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's letter in Dr. Brown's work on the Highlands, vol. iv. p. 340. It is a sort of expostulation with the Duke, but mildly and sensibly expressed. "I fear," he said, alluding to the British people, "they will find yet more than I the smart of preferring a foreign yoke to the obedience they owe me." [149] Bolingbroke's Letter to Sir William Wyndham. [150] Letter to Sir Wm. Wyndham, p. 139. [151] Lockhart, vol. ii. p. 17. [152] Ibid. [153] Lockhart, vol. ii. p. 64. [154] Coxe's Papers in the British Museum, MS. 9129. Plut. cxxxviii. II. [155] I find that the biographers of Lord Mar, in the short lives given of him, (see Chambers's Scottish Biography, Georgian Era, &c.) have overlooked this correspondence. The letter from Sir Luke Schwaub, in French, with a translation, and the answer of Lord Carteret, in the Coxe Papers, although not exactly relevant to my subject, are interesting. "A thousands thanks," writes the generous Lord Carteret, in reply to Schwaub, "for your private letter, which affords me the means of obviating any calumny against the memory of a person who will always be dear to me." [That is, Lord Sunderland.] "I have shown it to the King, who is entirely satisfied with it." The anxiety on the part of Government to secure the papers of Lord Sunderland, was extreme, and affords a collateral proof of this connivance. The mysterious documents were seized by order of the King, and inspected by Lord Townshend, and not a trace of the correspondence was left when the papers were restored to the family. The seizure occasioned a suit between the executors of the Earl of Sunderland and the two Secretaries of State.--_Coxe MSS._ [156] Hardwicke Papers, vol. ii. p. 252. [157] Hardwicke Papers, vol. ii. p. 565. [158] Hardwicke Papers, p. 586. [159] Hardwicke Papers, vol. ii. p. 600. [160] Chambers, art. _Erskine_. [161] From original letters, for which I am indebted to Alexander Macdonald, Esq., of the Register Office, Edinburgh. [162] The spelling is preserved as in the original. [163] These words were written in the Chevalier's own hand. [164] Letters in the possession of A. Macdonald, Esq. [165] Bolingbroke. [166] Lockhart Papers, vol. ii. p. 221. [167] Lockhart Papers. [168] See various papers in the State Paper Office. Collections for 1722. [169] Lockhart, vol. ii. p. 149. [170] Id. p. 183. [171] Lockhart, vol. ii. p. 198. [172] Mr. C. Kirkpatrick Sharpe was good
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