+Source.+--_Culloden Papers: comprising an Extensive and Interesting
Correspondence from the Year 1625 to 1748 ... the Whole published
from the Originals in the Possession of Duncan George Forbes, of
Culloden, Esq._, p. 203. (London: 1815.)
_The Lord President to Mr. Pelham._
_2^nd Aug^t, 1745._
DEAR SIR,
In a state of profound tranquillity, we have been alarmed with advices,
which are said to have been received at London, of intended invasions;
and particularly of a visit which the Pretender's eldest son is about to
make to us, if he has not already made it. These informations,
particularly as to the visit just mentioned, I must confess, have not
hitherto gain'd my belief. This young gentleman's game seems at present
to be very desperate in this country; and, so far as I can learn, there
is not the least apparatus for his reception, even amongst the few
highlanders who are suspected to be in his interest. However, as, when
so much is at stake, no advice, how improbable soever, is to be
neglected, I have (our session being now over) resolved to make my
accustomed journey northwards a little earlier than usual; to the end
that, though my fighting days are over, I may give some countenance to
the friends of the government, and prevent the seduction of the unwary,
if there should be any truth in what is reported.
_Mr. Normand MacLeod to the Lord President._