Historical and genealogical account of the Clan Maclean

202 HISTORICAL NOTICES.
is every thing, and self-interest or self-preserva-
tion nothing.
He had many opportunities of making his
peace with King William, as well as with his
successor Queen Anne, and thereby to save his
estates from the fangs of those who for gene-
rations industriously laboured to make his here-
ditary rights their prey. They at length
unhappily succeeded, and the forfeited property
of the chief of Maclean enabled Archibald
Campbell, first Duke of Argyle, to add to his
other insidiously acquired honours the title of
" Lord of Mull, Morvern, and Tyrie."
This brave and truly honourable chief was
evidently not politician enough for the trouble-
some times in which he lived. His straight-
forward and manly principles despised dissimu-
lation, and a tenacious adherence to the ill-fated
Stuarts, to the exclusion of every personal con-
sideration, is the only fault which a friend or a
foe could lay to the charge of Sir John, the last
Maclean who was possessor of the ancient and
hospitable halls of Duart Castle.
On the death of Sir John Maclean, Hector
his only son succeeded to the baronetcy of Mor-
vern. Sir Hector was born in France, but at
the age of four years he was brought to England,
and from thence into the highlands, and placed
under the care of his near relation, Maclean of