other be obliged to give an acct. of this money, if so, least they
shd. attempt to Impose upon you, you'l find my receipts to C. will
exactly answer what I had already the honour of giving you an acct.
of.'


Again 'Newton' writes:


(Tho. Newton--From G. Waters's Letter.)

'April 27, 1750.

'I am honored with yours of the 6th. Inst. and nothing could equal my
surprize at the reception of the Letter I sent you. I did not expect
C [Cluny] was capable of betraying the confidence you had in him, and
he is the more culpable, as I frequently put it in his power to
acquit himself of his duty without reproach of any side. Only
Cameron is returned from Rome greatly pleased with the reception he
met there. I have not seen him, but he has bragged of this to many
people here since his return. I never owned to any man alive to have
been employed in that affair.'


In spite of Newton, it is not to be credited that Cluny, lurking in
many perils on Ben Alder, was unfaithful about the treasure.

Meanwhile, Young Glengarry (whose history we give later), Archibald
Cameron (Lochiel's brother), Sir Hector Maclean, and other Jacobites,
were in Rome, probably to explain their conduct about the Loch Arkaig