Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

NOTICES OF LADY GRANGE. 323
and sunk to the lowest condition of human
misery, she closed her life at Idrigal, in that
island, seventeen years after she had been for-
cibly removed from Edinburgh.
At the time this ill-fated lady was carried
away, it will appear remarkable, that, although
the tyrannical and barbarous action was suffi-
ciently public, no means were adopted, to the
disgrace of her friends and the government, for
bringing the perpetrators of it to justice, though
some of them were well known. Her husband
had the address to persuade the world that his
wife was mad, and that she had often attempted
his life, so that her confinement became a point
of necessity. But what was no less extraor-
dinary than infamous was that two of her sons,
then grown to manhood, were believed to have
consented to the removal of their mother. She
had also a daughter married to the Earl of Kin-
tore, besides many other respectable relations,
but none of them, to their great dishonour,
ever took the smallest notice of the foul and
cruel transaction. — And while, on the one hand,
we lament that our countrymen should have