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it amounted to 80,000 men, the half of that number having been killed, wounded,
or made prisoners, and the other half lost by desertion." The original manu-
script is holograph of his Lordship, and extends to twenty-four pages folio. 1
Lord Macleod took an honourable position in the service of the Swedish
Crown. In a letter by his father to the same correspondent, dated 30th January
1762, he states that Lord Macleod had been created a Knight of the Order of the
Sword and North Star, the most honourable Order in Sweden, and in the same
letter expresses his satisfaction that Lord Macleod and his brother George had
obtained freehold qualifications in Ross and Cromarty, and had thus again acquired
a footing in the country. In the army he rose from captain to the rank of colonel,
or, as other accounts state, to that of lieutenant-general. He was aide-de-camp to
the King of Sweden, and he had the honour of being created a Count of Sweden,
with the title of Count Cromartie.
On the recommendation of the Queen of Sweden, King George the Third
granted to Colonel John Mackenzie, in the service of the Crown of Sweden,
as heir to the late Earl of Cromartie, the interest of the surplus price of the
estate of Eoystoun, which amounted to £4813, 17s. 9Jd., and belonging to the
Crown, through the decease of Sir Kenneth Mackenzie of Grandvale and Cromartie,
and the attainder of George Earl of Cromartie. The gift passed the Privy Seal
9th August 1766. Sir John Goodricke, the British envoy at Stockholm, was
directed to assure the Swedish Queen that the King would show all the favour,
consistent with the laws of the kingdom, to a person who had the happiness to
be recommended by her. 2
A letter from Leonard Urquhart, who was the legal solicitor in Edinburgh of
Lord Macleod, dated Edinburgh, 8th March 1774, addressed to him as Earl of
Cromartie, then at Gottenburg, informs him that a petition was brought up in the
Parliament from General Fraser (of Lovat), which Lord North informed the House
had been shown to his Majesty, and strongly recommended by him. This
petition, Mr. Urquhart states, it was thought would be carried through, and he
hoped that the rest of the noblemen and gentlemen whose estates had been
annexed, would have the same favour shown them. In another letter from the
same correspondent, dated 19 th May of the same year, he says that it gave Lord
1 Original Narrative, Cromartie Papers, No. 165 ; and Copy Petition regarding it,
vol. xxii. No. 100. vol. xix. No. 247.
2 Copy Gift, Cromartie Papers, vol. xxi.