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CAMPBELL’S DIARY
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affair, and so the Prince was positive to grant no longer indul¬
gence. Hereupon Mr. Smith left me and I return’d to the
directors and reported what past, and being now towards
evening, they found the measure proposd by the pass imprac¬
ticable, so adjourned to my house to drink coffee, and further
to deliberate of the affair. Bespoke a pott of coffee at Muir-
head’s. The directors talk’d over this exigency fully, and then
resolv’d that a letter should be written by me to Mr. Murray
of Broughton, desiring that the pass should be renewd for
to morrow, when they would try to get access to the Castle
and bring down the cash, and that the new pass should com¬
prehend not only the three ordinary directors containd in the
former, viz1. Messrs. Hamilton, Shairp, and Philp and my self,
but likewise William Mitchell, accomptant, and Alexander
Innes, teller. Accordingly I wrote a letter in these terms,
which was read to and approvd of by the meeting, and being
copied over fair by David Baillie (who had formerly tran¬
scribed the other letters to General Guest and Mr. Murray of
Broughton in the forenoon), the same was sign’d by me, as the
other letters were, in presence of and by appointment of the
meeting. On this the directors dismiss’d, and twas resolv’d
that the three ordinary directors, accomptant, and A. Innes,
teller, should meet at my house tomorrow between 8 and
9 in the morning. But before the meeting was over, A.
Innes, teller, was calld upon, to know if his brother, George,
was in the Castle, who told he was not, on which he was dis¬
patched to his house, to know if he had lodg'd the keys of the
Castle vault, where the Bank repositories were lodg’d, with his
wife, and if he had, to bring them, which accordingly he
deliverd to me in a seald parcell, which I opened in presence
of the directors, and then kept the keys, George Innes having
gone in to the countrey some days agoe, as his wife told his
brother. Mr. David Baillie got the charge of delivering the
letter to Mr. Murray of Broughton, after sealing, but after all
search for him, he could not be found in town or abbey, on
which Mr. Baillie and I concerted that I should call for
Lochiel1 in Mrs. Clerks, and tell him of the case, who brought
1 Donald Cameron of Lochiel. He escaped to France after Ctdloden.