The chiefs of Grant - Electric Scotland

400 SIR Ll'DOVICK (IKANT OF GRANT, RAROXKT. [1717-
tliau wliat -was allurdi'd by Cupe's anuy. Had tlie Prisident at onci'
Kouglit the aid of the loyal clans, or suiuuioncd tlieiii to ai'iiis, acciistoiiKMl
as tlicy Avere to Iliglilaiid wailare, the Jiism-i^cnls iiiiglii have been owr-
aA\cd and tho rob(.'lli(Hi iiipjioil in the bud. Hut the ( i(-vei'nnient doe-llnrd
to auth:i;ise this steji. and Presid'-nt Forbes Avon; I
not
aet without
instructions. He therefore recun-ed to the plan ol' laisiiijj^- independent
companies, and about the l-l'di of .September he received conunissions
for twenty of these.
On that date, according to a contemporary nai-)ative, the Piesideni
sent a rnessao-e to Mr. Grant desiriii!!- to see him. A mei-tiu"- \\as ai-ran-ed,
and took jdace at a point between tlie two houses of ( 'ulloden and ('asilc
Ci'ant, when the President inl'ormed Mr. Grant that he was empowered by
tlie (iovernment to laise some companies, and oifered ^Ir. (Jrant tlie ih'st
of them, if he would name the olHcers. Phe mmdjcr of companies to be
raised was not stated, nor any comnuurication made as to the operations
intended. Mr. Grant replied that in his opinion the liest way to serve
the King was to empli:>y all his Majesty's friends in the noilh. He did
not then name the otlicer-s, lest In' naming some he might otl'end others,
but promised to give an answer in a day or two, as he did not then see
the benefit to be gained by the sclieme. They then separated, each
returning home, as, owing to the state of tlie countr}', neither could be
absent a night from his own house.'
When ]\Ir. Grant readied home, he learned from newspapers and
other sources that the President had received instructions to raise twenty
companies. He found also that many gentlemen of liisclan were dissatisfied
with the proportion assigned to them, they being of opinion that more
than one company should have been oifered to the clan. According to
the })roportion they bore to the other loyal nortliern clans they "looked
upon it as a slight intended to thcni, and that either it was intended that
' Contemporary MS. narratives, by Sir Archibalil Arcliibalil Grant, Baronet, of Monymnsk. Much nf
Grant of Monynusk, ami Lacblau (Irant, at Castle it 13 in his own liandwriting, and is the statement of
Grant. In adilition to the narrative by Mr. Laclilau one wlio was an eye-witness and actor in the cvi-nt>
Grant, already referred to, a paper, entitki!, a ' Nar- lie narrates. 'l")io original Ms. extends to 41 larL'e
rative of the Family of (liaiits behaviour dnnng folio j^au'e-s. There is also a separate copy of the
the Rebellion of 174ri," etc., was drawn np by Sir whole original Ms.