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1789.] ENTERS THE SWEDISH SERVICE, 1750. ccxliii
London, where 1 propose to stay but a few days. I offer my most affectionate duty to my
mother, and my affectionate compliments to my sisters.
I am, my Lord, your most affectionate and dutiful son,
MACLEOD. 1
To the right honourable the Earl of Cromertie.
On reaching London, Lord Macleod consulted his friends, and ultimately
adhered to his resolution expressed in the foregoing letter. He sailed for Ham-
burg on the 7th of May. In a letter addressed to his father the day before, he
says that he was sorry Lord Cromartie and his mother had any pain on his account,
and that it was to prevent anything of that nature that made him leave Devonshire
in the way he did, and adds, " I pray God that you and my sisters may soon enjoy
that happiness to which we have all for some time been strangers. Whenever I
am so happy as to hear of any change of this sort, I shall no longer think myself
unfortunate, but that any hardships to which my wandering throw the world may
expose me are then fully compensated." 2
Lord Macleod landed at Hamburg after a passage of fourteen days. When
there he called on Mr. Cope, son of Sir John Cope, who was the commander-in-
chief of the forces in Scotland for the Government, when Lord Macleod was
engaged in the army of the Prince. Lord Macleod was very civilly received by
Mr. Cope. 3 Thence he proceeded to Berlin. Through the recommendation of Field-
Marshal Keith he was favourably received at the Court of Sweden, whither he
next proceeded. On the 16th of January 1750, old style, Lord Macleod, writing
from Stockholm, mentions that in a few days he was to get his commission as
captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Major-General Baron Hamilton,
and that Baron Hamilton, the elder brother of his colonel, and High Chancellor of
Sweden, was his zealous friend. He mentions in the same letter that a great
number of the Swedish nobility are originally Scots, instancing the Counts Fercen,
who are Macphersons, and the families of Douglas, Stuart, Spens, and M'Dugal. 4
Writing on 10th March following, Lord Cromartie mentions that besides the
company which Lord Macleod had got in the Swedish service, the King of Sweden
had been pleased to grant him a pension till he was better provided for. 5 On
the recommendation of Lord George Murray, the Chevalier de Saint George sent
Lord Macleod the necessary means for his military equipment.
1 Letter, vol. ii. pp. 226-8. 4 Letter, vol. ii. p. 233.
2 Ibid. p. 229. » Original Letter at Tarbat House.
3 Ibid. p. 230.