[48] Unable, at first, to learn even the real name of Mlle. Luci, I appealed, in despair, to a lady who occasionally sees ‘visions’ in crystals. ‘What can you see of Mlle. Luci?’ I asked, by letter, giving no hint of any kind as to the lady’s date or connections. The seeress replied that, in an ink-bottle on her writing-desk, she saw a girl of about twenty-eight, dark, handsome, rather like Madame Patti in youth. Her dress was that of the middle of the eighteenth century. On her shoulder was laid another lady’s hand, a long, delicate, white hand, with a ‘marquise’ diamond ring. ‘_La Grande Main_,’ I exclaimed, ‘the hand of La Grande Main!’—whom we later discovered to be Madame de Vassé. The coincidence was certainly pretty, but, unless a portrait of Mlle. Ferrand can be discovered, we must remain ignorant as to whether she was correctly represented in the ink-picture; whether a true refraction shone up from the dead past, the afterglow of a romance. [49] _Burt’s Letters_, ii. p. 334. [50] MSS. in the Cluny Charter Chest. Privately printed, 1879, p. 16. [51] _Waverley_, i. p. 161 (1829). [52] London: 1754. [53] This is confirmed by the Gartmore MS. in Burt; by MS. 104, in the King’s Collection; and by Murray of Broughton, in his paper on the Clans. [54] Published (1898) as _The Highlands in 1750_ (Blackwood). [55] He is a Lowlander, and avers that Scotland rarely lost a battle except when the Highlanders were engaged, as at Flodden. [56] _Sutherland Book_, ii. 256. [57] MS. 104 says that they went out most reluctantly. [58] The Impartial Hand. [59] These letters are in the Cumberland MSS. at Windsor Castle. [60] MS. 104. King’s Library. [61] See Mr. Mackenzie’s _History of the Camerons_, pp. 233-244, where the documents are given. [62] _History of the Camerons_, p. 236. [63] Sheridan can scarcely have been Charles’s adviser at this time. It may have been O’Sullivan. [64] _Pickle_, p. 160. I at first conjectured that this letter might refer to Pickle himself, but Barisdale, who was in touch with Cumberland in 1746, just after Culloden, is more probably the person hinted at. [65] This does not look as if the Duke alluded to him in the letter of August 9, where he talks of the price of information. [66] Cumberland MSS. See ‘A Gentleman of Knoydart,’ _postea_. [67] _Antiquarian Notes_, pp. 152, 153. [68] _Lyon in Mourning_, i. 147. [69] _Culloden Papers_, pp. 290-292. [70] Cumberland MSS. [71] _Memorials of Murray of Broughton_, p. 270, _et seq._ [72] Chambers’s _Rebellion_ of 1745. Appendix. But compare _Memorials_, p. 286, where Murray represents himself as poor, though he had the 5,000 _louis_, unless he had sent them on in front. [73] _Scots Magazine_, July 1753, p. 362. [74] _Ibid._, 1750, p. 254. [75] This is accurate. The note exists to this day. [76] This was by the Prince’s desire. [77] Scots Papers. Record Office. [78] See p. 141, note 2.