Lochiel, the sufferer's heroic brother.

Yet the fact was that whether the execution of Archibald Cameron
was political or otherwise, it might certainly have been
justified, had the king's ministers so pleased, upon reasons of a
public nature. The unfortunate sufferer had not come to the
Highlands solely upon his private affairs, as was the general
belief; but it was not judged prudent by the English ministry to
let it be generally known that he came to inquire about a
considerable sum of money which had been remitted from France to
the friends of the exiled family. He had also a commission to
hold intercourse with the well-known M'Pherson of Cluny, chief of
the clan Vourich, whom the Chevalier had left behind at his
departure from Scotland in 1746, and who remained during ten
years of proscription and danger, skulking from place to place in
the Highlands, and maintaining an uninterrupted correspondence
between Charles and his friends. That Dr. Cameron should have
held a commission to assist this chief in raking together the
dispersed embers of disaffection, is in itself sufficiently
natural, and, considering his political principles, in no respect
dishonourable to his memory. But neither ought it to be imputed
to George II that he suffered the laws to be enforced against a
person taken in the act of breaking them. When he lost his
hazardous game, Dr. Cameron only paid the forfeit which he must
have calculated upon. The ministers, however, thought it proper
to leave Dr. Cameron's new schemes in concealment, lest, by
divulging them, they had indicated the channel of communication
which, it is now well known, they possessed to all the plots of
Charles Edward. But it was equally ill advised and ungenerous to
sacrifice the character of the king to the policy of the