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l^i'igaclier (ii-aiit wa'.s expocli^d U:* ;n-iive ;it E(liiil>ui-yli on or al)Oui tlio
•20tli Marcli 17IC1, as Mr. Duncan Forlx'.s of Cnllodt'ii, writing- on tliat date
to (.he Lord Advocate (Sir David Dalryniplc), .says that lie had "carried
three ad(h-esscs i'rom our country, aliich niissinn' of the Duke, for vlidni
they \' ere desiL;-ned. I intended to leep until iJi'igadier (ii'a:.: canu liitliei'
(to Iv'inburgh), wlio I jud.geil a proper person to present tlioai." One of
these addresses, however, lie for special reasons sends to tlie Advocate, to
be presented by tlie latter.' (Jf these addresses more is heard on 5th ^lay
171G, by which date lirigadiei' (li'ant was again in London on his way to
his post at Sheerness. Un that day Jolni Forbes of Culloden writes troni
— " At the Prince's desyi-e, Lrigadler Grant
London to his brother Duncan :
o-ave him at mv si'dit this day tlie two memuia'alls you A\rote of what was
done in the north. I believe tlie Prince desyres to compaire them with tlie
accompt printed by T'olonel r-lrant, which makes so great a noyse her-e tliat
Earl Sutherland, as I am told, is making a )'t'ply to it."'"
Alhision is here made to the fact that the recovery of Inverness for
the Cioverinnent fi'orn the Highlanders on 12tli Novemlx'r 1
7 1."j, was ascril)ed
by the London piints and others to the Earl of Sutheiland, whei'eas he
had nothiii!^ to do with the exploit, the true lionour licino- due to Mr.
Duncan Forbes, Lord Lovat, and ( aptain George Grant, the yoinigest
brother of the Brioadier, with one or two other gentlemen who were reallv
acting under him as Deputy-Lieutenants of Liverne.ss. Lieutenant-Colonel
AVilliam Grant of Ballindalloch wrote and printed a true account of the
matter, imder the title of " A true and impailial account of the conduct of
tlie well affected in the north dureing the late rebellion."^ The letter
already quoted as written to the C^olonel by the Brigadier on 22d December
1715, gives ground for assuming that this narrative was written at the
in.stio'ation of the latter, who, zealous for the honour of his clan, called for
an " impartiall account," that justice might be done to his fiiends. He
wa-ites, " I wonder that none of you sent me up ane exact account of the
takeing and possessing the town and castle of Liverness. Its in all the
prints that it was done liy E. Sutherland, with the ^Nl'Ivays, his own people,
I CulltitUni Taptrs, Xo. liv. ^ MS. at r.allind.illiicli. History of Scutlaiid,
- V/ul. Xo. Ki.\-. lGS9174."i, l.y .John ]liU Dnrton, v..l. ii. p. |,S0, iioti'.