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402 SIi; I.UIIOVIOK GUANT OF GUANT, JiAllOXKT. [1717-
about raising his friends as fast as jiossiblo for defence of liis own country."
But notwithstanding this, Mr. Grant gave oi'ders to cei'tain of liis clan t()inting otlicrs to patrol the hills and
watch the passes hy \\hlch the ivhels might have atta-i-./d Sir John's i'orce,
while he himself mustei'ed his friem",. to check an ,:. ek u]' >n the roval
troops, the renr of which was tluratened hy six liundivd insuri:;ent
Ilitrhlanders.'
This activity, however, Avas cither misunderstood or misrepresented. In
a letter to Mr. (irant, the Lyon strongly urges him to join Sir John ('n|ie,
as he had promised to do, and I'eproaches him fir not acting vij) to his
assurances. He says, "You in your letter to Sir John Cope .
. . wrote to
him that you and your peoiJe were ready to join and assist him, yet by
some fatal advice you would nether join him with one man, nor go near
him yourself, altho' he stopt at Avemore, and lay at Dalrachny's within
ten miles of you, and was iu daJiger of being attack'd in Sloch Muyck."
Mr. Brodie also refers to a report that Mr. Grant's people had refused to
follow liim if he joined Cope, or mai'ched out of his own country."
Yet neither in the Lord Advocate's letters already quoted,'' noi', so fai-
as appears, in any oiflcial manner, not even by Sir John Cope himself, was
Mr. Grant requested to join the royal forces with his clan. After the
statement of the Lord Advocate that the Government had no high opinion
of the affection of the country, even the most enthusiastic loyalist could
scarcely be expected to come forward while the regular troops were in
the field, unless specially requested to do so. jMr. Grant made no ju-u-
fession to Sir John Cope that his peojile were ready to assist, but simjilv
intimated that they had been ])i-eparing, befoi'e the news of the Cienend's
march, to defend themselves, and it was Sir John Cope's change of plan
in marching to Inverness, leaving the country behind him open to the
rebels, which so alarmed the Grants for the safety of their own disti-ict,
vernment, as various letters are copiecl and added contained in 24 jip. and the appendix 72 i)ii.
to the narrative in s\ipport of the facts stated. funlseap.
Mr. Grant ooeni.ied the estate of Gartiubec, and ' /bid. Browne's History of tlie Hit-hlands, vol.
died vithoiit issue on loth Aui,'ust IT'Ti. Tlie Ms. iii. ]i. .'i9.
is entitled, "A short narrative of Mr. Grant's con- - Vcjh ii. of this work, p. 149.
duct during the Rebellion." The narrative is ^ Jljid. pp. 144, 140.