es.

Lord Kinnaird afterwards put in a claim for the reversion of the
Derwentwater estate, but without success, for it had already been sold
by the Commissioners. A scene of iniquitous fraud, in the sale of the
forfeited estate belonging to Lord Derwentwater was afterwards detected
by Lord Gage, for which Dennis Bond, Esquire, and Sergeant Birch,
Commissioners of the sale, were expelled the House.[418] In 1749, an Act
was passed vesting the several estates of James, Earl of Derwentwater in
trustees, for the benefit of Greenwich Hospital; but, out of the funds
thus arising, 30,000_l._ was appropriated to the widowed Countess of
Newburgh, and the interest of the remaining 24,000_l._, was to be paid
to James Bartholomew, Lord Kinnaird, during his life, and after his
death the principal to revert to his eldest son.[419] From the
Chevalier, the widowed Countess of Newburgh received, as the following
letter will shew, much kindness and sympathy; the conduct of James to
his fallen and powerless adherents, appears to have been almost
invariably marked by compassion and generosity. The Countess of Newburgh
survived her husband ten years, during which time the affection of the
Chevalier, and of his sons, for her husband's memory was evinced by
kindness to his widow, as the following letter testifies:--

LADY DERWENTWATER TO THE CHEVALIER DE ST. GEORGE.[420]

Sir,

I received the honour of our Majesty's most gracious letter, and beg
leave to return my grateful thanks. Your Majesty is very good in
commending my dear Lord who did but his duty: he gave his life most
willingly for your Majesty's service, and I am persuaded that your
Majesty never had a subject more attacht to his duty than he was.
The Prince of Wales and the Duke of York have been so good to show a
great concern for my loss, and recommended most strongly to the King
of France my famyly. His Majesty has been most extremely good and
gracious to them. My son, that was Captain in Dillon's, has now the
Brevet of Colonel reform'd with appointments of 1800 livres a-year;
his sisters have 150 livres a-year each of them, with his royal
promis of his protection of the famyly for ever. The Marquise de
Mezire, and her daughter the Princess de Monteban have been most
extremely friendly to my famyly in this affair.

I am, your Majesty's most dutyfull subject,

CH