n of nn'ne a long mile from this house. There were 
 in it ten or melve people, as they say, in tolerable good habit. Only one gentleman 
 came ashore, and lay in a httle ale-house. He paid liberally for his entertainment, and 
 went off at five a clock in the morning with his servant, pressing a cupple of horses 
 and a hirer from a countryman. He said in the ale-house, that he was an ofEcer be- 
 longing to General Cope, and intended to breakfast TS-ith me, and that he would only 
 take the horses the length of Cullen ; but when he had. proceeded a little, he altered his 
 resolution and went eastward closs by the coas^, shunning this little town and the high 
 road. The hirer he took with him is not yet returned. The boat likewise proceeded 
 eastward, and by the enclosed letter appears to have landed another man at Bardt. 
 Our suspicion is, that they are people intended to be taken up at Inverness, who have 
 made their escape. Your Lordship v.'ill, perhaps, judge of the m-atter better than I 
 can. I am glad that this comer at present affords no incidents more remarkable. 
 The General's coming has struck some damp on the disafiected ; but I tend to ere of 
 opinion, that any event favourable to their cause would tempt many loose people to 
 join them. 
 
 As I have not the honour of being acquainted with General Cope, I hope your 
 Lordship will pardon my using the freedom to intreat you will be so good as to make 
 my compliments to him in the most respectful manner ; and to assure him, tha£ 
 nobody in Great Bi-ittain can more sincerely and heartily wish his good success. 
 
 I must aho beg you will excuse my using a servant's hand, because, having been 
 these two days a good deal indisposed, I could not easily write myself. I have the 
 honour to be, with the greatest respect and esteem, 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant, 
 
 FINDLATER & SEAFIELD. 
 Cullen house, Septem' 2^ 1745- 
 
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 ADDENDA.] CULLODEX PAPEHS. 395 
 
 No. CCCCXXX. - 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Harrington. - 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 IT is the difficulty of the situation in which I find myself that obliges me to give 
 you the trouble of this letter. About 3 weeks ago I flung myself into this country to 
 try how far any share of credit which I had with people could preserve them in their 
 dutv & prevent their madness ; Sc I had no unconsiderable success, tho' I had not 
 what I wish'd. But I was astonish'd to hear, that after the rebells had got together to 
 a head, Sir John Cope, with a handfull of troops, had been ordered into the mountains 
 to attack and disperse them ; & that he had actually engaged himself so far, as to reach 
 the Spey, & to be within a few hours march of them. iVIy concern grew, as I was 
 perfectly well acquainted with the passes of Carryyarig, over which he must pass if he 
 would go the direct road to Fort Augustus, & which, by a very small body of clever 
 Highlanders, who should mar the roads & break down the bridges, could be easily de- 
 fended against a much greater force than he commanded. And I was relieved from my 
 apprehensions only upon finding that he turn'd to the right, & by forced marches 
 reach'd this place Thursday last, at night. It was unlucky that his orders engaged him 
 to come so far north, which has given ane opportunity to the rebells to seize the 
 passes of the mountains betwixt Badenoch & Atholl, & to march southward, where it 
 is not easie to determine what mischief they might do. At the same time, it would be 
 exposeing the troops to too evident a danger, to pretend to follow them by that road, 
 w<:'' they can easyly mar & render impassable. He has chosen the party of going 
 southwards by the coast, which will give him ane opportunity of embarking his troops 
 at some of the sea ports, if the transports which he has order'd fromLeith meet him; 
 or if he can pick up shipping sufficient in the seaports near to which he passes. When 
 embarked, he can land at Leith, or more southward, as the nature of the service may 
 require. Those circumstances your Lop will, doubtless, be acquainted with by him- 
 self; but what engages me to WTite, is, the situation in v/hich this country must be 
 vhen he leaves it. The greatest part of the chieftains are quiet, & disocsed to be so ; 
 nay, some of them most certainly desirous to show their zeal for the Gov' ; but they 
 are all unarm'd ; there is no authority to bring them, or any number of their men, to- 
 gether, & there is neither money nor credit to support any body of them whom it might 
 be thought proper to bring together for his Mai"*='^ service. I made this remonstrance 
 to my Ld Marquis of Tweeddale before I left Ed', in my journey hither, & now I 
 renew it to your Lop ; to the end your Lop may consider what is fit to be done. Had 
 we been provided with these three things ten days ago, matters would not have been 
 in the condition in which they are at present. If we are speedily supply'd, the peace 
 of this part of the country will be secured, & the rebells views of gathering any fur- 
 ther forces in the north prevented ; if we are not, every thing must be left to chance ; 
 & I cannot say what influence is to be expected from praying and preaching only, which 
 is all that will be left me to do. I further submitt it to your Lop's consideration, 
 whether it may not be proper, furthwith to order some clever sloop of war to attend 
 this place, were it for no other end than to give & receive intelligence, & to convey 
 your orders. 
 
 Haveing laid these things before your Lop, I have discharged my duty ; & whether 
 any orders shall be given upon what I represent, or no, I shall continue endeavouring 
 
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 to do what, according to circumstances, shall appear to be best for His Majestie's ser- 
 \ice. I ask vonr Lop pardon for the great freedom I use, & am hopefuil you \vill 
 excuse it, because you know my zeal for His Majtie's service ; & you know that I am 
 perfectly your Lop's faithful! & most ob' 
 
 Serv'. 
 
 Ins, 3 Sept' i74-5' 
 
 Xo. CCCCXXXI. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Reay. 
 My Lord, Ins, 3 Sept' 1745. 
 
 I A^I glad to see, by your Lop's letter of the 30''' August (what I never doubted), 
 that your zeall for the support of His Maj''^'^ Gov' is as warm at this stage of life, as it 
 was 30 years ago, wherKit did singular service to the CrowTi. It is extremely com- 
 mendable in your Lop Sc the E. of Sutherland to have your men in readiness to act 
 upon the first proper occasion ; and it were to be wish'd that we had arms in num- 
 bers suiEcient to put in their hands : but as the arms that remain here to be disposed 
 of are few, and as more are expected, untill these arrive I cannot adx-ise your Loj5 to 
 send hither for any. "What I write is after speaking \vith Sir John Cope, who is per- 
 fectly apprised of your dut)- & attatchment to the Royall Family, & will leave the pro- 
 per orders for giveing out arms when they arrive, & for accquainting your Lop 
 when it will be proper to make use of them for the King's service. I have heard 
 of no motion yet made for arming your Lop's neighbours, whom you mention : 
 when any such is made, I dare say it will not meet with a favourable reception. The 
 Gen ' & every one trusted by the CroviTi are acquainted with your Lop's zeall, & -nill 
 easily distinguish between the fitness of trusting arms in your hands, & that of putting 
 them in the hands of gentlemen who have not hitherto given any proof of their affec- 
 tion to His Maj"% It is becaufe I would not detain the bearer, that I add no more, but 
 that I am with great respect, my Lord, your Lordship's most ob' & most humble 
 Ser\', &:c. 
 
 No. CCCCXXXII. 
 
 The Lord President to the Provost of Aberdeen. 
 
 Culloden, 4* Sept' 1 745. 
 M)' Lord Provost, 4 Afternoon. 
 
 YOL^R Lop's letter dated the 2% at 2 a clock in the morning, was deUver'd me 
 this morning. Your townsman's intelligence from' Montrose, of the rebells being to be 
 at Perth on Saturday, was, I believe, true enough ; as it was also, that the Magistrates 
 of Perth sent ane express the low w^ay, to acquaint Sir John Cope ^^ith that circumstance ; 
 but it is not true, that that express was seised at Brechin ; for the fellow made his way to 
 Inverness with his packet, where I saw him yesterday ; neither do I incline to believe 
 that the number of the Highlanders was such as he heard. Rumors of the terrible 
 kind grow strangely by travelling. I doubt not, indeed, that they have pick'd up, in 
 their journey from the south side of the hills, severall indi\idualls who may have been 
 well wishers to their cause ; but wee do not look upon those troops as formidable, tho' 
 
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 they be call'd Highlanders. Sir John Cope has, with the troops under his command, 
 march'd this morning from Inverness for your town. I should hope this march v ill 
 cool the zeal of a good many unthinking people in your neighbourhood, who might be 
 mad enough, from false reports agreeing with their inclinadons, to run over a precipice. 
 It was the necessity I was under to ride out, to talk a little with Sir John on his march, 
 that prevented my giveing ane answer some hours sooner. In this country, tho' the 
 troops have left us, we are under no apprehensions ; as tlie chieftains round us are dis- 
 posed to serve the Gov' : 5c the unarm'd have prevented the junction of any other freir.ds 
 or followers with the unlucky men who have taken up arms. I am, my Lord Provost, 
 your most ob' & most hum"' Serv'. 
 
 No. CCCCXXXIII. 
 
 The Lord President to the E. of Findlater. 
 
 Same date. 
 My Lord, 
 
 THIS morning the letter your Lordship did me the honour to write me the 2\ 
 was deliver'd to me. I never had any doubt that your Lop would exert yourself, so 
 far as circumstances put it in your power, in defence of the Gov' ; which, tho' 
 threaten'd, is, I hope, in no danger. Nothing is more naturall than for the gentlemen, 
 who are in arms against it, to magnifv their force & muluply their numbers ; but such 
 as are desirous not to be deceived will receive such reports with great caution, & must 
 make considerable allowances. I believe what the Pro. of Aberdeen writes is true, that 
 the Highlanders mav have been at Perth last Saturday or Sunday ; & I doubt not that 
 severall in their way of thinking, from the south side of the mountains, may have join'd 
 them ; but as those, tho' under the name of Highlanders, are not, nor have been for 
 some time very warHke, I do not consider them as terrible to deal with. The person 
 who landed near CuUen, Sc posted southward, was ane. officer sent by Sir John Cope, 
 with letters to Edin"', who, finding that the small boat, in which he hoped to have 
 coasted it, could not bear up against the easterly gale, quited it, & pursued his jotirney 
 on horseback. Sir J. Cope has march'd this morning from Ins, with the troops under 
 his command in his way to Abd'', & so round the coast. His presence will, I should 
 hope, cool the inconsiderate zeall of some rash people ; & we, whom he leaves in this 
 country, are in no apprehension from the Highlanders, who have left very few adherents 
 in this neighbourhood ; most of the Chiefs of any consequence being desirous to support 
 the Gov'. I have left the mclosed, for the Pro. of Aberdeen, open for your Lop's 
 perusall : I presume your Lop will forward it. I am, with perfect respect. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lop's most ob' & most humble serv'. 
 
 No. CCCCXXXIV. 
 
 The Lord President to Sir John Cope. 
 
 D' Sir, Culloden, 5 Sepf 1 745, 1 2 o'clock. 
 
 THIS morning the Ins foot post, that ought to have come on last Mondav at noon, 
 
 arrived. He was seised by the rebells at Blair ; his packet, which he used great industry 
 
 to conceal, taken & rifled, & he detained till Tuesda}- afternoon. I have sent him for- 
 
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 •vrard to you, that you mav examine him ; & I give you now the heads of what I could 
 make out of him, to save you as much trouble as possible. He says, that what they 
 call their armv march'd from Blair Tuesday morning, & no sooner, in their way to 
 Dunkeld ; that thev had not at that time been join'd by any body of men from Athol, 
 Badenoch, or Breamar, or any other place ; but that they gave it out, that they 
 exoected to have considerable reinforcements from those parts by the end of this, or 
 the beginning of next week ; & vet it would seem this \%-as not believed by those 
 in the D. of Athol's interest ; for the post says, that when he was dismiss'd, Comissary 
 Bisset, & Peter INIacglash, who keeps the inn at Blair, told him, they durst not then 
 write, but desired him by word of mouth acquaint me, immediately on his arrivall, that 
 their numbers were inconsiderable ; that they did not exceed 1800 ; that they were 
 but in indifferent order ; & that a sudden march of the troops southward would much 
 discourao-e them. If this be true, severall that pass'd the Corrvarig with them' must 
 have left them ; & indeed if they did not meet with such a ready concurrence as they 
 were m.ade to expect, I do not much wonder that there should be desertion amongst 
 such troops. He further says, that Glenbucket was not with them ; but that he had 
 gone do-«-n to the low coimtry, to try to raise men ; & that he had placed small guards 
 in all the passes of the moimtains to intercept intelligence. He says, he is sure Bleakney 
 has not faJn into their hands ; for that he met with a Stirling hyrer at Blair, who told 
 him that Bleakney had stopt at Stirling upon the reports of the rebells advanceing. He 
 savs, vshat I am vers" glad to hear, that almost all the men that were surprised in going 
 to Fort W'^ have stood out, & refused absolutely to list \vith the enemy ; & the cause 
 of his knowledge is, that he saw three or four score of them, barefooted for the most 
 part, & tatter'd, under a guard of the Highlanders. He says, he saw a few of the 
 soldiers (some of them he knew, that deserted from you in your march) doing duty 
 with the Highlanders ; but I think he does not make them exceed half a dozen, if so 
 manv. He saw Lochgarrj- acting alongst with them., & many of the recruits he had 
 rais'd for Loudon's Reg'. He saw John Roy Steuart, who had just come from France, 
 & had landed on the east coast ; & it was to him, whom he -was acquainted with, that 
 he ow'd his deliverance ; & he further says, that no troops had landed at Leith last 
 Thursday night when he left it. This, Sir, is the substance of what he said to me : 
 if any further question recurr to you, I have sent him, that you may interrogate him. 
 I have this morning dispatch'd a courier to Blair, to be further satisfv'd as to the state 
 of things there. He was dispatch'd befor the Ins post came to me ; if he brings any 
 thing worth vour knowing, it shall follow you. I am, without ceremonv, 
 
 D^Sir, 
 
 Yours, &c. 
 
 No. CCCCXXXV. 
 
 The Marquis of Tweeddale to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Whitehall, lo"" Septem' 1745. 
 
 I HA\'E received your Lordship's of the i" instant, which I have laid before the 
 King. You may believe we have not been a little surprised at the several accounts we 
 have received from Sir John Cope and others of His ^Iajest)'s servants at Edinburgh ; 
 and tho' military men here are of opinion, that it might not have been fit for His 
 Majesty's service for Sir John Cope to attack the rebells when they were posted on 
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 the Carryarick, or that it was even practicable for him to have marched that way to 
 Fort Augustus after they were possessed of that pass ; yet they think that he ought t<j 
 have staid somewhere about Dalwhimiy ; and in that case, it would not have been easy 
 for the rebells to have made such a progress into the south before him. But as this 
 matter is now over, it is needless to enter into a discus<^ion on the point. . 
 
 By his last letter of the 31" of August, he acquaints us, that in conformity to your 
 Lordship's, and Lord Loudon's opinion, he had sent orders to His Majesty's servants 
 at Edinburgh for providing shipping at Leith to transport the troops round by sea, in 
 case he should find it impracticable to force his way after the rcbcUs j and this idea is 
 approved of by His Majest)''s servants here. , . 
 
 I am glad to find your Lordship gives us some hopes of tiie Government's receiving, 
 at this critical juncture, a real assistance from the well-affected Clans ; anu i am much 
 of opinion, that it is greatly owing to your Lordship's presence and countenance there, 
 that so great a body of the northern Highlanders has hitherto remained quiet. 
 
 Your Lordship will find by my letter of the 4"', that His Majesty had sent down 
 some blank Commissions for forming the Highlanders, who are determined to support 
 the Government at this juncture, into companies, and the purposes for which they are 
 to be employed. I have hkewise wrote of this to Sir John Cope, that it will be 
 necessary he should appoint some officer to have the command and direction of these 
 Independent Companies when formed ; and this measure answers one objection which 
 your Lordship has also pointed at formerly ; the want of a proper authority to call 
 them out ; tho' it is thought here, that no authority is necessary to empower His 
 Majesty's faithful subjects to arm, attack, and disperse their enemies, in time of actuai 
 rebellion. Sir John Cope has informed me some time ago, that looo stand of arms 
 were at Inverness ; and I hope more will be sent from Edinburgh in case it is thought 
 they can be safely disposed of. 
 
 In relation to money, as all correspondence is now stopt betwixt Inverness and 
 Edinburgh, I know no other way your Lordship can be supply 'd but by taking up 
 what money you can get in your parts, and drav/ing on INI'" Pelham for the value ; 
 which, he assured me this day, he would duly honour. There are more Dutcfi 
 battalions ordered to Scotland, hi the present difficulty of correspondence, and 
 uncertainty of the situation of affairs, we here cannot form any certain judgment how 
 to direct; but His Majestj', and all his servants here, have the greatest confidence 
 in your Lordship's acting and ordering every thing for the best at this juncture. I am, 
 with very great regard and esteem. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, 
 
 TWEEDDALE. 
 
 Xo. CCCCXXXVI. 
 
 Sir John Cope to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, Terra, 10"' Sep' 174 5-. 
 
 BY letter from Gen' Guest, of the 6"', I am inform'd that Captain Rogers arrived 
 at Edin' on Wednesday last. The things I writ for will be ready under convoy in 
 3 or 4 days from that time. I sent Colonel Whitefoord to Aberdeen, who wrote me 
 that he has got the same things there in readiness. I hope to be in Aberdeen tomorrow 
 night with the troops, and then shall take my resolution, according as things cast up. 
 
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 All die boats in the Firth are on the south side. It is reported, the rebels are gone towards 
 Stirlin<^ ; but many are the reports, and few to be reUed upon ; Glenbucket has not 
 above 300 men out of these parts. The King is landed. Dutch troops are at sea ; 
 some for Eno^land, some for Leith. I have no letters from London since I saw your 
 Lordship. I hope we shall get the enemy between two fires ; by what I hear, they are 
 disappointed in the numbers they expected. The troops with me are in good heart. 
 I waited on the Duke of Gordon at Banff, where his Grace came to meet me ; he was 
 not very well in his health, so that I had Uttle more than common discourse with him ; 
 but what he did say was expressing himself zealously for His Majest>'s service. I have 
 this minute rec'' a packet from London, in answer to letters I writ from Dalwhinny. 
 Thev are in great pain lest I should have attempted the Coriarick. I find 5 Dutch 
 battaHons are embarked from Holland, and more are to follow. I did design to march 
 this morning between 5 and 6. It is now past 6, and not a horse yet come in to carry 
 O'JT provisions, tho' promised to be here at 3 in the morning. I wish this is not con- 
 trived purposelv to distress the King's troops, which I have been apprehensive of before 
 now ; so that I fear I shall have difficult)- in getting to Aberdeen tomorrow, they being 
 two very long days marches. I am, 
 
 Mj Lord, 
 
 Your most ob* humble serv', 
 
 JN= COPE. 
 
 The bearer is the man that ^r Grant the Barrack Master sent out : his information 
 is so little worth, that I question whether he was where he pretended to have been : 
 however, be pleased to tell M' Grant to pay the man, and place it to my account, 
 
 • Xo. CCCCXXXVII. 
 
 Sir John Cope to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, Aberdeen, 13'^ Sep'-' 1745. 
 
 WE arrived here on "Wednesday ; the transports arrived here the same day : 
 putting in water & provisions takes up a great deal of time, tho' all hands have been 
 emplov'd since the arrival of the transports. The artillery is on board. I hope to 
 embark the troops this dav, tho' the tides to serve us fall out very cross. 
 
 The ii"^ inst. the Highland army marched into Perth 10 o'clock forenoon : they 
 gave out that thev designed for Edui' ; but by all my informations they intend to take 
 the way of Monteith. I send your Lordship an information I had from two sensible 
 persons, most part of which has been confirmed by other hands I have employ' d, but 
 cannot learn anv certainty of their numbers. I have just now had an account from 
 Faulkland, that the rebells are about 3000, & are not yet joined by the Marquis of 
 TelUbarden, Lord Early, Glenbucket, & some others which they expect. Strouen 
 Robinson join'd them with 30c. This letter from Faulkland (which was-wTit yesterday) 
 says, that the Dutch are in the road of Leith. I am extremely imeas}- at my present 
 situation. I have but one satisfaction ; that k, that I cannot reproach myself with 
 having delav'd a minute, since I left Stirlino:, in doing for the best ; which all those 
 with me seem sensible of, tho' those at a distance, not used to march with armys, nor 
 at all knowing of the coimtrys we have march'd thro', will certainly blame me 5 but 
 I flatter myself that will not be the case in your Lordship's opinion. 
 
 I am 
 
 Your Lordship's most obed' serv*, 
 
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 The Earl of Sutherland to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Bunrobin, Sep'*""!!"', 1745. 
 
 FROM the time Sir John Cope came to Inverness, I had 200 men readie to joine 
 the King's forces. Of this I acquainted Sir John ; and also, that I would join him 
 myself with 400 more, if His Majesty's service re*[uir'd it. I acquainted him, at the 
 same time, that the few arms I had must be kep't for the defence of the country 
 against some wrong-headed neighbours, whose inclinations to rebellion I had strong 
 reasons to suspect ; and desir'd that he would order arms for the men he might have 
 occasion to call from this countrie. 
 
 I had his answer by Major Mackay only last night, that he hsd left some arms at 
 Inverness, and that he desired your Lop to distribute them as His Majesty's service 
 required. Your hon knows the attachment of my family to His Majestic and the pre- 
 sent establishment ; and, as the arms that are in the north are under your direction, 
 I hope your Lop will put me in a condition, by arming my people, to render effectual 
 service to His Majesty. And as very bad consequences may arise from sending unarmed 
 men from here to Inverness by land, & as the season of the year renders their going 
 by sea in open boats precarious, I wish your Lo}5 would be so good to send the arms 
 here, with such a quantitj- of ammunition as they may have occasion for in the way. 
 As the common course of post is stopt, we know nothing here of what is a doing to the 
 southward. Pray, my Lord, assist us in this article all you can. Political lyes and 
 common reports, of which we have plenty here, have their influence. 
 
 I have the honour to be, 
 
 My Lord,, ; 
 
 Your Lop" most obliged humble servant, 
 • ; . < SUTHERLAND. 
 
 P. S. I am this moment inform'd, that some people from Caithness, with arms, are 
 to pass through this countie, under pretence of guarding their cattle : how am I to deal 
 with them ? 
 
 No. CCCCXXXIX. - 
 
 ,r '..'■ r The Lord President to the E. of Sutherland. • ' "Z 
 
 My Lord, Culloden, 1 2 Septr 1 745, 1 1 in y forenoon. 
 
 LAST night the letter which your Lop did me the honour to write me of the 
 li'l" was deliver'd : it expresses properly your Lojj's zeal for the support of the Gov', 
 which must give satisfaction to every one that wishes well to it ; & your readyness to 
 defend it. Your Lop's reflection, that nothmg can be done for that end to purpose 
 without arms, is very just ; & it is to supply that want, that 6000 stand of arms are sent 
 from the Tower. These arms are actually arrived at Leith ; & a good number of them 
 would have been here before this time, had Sir J. Cope been at Edin'. So soon as he 
 arrives there, he has promised to send them ; and the moment that happens, your Lop 
 shall have notice. We are at present in a sort of tranquility in this country, as the 
 rebells are gone southward : how long that quiet may last is uncertain ; & therefore 
 what the King's dutiful! subjects in this country have to do, as it appears to me, is, to 
 
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 keep their men in readiness to act on the shortest warning, for the security of the Got', 
 & for their own protection, imtiii the expected arms arrive, &; a proper occasion otier 
 of doing more effectuall service. 
 
 The orders for giveing out the arms, are with the Gov' of lix, who shall have my 
 advice when thev ccme, 6t when anything to the purpose may be done -with them, to 
 put as manv of them as may be necessary in your Lop's hands, v.hose affection to the 
 Govern" is on the best grounds so unquestionable : as for your neighbours to the north- 
 •vrard," if I do not mistake the men, they are too wise, even were they all disposed, to venture 
 to force a passage whilst your Lop is in the way. If they send droves to the southward, 
 in the circmnstances in which things now are, they must have arm'd men attending 
 them ; but then should the numbers of these men be so great beyond the occasion, as 
 to tnve just reason to think thac the driveing the cattle is only a pretence to colour the 
 sending to the south a body of ann'd men, your Lop will be justif^'d for hindering 
 them to pass : but I am hopefull no such thing vail be attempted. With respect to 
 intelHcrence, I know little more than the prints will inform your Lop of. Only 5 bat- 
 tallions are actually sailed from the Dutch coast, Sc the rest are embarking. The 
 dispositions for their reception were actually made at Leith last Friday ; & it's more 
 than probable some of them are tliere before this time. G' Cope arrived at Ah^", as 
 1 have reason to think, from a letter dated from Turreff, which I received from him, 
 as last night. He has found shipping enough in that port for transporting his troops 
 southward, should that be his choice ; but whether that will be his course, or if he -n-ill 
 wat at Ab'^=» for the Highlanders, or if he vrill follow them by land, must depend very 
 much on their numbers Sc situation, w*' I at present know nothing particular about. 
 L'l Georcre Murray has, much contrary to expectation-;, put hunself at the head of the 
 AthoU raen, & join'd the rebells ; which probably %\ill aicress theh numbers, but ^^ill 
 not add much to their fighting men. Cap' Macky, hearing of Glenbucket's being in 
 his wav with 2 or 303 arm'd men, struck oif from Elgine to the Brugh, & from thence 
 foUow'd Sir John Cope by sea. I am, with perfect respect. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lop's most ob' k most humble serv'. Sec. 
 
 No. CCCCXL. 
 
 The Lord President to Sir John Cope. 
 
 jy Sb, Culloden, 12 Sept. 174.5, 10 at night. 
 
 l' HAVE your's from CuUen of the 8^ & from Turreff of the i o'^. I hope you 
 have received mine, acquainting you with the march of Capt. Macky's Comp=|' IVIonday 
 morning last. He had directions to avoid the force which I had some intelligence of» 
 if it was superior ; & accordingly, meeting at Elgin vdm a report .that Glenbucket lay 
 in his way with zoo men, he turn'd to the left to Brugh Sea, 8c ship'd himself off from 
 thence in a large open boat. By this time I am hopeful! he is with you. Monday night 
 Capt. Sutherland, with 54 men, & Tuesday night Capt. MacLeod Asithhis comp^ 
 cbmpleat, arrived at Inverness : they had arms deliver'd out to them ; &: it was pro- 
 posed they should march tomorrow morning, together with the other men of L. Loudon's 
 who are here, with the same precautions v,hich were to be observed by Mackay ; but 
 observing, by your letter of the Io'^ that every thing was to be ready for you at Abd^ 
 k concludemg' that whether the rebells turn'd 'their whole force against you, or took 
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 the party of marching strcight Southward, you probably would make use of the ship- 
 ping that was at your hand before they could arrive ; & on the other hand, weighing 
 the inconvenience of looseing at this juncture so many raw men, who may be made 
 usefull if Glenbucket should surprise thenn with the numbers you mention, & which 
 reports aggravate, it was thought adviseablc to suspend their march till orders from 
 you (which may come to-night, or to-morrow, in answer to my last) arrive, or till 
 more certain advices of Glenbucket's numbers & motions determine. In the mean 
 time, they are ready at an hour's warning. Since my last, I have heard nothing with 
 any certainty from Perth ; it is confirm'd, that Lord George Murray is at the head of 
 the Atholl men, who are forced into the service ; but the numbers which my last letter 
 mention'd are said to exceed the truth. 
 
 In this country, we are at present very quiet, & probably will be so untill you drive 
 the gentry back upon us ; tho' abundance of fools are at work, to instigate men to play 
 the fool. I have great assistance at present from MacLeod, who at my desire came 
 from the Isle of Sky, alongst with his son, & is now my fellow labourer ; what we aim 
 at is, to league for our mutuall defence ; & in case we are supply'd with the arms, and 
 credit, or the money expected, to try what may be done to put the most speedy end to 
 the present commotion. 
 
 It was reported, that Cluny was come back to Badenough, in order to raise his men ; 
 but after the most exact inquirey I have been able to make, this seems not to be true j 
 but, on the contrary, that he continues to be kept prisoner, & that none of his men 
 have join'd the rebells. 
 
 , The courier who I dispatched to Ed' last Sunday was 7-night got thither safe, deli- 
 vered his letters, & is come back^ He brought some letters for you, & some others 
 who attend you. As they carried nothing that could in any probability be of service to 
 be known here, I abstain'd from looking into them ; & as they make too considerable 
 a bundle to be easyly conceal'd, at the same time that it's not likely they contain much 
 of consequence, I have committed them to this bearer, with the best directions I could 
 think of. At the same time that I have folded this up in a smaller volume, the more 
 easily to be conceal'd. I have a letter from the Advocate, who took the liberty to 
 break up mine to the Mar. of Tweeddale, but there is nothing worth mentioning in it. 
 It is unnecessary further to remind you of our arms & money, when you get to the 
 Southward. I am intirely your's, &c. 
 
 Tell L. Loudon, that S' Al. M'D. has made him a present of 13 very handsome men 
 for his comp". 
 
 No. CCCCXLI. i' ^ 
 
 The Lord President to Sir J. Cope. 
 
 Culloden, Fryday, 1 3 Sept. 1 745, 
 D' Sir, I o at night. 
 
 THIS morning the packet from the Marquis of Tweeddale, with the commissions, 
 canie safe to my hands ; the' the fellow run considerable risques, which he avoided 
 skilfully. The Advocate writes me word, that the seals were broke up before they 
 came to him, he does not know how. The burden of disposeing the commissions is a 
 great one, & which I very unwillingly undertake ; but since necessity urges, I shall 
 dj according to the best of my judgement. I cannot omit the Clans that have here- 
 
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 tofore shewM zeal ; &: it seems to me to be undispensably necessary to repose confidence 
 in those who, tho' thought formerly against us, have on this occasion absolutely re. 
 fused to eive any countenance to the Rebells, & have used their best endeavours, & iu 
 severall instances -with success, to prevent the frenzy of others ; & that being the case, 
 I do not know whether there will be room for what L"* Loudone seems to point at, 
 the o-iveinf^ 3 comp*' among the Munros, who march'd -with you ; because tho' they 
 have merit as being the first, nay the only kindred that have hitherto broke the ice, 
 yet so sif^nall notice taken of them, when the number of commissions to be given out 
 will not permitt of the bestowing in any thing like proportion on other kindreds more 
 powerful!, may create a kind of jealousy, & provoke Highland vanity In such sort as 
 to produce indifferent consequences. Besides that, I imagine that if you v\-ere to consult 
 vdth Capt° Munro, of Culc;um, they would be contented with less. However, Sir, if 
 you, upon weighing what I have represented, shall think otherwise, they shall have 
 their commissions ; & I shall save commissions for 3 cap"", 3 lieutenants, & 3 ensigns, 
 'till I receive your directions. They should be sent in blanks as they are, but that the 
 volume would endanger the conveyance. ,^ 
 
 Now we have the comm"" it will occurr natureally to you, that mthout arms & 
 money thev can be of no use. I think of makeing the comp" hundreds for the present 
 exigence ; but they must be fed as well as arm'd ; & bank notes have at present no 
 credit here. The arms you can supply us with when you come to Leith, but money 
 & credite must come from London. I therefore hope, when you can safely do it, you 
 will let them know at London the necessity there is of remitting some money hither, 
 if they would have any good done ; Sc of employing some clever arm'd vessell, of 
 whatever size, to keep the correspondence open ; in which case money could be had 
 for bills, 2c a smaller quantity of cash %vill answer the purpose. A note in this volume 
 for the Marq' of Tweeddale will be deliver'd to you, which you will forward. Beg of 
 Loudon to vrrke to Lord Stair, to tell him I have got his letter ; that I will do what 
 lies in me to answer his intentions ; & that he shall hear from me by the first safe coa- 
 veyance. Be so good also as to tell the Advocate, I have received his. 
 
 I am intirely your's, &;c. 
 
 P. S. — If you are embark'd before this reach Abd". it will, I hope, be sent after 
 you. No news since I wrote last night. I have a letter from Glengary, since he left 
 Atholl, dated at Fort Augustus, lamenting the folly of his friends. 
 
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 No. CCCCXLII. 
 
 The Lord Advocate to the Marq' of Tweddale. — Above date. 
 My Lord, 
 
 DESIRE to have this note safely conve)"'d must be the excuse for the minuteness 
 of the volume. This morning your Lop's packett came safely to my hands, throw se- 
 ve'nJl hazards, with com' for 20 independent comp-'^. The trust reposed in me by hfs 
 Maj-'' & his Min" does me great honour ; but then the burden is so great, that I cer- 
 tainly would decline it, if the exigency left time to remonstrate ; but as somewhat mast 
 immediately be done, I have no choise left, but to act according to the best of my 
 judgment ; 8c if I should happen to err, I hope the blame will be laid on that, Sc not 
 upon my heart, "which I will venture to assert is well disposed : it is my present purpose 
 to distribute such of these coium'' as I shall give out among those clans who, on occa- 
 
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 sion of the last rebellion, show'd their adherence to the protestant interest ; without 
 neglecting such other clans, as, tho' adversary at that time, have on this occasion behav'd 
 themselves well beyond the expectation of most people, & thereby very much pro- 
 vock'd the rebclls, from whom they withhold two thirds of the force which they 
 flatter'd themselves they could have carry'd from the North Highlands. The comp*' 
 I propose to make up to a hundred each for the present juncture ; &, that they may be 
 quickly raised, I propose to take the recommendadon of the Officers from the Chiefs 
 of the clans that are to raise the men. It is possible I may make some mistakes ; as 
 we have lately seen instances, in L'^ Loudon's reg', of men who accepted of comm"' 
 before the insurrection, desert to the enemy. But it is improbable, that after the re- 
 bellion is afoot, & men have actually taken their sides, any one will accept of a c(;m- 
 mission without meaning to answer the end of it ; and should it in any partar case turn 
 out otherwise, the worst consequence is, the loss of the arms, & that must be risqued 
 when a much greater good is in view. I need hardly tell your Lop, that tho' I look 
 for a good effect from those commissions, yet they can be of no service without arms 
 and pay. Arms I have wrote for to Sir John Cope, who may send them from Leith ; 
 but unless we are supply'd with money & credite from London, I cannot tell how the 
 service can be perform'd. Bank notes have no currency with us at present, & coin is 
 miserably scarce. Besides that, the little that is, is lock'd up, because, the communi- 
 cation being stopt, trade is at a stand, & no one will part with the little money he is 
 possest of for a bill. In these circumstances, some cash must be sent ; & if, with that, 
 there was a clever arm'd vessell order'd to attend, & to carry dispatches between this 
 & Leith, or London, the cr<;dit which might be order'd would become more effectuall, 
 and orders might readily be received, & intelligence given. Your Lop, it is true, in 
 your's of the 17''' of August, mentioned that if I laid out any money for intelligence, or 
 otherwise, M' Pelham would repay it ; & I accordingly laid out small sums without 
 hesitation ; but when the question is to feed such a body of troops in the present con- 
 dition of the country, I really cannot find the money. When the pay of these comp- ' 
 comes to be put on any regular foot, George Ross, a person known to your Lop, who 
 formerly attended me, will be a proper person through whose hands it may come. 
 Every thing is at present quiet in this part of the country. All we can do is, to pre- 
 vent debauching men into the rebells' service. 
 
 I am, with perfect respect, your Lop's Serv', &c. 
 : ■■ -' 'A :- ' 
 
 ,.-.-T/i i^i;i\ " ':3x;:';OV 
 
 No. CCCCXLIII. 
 
 The Lord President to Glengarry. ••;■'-! r- ". 1. 
 
 Sir, C. 14 Sept' 1745. 
 
 LAST night the letter you did me the honour to write me of the 1 2"', from F. 
 Augustus, was deliver'd to me. It gave me much satisfacdon when I first heard of 
 your prudent resolution of waidng on the D. of Atholl, in whose comp''' S' J. Cope 
 told me he saw you ; & on the other hand, I do assure you, it gave me no small pain 
 to learn, that your frcinds, many of whom I know, & had a great regard for, chose 
 the party in which they are now engaged. I wish with all my heart they had consulted 
 your honour & their owti safety more than they have done. I am glad you ai'e got 
 safe home, without being much hurt with the fatigues of so rough a journey as you 
 have had ; & tho' it would add to my satisfaction, to have the honour of seeing you in 
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 this place, as you propose, vet I readily dispense \nth that pleasure, as it might be 
 attended with those inconveniences to you wluch you mention. Be so good as to make 
 my compliments to mv Ladv, & believe me to be, 
 
 D^Sir, 
 Your most ob' & most humble Serv'. See. 
 
 Xo. CCCCXLIV. 
 
 The Lord President to Inverchasly. 
 
 Sir, Culloden, 1 7'-^ Sept' 1 745. 
 
 I AM intrusted by his Majestie to dispose of some conmiissions, to such as are 
 able & willing to raise independent comp-""' for the service of the Gov' at this critical 
 juncture ; & I have some hints, that the Master of Ross is sent for (pursuant to a sug- 
 gestion of your's) to come over, to make the figure he ought to make at the head of 
 his namesakes of this country. I have, therefor, thought of reser^'ing a Captain's 
 commission for him, & of filling up the commissions to his subalterns \^ith the names 
 of a son of your's, who I am told you are desireous to have in the armv, & with that 
 of Da^id Ross, Shandwick's brother, if you approve of it. The Gentleman last 
 named, who is latelv come from Ed', carrss you this ; & it is my wish to know your 
 sentiments on the subject as soon as possible ; Sc that, if it may be, I may see you. 
 here without loss of time. In the meantime, I trust you will not take notice of this to 
 any body ; and that if you approve of what I mention, you mav turn it in your 
 thoughts how to get 100 clever fellows together for the present ser%'ice, as soon as 
 arms can be had to put in their hands. The bearer, who left Ed' lately, -will relate to 
 you what he has heard of the Rebells ; which, according to the best of my informa- 
 tion, is not very formidable. I am in heast, & therefor shall only add, that I am, 
 
 D' Sir, sincerely your's, &:c. 
 
 No. CCCCXLV. 
 
 The Lord President to the Earl of Sutherland. 
 
 My Lord, Culloden, 17" Sept^ 1745. 
 
 YOUR zeal for his JMajestie's service, & your abilit\' to act up to that zeal, leaves 
 me no room to doubt, that I shall act agreeably to his Majestie's intentions, if IreceiAe 
 your Lop's directions with respect to the choice of Officers for ane independant compy 
 now to be raised. The nature of the sen-ice requires, that such a compy of your 
 Lop's men be innnediately set on foot ; & as vou are the most proper judge which of 
 your freinds are the fittest to be trusted, & the likelyest to be followed by your people, 
 I beg that, after considering maturely, you will let me have the names of the persons 
 whom you would have imploy'd as Capt", Lieut. & Ensign, tliat their commissions 
 may be filled up accordingly. This comp' ought to consist for the present of 100 
 men ; & as there may be immediate use for them, I hope your Lop will cause pitch 
 upon proper men to fill it up without delay, that they may be brought together as soon 
 as arms (which are dayly expected) arrive. The troops under Sir John Cope were 
 embark'd at Abd° last Fr)-day, & have probably landed at Leith before this. The High- 
 landers decamped from Perth last Wednesday ; but not in, such numbers as they 
 
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 wish'd, or we apprehended. — If I can trust the concurrent reports which have reach 'd. 
 me, it is beHevM by our Ministers, that the Grand Duke was elected King of the Ro- 
 mans, at Frankfort, the a*" inst. O. S. 
 
 1 am, my Lord, 
 
 With perfect respect, 
 Your Lop's most ob' & most humble Serv*, &c. 
 
 [There is a similar Letter to Lord Reay.]] 
 
 No. CCCCXLVI. , . 
 
 The Lord President to the Magistrates of Elgin. 
 
 Gentlemen, CuUoden, 18"' Sepf 1745. 
 
 I HAVE your's of the 16''', expressing your apprehensions of a visite from 
 Olenbucket, & wishing for a conipy or two of the new levied reg' for your protection. 
 As there is no certainty of the time of his comeing to you, supposeing he should ever 
 come, the generall service does not permit, at this nick of time, the sending these 
 compys to ly with you ; but I hope in a very few days we will be able to part with the 
 force you speak of, & with a much greater, to protect his Majestie's dutifull subjects. In 
 the mean time, I flatter myself you are not realy in the danger you apprehended ; for, 
 besides that Glenbucket must in all appearance quickly follow his freinds, who are 
 gone from Perth,without amuseing himself with marches which can be of no real service, 
 I should imagine that common prudence would hinder him, whom I know to be a good- 
 natured man, from committing any outrages, & prevent any excess of zeal in his 
 friends ; since these things could only tend to justify severitys by way of reprisal], 
 which in a very few days it wll be in our power, hovv'ever little in our inclination, to 
 exercise. As the insurrection now on foot has had countenance fi'om so few persons of 
 rank, property or consideration, I should hope it will require very small reflection in 
 your neighbours, however otherwise disposed, to preserve them in their duty, & con- 
 sequently in security. I need not imploy many words to assure you of my perfect good 
 will to your town. ^;, : 
 
 I am. Gentlemen, 
 
 Your most ob' 8c most humble Serv', SiC 
 
 No. CCCCXLVIL 
 
 The Lord President to the Marquis of Tweeddale. 
 
 My Lord, 20 Sept', i o at night. 
 
 THIS day I had the honour of your Lop's of the 12"*, referring to one of the lo"*, 
 in which your Lop gave me more particular directions. The letter referred to, is not 
 yet come to hand ; & it was by the greatest accident that the other, which was in a 
 packet not to be concealed had it met with any body to look after it, came safe. The 
 cause of this difficulty, & the cause why I write in this minute form of concealment, is, 
 that after Sir J. Cope left this country, M' Gordon of Glenbucket, whom your Lop has 
 often heard of, with some Highlanders & some zealots of the shire of Banf, have gone 
 a recruiting to reinforce the posse tliat are gone southward j & tho' they meet with 
 
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 small success, yet they infest the roads, & render commumcation 'twist this & Ed' 
 unsafe, if not unpracticable ; which is one of the reasons why I have so earnestly press'd 
 for some ship or arm'd vessell, to keep the communication open. I hope your Lop has 
 received my note of the 13", 10 at night, because it came safe to Abd^ & was for- 
 ■warded by sea, after Sir J. Cope had sail'd. In it I acknowledged the receipt of the 
 commissions sent me, & acquainted your Lop with my purpose of disposeing of so many 
 of them, as I should judge necessary, to such persons as were most likely to bring a 
 body of men immediately together for His Majestie's ser\-ice. I am now working on 
 that plan, Sc am in hopes of haveing such a body in readiness, by the time that arms, 
 £c money, or credit, to bring them together to act, caii reach us. Your Lop has again 
 mention'd, that IVP Pelham has promised to answer my bills towards necessary expence. 
 But you could not be inform'd 'till you got my last, that such is the state of this 
 country, ftom the confusion of the times, and the stop of communication, that all coin 
 is lock'd up, & none can be commanded. I cannot command a shilling that is owing 
 to me, Si even bank bills are of no currency. I do as well as I can in respect to small 
 expences ; but sums of any value cannot be compass'd ; & therefor, once for all, un- 
 less some vessell is sent, with a proportion of cash & credit, which by the open' com- 
 munication v.hich \\'ill thereby be preserved, may be effectuall, the new Comp" can- 
 not speedily be of half the use they otherwise might be of. The state of the southern 
 countrys, since the Highlanders pass'd the Forth, your Lop -will be acquainted of from 
 thence. Ours is, that tho' numerous emissarys have been imploy'd amongst the nor- 
 thern clans, no men have as yet been prevail'd with to be mad enough to join them 
 since they pass'd the Corryyarig, to their very great dissappointment ; & I hope the 
 independant comp-" will be a mean to secure our tranquiUty, if not to do more ; as 
 there are mad men in all countrys, your Lop %^411 easily believe, it will require some 
 skill & industry to produce even this effect. Glenbucket, whom I have named, & 
 who is said to have a Maj' Gen"'^ commission, has been for 10 davs busy in Bamf shire, 
 levieing troops ; which, if I be not much misinform'd, desert him dayly : he has hitherto 
 found no gentlemen of fortime to join him ; & his numbers are not said, even by his 
 own people, to exceed 300. In Badenock, Macpherson of Clunie, who lately had a 
 company in L" Loudon's new reg<, & \^ho was seised by the rebells, as he says by sur- 
 prise, when they pass'd the Coryarig, is said to have listed with them, & to be raiseing 
 his clan in order to join them ; & I'me affraid the report is true. When our new 
 indepen' comp-' can be brought to act, we shall have nothing further of this kind. 
 Ceremony can find no room in such a morsell of paper. I therefor take very respect- 
 fully my leave, &c. 
 
 P. S. Before sealing, your Lop's of the i o"" has, throw many hazards, come to my 
 hands. 
 
 Xo. CCCCXLVIII. 
 
 Sir John Gordon to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 21 Sept. 1745. 
 
 IN obedience to your Lop's commands, I was at Tarbat House on Wednesday 
 morning ; and missing of Lord Cromertie, who was gone up the country tor some 
 days, I acquainted my sister and Lord Macleod with what you was pleased to give me 
 in comraission on Monday last to say to the Earl, and which his son inlorm'd him of 
 
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 by letter that night. Lord Macleod is very sensible of his obligation to your Lop for 
 your favorable intentions towards him. 
 
 The accounts brought us by last post, of the intention to raise forthwith ten inde- 
 pendent companies, has produced an application to me from my uncle Ardock & his 
 son, which leads me to suggest him to your Lop as one whom I flatter myself you w"* 
 not think improper to be emplov'd in this new corps ; provided the persons who are 
 to receive commissions in it are not already determin'd upon. Your Lordship knows 
 the steadv attachment to this Government of those he is come of upon bcith sides. He 
 himself is a brisk voung iellow, and I'm confident quite zealous for the cause of liberty ; 
 and could in a verv little time raise I believe the best part of a company from among 
 the Highlnnders upon their own estate in Sutherhmd, and of wh,ose deserting him I 
 sh** imagine there w be little apprehension. For these reasons, as much as on ace' of my 
 relation to him, have I ventur'd to mention this matter of my cousen's to your Lop, 
 which I hope you'll pardon ; and impute, as you may, the varietv of trouble given 
 you this season to your Lordship's known zeal for the publick service, and acknow- 
 iedg'd judgm' in discerning how 'tis to be best promoted. 
 
 We continue here to be pester'd with a number of lies dispers'd in order to keep up 
 the spirits of the party ; and with this view, to balance the good news last post brought 
 us, are we, I conclude, now told, that there is a large landing in the mouth of 
 Clyde ; and that the express which brought the news thereof to Inverness on Thurs- 
 dav, likewise brought intelligence of there loeing to be a rising by severrJs of conse- 
 quence in the shires of Argyle, Dunbarton, & Clydsdale, in favors of the Highlanders 
 whenever they had cross'd the Forth ; none of ail which can I believe, or think pos- 
 sible to be true ; but look upon them in the same light as the stories of Glenbuckitt's 
 great success, w^hich it is needless to trouble your Lop with. In this countr)-, no 
 symptoms of the contagion have vet broke out, and I flatter myself none will, but 
 that the whole body must be by y' time dispersing. 
 
 In Sutherland, I hear, the Caithness post says there are parties in the hills of thieves, 
 and a guard every night at Dunrobin ; but no enemy has appear'd, that I can learn. 
 Next week I propose being in that country ; and if there, or any where else, I can 
 obey the commands of your Lop, I shall be fond of every opportunity of approving 
 myself 
 
 Your Lordship's 
 Newhall, 21'' Sept' 7 most obedient humble Servant, 
 
 1745. 5 JOHN GORDON. 
 
 No. CCCCXLIX. 
 
 Lord Lovat to the Lord President. 
 My dear Lord, 
 
 I RECEIVED just now, it being very late in the evening, the honor of your letter 
 of this day's date ; for which I give your Lordship my most sincere thanks. I am 
 very glad, my Lord, that your health is good, in spite of your vast fatigue : long may 
 it be so ; and I presume to assure your Lordship of my affectionate respects, and my 
 son's ; in which Inveralachy, who came here just before dinner, and Gortuleg 
 join us. 
 
 I give your Lordship ten thousand thanks for having me in your eye when you had 
 it in your power to do great & good service to my family. I shall always have a grate- 
 
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 fill remembrance of it ; and your Lordship cannot but remember that these 30 years 
 past I had as strong an attachment for vour Lordship's person 8c family as any man in 
 Scotland ; and never swerved from that, till I was iinhappily deceived, ^: engaged to 
 act against my zealous worthy friend your brother Culloden in the affair of his elec- 
 tion ; which I did and vnW repent of all my life ; and I have been very sufficiently 
 punished and chastised for it. But these unhappy jars being over, I am fully cominced 
 that vour Lordship bears good will and has very good wishes for the prosperity of my 
 familv : and this makes me still look on your Lordship as one of my best friends. 
 
 I am ver)' much surprized and angry at mv cousin M Leod, that did not tell your 
 Lordship my resolutions about the independent company, and explain my reasons for 
 mv resolutions, which he knows verv well, and which I told him twent)- tim^s more fully 
 than I can tell it in a letter. I therefore refer still to my cousin M Leod to tell your Lordship 
 my resolutions and mv reasons for them. I am vastly obliged to my worthy friend the 
 great Earl of Stair. This is not the first mark of his friendship for me, of which I -will 
 retain a grateful sense as long as I live. If I did not know that ray friend the Lyon takes 
 pleasure sometimes in telling and retailing clatters and stor\-s, I would be ven," angr\- at 
 him for wxiting to vour Lordship such a ridiculous, silly, foolish lie, of me, which has no 
 more foundation than if he had said that I was going to jom KuliKhan ; for Glenbucket 
 and I had a quarrel ever since Glenbucket went to Stratherick with Fraserdale, and 
 threatened the Stratherick people to bring down the force of Badenoch upon them, if 
 they did not pay their rents to Fraserdale. As to my cousin Inveralachy, the charac- 
 ter that your Lordship gives of him in your letter is very just ; for I do assure you, 
 that he is a gentleman of very good sense and understanding, and far from being a 
 fool, and was as cautious and prudent in his proceedings & ordinary' transactions as 
 anv that Hves m the shire that he is in. Besides, he knows his birth too well to go 
 under Glenbucket's command on any consideration whatever j so that the part of the 
 story attributed to him is as grossly false as my part of the story ; which I am sure he 
 will tell yotir Lordship when he has the honour to wait upon you. And I sincerely 
 declare to your Lordship, that the reason I sent for him is, that I resolve to put my 
 estate in trust into his hands, my Lord Strichen's, and M Leod"s ; being determined as 
 soon as I can, as I have been all this season, to go south, and from that to England, 
 and from that to France (if I get leave), for the benefit of my health ; and I sent for 
 Inveralachy to be wimess to Evan Bailhe's drawing up the papers concerning my estate; 
 because it's ten to one if ever I come back to this countr)- after going out of it. This 
 is the true matter of fact. 
 
 Whenever I am able to travel so far, I shall have the honour to pay my respects to 
 your Lordship at Culloden, and explain this matter more fully to you ; and I am with 
 the utmost respect. 
 
 My dear Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obedient and most affectionate Slave, 
 
 Beaufort, 20*" SeptO LOVAT. 
 
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 No. CCCCL. , 
 
 Lord Reay to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I HAVE the honour of your Lop's most kind letter, and am very glad to know, 
 by it, that his Majesty has pitched on your Lop to dispose of the independent companys 
 you mention ; as I know none more zealous for his Majesty's interest, or more capable 
 to choose the fittest persons, than your Lop. The trust you're pleased to put in me, 
 in giving me the nomination of the officers of one company, is extreamly obliging: I 
 shall be proud to execute it to the outmost of my power for his Majesty's service, your 
 Lop's honour, & my own. 
 
 The properest person that occurs to me for the company, amongst my friends, Is my 
 son George, providing he chooses to accept, after advising with your Lop and knowing 
 the footing these companys are to be on. As for the subalterns, I refer to George, 
 who will deliver you this ; only I wish with all my heart my grandchild, Bighouse's 
 son, could be allowed of for the ensigncy, notwithstanding of his being only past thir- 
 teen years. This, in all other respects, will be of very considerable advantage to the 
 company, as George will tell your Lop. I'm glad our enemies are beginning to cool. 
 I hope they'l have dayly more & more reason to be so ; and that matters will be ther- 
 after so managed by the Government, as will prevent any further attempts of this kind. 
 I have the honour to be, with sincere respect. 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lop's most obedient, most obliged humble serv* 
 Tongue, |^ REAY. 
 
 23'' Sept^ 1745. > 
 
 No. CCCCLI. 
 
 The Lord President to the E. of Cromertle. 
 My Lord, 
 
 HIS Majestie haveing been pleased to entrust me with the disposall of commissions 
 for some independant comp^' now to be rais'd, Sir John Gordon, who was occasionally 
 at this place, undertook to let me know from your Lop whether you would permitt my 
 Lord Mac Leod to accept of a Capt"" commission, & how the young man would like it- 
 Sir John has acquainted me, that he saw my Lord Mac Leod, but had not access to see 
 your Lop, as you was not at home ; that the young man expressed his willingness, & 
 that he believed your Lop would fall in with his inclinations ; tho', as he had not seen 
 you, he could not give your own answer. What yrfor brings your Lop this trouble, is, 
 to have your consent to your son's accepting this commission, which may be ane intro- 
 ducdon to what he promises one day to deserve ; because, however willmg he may be 
 to be in the army, & however desireous I may be to gratif\' him in what I hope will 
 turn out for his advantage ; yet, without your Lop's approbadon, I would not presume 
 to conclude any thing in a matter wherein you are so nearly concerned. 
 
 I am, with great respect, my Lord, 
 
 Your Lop's most ob' & most humble serv', &c. 
 Culloden, 2^^ Sept' 1745. 
 
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 No. CCCCLII. 
 
 Mr. Alexander Robertson to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 
 
 AFTER I parted -with your Lordship, an unforeseen accident made me come 
 home thro' Baddanach. I was at Killvhuntly sabath-night, where Clunie hapened to 
 come late at night. I told him, I was asham'd at the dishonourable part he had acted, 
 w^hen he luiew what promises I had made that he would be faithfull and useful to his 
 Majestic ; and how his people w ere long agoe attached to the noble family of Argyle, 
 and party'd them at the batles of Glenlie and ^^ ******** against the Gordons.- 
 Clunie took all kindly, and at once told me his history ; by which I find, he's still in 
 possession of his commission, and did not wodte or give it up to Sir John Cope, as was 
 reported. I find the loss of him, from being heartily engaged for the Government, 
 was oving to Sir John Cope, which shows he's no good judge of m.ankind. 
 
 Killvhuntly went south to wait on the Duke of Argyle, to offer Clunie's ser\ace and 
 their haill clan, to be employed to crush the rebellion in the manner his Grace should 
 dii'ect. Sir Jo. Cope made Killyhuntly prisoner at Lithgow, where they mett, and 
 w^ould not allow him to goe or write to Argyle, or to Clunie ; but made him march 
 back with the Earl of Loudoun's recruits ; and by this means Clunie and all his people 
 were quite bewildered, till Sir John came to Dalcharrie : there Clunie mett him, and 
 asked leave to goe home & bring up his recruits, because he had before trysted them, 
 to be next dav at his house ; and the gentlemen of the name were to be there also, in 
 order to pick and choose as many of their best men to march with Clunie, as would 
 make his company compleet, till he had time to recruitt others. But good Sir John • 
 show'd manifest traitsof a jelousie of him ; refus'd to let him goe, and used him as an 
 Informer ; never once asking his advice, or using him as a friend ; which was too low 
 a way of treating a gentleman of his spiritt, who in a private capacity was abler to serve 
 the King than Sir John. Clunie was not lett home for his men till the night after Sir 
 John left Ruthven, when he was apprehended without his knowledge, I'm perswaded, 
 from what I heard him say. He now owns, an angel could not resist the soothing close 
 aplications of the rebels ; yet he's sensible their designs tend to the total subversion of 
 Church and State. He has a dread that he's allready gone too farr ; but I promised 
 vour Lordship would bring all to rights bet\\ixt the King and him ; which soften'd him 
 much ; and when I offered to write your Lordship at his own sight anent it, he said he 
 would not give me that trouble, but w ould take his own way ; and he promised, that 
 unless he see the rebells leik to carry all, and England suporting them, he'll keep free 
 and not jo}-n. He told me, he feared the loss of nothing but his commission ; because, 
 tho' in his marriage contract his father dispones all to him, yet he's never infeft. 1 
 showed the folly of that, w hich surprized him not a litle. 
 
 I send this express, because I find, from him, that the Marquis of Tullybardine waits 
 his coming at Blair ; and on his ingaging depends the rising, or not, of some of the 
 M'Intoshes, Frazers, M'^Kenzies. Killyhuntly has more influence on Cliuiie than all 
 •mankind ; for he's been allways led by him. Clunie also complains, that Major 
 M'Kenzie's behaviour to Killyhuntly has disgusted him much, and must be uneasie to 
 Killyhuntly ; for the Major huffs him leik a footman ; gi^-es him no regular pay, but 
 subsistence ; confines him as a suspected person to the town of Inverness ; turn'd off 
 some recruits Killyhuntly had attested, and made him lose his money. Clunie said, if 
 he had treat him so, he would throw his commission at his foot, and force him to throw 
 his doublett, or doe worse. 
 
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 I humbly think your Lordship may invite the Major and Kilyhuntly to dinner ; put 
 the Major, if a man of sense, on his guard to own his fault ; and that it was Killyhuntly's 
 own fault, that took not a proper method to let him have his just character ; and your 
 Lodship can easilv get Killyhuntly to complain alone, and then introduce it in conver- 
 sation when together. The use of this is, I know Killyhuntly is a stench revoiutioner 
 from his infancy ; and I propose, that once his grievances are removed, your Lordship 
 desire him to send to Clunie, and that they meet in as secrett a manner and where 
 Clunie pleases for his own safty. He's just now at a \ ast uncertaintv ; but if any 
 alive doe it, Killyhuntly will determine him with the arguments your Lordship can 
 afford him. 
 
 The 6,000 Dutch forces landed at Berwick Friday last ; and tho' Cope was a fool 
 to engage when he knew it ; yett, as all England are for the Protestant int^erest, their 
 religion, and liberties, all \\"ill quickly be put to rights again, if Killyhuntly get Clunie's 
 compauv, and Clunie one of the independant companies, when the troubles are over. 
 A hint of this kind wU settle their passions much; for if Clunie could have an inde- 
 pendant company to guard us from thieves, its what I know he desires above all 
 things. 
 
 I hear this day from persons come from Edin' that the Highlanders are to stay there 
 till their other friends come up from the north, and then march all in a bodv to Eng- 
 land. From this, I reckon it good service to retard Clunie's march, or bring him quite 
 over to the King's interest, because so many others wait his motion. For that reason, 
 I presume to trouble your Lodship with this long narrative. 
 
 Lord Ogilvie is now march'd with 400 men, and Glenbuckitt, I hear, with 300 men, 
 hardly the third of what they promised. 
 
 Sir John Cope's defeat is nothing leik the romantick accounts the other side give of 
 it : it's plain he's a weak man, neither of weight, conduct, or courage fitt for such a 
 charge. The only efiect it can have is, to put the Government now on their mettle, 
 to poure in forces from all hands to crush the Highland rebells the quicker ; and it 
 may also mine many an unthinking man, by joining the readyer with the rebells. I 
 think now the Protestants, & our King's friends, should arm on all hands for his Ma- 
 jesde ; Sc I wish your Lordship would write the Duke of Argyle and others on that 
 subject; and if commissions, pay, & arms, be given, the martiall spiritt of our friends 
 will soon change the face of affairs for the King. No cost should be sav'd when all's 
 at stake. Its now easier to find out who are friends, and who are not. 
 
 The bearer is a poor honest man. If your Lordship has any commands for the 
 King's friends in the south, he will carry them carefully ; and as he has a private way 
 of travelling from this to Inverness without being seen, thro' the hills, and a correspon- 
 dence may be thus carry'd on by their writeing from the south here, and I shall answer 
 for conveying it sure to your Lordship, I have given him money to bear his charges. If 
 he be to go south, your Lordship may write them to pay him, or I shall doe it. 
 I am, with great esteem, my Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most affectionate 
 Si most humble servant, 
 Inerchraskie, ") ALEX' ROBERTSON. 
 
 23^ Sept' 1745./ . . 
 
 No. CCCCLIII.
 
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 No. CCCCLIII. 
 
 Sir Alex. Macdonald to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 BY a vessel from KintvTe, I find the Highlanders -were at Glasgow eight days 
 ago ; they have demanded fifteen thousand pomids of that to-wTi. No certainty of their 
 numbers; & no word of the Dutch being actually landed, which the people who re- 
 tired to Kintpe from Glasgow sho'd have kno-rni, had they landed any where, five 
 davs before their retreat. I have wrote to the Laird, how the commissions are to be 
 filled up : he knows the Gentlemen. It vdll occur to your Lordship, that the pas of the 
 officers, I mean such of them as never served before, sho'd be lotted for ; & I take it 
 for oranted it %dll be done. It is quite impossible to raise the men without money, 
 unless it was to follow myself It is not surpriseing that they are somewhat agog about 
 the adventure of their brother Highlanders ; but all care is taken not to encourage their 
 foolish actions. I look'd at the raenof thispart oftheisland in parcells, told them, in 
 troublesome times, they ought to be in all readiness possible to do for themselves ; & 
 that I did not know how soon the King might demand a levy of men. I expect your 
 Lordship v.i.11 let me know what I07 money the Captains are to have. I refer to the 
 Laird's epistle ; being in the state your Lordship is, not very well, but resolved to 
 mend, as I hope you have already done. 
 
 I am, with the usual attachment. 
 My d' Lord, yours, 
 Mugstot, 24«'' Sept\ . ALEX' MACDONALD. 
 
 No. CCCCLIV. 
 
 The Lord President to the E. of Cromertie. 
 
 My Lord, 25 Sept' 1745. 
 
 I HAVE the honour of your Lop's of yesterday's date*. As neither your Lop 
 nor my Lord Mac Leod dislike the commission that is proposed, I must confess it gives 
 me very great uneasiness to find that the circumstance your Lop mentions occasions any 
 deliberation. Your Lop \nll readily agree with me, that in the execution of the trust 
 committed to me, my chief regard must be to the service ; & if what that requires, in 
 circumstantiall matters only, should give your Lop offence, or create in you a diffi- 
 dence of my respect for your Lop, it would to me be a very great mortification. I 
 hope your Lop will not think so harshly of me ; & that, upon considerations such as 
 you mention, you v,il\ not suffer ane opurtunit)' to slip of introduceing the yoimg Lord 
 into a state of life which he seems desireous to pursue ; especially at a conjuncture 
 where the nature of the service seems to require that men so well disposed as your 
 Lop should not stand upon ceremonie. Let me therefor beg of your Lop to consider 
 well what is to be done, & to give your consent to your son's accepting the commission ; 
 & I dare assure you, that you and he will find that I am very sincerely, my Lord, your 
 Lop's most ob' & most humble serv', Sec. 
 
 • We do not find this letter in the Collection. 
 
 No. CCCCLV.
 
 ADDENDA.] CULLODEN PAPERS. 4I5 
 
 No. CCCCLV. 
 
 The Earl of Cromertie to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I HAVE the honour of y' Lop's of the 25"'. I cannot help thinking that the cir- 
 cumstances in that commission that is proposed for my son are so singular, that I cannot 
 desire him, nor is it in his own inchnation, to accept of it on these terms, as it disables him 
 firom doing the service as he would wish ; & if he is thought less capable then others, 
 who are offered greater priviledges, it is no less to lay him aside ; but he will very 
 soon have the honour of waiting of your Lop to returne you his hearty thanks for your 
 kindeness ; & I am, with great regard, my Lord, 
 
 Y' Lop's most obedient most humble servant, 
 Tarbat house, \ CROMERTIE. 
 
 26'" Sep' 1 745. J 
 
 No. CCCCLVI. 
 
 The Marquis of Tweeddale to the Lord President, 
 
 My Lord, Whitehall, 1'' Octo' 1745. 
 
 I HAD the honour of your Lordship's of the 1 3ih Sep" transmitted to me from 
 Berwick by Sir John Cope ; and 1 have the satisfaction to acquaint you, that his Ma- 
 jesty approves the plan you propose to follow in the distribution of the commissions, 
 which will undoubtedly facilitate the raising of the men in the North Highlands. 
 
 The Earl of Stair has, by his Majesty's order, signified to the Earl of Loudoun, that 
 he should forthwith repair to Inverness, to take upon him the command of the troops 
 and garrisons from Inverlochy to Inverness, of the twenty independant companies to be 
 raised, and of all such bodies of men as are or shall be raised for his Majesty's service j 
 and his Lordship is desired to act in every thing with your advice and consent. 
 
 It is left to your Lordship and the Earl of Loudoun to concert proper measures for 
 distressing the Highlanders, and for preventing their being joined by others, and in 
 general to do what you shall think most for his Majesty's service, according as occa- 
 sions may offer, or circumstances may require, either in or out of the countrys where 
 they have been raised. 
 
 There are 1,500 stand of arms, with ammunition and proper accoutrements, to be 
 put on board the Saltash sloop of war, which is ordered to sail forthwith to Inverness, 
 and the Captain will take directions from you. Two months subsistence for the troops 
 to be raised has likewise been imprested into George Ross's hands, which he proposes 
 to send in specie by the sloop to Inverness. 
 
 The late unhappy defeat of Sir John Cope, as it must occasion the utmost distress 
 in our country, so it gives a very great alarm here ; but a very considerable body of 
 troops, with artillery, &c. has already begun to march northward, to be commanded 
 by Marshall Wade j and more of our troops are ordered from Flanders. 
 
 I am, with great regard, 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, 
 
 TWEEDDALE. 
 
 No. CCCCLVn.
 
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 Xo. CCCCLVII. 
 
 The Lord President to the Marquis of Tweeddale. 
 My Lord, 3* Oct' 1745. 
 
 ALL communication by land between this Sc England having been cut on by the 
 rebells getting possession of Ed', &c by the unfortunate acdon that happened on the 
 2 1'' Sept' near it ; I find myself under ane undispensible necessity of tr) ing to convey 
 this bv so?., in ane open boat to Berwick, in hopes that from thence it nay reach ycur 
 Lcp ; & in this attempt, my Lord Lyon's zeal has been very assisting to me. Upon 
 rectipt cf the commissions, which his Majesde was pleased to trust me with the dis- 
 position of, I wrote to }-our Lop the ly^- Sept", acquainting you with my hopes, that 
 under the favour of these, a considerable body of troops might quickly be get toge- 
 ther, which at least must have the effect of preventing any considerable accession to 
 the strength of the Highlanders from this country. But I then tcld yoiu: Lop that 
 towards effecdng this, besides arms, which were then expected from Ed' Castle, money 
 and credite to feed k. pay the men were necessary, & therefor suggested the necessity 
 cf sending down seme money bv a clever arm'd vessel ; whereby cur force might be 
 put in miction, & credite might be revived, by opening the correspondence ; 6c upon 
 receiving vcur Lop's letters of the 1 o^-'' & 1 2* Sept', which were the latest I had from 
 vou, I on the 20'*' in a letter to your Lop, & ane other to the E. of Stair, renew'd the 
 same suggesdcn, & explain'd the reasons why the pov.er which your Lop signifj'd to 
 me I had of drawing on Mr. Pelham, & on the Paymaster Gen", could be of no service 
 towards furnishing monev, unless the communication was keep'd open by such ane 
 arm'd vessel as I have menuoned. But, i: would seem, neither of these dispatches 
 have foimd their way to Lond" ; as I have heard nothing of the vessel I wrote for, &; 
 thereby his Majesdes service is in danger of suffering extremely in these parts ; which 
 forces me to attempt to put this in yom- Lop's hand in the maimer I have mendoned. 
 
 At the date of my last, which -n-as the 20''' of Sept', tho' there was no money to 
 bring or keep any number of men together, vet such was the authority of the Gentlemen 
 who were disposed to support the Government, that nobody of any consequence pre- 
 tended to stir or join the Highlanders who had pass'd the moimtains in their way 
 southward; & if those adventurers had not met with some unlook'd for successes the 
 same tranquiUty would still have prevail'd. But so soon as the rebells had got posses- 
 sion of Ed', & diat event was follov>'d by the more unexpected success in the action 
 near it, it is not to be conceived vith vrhut celerit)' those incidents blew up the hopes cf 
 the imthinking who wish'd for a revolution. The game seem'd to be altogether in their 
 hands ; & from caballing, they proceeded to assembling men for the Invader's sersdce. 
 And tho' nobody of consequence is, so far as I know, vet march'd from this side of 
 the mountains, yet severall clusters of people are, so to speak, on wing ; &, I am 
 under great apprehensions, may soon fly to the assistance of their successfuU brethren, 
 or attempt by force to compell others in this neighbourhood to join them, unless we are 
 speedily enabled to resist, by the means I have so often mentioned. 
 
 It may, my Lord, imless you have got my former letters, be surprising to you, that 
 under the favour of the credite which your Lop acquaints me I have upon Mr. Pelham 
 & the Paymaster Gen'', no money can be raised ; but that surprise will cease when you 
 are told, that bank notes are not, by reason of the present commotion, current ; that 
 the Ihde coin that is, is lock'd 'up ; so that the man of best credit in this country cannot 
 command a shilling ; that bills on Ed' or London are of no value; partly, as no pay- 
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 ADDENDA.] CULLODEN PAPERS. 417 
 
 ments are made at Ed' ; & partly, as there is no secure method of correspondence with 
 either of the phces ; k this matter is now gone so far, that the bills which the Ma'or 
 of L""' Loudoii's Reg' has dravvn on Ed' for the subsistence of some of the new comp-' 
 of that reg' now at liis, have return'd protested; so that these comp'' are in imminent 
 danger of being obliged to disband for want of pay, whicii they have at present on the 
 private credit of their otHcers ; & how many days that resource may last I cannot say, 
 tho' I have ofter'd to support the private credit of these officers with the additional se- 
 curit)' of mine. And now, my Lord, give me leave to express my very great concern, 
 that so fine a game as hd3 been in our hands should be in danger of being lost, for lack 
 of the supply I have so often mention'd, which might have been very easily sent, & 
 which may still be of very great service, if it come befor it is too late. To me, it 
 seem'd to be of vast consequence, to keep out of the rebellion a greater bodv of men 
 than those who are hitherto engaged in it ; & that I think would certainly have hap- 
 pened, had the supply expected come in due time. It is at present doubtfuU whether 
 numbers may not play the fool ; but I am still confident, that if this arrives quickly 
 to your Loi5's hands, &c the necessary orders are without loss of time given upon it, we 
 shdl be able still to do good, by preventing a great deal of the mischief that is to be 
 apprehended. It is almost unnecessary to mention to vour Lop, what uill naturally 
 occurr to yourself, that we can now have no supply of arms from the castle of Ed", so 
 long as the town is in the possession of the Highlanders ; & that arms therefor, if we 
 have any quickly, must come from the Tower. The necessity of sending us arms I have 
 mentioned often, because without them the well-affected, who have none, can make no 
 figure. I am hopefull they will be speedily sent us ; but the vessel vrith monev & credit, 
 if any such is to be sent, ought not to wait ane hour for that which may carry the arms, 
 because if we had the money we could bring our troops together to receive arms, which 
 might arrive some days later. Besides that, we have seven or eight hundred stand of 
 arms at Fort George, which might be put in the hands of our comp''' as they mi'^ht 
 successively arrive. Your Lop will, I hope, overlook any oversight that may be in this 
 long tho' hastily writt letter. You will observe in it a strong concern for his Maj. 
 service. The detail of what I have been doing, or rather endeavouring to do, would be 
 rather troublesome than usefull. All I shall say is, to assure you, in generall, I have 
 left nothing undone that in my judgement might contribute to it ; & tha;t I am with 
 perfect respect, my Lord, your Lop's most ob; & most humble serv", Sec. 
 
 Xo. CCCCLVIII. -n 
 
 The Lord President to the Commanding Officer at Berwick. i 
 
 Sir, f Ocf 1745. 
 
 THE enclosed letter, for the Secretary of State, is of great consequence to his 
 Majestie's service. As there is no possibility of conveying any thing of this kind with 
 safety by the usuall mediod, I have ventured it from hence in ane open boat to Ber- 
 wick ; & have presumed to direct it to you, in hopes you will take care it be transmitted 
 in the safest & most expedidous manner to London. By the direction, you will perceive 
 I know n t the person to whom I am writeing ; & it's very possible you may not, by 
 the writeing, subscription, or seal, know the person that writes to you. I find myseli". 
 therefore, obliged to let you know who I am, by telling you that I have the honour to 
 serve his Majestic as President of his Court of Session in Scotland ; Si that, tiio' I am at 
 
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 41 8 CLLLODEN PAPERS. [ADDENDA. 
 
 present acting not properly in that character, I am doing the best I can, and with some 
 success, the dut)- of a feithfull subject. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 Your most humble serv', &c. 
 
 P. S. Be so good, if this come safe to your hand, to give a signification of it in write- 
 ing to the bearer ; & if you will, by him, let me know what is doing to the southward, 
 from the knowledge of which I am at present lock'd out, it will be very obligeing. 
 
 No. CCCCLIX. 
 
 ]\r George Ross to the Laird of Macleod. 
 
 Dear Sir, London, y^ Ocf 1745. 
 
 The last letter 1 had from you was of the 3'' September from Dunvegan. The 
 progress the rebells have since made accounts for the interruption of our correspon- 
 dence. This goes by a sloop, which carrys a quantity of arms, &''^ for tlie troops which 
 I hope in God you and the other well-affected chieftains have enabled our worthy friend 
 Lord President to bring together. By the last intelligence from Berwick, the rebells 
 were about marching southwards, when they must meet with a force of the King's 
 troops that must conquer and destroy them. And the discredit this affair has brought 
 on our unhappy and much deluded country can only be retrieved by the appearance 
 your Highlanders shall make in support of the Government. It is not, I do assure you, 
 to be express'd, the encomiums made on Lord President and all of you for your con- 
 duct on this occasion ; nor can I help telling you, people make no scruple to reflect on 
 such of our countrymen as have come to this place. Here, it's said, they can be of no 
 use ; in their o\\"n country they might be of some, were it only to countenance such as 
 show their attachment to the present establishment by remaining quiet. 
 
 I am satisfied such measures have of late been taken, that must in a little time quiet 
 these disturbers of the peace ; nor will their taking Edinburgh, and their defeat of 
 Cope, have any other end, than that of deluding such as are so blind as not to see that 
 in the end they and their familys will be ruined, and an eternal infamy attend the 
 country. 
 
 Tho' the parliament be to meet the 1 7"" of this month, I should, with great sub- 
 mission, think that it would give more satisfaction to the friends of the Goverimient if 
 you stayed with Lord President, and helpt the completing of the 20 companies, and 
 even marching with them southwards, perhaps to the relief of Edin', than coming up 
 here. Besides, a few weeks must in all human probabilit)- make an end of this affair ; 
 and then indeed there ■will be occasion for you in parliament ; when there will be a very 
 strict inquir)- into the whole of this unhappy affair. I suppose you know that all our 
 troops are ordered home. 
 
 Advice is arrived from Admiral Martin-, that he had look"d into Brest, but found no 
 force there ; and all the coast is so well guarded, that there can be no danger from a 
 foreign landing. 
 
 I am, dear Sir, yours, 
 
 GEO. ROSS.
 
 ADDENDA.] CCLLODEV PAPERS. ' 415 
 
 No. CCCCLX. 
 
 The Lord President to the Marquis of Tweeddale. 
 My Lord, „ 8'" Oct' 1745. 
 
 THE 3'^'* ins' I hazarded a letter to your Lop by sea ; the substance whereof was, 
 to acquaint you, that till then we were quiet; that the success at Ed' & in the action 
 near it, had so warm'd the fancys of the Jacobites of this country, that there was the 
 greatest danger of their playing the fool ; that the totall stop to the commuiiication 
 betwixt this country & London put ane end absolutely to all credite ; so that it was 
 impossible to find money, to bring the gentlemen who are determined to support the 
 Gov" to act, without some clever arm'd vessell is sent down with some money & credite, 
 which may be enlarged by means of such a vessell, because by her the bills that may be 
 given for money here, may be sent to London ; that the credite which your Lop ac- 
 quainted me 1 had on Mr. Pelham, & on the paymaster gen" was of no sort of use with- 
 out such a vessell ; & that as the arms intended tor this part of the country were now 
 lock'd up in the castle of Ed', if the Goverm' expect any service from the numbers who 
 ai-e disposed to stand by it in this country, arms for that end must be now sent from the 
 Tower ; but that the sloop with the money & credite must not wait for the arms, because 
 we have about 800 stand in F' George to begin with, if we had cash ; & that, when 
 that sloop arrives, we shall call the men together to meet the arms that are expected. 
 Whether that dispatch -nill reach your Lop 1 cannot tell ; but as Sir John Gordon, who 
 will deliver you this, is takeing the occasion of a Dutch ship from Cromerty, to 
 transport himself to some part of England, I have thought it necessary to send by hun 
 this notice to your Lop ; & to say, that it would be very melancholy if such a force as 
 has been ready in this country for some time should be render'd useless for want of such 
 a vessell as I have so often mention'd, & some money & credite by her ; & if to the 
 same accident it should be oweing, that, notwithstanding of all care possible taken, the 
 Highlanders should be able to force numbers from this part of the world to serve them. 
 Hitherto they have had no accession of any consequence trom the north since their 
 boasted victory. If we continue neglected, I do not know what may happen. The 
 obstruction of the correspondence, ik consequently of credite, is such, that the comp" 
 of L"* Loudon's new reg" now at Ins must have disbanded for lack of pay, had I not 
 subsisted some of them out of my pocket, which is at present very light ; & the regular 
 troops in garison at Fort George & Fort Augustus will in two weeks be in the like con- 
 dition ; but for a few weeks I will try to subsist them also, in hopes of a speedy relief. 
 The importance of the matter will excuse my importunity; & the bearer's heast will 
 excuse my abruptness, when I add only, that I am, with perfect respect, &c. 
 
 No. CCCCLXI. 
 
 From Mr. Morison jun. late Provost of Aberdeen, to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 THE place you hold under his present Majestie, & the so faithful! pairt your Lop 
 has acted in vour high station for the interest of his sacred person, & all that's dear & 
 valuable to Great Brittain at this juncture, makes me presume to trouble you with what 
 follows. * 
 
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 420 CL'LLOBEN PAPERS. [ADDENDA. 
 
 I am just now at some distance from Aberd" & from myiamiely, not thinking myself 
 safe to be in the way of those who had used me in so vmreasonable odd a m.anner, as 
 was mv fate the 25"' past ; when, being seized upon by an armed party of Highland-men, 
 was violently forced do\\na to the Cross ; and there, with some broad-swords over my 
 head, was obliged to stand till their Proclamation was read ; &; because I refused to 
 drink a health they proposed, I had a glass of vnne spilt down my breast ; which was, 
 I acknowledge, making me sufi'er in a way, next to taking my life, that non could 
 have affected me more. In so farr they gott what they aim'd at : but sure it was no 
 advantage to their cause. It is my great support, that what I under^vent on this occa- 
 sion was for endeaA'ouring to be faithfull in the discharge of my duty in my station, under 
 the present happy establishment, and w"*" I hope I shall ever esteem it my greatest 
 honour to doe, as Providence shall give me opporrunitie. I will take a more conve- 
 nient time to inform your Lop of a message being sent them, to qualifie otherways 
 then we had done. In the forenoon they thought fitt to disperse ; for my part, I had 
 gone out of town, & almost ever scence have scarce seen my own house. 
 
 Your Lop observes our new councell is chose, but no oince-bearers ; & we want 
 much to know if that councell will stand ; and if it ik the old councell can at a conve- 
 nient time choose the office-bearers, without any new powers from the Crown. I hope 
 your Lop will give me your thoughts of this matter. There is no news but that it's 
 said the castle of Ed' are now allow'd to get what provisions they ■«'ant ; w'^*', no doubt, 
 you'll have sooner acco" of then we. Depending on an answer from your Lop, I remain, 
 with the greatest truth. 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lop's most obed'- hu. serv". 
 Near Aberd", ) JAMES MORIS ON Jun^ 
 
 lo"" Octob' 1745- 5 
 
 No. CCCCLXII. 
 
 The Lord President to the Marquis of Tweeddale. 
 My Lord, 10"' Oct' 1745. 
 
 WHEN the letter which is herewith enclosed was \\Titten, I rely'd upon it that it 
 would have been convey'd to Berwick bv the master of ane open boat, with whom I 
 had contracted ; but the weather haveing all of a sudden become boisterous, neither he, 
 nor any other master of such a vessell, vv-ould undertake the voyage, which obliged 
 me to hire a ship from Inverness, whereof one Hugh Inglis, a very honest man 
 & dutyfull subject, is master, to carry this packet to Berwick or Newcastle, whichever 
 of those parts he can most conveniently reach ; there to be delivered to the command- 
 ing officer, to be forwarded to your Lop by land. Since the date of the enclosed, 
 nothing remarkable has happen'd in this neighbourhood ; a thousand rumours are 
 fijTng abroad, & many giddy people are busy endeavouring to raise men, &: to per- 
 swade them to march 5c join the rebells ; but hitherto nobody of any consequence has 
 moved ; nor will they, in all probability', if the arm'd vessell with money and credite 
 come in time. One thing indeed has hapen'd, w'" shows the absolute necessit)' of a 
 speedy supply in the manner propos'd. Bills drawn on Ed' for the subsistence of the 
 officers & the small number of soldiers of L"* Loudon's new levied reg' now at Ins, have 
 returned protested ; so that the men are in immediate danger of being obliged to 
 disband for lack of pay j ;jc the regular troops in garrison at Fort George & Fort 
 
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 addexdaJ cullodejt papers. 421 
 
 Augustus have acquainted me, that in 2 or 3 weeks they must be in the same condition ; 
 the consequence whereof, should the thing happen, is too obvious. To prevent which, 
 I have subsisted, out of my own pocket, such of L'* Loudon's reg" whose officers could 
 not upon their private credite find money ; & I have acquainted all of them, as well as 
 the officers of the troops in garrison, that I shall make shift to supply them in like 
 manner for some weeks more ; but unless what is wanted & expected, I mean the 
 arm'd vessel!, come, that relief cannot be long usefull. By Sir John'<Jordon, of 
 Inver Gordon, v. ho proposes to take his passage on board a Dutch ship from Cromertv, 
 & to be laid on land somewhere on the coast of England, I have written to your Lop 
 to the same purpose. If either that, or this come to your Lop's hands, I hope for a 
 epeedy answer. I am, with perfect respect, 
 
 My L. 
 
 Y. L. m. o. & m. h. s. 
 
 P. S. - 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Since writeing the above, the arrivall of the E. of Loudon, in His Majestv's ship 
 the Glasgow, makes the dispatching the Ins ship (whose dammage & expence I shall 
 make good) unnecessary ; as the King's ship will convey the dispatches quicker, & with 
 greater certaint)\ He has brought down some cash with him ; ^; I have been scrapeing 
 as well as I could some together to prevent the distress, which might have been fatall 
 had no relief come. As we now are possess'd of some coin, we shall as soon as possible 
 begin tj draw the Independant Companys together, so far as we have arms for them ; 
 & we shall trust to it, that arms will be sent to us from the Tower without loss of time, 
 & th''.t we shall have the sloop of war, so often mentioned by me, with some more 
 money. I have not projected at present to dispose of more than i o or 1 1 of the 
 Independant Comp>', according to exigencies ; &, as experience shall direct, 1 shall 
 dispose of the remainder, or of some of them. I may err ; but I shall be able to give a 
 reason satisf)-ing to myself at the time, for what I mav happen to do ; &: I hope it wiH 
 be so to His Majesty. I have writt a note to M' Pelham, referring to what I have said 
 to your Lop. 
 
 Ko. CCCCLXIII. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Fortrose. 
 
 My Lord, Culloden, 1 1'-' Oct' 1745, 9 in the morning. 
 
 THE E. of Loudon came the day befor yesterday to Cromerde, & has brought 
 some credit, which wih' enable us to put the Independant Comp-' together for the service 
 of the Gov', & for our mutuall protection. What I therfor wish is, that your Lop 
 would give immediate orders, to pick out the men which at first are to compose the 
 comp'' to which your Lop has named, to be brought together as soon as Fairburn 
 arrives, in ordsr to receive commissions &: arms. Here is a report, that Barisdale is 
 gone into Assint, to raise the men of that country, to be join'd to those of Cogeash, &c. 
 who are said to have had orders to be in readyness & to join him ; & with those to 
 proceed throw your Lop's land, & to try how many of your Lop's people he can 
 perswade to join him by fair means or foul. I hope this is not true ; if it is, it is of 
 the greatest consequence to prevent it. I wish Fairburn were at home : your Lop will 
 let me know when he arrives. As my Lord Cromertie has refused the comp' I intended 
 for liis son, your Lop will deliberate, & let me know to whom you would have it 
 
 given.
 
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 414 " CULLODEN TAPEHS. [ADDENDA. 
 
 eiven. Lord Loudon brings no news besides the arrivall of the 6ooc Dutch, & the 
 lo bat. Brittish, except that S batt. 5c 9 squad, more Brittish were enibark"d at ^V^ Stat 
 before he left Newcastle for the north of England, where be believes thev are already 
 landed ; that 20C0 men are landed at Chester from Ireland : rhat a gTeat body of troops 
 is marchino- northwards, under the command of Mar. Wade ; that many Dukes & 
 Peers are raiseine troops & reg" at their own expence for the service of the Gov' ; ^ 
 that all the^orth of England is arming against the Highlanders. 1 beg to know the 
 truth of the report first mentioned. My compl"^ to Lady Seafort. 
 
 I am> most faithfully, 
 
 Your Lop's, &c. 
 
 Xo. CCCCLXR^ 
 
 The Lord President to RF Baillie. 
 Sir, - Oct' II, 1745. 
 
 I AM at present in such a hurry, that I can onlv refer to mine to Inverchasly, 
 who will delrv'cr you this. What I would hint to you is shortly this : that zeal Sc 
 diligence appear now to be more needfull than ever ; as so much zeal and diligence 
 is emplov'd on the other side to drag men into inevitable destruction ; even when 
 men, if they are not blind, must see their game is lost. By the Highlanders loitering 
 at Ed", they have given time to the Dutch 6000, &: the Brittish 1 o batt"' to land ; & 
 8 batt'" more Britt. S: 9 squad, lay ship'd at William Stat ten days ago for the north of 
 England. 2000 men are landed at Chester from Ireland ; & a great body of the troops, 
 horse &: foot, that were formerlv in England, ai-e in full march northward to be com- 
 manded by Gen" Wade. Bv this sketch, which is the case, you will see what a hard 
 wall these fools are rapping their heads ag'' : and yet their diligence, you see, is great 
 in proportion. Therefor, d" Will, let us be busey, Sc never doubt of success. 
 
 I am sincerely yoiu-s, ice. 
 
 Xo. CCCCLXV. 
 
 The Lord President to the Laird of Grant. 
 D'Sir, 
 
 THE pen was at the paper yesterday to have writt you, when my L' Deskford's arri- 
 vall made me conclude it was unnecessars- to send vou ane express. What I then would 
 have said is, that as my L*^ Loudon is come to this countn.^, to command the troops, 
 with means to subsist them, it is necessary that Rothemarchus's comp* be forthwith 
 brought together, in order to be ready to march to have arms given to the men, & 
 their commissions to the officers, on the first warning ; that you take care to have a 
 hundred clever fellows for this service. I do not doubt, neither have I any appre- 
 hension, that they will be backward, when they are told that they are not to be obliged 
 to serve longer than the present exigence continues ; when, if they think fit, they may 
 be dispens'd with, k the comp-^ made up in the ordinary way by listing & attesting. 
 So soon as the men are brought together, upon notice to L" Loudon, or me, they shall 
 have direcdons where to come to, to receive their arms, &:c. and to be put on the regular 
 establishment for pay ; & any expence that may be incurred in the mean time for sub- 
 sisting them, after they are brought together, shall be made good. As folly occasions 
 great fluctuation in this neighbourhood, tho' it is my present sentiment that the thing 
 
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 will blow over without much harm, it is my opinion, that you should have your eye 
 upon as many oi your people as you can arm, to be ready on any emergence. If they 
 are call'd out, ways & means shall be fain on for their subsistence. I am sorry for 
 the behaviour which is reported of your Urquhart people, so unlike the hearty com- 
 mands you gave them. I doubt they must be corrected. I should give you the trouble 
 to read our news, but that L'' Deskford will entertain you with them better. My com- 
 pliments to Lady Marg', & to all your good company. The paper will allow me 
 room only to say, that I am 
 
 Yours, &c. 
 12 Oct' 1745, 9m. , ' I -I 1':. 
 
 No.CCCCLXVI. ' '*' 
 
 Lord Fortrose to the Lord President. ^ >^ 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 THE surmise of some young fellows of my name haveing the assurance to attempt 
 raising men for the Highlanders at Edin' prevented my answering your Lordsp's letter 
 sooner. Upon my factor's return I sent expresses to the suspected parts, with orders 
 to the tenants not to stir, under pain of death, without my leave, tho' their respective 
 masters should be imprudent enough to desire them ; and they are returned this 
 moment with the people's blessings for my protecting them, and assurances they would 
 doe nothing without my orders : so that henceforward your Lordship need not be 
 concern'd about any idle report from benorth Kesseck. 
 
 Lord Macleod's refusal!, and some other accidents, will occasion a change in some 
 of the othcers of the two companys. I shall send their names to-morrow, with some 
 of themselves ; and hope one of the companys will be ready toward twenty hours aftec 
 the commission is filled. .; 
 
 I am, with great esteem, my dear Lord, 
 Blaan Castle, ") Your Lordship's faithfull h'' serv', 
 
 Oct' the 13"', 1745.1 K.MACKENZIE. 
 
 No. CCCCLXVII. 
 
 The Lord President to M' Morisou, late Provost of Aberdeen. 
 
 Sir, • 19'" Oct', 1745. 
 
 THIS morning yours of the lo"' inst. was sent to me from Cromertie. The 
 useless, insolent usage you met with at your Cross, Sc your resolute behaviour, I 
 had formerly heard, & was sufficiently approved of ; nor need vou doubt that it 
 shall be properly represented in due time. The discontinuance of your election is 
 what you could not help, under the then circumstances ; h tho' it is a misfortune to 
 the town, it must be endured, as well as they can, untill a legall remedy can be 
 apply'd ; which is no otherwise to be done, but by a warrant from the Crown, either 
 to continue the former Magistrates & Councellors in office, or for a new election. 
 But the remedy, in either of the ways, appears at present unseasonable. The good 
 people must therefor at pres' live in the most neighbourly way they can ; as no one, 
 I believe, would choose (tho' the community should by one consent think fit to autho- 
 rise him) to act. I cannot blame you for keeping yourself as private as you can 
 untill this storm blow over ; which I pray may soon happen, with as little loss to 
 this poor country as possible. 1 am, Sir, sincerely. 
 
 Your most oV & most humble serv', &c.
 
 4^:4 - CULLODEN PAPERS. {[ADDENDA. 
 
 Xo. CCCCLXVIII. 
 
 Lord Fortrose to the Lord President. 
 Mv Lord, 
 
 AS all travelling seems now to be at a stop in this country, I can't have the 
 pleastire of waiting on you as I proposed. This is therefore chiefly to enquire how 
 Tou doe, and to assure your Lordship that vou vrHl always find in me a faithful! 
 friend. The attempt upon your house surprized me extremely (the particulars whereot 
 I got from John Rorv's son this morning 1, and is as dirtv a trick as ever I heard ot, 
 and did not think any gentlem-an wou'd be capable of doing. As I understand your 
 cattle are taken av%'ay, I beg vou'l order Tom Srerat to -nTite to Colin, or any body 
 else here, for pro\-isions, as I can be supplied from the Highlands. I am preparing 
 to act upon the defensive, and I suppose will soon be provoked to act upon the 
 offensive. I have sent for a strong partv of men to defend my house and overawe 
 the coxmtrv. None of my Kintail men -n-ill be down before Tuesday ; but as the 
 river is high, and that I have parties at aU the boats, nothing can be attempted. 
 Besides, I shall get reinforcements ever}- dav : I have order d m.v servant to get at 
 Inverness twelve or twenrv pd of powder, with a proportionable quantity- of shot. If 
 that cannot be bought at Inverness, I must beg vou'll write a line to Governor Grant, 
 to erive mv serv" the powder, as I can doe without the shot. Sanders Campbell, my 
 factor, mett an express of Lo\'at's going to Macleod ; who told Campbell's servant, his 
 business was, to put Macleod in mind of his engagements with his master. However, 
 I do not beUeve one man will stir from Sky ; tho' I am cominced, that some people 
 that are quiet were concerned, and authors of these troubles. Barrisdale is come down 
 from Assint, and was collar"d by one of the Machlauchlans there for offering to torce 
 people to rise, and has met with no success there. I had a message from the Mackenzies 
 in Arg-vleshire, to know what they should doe. Thirt\- are gone irom Lochiel ; the 
 rest, being about sixt\", are at home. I advized them to stay at home and mind their 
 own business. The Arg)leshire man says, there are fom- men of war on the west 
 coalt, who threaten the Macleans and neighbourhood with fire and sword if they stir. 
 I am, with great sincerit)- and regard, 
 My dear Lord, 
 -" ■ Your Lordship's most affectionatelv humble servant, 
 
 Blaan Castle, \ ' K. IMACKENZIE. 
 
 Ocf ig% J 7-5. J 
 
 Xo. CCCCLXIX. 
 
 Lord Reav to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I HAVE been in so bad a state of health since I had the honour of your Lordship's 
 of the 1 1 "", that I could not attempt to conveen my people, as I v.as not in case to 
 act the needful on that occasion ; but as I am some better, and have now George 
 to assist me, I have ordered them to be here next Friday, when the company will 
 be m?iie up, and they ordered to march forward with all possible dispatch. Your 
 Lordship's compliance as to the subalterns, is very obliging, and some arms for the 
 rest of my people will be acceptable. I'm persuaded we'll all be happy under Earl 
 Loudon's command. 
 
 I know
 
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 I know not what to say of the barbarous villanous attempt on your Lordship's 
 house and person, save to rejoice that they miss'd their aim. It sctms some must 
 appear at last in their own colours. I shall still endeavour to convince your Lord- 
 ship, that I am %vith the greatest truth and sincerity, 
 
 My Lord, 
 ; • ■ ■ Your Lordship's most obliged, most humble servant. 
 
 Tongue, ") , RE AY. 
 
 I9'^0ct^ i/AS'S 
 
 No. CCCCLXX. ' 
 
 The Lord President to the Earl of Sutherland. ' . - 
 
 My Lord, 20*" Oct' 1745. 
 
 LAST night I had the letter your Lop did me the honour to write me, together 
 with one from M' Trigge, who extolls your Lop's goodness to him, &, I will say for 
 him, deserves it. I am glad to hear that Barisdale has not met with the success he 
 expected in recruiting in your Lop's neighbourhood. I am informed he has left that 
 country, & come down to the low country without the numbers he look'd for. With 
 us there has been the beginning of ^me commotions ; but how far they will be carry'd 
 I will not take upon me to say : only, whether those that are assembling shall think 
 fit to march southward, or remain where they are, it is necessary that the Comp" be 
 without loss of time at Inverness, where arms will be deliver'd to them. Culcairn 
 has orders to march his company as soon as possible, w'hich at farthest will be 
 Tuesday ; & that raised for the Master of Ross has the same orders. As your Lop 
 was to review Cap" Gun's comp'' yesterday at Dornoch, I presume they are ready ; & 
 if that is the case, your Lop will be so good as to order them streightway to Tain ; & 
 from thence, if they come up with the Rosse's, alongst with them to Ins ; & if the 
 Rosse's shall have gone before, to follow them. I apprehend no danger by the way, 
 as Lord Fortrose has assembled some men about Brahan ; but should there be any, 
 the compy passing at Inverbrecky, may come to Kessock or Avoch, & from thence by 
 boats to Inverness. But when they are upon their march, if E. of Loudon or I are 
 acquainted by express, they shall have particular directions, according as circumstances 
 at the time may require. I mentioned to your Lop formerly, that they ought to be 
 provided with swords & pistols for the present service, as well as may be ; &, if they 
 can, borrow guns, to make them the safer in their march : these shall be return'd 
 when they come to Ins. I shall long to hear from your Lop that the men are upon 
 their march ; the messenger that carrys your Lop this will, I hope, bring back ac- 
 counts that they are. We know nothing from the South, further than your Lop has 
 heard, except that the 8 additional Brittish Batt""' that were sent for from Flanders 
 are arrived at Newcastle. My duty to my Lady. 
 
 I am, with very great respect. 
 My Lord, 
 Your most ob' & most humWe Serv', &c. 
 
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 ^zS CCLLODEK PAPERS. [aDDESDA. 
 
 Xo. CCCCLXXL 
 
 Letter from the Laird of Macleod to the Lord President. 
 My dear Lord, 
 
 IT is easier for you to imagine (by supposing your dearest friend in your situa- 
 tion) than for me to express the different agitations of my mind on hearing of the 
 villainous attempt on your life ; I hope God \dll still preserve it from the treachery of 
 pretended friends, or the open attacks of kno-wn enemies. I have a long letter from 
 Lovat about it, protesting his innocence and vast concern, as Srratherick men were the 
 actors. As the post assures me one of the \illains was taken, I hope a proper and 
 a full discovery will be made. The attempt, since it misgave, will have no bad effect 
 on the minds of all ranks here, as they have an utter detestation to all such practices. 
 I would gladly hope my letters and messages to Lovat and I^Iac Intosh were not too 
 late : for the first I am sure they were not, if they can have any effect, and that he was 
 not absolutely determined aforehand ; as to the latter, I always doubted, from his own 
 weakness, & the disposition of my cousin and John Shaw. 
 
 There never was such dismal weather seen as we have had constantly here ; hardly 
 a dav that it's possible to stir in any sort of business. However, by the end of next 
 week, Talisker, who has just got a son, will be ready to move, i; I will by that time 
 have a body of 300 men so disposed here, that they can move on a day's notice. Sir 
 Alex' has sent to L^st for his captain ; and I am very hopeful he will be ready as soon 
 as Talisker, or very quicklv after. The behaviour of my son's men vexes me to the 
 soul ; they were entertained in an outhouse of Lovat's, & sent to the master's rendevous. 
 Sandv M Leod is still here, waiting to see his uncle from Harris ; he has made some 
 attempts to raise rebellion against the knight & me here, but with very bad success. 
 The post was stopped and searched by two of Barrisdale's men, but they found nothing, 
 so he passed safe. 
 
 I am, with unvariable friendship, 
 Yours, 
 Dunvegan, Oc"-^ 2^% 1: o'clock. NOR>L\XD MACIXOD. 
 
 Xo. CCCCLXXII. 
 
 Sir Andrew Mitchell to the Lord President. 
 My dear Lord, Whitehall, 23"* Oct' 1745. 
 
 THE freedom -ftith which I wrote to vour Lordship last night makes it unneces- 
 sary to desire that my letters may be read by yourself only. 
 
 Your goodness will forgive any mistakes I may make at this time, for I am really 
 in the deepest distress. The ruin of my countrv, and the disgrace and shame to which 
 it is and will continue to be exposed, have affected me to that degree, that I am hardly 
 master of myself. Already ever)- man of our coimtry is looked on as a traitor, as one 
 secretly inclined to the Pretender, and waiting but an opportunity to declare. The 
 guilt)- and the innocent are confounded together, and the crimes of a few imputed to 
 the whole nation. But I hope your Lop will soon do something to assist your prin- 
 ciples, to save your countr\', and to recover, if possible, it's honour. 
 
 M' James Gordon, of S- Christopher's, a very particular friend of njine, desires me 
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 to mention his brother Harry to your Lop, in case there is still room to give him a 
 commission in the indepen' companies. He tells me he can get men. The young 
 gentleman has a good character, and has made a campaign. If it does not interfere 
 •with your Lop's views, the serving this gentleman will much oblige 
 
 Your most afiectionate 
 
 ANDREW MITCHFXL. 
 
 M' Gordon proposes to send his brother to Scotland so soon as he arrives from 
 THanders. 
 
 No. CCCCLXXIII. 
 
 The Lord President to the Laird of Mac Leod. 
 My dear Laird, 24''' Oct' 1745. 
 
 I NEED hardly tell you, that the receipt of your letters & of the knight's were 
 very comfortable to me ; partly as they satisfy'd my mind about your health, for which 
 I was under great apprehensions ; & partly as the messenger, who came alongst with 
 them, gave evidence to some of my neighbours, that the knight & you had not run 
 stark mad, & that my guess was better than theirs; which, if they have not lost ail 
 discretion, may in some degree restore them to their senses. The effect of your 
 message to L. Lt I do not know, as the mess' says he appeared sullen and reserved 
 to him ; it is possible he may be more communicative to the young man as he returns. 
 
 M sh seems to me rather to be pleased, & has dispatched expresses to some of 
 
 his tribes that are gather'd & on wing, not to stir, for some days at least. How he will 
 succeed I know not ; he certainlv would but for one person, whom I lo\ e much. 
 
 Since the foolish attempt on this place, I have had tAvo letters from my friend Lovat, 
 on two different subjects ; the one, that simple story which he disclaims in the strongest 
 & most convinceing manner, expressing the highest detestation ; & in that I have agreed 
 with him, & declared my opinion that it has given his Lop much more concern than it 
 has me ; the other, the present situatien of his family, which gives him the greatest 
 agony ; & that is, the mad resolution of his eldest son, who, in spite of all that he has 
 been able to say to him, & in spite of all the good advice which you & Gortuleg have 
 zealously bestow'd upon him, has put himself at the head of the Clan, who are pas- 
 sionately fond of following him, 6c cannot possibly be restrained by my Lord's autho- 
 rity from follo'wdng the fortunes of the adventureing Prince ; which not only may 
 destroy the master and the family, but bring his own gray hairs \\"ith sorrow to the 
 grave. When my Lord wrote this letter, the master had made a sort of muster of the 
 men of the Aird ; he had by detachments from them bully'd the Urquhart men, who 
 were on their way marching by the Laird's orders to Strathspey, 8c forced them to 
 return home. He had pass'd over to Stratherrick, where he was reviewing the posse, 
 & he has since cross'd the Lock to L^rquhart, where, in conjunction w' Coll' Angus 
 M'Donell k Barisdale, he is said to have persuaded the Urq' men to do what **••*• 
 & some other of these Gentlemen wish'd. On this subject, I wrote to my Lord a 
 very serious S: at the same time a very friendly letter ; laying open the unavoidable con- 
 sequences of the suspition which the M"' inconsiderate conduct might create, not only 
 to my Lord's family, but to his person, & hopeing that if what I suggested were pro- 
 perly represented to the young man, natural! affection to so indulgent a parent, &: filiall 
 reverence, would get the better of his politicall zeal. My Lord has return'd me many 
 
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 428 " CrLLODEN' PAPERS. ^ABDENDA. 
 
 thanks for mv good advice : says, he sent my letter to his son to Stratherrick, to be 
 inform'd by Gortuleg ; but doubts it vrill not answer his & my wish : k, indeed, after 
 the master should have received it, he made his trip to cross the Lock to Urq' ; but 
 then this happened, in point of time, before my Lord received your message, & when 
 his common answer to the diiEculty suggested, firom the danger of his person if the 
 clan march'd, was, that he would be carried to Dunvegan, ?c be shelter'd where his 
 father iv'd. Whether your message may make any alteration in the Master's mea- 
 sures, 1 cannot take upon me to say. Barisdale was the day before yesterday with him, 
 & I believe mav not be far from him still. He made but ane improsperous recruiteing 
 in xlssint & Lochbroom, tho' they say some men have followed him from Cogach. 
 
 I had last Saturday a letter from the E. of Cromert}-, contradicting the many lies 
 made of him, & assureing me that all the steps taken by him were only to provide 
 men for the service of the Gov^ pursuant to his declaration made to me at Culloden 
 several! weeks ago ; which, I told him, I was very glad to hear ; & yet I am assured, 
 the Ld Mac Leod w as the day before yesterday at Castledownie. Fairburn came straight 
 to Culloden from Carlile Tuesday at noon, without touching at Ins, in the same dispo- 
 sition in which he parted with us. I sent him that night to Brahan, w'out stoping by the 
 wav, & hinted to him what I had the day before heard from Sky. Caber stood in great 
 need of him ; his Kintail men will soon be dowTi. The Saltash sloop with some arms 
 [arrived J three days ago in Cromertie ; but for lack of wind has not as yet reach'd our 
 road. We have not vet so many as we shall have occasion for, but I shall write for 
 more. L^pon Martin's shewing me a note from you, I have advanced Sant}' 20 gui- 
 neas, to be applv'd as you hinted. If the carriage to Sky were safe, which it is not, 
 Tou might have what you v."ant. The independant comp-'^* must immediately be put in 
 march, as the rest are assembling &: drawing to liis. Culcairne's is already there ; one 
 of vou two must necessarily come with them, and manage them, whilest the other re- 
 mains to take care of the island ; but of that more in my note of the same size to the 
 Knight, for whom this is intended, as that is for you. 
 
 I am hearty ly the K"^'- & yours, &c. 
 
 Xo. CCCCLXXIY. 
 
 The Lord President to Sir Alex' Mac Donald. 
 My D^ Knight, 24A Oct^ 1745. 
 
 QUALE sopor fessis in gramine was the effect of yoiu-'s & the Laird's on me. 
 I had given up the Laird for drown'd, & many fools in this country for lost ; be- 
 cause yoirr message did not come sooner ; but, for ought I know, the delay has 
 rather had a good than a bad effect ; as it may have postponed the execution of 
 rash resolutions in my neighbourhood, until! even their own reports from the 
 South gave them som^e reason to doubt of that success, which their indiscreet zea! 
 had made them for some time past look upon as certain. The desertion from the High- 
 land armv at Ed' they know to be great, & such as they can hardly repair, not^'standing 
 the most dilligent endeavours ; which probably is the reason why the camp at Dudiston 
 is broke up, & the people lodged in the subiu-bs, & the neighboimng tillages, to pre- 
 vent observations on the thiimess of their numbers. They see that sort of zea! & ima- 
 nimity in defence of the Gov' prevail in England, which, I confess, exceeds my ex- 
 pectation, 8c shuts out all expectation of any insurrection there in favours of their un- 
 dertakeing ; & unless they are resolved absolutely to shut their eyes, they must be con- 
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 vinced that a very great body of troops is by this time on the border ; not composed of 
 such troops as wheel'd without hardly fireing a shot, but of veterans from Flanders, 
 whereof the 2'' imbarkation of 8 batt"' is arrived at Newcastle, as all the rest of the 
 British troops are ordered home, the French having gone into winter quarters in Flan- 
 ders : & they may easyly guess, by the temper of the English part of this islar.d, that 
 lenity is not to be expected at this time. I pray God it may, & I hope it will be, in the 
 power of such of us, as have upon this occasion shown a favourable disposition to the 
 Gov', to prevent angry resolutions, that might, if the flame were universall, bear hard 
 on the whole of this unhappy country. Fairburne, who left Stirline last Friday, as- 
 sures me, that Gen" Bleakney told him that day he had advice that Mar. Wade had 
 reach'd Berwick ; & he also told me, that even upon the road, as he came North, 
 there was desertion from the deserters that they were carrying back to Ed' ; & particu- 
 larly that Cluny, who had got no further than Atholl, had lost 50 or 60 men out of 
 his body. I have said to the Laird, in the counterpart of this, that it was necessary 
 the comp-'° should forthwith be put in march for this country ; & that one of you 
 should come alongst : the reason is, that we are now bringing the rest of them to Iiis, 
 to be a cogent motive with the neighbours to be quiet, & not to ruin themselves. I am 
 at present almost resolv'd to have 2 other comp'' from Sky ; one from you, & ane 
 other from the Laird ; & therefor I beg that alongst with the 2 comp^' who have already 
 got their com"'' you will, without loseing ane hour more than is necessary, send down 
 1 00 men each, together with such officers as you shall think proper to command them, 
 XlS cap'"', lieut", & ensigns, in case it shall be resolved to give the commissions, which I 
 at present think will happen ; & in all events, tbo' the commissions should not be given 
 them, they shall have arms from the Saltash, which is arrived, to carry back for the de- 
 fence of the island, which upon the return of the Highlanders may be-liable to insults ; 
 & the expence of fetching them hither shall be made good, as they shall be subsisted 
 whilest here. Mac Leod complains of want of money, which would be supply'd from 
 hence if the conveyance was safe ; but then he spoke of finding cows to suppcrt the 
 men on their march, which is ane honest shift, provided they are not taken, according 
 to the practice of this neighbourhood, from other people without value ; & the ex- 
 pence shall be made good when the men come hither, should what I now desire be 
 comply'd with. You see, my dear Knight, the absolute necessity there is for one of 
 you to come hither, \vith so large a body of men, to preserve them from the infection 
 of the villanous lyes & fictions by which our zealots are dayly temptijig our people to 
 desert ; whilst the other stays in Sky, to give the people directions, & to keep the proper 
 countenance in that country. Since writeing, Loudon has come in to me ; & as he 
 approves of what I told you I had almost resolved on, I now tell you, that commissions 
 shall be given to these two additionall independent comp"' when they come to Ins ; so 
 that you & the Laird may appoint the officers, & give them their titles, as if their com- 
 missions were in their pockets. When I write next, I shall say somewhat about the 
 men of war on your coast. I shall then direct for you, supposeing the Laird to be 
 come off. My hearty good wishes to L'' Marg'. 
 
 I am intirely your's, &c. 
 
 No. CCCCLXXV.
 
 4JO CULLODEX P.\PEES. £aDDBKDA. 
 
 Xo. CCCCLXXV. 
 
 The Lord President to the Laird of Pitcalnis. 
 Dear Sir, _ 25'° Ocr* 1745. 
 
 I NE\'ZR was more astonish'd, & but seldom more afflicted, in my life, than I 
 was when I heard of the madness of your son. I cannot conceive by what magick he 
 has been prevail'd on to forfeit utterly his own honour ; in a signall manner to affront 
 & dishonour me, whom you made answerable for him ; to risk a halter, which, if he 
 do not succeed, must be his doom, without any other tr\"all than that of a court mar- 
 tial ; & to break the heart of an indulgent father, as you are ; which, I am perswaded, 
 must be the case, unless he is reclaim'd : the villains who seduced him, protidng of his 
 lender years, & want of experience, tho' I hope I am a Christian, I never vnU forgive ; 
 tho' him I will, if he return quickly to his duty, without committing fixrther folly. But 
 if, trusting to indulgence on account of our relation, he persist in the course in which 
 I am told he is at present engaged, I think it is but f^ to declare to you, in the most so- 
 lemn manner, that the verv relation & connection, to which he may trust, will deter- 
 mine me to pursue him vdtti the utmost rigour to that end which his conduct will most 
 undoubtedly desene ; & when I have said this, I can take God to witness, that he is 
 the onlv person concem'd in the present imhappy commodons, for whom my heart 
 would not lead m.e to be a sohcitor, when things have the issue which I believe they will 
 soon have. In justice & friendship to ycu, & in hopes he may repent before it is too 
 late, I give vou the trouble of this letter ; and have desired your friend M' Baillie to 
 deliver it to vou ; not doubting that, to save a son, £c to prevent my dishonour, you 
 vnil do all that is in your power. 
 
 I am, dear Sir, 
 
 imder great concern. 
 
 Your most ob' & most hum. Serv'. 
 
 ■ Xo. CCCCLXXVI. 
 
 Lord Deskfoord to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 
 
 M' GRANT having been informed, thai the Erasers were to set out upon their 
 march on Wednesday last, ;k to take this road south, had assembled on Thursday a 
 good number of his clan near Inverleyden, in order to guard the passes through this 
 countr)-. When he was there, he received your Lordship's letter, desireing him to send 
 down the company to Inverness ; but tho' he had been at a good deal of pains in 
 speaking to severals of his men in this countrv before, the company was by no means 
 compleat ; they being unwilling to engage ki that manner for fear of beiag retained 
 afterwards, contrary to their inclinitions ; and likewise inclining not to be out of their 
 countrv, except with their Chief, at this rime, when they apprehended there might be 
 use for them for the defence of their familys and effects. To-day I went up to Auchter- 
 blair, to see the men that M" Grant had brought together ; when he begged me, as 
 soon as I should return to Castle Grant this night, to write to your Lordship to offer his 
 most humble respects to you and my Lord Loudon ; & to inform you, that as he had 
 not been able to compleat his company intirely of volunteers, as he proposed, 6c that 
 
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 43 » 
 
 he did not incline to use any force at this time, for fear of disgusting his people, he had 
 taken the resolution which all the people with him approved of, of marching down him- 
 self to-morrow to Inverness, and carrying along with him those he had then assembled 
 together, in order to offer all their services to the Government, in such manner as your 
 Lordship and my Lord Loudon should there concert with him. As far as I could judge 
 by my eye, the number of people with M Grant were between four and five hundred j 
 and I know he can, out of his own estates, & those of his friends in this country, com- 
 mand some hundreds more, if the Government should have use for them. He pro- 
 poses, likewise, before he returns to Strathspey, to go with a party of his people to 
 Urquhart, in order to prevent any more of the people of that country being forced 
 out upon the other side, contrary to their inclinations & their duty to him. He de- 
 sires me likewise to beg, in his name, the favour of your Lordship to communicate 
 this resolution of his to my Lord Loudon and the Major ; & to beg that you would be 
 so good as to give such directions as you shall think proper for billeting &c quartering 
 his men in the town, when they come there to-morrow night. My Lord Findlater 
 begs leave to offer his respects to your Lordship & my Lord Loudon. 
 
 I am, with the most sincere respect. 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obed' & most humble Ser*, 
 Castle Grant, ' DESKFOORD. 
 
 Ocf 25th, 1745. ■ ■ 
 
 No. CCCCLXXVII. - 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Deskfoord. 
 My Lord, _ _ _ Ocf 26, 1745. 
 
 BY ten this morning your messenger arrived at this place. I immediately dispatched 
 your Lop's letter to E. Loudon ; who came hither on the receipt of it this moment, 
 after leaving directions in town for accomodaring the men the best they can, if they all 
 come. I wish with all my heart, & so does L. Loudon, that Mr. Grant had commu- 
 nicated his design to us before he set out with such numbers, which may have the 
 effect to begin horse-play before we are sufficiently prepared ; however, since he is in 
 the way, ik has given no notice of his route, I cannot tell how, even if it were necessary, 
 to prevent it ; & we must now do the best we can. It appears to me to be unaccount- 
 able folly in the people, that they deliberate on entering into the comp'', since they are 
 not to be bound further than the present service ; & therfore I should hope they may 
 be prevaii'd furthwith to form it. As your messenger presses to be dispatch'd, I add 
 no more, but my compliments to the Ladys & to my Lord Findlater. 
 
 I am perfectly your Lop's, &c. 
 
 No. CCCCLXXVIII. ' 
 
 The Laird of Grant to the Lord President. 
 Myd' Lord, Inverhiiden, Oct' 26'", 1745. 
 
 I HAD the honor of your Lordship's of the 24"', and would have writt you sooner, 
 but the reports I had brought me from Urquhart, that the Erasers, and a large bodie 
 from other clans, were to join some of the tribes of the Clanchattan, imd were to march as 
 last Thursday from Strathurn through this country, made me thiiik it proper to conveen 
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 all the men, and to keep In a bodie in the braes of the countrie, where I have 
 been since Wednesday. This dar I proposed to have marched to relieve the poor 
 tenants of Urquhart, who have been most scandalloushe used ; but just now I have ane 
 express from that countrie, informing me that the Macdonells & Frasers have left 
 the countrie, after cam-ing about forae of the men with them. This day Rother's 
 companie shsU be compleated, and will be at Inverness Tuesday or Wednesday at 
 farthest : for the men, who have been all here since Wednesday, will require a day or 
 two at home to gett readie. I beg my compliments to the Earl of Loudown ; and I 
 ever am, mv d' Lord, most faithfullie your Lordship's while 
 
 LUD. GR-\XT. 
 
 Xo. CCCCLXXIX. 
 
 The Lord President to the Earl of Sutherland. 
 My Lord, _ 26* Oct^ 1 745. 
 
 YOUR crusty serv' Anderson has been here. It is a great satisfaction to me, 
 that your comp^, notwithstanding the distance, 8c the ditticulty of the passage, has been 
 here earlver than any of those that have been call'd for, except Culcaim's, which was 
 just at hand ; but zedl like your Lop's will do many things. I acquainted your Lop 
 formerly, that if anv commissions more were to be given out, your Lop should have 
 the nomination of the officers of another comp? ; and now I take the liberts" to suggest 
 to you, that this will happen. What I therefor beg of your Lop is, that you would, 
 without loss of time, & as prudently as may be, resolve upon Capf, Lieu'', ^ Ensign, 
 such as you think fittest, Sc name them to me at once, without leaveing room for 
 teaseing yourself or me further ; & that you would give out the proper directions 
 immediately for makeing up their comp''. If I do not mistake it, you seem'd to 
 favour a broy^ of Kinminit)'s, who is a relation of your own, & of whom I hear 
 a verv- good character. If your Lop continues in the same oppinion, let me know. 
 The arms which your Lop sent with the men are return'd with M'" Anderson. The 
 sloop of war has carry'd no more arms than for the comp^'. I shall write imme- 
 diately for more ; when they come, your people shall be provided. I desired [Major 
 Mackay to tell your Lop, that any dispatches you have for London, if they come 
 ■within 3 days, shall be transmitted. ^ly duty to my Lady. 
 
 I am with perfect respect, 
 
 mv very crocd Lord, 
 
 Yours, Sec. 
 Thanks for your goodness to M' Trigge. 
 
 Xo. CCCCLXXX. 
 
 Lord Sutherland to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 
 
 THE bearer is in his way to London. I have sent him thither with letters to the 
 Dukes of Argyle and Newcastle, and others of the Ministly of State, wherein I apply 
 for a certain commission. Your Lop will know what it is, from the memorials which 
 M' Gillchrist will show you. Shall I hope your Lop will be so good to second my 
 application, by writing to some of your friends who have most ioierest at Court ? I 
 
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 ■will hope this, my Lord, since what I propose is so manifestly expedient for the service 
 of our King and Country in the present conjuncture, and will be an effectuall measure 
 for keeping the North Highlands in better order for the future. 
 
 The bearer, M' James Gilchrist, Minister of Thurso, has made some discoveries 
 relating to this rebellion, both before and after it broke out. Your Lop may entirely 
 rely on his veracity in answering any questions he is ask'd, either on that or any other 
 subject. It would be absolutely unsafe for him to return any more to Caithness. I 
 shall hope your Lop will interpose your good offices, that something may be got done 
 for him ; since it were extream hard he should meet with nothing but ruin to himself 
 and numerous family, for doing his duty to his King & Country. Will your l,op re- 
 commend him to the Captain of the Saltash sloop, by which I want he should take his 
 passage ? . ■ \ -'■ ■ 
 
 . : . ' I am, with great regard, 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lop's much oblig'd & most obedient Servant, 
 Dunrobln, 26'" Octr > . SUTHERLAND, 
 
 1745- 
 
 No. CCCCLXXXI. 
 
 The Lord President to the Laird of Grant. 
 D' Sir, Ocf 27, 1745. 
 
 UPON L** Deskfoord's letter of the 25"', quarters were prepared last night at Ins. 
 for the 500 men he spoke of; and E. Loudon waited there to receive them, untill I 
 sent him your letter of the 26"' ^which came to his hands before eight o'clock), ac- 
 quainting him that you had altered your resolution. I am not sorry that the whole 
 number did not then come, as no plan had been concerted for the disposition of them ; 
 but I am under some concern that so many of them as were proper for composeing 
 Rothie's comp' did not come, because those were expected some time ago, & the 
 comp^ from Sutherland arrived the night before the last. What I therefore send you 
 back this messenger for, is, to beg that Rothie's comp^ may march without loseing a 
 moment^ because we have rely'd upon them ; &; the example to others will be bad, if 
 they, who were rely'd on, should prove dilatory^ The oppression of your Urquhart 
 people, I am affraid continues still ; & there may, for ought I know, be occasion to 
 march a considerable body to relieve them from it ; but that in due time may be con- 
 certed properly & executed, tho' it ought not to hinder the immediate march of the 
 comp", who, in all events, will be so far in their way. I offer my compliments to L'^ 
 Marg' & the xest of your good com|iany j & am with great respect, 
 
 D^ Sir, 
 ;, , ,_ Your most obt & most humble Serv', Sec, 
 
 No. CCCCLXXXII. 
 
 Lord Fortrose to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I HAVE obey'd your directions about the Sky post ; he will be safely conveyed 
 z6 the sea side. If I had heard any thing worth notice, your Lordship would have heard 
 from me sooner. I return thanks for what you wrot to Farrintosh j however, as the 
 
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 men I hare just now here are ann'd, I fancy none wiil offer to attack mv house, the* 
 prudence requires one to be on the guard. Lord Cromertie, his son, Macculloch of 
 Glestulich, and Ardloch's B", came here Fryday. It was as unexpected a visitt as I 
 have receiv'd for some time. As I did not like to turn him out of m.y house, he stav'd 
 here, but seem'd very pensive and dull. However, if I had known then what I doe 
 now, I would have been micivill to some of the corapanv bv makeing them prisoners ; 
 for L° Macleod went yesterday to Lochbroom to endeavour to get men, and I suppose 
 will eo to Assint. Inclos'd your Lordship has a list of the officers' names belonging 
 to the two companies. I ottered them to Goul and Redcastle, but nether of them 
 could be prevailed on to accept ; so I gave it to one I will answer for. It was from 
 Coul's house Lord IVIacleod went to Lochbroom, which vexed me. However^ I shall 
 remember all these things when the troubles are over. If I had been Sheriff of the 
 coimtv, I fancy it would have authorized me to doe several things which I have not a, 
 pretence to doe at present. 
 
 \ I am, vrith ereat regard. 
 
 My D^ Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most affectionate humble Servant, 
 Braan Castle, ") . K. MACKENZIE. 
 
 Oct. y= 28", 1745. J 
 
 P. 3. My mtelligence is verx bad, as few come here. 
 
 No. CCCCLXXXIII. 
 
 Mr. Baillie to the Lord President. 
 
 MvLord, „ -^ , . 
 
 ' I WAS wth Pitcahiy on Saturday, & brought wth me ]Nt. Ross of Cairossie, a 
 <Tentleman who is a near relation of Pitcahiie's, &has a good dale to say w»^- him ; and 
 we both expostulat w^ him on the subject of your Lop's letter, which I had the honor 
 
 of delivering. ^ • u v. 
 
 Hee seems to me to be in the deepest sorrow & concern on acco' or his son s beha- 
 viour ; Sc eneaged in the strongest manner to use all endeavours to get him back to 
 his duty, & accept of that pardon & forgiveness which your Lordp promises in case he 
 repent immediatlie. He wrote him a letter at my sight, and sent a friend with it to find 
 his son, & brins: him back wherever he found him ; but if the young Peer m your 
 nybourhood do not also repent and stay at home, I am afraid they will both go together ; 
 and that, I think, is the only chance against IVIr. R^oss his retummgto his duty. 
 
 I do not find that any of our people foUow'd him, except two or three sillie fellows ; 
 & diat must bring down the poor bov's spirits as to chiitanry, Sc make the other people 
 see they m.aQeno great gaine by this ' proseUte, & consequently that they will put little 
 value upon him ; which consideration will, I hope, occurr to the young man himselt, &: 
 help to 'open his tender eyes 8c understanding. I thought to bring the people together 
 a^^e this week, but cannot attempt it at this time ; because they have now a further 
 preience than formerly ; being mfonned, & not without foundation, that a great number 
 of men from Inverness-shire are on their road, first to Assint, & then to this countr)-, m 
 order to raise men, & distress us every other wav ; and all up and down here are ma 
 terrible constematioa, & know not what to do. I have intelligence that 400 is design d 
 for this expedition; and if rfiere is no more, I hope wee shall be able to gne some 
 account of them, even tho' wee are but ill-appointed for arms & amumtion. But as 
 
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 wee are better acquaint in the countric, we may have the benefit of some passes throu' 
 wch they must go, k distress them that way. 
 
 They are greatly ahirmecl in Sutherland ; but I have pretty sure accotts they are not 
 to go that way ; and if they shou'd attempt it, I really believe there is no man of them 
 will ever return to tell his friends the fate of the rest. ^Vhenever I have certain accotts 
 of their arriveing, will give your Lop the trouble of ane other leter ; and if it was pos- 
 sifcle in the mean time to give us some guns, they wou'd do great service in case those 
 people come upon us. 
 
 The M' of Rosse is come to London, & no doubt will soon be in Scotland. I have 
 the honor of being, with the greatest respect, 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obed' and most faithful serv' 
 Ardmore, > ^VILL. BAILLIE. 
 
 28''> Oct^ 1745. > 
 
 No. CCCCLXXXIV. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Fortrose. 
 
 My dear Lord, 28 Oct'- 1745. 
 
 I HAVE the honour of your Lop's of this day's date. If I sent you, by the way 
 , -of Ferintosh yesterday, a groundless message, you will impute it to tliat care, which is 
 at least as inuch concern'd about you as it is about myself. The notice I had was the 
 effect of a deliberation which was said for half a day to have been concluded on ; tho' 
 I have since heard, upon better adviseing, it was given up. As you are prepared, 
 nothing probably will disturb you. What you write of the young Lord's march to the 
 northward surprises me, considering what I can show you when I have the honour to 
 see you ; but we live in a strange world. I hope, however, your Lop will give the 
 proper directions, that no man, who may be forced from the northward, will find their 
 passage to the southward to affront you & encourage your- foes: in a very Httle time, 
 we shall be able to speak to the unhappy people who would disturb us, in another stile ; 
 but I hope we shall do it gently. I am obliged to your Lop for the escort you was so 
 good as to give to the Sky post at my request ; & I hope you will give such another to 
 him who is to go off to-morrow or next day ; for I depend upon it, that the two lairds 
 •of that country will conform to our views in ev'ry particular, which will make us very 
 easy. I have the note you sent me for the officers of the 2 Independant Comp^', which 
 shall be fill'd up in the commissions accordingly, without any further consideration but 
 that you judge it right. The sooner* they can be sent hither to be arm'd, & to receive 
 their commissions, it is so much the better. I am perswaded it would terribly stagger 
 the resolutions of some of your neighbours. As it is not fit for me, as things now arc, 
 to go to Brahan, nor for your Lop to come hither, I very much wish you would send me 
 over Sandy of Fairburn for ane hour to-morrow, if it may be, or next day, or in short 
 as soon as possible ; because by him a plan may be proposed to your Lop for your 
 approbation of our operation, better than can be concerted in this pen & ink way. The 
 advance of the troops towards ¥.d' discourages some of our neighbours ; & now is the 
 time to do that service that will be attended with the least mischief, because it may 
 prevent it. They were a little while ago cock-a-hoop with the news of the landing of 
 much treasure & of E. Marishall at Montrose ; but now that they are told the cash was 
 but a trifle, & that the other story was a flat lye, as indeed there never was any reason 
 
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 to beKeve it, they begin to look simple. I think it would be jight to assemble still more 
 men about Brahan than you now have : the expence shall be made good ; & it will 
 tend to make Caberfov respectable, & to discourage folly among your neighbours. 
 It's much if your Lop has read this confused scrawl ; but you must excuse it, as it 
 comes from a sincere friend. My dut}' to my Lady. 
 
 I am truely yours, &c. 
 
 No. CCCCLXXXV. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Lovat. 
 
 My Lord, Inverness, Oct. 29, 1 745, 
 
 AS I have now the honour of being charg'd with the public affairs in this part of 
 the kingdom, I can no longer remain a spectator of your lordship's conduct, and see 
 the double game you have play'd for some time past, without betrapng the trust reposed 
 in me, and at once risquing my reputation, and the fidelit)" I owe to his majesty" as a 
 good subject. Your lordship's actions now discover evidently your inclinations, and 
 leave us no further in the dark about what side you are to choose in the present unliappy 
 insurrection : you have now so far puU'd off the mask, that we can see the mark you 
 aim at ; tho', on former occasions, you have had the skill and address to disguise your 
 intentions in matters of far less importance. And, indeed, methinks a little more of 
 vour lordship's wonted artifice would not have been amiss, whatever had been your 
 private sentiments ■with respect to this unnatural rebellion. You shou'd, my lord, have 
 duly considered and estimated the advantages that would arise to your lordship from its 
 success, and ballanced them with the risques you run if it should happen to miscarry- ; 
 and above all things you ought to have consulted your own safety", and allow'd that 
 the chief place in your system of politics ; which, I persuade myself, would have induc'd 
 your lordship to have play'd the game after quite a different manner, and -nith a much 
 greater degree of caution and policy. But so far has your lordship been from acting 
 with your ordinary finesse and circumspection on this occasion, that you sent away your 
 son and the best part of your clan to join the Pretender, with as litde concern as if na 
 danger had attended such a step : I say, sent them away ; for we are not to iraagme 
 they went of themselves, or would have ventured to take arms without your lordship's 
 concurrence and approbation : this, however, you are prett)^ sure can't be easily proved, 
 which, I believe indeed, may be true. But I can't think it will be a diiiicult matter to 
 make it appear, that the whole strain of your lordship's conversation in every company 
 where vou have appeared, since the Pretender's arrival, has tended to pervert the 
 minds of his majesty's subjects, and seduce them from their allegiance : and give me 
 leave to tell you, my lord, even this falls imder the' construction of treason, and is no 
 less liable to punishment than open rebellion ; as I am afi^d your lordship -will find, 
 when once this insurrection is crush'd, and the government at leisure to examine into 
 the affair. And I am sorry to tell you, my lord, that I could sooner undertake to plead 
 the cause of any one of those unhappy gentlemen, who are just now actually in arms 
 acjainst his majestv, and I could say more in defence of their conduct, than I could in 
 defence of your lordship's. The Duke of Perth and Lord Ogilvy never qualify'd, nor 
 did they ever receive the smallest favour from the present Government ; but, on the 
 contrary, were both stripp'd of their titles and honours, and from men of the first qua- 
 lity reduced to the state of private gentiemen, since the revolution, and may both be 
 supposed to act from a principle of resentm.ent, and only took up arms to recover what 
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 place or pension from the public, and was, no doubt, drawn in by the influence of the 
 Marquis of Tullibardin ; perhaps, touch'd with pity and commiseration for his eldest 
 brother, who has spent the best part of his life in exile, and undoubtedly upon an 
 allowance much inferior to his dignity. These, and such like apologies, may be ofFer'd 
 in defence of most of the leading men in the present rebellion ; but what shall I say in 
 favour of you, my lord ? You, who have flourish'd under the present happy establish- 
 ment i* You, who, in the beginning of your days, forfeited both your life and fortune, 
 and yet, by the benignity of the Government, was not only indulg'd the liberty of living 
 at home, but even restor'd to all you could lay claim to: nay, his majesty's goodness 
 went so far as to employ your lordship in his service, and was pleased to honour you 
 with the command of one of the independent companies that were raised some years ago 
 in the Highlands, which you enjoy'd for a very long time : so that both duty and gra- 
 titude ought to have influenced your lordship's conduct, at this critical juncture, and 
 disposed you to have acted a part quite different from what you have done. But there 
 are some men whom no duty can bind, nor no favour can oblige ; and, I'm afraid, if 
 a timely repentance don't prevent it, your lordship will, not unjustly, be rank'd among" 
 that number*. You now see, my lord, how unanimous the people of England are 
 against the Pretender, and what forces they are mustering up to oppose him. The king 
 has ordered home his troops ; several noblemen have raised regiments at their own 
 expences ; and every county and corporation throughout the kingdom are entering into 
 associations in defence of the present establishment : so that these few unhappy gentlemen 
 who are engaged in this rebellion, \dll have armies alter armies to encounter ; and if 
 your lordship entertains any hopes of their success, you'll find your mistake, when 'tis 
 too late to amend it. What I would therefore propose to your lordship, as the only 
 expedient left to rescue you from the hazard of a rigorous prosecution, is, to recall your 
 son and his men immediately. This step, I'm persuaded, would produce several good 
 consequences ; for, on the one hand, it would prevent numbers from joining the rebels, 
 who now hang in suspence, and, on the other, occasion a great many of those already 
 engaged to desert and retire to their respective habitations, and, perhaps, may be the 
 means, of crushing the rebellion without further bloodshed, which would do your lord- 
 ship a great deal of honour ; and such a remarkable piece of service would be amply 
 rewarded by the Government. If you shall judge it proper, my loixi, to loUow this 
 
 * What the Lord President here alhidcs to, are, doubtless, some particulars in the earlier part of the life 
 of Lord Lovat which are related (certainly by some writer not friendly to this unfortunate Nobleman) iiT 
 " Memoires de la Vie du Lord Lovat," &c. printed at Amsterdam, 12"'° 1747 ; and of wiiich the following" 
 is a brief abstract: — In the year 1692 he had the title of Captain Fraserin Lord Tullibardine's regiment; 
 L-at resigned, to prosecute his claim to be chief of the Frasers; and in order to it, laid a scheme to get the 
 heiress of Lovat ; who in 1 694, being about to marry Lord Salton's son, he by his armed clan seized him and 
 his company, and, erecting a gibbet, induced father and son to relinquish the contract. But not being 
 able to corr.e at the young lady, in 1695 he seized lady dowager Lovat, in her house, caused a person to 
 marry them against her consent, and, cutting her staj-s open with his dirk, his Highlana lads t-.re off her 
 cloaths, put her to bed, and were witnesses to the consummation. Soon after, he was, though absent, 
 tried and condemned for a rape on this lady, and for treason in opposing the laws with an armed force, and. 
 out.la'.ved. But though tliis latter K. William was prevailed on to pardon, he thought proper to fly to 
 France for the former ; where, ingratiating himself with K. James, and turning papist, he got a commis- 
 sion ; and in 1702, some money from the French king to raise a party in Scotland. But not having credit 
 to do it, and having had a meeting with a minister of state in London, on his return to France, he was 
 put in the Bastile. There he lay several years, and, to get out, took priest's orders ; he acted afterwards 
 as a Jesuit priest at St.Omer's, till about 17 15 ; when coming over, and taking a contrary part, he assisted' 
 in seizing Inverness from the rebels, and at last got the title of Lovat, a Highland company, and many 
 great favours conferred on him.i— 5. /. 
 
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 advice, It ■will give me a great deal of pleasure ; as it will contribute to stop the progress 
 of an unhappy civil war, that threatens us with endless calamities ; but it your lordship 
 continues obstinate, and will not order your men to disband and return home, I shall 
 be obliged to take you into custody, be the event what it \^ill : and then your lordship 
 v%ill rim the risque of having yovu: family extirpate, as well as other of the Highland 
 chiefs, when the rebellion is once quelled. Now, my lord, I have told your lordship 
 my sentiments pretty freely, and no less out of friendship to your lordship than duty to 
 the public. I might have advanc'd many other arguments, to induce vour lordship .to 
 follow my ad\ice ; but, methinks, what I have already said is suincient ; and so I shall 
 only further add, that I am. My Lord, 
 
 Yours, Sec* 
 
 No. CCCCLXXXVI. 
 
 The Lord President to the Laird of Mac Leod. 
 
 My dear Laird, 29"" Oct"^ 1745- 
 
 I HA\11 both your larger & your lesser Epistle of the 23^. The efiFect ofthe 
 declaration by Balraanach, on Lovat, I doubt the lad did not tell me as it reallv was, 
 by some things which I have learnt since ; &: in his return he stav'd two full days at 
 CastledowTiie, where were Barisdale, Kinlochmoidart, who came north from the 
 P. as he said, for Lovat & you, &c. Co' Mac Donald, that is, Glengarj's second 
 son, & severall oy" ; & doubtless, he can & will tell you all he knows, tho' he was 
 resented to me ; wherefor to him I must refer you for all intelligence from that 
 quarter, &; particularly for the history cf Pitcahiy's son, my grand nephew, for whom 
 I lately procured a comm° in L- Loudon's Reg', but whom thev seem to have debauch'd 
 into the Yoimg Gentleman's service, in hopes that, being the male heir of the Balna- 
 gowan family, he will be follow'd by theRosses, & so recover the estate ; as L*^ Lovat 
 did formerly, by espouseing the cause of the Royal family now reigning. He most 
 certainly knows what they said about this operation, & will doubtless open it to you, 
 from whom I expect to hear of it. In Lovat's correspondence 8c mine, which began after 
 the attack made upon me, he blames, as I told vou in my last, his son's obstinacy ; & I 
 have heartily given him a great deal of good advice. I in particular, after he had- re- 
 ceived your message, wrote him a strong letter, which he took three davs to ansvver. 
 He still says his son is infiexible, but is to make further trvalls to divert him from his 
 madness. He tells me, he has prev-ail'd upon him to deny assistance of men to Baris- 
 dale, to revenge himself of some affronts he met with in Assint, of vvhich Balmanach 
 can give you a more perfect aco' ; &; he presses me still earnestly to give him further 
 advice ; saying, that his son will not move for this week. I have return'd him the 
 best advice I possibly could, still in the supposall that the fault is in hjs son ; but sug- 
 gesting the consequence to himself, which I really dread, if his son shall be permitted 
 to play the fool. What answer I shall have I know not, neither do I know what he 
 has said to Kinlochmioidart, &c. of which vou will be imdoubtedly satisf\-'d in the way 
 I have already suggested ; but it is my own opinion, that he will not be hastv- to de- 
 clare finally either way, which in certain events may be attended with consequences 
 for which I shall be sorry. With respect to our friend Macintosh, I am really under 
 
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 great concern ; the zeal of some people has caused Downic, Gillls, Mac Bean, Lochie, 
 Macintosh, & some others, not exceeding 200, actually to march, much against the 
 Liiird's inclinations. They were yesterday morning still about Donachton, & Rates in 
 Badenoch ; how tar further they are gone I know not ; but their kinsmen at home 
 speak as if they took it very ill that Lovat's people are not yet march'd. The Laird of 
 Grant is very wroth at the invasion which Balmanach will tell you the M' of I^ovat, 
 Coll" Mac Donell, Barisdale, &c. made on his people of Urquhart. He gather'd last 
 Saturday 500 men together near Dalrachny's to march, as he intended to revenge 
 himself of that personal 1 injury, which to be sure it is in his power to do on Strather- 
 
 rick, which prevents the succouring ; but he has laid that design aside for some 
 
 time, haveing been inform'd that the design of pressing his men was dropp'd. What 
 he will do when it is resumed I do not know. Caberfoy has got a body of men from 
 Kintail, Lochcarron, &c. about his house, which keeps some of his neighbours in 
 order, & may be y" true reason why the design of marching into Assint was laid aside ; 
 he gave an escort to your last post, & I intend to be gone from him to this, which seems 
 to be necessary so long as Barisdale hovers near this country. 1 have ask'd the favour 
 of Seafort, that he will send me over Fairburn for ane hour or two ; when he comes, I 
 shall know more than I now do. In my last brewes to you and the knight, which I am 
 confident came safe to your hands, I desired the immediate march of the two comp-'" for 
 which you carry'd the commissions, and of two more for which I 'shall issue the com- 
 missions ; & I press'd that one or other of you should come alongst. I in my conscience 
 think, that measure will determine severall of our neighbours to save themselves ; & 
 that the appearance which we may make is the only means left to prevent the harsh 
 measures that may be push'd against our country ; & what determines me more than 
 ever to think the presence of one of you here necessary, is, the industry I see stirring 
 amongst the weak politicians of this neighbourhood, to debauch both officers & private 
 men ; and the disposidon of some of those you trust (if the suspition I have already in- 
 sinuated be just) to favour the cause which we are engaged to oppose. Fgr those con- 
 siderations, both officers & private men must be strongly indoctrinated before they 
 leave home ; & some one, who has authority over them, must necessarily come alongst 
 with them. What the burden may be of the express which Lovat sent you ten days 
 ago, I cannot tell ; but he gives it out he has still some hopes from your answer. If 
 he inform'd you that great quandtys of arms, or large sums of money, came by the 
 ship that landed at Montrose, he has been misled ; for I have been assured, the arms 
 did not exceed 1,500, nor the money half as many thousands. Another vessel got in 
 to Stonehive with some arms, but without money ; & one from Spain, with arms & 
 money, is by a privateer carry'd into Bristol. There is a supplement directed to y" K'. 
 Farewell. 
 
 No. CCCCLXXXVII. 
 
 The Lord President to M' W" Baillie. 
 Sir, 30 Ocf 1745. 
 
 THIS morning I had your's, together with a letter from Pitcalnie, both dated 
 the 28"'. I truely compassionate poor Pitcalnie's case ; but if his son shall, after what 
 has been said to him, persist in his course, he will discover that degree of obstinacy & 
 perverseness which will soon cancell that concern for him that has hitherto possess'd my 
 mind, & suffer resentment & just indignation to take its place. I do not wonder that 
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 ■\rere to \Tsit you &^ punish Assint, should give your people the alarm ; but now, that 
 all apprehensions from that project is over, my friend L — - — t haveing, as he assures me, 
 resisted it, I should hope there can be no difficulty of bringing the conip''' together. 
 For let them hare what hankering they think fit after what they may look upon as the 
 heir male of their kindred, if they are not themselves jacobits, which I have been 
 assured thev are not, I should think it would be easie to create in them ane aversion to 
 the courses of this young man, &; to lead them to oppose rather than forward them ; 
 considering especially, that it is impossible that their present master can look with in- 
 difference on their conduct at this jimcture, or abstain from rewarding & punishing ac- 
 cordingly ; & if I guess right in this I hope you Asill lose no time, but furthwidt set 
 about getting the men, that they may be at liis as soon as possible ; & what encresses 
 mv earnestness on this article is, the desire I have to signifs^ the read\-ness of the Rosses 
 in the tirst letters I write to London, which will be by the vessell that brought doun 
 the arms ; &: she will probably sail by the end of this, or beginning of next week. The 
 cnlv trouble vou can now meet with to the northward, is from a vounsr man who is 
 said to have lately gone to Coigach, & for whose course I am heart)ly grieved. I hope, 
 however, he will not on his own bottom be able to do you much harm ; & it is obvi- 
 ous enough, &: may be made so to your people, who may entertain any apprehension 
 of invasion from this shire, that the haveing a sufficient force at Inverness, which we 
 are soon hkely to have, is the easyest & most natural! way of rendering them secure. 
 Jvlake mv comphments to Inverchasly, & show him this ; as the hurry in which I am, 
 pre\encs my writeing to him. Except a very few of the Clanchattan, none have as yet 
 stirr'd from this country, & they had not left Badenoch last Monday. I desire to hear 
 £rom you again as quickly as is possible, & am, d-^ Will, yours, &c. 
 
 Xo. CCCCLXXXVIII. 
 
 Lord Fortrose to the Lord President. 
 INIy Lord, 
 
 AS Ferbum is the bearer of this, he will inform your Lordship of all I know, 
 which is very Uttle. I wish you wou'd give him his commission (tor a certain reason), 
 and tell him you expect his company will he compleat at Inverness this week, and that 
 i promised you to have them both there before that time. In my little sphere I have 
 as great reason as most people to cr}" out O Tempora, O Mores ! Some want resolution, 
 othecs honour, and some free of both. 
 
 I am, vdrh perfect esteem, 
 jMy d' Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most affectionate humble servantt, 
 Braan Castle, 7 K. MACKENZIE. 
 
 Oct^3o-- 1745. 5 
 
 No. CCCCLXXXIX. 
 
 The Lord President to Genzies. 
 D'Sir, Nov' 2d, 1745. 
 
 THE Doctor shew'd meyour's of the 31" Oct', & this evening your serv brought 
 me your's of this day's date. I write this answer this night, that your serv' may get 
 away so soon as the gates are open in the morning. I begin with assureing you, that I 
 am sensible of your good v%ill towards me, 8c that the Gover' is very much obliged to you 
 
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 for ihc successful! care you have hitherto taken, to prevent the Assint men's falling a 
 prey to the disturbers of the Government, or iucressing their army. The reports which 
 in your's to the doctor you say you heard, were current here ; six score Macdonalds with 
 Barisdale at their head, supported by a larger body from my neighbour to the north- 
 ward, were to have march'd the beginning of this week, to iorce not only Assint, but 
 Balnagown's highlands to rise, & to destroy every one that presumed to resist ; but 
 that design, if ever seriously resolved, is lay'd aside : the Macdonalds are march'd 
 southwards ; all Lovat's people are at home ; Barisdale, with a few serv" only, is v/ith 
 him ; & L** Macleod only is gone into Loclibroom & Coigach, with what intent I do 
 not presume to say ; so that I am hopefull the men of Assint will be able to defend 
 themselves, at least make their retreat good, should they be press'd ; & they may de- 
 pend on protection should they come this length. I cannot answer for the folly in 
 some, or lethargy in others, that gives such scope to the play of those who would dis- 
 turb their peace. Were all your neighbours, who pretend to be for liberty, hearty, we 
 should make another figure at present than we do ; but rumors & distrust prevail ; & 
 it is in such times that a man is known & valuable. Should your friends in Assint be 
 press'd beyond what they can resist (which, for the reasons I have mention'd, I hope 
 will not be the case), if you can conduct them safely hither, they shall not only be pro- 
 tected, but their expence shall be borne ; & it is not impossible but some further use 
 may be made of such as are able &; willing to serve ; but this only as you shall approve 
 or direct. The intelligence which you have had has reach'd Inverchasly & M' BaiUie, 
 k prevented the bringing together the M' of Ross's comp''. I hope they will fall about 
 it when they discover the falsehood of these rumors ; & I doubt not you will be as 
 helpfull to them as you can, as I dare say they will give you all the assistance in their 
 power to protect or favour the retreat of the Assint men, should either be necessary. 
 I had this day a letter from Inverchasly by the Tain's post ; but as he does not return 
 till Tuesday, I presume to send under this cover ane answer to Inverchasly, which you 
 will be so good as to forward to him immediately, if your occasion don't lead you to 
 see him. 
 
 I am, D' Sir, 
 
 aflV^ yours, &c. 
 
 No. CCCCXC. 
 
 _ The Lord President to Inverchasly. 
 
 D' Sir, 2'^ Nov^ 1 745. 
 
 I HAD this day your's of the i'' by the Tain post; but as he does not return 
 sooner than Tuesday, I have taken the liberty to return you this answer under Genzie's 
 cover, by a servant of his, who goes from hence to-morrow morning early. You men- 
 tion the haveing mine of the 25"' Oct'; but take no notice of one of the 30"' to 
 M' BaiUie, which I wrote for you both, & desired him to show you. I dare say it must 
 be oweing to the lazieness of his serv', or to his haveing been out of the wd\, that it 
 did not come to your hand. In that letter I acquainted him, that the design of a body 
 of men's marching toward Assint, & the Braes of Ross, was laid aside ; that L'' Mac 
 Leod only was gone into Lockbroom & Coigach, to try what he could do ; that the 
 Assint men, & those of your country ihat are well intention'd, could prevent any bad 
 design ; & that it appear'd to me of the last consequence, to be able to say by the first 
 dispatches that go from hence to London, that the Rosses are doing what was expected 
 from them. I then hinted that the vessel 1 might sail the end of this, or begining of 
 
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 next vceek ; k I now acquaint you, that if I may have any good news to give against 
 next Thursdav, it may go by that conveyance. I am \erv much surprised a; concern'd 
 at what you write concerning the disposition of some of the gentlemen in your neigh- 
 bourhood. If the commons are debauch'd in the same manner, I do not know what is 
 to be look'd for from them, even if the Master of Ross was in this country. You may 
 be sure, however, I shall write for him ; but when he comes, & when this affair blows 
 over, as I hope it soon will, the gentlemen who are now so indifferent must make a 
 verv indifferent figure. It would be of use to have Sir Rob' Monro here ; but at pre- 
 sent I doubt he must be with his Reg'. I had this week a letter from Aldie, recom- 
 mending a young man, one Donald Ross, who he says is his near relation, &c. : this 
 vou will show to M' Baillie. Let me hear from you as soon as possible, &: believe me 
 to be, my d' Davie, truely yours, &:c. 
 
 P. S. Nine at night. 
 
 By a letter I just now received from M' Baillie, dated at Inchfure the i", I perceive 
 he has been out of tlie way ; so that he could not show you mine of the 3o"^ Ke 
 speaks of the difEculties, of which he will acquaint you, and proposes to improve Mar- 
 tinmas, towards bringing the comp'' together ; but tliat term you see will be evidently 
 too late to answer the purpose I have in view ; & I should hope every one who dreams 
 of joining the highland host will be gone from this countr)- before that period; as a 
 very strong army, marching northwards, is now not far from them ; Sc it is our busi- 
 ness to keep the'm at home. This M' Baillie will look upon as ane answer to his. 
 
 Xo.CCCCXCL 
 
 The Laird of Grant to the Lord President. 
 
 Mv d^Lord, C- Grant, Nov^^ 3^ 1745. 
 
 ROTHEMURCHUS, who marched from this yesterday, will inform your Lop 
 of the difficultie I had to prevaill with the men to march from this countrie to Invemes ; 
 which was occasioned by manie idle stories that were spread among them from different 
 quarters. I have been obliged to promise to relieve them, at least such as should 
 ijicline, at the end of a month, and shall endeavour to have them suppUed with full 
 as good men. Lord Levis Gordon is busie recruiting, and, I am mformed, will have 
 a considerable number of men together this week : he brought north 600 Hand o£ 
 arms. I am informed from different quarters, that I and my friend are to be attacked ; 
 in V. hich event, I will hope for assistance from Lord Loudoun. All here join in offering 
 your Lordship our sincere comphments, and will be glade to hear anie news you have. 
 
 I ever am, my d' Lord, 
 
 most faithfullie vours, while 
 
 LUD. GRANT. 
 
 Xo. CCCCXCII. 
 
 The Lord President to yoimg Pitcalnie. 
 
 Sir, NovU, 1745^. 
 
 I HAVE your's of the 3"*, expressmg your distrust of the messages sent to you 
 
 by Don. Ross ; together with vour apprehensions, that if you came to see me you 
 
 would be detaiu'd, unless vou had assurances to the contrary under my hand. The- 
 
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 messages he deliver'd you \vere from me ; as I was excccJingly affected with severall 
 reports that were current about you ; nor need you wonder, that what concern'd you 
 so nearly, &, if you will but reflect, me also, should give me abundance of uneasi- 
 ness. It was, however, never in my thoughts to entrap you, or to make you in the 
 least forfeit your honour. I wish you may have the same regard for it that I have ; 
 and as I doubt not you have pledged your honour to return to those gentlemen whose 
 prisoner you was, I should be the last man in the world, either to advise you not to 
 make that engagement good, or by any indirect means to hinder it ; & to make your 
 mind easy in that particular, I hereby promise, if you come hither to see me, that you 
 shall be permitted to return whenever you shall think fit, and shall have a safe con- 
 duct, to go to the place from whence you came, or to any other to which my autho- 
 rity reaches. This letter, shew'd in your way hither, if any questions are ask'd, will 
 be to you a sufficient passport. I need not tell you that I wish you well, & that I shall 
 be extremely grieved if any thing in your conduct shall make me be less than I have 
 been, 
 
 Your affte Uncle, &c. 
 
 No. CCCCXCIII. ' 
 
 The Lord President to the Laird of Grant. 
 
 D^Slr, ^ ^ 5"•Nov^ 1745. 
 
 LAST Sunday night Rothie's comp'' came in to Ins, & a very fine one it is, as 
 Loudon assures me. I know you can well afford another of the same kind ; & you 
 remember I promised, that if any more Independant Comp" were to be raised, you 
 should have the nomination of the officers of one of them. It is now, in my Lord 
 Loudon's opinion cc mine, necessary to add some to those already raised. You will, 
 therefore, think of proper officers to command another comp' of your people, to be 
 raised in the same way as the last, Sc look out for the men to be employed on the same 
 conditions. This will enable you to gratify some deserving young gentlemen of your 
 kindred ; at the same time that it will do the Gov' that service which you intend. 
 I have no apprehension from L'* Lewis Gordon's recruiting, which I am told goes but 
 heavily on. If I am rightly inform'd, he was to have been at Aberdeen as last Fryday, 
 to influence the gathering the publick money. I have no notion that such men as he 
 can collect in the shire of Banf or Aberdeenshire durst look Strathspey in the face, tho* 
 half it's men were march'd out of it ; but should any attempt, contrary to expectation, 
 be made, you may depend on speedy assistance from hence. We must make the defence 
 of each other's cause common. My compliments to Lady Marg' & all your good 
 company. 
 
 I am, Sir, with great respect. 
 
 Your most ob' & most humble serv', &c, 
 
 P. S. Rothie assures me, that you are willing the Comm" intended for him be given 
 to his son : the moment you signify to me your consent, it shall be done. 
 
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 444 eULLODEN' PAPERS. {ADDENDA. 
 
 No. CCCCXCIV. 
 
 The Lord President to Lord Fortrose. 
 
 My d^ Lord, ^ ^ e'" Nov' 1745. 
 
 I WROTE, ?3 I told you in my last, to Fairburn, & had his answer on Monday ; 
 but had thereby no other satisfaction, than to be convinc'd that his affection to your 
 Lop continues the same as ever, & will be such to the end ; tho' a sort of nicety pre- 
 vents his doing at present what your Lop &: I so much wish ; & since that is the case, 
 I presume your Lop has resolved how his ph^ce is to be supply'd. I supposed that your 
 Lop was to have march'd Hilton's comp' into town Monday or Tuesday ; but I dare 
 say there is a good reason why it has not been done. I only wish that you make the 
 dispositions so, as they may be vdth us soon, because that may determine our neigh- 
 bours to think before they leap. If, however, your Lop have occasion for tiiem 
 where thev are, to prevent foUys in your neighbourhood of the like nature, it may be 
 necessarv to let them hover a little. I wish, however, to be inform'd what is doing in 
 relation to this ; & it is for that end I send your Lop this Mess'- When the Isle of 
 Sky post calls at Brahan, your Lop will give him a small guard as usuall. Mac Leod 
 I expect soon from Sky, with the men that are look'd for from thence : they, probably, 
 for security, will make Carnchirm their road ; & I doubt not your Lop will give aU 
 the necessary orders for their accomodation. We have now got into Inverness the 
 Grants & Mackavs, as we had the Munros & L'* Sutherland's people before. These, 
 with what we expect, will enable us soon to shew a good countenance. We have 
 nothing certain by the last Ins post ; onlv that the runner assures us, the Highland 
 army march'd away from Ed' & Leith Thursday & Friday last. It is no evidence that 
 the news are good for them, when they suffer none of the Gazettes to come through. 
 My humble duty to Lady Seafort. 
 
 I am, sans facon, 
 
 Yours, 2cc. 
 
 No. CCCCXCV. 
 
 From Lord Reay to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Tongue, 6="" Nov' 1745. 
 
 I RECKON your Lordship has seen George's company e'rr now. If it pleases 
 you, and that vou think another of mv clan will be of service to the Government, my 
 son Bighouse, who was an officer abroad, is willing to raise one, in which I'le assist 
 him ; since I am keen to exert myself on this occasion, which I hope will be the last of 
 the kind. I mention this, as I learn some odiers your Lop designed companys for did not 
 accept. I'm glad to hear that some arms are given to the Earl of Sutherland ; I expect 
 what can be spared ; I really want them & some ammunition very much ; as neither 
 can be got to buy. It's hard that the true friends of the Government should want, 
 when it's enemies over all are so well provided. We are heartily threatened, for 
 sending men to Inverness ; but that don't move me. I refer your Lordship to what 
 George will tell you about myself. You know the great trouble and expence 1 was at 
 
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 in 1 7 1 5 ; for which I had not as much as thanks, owing to the reasons your Lordship 
 knowes ; yet as long as I have my present judgment, I shall risk my all most chearfully 
 for our happy establishment.- I'm perSwaded your Lordship will represent my case, 
 as a friend I tuUy trust. 
 
 , I have the honour to be, my Lord, 
 
 « Your Lordship's most obedient, 
 
 most faithful humble servant, 
 
 RExVy. 
 
 No. ccccxcvi. ' ' :_; 
 
 The Lord President to the Gentlemen of the Name of Ross. >''■ ^ 
 
 Gentlemen, Culloden, 7"" Nov. 1745. 
 
 IT is, I confess, a piece of presumption in me to adress so many gentlemen, who 
 each well deserve a separate application, by one letter ; but the hurry I am keept in 
 is so great, 8c the occasion is so pressing, that I hope you will forgive me. 
 
 Ui)on the unexpected heighth to which the Rebellion now on foot blazed, His 
 Majestic was pleased to trust me with the disposidon of Comissions for raiseing some 
 Independant Comp-' amongst those kindreds in the north whose disposition it was to 
 support the Gov'; & it did not cost me one minute to resolve, that no kindred could 
 be better trusted than yours ; wherefore, without loss of time, I acquainted M' Baillie, 
 who has the charge of the Jvlaster of Rosse's attairs, that the Master was to have one of 
 the Comp'' ; & that I hoped that zeal in the kindred tor Revolution principles, & for 
 the support of our religion & hbertys, which had appear'd on every proper occasion, 
 would now show itself, 6: compleat that Comp^ as quickly as any other could be shewn ; 
 but, to my f^reat mordhcadon, I have been inform'd, that the men who were assembled 
 for that purpose were prevail'd upon to disperse, upon the interposition of ane unhappy 
 youth, a near relation of mine, whose conduct you may be sure gives me intinite pain ; 
 & this is not the single thing that disturbs me ; for you may believe me, I am concern'd 
 for, the slur that this mihappy accident will, unless it is speedily repair'd, bring upon 
 the character of zeal & loyalty which the kindred has so long possest ; & for the incon- 
 venience it may be attended with to the publick, as well as to the individualls by whose 
 fault it may be supposed to have happen'd. W hat 1 therefore most earnestly entreat 
 of you, whose affection to the Gov', as well as concern for the honour of the kindred, 
 'I am fully satisf\''d of, is, that you would, without looseing time, concert the proper 
 measures for haveing this Comp-' instantly made up of men, who shall not be under- 
 stood to serve any longer than till these troubles are over ; which I am hopefull will be 
 the case very soon ; when the Comp- may be recruited by attesting men in the useuall 
 way. I have beg'd the favour of Capt" Munro, of Culcairo, to wait upon you & 
 deliver you this, who can explain to you at greater length what I would say, than can 
 be done in the compass of a letter ; & who can help you with his adAace. I hope you 
 will excuse the freedom which I use ; which has no other object than the good of the 
 publick, & the honour of your kindred. 
 
 I am. Gentlemen, 
 
 Sincerely your well wisher, 
 
 and most ob' humble humble serv', &c. 
 
 No. CCCCXCVIL
 
 44^ * <;uij.OD£>i PAPERS. [addenda. 
 
 No. CCCCXC\TI. 
 
 The Lord President to Pitcalnie. 
 T)"" Sir, _ 7 Novr 1 745. 
 
 J NEED not tell you what concern Malcom's folly has given me. I sent him 
 repeated messages to come & see me ; which produced no other effect, but a letter 
 from him promising to do so, if I would give him under my hand that he should be at 
 libert)- to return to Perth, whither he said he was, by his parole of honour, bound to 
 return. I, without looseing a moment, wrote him to that effect a letter in the strongest 
 terms last Monday, which was that dav dehver'd to him, but to no purpose ; either his 
 own apprehensions, or evil counsellors, have got the better of him ; & I confess my con- 
 cern for him is very great. The only thing, however, Uke ane ouvert act, he has done, 
 is the disperseing the men that were assembled in order to form the Independant Comp-'. 
 Ifow if none of these should acuially follow him, I should hope that discouragement 
 ■vnil be so great, that he will choose not to venture further than he has done ; but 
 rather to return to where he was confined, than to make such a figure, as in that case 
 he must make, should he follow the opinion of his present advisers. It is for this 
 reason, d" Sir, that I give you the trouble of this line, to entreat that you will lend 
 your assistance to the other gentlemen of the name to whom I have wrote, not only to 
 prevent the debauching of anv of the men, but also to prevail x^ith them to form the 
 Independant Comp'' now forming ; that all the world may see, that the unhappy 
 youth's folly had no encouragement from you. I need to make use of httle argument 
 with vou to enforce ane ad\ice so agreeable to what I dare sav are vour own inclina- 
 tions ; nor need I spend time in assureing you, that I am, with great sympathy, as weH 
 as sincerity, 
 
 Your most ob' & most hum. serv^, kc. 
 
 Xo. CCCCXCVIII. 
 
 The Lord President to Inverchasly. 
 ^ear Sir, Nov' 7, 1745. 
 
 I RETURN you all your letters. I think M' Baillie much in the right for 
 despiseing Barisdale's threats : if menaces of that kind were to have any effect, I know 
 -not who would do their duty, or deserve the favour of the Crown for doing it. I wish, 
 with all my heart, we could have letters from my L"* Ross, or the Master ; but I cannot 
 conceive how they should come, as nothing escapes the search of the gentlemen at Ed', 
 who would not willingly suffer directions from them to come through ; & the first 
 ■tydings, I confess, I expect to hear from the blaster is from -himself, who I doubt not 
 -will convey himself hirher by sea by the first proper occasion. I have, as you 
 desired, wrote a letter to the gentlemen you mentioned of the name of Ross ; & I have 
 prevail'd with Culcairn to take a trip down amongst you to deliver it. He \vi\\ be able 
 to enforce it by arguments, & to give advice as to the manner of forming the Comp-" ; 
 &:, besides, he will say to you somewhat, which I do not choose to coramitt to writeing. 
 I have also wrote a separate letter to Pitcalnie, exhorting him to exert himself on this 
 occasion, as a plain way of shewing that he had no hand in his son's indiscretion. With 
 respect to Don. Ross, if that will satisfy Aldie, I can certainly have him introduced 
 to the Excise, & according to his mcrite have him promoted there. You can hardly 
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 imagine how desirous I am that we should not be aSronted with respect to this Comp^ 
 which I see fools are leagueing together to suppress. ••»•*♦ 
 * * • * My service to M' Baillie ; to whom I would have writt, but that 
 I am thoroughly tired of scribleing. 
 
 I am, my dear David, ' ' 
 
 Most certainly your most ob* & most hum. Serv', &c. 
 ■ • " . 
 
 ' No. CCCCXCIX. • 
 
 Lord Fortrose to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I HAD the honour of yours of y" 6"', which I had been expecting for a day or 
 two before. Last Wednesday L"* Cromertie passed the river at Contin, with about 
 a hundred men, in his way to Beulie, without my knowledge (owing to the neglect of 
 my spies, as there's rogues of all professions). I have since seen severall that num- 
 bered them. L"* Macleod came from the Highlands die same day, and tollow'd his 
 father to the rendevous ; but after traversing all Assint and Lochbroom, did not get 
 one man, tho' he expected to get the Macleods there. I have tliis satisfaction, that 
 not a man has stir'd from Ross-shire, except William Kilcoy's brother with seven men, 
 and a tenant of Redcastle's with a few more ; and if Lentron & Terradon did goe off 
 last night, they did not carry between them a score of men. I took a ride yesterday 
 to the westward with two hundred men, hut find the bounds so rugged, that's impos- 
 sible to prevent a single man from going by, if he has a mind. Hbwever, I threatened 
 to burn their corn-yards if any body was from home this day ; and I turn'd one house 
 into the river for not finding its master at home. Its hard the Government gives 
 nobody in the north power to keep people in order. I don't chuse to send a Company 
 to Inverness till I hear what they are determined to doe at Lord Lovat's. I took, 
 care of y" Sky post, and shall doe the same of every thing else you recommend. 
 
 I am, my dear Lord, 
 Braan Castle, T Your Lordship's most affectionate humble servant, 
 
 Nov. y^ 8'", 1795. J • • • K. MACKENZIE^ 
 
 P. S. Coul has absented ; where he is gone I know not. 
 
 No.D. 
 
 The Gentlemen of the name of Ross to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 
 
 WE had the honor of receiving your letter by our fri^d Captain Munro of 
 CulcaJDi ; and beg leave to assure your Lop of our attachment ik regard to the 
 present happy establishment, under which we enjoy so many valuable privileges & 
 advantages. And with respect to your letter, my Lord, we take the libertie to say, 
 that we doe the more readily take part in the present affair because your Lordship has 
 interested yourself so much in it ; that, even on your account, we would join our good, 
 offices to our inclinations, for supporting the Government at this criticall time. We have 
 mett here this day in compliance with your letter ; and as Captain Munro will deliver 
 this, we doe referr to him to acquaint your Lop, at greater length than may be proper 
 
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 to write in a letter, \\-hat resolution vre have come tc, in order to make up the men 
 expected from this country'. But as there is a mercatt next week, at wliich all the 
 people have necessary bussyness to doe, in order to enable them to pay their rents & 
 other demands, -nee are assured they vi-ill not \dllingly goe till that mercatt is over. 
 But the week thereafter, we hope the men will be at Inverness, and make such an 
 appearance there as will be agreeable to your Lojj, and as much as possible atone for 
 their beiiif^ so long of coming up. jNI" Baillie, who is here also, and who concurs- 
 heartilv in tlie same resolution with us, hopes your Lordship -w-ill see or hear firom the 
 Master of Ross, or mv Lord Ross, or that himself will in a few days ; that any 
 objection, which the people cf the estate of Balnago\\n may make on that account, 
 may be avoided. 
 
 And as we understand this to be your birth-day, wee concur in heart)- prayers, that ' 
 vou may live for manie years more to doe ser\-ice to our king and country ; and in 
 testimonie of our sincerit)^ we will conclude vtith ane irmocent botde, as use is on the 
 like occasion ; assuring your Lordship with how much honour, regard, and attachment, 
 \3ree shall be on all occasions, 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lop's most obedient and most faithful servants, 
 
 ROBERT ROSS. 
 
 SIMON ROSS. 
 
 DLT^CAN ROSS. 
 
 THOMAS ROSS, 
 
 DAVID ROSS. 
 Tain, > DAVID ROSS. 
 
 lb' i;45-) 
 
 io*Novemb' 1:45. > ARIHUR ROSS. 
 
 No. DI. 
 
 The Lord President to M' Scrope. 
 D'Sir,' ^ _ U'" Nov' 1745. 
 
 I AM just now, where I was just thirtj- years agoe, & employ'd in the same 
 service, & with the same resolution, tho' not with the same ^•igour ; & yet I carmot 
 justly complain of the success of my weak endeavours ; for of those kindreds of the 
 Highlanders who in the year 1715 were at Perth, there are now in this coimtrj', partly- 
 assisting me, & partly detain'd at home by perswasion or force, a greater number than 
 the number of reall Highlanders who have from Edin' march'd towards England. I do 
 not speak of the whole of what they call their army, which is composed of numbers 
 of low cotmtrv people, who must prove rather a drawback than any assistance to them ; 
 but I speak of the natives of the mountains, who by the celerity of their marches, 
 & bv their capacity to bear fatigues, may be accounted dangerous enemys. I am 
 hopefull, there will be soon a good account given of those ; & that I shall be thereby 
 relieved from the present drudgerv. In the mean time, as I am sending dispatches to 
 London, I thought you would not take it amiss to have it certify'd under my hand 
 & seal, that I am still in the land of the liveing, & doing tolerably well ; & I entertain 
 some hopes, that vou will, eithe" by yourself or Harry, deliver a like certificate to 
 Geo. Ross, who will put this into your hands, to be transmitted to me; which will 
 gladden the heart of your affectionate well wisher, &c. 
 
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 ADDENDA. 2 , CULLODEX PAPERS. 4!^ 
 
 No. DII. 
 
 The Lord President to the Earl of Stair." 
 My Lord, 14 Nov 1745. 
 
 I HAVE already wrote a very long letter to the Marquis of TwecdJale ; which 
 as your Lop will see, it would be troublesome to me, as well as nauseous to you, to 
 repeat. From it, as well as from what Loudon will write to you, you must have a 
 pretty good guess at the situation of the King's affairs in this country. Wherefore I 
 shall trouble you ^ith very Httle, except a circumstance which, I doubt, Loudon will 
 omitt ; & that is, that he came to this country exceeding seasonably to my relief, when 
 I had the most occasion for him, & when I do not know what I should have done ■with- 
 out him ; & that to his vigilance, application, & temper, the crown & the country owe 
 a great deal, & in all appearance will owe more. It is needless to entertain your Lop 
 with many difficulties & cross accidents we have had to surmount ; or \vith the knavery 
 & folly of many of the fools we had to work with, & upon. The sum of what we 
 have to flatter ourselves with, & which it may be of service to the Gov' to know, is, 
 that except Mac Pherson of Clunie, who with about 300 of his posse left Badenoch 
 before we were enabled to bring any force together, by those remittances which I so 
 often press'd for, no body of men from this country' have join'd the highlanders who 
 were successful at Preston Pans ; so that the force in highlanders of that army, as they 
 call it, which has march'd from Edin' towards England, cannot possibly be formidable ; 
 however the numbers may be increas'd by a rif raf of low country people, who must 
 do them more hurt than service. As I have press'd, in my letter to the Marquis, for 
 a further remittance of money &: supply of arms, I am confident your Lop will for- 
 ward my request, &: of all things prevent loss of time. The totall interruption of com- 
 munication with the southern parts of Scotland made it impossible to raise any of thf 
 indepen' companys there, at least hitherto. 
 
 I am very faithfully, 
 
 Your Lop's, S:c. 
 
 No. Dili. 
 
 The Lord President to Mr. Geo. Ross. 
 Sir, 1 5"' Nov. 
 
 THE strong boxes have been received out of the Saltash sloop, are dehvered to 
 Baillie James Eraser, & by him lodged for security in Fort George. They contain, I 
 presume, the cash you mention, tho' they have not as yet been open'd ; & that money 
 shall be disposed of for the subsistence of the Indepen' Comp- ', of which no more than 
 5 are actually at Inver' ; more are dayly expected. It is verv likely that there will be 
 necessary occasion for money for incident expences, befor a fresh supply arrives from 
 London ; & in that case we shall be obliged to borrow from the sum remitted by you ; 
 to be made good afterwards, by money proper for such expences ; & I have written to 
 my Lord Marquis of Tweeddale, intreating that a further sum of money may be sent 
 down to us, to answer such contingent expences ; of which you will not fail to put 
 him in mind from time to time. The directions you have given Baillie Eraser, as to the 
 issueing the subsistance, he will, I dare say, comply with, & by the next occasion 
 give you ane account of his proceedings. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Your most humble Serv', &Ci
 
 450 ci:llod£-v rAPERs, [addenda. 
 
 No. DIV. 
 
 The Lord President to IMr. Geo. Ross. 
 
 Same date. 
 Dear George, 
 
 BY another letter of this date, I have acknowledged the receipt of the strong 
 boxes ; & by oiie to ^I- iVIitchell, besides what I have wTote to the Mar. of Tweeddale, 
 I have so far explain'd the state of this country, that he will be able to sadsfv your 
 curiosity. What I write this additional letter for is, to let vou kno\\-, that voux name* 
 sakes have not, whether from knaverj- or folly, or a mixture of both, behaved them- 
 selves as I expected, or as they ought to have done. So soon as I received the com- 
 missions for the indepen' comp'^-', I sent for ISV Baillie & Inverchaslv, & acquainted 
 them with my intenuons of giveing one to the Master of Ross, vith the Lieut. 6c En- 
 sign that were proposed. They seem'd ven.- well sarisfv'd, foimd no ditEculry in 
 raiseing the comp% & promised to bring the men together so soon as thev should have 
 nonce ; which could be no sooner than we could have arms 6c monev : when these 
 came, they had nonce S: brought loo men together ; but, upon some difficulty's raised 
 by PilcaLny's mad son, they dispers'd ; & tho' I have vrrote to them, as a kindred, a 
 letter, 8c sent Culcaim to Tain, where he had meetings with them, all I have got from 
 them is a promise, that in a fortnight the comp-'' will be brought together. I do not 
 choose to conjecture at the cause of this backwardness in the people ; it is surelv not 
 disaffection. Some of the gentlemen question, whether the Master of Ross would ac- 
 cept, and others pretend he will not because he is not already here. If I knew where 
 to write him, I would ; ;ic as you do, I desire that you mav let him know how the 
 matter stands ; to the end, if he cannot come, he mav write to his friends in the strongest 
 terms. Inverchaslv is, I am confident, suiEcientlv zealous. I am so monstrously tired 
 w ith writeing, that the only other thing I can submitt to the trouble of writeing about, is 
 poor John Innes, who writes me word from London, that his misfortunes this campaign 
 have not left him a groat ; Sc begs some supply. Remittance is impossible, & my purse 
 is prett)' well drain'd ; let him, however, have somewhat to keep the bones green, & 
 put on a coat, Scl shall pay you. 
 
 I am, D" George, 
 
 Yoius, Sec 
 
 Xo. DV. 
 
 From the E. of Loudon k the Lord President to Marishall Wade, or the Commander 
 
 in Chief in the North. 
 Sir, Nov. 1 6, 1745. 
 
 AS we are sending dispatches for London by the Saltash sloop to Newcasde, we 
 judged it might be for His Majesrie's service, to drop you this short notice, to let you 
 know the present situation of this coimtry ; which is in substance, that, except ISIac 
 Pherson of Clunie, with about 300 men from Badenoch, no body of highlandersof any 
 consequence have, from the country to the northward of Athole, join'd those who 
 originally took possession oi Edin', or added to their numbers in their march towards 
 England ; that about 200 of the tribes dependant on the Clanchattan, with some men 
 from Breumar, & some other small partv-s, had got together at Perth last Saturday ; 
 ^here, they said, they waited for further reiciorcements from the north ; that 150 or 
 
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 1 60 Mac Kenzics, seduced by the E. of Cromarty, march'd the beginning of this week 
 up the north side of Lochness, & depended upon being follow'd by 5 or 600 Erasers, 
 under the conduct of the Master of Lovat ; but these MacKenzies have not as yet pass'd 
 the mountains ; neither have the Erasers yet march'd out of their own country ; & 
 we have some hopes they will not, as we have nov/ 70P highlanders in pay at Inver- 
 ness, & look hourly for some hundreds more, with which we shall endeavour to per- 
 swade them to stay at home ; that we hope immediately to open the conmiunication 
 with Fort Augustus & Eort William, & thereafter to march some indepen' companys 
 into Banf & Aberdeen shires, to obstruct effectually the recruiting of Lord Lewis 
 Gordon for the Pretender's service, which goes on but heavily at present ; and that, 
 when this is done, we shall be ready to do what further shall appear necessary, & be 
 within our power, for putting ime end to the present rebellion. We vdsh you heartily- 
 good success, & are, 
 
 Sir, 
 Your most ob' h most humble serv", &c. 
 
 Postscript. Last Fryday, Mac Leod,'with 400 of his kindred, join'd us ; which gives 
 up hopes that we shall prevent the march of the Erasers, who are not yet gone. I'here 
 is a great fall of snow on the ground. 
 
 1 7 Nov'. 
 
 No. DVI. 
 
 The Lord President [perhaps to M' Tho' Eraser, of Gortuleg.] 
 No date j but probably about the end of Nov. 1745. 
 
 Dear Tom, 
 
 I RECEIVED with very smart concern yours of the 27'''*. What grieved me 
 cruelly was, that I see my unhappy and much-loved friend on the brink of destruction ; 
 and that you should be so unkind as to hint, as the only remedy, an expedient A^'hich 
 to the end of time would dishonour me : I mean, my counteracting my publick pro- 
 fessions to the Government ; which I am determined, at all hazards, to support. Ther 
 is something so dishonourable in that thought, that I must reject it with indignation ; 
 and may be induced to act a part more forward than otherv/ays I should choose, to 
 avoid imputations from others of what you seem to wish. But no consideration to 
 which my honour leads me, which I am determined absolutely to pursue, will ever 
 make me relinquish my wishes for my Lord's safety, or any honourable mean of con- 
 tributing to it. All that is left me at present is, by remonstrance and advice to you, 
 who love his family & person as well as I do, and I need say no more : what I would 
 
 signify to you is, that L** L n was yesterday about to have wrote another letter^ 
 
 proposing the termes he expected from my Lord ; but upon hearing ot some ot the 
 company's march, he stopped short, and expressed his fears that he had gone too fai* 
 in the way of treating. What provoked him was, that tho' my Lord had said all the 
 men were at home, and promised to do what he could to keep them so, yet he heard that 
 three companys had marched, & two more were to follow ; and he had received inform- 
 ation that my Lord was accessary to this; which supersedes all protection. Andhere- 
 
 * This does not appear in tlie collection. 
 
 3 w 2 solved.
 
 ^ej Cl'llodex papers. [addenda. 
 
 solved, whilst Lord Seafort was advancing on the one hand, to march 6 or 700 men 
 from hence. What the precise of his intention is, I do not know ; but I am sure, in 
 certain cases, he has authority to burn and destrov. God forbid that this should be 
 the fate of vour poor unhappy country. I shall try to stop him, and to perswade him 
 vet to send his letter, which will be the last ; and from my heart I wish that repentance 
 may not come too late. 
 
 No. D\ II. 
 
 The Lord President to the Duke of Gordon. 
 My Lord, Culloden, 9 Dec^ 1745. 
 
 THE Earl of Loudon is return'd from relieving Fort Augustus from a sort of 
 blockade with which it was straiten'd ; & as he is very busy just now, in prepareing 
 every thing for a short expedition to the westward, to bring some people, w^hose con- 
 duct' he is not pleased with, to order, he has charged me to acquaint your Grace that, 
 mindful of vour desire, he has order'd a body of between 5 & 600 men to march to- 
 morrow towards Elgin, w here they will arrive the third day ; & that he is very quickly 
 to follow with the Hke number, & to order more troops to march the same way, if 
 circmnstances make it necessary. This he thought it was highly fittimg to acquaint 
 your Grace with, that your people might know they are n6 longer to be oppress'd ; 
 &: that vour Grace may ha\e time to consider & advise him, when he arrives, what 
 is fittest to be done for his Majestie's service, which he knows you have so n.uch at 
 heart. I very readily comply with my Lord's desire, because it gives me ane oppor- 
 tunitj- of assureing your Grace that I am, with perfect respect, 
 
 My Lord Duke, 
 Your Grace's most ob' .k most hu. setw 
 
 No. DVIII. 
 
 The Lord President to the Earl of Findlater. 
 My Lord, ro Dec' 1745. 
 
 THIS afternoon your Lop's letter of the 9'" was, pursueant to your dnections, 
 delivered to me, in the absence of E. Loudon, who is this day marched with a con- 
 siderable body of men to the westw^ard, to obtain the best security he can, that L. 
 Lovat's kindred, who have been long in ane uncertain state, norwithstanding the 
 many endeavours that his Lordship assures us he has used to keep them dutifuU, will 
 remain quiet, & give no disturbance to the Gov'. I observe with concern the method 
 used by the rebells in Banfshire, which are the same that are made use of in Aberdeen- 
 shire, to induce his Majesties subjects to raise money & men toward the subversion of 
 the Gov^ Your Lordship has surely return'd to those who have consulted with you a 
 very solid advice ; & have, no doubt, given the proper directions to those that take 
 care of your affairs, on the subject of the letter that wras written to yourself; and if 
 these advices & directions can prevent men's subjecting themselves to the penalties of 
 high treason for a very few days, they will be deliver'd from all apprehensions of such, 
 usage ; for before any notice came from your Lop, a body of between 5 & 600 men 
 was this day march'd from Inverness for Aberdeen by Elgin, to be foUow'd by my 
 Lord Loudon very quickly, with as many more if needfull ; & by a furtaer force 
 firom hence, if it shall be wanted. Thus your Lop's tennants & neighbours will be 
 speedily relieved from the oppression under which they groan j & I should hope they 
 
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 will have the fortitude to resist the threats that are employ'd to induce them to become 
 parties to high treason for a very few days, when relief is so very near at hand ; as, on 
 the other hand, I immagine the rebells will be cautious how they execute those threats, 
 when reprisealls can be so speedily made on those who may be so wicked as to put them 
 in execution. And, as E. Loudon is absolutely a stranger in Banfshire, it would 
 surely contribute very much to the service, if your Lop, who can give so perfect in- 
 formation of the practices as well as the characters of men, could meet him in his march 
 through that country ; or if that may not be, because of the severity of the season, or 
 on any other account, that your Lop would give directions to any person in whose 
 fidelity you have confidence, & of whose sagacity, & acquaintance with the late trans- 
 actions in the country, you are satisfy'd, to attend him, that he may receive the proper 
 information ; and that you would also direct your deputy shirref to be in the way, that 
 he may issue the proper orders for what concerns the accommodation of the troops in 
 their march. I beg your Lop may be so good as to make my compliments to Lady 
 Findiater, Lady IVIarg' Grant, & the rest of your good company ; & believe me tO' 
 be, with perfect respect, My Lord, ' • • 
 
 Your Lop's most ob' & most humble serv', &c. 
 
 P. S. Your serv' haveing gone into town last night about some bye business he had 
 to do, & not haveing as yet return'd, I have struck up the seal of my letter, to let 
 your Lop know, that E. Loudon has prevail'd with Lord Lovat to come in with him 
 to toun, to reside at liberty there till the present confusions are over ; to deliver up 
 what arms he has, & to sign all proper orders to his clan to remain quiet. Loudon 
 
 brings him in with him to-day. 
 
 Wed. ii"", 9 in y' morning. 
 
 No. DIX. ' 
 
 Mr. Robert Dundas, Solicitor General, to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Edin', Dec. 1 1"" 1745- 
 
 TWO posts ago I had a Letter from the Marquis of Tweedale ; wherein he tells 
 me, that a few days before he had had Letters from your Lordship, & L. Loudoun ; 
 and desires me by some way or other to correspond with you, lest you should have 
 any Commands for this place [part] of the country. As, at present, all communica- 
 tion by Land is uncertain, or rather cut off, I proposed to the Justice Clerk, & General 
 Guest, that a Boat should be sent, that your Lordship might have an opportunity of 
 writing to the King's friends here, if you thought it necessary, or had any directions 
 for us. They agreed to my proposal ; & I imagined they were to have writ to you an 
 Account of our situation ; but it seems I was mistaken ;, for Mr. Guest told me this. 
 Morning, that he was not to write. I hope the Justice Clerk will, who knows our 
 Situation better than me. However, I shall inform your Lordship of some of the 
 particulars regarding it. First, as to the News of the Rebells in England, I refer you 
 to the Courant, which contains what v. e know ; the latest Intelligence being a letter from 
 General Huske, dated at Ferrybridge, Saturday last, when M'Leod's Troops were that 
 day stopped by an Express, & probably a considerable part of them may return to this 
 Country. Mr. Huske says, that they then heard the Duke had got before the rebells, 
 & stopp'd them at Loughborough. What may be the effect of so strange a March, is 
 not easy to conjecture ; as they certainly have very few men to oppose the King^s- 
 Armies, & scarce a Creature has hitherto joined them in England. 
 
 As
 
 45-1 ClT-LODEy PAPER5. [aDDEKDA. 
 
 As to our Home ASairs, the vwo Battalions of Foot •n-hich came from Berwick are 
 marched to Stirling, and the Dragoons are marching to L i nlithgov 6c Falkirk. About 
 600 of the Regiment levied at Glasgow, bv His Majest)'^s warrant, are this day march- 
 inor to Stirling, to assist the Regular Forces ; $c I believe some himdreds, hired bv 
 private Subscription in ditferent Counties, 'will soon toUow, and dispute the passage 
 of the Forth if the rebels attempt it. 
 
 The situation of tlie Rebels vour Lordship will probably know. Their head quarters 
 are at Perth, where thev compute 12 or 14C0 Highlanders, & about 500 at Dundee. 
 The Landing of the Irish in the French Service at Montrose has given them Spirits ; 
 8c I hear theseTroops are begiiming to move towards Perth, & endeavouring to carry some 
 heavY Caimon along vdxh them, which they give out to be : 8 or 24 pounders ; but I 
 am told, that they have onlv 2, or 3, ispoimders. The French Troops are under 
 the Command of Lo. Jo. Drummond, who on Monday sent a Drum to Gen. Blackney 
 to Stirling with a Letter, desiring him to be forwarded with letters which he had to Gen, 
 Guest & Marshall Wade. The purport of the first letter was, that he Lo. Jo. was 
 come over at the head of some French Troops, with instructions from the King of 
 France to meet and give Battle to the Troof>s of the King of England, Elector of 
 Hanover ; & that he proposed the Generals should agree to the Cartel fixed in 
 Flanders last vear, which mav be of ad\-antage to both sides. Copies of the Letter to 
 Guest were dispatch'd to London, and the Drum is sent forward to Mr. Wade. By the 
 best Accounts, the Number of the French landed is between 5 & 600 ; and your Jlord- 
 ship will have heard, that one Transport was taken by die iSIilford Man of War, vdxh 
 162 private Men, 9 Scots, 14 Engliih, i German, ^j French, & all the rest, with 17 
 Officers, Irish, who are now in the Castle. This, my Lord, is a Ihort sketch of our 
 situation in this coimtrv : & you may well believe we are in Confufion by these trouble- 
 some Times, and should be glad we were delivered from them. However, we aU keep 
 up our hearts ; & I must say, the Commonality in the Coimtry are well affected, & 
 readv to support the Goveriunent as far as they can. The good accoimts we have 
 of the peaceable dispositions of several of your Friends & Neighbours gives great Joy, ^c 
 nothing has more contributed to the keeping up a true Spirit here. 
 
 Tho' I send this letter by the Marquis's directions, yet I expect no other answer than 
 vour Lordfhip may think proper ; for I should be in the wrong not fairly to tell you, 
 that we ought to know nothing but what you think necessary on accoimt of the Ser\ice. 
 Tour Lordship knovv-s some of us, better than we know ourselves ; &: we still continue 
 the same you took us to be, & we never communicate any thing of Importance to above 
 I o or 1 2 of our intimate friends. However, if you let me know that it is any ways agree- 
 able to you & Lord Loudoim to hear from us, I'll send frequently by Sea, and fhaU 
 like\\is€ forward anv paquet comes from London. 
 
 You would greatly blame me in these times, when all good IMen ought only to be 
 concerned for their Coimtr)-, &: to be using their endeavours for the support of our 
 Constitution, if I writ about any other Matters ; nor wiU I do it ; only when you 
 have time to pity a Poor Mortal, pity me in my unlucky situation ; as I am here placed 
 in far too conspicuous a light, left entirely to mv own guiding, without any person in 
 the Earth to give the least assistance or Counsels. In obedience, however, to several 
 ^ood Lessons I have got from your Lordfliip, I will so far try to imitate you, as that I 
 am resolved to do my Duty as far as in me lies ; & nothing pri\-ate that can be done 
 Ihall make me stirly, or neglect the Duty of my Office, till we can say that this 
 Rebellion is over. 
 
 I am sorry to tell vou, that Lord x\miston, who was forced to leave hJs House when 
 he was taking severe remedies, turned so bad again, that his Physicians insisted he 
 
 should 
 
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 should be confined for some time ; & as that could not be ventured here, lest of a new 
 alarm at this season of the Year, he is gone to England ; but to what place I do not yet 
 know ; I am in greater fear for him than ever 1 was before. I spoke to Willie Forbes, 
 who has sent all the Newspapers & Pamphlets he could get. It gives me great satisfaction 
 to hear from him that you are well. I heartily pray God it may continue, botli for your 
 Country and friends' sake ; & when I shall have the pleasure of meeting again with you, 
 many and various Anecdotes will we talk of. In the mean time, I beg leave to afTure you, 
 that I am with the greatest Sincerity, 
 
 My Dear Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant, 
 
 RO, DUNDAS. 
 P. S. Allow me to offer my most humble respects to Lord Loudoun. 
 
 No. DX. 
 
 The Duke of Gordon to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 I THIS moment received your Lop's Letter, & think myself much bound to your 
 Lop for acquainting me of the motion of my Lord Loudon's troops. 
 
 I beg you will be so good as make my Com" to Lord Loudon ; & to assure him, 
 that I shall think it my duty to meet his Lop at Elgin, & to do my utmost to inform 
 his Lordship of every step, to my knowledge, most conducive to his Majesty's interest j 
 & shall have the hon' to accompany him wherever he may judge it most proper to go. 
 
 I take this as a most particular favour both from the E. of Loudon & y' Lop ; & such 
 a one as I shall never forget to either. The bearer seems to be in a great hurry, & 
 therefore wou'd detain him no longer. 
 
 I am, 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordsp's most obed' & most humble servant, 
 Gordon Castle, DeC" ii'" 1745. 1 GORDON. 
 
 past 5 afternoon. J 
 
 No. DXI. 
 
 Part of a Letter from the Lord President to Mac Leod, at Elgin. 
 
 Dated i^"" Dec'. 1745. 
 _ MY last inform'd you, that L. Lovat is come into Town, after abundance of 
 shillie shallie stuff. He has at last agreed, that all the Arms belonging to his people 
 shall be carry'd into Ins by Sunday's night ; & the expectation of this, whether the un- 
 dertakeing be jest or ernest, necessarly detains Loudon here untill he see the issue ; 
 however, as expectation is raised, by your march, of relief beyond Spey, which must 
 not be disappointed, he is to march from Ifis to morrow Eastwards 2 comp*', Culcairns. 
 & W" Macintoshe's. Culcairn's I beg'd for & obtain'd, because he knows somewhat 
 of the manoeuver, & will be of use to you ; they will certdnly be at Elgm at furthest 
 Monday's night, but it's possible they may be with you Sunday's night ; & Loudon 
 with more Troops will follow, when my Lord Lovat shall have fulfilled articles, or, 
 on failure of performance, shall be disposed of. Whilest the negociation necessarily 
 detains Loudon, you see the absolute necessity of performing our engagements to the 
 Duke of Gordon, 84 to Banfshire, if practicable ; for which end these two additional 
 
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 ^c6 «ULLODEK PAPERS. [ADDENDA* 
 
 Comp'^ are to be sent to you. If, by your information the Rebells under Lord Le^ds 
 Gordon can be delt with by the force you novr have, ycu -n-ill march for Strathbogie 
 Munday's morning, whether the 2 Comp-" I bSve mentioned come to you before that 
 time or not : If vou want the assistance of those Comp"", which I imagine will not be 
 the case, you will -w^ait for them : and if, after their arriveall, more force still should 
 be wanted, vou must expect mv L'^ Loudon ; but if, what I presume is most likelv shall 
 be foimd to be the case, that the force now vdrh you, is more than suficient to deal 
 wirh Lord Le-wis's recruits, you will then march Munday morning in yovu" way to Strath- 
 bo-^e ; ic unless Spev prove too great a hindrance to you, you may reach Keith that 
 nio-ht ; where, & in the neighbouring village?, you will meet wirh toUerable quarters 
 fisr one night ; Sc the next day bv noon vou mav reach Strathbogie, where & in the 
 neio-hbourhocd you may rest till further orders ; sending out part}"S to dissipate any 
 assembly of Rebells vou mav be informed of, if any such should be. If this shall be 
 your resolution, you will on Sunday evening, march a Comp, or what you shall judge 
 to be a sufficient detachment, to Spey side, to secure the Boats for the passage next day, 
 & to remain at the ferry on this side, and in the neighbourhood, that night, & to be ane 
 escorte for a messenger, whom you will send with the inclosed letter, which you will 
 shut and send to the D. cf Gordon, together with another of your own to the same 
 purpose. The securing the Boats •«ill facilitate your march to Keith ; and the message 
 to the Duke, as it is respectfull, will be taken kindly ; & will procvue his coxmtenance. 
 What the people about him say, vou will receive ci\ily ; at the same time that you will 
 suspect their former way of thinking lays them under a byass. 
 
 it you are strong enough for Lord Lewis, you had better march by yourself ^plonday 
 mommg, even tho' the other 2 Comp" should arrive Sunday's night, because of the 
 difficulty of accomodation i but if there is any apprehension of opposition which you 
 cannot easily master, you will not only wait for them, but, as the case may be, for L. 
 Loudon also. I need not tell you, that as I have obtain'd Culcaim to be sent to you 
 because of his knowledge, vou wiU consult with, Sc use him well. If you judge the 
 force now with vou sufficient to go to, & remain with you at Strathbogie, vou may 
 direct the 2 Comp"^' that follow to remain at Elgin, to come forward to Fochabers or 
 Keith, or to march to Banf, or anv other pan of that shire that the service may require. 
 LIr. Bartlet, who came from Abd% was directed to send you accounts from thence by 
 word of mouth, on which vou was to form opinions until L. Loudon come up, & to 
 act accordingly ; & Mr. Thomson -n-as to remain at Elgin with you. to explain to you 
 the charaaers of the messengers that might be sent. L^pon the inclosed, which you 
 will dehver to him, I presume ^Ir. Thomson will accompany you ; Sc, as he knows 
 the country better than you do, give vou the best ad\-ice and information. 
 
 You must be senable that frequent commimication is necessary ; therefor frtim Elgin 
 you ouo-ht to fetch ane honest runner or two, such as Sir H. Innes will direct you to 
 be sent hither, with frequent ad\-ices : & these, together with the return of such a* 
 shall be sent to you, will keep up the communication. In the mean time, unless the 
 D. of Gordon take it upon himself, you ought to leave a small part)- att Fochabers, & 
 ane other at Keith, to secure the passage of messengers. What else I have forgot. 
 Si what will occur to yourself to be for the ser\"ice, you will do. 
 
 I am yours. 
 
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 ADDENDA.] Ct'LLODEN PAPERS. ,.^tj 
 
 No. DXII. 
 
 The Lord President to the Duke of Gordon. 
 
 My Lord, ^ 13 Dec' 1745. 
 
 AS the E. of Loudon is obliged to stay a day or two longer than he expected at 
 liis to see the execution of his agreement with L'' Lovat, who is now there ; and as the 
 speedy execution of his promise to your Grace is necessary ; the Laird of M" Leod, who 
 is now at Elgin, & will be follow'd by more troops to march to morrow, is directed to 
 proceed to Strathbogie, to dissipate the Rebells assembled there, & in the other parts of 
 Banfshire. There is no sort of doubt, your Grace will give him all the countenance 
 advice, & assistance possible, as he is actuated by the same principle that possesses 
 your Grace, regard to liberty, & zeal for His Majestie's service. It is possible he may 
 be obliged to secure the passage over Spey, in order to convey even this, with his 
 compliments, securely to your Grace ; &: I am confident he will have your approbation, 
 as well as your assistiuice to preserve that passage for the future free from interruption. 
 Whatever direction your Grace shall be pleased to give him for the good of the service 
 he will carefully observe ; because I am confident he is, what I most certainly am, 
 
 -My Lord Duke, 
 Your Grace's most ob' & most humble Serv', &c. 
 
 No. DXIII. 
 
 The Lord President to the Laird of Mac Leod. Same Date. 
 Sir, 
 
 AS zeal for His Majeftie's service, and for the support of our happy conflitution, is 
 the sole motive of your march, with so many of your Kinsmen, to a Country so distant 
 from your own ; I presume you will not scruple to take directions from me, who, tho' 
 I have no Military Commission, or Authority, am actuated by the same principles that 
 direct you. I need not tell you, because you know it. that the first intent of your ex- 
 pedition is, to deliver the Duke of Gordon's Vaflalls and Tennants, and their neigh- 
 bours, in Banfshire, from the oppression of the Rebells, in the illegall and treasonable 
 levys of men & money which they presume by force to make. To accomplish this 
 design, you will receive due information from his Grace, & from such as he shall order 
 to inform you. You will treat such as will presume to persist in these treasonable prac- 
 tices, & to resist, as traitors ; & to the outmost of your power, you will protect 
 againft their oppressions such as are dissposed to remain dutiful! to his Majestie ; and 
 because, according to undoubted information, many persons have been compell'd 
 by force & threats to enlist in the service of the Pretender, whilst there was no 
 force sufficient to protect them, if any such should resort to you, & deliver up their 
 Arms, you will not scruple to give them a fignification of that dutifull behaviour ; to 
 the end it may be a motive to obtain their pardon from his Majestie's grace. 
 
 If, after your arriveall at Stratlibogie, you shall be informed of any number of men 
 in Arms, in support of the Rebellion, or of Arms any where lodged within your reach, 
 it will be doing good service, to send out detachments to dissipate the one, or seize the 
 other, at all adventures. I am confident E. Loudon will approve of the Advice I now 
 give ; & his further directions you shall take when he comes up with you, which will 
 be soon. 
 
 I am. Sir, 
 
 Your most ob'. 
 
 Si most humble Serv'. &c.
 
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 Xo. DXIV. 
 
 Sir Mathew Ridlev to the Lord President. 
 Mt Lord, 
 
 I TAKE the opportunitr of Mr. Inglis's return to Inverness, to thank vour Lord- 
 ship for the honour of your Letter of the 10''' October. I hope yours & my Lord 
 Loudon's good endeavours have had the desired success, and that we may soon see the 
 Highlands return to their dut)\ 
 
 We were in great expectation of having a good account of the Duke coining up with 
 the Rebells ; but on the appearance of some of his Army at Swarston Bridge, 6 miles 
 south of Derbv, on Friday morning last, they retreated with great precipitation to 
 Ashbum, and, by verv long marches both night and day, reached Preston as last night ; 
 when the Duke was only at iVIacclesfield. They are pushing to get back into Scotland 
 by wav of Carhsle, and will certainly effect it. Marshall Wade is -with the Army 
 under his Command this night at Wetherby, on his return to thus place, where they 
 vpill remain till proper provision can be made for the march of the Army into Scotland, 
 whJch I underftand is to be done as soon as possible. I \vish they may get there in 
 tine to flop the progress of the Rebels now in Arms about Penh, and to prevent their 
 2.<r3in being in possession of Edinburgh. — I know not what is intended as to the Duke's 
 Armv ; but it is conjectured, that His R. Highness will scarce come farther North than 
 where he now is, as it is too probable there vdll be occasion for a large body of troops 
 in the South of England ; certain InteUigence being come, of a great embarkation at 
 Dunkerque. — The Admiralrv have taken up 40 ships, and stationed them as Cruizers, 
 to be aiding to the Men of War upon the Coaft. — Amidif all these gloomy appearances, 
 it mull give great satisfaction, and grounds to hope a good iffue, when we see all ranks 
 of people in England united in dutv and affection to his JNLijeily and his faimly. — God 
 grant us a speedv end of these troubles ! 
 
 I beg leave to pay my Compliments to my Lord Loudon, and am, with the utmoft 
 regard, 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obedt, 
 
 humble Servant, 
 
 MATT. RIDLET. 
 
 The Hessians in British pav |_ 
 are ordered over immediately, y 
 
 Newcastle, 13 Dec", 1745. 
 
 Xo. DXV. 
 
 Lord Fortrose to the Lord President. 
 My Lord, 
 
 SINCE I came home, I have been looking into my affuirs, and clearing Accompt^ 
 as I like short ones ; and find I have expended upon Guards and Garrisons sometiiing 
 more than four hundred pounds ; most of it in Specie ; and it is not to be wondered at, 
 considering I was obliged to defray my Men's expeaces going and coming trom the 
 Highlands, and that I have had them above two months. — I should not give you the 
 trouble of this, but that I have a verv melancholy appearance of ge:dng my Mart 
 Rent ; as the people are glad of anv excuse to prevent Payment ; and tae ialt severe 
 Wijitei, with their absence in coming here, affords but too good a one. 
 
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 Your Lordship is seriv'iible I will do any thing you desire me ; and that I am likewise 
 ready to sacrifice my person and estate for his Majeftie's service ; but thank God, as 
 the Government's Credit is extremely good, I see no reason why my Disbursements 
 be not refunded me, as I do not grudge the trouble I have been at, nor any Readvance, 
 to put my troops in motion, nor haveing weakened my Parliamentary interest. Private 
 credit may perhaps move me to write this Letter ; however, yt's not to the purpose. 
 
 I am, with regard. 
 My d' Lord, 
 
 your Lordship's mofi: affectionate humble Servant, 
 Braan Castle, ") K. MACKENZIE. 
 
 Decy- 16'" 1745- J 
 
 P. S. If this overtake Lord Loudon, pray assure him of my humble duty. 
 
 No. DXVI. 
 
 Part of a Letter from the Lord President to L'' Fortrose. 
 My Lord, i6th Dec' 1745. 
 
 YOUR Letter of this Day's date was deliver'd to me in Town ; to which, acci- 
 dentally, I went this Morning. I saw L'' Loudon there, & communicated the contents 
 to him. We both agree in oppinion, that your Lop's expence must have been rather 
 greater than what you mention, & that it must be made good ; but as Cash is very 
 low with us at present, all we can possibly do is, to let your Lop have the pay of the 
 2 Comp'" from the date of the Letter ; signifying that they were order'd to remain at 
 Brahan for the service of the Gov'. The further expence, which we are both satisfy'd 
 it must have cost your Lop, shall be made good as soon as any money, to be apply'd 
 to contingencys, which we expect, shall come to hand ; and if it should not come so 
 soon as we wish, the account shall be made up & solicited, in the same manner with 
 what we lay out of our own purses, which is no inconsiderable sum. 
 
 No. DXVII. 
 
 The Lord President to Mac Leod. 
 Sir, Dec. 17, 1745. 
 
 THE complaints of the City and county of Aberdeen, of the oppression they 
 suffer from the Rebels, are so clamorous, & the injury they suffer so violent, that it is 
 no longer possible to indure them. You are, therefor, without loss of time, unless 
 some accident insuperable detain you, to march alongst with Capt" Munro ot Culcairn, 
 & the Comp>" under his command, to Aberdeen, to rescue that City and its neighbour- 
 -hood from the hardships it has already felt, & is further threatened with : & in your 
 proceedings in that County for the reduction of the Rebells, the seizure of their Arms, 
 & the protection of his Majestie's subjects, you will follow the same directions that 
 were given with respect to Bamfshire. I know, tho' I have no authority over you, you 
 will not be unwilling to take my advice in what relates to the defence of the Gov', to 
 vhich we both mean equally well. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 With great respect, 
 Tour most ob' and most humble Serv'. 
 
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 No. DXVIIl. 
 
 From the Lord President to James Morison Esq' late Provost of Aberdeen. 
 
 5*jj. Culloden, 17 Dee"' 1745. 
 
 TOUR Letters of the 14*' were deliver'd to the E. of Loudoun & me at this 
 place ; and as his Lop was very much engaged, he charged me to return you ane 
 Answer for us both. The calamitous condition of 3-our City, and its neighbourhood, 
 has been for some time kno\%Ti to us, as you will easily guess befor this comes to your 
 hands • because vou must be informed, that a considerable body of his IMajestie's 
 forces are bv this'time advanced 'as far as Bamf for your rehef ; orders are sent them 
 to proceed u-ithout loss of time to Aberdeen, where it is our hope they will arrive in 
 time enough to prevent the execution of the foolish threats made by those who must 
 know that their utter destruction is near, if they presume to put in practice their severe 
 menaces, with which they hope to intimidate weak minds. This body will be follow'd 
 on the heels bv L. Loudon with more troops ; & those who feel the rigour of the 
 oppression they now complain of, 5c who wish for the support of the Gov', must have 
 themselves to blame, if they do not heartily concur in measures that may remove the 
 one & secure the other. 
 
 The L. of Mac Leod goes a Voluntier at the head of a considerable body of his 
 own kindred, to deliver you from harm. I doubt not that all the regard will be sho-mi 
 him, and all the conveniencys readyly furnish'd to the men that he brings alongst, 
 that the nature of the service require ; and that every freind to the Gov' \rill exert 
 himself to procure him the best inteUigence that can be had. I am, in particular, Sir, 
 very much satisfy'd of your -wishes for his Majestie & the pubUc welfare, and am, 
 with esteem, your most ob' hum. Serv'. 
 
 Xo. DXIX. 
 
 The Lord President to the Marquis of Tweeddale. 
 My Lord, CuUoden, 22° Dec' 1745. 
 
 «•*«** 
 
 What gives me ane opportunity to write to your Lop at present is, the arrival 
 of the Hound Sloop of War, Cap" Dove, from the Thames, with Arms for E. Loudon's 
 Reg' ; & of a small Sloop from Leith, sent by ^Ir. Solicitor Gen" to me, to enquire after 
 our condition in this Country. I send this by the sloop of war, to be lay'd on Land 
 at the next post house bevond the Forth ; from whence it may be safely convey'd by 
 Express to your Lop ; & I enclose a copie of it to j\Ir. Sohcitor, whose letter goes by 
 the Sloop which he sent to me ; to the end he mav transmitt it to your Lop from Ed"^, 
 m case anv accident Ihould happen to the Ship of War. 
 
 What has happen'd in this Countrj- since my last, worth troubleing your Lop with, 
 is, shortly, that the arrival of L*^ John Drummond with some Troops from Dunkirk, 
 the numbers whereof were greatly magnified, the Highlanders vmexpected success at 
 Carlisle, & their rapid march through England, with numberless fictions pubhsh'd and 
 beHeved, enflamed the Jacobite Zeal more & more. The Erasers, headed, as my Lord 
 Lovat said, by his eldest Son, had form'd a sort of blockade of Fort Augustus ; whilst 
 L"* Lewis Gordon, in Bamf ic Aberdeenshires, was raising Men & le^'^•ing Money by 
 force & threats of the most severe Military execution. The Money expected from the 
 
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 TowTi and Shire of Aberdeen would, as the late provost acquainted me, have amounted 
 to about ^'13,000. Sterl. I'he force we had to act with, was the same that I mentipn'd 
 in my last, with the Addition of a Company of 100 Highhmders, raised in the Town 
 of Ins, the command of which is given to Cap" W" Macintosh, who raised it ; & ano- 
 ther Comp'' of the like number raised by Capt" Mac Leod of Genzies, of the Mac 
 Leods of Assint, who had been in vain soUicited by Mac Donald of Barisdale to join 
 in the Rebellion, as I hinted to your Lop in my last. Of this force E. Loudoun took 
 600 ; & with them, in the severest frost I ever remember to have seen, march'd 
 thro' Strathherrick, part of L** Lovat's Estate on the South side of Lochness, to the 
 r^elief of Fort Augustus. He met with no opposition, supply'd the place with what was 
 wanting, & return'd to Ins the 8'' inst. ; after letting the inhabitants of Strathherick 
 know what they were to expect to meet with, if they should leave their houses to join 
 the Rebells. 
 
 This detachment haveing been allow'd one Day's rest, a disposition was made for 
 relieveing Banf & Aberdeen Shires ; & at the same time for keeping the Erasers quiet, 
 if possible. For this end, the 2 Comp" of Mackenzies, who had been posted near 
 Brahan, as I mention'd in my last, were call'd in to Ins, on Munday the 9"' ; & on 
 Tuesday the 10''' L"^ Loudoun, with 800 men, marched out to Lord Lovat's house of 
 Castle Douiiie, to obtain the best satisfaction that he could for the peaceable behaviour 
 of the Frasers; and at the same time the Laird of Mac Leod was detached with 500^ 
 composed of 400 of his own Kindred, & 100 of the Mac Leods of Assint befor men- 
 tioned, towards Elgin, in their way to Bamf & Aberdeenshire, to prevent the Rebells 
 recruiting there ; and they were to be follow'd by as many as could be spared from 
 Lis after settleing matters with my Lord Lovat, <Scc. by Lord Loudoun. 
 
 E. Loudoun prevail'd with Lord Lovat on Wednesday the 11''' to come into Ins 
 alongst with him, & to live there under his eye, untill he should bring in all the Arms 
 which the Clan were possest of ; which he promised to do against Saturday's Night, 
 excuseing himself from answering for his Son, & some of the mad young men of his 
 name, who he said he could not govern ; & some of which, he inform'd us, had al- 
 ready gone to Perth ; which we kiiew to be true, to the number of between 2 & 300, 
 in different small parties. The surrender of the Ai-ms was all that could well be ex- 
 pected from him. As there was no direct evidence of his accession to his Son's 
 treason, of which he was perpetually complaining ; k as committing, on suspition, a 
 man so aged, & seemingly so infirm, would have had the appearance of cruelty, there- 
 for Lord Loudoun determined to await the delivery of the Axm?, ; &; in the mean time, 
 onFryday the 13''% detach'd 200 men more, under Cap'" Munro of Culcairn, to 
 follow Mac Leod to Elgin & Aberdeen ; & these were to be followed successively by 
 other small bodys, & by Loudoun himself, when the matter with Lovat was finished. 
 But instead of delivering the Arms at the time prefixed, excuses were made, & fresh 
 promises; which continued from day to day till last Thursday; when Lord Loudoun, 
 finding himself deluded, clap'd sentries on the gate of the house where he resided, 
 resolveing to committ him next morning to the Castle ; but in the night time Lovat 
 found means to get out at a back passage, which was not suspected (as, indeed, his 
 attempting ane escape, in his state of health, was what no one dream'd of) & to be 
 conveyed away, probably on Men's shoulders ; but whither, we have not as yet 
 learn'd. 
 
 This unforseen accident has made it improper for Loudoun to detach any more 
 Men after those that have march'd towards Aberdeen, or to follow them hnnself, untill 
 we see what turn Lovat, now at liberty, takes with his Clan ; or until some more force, 
 
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 which we expect, join us at Inverness. In the mean time, the Laird of Mac Leod 
 march'd towards Elgin ; & from thence, hearing that 2cc Rebells had taken possession 
 of the boats of Spey at Fochabers, & pretended to dispute the passage with him, he on 
 Sunday the 15'^ advanced to the banks of that river, which the Rebells on his 
 approach quitted, lea^•ing him a quiet passage. From thence he advanced on the 1 6* 
 Si 17"^ to Cullen & Bamf; whilst Capr" Munro of Calcaim, with his 200, on the 
 17'*' & iS'-^ advanced by Keith to Strathbogie ; & the Rebells who were in pos- 
 session of these places retired towards Aberdeen. ^\'hat ven,- much facilitated 
 Culcaim's march was, that Mr. Grant, of Grant, hearing of the oppression of 
 the Shire of Bamf by the Rebells, brought together about 500 of his Clan, 6: march'd 
 them to Keith, & from thence alongst with Culcairn to Strathbogie, with ane intention 
 to proceed alongst with Mac Leod & Capt"" Munro to Aberdeen ; to which place the 
 Rebelb had drawn together about 500 Men, by our latest information, & talk'd of 
 biinging more from Perth & Dundee. 
 
 On die 19"^ it was resolved, by Mac Leod & Capt" Munro, to march forward the 
 next morning : the first from Bamf to Old Meldrum., v^ hich is -within 1 2 miles of Aber- 
 deen ; & the last from Strathbogie to Inverar\', which is at the like distance from 
 Aberdeen ; & it was part of the plan, that M' Grant should march alongst with Capt. 
 Mom-o : but we have had just now information, that Mr. Grant has alter'd his inten- 
 tions, upon a surmise that some of the Highlanders, returning from Perth, were likely 
 to harafs his Country ; but whether this information is true or not, k whether Mac 
 Leod & Capt° Munro have advanced without him, is more than I at present know with 
 anv certainty. If I learn more before the Packet is shut up, or before the Sloop sail, 
 I shall acquaint your Lop. 
 
 The reinforcements we look for at Inverness are 2 Comp" of Mac Donalds from the 
 Isle of Skv, which have been posted there ever since my last, but were sent for 1 2 
 days ago ; another Comp-" from the M'Kenzies from the Lewis Island ; another Comp^ 
 of the Jklackavs, in their way from Strathnavem : & a Company of Rosses, now assem- 
 blinff under the Master of Ross, who was landed at Ins from the Hound Sloop of 
 VTax. 
 
 When the Comp", which are of icc each, arrive, we shall be in condition to sup- 
 port the Detach'- sent to Aberdeen, & to perform such other service as circumstances 
 shall discover to be most requisite. Since my last, the Rebells at Perth have had no 
 accession of strength from this Country, except the Frasers to the number of between 
 2 & 300 already mentioned, & some Mac Donalds of Clam-anald's People from 
 Moidart, who marched through AthoU 6 days ago, escorting some Spanish Money 
 that was put ashoie in the island of Barray, as in my former I acquainted your Lop. 
 The quantity I do not know ; but, as it escaped the vigilance of his INIajestie's ships 
 cruiseiiHj in that station, tho' notice was sent to them by ^lac Leod, it has been in 
 open boats transported to Moidart, and firom thence, on Horses (for wheel Carriage is 
 impossible), to Atholl. The numbers that escorted it from Moidart to Perth were 
 said to be 180 ; but the Inverness Post, who met them, and who show'd me two peices 
 of Spanish Silver Money which he had on the road, one for sixpence and another for 
 a shiliing, says, they do not exceed 60. 
 
 From Ediii' your Lop has been acquainted with L"^ J. Drummond's stile in the Mes- 
 sages bis drvmi carrv'd to Stirling. At Aberdeen he caused print a Declaration, which 
 he had caused publish at Montrose ; & has published also a letter, supposed to have 
 been written to him, at Dunkirk, by the late E. Marischall, which I suspect to be 
 spurious. I send your Lop a printed copy of the first, & a written copy of the other. 
 He has \vTote in much the same stile to L" Fortrose and others, with a proper mixture 
 
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 of threatning ; & L* Loudoun has had such another letter from him as he sent to 
 Stirling. 
 
 By severall persons come from Perth we learn, that the Highlanders there, by the 
 directions of some French engineers, are forceing in the Country, to fling up intrench- 
 ments on both the Inches, to repair in some sort Oliver's fort, & to fetch in the Water 
 of Almond, to fill their ditches. Whether this project is their own att Perth, or if 
 they do it by direction of their Commander in England, 1 cannot tell. 
 
 The Advices we have from Edin', oi the precipitant retreat of the Rebells from 
 Derby, must necessarily affect our resolutions in this Country ; & their fate and pur- 
 poses must influence our measures. Should they meet with any considerable blow 
 befor they get back to Scotland, I imagine they will think of Uttle, but to get cross 
 the Forth as quick as they can ; & if they are warmly pursued I should immagine their 
 leaders will find it dillicult to keep them all together ; in which case we shall be at greater 
 freedom to act, & to march whithersoever the service may require ; but if they shall 
 escape out of England without being overtaken, as it would seem to be the most ex- 
 tream folly to shut themselves up at Fd', even if they could get into it, on the sup- 
 posall of their being closely follovv'd, I immagine they will press forward to Perth, 
 where probably they will attempt to make some stand ; of which designs the beginning 
 to fortify that place carrys some appearance. 
 
 Should this be their plan, we may be of some service, not only by preventing 
 their recruiting from the North, but by straitning them towards the East ; whilst the 
 Army advances to them from the South ; but if they shall be so press'd at Perth by 
 ^his Majestie's Army, as not to find it practicable to make a stand there, & they at the 
 same time shall be determined to keep together, in order either to give occupation to 
 his Majesde's forces, & wait for invasions from abroad, or to facilitate the escape of 
 their principall men, I doubt their course will be, to come directly through Atholl to 
 this country ; & if they march in a body, & bring any Artillery, we in our present 
 condition, without Arms and without Money, shall not be able to withstand them ; & 
 they will be able to make themselves Masters of the 3 Forts in a trifle of time ; as the 
 regular troops cannot possibly follow them Northwards through the Mountains at this 
 season of the year for lack of forage and provisions j which will give them time suffi- 
 cient, not only to possess themselves of these forts, but to distress those in this part of 
 the world who have opposed them ; Sc to gather to their assistance all those that wish 
 well to their cause, but who have by our neighbourhood been kept at home. This, 
 my Lord, is a circumstance that well deserves attention. I have frequently acquainted 
 your Lop, that if we had Arms to put in the hands of such of the Clans as have on 
 this occasion show'd their fidelity, & thereby infinitly provoked the Rebells, and Money 
 to subsist them, we could bring great numbers to the field on any emergence, with 
 their Chiefs at their head ; & pardcularly in my last, by the Saltash, I earnestly press'd 
 your Lop for a speedy remittance of money, which now is very low with us, as well 
 as a supply of Arms. I am hopefull both are directed before this time, or at least 
 will be sent immediately after the receit of this. If they come in due time, we shall 
 be able to put Arms into the hands of 2 or 3000 Highlanders, to resist ane impression 
 which otherwise may be not only fatall to Gentlemen who have at this juncture de- 
 served signally well of his Majestic, but may tend to lengthen out our confusions till 
 the spring, &, by weakening the hands of Brittain, give infinite advantage to France 
 & Spain, to the very great danger of the libertys of Europe. I ask your Lop pardon 
 for the earnestness of this expostulation, which I do assure you proceeds, not so much 
 from concern for my person or fortune, as it does from a warm regard for the Interest 
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 The length of this letter your Lop -^-ill forgive, because the occasions by which 
 one can write come so seldom. I will tire your Lop no further, by sa)-ing any more, 
 
 but that 
 
 I am, with perfect respect, 
 My Lord, 
 " Your Lop's most ob' and most humble Serv', &c. 
 
 Xo. DXX. 
 
 Part of a Letter from the Lord President to the E. of Stair. 
 
 >IyLord, _ Dec' 22, 1745. 
 
 The last letter I did mvself the honour to write to your Lop was by the Saltash, of 
 the 1 4^^ of Nov' ; which I accidentally know you received ; as I doubt not you have 
 seen & considered mine, by the same convevance, to the Marquis of Tweedale, to 
 which it referred. This goes by the Hound Sloop of War, which brought me yours of 
 the iS'" Nov" with my Son, who, in Company ^\^th the Master of Ross, arrived ten 
 davs ago. By this conveyance, I have wrote a very particular letter to the Marquis of 
 Tweedale, stateing the condition we are in ; what we have been doing ; what we intend 
 to do, provisionally ; what we want, & what we apprehend. I will not give your Lop 
 the trouble of repeteing it, because vou ^rill see it ; &:, if I am not much .mistaken, will 
 think it deserves serious attention. 
 
 It is a little discourageing, my Lord, that endeavours so sincere, &, if you will 
 give me leave to say it, so successful, for the support of the Gov'. & the security of 
 England, as ours have been, should be treated with such neglect. And though there 
 might be some excuse for not minding us wliilst an enemy was so near London ; yet if, 
 w"hen that danger is happily removed, care is not taken to supply our wants, when with- 
 out such supply we shall be in no condition to defend ourselves from the warm resent- 
 ments of the Rebels, or to do anv further service to the Gov' ; the danger, dishonour, 
 & expence, that may ensue, on the continuation of a Rebellion in this comer of the 
 Countrv till the Spring, cannot be chargeable on us ; nor can any honest man, who 
 lyes at such a distance, be blamed for the future, if they sit still -with their arms across, 
 should any other disturbance emerge, which I pray God may forbid. 
 
 You see, my Lord, I write with some emotion ; & it is no wonder ; for I must look 
 upon myself as the cause of all the sufferings of those who I have prevail'd with to risk 
 every thing in defence of the Gov', should the Rebells prevail! over them ; & that 
 for the want of those supplvs which I perswaded them they should have, &: which had 
 they received, or if they yet shall receive in time, exery thing must be safe. Your 
 Lop, I am persuaded, will feel the Justice of my complaint ; and I am confident there 
 is never a man in England but must, if the case is fairly stated to him. 
 
 As to the dispositions of the Commissions for the Independant Comp'', & the 
 caution which your Lop has been so good as to give me, in yours of the 1 8"" of Nov', 
 against giveing them, when the danger seems to be over, to such as might not be willing 
 to take them whilst it subsisted, it is impossible, in the hurry which I at present groan 
 under, to give you the particulars in detail, which one time or another you shall have, 
 not a Uttle to your entertainment. 
 
 What I shall trouble vour Lop briefly with is, that there are 1 8 Comp" of too each 
 actually a-foot ; whereof seven with ]\Iac Leod, endeavouring to support the Gov' in 
 Bamf Sc Aberdeen shires ; six with E. Loudoim at Inver', Sc five more in their way to 
 it. The Mac Donalds, raised by Sir Alex', which compose 2 of these 5 Comp>% I 
 
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 look for at Inverness the 24"' or 25''', & the rest soon after ; & there is not one of the 
 Companys given, but to such as undertook the service when in this Country it seemed 
 the most desperate. And if the remaining Comp*' shall be disposed of, they shall be 
 given in the same uay. 
 
 I know, my Lord, I have enemys (I hope not many amongst those that love their 
 King h their Country) ; & I doubt not I shall meet with severall criticks of my Conduct ; 
 but the censures of such as durst have put themselves in my place will be few, & the 
 faults flowing from my heart will be none ; for such as may have been oweing to my 
 head, I have no other excuse, but that I acted according to the best of mv understand- 
 ing ; & as to who shall have the thanks or the merite of what may have been done hi 
 support of the Gov', I am very indifferent. I have done what I think every honest Man 
 ought to have done ; & upon this single principle, that I thought it was my duty. If 
 anv man will take to himself the merite of mv endeavours to serve the King, or, to 
 raise the value of his own, he will depreciate mine, let him ; I scorn to contend for 
 such trifles, & can with great tranquillity despise the creature that has them for the 
 object of his pursuite. But these reflections have carried me out of my way. 
 
 From Loudon's letter you will be informed of any thing that may be omitted in mine 
 to the Marquis, or in this. 
 
 No. DXXI. 
 
 The Lord President to Sir Andrew Mitchell. Same Date. 
 D'Sir, 
 
 I HAVE had your packet by the Hound Sloop deliver'd to me by Mr. Gordon ; 
 & I have had since his arrivall a letter from you, k another from his Brother, recom- 
 mending him to my care ; together with one letter more of the 7"* ins', acknowledging 
 the receipt of my dispatches by the Saltash. For your goodness in transmitting to me 
 the Magazines, &c. I thank you. As to Mr. Gordon, who seems to be a pretty young 
 Man, he may be sure of my best offices ; tho' upon the Plan which the necessity of the 
 service obliged me to pursue in raising the Independant Comp'', which was to give the 
 nomination of the officers to the well-affected Chiefs who could instantly produce the 
 Company, it was not possible to give him a Commission. I have, however, recom- 
 mended him in the strongest manner to E. Loudoun, whom he will attend in the re- 
 mainder of this ill-favour'd Campaign ; & what service I can do him fliall not be wanting. 
 I am obliged to you for yours of the 7''', which came to me by a Sloop from Leith, 
 dispatch'd by the Solicitor, because it gives me notice, that what I wrote by the Saltash 
 is come to hand ; & hope that some time or another the supplys sought may come under 
 Consideration & be ordered ; tho' giveme leave to tell you, my dear Andrew, it is somewhat 
 mortifying, that when men are exposeing themselves, as we are doing in this Country, & 
 thereby doing what we know to be very essentiall service to the Gov', our safety, if no 
 more were in the question, is so slightly treated, & this country left unguarded, to be 
 possibly the seat, for some Months, of a War, that may cost Brittain immense sums & 
 very great danger ; when small attention, & the timely supply of a few thousand stand of 
 arms and a few thousand pounds, would in all human appearance prevent such fatal con- 
 sequences. It surprised me, I own, to find in neither of the Packets to me any letter 
 from my Lord Marquis, tho' there was one to the Mod' of the Synod of Murray, in answer 
 to a letter with ane address, which was transmitted alongst with my last dispatch : this 
 must have been owing to some accidental mistake, in mislaying the letter, if any such 
 was written j or, more probably, to the hurry the ministers may have been in, which 
 
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 prevented their takeing time to come to resolutions, & give directions on the demand I 
 made. The nearness of the danger, which w-as at that time approaching London, may- 
 have been the cause whv they overlooked one that was more remote ; but as that 
 allarm must have worn oii" in a dav or two at farthest after the date of your last, I am 
 hopefull they have before this time thought in good earnell of our case, & sent us the 
 supply desired. If thev have not, the consequences I am aiiraid will be severely felt. 
 Belides the x^-ant of Arms, our Money is almost spent ; but if this have a quick paflage, 
 Sc if upon the receipt of it the supplys are immediately dispatched, thev mav happen to 
 come before it is too late ; especially if the Rebells choose to make a Hand for any time 
 at Perth. 
 
 To unierftand distinctly what I write, with the reason for my writeing so, you must 
 confider my Letter to my Lord IMarquis of this date, which I presume you wili see ; Sl 
 mv reason for writeing to you so urgently on this subject, in terms which might possibly 
 be not altogether so proper to put in a letter to his Lop, which may be seen by other 
 eves, is, that IMy Lord may know, and be able to express to the Mini tiers who must 
 cooperate with him, the sense I have, and what 1 fear all those who act alongst with me 
 generously in this countr\-, ■nill soon have, of the neglect with which we are treated, if 
 what I complain of is not speedily remedied. I have nothing fiirther to say, My Dear 
 Andrew, but that in this rude season, 8c under nu small fadgue, I hold out wonderfully 
 v/ell for ane old feUow. The only thing I can ascribe it to is, good providence ; 8c the 
 anrient observation. Si natura negat, dabit Indignatio. 
 
 I am sincerely ' 
 
 Yours, Sec* 
 
 Xo. DXXII. '\ ' 
 
 Lord Le\\is Gordon to the Laird of Mac Leod. 
 Sir, Aberdeen, Dec'. 27", 1745. 
 
 I RECEIV'D your Letter by express last night, dated from Gordon Caille y' 24'* 
 All the care in our power has and shall be taken of your wounded Men ; Sc all the 
 Prisoners y' were taken under their Arms shall m.eet -with all the Civilit\- in our power. 
 But for Regent Chambers, Forbes of Eight, 8c Maitland of Petrichie, who have acted the 
 infamous part of Spys h Informers, and the two last especially, who have given a great 
 deal of bad advice to a certain great Man who shall be nameless, it is neither consistent 
 with my honour or inclination to treat them as Prisoners of War. I shall take care to 
 order supplvs to be given to all the Prisoners who want them, Sc the wounded men are 
 as well taken care of as our own. 
 
 I shall send you a lift of the Prisoners 8c wounded, with any useless papers & letters, 
 as soon as poffible ; and anv other thing y' we can reasonably agree to, shall be done with 
 pleasure. I think I have now answered the most material parts of your Letter, "i ou 
 vnll much oblige me in offering my Compliments to L" Charles Gordon ; 8c I am. 
 
 Sir, 
 Your moft humble Servant, 
 
 LEWIS GORDON 
 
 As I do not know where this will find you, I think the most proper direction is to 
 Duncan Forbes's House. 
 
 Colonel Colbert desires his compliments to be made to his Broy' Castlehill. 
 
 [Addressed " To the Hono-.rable 
 y' Laird of Makcleod, att 
 Dur.csn Forbesje's House sear 
 luTSTtess, Theje."]
 
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 No.DXXIII. 
 
 The Earl of Sutherland to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, Dunrobin, Dec 31", 1745. 
 
 AFTER wishing your Lordship a happy new year and many of them, I must 
 acquaint your Lop that the uprightness of my own heart, and the constant attachment 
 of my family at all times to support the Protestant cause, had, I thoug'': , put my sin- 
 cerity to serve his Majesty, and his interests, past all doubt and question with all men ; 
 yet I find myself mistaken in this opinion by some things thatdropt from the Lyoa 
 when lately here. 
 
 My Lord, I offered to join Sir John Cope with 6 or 700 men. I believe I have, by 
 letters and messages, let your Lop understand that all the men I had were at his Ma- 
 jestie's service, if wanted ; but lest 1 should have been hitherto misunderstood, I do 
 hereby tell your Lop that my person, my estate, and all the men I have a right to com- 
 mand, and such as I may or can have any influence with, will be at his Majesty's service 
 when called for. The number your Lordship called for from me were sent you in 
 less time after notice came to my hands, than any other men at the distance from you 
 that I am. More would [have^ gon had it been asked ; yet objections have been 
 mr.de at the number and at the men. I will expect from your Lordship's known can- 
 dour, that you will put a stop, as occasion offers, to such malicious suggestions and 
 insinuations ; especially when they come from such, whose greatest merit consists in 
 finding fault with those that are more capable to serve his Majestic than themselves, and 
 always have been willing. 
 
 ■ ' I am, my dear Lord, 
 
 - Your Lop's most oblidg'd humble servant, 
 
 SUTHERLAND. 
 
 No. DXXIV. 
 
 The Lord President to the Earl of Sutherland, 
 
 My Lord, CuUoden, 2" Jan"^ 1 746. 
 
 THIS morning I received the letter which your Lop did me the honour to write to 
 me of the 3i"Decem' ; and with it no small surprise, to learn that any body fhould 
 be so foolish, as to disparage yo' Lop's zeal, or service, on this important occasion ; or 
 so wicked as to suggest, that any hint of that kind came from any one who knows 
 what the support of his Majestie's government requir'd, and how contributary your Lop 
 has been to it. I am hopeful that either your Lop misunderstood the Lord Lyon, or 
 that the reflections he mentioned to you came from some very low, ill meaning person, 
 who was not acquainted with the truth ; which is, that your Lop, from the very begin- 
 ning of those unhappie confusions, have shown the most becoming zeal and forward- 
 ness for the maintenance of his Majestie's just right, and of the religion and liberty of 
 this country ; that you furnished the troops called for, with an exemplary promptitude 
 and alacrity ; and that you over and over again offered to march with your whole posse, 
 if occasion required ; an offer which nothing prevented your making good, or our 
 accepting of, but the want of arms and subsistence, which most certainly was none of 
 
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 your Lop's fault, I hope, therefore, yo' Lop will not suffer yourself to be under any 
 uneasiness from so foolish a falsehood ; nor fancy it can make any impression else. 
 where, against the concurrent reports of the E. of Loudoun, &c of 
 
 Your most obedient and most humble ser' 
 
 DUN. FORBES. 
 
 I beg yo' Lop may make my compliments to my Lady ; & wish her from me, as I 
 do yo' Lop, a happy year, and a great many more such. 
 
 Xo. DXXV. 
 
 M' John Forbes to the Lord President. 
 I^Iy Lord, 
 
 I take the opportunity of the sloop which the government sends, to assure you of 
 mv best wishes, <x to congratulate you upon the figure you make in this part of the 
 world ; w^ho are surprised to find a man, without views, standing up for the rights & 
 hbertvs of his country, just upon the brink of falling into eternal miserv and confusion. 
 
 It would be presumption in me to pretend to inform you of numberless transactions 
 here, who assuredly have these accounts from better hands : but I wish to God your in- 
 terest of persuasion, joined to the opinion .the world has of your disinterestedness, and 
 the know-ledge they agree you have of your country, cou'd be convey'd here, to second 
 good Lord Stair's, in the many though fruitless attempts his Lordship has made to 
 save, if possible, the ruin of the north, and eti'ectually finish the rebellion before the 
 spring. But, at present, any proposalls from L"* Stair are, I am afraid, neglected, 
 lest by their success he should gett power, which is not the interest of the present ruler ; 
 who, although not publicly declared, yet privately manages the Scots ati'airs, with the 
 same despotism he ever has done. 
 
 We flattered ourselves here, that the Duke was to go to Scotland himself ; but that 
 seems now to be no longer behev'd, and the whole burthen [is] left upon Hawley, and 
 your old friend Hugh, his aid-de-camp. No mortal disputes Mr. Haw ley's genius for 
 the management of a squadron, or prosecuting with vigour any mortal to the gallows j 
 although, at the same time, they wish that he had the lenity to make converts, or the 
 absolute force to make all fly before him. But he has only 15 Batt"^^', some of these ex- 
 tream weak, and L"* Cobham's drag"', to join those who distinguish'd themselves at 
 Preston. This moment an express tells us, the rebels are march'd to attack Stirling. 
 As, probably, M' Hawley will go to relieve it, before this reach you the fate of Scotland 
 may be determined, on which our other schemes depend. For it will sppear odd to 
 you, that this great kingdom is by trifles either raised to a prosperity that exceeds im- 
 pertinence, or tails from the smallest adversity below compassion. Wee at present be- 
 ginne to breathe, as the rebells have retired to Scotland, which, to the generalit)' here, 
 is the same as Norway ; and that they no longer are in terrour from the invasion, and 
 now indeed countermand (as we are told) the Hessians and our own 1 8 squadrons, 
 and are become so brave, as to think of sending troops to Flanders, and by May next 
 to invade France. 
 
 Lord Stair, in his letter to Lord Loudoun, which no doubt you'll see, has discuss'd 
 all the matters of business ; so I have no more left, than assuring your Lordsp, in my 
 low capacit)', 
 
 I am very much your devoted slave, 
 London, and most humble serv'. 
 
 January 9"" 1745-6. _ JO. FORBES.
 
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 No. DXXVI. 
 
 The Duke of Argyll to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, London, Jan. ig'\ i745-6« 
 
 IMMEDIATELY upon the receipt of your Lordship's letter, I recommended 
 M' Corse to the law chair at Glasgow, as you desired, & that in prejudice of a friend 
 of my own. I found the Scotch administration advised the king to delay the disposing 
 of It ; but Mr. Pelham obtained in the closet assurances that Mr. Corse should have it ; 
 & I believe the Duke of Newcastle will now soon send down the warrant. I was very 
 glad to have this opportunity of obeying your commands, k. the more so that I owed it 
 you. It is a great pleasure to me to find that Macleod has behaved himself in so hand- 
 some & so zealous a manner. I had answered for him in such positive terms, that I have 
 great reason to rejoice at his having but done all I said in his behalf. 
 
 I am, my dear Lord, 
 your most obedient humble servant, 
 
 ARGYLL. 
 
 No. DXXVII. 
 
 General Wighnnan to the Lord President. 
 
 My L. P. Edinburgh, 14"' January 1746. 
 
 I WROTE you from Newcastle by your coal messenger, and I have written you 
 since I came home under W. F's cover ; but ha\'e not as vet heard from vou. As this 
 comes privately in the ship which L" J — ce C — k sends, I need not write you any thing 
 about the rebells, and about the army which is on its march against them. I only sav, 
 it's uncertain as vet whether all who were on the north side of Forth be come over to 
 this side to joyn the Pretender. If they are not come, the Pretender, and those now 
 with him on this side, w ill scamper away to Perth ; if they are come, as they have 
 got over their cannon, it's probable they will stand a brush ; and it's more probable they 
 will [be] destroyed or dispersed. G'' Campbell is advanced to Kirkintilloch with 1 coo 
 Argyleshire men ; but the transports y' should have brought hither the Hessians are 
 frozen up at Helvoet Sluys. 
 
 Lord Balmerinoch* is dead. We met at Belford & travelled together to Aldcammas^ 
 & on that occasion commenced intimate acquaintance ; having had some tete-a-tete 
 conversations, in which he shewed himself another kind of man than I apprehended hint 
 to be. 
 
 The sq — n is totally routed ; the D — ke and J — ce return into power in the same 
 shape they formerly were, which bodes no good to this city and country. The J — ce 
 made up to me at Newcastle, and I did some httle things for him, 6c among others 
 introduced him to I\Ir. Ridley ; but we no sooner parted, than he broke squares, and 
 thenceforth I don't know him, nor have I so much as seen him, till yesterday, that we 
 met at G' Hawley's Levee ; when I forced him to make a bow to me, ere I made one 
 to him. I am quite independent, and act in my own sphere, and find ways and means 
 to know more & sooner than he does ; q*" gravels him not a little. It's surprising to. 
 see so much order and quiet in this place when there is no magistracy. I am endea« 
 
 One of the judges of the Court of Session. 
 
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 vouring to promote the measure of a new sett ; I hope with some success ; and were 
 you here to give life to the well affected inhabitants, I should hope it might in due time 
 be brought about. The zeal which the inhabitants have shewed in accommodating the 
 troops will help to ridd us of the suspicion of jacobitism; but we have a pack of ver- 
 min \vitl:in cur walls, who take imaccountable libert^^s, of whom I hope we shall be 
 for ever ridd ere long. 
 
 I write this chiefly to begg your coming hither, that you may be a checque upon 
 
 the D — ke and the J ce, and mav take the Govenmient of this To-«-n till we get a 
 
 new constitution of Government. Ail the Inhabitants will petition for a Commiffion of 
 Lieutenancy to you, which ■nill put you upon a Par with the D — ke, and enable you 
 
 to do more, to put spoaks in his "Wheel as formerly, when you was L° Ad 1. Your 
 
 Country- calls upon you at present loudly to act for it ; I beseech don't be deaff to it, 
 bv staying longer where you are than you needs must. 
 
 I'm in no pain about the Rebells, were they much more numerous than they are ; 
 but V much aftraid the whole force of France & Spain will be bended against both 
 Holland & us in a few weeks. If they land Armies in the Island, then I know its 
 fate, as I think I formerly hinted to you. Here^nith you have the postscript to the Letter 
 I sent you bv Hugh Inglis, and three other Pamphlets, all bound together under the 
 title of The Edinburgh Packet Opened. 
 
 I have not heard from G. D. of late ; but I heard of him this Week from M' Ridley ; 
 who tells me a friend of his at Newcastle told him, that he v. as married to the quakeress 
 at last. If it is so, I wish it may answer expectation ; but I'm afraid it ^\^ll not, when 
 I consider his manner of carrvdng on the Courtship, and his conceaUng his Circum- 
 stances from her. I have -nTitten him urgently to come home ; for which there are 
 many reasons ; and hope he vail either come, or give me a solid reason why he does 
 not. I beg to hear from you ; and only add, that I ever am in^•iolably 
 
 Your's, &c. 
 ROBERT WIGHTMAN. 
 
 No. DXXVill. 
 
 The Lord President, to the Duke of Newcastle. 
 My Lord, 26 Jan'^ 1746. 
 
 The letter which your Grace did me the honour to write to me, of the 1 1'"' inst.* 
 wzs brought hither by a small Vessel! from Leiih on the 21''. I am very sensible of the 
 obligeing expressions of your good will ; and the more so, that the kind Countenance 
 which your Grace has been pleased to shew me at all times, since I first had the honour 
 to be known to you, con\inces me of their reahrj-. I shall therefore \\ith pleasure obey 
 his Majest)''s Command, in giveing your Grace the trouble of a Letter, when 1 have 
 any thing to say that may be for the service of the publick. 
 
 My last to the Marquis of Tweedale, which I presume has been laid before his Ma- 
 jest)', was of the 29'"' Dec' by the Saltash, Since that period no alteration of any con- 
 sequence has hapen'd in this part of the coimtr)\ The want of Arms to put in their 
 hands, and of money to subsist them, made it impossible to call in a further force from 
 the well affected Clans to Inverness (which is in some sort the key of this Countr\) for 
 its securitin^ ; whilst, with the troops already on foot, we might have proceeded South- 
 
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 wards by the Coast, to have straiten'd the Rebells ; & our uncertainty of the strength 
 or intentions of the Rebells who escaped from England, & who might (so far as we 
 could see) have thoughts of directing their course this way, obUged us to content our- 
 selves with secureing this post, keeping the disaffected in this neighbourhood in awe, 
 & protecting the Country on this side the Spey from the levying men and money pro- 
 jected by the Rebells. In this we have hitherto succeeded, tho' oppre-s'd every 
 moment with the gloomy apprehensions of being sooii obliged to disband the troops we 
 had for lack of subsistence, in place of doing what further service might reasonably have 
 been expected from us, had we been timeously supply 'd with the arms & money we 
 call'd for. 
 
 From this anxiety your Grace's Letter has in a good measure relieved us, by giveing 
 us notice that orders have been issued for providing forthw ith a Sloop, to convey to us 
 a 1 000 stand of arms, with a sum of money for the payment of the troops. Immedi- 
 diatelv after receiveing this intimation from your Grace, we took the necessary measures 
 to have in readiness as manv of the well affected Clans as, upon the arrivall of the Sloop, 
 we can arm ; and with those, soon after the arrivall of tlie Sloop, we are in hopes of 
 being able to perform some useful service. But I must take the liberty to suggest to 
 your Grace, that the number of arms sent is too small ; double the num.ber might 
 be profitably employ'd ; & if there should be no occasion for employing them, they 
 might be lock'd up in Fort George, or return'd to the Tower. "What money the Sloop 
 carrvs we cannot know, as your Grace has not mention'd it ; but be it ever so small, 
 it will be welcome, as our cash is run very low. I must, however, also on this subject, 
 presume humbly to suggest to your Grace, that the contingent expences run pretty high 
 with us ; that they must run still higher, when we call in a posse, which we must sub- 
 sist ; that, as there is neither Coins nor course for Credit in this Country, we have no 
 fund to put our hand to for defraying those extraordinary expences, but the money in- 
 tended for the pay of the troops ; and therefor that it is absolutely necessary to make 
 such a remittance in money, to be accounted for, as fliall answer these occasions, & 
 enable us to make use of the power that is in our hands for putting ane end, as speedily 
 as it is possible, to this destructive Rebellion ; the continuance whereof for weeks, at 
 this season of the year, & in the present situation of tlie aff'airs of Europe, may be of 
 the worst consequence. 
 
 By the same conveyance which carry' J my last letters to the Marquis of Tweedale, 
 E. Loudon & I wrote a letter to the officer commanding in Chief 2iis Maj''^'' forces then 
 marching into Scotland, acquainting him with our condition, and desireing to receive 
 from him directions, or such information of his force & views, as he might judge proper 
 to communicate, 5: should enable us to resolve in what manner it was most fitting for 
 us to endeavour to co-operate with him. The same Vessell that brought your Lojj's 
 from Leith brought us an Answer from Gen' Hawley, of the 1 2"' Curr, acquainting us 
 with his force, & wich his intentions of marching to dislodge the Rebells who had in- 
 vested Stirling ; and leaveing us to act as we should judge most conduceive to his 
 Maj"-'" Service. This intimation, together with the signification from your Grace that 
 we were speedily to have a supply of arms & money, made us come to the resolution 
 already mention'd, of provideing men from the w^ell affected Clans ; and we wait at 
 present with the outmost impatience for the arrivall of the Sloop, that we may be in a 
 condition, as soon as possible, to extend ourselves along the sea coast to the Southward ; 
 which now appears to us to be more necessary than ever ; as the Rebells, who are 
 Masters of all the Country between this & the Forth, have industriously publish'd, & 
 gain credite to a report, that they have gain'd a considerable advantage over the King's 
 Troops near Falkirk ; under the favour of which, all their friends & emissarys are att 
 
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 work, endeavouring to recruit ^ even to increase their numbers. We are hopefull this 
 report is false, at least for the greatest part ; & we have by this conveyance wrote to 
 Gen' Hawlev, desireing to be better inform'd, acquainting him ■with our condition & 
 %iews, k calling for further directions from him. 
 
 The sicmiiication your Grace is so good as to give, that his Majesty is pleased to ap- 
 prove of mv poor endeavours to ser^e him, is, you may be sure, very encourageing to 
 me. The truth is, I have honestly & fairly done all in my power for his senice ; but 
 then I have done no more than what (setting aside my dut}^ to my sovereign, to which 
 I was bound by the most solemn oaths) his particular indulgence for iic confidence 
 in me call'd for irresistibly at mv hands ; 8c his Majesn- may rely on it, I •want 
 nothing but oreater ability to serN-e him better. Your Grace will, I am confident, be- 
 lieve that I am very faithfully Your most ob' & most humble Serv", Sec. 
 
 Xo. DXXIX. 
 
 From the Earl of Loudoun & the Lord President to Gen" Hawley. Same date. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 We received, bv ane open Boat from Leith, the Letter you did us the honour to 
 write to us, of the 1 2'" inst, acquainting us of your mtentions to march againfl the 
 Rebells, in'order to dislodge them from the neighbourhood ofSterline:& suggesting 
 the proprien- of getting possession of Montrose. The same Vessell brought us letrers 
 from the D. of Newcastle, of the 11% giveing notice that a Sloop -with 1000 Stand of 
 Arms & some monev to pav the Troops, was fiirth-with to be sent us from the Tower. 
 This Sloop, which is exceedingly long'd for, not only on account of the Arms, but 
 on account of the monev, as our cash is very near out, has not as yet appear'd ; but 
 in expectation that she \n\l soon, we have sent Messengers into the Highlands, to have 
 in readiness as many of the well affected Clans as we fhall be able to arm and subsist 
 when the Vessell arrives. With those we propose to secure Inverness ; & with the 
 Troops now on foot, to march whithersoever the service may require. We agree with 
 you perfectly in opinion, that possession of Montrose, with a force able to keep it, would 
 very much straiten the Rebells, & be a mean of dislodgeing them from Perth, should 
 thev come to make their stand there ; and when the arrivall of more troops, or the weaken- 
 iao- of the Rebells by any Action, makes it proper for you to spare any force, to support 
 anv impression that may be made that way, we shall be able to march 10 or 1200 Men, 
 perhaps more, as our assistance expected from the Highlands may arrive, to lay hold 
 of Aberdeen & Montrose ; but then, as these are open defenceless places, we cannot 
 propose to keep them without considerable assistance of regular Troops, ^ should the 
 Rebells be able & disposed to bend their whole, or the greatest part of their force that 
 wav; k at the same time, if we shall weaken ourselves too much here, we may tempt 
 them to direct thdr course to liis ; of which should they make themselves Masters, it 
 will become still more troublesome to dislodge them ; not only as the march of the 
 troops alon.^ the coast must take up much time ; but as, if they should get possession 
 of this Countr}', they will be able to incress their force, by the junction of numbers of 
 disaffected perfons whom we have hitherto been able to keep m order. It is on the^s 
 considerations, that we cannot think of altering our present disposition until the arrivall 
 of the Arms expected put us in a condition to augment our force, & until we receive 
 further directions from vou, upon your knowing the state of our case, & the \-iews that 
 govern us. It will, perhaps, let you into the necessits- for our being wary, that we tell 
 you what effect a story, told tv*o days ago, w'"^ we believe & partly know to be a lye, 
 
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 has had over the gUdy & disaffected multitude in this neighbourhood. The Rebells 
 have pubhshed, and amongst their wrong-headed followers have propagated a firm belief, 
 that on the 17"' they gain'd a victory over the King's Troops near Falkirk, and made 
 themselves masters of their Artillery, Baggage, &c. This story, by the report of ane illi- 
 terate Countryman, who left Ed' Sunday morning after the troops came back to it, as 
 well as by the inconsistency of the tale which they pubhsh, we know not to be true to 
 the extent they talk of; & yet such is the giddyness Sc credulity of the disaffected, that 
 numbers are set agog with this story, & may, if not overaw'd, play the fooll after haveing 
 been kept quiet so long. As we are satisfy'd they have described that transaction in very 
 false colors, we believe it would be for the service, to give us as soon as possible (if 
 you have not already done it) a true relation of what happeu'd, that we may be able to 
 cure the multitude of the infection they have received from this tale. 
 
 What we now write goes by the Speedwell, of Kinghorn, Miller Master, who brought 
 us your letter fk tiie Duke of JMewcastle's. What comes in the=e open Boats, which 
 cannot in a gale keep the sea, but must creep for shelter into Travebruugh, Peterhead, 
 or any oy' Tide Harbour by the way, may fall into the Rebells hands ; & therefor we 
 take the liberty to suggeft , that it would be much for the service, to employ any small 
 Sloop of War, if such could be spared, for conveying Orders and Intelligence. Our 
 last letter was concluded with words of common stile, as we did not certainly know for 
 whom it was ; but now, as we know we write to you, we say with great sincerity-, 
 that we are, 
 
 .;.' Dear Sir, 
 
 Your most ob' & most humble Serv", &c. * 
 
 No. DXXX. 
 
 Provost Hossack to the Lord President. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 I AM very much in hopes that your Lop may have received certain Intelligence, 
 that by the Battle of Culloden, under the conduct of His Royal Highness the Duke of 
 Cumberland, and the favour of Almighty God, the Rebellion, to humane appearance, 
 is intirely overthrown. The engagement, I say, on Wednesday last, about one o'Clock, 
 was very warm. The Duke's Army behaved well, as if they fought for the liberty of 
 their Country ; and, indeed, one wing of the Rebells fought as if they meant to win or 
 dye ; many ©f them are killed, wounded, and made Prisoners ; and believe between 
 3 & 4000. 
 
 The French Ambassador delivered himself a Prisoner, as all the French officers have.^ 
 Lord Kilmarnock is a wounded Prisoner. It's said F>ail Cromcrty, Lord Mackleod^ 
 &c. are made Prisoners, after a sharp engagement, by the Earle Sutherland, & L"* 
 Reaye's people. Many of the Chiefs of the Rebellion are killed ; also taken. The 
 loss upon the Duke's part does not exceed 50 killed, including 4 Officers. I have 
 only said so much as gives your Lop evidence of the glorious victory, and the subduing 
 of Rebellion. It's doubted if the Prince Pretender has any even in the name of Guard 
 for the protection of his person. 1000 Men are now encampt in the Aird, 500 were 
 in Strathearn ; & returned prisoners are daily taken up. The Chief loss among the 
 Rebels is of the Clanchattan, Keppoch, Clanrannald, and young Inv^jrallachy, among 
 the sljkin, 
 
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 Ships of War and store ships attended the Duke along the Coast from Aberdeen. 
 His Army now here is well provided, there being twixt 30 and 43 in our Road 
 and Harbours. 
 
 I presume to think there is no body of the Rebells in the way your Lop has to pass; 
 though the dispersion will turn many loose, and make travelling dangerous. It's of the 
 utmost consequence for your Lop now to leave a Country which was not provided w^ 
 Bread for it's native people. This Argument 1 do not insist on, nor on others yet more 
 imponant ; but begg your Lop would w^ the necessary defence proceed ; for My 
 Lord Loudown's and Macleod's motions \nll require to be more leisurely. 
 
 Immediately after the Action, Capt Hugh Forbes ipply'd [to] his Royal Highness ; 
 & he ordered 50 Men v,'" Officers to protect the House, Pc!!cey, and Lands of Culloden, 
 The Troops are numerous, and the Country pillaged by the Rebells ; the Troops 
 therefore are more irregular than otherways could be toUerated. Tho' Steuart sent 
 off a Mess' for your Lop immediately after the Battle. I'pray God your Lop, & all his 
 Majestie's friends with you, may get here soon in safety ; & I am, 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lop's most faithful Servant. 
 Inverness, 19'" April 1746. 
 
 No. Dxxxr. 
 
 The Lord President to ^■Ir. Scroope. 
 
 Dear Sir, 13 May 1746. 
 
 IN every pinch I resort to you, Sc I know you expect I should. 
 Above nine months ago my zeal led me into this country, to quench a very furious 
 Rebellion, without arms, without money, without credite ; & if the King's Enemys 
 are to be credited, my endeavours were attended with some success. His IMajesty was 
 pleased to intrust me with the disposition of Commiffions for raiseing some Independ' 
 Comp-" ; which I accordingly raised & employed, I hope, usefully. The Marquis of 
 Tweedale, then Secretary of State for Scotland, acquainted me by order, that for 
 supplying any extraordinary expence, I w^as to draw on Mr. Pelhani ; but the total I 
 interruption of correspondence made my recei%'ing Money on such Draughts impossible, 
 8c I was forced to supply the neceflar}' expence, after employing what Money of my own 
 I could come at in this country, by borrowing upon my proper Notes such small sums 
 as I could hear of. The Rebellion is now happily over ; & the persons who lent me this 
 money at a pinch, are now justly dem.anding Payment ; & I, who cannot coin, £c who 
 never hitherto was dunned, tind mvselt uneasy. The whole of the small sums does not 
 exceed ^'i.joo. Now, if INIr. Pelham would either impress that Money into the hands 
 of Geo. Ross, or any other person, to be remitted to me to account ; or if he would 
 authorize me to draw upon him, or upon any other person whom he may direct for that 
 sum, in like manner to account, it would tend much to the quiet of my mind. I have 
 of this date wrote to Mr. Pelham on this subject ; 6: now I give you the trouble without 
 blushing,^because I am hardened to ask favours, by the many I have received. As I hzve 
 executed tlie trust the King reoosed in me, as to the raiseing Indep' Comp"' in the North, 
 with great fidelity, & I hooe with success, I look upon them as Children of my own ; & I 
 imagine you will therefore consider them as remote relations at least of yours. They 
 have not yet been put upon any regular establishment for lack of the names of the 
 
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 officers, and of the date of their Commissions, occasioned by the interruption of cor- 
 respondence, & by my various peregrinations. I have at last made a return of those 
 particulars which possiblv may be untonnall. But I trust you will, as far as possible, 
 supply defects, & direct that their establishment may be as beneficial to them as 
 reason requires. 
 
 Now, dear Sir, I come to the last, & to the most material thing I have to trouble you 
 with ; & that is, to ask your advice & instructions, to the getting whereof I have a 
 sort of right by prescription. Here have I been for above nine months playing the Knight 
 Errant ; at least acdng with a perfect heart, however sound my head may have been, 
 out of my profession. The publick danger is now, thanks be to Providence ! happyly over; 
 & I do not see what I have to do, but to return again to the plough, which I have for 
 so long deserted. Whether Men with you will think that I have been mad or sober, 
 well or ill employ'd, whether they believe that I have, or that I have not done any service, 
 & whether it is likely or unlikely that, by advice, or otherwise, I m?.y be of any use to 
 put a finall end to this desperate rebellion, or to prevent dangers from such attempts for 
 the future, are matters that I am utterly ignorant of, & can hardly expect light in from 
 any body but yourself. You have opportunitys to know what conllrucdon my conduct 
 bears ; & you are so thorowly acquainted with me, & my disposition, as well as with 
 the disposidon of our Rulers, that you can ea^yly judge, whether it is fit for me, in 
 hopes of doing some more good, to give myself any further trouble ; or whether it is 
 not more expedient to ly sdll and be quiet ; leaving to those of my Country who know- 
 nothing of the matter, & who have chose to take no part of the risque, to direct as they 
 fhall think fit. If you deny me your advice, I shall be altogether at a loss ; & if you 
 do not give me your opinion of my conduct, I shall be apt to conclude you disapprove of 
 it, which will very much mordf}'. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 Your affecdonate friend & faithfuU Serv', &c, 
 
 No. DXXXII. 
 
 From Sir Andrew Mitchell to the Lord President. 
 
 My Dear Lord, London, 6'^ April 1747. 
 
 THIS serves to accompany a Letter from Sir A. F. ; the contents of which will 
 I believe be as great a surprise to you, as the proposition was to me when he first made 
 It. It came endrely of himself, without any suggestion from me whatever ; and I 
 have again and again desired him seriously to consider of it, to be sure that no seeds 
 of repentance are left in his mind : this he assures me he has done, but sdll condnues 
 of the same opinion. 
 
 As you have long been my Oracle, you w'ill forgive the freedom I take with you 
 on this occasion ; first, to desire your advice as to the expediency of my being in 
 parliament ; and then to ask your opinion as to the probability of success, and 
 as to the means I should make use of. But, in order to enable you to satisfy my 
 requests, it will be proper to acquaint you with my inclinadon?, connexions, and 
 views. 
 
 As to the first, I own rriy desires formerly were stronger than they are now ; and I 
 have seen so much of the management of parties, and known too many members, to 
 think of the H. of Com. as I once did ; yet sdll I find my wishes of this kind are not 
 
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 4j6 CULLODEN' PAPERS, [ADDENDA. 
 
 extinofuished ; and I fear there Is hardly any other road open to me, now that I am 
 cutt ofl" from my profession, ic in no train of busmess. 
 
 I need sav little on the 2° head, as I have always conversed with you without reserve. 
 You are already well acquainted vdth my situation in this Country. If words are to be 
 depended on, I have reason to expect favours from those v^ho have it in their power to 
 o-ive ; and what promises have been made me, I have the pleasing vanity to think are 
 neither owing to mean arts, nor to cringing behaviour ; but still the promises of great 
 men are licrhter than air, and their dispositions more uncertain than the weather. The 
 onlv wav, therefore, to fix them is, to be in a situation to serve or to hurt them. If 
 I had a proper foundation to attempt the County, I have hopes of the D. of N. and his 
 Brother's concurrence ; but, on the other hand, every thing is to be feared from a cer- 
 tain eminent personage, who does not chuse that his Coimtrymen fliou'd be known to, 
 or connected -with, any body besides himself. 
 
 Mv views, I confess to you, are neither so honest nor so disinterested as they have been. 
 I devire, nav I am resolved, to act a fair .k honourable part, if ever I shall be in Parliament; 
 but I do propose a reward for myself, that of being employed, either at home or abroad, 
 in a station aoreeable to me, .k in which I may be usefuU ; for my ambition at present 
 is stronger than my avarice. 
 
 It is now several weeks since Sir A. first mentioned this affair to me. As it is neces- 
 sarv' to come to a resolution soon, not only what is to be done, but how it must be 
 done, I beg vou will think for me ; as I depend on your judgment more than oh my 
 own. If you approve of the hint in the Letter, no time should be lost in putting it in 
 execution ; perhaps my being known here to some in the Ministn' may be no objection 
 to Ld.B. ; besides, I have the honour of his Lop's acquaintance, and received great ci\-i- 
 lities from him at the last Gen' Election ; o^ving, I suppose, to my best friend the late 
 D. of Arg\-ll. 
 
 Sir A. tninks that if Lord B. cou'd be secured, we cou'd make a figure without tbe 
 Court ajjijiame ; and with it, that we shou'd have no diificult)' ; but the best title to ask 
 for it is to have some mterest of one's own. The freeholders in this Count)- are nu- 
 merous ; manv of them needy ; others wanting favours for their relations who have 
 been in the Rebellion ; all which extends the interest of the Minister to such a degree, 
 as to make success almost desperate without him ; and as to general assurances, they 
 are not to be trusted, tmless my friends here will so far make a point of it, that I may 
 have no dependance on one great man in whom I have no faith. 
 
 9"'^ April. — This should have been sent by Lord Lauderdale ; but unhappily missing of 
 him, I send it under M'' [Nlaclaurin's cover, and hope it will come safe. Sir' A. talks 
 of setting out next week ; though I doubt he will not get leave, as there is a call of 
 the House. 
 
 As Macleod has wrote to you by last post, I need not be particular. I hear the 
 Ministrv are verv angry with the D. of A. with whom they had concerted every Clause 
 in the Bill, and,' as the Chancellor said, depended on his assistance, &c. to carry it 
 thro' ; that he has left them in the lurch, all his friends being either absent, or voting ag'" 
 the bill at the first reading. This, his Grace says, they did without his knowledge ; 
 but if he can persuade them of this, I think Le has gained a great point, and may after- 
 wards do what he pleases. Had he opposed in due time, and openly, perhaps the ^li- 
 nistry might not have th9ught proper to push a point of this sort against the Majority 
 of a national representative ; but they depended on his assistance ; they had it in the 
 drawino- and correcting of the Bill ; nay, they even submitted to the amendments of 
 his Advocate ; but all vs'ould not do ; for, without telling the Ministry, his people had 
 
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 ADDENDA.] CULLODEN' PAPERS. ^^^ 
 
 their cue, & went off to a Man. I think this is a coup de maltre ; and if the * succeeds> 
 he shou'd be declared Lord H. Treasurer for hfe. 
 
 Lord Lovat, I hear, died well ; several people are killed and wounded by the fall of 
 a Scaffold. Your's of the 3 1 " March I received this morning. 
 
 I ever am your affectionate 
 
 A.M.t 
 
 * Sic in Orig. 
 
 f Sir Andrew Mitchel, of Thainston, in Aberdeenshire, was a man of the greatest respect ibility ; andsc* 
 much a favourite with the Great Frederic, as to have slept in his Tent geoerally during t!ie Seven Years' War. 
 M. Thiebault, in his " Anecdotes of Frederic," gives the following acccAint of Sir A.'s Embassy to Ber- 
 lin : " Sir Andfew Mitchel had been for several years the English ambassador to Berlin when I lirst arrived 
 there ; some time, however, elapsed from this time before I had the least acquaintance with hini ; not only 
 because it was little to be expected that Englishmen should be desirous of the society of Frenchmen, but 
 also because Sir Andrew Mitchel was of the number of those meritorious characters who stand in no need 
 of perpetual society to his existence, and have the philosophy to prefer being occasionally alone. When 
 he first arrived at Berlin, he had caused the persons who necessarily invited him to their houses considerable 
 perplexity ; for he played at no game of cards, so that his hosts constantly said to each otlier, " What 
 shall we do with this Englishman who never plays at cards >.' In a few days, however, the contest was, 
 who should withhold himself from the card-table, and have the advantage of conversing with a man i;i 
 whom they had discovered every requisite to afford the highest pleasure in colloquial intercourse. In 
 reality, his understanding was bo less admirable than the virtues of his character. Of this I cannot give a 
 more substantial proof than by observing, he was united by the strictest bonds of friendship with the 
 author of L,^ Eiprit ihs Lois. 
 
 A variety of bons-mots of his have been repeated; but those which do him the greatest honour have 
 been overlooked ; those, for example, that eifplained rather his principles than his understanding. On one 
 occasion, that the English mail had three times following failed of arriving, the king said to him, in one 
 -of his levees, " Have you not the spleen, M. Mitchel, when the mail is thus delayed :" . . . . " No, Sire, 
 not when it is delayed, but often enough when it arrives duly." During the Seven Years' War, in which 
 Sir Andrew constantly served immediately under Frederic, the English had promised the latter to send a 
 fleet to the Baltic, for the protecfion of commerce and to keep off the Swedes and Russians : this fleet 
 never made its appearance, and in consequence the Swedes transported their army without jiitcrruptioa to 
 
 . . ,. - . w .ibjects. This breach of pronrjse 
 
 on the part of England could not fail of giWng umbrage to Frederic ; and accordingly he incessantly com., 
 plained of their proceedings to Sir Andrew Mitchel, who found himself embairassed what reply to make 
 him. At length the ambassador, who had before been daily invited to dine with the king, received no 
 longer this mark of attention f the generals meeting him about the king's hour of dinner, said to him> 
 "■ It is dinner-time, M. Mitchel." . . . . " Ah, Gentlemen," replied he, " no fleet, no dinner! " This 
 ■was repeated to Frederic, and the invitations were renewed. 
 
 After the affair of Port Mahon, the king said to him, " You have made a bad beginning, M. Mitchel ! 
 What ! your fleet beaten, and Port Mahon taken, in your first campaign ! The trial in which you are pro- 
 ceeding against your Admiral Byng is a bad plaister for the m.alady ! You have made a pitiful campaign 
 of it ; this is certain." . . . . " Sire, we hope, with God's assistance, to make a better next year." .... 
 " With God's assistance, say you. Sir ? I did not know you had such an ally." . . . . " We rely much 
 upon him, though he costs us less than our other allies." . . . . " Spare no expence with him ; you shall 
 see he will give you money's worth for your money !" 
 
 The ambassador was truly the friend and 'partisan of philosophy and virtue. During the Seven Years* 
 War, when Frederic was least satisfied with England, the cabinet of London sent Sir Andrew Mitchel a 
 long and circumstantial letter, in which they severely reproached him for omitting to communicate to them 
 the numerous and bitter sarcasms which they could not doubt escaped Frederic concerning them. Sir 
 Andrew, who himself related to me this anecdote, replied, that in accepting his mission he considered 
 himself as tntrustcJ with the care of maintaining and strengthening the ties that "existed between his country 
 -and a valuable ally ; that his desire' had been to prove a minister of peace and union ; that if it were in- 
 tended to make of him a minister of hatred, pitiful bickerings, and despicable tate-bearings, he wished 
 nothing more than that they would name him a succ sor immediately, as he should never be prevailed upon 
 to play a part so unworthy of his sentiments and character ; that it was not on this account to be believed 
 
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 47^ CULLODEX PAPERS. ^ADDENDA- 
 
 Xo. DXXXIII. 
 
 From ■ Farquharson, of Invercald, to the Lord President, 
 
 My Lord, Invercald, August the I8'^ 1747. 
 
 I TAKE the Libertie (now upon y' Lop's safe arrivall att home) heartily to con- 
 gratulate wth you, and all good Scots Men, upon the present happy, peaceable, and 
 (I may say) flourishing state of our Countn,-, in comparison with the miserable condition 
 it laboured under, ^\•ith blood, rapine, and devastation, when y' Lop last left y house. 
 And what a blessing it is, that so wicked a Rebellion, which struck att the root of all 
 our liberties, both sacred & civil, was so soon defeat and enidicat ; whyll a litle longer 
 continuance would have reduced this poor Nation allmost into a desart ; since ther would 
 have been htle seed tyme, and as litle harvest, and ane inevitable generall famine the 
 consequence, which could not miss to have sweeped otF what the sword left. 
 
 The noble, worthie, and conspicuous pairt y' Lop acted in contributing to bring about 
 this happy event, \vi\\ make vou as memorable to all future ages, as your Lop's lands 
 & designation will be for the decisive batell ; ' and will ever be much esteemed by all true 
 lovers of libertie, and the Countrey. Mean-tyme y' Lop's so early appearance for lenitie 
 and mercy has gained you the sincere affection even of the missfortunat. Most of 
 them (though now too late) clearly perceive the foly and imprudence of ther so precipitat 
 and rash actings, in plain contradiction to ther own and the nation's interest and hapi- 
 ness, as weell as their duty. 
 
 It is my humble opinion, that it would be a gross miscomprehension of true merit, if 
 y' Lop was not suitably rewarded, as weell as hyly regairded, for such a chain of notable 
 and valuable services. My Lord, I am att great loss to find suitable expressions, for 
 indicateing the true and sincere sence of gratitude I have (and will allwavs retain) for 
 the uncomon friendship and countenance y' Lop has allways honoured my Daughter, 
 the Lady Mackintosh, with ; but mor particularly in the tyme of her great distress, 
 which ocasioned others also to regaird her, and proved a great mean of her haveing 
 better uswadge then otherwavs she could expect. I am far from aproveing of her 
 imprudent deportment, although out of naturall afection I think myself bound in duty 
 to return my most heartie acknowledgements to her benefactors. 
 
 he was less devoted to his country thar^ the persons they might appoint to succeed him ; that he knew per- 
 fectly well how to distinguish between what was of a nature to be injurious, and what was merely indif- 
 ferent ; that if any change should happen in the dispositions of his Prussian majesty, this he could not fail 
 to be informed of, and would have lost not a moment in his communications to the court of London ; but 
 he begged them to consider that all the circumstances they had particularized in their letter, and with which he 
 was perfectly acquainted at the time, were noihing more than the first impulses of a man possessed of no 
 less irritability of temper and sensibility than of genius ; that thev might even have been nothing more 
 than simple pleasantries, brought forward either with the intention of deceiving some of his hearers, or to 
 put them off their guard as to what they might themselves have to conceal ; that, in a word, it was his 
 duty to remind them, that to judge accurately respecting a man so extraordinary, or even of what he says, 
 it was doing little indeed to collect the mere words he uttered, if to these were not added a knowledge of 
 the time in which they were pronounced, under what circimstances, and with what views. " Well," 
 added he, " my remonstrance produced the effect I desired. I never was ignorant of all the bitter sarcasms 
 and little epigrammic raillery that issued from the king agamst whoever fell in his way ; but 1 carefully 
 avoided menti .ning them in my official dispatches : I was never afterward solicited on this point, and I kept 
 my post. I should blush for the vocation I till, if I were compelled to descend to such disgraceful med- 
 dlmg." I am much mistaken, or this trait proves the minister to have possessed an elevated soul, and that 
 he ennobled the vocation he held. 
 
 * Sic in Orig. 
 
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 ADDENDA.] CULLODE.V PAPERS. 479 
 
 It is not in the power of on in my pri-'it Station ever to make the least suitable re- 
 turns to your Lop's so much goodness : but such exalted virtue and humanitie to a 
 poor distressed Lady is a suficient reward to itself ; and I shall ever pray for y' Lop's 
 long lyfe, happiness, and prosperit)-. And yee may believe, that in great truth and 
 sinceritie I in dut)-, with the utmost regaird and esteem, allways remain, 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lop's most faithfull, 
 most Obedient, 
 
 and much oblidged humble servant, 
 
 • FARQUHARSON. 
 
 P. S. My Wyfe & Son beg leave to have ther humble Compliments presented to 
 y' Lop. 
 
 *■ The Initial of the Christian name is not intelligible. 
 
 THE END, 
 
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