now she will be in, that you and her friends can. She is what I
leave dearest behind me in the world; and the greatest service you
can do to your dead friend, is to contribute as much as possible to
her happiness in mind, and in her affairs.

"You will peruse the State[384] before you deliver it to her, and
you will observe that there is a fund of hers (I don't mention that
of five hundred Scots a-year); as the interest of my mother-in-law's
portion in the Countess of Errol's hands, with, I believe, a
considerable arrear upon it; which, as I have ordered a copy of all
these papers to that Countess, I did not care to put in. There is
another thing of a good deal of moment, which I mention only to you,
because if it could be taken away without noise it would be better;
but if it is pushed it will be necessary to defend it. That is, a
bond which you know Mr. Kerr, Director to the Chancery, has of me
for a considerable sum of money, with many years interest on it,
which was almost all play debt. I don't think I ever had fifty
pounds, or the half of it, of Mr. Kerr's money, and I am sure I
never had a hundred; which however I have put it to, in the inclosed
declaration, that my mind may be entirely at ease. My intention with
respect to that sum was to wait till I had some money, and then buy
it off, by a composition of three hundred pounds, and if that was
not accepted of, to defend it; in which I neither saw, nor now see
anything unjust; and now I leave it on my successors to do what they
find most prudent in it. Beside my personal debt mentioned in
general and particular in the State,[385] there is one for which I
am liable in justice, if it is not paid, owing to poor people, who
gave their work for it by my orders; it was at Elgin in Murray; the
regiment I commanded wanted shoes. I commissioned something about
seventy pair of shoes and brogues, which might come to about three
shillings, or three and sixpence each, one with another. The
magistrates divided them among the shoemakers of the town and
country, and each shoemaker furnished his proportion. I drew on the
town for the price out of the composition laid on them, but I was
told afterwards at Inverness, that it was believed the composition
was otherwise applied, and the poor shoemakers not paid. As these
poor people wrought by my o