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X INTRODUCTION.
history ; and secluded as he now is from his government and
people, we may, as of a deceased monarch, relate one of those
trifling traits which marked the generous kindness of his disposi-
tion, as well as his sentiments of those who stood for the cause of
his unfortunate relative. His majesty having been told of a gen-
tleman of family and fortune in Perthshire who had not only
refused to take the oath of allegiance to him, but had never per-
mitted him to be named as king in his presence ; " Carry my
compliments to him," said the king — "but — what — stop — no;
he may perhaps not receive my compliments as king of England —
Give him the elector of Hanover's compliments, and teU him that
he respects the steadiness of his principles." The same kindness
to the memory of those who hazarded themselves in the cause of
the Stuarts has been inherited by the present administrator of
royal authority ; and to him, as to his father, their descendants
have been ever prompt to repay it. He was heard to express
himself one day before a dozen of gentlemen of both nations, with
the greatest warmth, as follows : " I have always regarded the
attachment of the Scots to the Pretender — I beg your pardon,
gentlemen — to Prince Charles Stuart, I mean — as a lesson to me
whom to trust in the hour of need."
But to put this matter beyond the chance of being disputed, I
have only to add, that the first proposal for the rescuing of these
Jacobite relics from oblivion emanated from the royal family. It
was made by the Highland Society of London, while one royal
duke was in the chair and another present, to Colonel Stuart of
Grarth, who, as may well be supposed, readily engaged in the
promotion of a scheme so congenial with his feelings ; and it was
in consequence of his immediate application to Mr George Thomson
of Edinburgh, that the task of selection devolved on me. Captain