ncy to go,
you must offer to go along with him, and offer him a glass of wine
and any cold meat you can get there. I shall send Sanday Doan over
immediately, if you think that the Prince is to go: so I have
ordered the glyd post to be here precisely this night.

"Mr. William Fraser says, that Sir Alexander Bennerman will not give
his answer to Sir John M'Donell, till he return about the Prince's
going to Beaufort; and that cannot be before Saturday morning. So I
beg, my dearest child, you may consider seriously of this, not to
let us be affronted; for after Sir Alexander and other gentlemen
were entertained at your house, if the Prince should go and meet
with no reception, it will be ane affront, and a stain upon you and
me while we breathe. So, my dearest child, don't neglect this; for
it is truely of greater consequence to our honour than you can
imagine, tho' in itself it's but a maggot: but, I fancy, since
Cumberland is comeing so near, that these fancy's will be out of
head. However, I beg you may not neglect to acquaint me (if it was
by ane express) when you are rightly informed that the Prince is
going. I have been extreamly bad these four days past with a fever
and a cough; but I thank God I am better since yesterday affernoon.
I shall be glad to see you here, if you think it proper for as short
or as long a time as you please. All in this family offer you their
compliments: and I ever am, more than I can express, my dearest
child, your most affected and dutiful father,

"----."

"P.S.--The Prince's reason for going to my house is, to see a salmon
kill'd with the rod, which he never saw before; and if he proposes
that fancy, he must not be disappointed.

"I long to hear from you by the glyd post some time this night. I
beg, my dear child, you may send me any news you have from the east,
and from the north, and from the south."[243]

It was not until after the battle of Culloden that Charles Edward and
Lord Lovat first met. In that engagement, Lovat's infirmities, as well
as his precautions, had prevented his taking an active part; but his
son, the Master of Lovat, whose energy in the cause which he had
unwillingly espoused, met the praise of Prince Charles, led his clan up
to the encounter, and was one of the few who effected a juncti