I have sent for a strong party to
protect my house and overawe the country. None of my Kintail men
will be down till Tuesday, but as the river is high, and I have
parties at all boats, nothing can be attempted. Besides, I shall
have reinforcements every day. I have ordered my servants to get,
at Inverness, twelve or twenty pounds of powder with a proportionable
quantity of shot. If that cannot be bought at Inverness, I must
beg you will write a line to Governor Grant to give my servant the
powder, as I can do without the shot ... Barrisdale has come down
from Assynt, and was collared by one of the Maclauchlans there
for offering to force the people to rise, and he has met with no
success there. I had a message from the Mackenzies in Argyllshire
to know what they should do. Thirty are gone from Lochiel; the rest,
being about sixty, are at home. I advised them to stay at home and
mind their own business."
On the 28th of the same month his Lordship writes to inform the
President that the Earl of Cromarty and his son, Macculloch of
Glastullich, and Ardloch's brother, came to Brahan Castle on the
previous Friday; that it was the most unexpected visit he had
received for some time, that he did not like to turn them out, that
Cromarty was pensive and dull; but that if he had known what he knew
at the date of writing he would have made them prisoners, for Lord
Macleod went since to Lochbroom and Assynt to raise men.
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