made there.  The Pretender found pine-apples there, the first he ever tasted.  Mr. Breton,(1108) a great favourite of the Southern Prince of Wales, went the other day to visit the Duchess of Athol,(1109) and happened not to know that she is parted from her husband:  he asked how the Duke did?, “Oh,” said she, “he turned me out of his house, and now he is turned out himself.”  Every now and then a Scotchman comes and pulls the Boy by the sleeve; “Prence, here is another mon taken!” then with all the dignity in the world, the Boy hopes nobody was killed in the action!  Lord Bath has made a piece of a ballad, the Duke of Newcastle’s speech to the Regency; I have heard but these two lines of it: 

“Pray consider my Lords, how disastrous a thing, To have two Prince of Wales’s and never a King!”

The merchants are very zealous, and are opening a great subscription for raising troops.  The other day, at the city meeting, to draw up the address, Alderman Heathcote proposed a petition for a redress of grievances, but not one man seconded him.  In the midst of all this, no Parliament is called!  The ministers say they have nothing ready to offer; but they have something to notify!

I must tell you a ridiculous accident:  when the magistrates of were searching houses for arms, they came to Mr. Maule’s, brother of Lord Panmure, and a great friend of the Duke of Argyll.  The maid would not let them go into one room, which was locked, and as she said, full of arms.  They now thought they had found what they looked for, and had the door broke open—­where they found an ample collection of coats of arms!

The deputy governor of Edinburgh Castle has threatened the magistrates to beat their town about their ears, if they admit the rebels.  Perth is twenty-four miles from Edinburgh, so we must soon know whether they will go thither; or leave it, and come into England.  We have great hopes that the Highlanders will not follow him so far.  Very few of them could be persuaded the last time to go to Preston; and several refused to attend King Charles II. when he marched to Worcester.  The Caledonian Mercury never calls them “the rebels,” but “the Highlanders.”

Adieu! my dear child —­thank Mr. Chute for his letter, which I will answer soon.  I don’t know how to define my feeling:  I don’t despair, and yet I expect nothing but bad!  Yours, etc.

p .  S. Is not my Princess very happy with the hopes of the restoration of her old tenant?(1110)

(1103) William, Marquis of Tullibardine.-D.

(1104) John Murray, second Earl of Dunmore; he died in 1754.  His brother, who joined the Pretender, was the Hon. Wm. Murray, of Taymount.  He was subsequently pardoned for the part he took in the rebellion, and succeeded to the earldom on the death of Earl John.-D.

(1105) The King.

(1106) Lady Granville.

(1107) Elder brother of the Duke of Athol, but outlawed for the last rebellion.  He was taken prisoner after the battle of Culloden, and died in the Tower.