Detection of infamy

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In 1785 ihe said John or James Drummond was re*
moved from tie first battalion of the 73rd Regiment
before mentioned, and was placed on the half-pay of the
second battalion of the same regiment, which second
battalion, as before observed, became incorporated in the
second battalion of the 42nd Highlanders ; but the said
James was not put on half pay as an Ensign.
About two years after, the name of James Drum-
mond appears on the half-pay of the 71st Regiment as
having been a Captain in the 42nd, in which last named
regiment, the Honourable James Drummond, accord-
ing to the printed army list, had his name continued from
1780 to 1784. It, however, seems an irreconcileable
point to consider this Capt. James Drummond and the
Honourable James Drummond, as one and the same per-
son, for if no other circumstance was in the way, the
Duke of Melfort has obtained a note from the War
Office, which states, viz. :
" The Honourable James Drummond, Captain in
" the ±2nd Foot, was put on half-pay in the year
" 1786.
" In 1807 he was struck out of the half-pay list, a&
4< having not received the pay as such."
From these particulars the conclusion which obtrudes
itself is, that every artful endeavour was resorted to for
the purpose of concealing, or involving in uncertainty,
the death of the Honourable James Drummond at Lisbon,
as before mentioned, in 1780, and for bringing forward
the person of substitution, who was to claim the great
and noble inheritance of the Perth Family.
The friends of the late Lord Perth of course must
know who was his legal Father, and, whether instead of
James the son of James Drummond of Lundin, he was