after a long period of suffering in Scotland, refutes these
suspicions, bred in an atmosphere of jealousy and distrust. Among
the relics of the family are none of the objects which CHARLES, in
1766-1767, found it difficult to obtain from CLUNY'S representatives
for lack of a proper messenger.

To Sir ARTHUR HALKETT, Bart., of Pitfirrane, I am obliged for a view
of BALHALDIE'S correspondence with his agent in Scotland.

The Directors of the French Foreign Office Archives courteously
permitted Monsieur LEON PAJOT to examine, and copy for me, some of
the documents in their charge. These, it will be seen, add but
little to our information during the years 1749-1766.

I have remarked, in the proper place, that Mr. MURRAY ROSE has
already printed some of Pickle's letters in a newspaper. As Mr.
MURRAY ROSE assigned them to JAMES MOHR MACGREGOR, I await with
interest his arguments in favour of this opinion in his promised
volume of Essays.

The ornament on the cover of this work is a copy of that with which
the volumes of Prince CHARLES'S own library were impressed. I owe
the stamp to the kindness of Miss WARRENDER of Bruntsfield.

Among printed books, the most serviceable have been Mr. EWALD'S work
on Prince Charles, Lord STANHOPE'S History, and Dr. BROWNE'S 'History
of the Highlands and Clans.' Had Mr. EWALD explored the Stuart
Papers and the Memoirs of d'Argenson, Grimm, de Luynes, Barbier, and
the Letters of Madame du Deffand (edited by M. DE LESCURE), with the
'Political Correspondence of Frederick the Great,' little would have