Part 26

That portion of the letter only which refers to the Chevalier appears to have been printed. I have given the entire letter from which the account was taken. A portion of this letter is published in Brown's History of the Highlands, vol. iv. p. 332.

Reay, p. 352.

MS. Letter in the possession of Alexander Macdonald, Esq., of the Register Office, Edinburgh.

Mar Papers.

Thomas Bruce, afterwards Earl of Kincardine.

The loss of the ship from France.

An allusion to the Marquis of Huntley and Lord Seaforth.

Mar Papers.

Reay, p. 364.

Flying Post, or the Post Master, for January 28 and 31, 1716.

Evening Post, Feb. 2, 1716.

Auchterarder.

Reay, p. 364.

Mar Correspondence.

Probably Wigton.

Brown's Highlands, vol. iv. p. 337.

Patten, p. 248.

Reay, p. 367.

Lord Mar's Journal.

A copy is given of the Prince's letter in Dr. Brown's work on the Highlands, vol. iv. p. 340. It is a sort of expostulation with the Duke, but mildly and sensibly expressed. "I fear," he said, alluding to the British people, "they will find yet more than I the smart of preferring a foreign yoke to the obedience they owe me."

Bolingbroke's Letter to Sir William Wyndham.

Letter to Sir Wm. Wyndham, p. 139.

Lockhart, vol. ii. p. 17.

Ibid.

Lockhart, vol. ii. p. 64.

Coxe's Papers in the British Museum, MS. 9129. Plut. cxxxviii. II.

I find that the biographers of Lord Mar, in the short lives given of him, (see Chambers's Scottish Biography, Georgian Era, &c.) have overlooked this correspondence. The letter from Sir Luke Schwaub, in French, with a translation, and the answer of Lord Carteret, in the Coxe Papers, although not exactly relevant to my subject, are interesting. "A thousands thanks," writes the generous Lord Carteret, in reply to Schwaub, "for your private letter, which affords me the means of obviating any calumny against the memory of a person who will always be dear to me." [That is, Lord Sunderland.] "I have shown it to the King, who is entirely satisfied with it." The anxiety on the part of Government to secure the papers of Lord Sunderland, was extreme, and affords a collateral proof of this connivance. The mysterious documents were seized by order of the King, and inspected by Lord Townshend, and not a trace of the correspondence was left when the papers were restored to the family. The seizure occasioned a suit between the executors of the Earl of Sunderland and the two Secretaries of State.--Coxe MSS.

Hardwicke Papers, vol. ii. p. 252.