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1780.] JAMES GRANT, YOUNGER OF CORRIEMONY. 469
Kutland. Lord North's son.
Ancaster. Keating, an Irish gentleman.
Harrington. Cary, Lord Faukland's son.
Sir Th. Edgerton. Sir J. Wrottesley.
Col. White of Fitzroy's, a legion. Mr. James Dundas, formerly a Captain in the Army.
Lister, a Yorkshire gentleman. Ackland, formerly a Lieutenant-Colonel.
Winchelsea. Stanton.
Stuart, Lord Bute's son. Colonel Reed. And
M'Carmick, Cornish man. Lord John Murray's second battalion.
They take rank from the date of the returns when compleat.
Sir James Grant of Grant, Bart., Edinburgh.
543. James Geant (Younger) of Corriemony to The Same — Turbulence, and disputes
among the tenantry in Strathspey.
Corrimony, 4th May 1780.
My dear Sir, — Upon my arrival at Rbthiemurchus I found Mr. M'Gregor, who had come to
meet me there in consequence of your letter. I was glad to understand that he did not
think it necessary that you should come north untill your return from England. Your
presence in the country will be necessary on different accounts as soon as you can con-
veniently move after your return. The lands out of lease require your attention ; but in an
especial manner your presence will be requisite to check those animosities which have of late
prevailed among some of your people ; a task not of difficult execution, if those persons who
have shewn any degree of animosity or turbulence of disposition are made to feel the marks
of your displeasure. We cannot expect peace and good order in society unless we put in
practice the means for obtaining that great end of all law and government. Numberless
irregularities of a serious nature have been committed in this county of late, and every good
member of society must lend a helping hand to suppress such disorders. The nearer they
affect any person, he is called on to exert himself with the greater vigour. A most daring-
attack has been made on two of Glenmoriston's brothers by a great body of M'Martins from
Lochaber, who beat them and some others in their company in a most outrageous manner
without any just cause or reasonable grounds for such conduct. They were armed to the
number of 40 men with dirks and bludgeons. Your tenant, Alpen Grant in Borlumbeg, was
nigh losing his life. I shall represent the matter at the time of the Circuit at Inverness,
when I hope the proper measures will be taken for redress. Some of your tenant's cattle
have been stolen out of Rouskich. The strict execution of justice is necessary every where,
but particularly in the Highlands a rigorous execution of the law is necessary. I find that
Mr. M'Gregor has incurred the odium of many people on the banks of the Spey, not upon