rning, an officer in a
Prussian regiment, to the army, where he was condemn'd, as it were
to affront justice, and glory in what he has done. I am wel
persuaded, that if his guilt had been known to the King of Prussia
or his Generals, his Majesty would not have suffered so odious ane
offender to be entertained in his service. Nor can the Generals or
Ministers of Prussia have anything to plead, why a sentence
pronounced by a British court-martial against one of hir Majesty's
subjects, and confirmed by your excellency her Generall should not
now be executed. I am confident your Grace will not sufferr publick
justice to be insulted in that affair, and I doe in the most humble
and earnest manner begg that your Grace would cause apprehend the
murtherer, that justice may be done upon him for his barbarous and
bloodie crimes. I had about two years ago four brothers, of whom I
may without vanity say, they were very gallant gentlemen; two were
murthered by Lieutenant Sinclair; the third died in the roome with
one of these, partly of his wounds received before Lille, and
pairtly out of griefe for his brothers' misfortunes, so that the
offender is not innocent even of his blood; the fourth was killed at
the battle of Mons. The blood of these that were barbarously slain,
call for vengeance; the law of God and nature requires it. They had,
and I in their name have a claime, in a particular manner, to your
Grace's justice, they having been all four under your Grace's
command; forgive it to my natural affection, if I use arguments with
your Grace to do an act of justice when the whole world, and I in
particular, have such proofs of the greatness of your minde and
virtue, I shall only add my most sincere and humble acknowledgement
of your Grace's justice and dispatch in the melancholie affair, of
which I shall ever retain the most gratefull sense; and remain under
the strictest tyes of dutie, with the most profound respect, my
Lord, your Grace's most humble, most obedient, obliged, and faithful
servant," &c.

With this letter, and some memorials of Sir John Schaw's public service,
end all known appeals for justice on the murderer. But conscience
avenged the crime. Many years afterwards, when living in opulence upon
his patrimonial estate at Dysart in Fife, the Master received from an
humble individual a bitter, tho