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1739.] TO SIR JAMES GRANT OF GRANT. 379
465. To Sir James Grant of Grant — Affair of Major White — Education of
Lord Lovat's eldest son.
Beaufort, 29th March 1739.
My dear Sir James, — I had the honour of your letter by this post, and I am glad that the
most of your fatigue as Member of Parliament is over for this session, and that it has not
hurt your health.
I was free of my aigue for ten days, and was in pretty good health, but the cold north-
east winds has brought it upon me again. I had a severe foot of it last night, but I took a
vomit this day, and the bark two hours therafter, so that I hope by the use of those medicines
to be soon rid of it. I am glad to know that my dear Frank is well ; and I wrote to you
some time agoe that Generall Wade aecpiainted Brigadier Guest that your son was to be an
officer in Culcairn's company, and to begin him I think is as good as to be an officer in any
marching regiament. I beg leave to assure you and him of my most affectionate humble duty,
and that of all this family's.
As I told j r ou in my last, the only thing that I regrated of my behaviour and actings
in Major White's affair, was my giving you and my friend Sir Robert Munro the trouble of
soliciting my Lord Hay, considering the return I received, for I have received my Lord
Harringtown's thanks by Generall Wade's hands, which I esteem more than ten times the
value of what that wretch had at Fort Augustus ; and tho' I cannot but acknowledge
Generall Wade's friendship and goodness in obtaining me payment of the expence that I and
the officers of my court were at in that affair, yet it being but a triffle, I wrote to Generall
Guest in the terms that I ought to do about it ; so that I have nothing to reproach myself
with from first to last as to my behaviour in that affair, but my troubling you and my friend
Sir Robert Munro, in soliciting the King's gift for me ; but I hope you will excuse me both,
as being my intimate friends.
It is neither William Dunballoch's son's fault nor mine that our differences were not
ended in a friendly manner before now, for we both submitted them to your faithfull servant,
Evan Baillie ; but he is so hurried with a hundred other affairs that he cannot lay aside
one day to end that affair, tho' we have both press'd him. But he promised to me and to
William two days agoe, when they were both here, that he wou'd end that affair before the
15th of Aprile, and I am certainly resolved to keep him at it, which I intreat you may
assure Captain Fraser of; and be so good as to give him my most sincere humble service, for
I wish him well.
I have writt so very pressingly to you about my eldest son by the last post, that I
cannot add much to what I have said, but that I had a letter by the last post, confirming
what I wrote to you, that they have turn'd the child's head by pride, vanity, and expence ;
so that I am fully resolv'd and determin'd at any rate to bring him out of that place. But