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For, according to Young Glengarry, in a letter to James cited later, November 10 was either the day appointed for the bursting of the Elibank plot, or was the day on which the date of the explosion was settled. As to that plot, the papers of Prince Charles contain no information. Documents so compromising, if they ever existed, have been destroyed.
But there was still a grilse that rose to a big March brown in the shrunken stream below Elibank. This may not interest you, who styled yourself No fisher, But a well-wisher To the game!
I dined with him one day at the Crown and Anchor tavern, in the Strand, with Lord Elibank, Mr. Langton, and Dr. Vansittart of Oxford. Without specifying each particular day, I have preserved the following memorable things.
"No, maiden," he replied; "he is my enemy; and from him I wish no terms no clemency. Let him fulfil his purpose I will die; but my death shall be revenged; and tell my mother that it was my latest injunction that she should command every follower of our house to avenge her son's death, while there is a Murray left in all Scotland to repent the deed o' the knight o' Elibank."
We rode what they call six miles, upon Rasay's lands in Sky, to Dr Macleod's house. On the road Dr Johnson appeared to be somewhat out of spirits. When I talked of our meeting Lord Elibank, he said, 'I cannot be with him much. He said, 'Let us go to Dunvegan to-morrow. 'Yes, said I, 'if it is not a deluge. 'At any rate, he replied.
Murrays, Nairnes and Frasers had all fought on the Jacobite side in 1745; and we know how the Scots hold together. James Murray, son of a Scottish peer, Lord Elibank, was himself still a young man of only a little more than thirty, a high-spirited, brave, generous and impulsive officer.
The night we rode to Col's house, I said, 'Lord Elibank is probably wondering what is become of us. JOHNSON. 'No, no; he is not thinking of us. BOSWELL. 'But recollect the warmth with which he wrote. Are we not to believe a man, when he says he has a great desire to see another?
They knew, also, the feud between him and the house of Elibank, and as well did they know that the Murrays were a resolute and a sturdy race. Morn had not dawned when they arrived at the scene where their booty lay. Not a Murray was abroad; and to the extreme they carried the threat of the young laird into execution, of making "toom byres."
"On a beautiful morning in September 1810 I started with Sir Walter from Ashiestiel. We began nearly under the ruins of Elibank, and in sight of the 'Hanging Tree. I only had a rod, but Sir Walter walked by my side, now quoting Izaak Walton, as, 'Fish me this stream by inches, and now delighting me with a profusion of Border stories.
But now, as between us and the Master of Elibank or Sir Hugh Bell or any other Free Trade Liberal capitalist or landlord, which side is he on? You cannot have more than one fight going on in the political arena at the same time, because only one party or group of parties can win. And going back for a moment to that point about a Utopia, I want one from Chesterton.
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