et Miller's of the second, and in
it I sent a copie of my last to Mr. H----n, which was dated the
second and third, of which I sent him copies two different wayes, so
I hope he'll get one of them at least. They were pressing them to go
into England; and now that they are actually gone their, and in so
good a way, I am easie as to that. I hope God will direct and assist
them.
"I thought to have marcht from this to-day. The foot are mostly
gone, and I march with the horse to-morrow morning. Our generall
revew is to be at Auchterardor on Thursday morning, and then to
march forward immediately. It is of great use to hear often from
you, and to have accounts of our friends in the north of England,
and what is doing in England beside; so I know you'll write as often
as you can find occasions. I fancie I may hear to-day from our
friends in the north of England, for I hope they had some days ago a
way of sending directly. It seems the Duke of Argyll's absence from
London is not like to do his own court of interest there much good.
I hope our manifesto's being disperced at London, will have good
effect; and I long to see what the prints call the Pretender's
declaration, and the declaration of the people of England. The run
upon the bank, I hope, will not lessen. The public credit must not
be once ruined to make it raise again, and I hope that time may be
sooner than we think of. We have rainy weather, but that is an
inconveniencie to the enimie as well as to us. My humble service to
Margaret Miller: I thank her for the information she gives me, of
one about me giving intelligence; but other friends may be easie
about it, for I am sure there is nothing in it; and I know what made
them belive, which I confess had colour enough. I wish she would get
the Doctrix to send a new dose to the patient she knows of, for
there was a little too much of one of the ingredients in the last,
which toke away the effect of the whole. It is the ingredient that
has the postponeing quality in it; and the patient's greatest
distemper is the apprehentions he has of a perfect cure being long
of comeing, and that it is not to be til he get the air of another
country. The dose must be carefully made up, and no appearance of
its comeing from any other hand but the Doctrix' own. Ther's some
copies herewith sent of
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