Macleod was born in 1706, and inherited the family lands with 60,000_l._ He died in 1772, leaving 50,000_l._ of debt. He is still spoken of in the traditional history of his family as _An Droch Dhuine_, or ‘the Wicked Man,’ partly because of his extravagance, partly ‘for his cruel treatment of his first wife and Lady Grange.’[208] When we add his treachery to the Prince, we see in Macleod a character far from exemplary. His grandson speaks of him as ‘always a most beneficent and beloved chieftain, whose necessities had lately induced him to raise his rents.’... ‘The Jacobites treated him as an apostate, and the successful party did not reward his loyalty.’[209] He reaped as he had sown. FOOTNOTES [1] _Literature_, July 30, 1898, p. 93. [2] There is a brief sketch of the Earl in his brother’s Memoirs (Spalding Club), which cites d’Alembert, and puts the Earl’s birth in 1687. [3] Plaids worn by the Earl and his brother are preserved in a house in Fifeshire. [4] This remark makes it probable that the Earl was really a young man. If born in 1693, as some thought, he would be twenty-three in 1716. (As, indeed, one of d’Alembert’s authorities says that he was.) If a year or two older, he could scarcely have pleaded youth as a reason for silence. [5] Mar to ‘H. S.’ From France, February 10, 1716. [6] Mr. Eliot Hodgkin’s MSS., _Hist. MSS. Com._ xv. ii. Appendix, p. 230. [7] Add. MSS. 33,950. 1718-1719. British Museum. [8] There are copies of his correspondence with the would-be murderer in the Gualterio MSS., British Museum. [9] The author hopes to tell the story of Mr. Wogan, a charming character, on another occasion. [10] Hist. MSS. Commission, x. i. Appendix, p. 475. [11] Letter from Musell Stosch to d’Alembert, _Œuvres_, v. 457. [12] Hist. MSS. Commission, x. i. Appendix, p. 184. [13] Hist. MSS. Commission, x. i. Appendix, p. 452. [14] The Earl’s letter is in Browne, ii. 448, from the Stuart Papers. [15] The Rev. George Kelly was a constraint on the old Duke’s amours with Madame de Vaucluse! [16] Papers from French Foreign Office. In Murray of Broughton’s _Memorials_, pp. 499-501. [17] Charles to James, May 11, 1744. Stuart Papers in Murray of Broughton’s _Memorials_, p. 368. [18] Stuart Papers. Browne, ii. 476. [19] Compare Villettes’ letter, _postea_, p. 48. [20] Stuart Papers, in Murray of Broughton’s _Memorials_, pp. 513-514. [21] James to the Duke of York. November 8, 1745. Browne, iii. 452, where all the correspondence is printed. [22] The Memoirs of the exile in question, unhappily, have never been printed, and I do not feel at liberty to anticipate any points of interest in these curious papers. [23] Letters in Browne, iv. 64-66. Conceivably it was Goring who prejudiced the Earl against Kelly; he may have conveyed the ideas of Carte and the English party. [24] See Sir Charles’s letter of February 6, 1751, in _Pickle the Spy_, p. 117. [25] These letters are from the printed Correspondence of Frederick.