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118 HISTORY OF THE HIUIII-AXDS.
llie Laird ol Kask atPertli. I received also from my nephew, Cluny Macpr.ei^
son, £ 150, ill order to support my wife and Family while I was obliged to skulk
in the Higlilands, tlie ennemy having plundered tliem of all, and to bear my
charges to France, so tliat your Royal Highness may see there is more owing
me than 1 liave received.
I most humbly beg of your Royal Highness tn believe that I don't mention
these things witli any intention of forming a diniand, but only out of anxiety
to clear myself of aspersions which my conduct noways deserves ; being always
proud and ready to serve your Royal Highness wlienever you are pleased to
command me, and God send soon a good occasion. I can likewise answer for
the rendyness of the remains of the clan, according to the late accounts I have
had from Scotland. I have the lionour to remain, with utmost zeal and invio
table attachment,
May it please )0ur Hoyiil Highness,
Your Highness's most humble, obediint, and devoted
servant,
L. Ca.mki:on
pAnis, y<,.;,uUr •2\sl, 17.i3.
•No. CCLXVIII.
Extract iifa L< Iter.— Mrs Di Cameron to M. Edtjnr
Pauis, JanMirij -Ibth, 1754.
1 SAW your good friend Balhaldie some days ago. I was telling him what
character 1 heard of young Glengary iu England, and particularly that Sir
Duncan Campbell of Lochnell told me, and others wliom he could trust, that
in the year 1748 or 49, I don't remember which, as he. Sir Duncan, was going
out of the House of Commons, Mr Henry Pelham, brother to the Duke of
Newcastle, and Secretary of State, called on him, and asked if he knew Glen-
gary. Sir Duncan answered he knew the old man but not the young. Pclliam
replied, that it was young Glengary he spoke of; for that he came to him otter-
ing his most faithful and zealous service to the Government in any shape they
thought proper, as he came from feeling the folly of any further concern witli
the ungrateful family of Stuart, to whom he and his family had been too long
attached, to the absolute ruin of themselves and country. Balhaldie asked me
if I had informed his Majesty of this by you. I told him I was afraid it would
be thought malice in me to do it : he said that gratitude, had I no sense ol
duty, required a better return than to leave his Majesty ignorant of what con-
cerned him and family so near, and that we ought to leave it to his Majesty to
judge and make use of the information as he thought proper ; but tiiat it was
our duty to leave him ignorant of notliing concerned him, for which rea-son I
have now given you the trouble of what i.s above.