_Carlisle Castle, September 16th, 1746._
[47] Lord Covinton.--F.
_P.S._--If you see it advisable that my wife, with some ladies of
distinction, wait of General Husk--do in this as you see proper.
I believe the half of our number will plead guilty. Pray give my
service to Mrs. Jean Cameron, and excuse my not writing her.
COPY of a LETTER to MR. ROBERT FORBES at my LADY
BRUCE'S lodgings, Leith.
[Sidenote: 28
Sept.]
[Sidenote: _fol._ 77.] Dear Sir,--Wishing from my whole heart that
these may find you and your Leith friends in good health, I have
had a little bit fever some days past. But God be blessed I am now
in good health, heart and spirits, and if it is my fate to goe to
the scaffold, I dare say that I'll goe to death as a Christian and a
man of honour ought to do. But it is possible that a broken ill-us'd
Major may be a Colonel before he dies. You'll make my compliments to
my Lady Bruce, Mr. Clerk's family, but Miss Mally in particular, and
the rest of the honest folks in that city, and accept of the same
from him who is with the greatest sincerity, affection, and esteem,
my dear sir, your most affectionate and obedient servant, while