The Waverley novels, by Sir Walter Scott, complete in 12 vol., printed from the latest English ed., embracing the author's last corrections, prefaces & notes.

38 WAVERLEY NOVELS.
It is unfortunate that this Hue and Cry, which is afterwards repeated in
the same paper, contains no description of Rob Roy's person, which, of
course, we must suppose to have been pretty generally known. As it is
directed against Rob Roy personally, it would seem to exclude the idea of
the cattle being carried off by his partner MacDonald, who would certainly
have been mentioned in the advertisement, if the creditors concerned had
supposed him to be in possession of the money.
NO. II.-LETTERS FROM AND TO THE DUKE OF MONTROSE, RESPECTING ROB ROY'S
ARREST OF MR. GRAHAME OF KILLEARN.
The Duke of.1ontrose to *
"Glasgow, the 21st November, 1716.
"MY LORD,-I was surprised last night with the account of a very remarkable instance of the insolence of that very notorious rogue Rob Roy,
whom your lordship has often heard named. The honour of his Majesty's
Government being concerned in it, I thought it my duty to acquaint your
lordship of the particulars by an express.
"Mr. Grahame of Killearn (whom I have had occasion to mention frequently to you for the good service he did last winter during the rebellion)
having the charge of my Highland estate, went to Monteath, which is a
part of it, on Monday last, to bring in my rents, it being usual for him to
be there for two or three nights together at this time of the year, in a country
house, for the conveniency of meeting the tenants upon that account. The
same night, about 9 of the clock, Rob Roy, with a party of those ruffians
whom he has still kept about him since the late rebellion, surrounded the'house where Mr. Grahame was with some of my tenants doing his business,
ordered his men to present their guns in att the windows of the room where
he was'sitting, while he himself at the same time with others entered at the
door, with cocked pistols, and made Mr. Grahame prisoner, carreing him
away to the hills with the money he had got, his books and papers, and my
tenants' bonds for their fines, amounting to above a thousand pounds
sterling, whereof the one-half had been paid last year, and the other was
to have been paid now; and att the same time had the insolence to cause
him to write a letter to me (the copy of which is enclosed) offering me terms
of a treaty.
"That your lordship may have the better view of this matter, it will be
necessary that I should inform you, that this fellow has now, of a long time,
put himself at the head of the Clan M'Gregor, a race of people who in all
ages have distinguished themselves beyond others, by robberies, depredations, and murders, and have been the constant harbourers and entertainers
of vagabonds and loose people. From the time of the Revolution he has
taken every opportunity to appear against the Government, acting rather as
a robber than doing any real service to those whom he pretended to appear
for, and has really done more mischief to the countrie than all the other
Highlanders have done.
"Some three or four years before the last rebellion broke out, being overburdened with debts, he quitted his ordinary residence, and removed some
twelve or sixteen miles farther into the Highlands, putting himself under
the protection of the Earl of Bredalbin. WVhen my Lord Cadogan was in
the Highlands, he ordered his house att this place to be burnt, which your
Lordship sees he now places to my account.
"This obliges him to return to the same countrie he went from, being a
~ It does not appear to whom this letter was addressed. Certainly. from its style and tenor, it was designed for some person high in rank and office-perhaps the King's Advocate for the time.