The chiefs of Grant - Electric Scotland

STiO BRIGADIER-GENEIIAL AEEXANDKll Cl'.ANT OF GRANT. [171 C-
Lovat complains greatly as to the delay in siL^ming his remij^sion, though
he was willing to venture everything for the Government, and ffir
Grant.
Lovat went north in Ootolier 171."), arriving at DnniiVics on the llth
of (hat mo!ilh. After some ad\ iitui-es \r arrived at Stii-lirg, wht ''c, instead
of the Duke of Argyll, whom :;. expecL./d to meet him • with cjien arms,"
he was received by Brigadier tii-ant, with an ajjologetic thou^li friendly
message from his Grace.' Lovat thereafter proceeded to the iiorih, wliere
he called off his clan from the insurgent army, and m companv with
eight hundred of the Glan Grant, and eleven hundred Munroes, he took
part in the reduction of Inverness.
The address already referred to luav have been simied about tliis time '
as it implores the King for one of his subjects, " who, sometime banished and
imprisoned, has lately, when the greatest dangers appeared to suiTound us,
by the intluence which he has over a numerous clan, sustained with us that
cause which, for the defence of your ]\Iajesty's undoubted right to the
Crown, we have supjMjrted with all our {lower. That unfortunate man of
rank [cjualite], my Lord Lovat, for whom with all submission we present
this address, will not dare of himself to ask favour of your Majestv, but he
trusts to those who are openly and steadfastly devoted to your Majesty's
service, . . . praying them to attest the truth on this point : we cannot
refuse either in justice or compassion to testify to your Majesty that by the
aid and strength of the name and clan of the Erasers, wdio are under his
order, ve are conhrmed in the defence and maintenance of the present
happy constitution in Church and State." The memorialists conclude bv
pledging themselves to any amount that may be desired tor Lovat's sincere
intention to sustain the authority of the Government.'
As has been said, this document was signed by Brigadier Grant, Avho,
if he had not met Lovat in London, liad certainly corresjionded with him,
and was, as has been shown, one of the fir.st to meet him in Scotland.
Besides Brigadier Grant, Lord Strathnaver, the Sherifts of Eoss, Morav,
' Life of Simon Lord Lovat, by Johu ]Iill Burton, at Castle Gr.-int, lic.ira ilate 1714, but tlie tenor of
p. 110. the document imiilies a Liter date.
- A list of the signatures attached to it, preserved Grant.
^ Copy of tlie address (in Frencb) at Castle