obliging, of fine spirit and sound judgment. Although I had not known him but since the commencement of the expedition of the Prince, I soon came to distinguish his merit and the sweetness of his society. I formed with him the closest friendship, notwithstanding the disparity of our ages. He paid back my affection with all the tenderness of a parent. As he was naturally of a gay disposition, I perceived his melancholy on his entering my dwelling. On asking him the cause, this worthy man looked at me, his eyes bathed in tears, and said—' Ah, my friend, you do not know what it is to be a father. I am of this detachment which must depart this evening to attack Lord Loudoun. You do not know that a son whom I adore is with him an officer in his regiment. I believed myself fortunate in obtaining that rank for this dear boy, not being able to forsee the descent of Charles Edward into Scotland. Perhaps to-morrow I shall have the grief to kill my son with my own hand, and that the same ball that I shall fire off in my defence may occasion from myself a death the most cruel! In going with the detachment I may be able to save his life; if I do not march, some other may kill him.' The recital of poor Scothouse rent my heart. I could not refrain from mingling my tears with his, although I had never seen this young man the subject of the sharp pangs of a tender father. I retained him the whole day at my house, endeavouring to dissipate his fears as much as I possibly could, and making him promise, on parting, to come straight to my house on leaving the boat. The next evening I heard a great knock at my door. I ran thither, and perceived the good father holding a young man by the hand, of a jolly figure, who cried to me, his eyes sparkling with joy Behold, my friend, the one who yesterday caused all my alarms. I have taken him prisoner myself, and when I had hold of him he embraced me fervently, not regarding the others who were present.' I then saw him shed tears of joy, very different to those of the night before. We supped all three together at my chamber, and I never had my mind more penetrated with satisfaction than at this supper, by the mutual scene of tenderness between the father and son.

I refer to the memoirs for further particulars; and in illustration am able to give the son's own account, fifty years after. In 1796 Ranald Macdonell, fifth of Scotos, then an old man, whose chequered career shall be immediately referred to, sent in an application for a pension to King George III. The scroll of this application, tattered, worn, and almost illegible, has, with many papers connected with the family, been fortunately preserved,

and in so far as it relates to the '45 runs thus--"That the representer is one of the immediate cadets of the family of Glengarry, and at a very early period of his life saw the blessings which all Your Majesty's subjects acquired by the Revolution, and the accession of your Majesty's predecessors to the throne of Great Britain, which induced him, at the breaking out of the Rebellion of 1745, contrary to the general ideas of that clan at the time, to join his Majesty's forces as a volunteer in the regiment of Highlanders commanded by Lord Loudoun. The memorialist was with the regiment in all the service they were engaged in 1745-6, and in particular he was one of those fifty who exerted themselves, and made their escape when the regiment were made prisoners near Dornoch in Sutherland. That the memorialist served in this small party, then commanded by Captain Sir Harry Munro, in which Lieutenant, now General, Reid served, when a French sloop, the 'Hazard,' came to Lord Reay's country with money and ammunition to supply the Rebel army. Here she was attacked and taken by the Sheerness,' when 250 of the men, among whom were 26 Irish officers, commanded by a Colonel Brown, having made their escape, they were attacked by the above 50 men, several of them killed, and the remainder all made prisoners; and the Rebel army were thus disappointed of about £20,000 money, which contributed in no small degree to ruin the cause of the Pretender, and obliged his Rebel army to meet his Majesty's forces at Culloden, which terminated that rebellion. That the memorialist and the said party joined the Duke of Cumberland at Aberdeen, when the officers and men received the thanks of His Royal Highness for the essential service they had performed. That the memorialist remained in the regiment till the year 1747, and was well known to the officers of the regiment, none of whom, so far as the memorialist knows, are now living, except the Duke of Argyle, then Lieut.-Colonel, and General Reid, then a Lieutenant, who was in the attack on the above 250 men, and whose spirit and good conduct contributed greatly to the success of the party."

It will be observed that though Ranald Scotos makes no reference to having been taken prisoner by his father, his statement does not contradict the account by the Chevalier. Nothing that I have seen in the papers gives any clue, account, or reason why Ranald, when quite a youth, ran so counter to the family traditions, and associated himself with the Hanoverian party, except that prior to the '45 he had been a gcod deal among the Macleods, his grandmother's family. He was a strict Catholic,

and, though his two wives were Protestants, his family and all their descendants have continued in the ancient faith. He also, when he had occasion to do so, always spoke of the '45 as a "rebellion," in marked contrast with his neighbours and contemporaries, Barisdale, Scammadale, Morar, and others, who cautiously used the expression of "The troubles of the '45."

Ranald Scotos married, first, a daughter of Glenmoriston's, by whom he had an only son, Eneas; he married, second, Annie, youngest daughter of John Macdonell of Glengarry. In 1747, Ranald obtained a lieutenant's commission in the service of the States General, commanded by Lord Drumlanrig, where he remained until the peace and reduction of the regiment, when he retired on half-pay. Soon after the breaking out of the French war, in 1757, Ranald was called on by the States General to serve in the regiment commanded by General Halkett, where he remained till peace was established. Desiring to enter the British service, he was allowed to retire by the States General with the rank of captain, but did not succeed in his object.

In 1778, a proposal was made by the Roman Catholics of Scotland to raise a regiment without bounty, to be commanded by Lord Traquair, and on his lordship's application to Scotos for assistance, the latter offered to raise a hundred men. Traquair's offer was unhappily declined. Scotos, finding that there were many Catholics anxious to be enrolled, made a direct application to Government "to raise a body of 500 Catholic Highlanders, or to go to America to raise the Catholics there whom he knew to be attached to the King and Government," a proposal also declined. Disgusted with these refusals, Scotos gave up for the time his military aspirations, and lived at Scotos until 1788 the life of a country gentleman, diversified by several visits to France, where two of his sons by his second marriage, Charles and Donald, were educated in part. In 1778, Mr John Duncan, student of divinity, is tutor in the Scotos family.

Ranald was of an easy yet honourable disposition that led him into various obligations, which, with legal mismanagement, ultimately brought about the loss of the estate. One obligation in particular, granted with another on behalf of his brother-in-law, Captain Charles Macdonell of Glengarry, killed at Quebec in 1759, turned out many years after to be very serious. The papers connected with this matter would indicate that Captain Charles Macdonell had no issue. If he had left descendants, the heir male would now be head of Glengarry.

The rental of Scotos in 1773 was only 1008 merks Scots, equal to £56 sterling, made up, with the addition of the compounded values of customs, as follows, a cow being valued at 20 merks, a sheep 2 merks, a stone of butter 4 merks, and a stone of cheese 2 merks, viz. :

The tenants, apart from numerous cottars, in 1784 were 27 in number, viz.:

In Scothouse and Torreray-Evan Macdonell, James Macdougall, Ronald Macdonell, Allan Macdonell, Lachlan Macdonell, Evan Carmichael, John Macdougall, Alexander Macpherson, Neil Campbell, Christian Geddes, Angus Macdonell.

In Inveriebeg--Mr Alexander Macdonell, priest, John Macdonell, Donald Macdonell, John Macdougall, alias Macpherson, Allan Macdonell, Donald Maclellan.

In Glendulochan and Corrycharreskill-Donald Macdonald, drover, James Mackay, John Mackay, Angus Campbell, R. Mackay, Marian Macdonell.

In North Keanlochdulochan-John Macdougall, piper, Duncan MacPhee, Betty Kennedy.

In South Keanlochdulochan-John Macdonell and Duncan Macdonell, with the cottars, forming a population of over 300 souls.

Whether threatened with removal, or desirous to leave themselves, by 1786 almost all left. Charles Macdonell, son of Scotos, writing from Inverie on 1st April in that year, says :— "This country is all in a ferment with emigration. Most of the tenants of this country go to America, so that Glengarry, it is thought, will soon come to this country. Angus, my brother, is now away, and Donald is in Sleat with Mr Martin Macpherson."

By 1795 the tenants were reduced to three, and the rent had risen six-fold, standing thus :—

John Gillespie.....
Lands of Torreray
A Change House.

£354

30

£385

Upon the marriage of his eldest son Eneas, in 1788, Ranald gave over the estate, under burden of an annuity of £150 a year, of his debts, and moderate provisions to his younger children. The family affairs had become considerably embarrassed, and Ranald's annuity not being met, he had in his old age to betake himself again to a military life.

In the memorial before alluded to in 1796, he states-"That having had the honour of being, as a brother soldier, well acquainted with the late Colonel Small, Governor of Guernsey, he, on account of his services and attachment to your Majesty and your Predecessors, obtained, on a Representation to Field Marshall the Duke of York, a Lieutenant's Commission in the Regiment of Fencibles commanded by Colonel Macdonell of Glengarry; but as it is not consistent with his former rank and services to go upon actual service, it was understood that he was to remain inactive until he was raised to the rank of Captain, which would have happened before now if Colonel Small had lived. That his Royal Highness Field Marshal the Duke of York has lately made peremptory orders on all the officers in the Regiment to join, the memorialist has proceeded thus far to state his case to his Sovereign, and he has only further to mention that his conduct has been as uniform as it has been exemplary and soldier-like in the 1745, by inculcating principles of loyalty to your Majesty's person and Government and good order in the corner of the Highlands of Scotland he resides in. What your memorialist would now humbly implore of your Majesty is that, on account of his former services, he would be raised to the rank of a Captain, even with the Pay of a Subaltern, till a vacancy should happen in the Regiment, as he always, and still is ready to hazard his life in the service, or that such other relief be given on account of these services as your Majesty, in your great wisdom, shall see proper." Scotos obtained his desire, serving in Guernsey, Ireland, and other places, as I observe in a letter from him dated Galway, 3rd November, 1800, he wishes the reply to be addressed to "Captain Macdonell of Scothouse, Glengarry Regiment, here."