* * * * *
_N.B._--The above faithfully taken from a copy transcribed from
another copy, which other copy was transcribed from Colonel Ker's
own handwriting. As Colonel Ker has an excellent good character, and
is acknowledged on all hands to be a gentleman of strict veracity
and honour, so his account of things justly merits a place in the
esteem of every lover of truth. He was taken prisoner (if I rightly
remember) somewhere in the shire of Angus, about the beginning of May
1746 (see _Scots Magazine_ for said year, page 238), and was found
guilty, November 6th, 1746 (see _Scots Magazine_ for said year, page
529), and accordingly was condemned upon November 15th of said year
(see page 530 of the foresaid magazine). He is under a reprieve,
and continues still to be a prisoner in a messenger's house by the
interest of the Prussian ambassador, who did much good in that way.