Transcriber’s Note: These corrections didn’t need making: presumably the printers did it, but neglected to remove this list. CONTENTS PAGE I. THE LAST EARL MARISCHAL 1 II. THE EARL IN RUSSIAN SERVICE 42 III. MURRAY OF BROUGHTON 69 IV. MADEMOISELLE LUCI 92 V. THE ROMANCE OF BARISDALE 97 VI. CLUNY’S TREASURE 129 VII. THE TROUBLES OF THE CAMERONS 147 VIII. JUSTICE AFTER CULLODEN 158 IX. A GENTLEMAN OF KNOYDART 176 X. THE LAST YEARS OF GLENGARRY 198 XI. THE CASE AGAINST GLENGARRY 216 XII. OLD TIMES AND NEW 254 APPENDIX I. PICKLE’S LETTERS 289 II. MACLEOD 294 INDEX 297 ILLUSTRATIONS THE EARL MARISCHAL (1717) _Frontispiece_ THE EARL MARISCHAL (_circ._ 1750) _to face_ p. 60 PRINCE CHARLES (_circ._ 1744) ” 140 THE DUKE OF YORK AND PRINCE CHARLES (_circ._ 1735) ” 184 THE COMPANIONS OF PICKLE I THE LAST EARL MARISCHAL In a work where we must make the acquaintance of some very unfortunate characters, it is well to begin with a _preux chevalier_. If there was a conspicuously honest man in the eighteenth century, one ‘whose conscience might gild the walls of a dungeon,’ as an observer of his conduct declared, that man was the Earl Marischal, George Keith. The name of the last Earl Marischal of Scotland haunts the reader of the history of the eighteenth century. He appears in battles for the Stuart cause in 1715 and 1719, he figures dimly in the records of 1745, and of Charles Edward, after the ruin of Culloden. We find him in the correspondence of Voltaire, Rousseau, Hume, and Frederick the Great, and even in Casanova. He is obscurely felt in the diplomacy which ended in Pitt’s resignation of office. Many travellers describe his old age at Potzdam, and d’Alembert wrote his _Éloge_. He was the last direct representative of that historical house of Keith whose laurels were first won in the decisive charge of Bruce’s handful of cavalry on the English archers at Bannockburn. Though the Earl Marischal of the confused times after the death of James V. was a pensioner of Henry VIII., like so many of the Scottish _noblesse_, the House was Royalist, and national as a rule. Yet, after a long life of exile as a Jacobite, the last Earl Marischal, always at heart a Republican, reconciled himself to the House of Hanover. The biography of the Earl has never been written, though few Scottish worthies have better deserved this far from uncommon honour.