Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

132 MEMOIR OF ROB ROY.
the letter you drew the draught of sent from me to 3
certain great man, and also what method you think most
proper to procure a gratification. I thought better to
remain here as I am not yet well recovered, rather than
go up to Paris, not knowing but you would approve of
my settling here, which seems to me very feasible, yet as
you are my head, I leave you to dispose of me as you
shall seem fit and proper, and therefore shall wait your
orders. If you please to desire by yours, an ample account
of the project which procured the licence, and an account
of that worthy employ offered me, you shall in full by my
next. I beg pardon for this long letter, and that I have
the honour of manifesting my gratitude, is the sincere wish
of — Dear Chief,
" Your own to command
" Jas Drummond."
" Dunkirk, May 1st, 1754.
" Dear Chief,
" I had the honour of your's some time ago, and
would have made a return ere now, but that these eight
days past I have been taken ill of an ague which continues.
I make no doubt our friends the Stuarts will endeavour as
much as possible to make a handle of my being in London,
but I leave you to judge, if it was not reasonable for me
to make an attempt tho' never so hazardous, if I could
expect to be of service or relief to my brother, or procure
my own liberty to support my distressed wife and numer-
ous family. The way and manner I procured the license
to return to Great Britain, was this. Captain Duncan
Campbell,* who is nephew to Glengyle, and my near re-
lation, wrote me in June last about Allan Breck Stuart.
* This was the person from whom the earl of Perth escaped in 1745.