6. "to the Court at St. Germain's." He had alfo Pro"pofals in his Paper, how Marlborough's and my Lord "Treasurer's Defigns might be prevented, and the King brought Home. I cannot mind the Particulars, "fave only that a speedy Invasion was One of the Ways "he propofed in his Paper. He was alfo to fend a "Scheme of the Army here to Frazer. All this passed "between Keith and me before our Letters were inter 66 66 He had alfo Pro-"confidered how obnoxious he was to the Government, 3 66 66 66 મંદ had by the Hands of Clarke to Captain Macleod, "under the Name of Colonel Corbet, which I burnt "without reading. The Way that he was to cor"refpond and fend his Letter to England, as he faid, 66 17 cepted between us and Frazer. The First Direction 66 66 was with Captain Gibson, by the Intereft and Means 66 "1. Which was the First Time of my converfing "with him after his Return into Scotland. "2. And that Captain Murray was to bring my "Lord Drummond to him the Day after he was to meet with the Earl of Leven; and Frazer told me, “He the Duke of Argyle, the Duke of Queensberry, and "the Earl of Leven, That Duke Hamilton and the Duke I indfay's Pa per, &c. to the Earl of "of Atholl did keep a Correfpondence with the Court of St. Germain's." (Vide 3. infra.) 66 "4. Though Frazer did not impart to me all that i paffed between the Duke of Queensberry and him; yet, "after he was gone, the Duke told me, "That Frazer had given him an Account of fome Designs that were carrying on in Scotland, against the Queen and Her "Government; wherein, he faid, the Duke of Athol "was concerned." And the Duke of Qucenfberry farther "told me, "That the Reafon of his countenancing of him, and procuring him a Pafs to Holland, in order to his going into France, was, because he had under"taken to discover all the Defigns at the Court at St. "Germain's against the Queen and Her Government; and would return, to make known all he could dif"cover, and what Perfons were concerned in any fuch "Defigns." 5. But the Duke of Queensberry did not know "that Frazer had any Correfpondence with Keith; "neither did Keith know what he had promifed the "Duke to do, upon his going to France. 6. Among the Papers, was a Pardon that Frazer "and feveral of his Kindred had from King William; "and Two Bonds from the late Lord Lovat to him, of "Fifty Thoufand Marks each; and several other Papers "of private Concerns. « This farther Information was dictated by me on the "Twelfth Day of January 170; the feveral Claufes "of which are to be inferted in a former Information "given in by me the Twenty-fourth of December "6 1703, according to the Numbers annexed, and is "what has occurred to me fince. Witness my Hand. "COLIN CAMPBELL.' "2. Frazer then faid, "That he was not to tell the "Duke of Argyle or the Earl of Leven the Secrets of "his Defign; but that he was refolved to go privately to the Highlanders, and fhew them his Inftructions "from St. Germain's." This was what he faid to me "then; though afterwards he altered it: At the fame "Time he gave me a Letter to the Earl of Breadalbin, "defiring Liberty to fee him. This Letter I carried to "the Earl, who told me, "He would not fee him;" "as alfo fome other Things mentioned in the Informa"tion formerly given by me. "3. When Frazer lodged at Captain Macleod's, Captain Murray brought him to my Lord Drummond; "and Frazer told me, "That it was then they con"certed their Meeting at Drummond." When he was at "Captain Macleod's, his Difcourfe was in general con"cerning his Tranfactions at St. Germain's; but I can"not remember any other Particulars, than what I formerly delivered; only that Frazer told me, "He was "to receive fome Money of the Duke of Queensberry." "This was all a Mystery to me, till, coming to London, "the Duke of Queensberry told me of the Difcoveries " he had made to him. Jan's 15th, 1704. 66 "COLIN CAMPBELL." "David Lindsay's Paper, fent to the Earl of Not"tingham Dec. 8th, 1703. N° 9. "My Lord, London, Dec. 8th, 1703, "To perform what your Lordship and the HonouraNottingham, ❝ble Council required of me, I fhall begin with fome "Things that paffed before the Death of the late King "James. His Majefty enjoined His Son, in frequent "Discourses, of what had befallen Himself, for not “ keeping exactly to the Laws of England, relative both. 1703 to Church and State; and defired him, if ever he "came to rule over that People, to take Care to be a "strict Obferver of them, that he might not split upon that Rock which had been fo fatal to Him. "After His Death, I never knew of any Meafures that "was taken, but in Profecution of this; and that in no "other Manner but in Difcourfe, as Chance and Acci"cident brought us in Company with English and, "Scottish Gentlemen, who came upon their Travels or "other Occafions to Paris; and that lafted but a very fhort Time, the War immediately enfuing upon "it; and for Correfpondence by Letters after the Bufi"nefs of Calais, either from England or Scotland, I "declare (News Letters excepted) my Lord Middleton "had none to my Knowledge; and yet I cannot fay he "mistrusted me in any Thing. "After the Death of King William, and Her present "Majefty's Acceffion to the Crown, I never knew of any formed Design of disturbing Her Majesty's Go"vernment! That there are reftlefs, inconfiderate, "and mad People amongst them, I am as far from justifying as any Man; and to muzzle and bridle thefe Fools, is a Task too hard for any Man to get "the better of: Follies from this Kind has happened; as much as it was in his Power to do. "and they have been quashed by my Lord Middleton, "One Frazer, a Scotfman, who gave himself the "Title of Lord Lovet, after having been condemned in "Scotland for the most infamous Rape that ever was "heard of, upon a Lady then Widow to the Lord "Lovat and Sifter to the Duke of Athol; this Man got "an Interest and Acquaintance with fome of thefe mad "People I have mentioned, and from them it paffed to an "Intereft with fome of the Court of France. This "Man, I declare, I never faw; but his Character given "to me was, that he had Wit, a good genteel Beha"viour, very infinuating, and with all thefe Advantages gave out a great Trust and Credit from very many of the Scottish Nation, particularly from all the "Clans of The Highlands; and faid, "That they had "empowered him to offer, in their Names, to bring out "Sixteen Thoufand Men." All this at laft coming to "be difcovered to my Lord Middleton, he reprefented, ""That, to his Knowledge, The Highlands was not able "to bring out Eight Thousand Men; but, though they "were, it was unreasonable to enter upon any Business "with a Man, by his Crimes fo obnoxious to the King"dom of Scotland in general, and where fo many ho "nourable and ancient Families were more particularly "concerned; but yet more unreafonable, with One" " that had no Credential but his own Affertion." "This Man came from Paris in the End of May laft; " and, as I was informed, to bring back Certificates "from the Perfons concerned, of what he had faid in "their Names. And when I came into Scotland, I was "told, "The Government had Notice of his being, gone into the Highlands of Scotland:" And fome Days after, the Council paffed an Act of Fire and "Sword against him. This the Duke of Queensberry, "and my Lord Cromerty, Secretaries of State for Scot"land, can beft inform your Lordship of. Ferguson's "this a Thing that could come to any Thing, and only 66 "DAVID LYNDSAY." "David Lindsay's Letter, fent to the Earl of Not- "land; and, as I fuppofed, for no other End than the "taking the Benefit of Her Majefty's Gracious Indem"nity to fuch of that Nation who fhould return Home, "and oblige them felves to live peaceably (but of whom "I neither fee and much less converfed with any); fo "I do remember, the having been told by Mr. Clarke, "in the Month either of May or June laft, "That One "of that Kingdom, reprefented to me by the faid Clarke "for a Perfon of Quality, after fome Stay in this "Town, where he had been vifited by divers, and par"ticularly by one Mr. Keith, was likewife gone thi "ther." "And that, before he went from hence thither, he had dispatched Two Perfons Northward, with Order, "that, after their having transacted what he sent them "about (which I took to be the obtaining a Pafs for "him), they fhould either both or One of them return 66 to Durham, and abide there until, after Notice from "them, he should come to them." "From The Gatehouse, the 23d Dec. 1703. "I told your Lordship, that I had been foliciting more "than a Twelvemonth for the Queen's License; that I believed my Lord Stairs had fpoken to your Lord"fhip about it; but I forgot to tell you, that both the "Secretaries of State for Scotland could inform your Lordship, that my Wife had been frequently with "them about it. I came afterwards, upon the Queen's "Gracious Indemnity, to Scotland; and, I am fure, never "Man came with a purer Intention to receive, and be "more thankful for, a Pardon than I did; and I do de"clare to your Lordship, as in the Prefence of GoD "ALMIGHTY, and as I hope for Salvation at the great "Day of Accounts, I neither brought Meffage or Com"miffion from the late Queen, from my Lord Middleton, or from any other Perfon, Man or Woman, in the "I am, my Lord, with great Refpect, ❝and most humble Servant, "DAVID LINDSAY." "Mr. Fergufon's Narrative, Dec. 27th, 1703. "But, as I have understood fince by Mr. Clarke, that this forementioned Perfon, whom he had charactered "to me for a Man of great Dignity, was no other than "Simon Frazer Laird of Beaufort; fo I have learned, "that it proceeded from his affuming to himself the "Stile and Title of Lord Lovet, that Clarke gave him " out for the Man of Bulk and Grandeur that he did. "And I do now farther recollect the having been alfo "informed by Mr. Clarke, how that the aforefaid Frazer, "on his getting as far North as Durham, did from "thence write back Letters, both to the faid Clarke and "Keith, telling them, "He was fafe, and that all "Things went well." "Which as it is the Whole that I was let into con"cerning Frazer, at his being here in the Summer; fo "I heard nothing of or about him, after his Arrival in "Scotland, until it came to be publicly difcourfed, "that Her Majefty's most Honourable Privy Council of "that Kingdom, on a Discovery made to them of his "being there, had iffued out an Order for pursuing him with Fire and Sword; but to which Her Majefty's then High Commiflioner the Duke of Queens berry and my Lord Stairs would not fo far confent "and agree as to fubscribe it. 66 "And what I entertained only a Sufpicion of then, "I grew afterwards into a moral Certainty concerning; "but whether upon fufficient Grounds and Motives, I "do humbly fubmit to the Judgements of fuch as are "unbiaffed and impartial, after their having perused "and confidered what I am here farther to relate. "However, being made extremely apprehenfive that "there was either fome treafonable Design on Foot against "Her Majesty and Her Government, or fome mali"cious Contrivance in Hand for the ruining of loyal "as well as of peaceable Men, and even fuch as were of "the fublimeft Rank, both which I judge it my Duty "to difcover if I could; I refolved to be as inquifitive "As I could not efcape hearing that feveral Perfons, "as my Meannefs and Circumstances would allow me come from France laft Summer, were gone to Scat-"to be, both after Frazer's Conduct in cafe he came VOL. XVII. 5 L • N° 12. " hither t "hither again, as I was told he would; and likewise "after what Manner he had behaved himself in Scot"land; with and in whom his Converfation had been, "and his Confidence had feemed chiefly placed, during "the Time of his being there. 66 "Nor was it long before I was told of Frazer's being on the Road to this Place; and, in the mean Time, "was in a Manner deafened with the Noife of a Scotch "Plot, wherein the Duke of Athol and divers other "Noblemen of that Nation were faid to be engaged. "The Perfon who informed me of Frazer's being on "his Return for London, was Mr. Clarke; of which he gave the following Evidence; namely, that either "Keith or Campbell, or both of them, had been with "him, and not only told him of their having received "Letters from Frazer, concerning his being got fafe "into England, and that he was hafting for London with "all the Expedition he could; but that they had there"upon defired of him the faid Clarke, "that, in cafe he "fhould know of his Arrival ere they did, he would immediately give them Intelligence of it." 65 "And accordingly I was, within a few Days after, "made acquainted by the fame Mr. Clarke, "That "Frazer was come to Town; and that both Keith and "Campbell had been with him." 66 "Which I cannot forbear declaring, its having railed "in me a firm Belief, that the faid Frazer was brought "hither in order to be an Evidence; and that I should fpeedily hear of the Duke of Athol's being publicly "accused of a Plot, pursuant to the Reports which had "been fpread both about Court and City of him; and "that Frazer would be produced as a Witness against "him: and that, under the said Character, he should "take upon him to depofe either of and concerning "Letters fent from St. German's to the faid Duke, or at "leaft of his being fpoken of very favourably there, as One being in the Intereft of that Court. 66 66 "And of this, for fome Days, I remained in a Man"ner fully perfuaded; and the rather, in that I was "told by Mr. Clarke, that there was a frequent Correfpondence between the Duke of Queenberry and "Frazer; and that the faid Correfpondence was upheld "and carried on by the Means of Campbell, who went "to and fro between them. "Nor am I to omit how that, during my Continu"ance under the faid Belief, I came to be invited by "Mr. Clarke to vifit a Gentleman at his Houfe, without "being directly told who he was: But though, by the frequent Informations given me before, of and concerning Frazer, I could not mifs concluding it was he; "yet I refolved to comply with the Invitation, as not "only knowing myfelf prepared and fortified not to be "drawn into any treafonable Defign against Her Ma"jefty, or to become involved in any Confpiracy that "might have been formed to the Prejudice, if not the "Ruin, of honeft and peaceable Men; but as likewife hoping that, inftead of his finding me fo weak and "altogether filly as to be impofed upon and duped by "him, I might be able to wreft out of him, both on "what Contrivances he had been employed in Scotland, "and to what Purposes he was returning into France. "And accordingly I made the Vifit defired of me; and, "as I had more than imagined, I found it to be Frazer " that I paid it to; wherein though I was not fo fully "fuccefsful as I had been inclinable to conceive I might, yet I fo far wound myfelf into him, as to gain the Knowledge of thofe Things, from and by him, "which not only abundantly fatisfied me, there had "been no Plot carrying on in Scotland against Her Majetty and Her Government; but gave me clearer Light than-I-had, as well on what Projections Frazer had "been employed in that Kingdom, as on what Offices "of Service to fome, and Differvice to others, he "came protected back from thence hither, and had "the obtaining the Pafs promifed unto him (as he told "me) for his returning into France. 66 "For, upon my faying unto him, "What a bold Man "he was, in venturing to Scotland, where he knew him"felf to be capitally obnoxious to the Laws, and to "have the Duke of Athol, the Duke of Hamilton, and many other Perfons of the First Quality, as well as of "the inferior Rank, for his mortal Enemies!" He re"plied unto me, "That he had as potent and great "Friends there, as he had Enemies." At which I not only feeming furprized, but telling him my thinking "it could not be as he had faid; he thereupon declared 66 to me, "That, befides feveral other Noble Friends he "had there, how the Duke of Queenberry was his mott fingular Friend, and his Protector in a moft diftinguish"ing Manner; and that, as he had both gone to and "returned from Scotland under the Shelter and Safeguard of his Grace's Pafs, fo he had been under the "fame Covert and Defence the whole Time he was in that Kingdom, and particularly in his going to, as "well as in his coming back from, The Highlands." "Which as it adminiftered Occafion to me for asking ""Whom he had feen in thofe Parts; and how he found "the Clans difpofed, either as to the fupporting of Her prefent Majefty, or the falling into Meafures in Fa"vour of the Prince at St. Germain's, towards the affifting for a Revolution?" The Whole he thought "fit to fay to me, in Way of Return, was, "That, "thence, he had spoken with the Earl of Breat either in his going thither, or in his Retúru from "dalbin; and that, during his being there, he had con"verfed with the Laird of Locheal, and with divers "others, whofe Stiles, being more uncouth to me than "Arabick, I have forgot; but that none of them were in"clined to enter into Confpiracies against Her prefent "Majefty and Her Government;" only he intimated to me, ""That divers of the inferior Sort of People in The High"lands (whom I could no otherwife look upon than as "Robbers and Banditti) were ready enough to join any Foreign Force that should invade that Kingdom ;" "which I could not avoid filently thinking would be "held for a Banter and a Ridicule upon the Minifters "of Versailles and St. Germain's, fhould he, in Com penfation for the Five Hundred Louis d'Ors given "him by the Marquis de Torci, for defraying his Ex"pence to and from Scotland, and for bribing the Par"liament there, carry it to thofe Places, as the Sum "and Refult of his Envoyfhip and Expedition: It being "too well known (without any Difparagement to that "Nation) through all Europe, that, as the People of "their Understanding and Rank in The Highlands were "not to be depended upón, without the being called "forth by, as well as the Confent of, the Heads of "their refpective Principalities; fo that whatfoever In"vader they might be forward to join with, in the Hope and View of Plunder, they would as foon abandon and defert, whenfoever they became loaded "with Prey and Spoil. "But as the Duke of Queensberry is much better "informed of all thefe Things than I, upon an Hour's "Converfation with Frazer, fhould, we have talked "Cœur ouvert as well as Tete à Tete, dare to pretend to "be; fo, the forementioned Gentleman being the faid "Duke's Emiffary thither, and acting there purfuant to "his Inftructions, it is not to be doubted but that his Grace hath both exacted of, and had an Account from "him, of all his Interviews and Tranfactions in those "Parts; and that. he has long ere now laid them be"fore Her Majefty: Though I cannot forbear blaming "his Grace's Conduct, in the fending away the chief, "if not the only, Witnefs who fhould have fupported fo; and accordingly did, by the Name of Ralph"and juftified them. "However, as I did not think it convenient, in the "fhort Time I was with Frazer, to be too critical in Inquiries after Matters of that Kind, left, by giving "him a hafty and unfeasonable Alarm, I thould have "not only obviated, but defeated myfelf in the Refo"lution, which, upon the few foregoing Intelligences, "I had entertained; namely, of penetrating as far as "poffibly I could into this Mystery of Mifchief as well "as of Darkness, by the Affiftance of fuch Perfons, "and the Subferviency of fuch Means, as I fhould judge to be the most proper : "Yet, notwithstanding my finding, upon the Reafon "I have affigned, that it was not only impracticable, "but unfafe, for me to have endeavoured the getting into "a full and clear Difcovery, by my Conference with "Frazer, of all the Interviews and Tranfactions which "had been and paffed between the Duke of Queensberry "and him in Scotland: Nevertheless, I do, with all “Humility, affume the Liberty of declaring my Belief, "that Campbell is able to unfold moft of them; and "that, provided he will be ingenuous, he is capable of "laying before the most Honourable Lords of the "Council, Things which will as well amaze them, as "fet all thefe Things in a Meridian Light. "And therefore, waiving the infifting on fuch Matters "as do not fall fo perfectly as I could with within my "Knowledge, the next Thing I am to relate is, my "being informed by Mr. Clarke, "That the Duke of Queensberry had obtained of the Earl of Nottingham "a Pafs, to go beyond Sea, for Four Perfons, under "falfe and fham Names; and that, as Campbell had brought it from his Grace to the forementioned Clarke, "fo he the faid Clarke carried it to Frazer; who, upon "Intelligence and Affurance which the aforefaid Duke "had given him of its being procured, was gone down "to Gravefend; where, upon the prefenting it to the proper Officer by Clarke, Frazer and the other Three, were, without Trouble given unto, or Inquiry "about them, admitted to go fafely on board, in the Virtue of it. 66 66 66 "Wherein, as all my Intention and Meaning was 66 66 46 46 66 66 66 "And, as I had not the Honour to be known to the "Duke of Athol previously thereunto, either Beneficio or Injuria, fave that, about Seven Years fince, he came, by the late King William's Order, to examine me in Newgate, and to tell me, "I was to be carried to Scotland;" which I could put no other Conftruction upon, than that I was defigned to be deftroyed there, without Law, when, by all the Laws of England, in "which I had lived fince the Year 1655, I could not in the leaft be affected; fo, from the Time of his Grace's coming to me in the forementioned Place, I never fo much as fee him, fave once, paffant, near The Privy-Garden, and at this Honourable Board on Thursday laft. 66 "So that what I do now lay before the most Ho"nourable Lords of Her Majefty's Council, is neither "in Acknowledgement of Favours received from the "Duke of Athol, and much lefs in Revenge against the "Duke of Queenfberry, for the having done me Dif"courtefies; from whom as I never met with any, fo, to the best of my Remembrance, I did never fee him, "unless at this Table, when I was commanded, a few Days ago, to attend here: But the only Motives on "which I do make this Difcovery are, the preferving "the Safety and Honour of Her Majefty, the prevent"ing thofe Difcontents which this might produce in "the Minds of most of Her Majefty's Subjects, efpecially of thofe in Scotland, and for covering the Lives "of many innocent, as well as of divers very eminent, "Men. ་་ Which, as it could not but mightily aftonish me, "as well that, upon my First Thoughts, I apprehended "the Scots Plot, which had been fo much talked of, "would be irretrievably blafted, through fending away, as I imagined, the fole and alone Evidence "of it; fo much more, on my Second, when I came plainly to difcern, that, inftead of a Plot contrived 66 against Her Majefty and Her Government, whereof "the Witneffes could be only found in Great Britain, "there was a Confpiracy on the Wheel against fome "of Her Majesty's moft eminent and beft Subjects; of "which the Proofs were to be tranfmitted in a Cloak- Dec, the 27th, 1703. "bag from France hither, as the Holy Ghoft was faid "But, as I did not account myfelf fufficiently fur"nifhed by all this, for revealing unto any, what I not only conceived, but thought myself in fome Manner fully apprized of, unless I could get poffeffed of Evi"dence which should be held both legal and uncon"trolable; I determined to wait a few Days, in order "to be fo undeniably and demonftratively enlightened "and confirmed in what I was to fay, as that I might "not be expofed and lampooned, if not alfo ruined. "Which little more than a Week afforded me, "through my receiving a Letter from Mr. Frazer, in Holland, directed to me under the Style of Uncle; "and being defired by Mr. Clarke, who brought it to "me, to return an Anfwer, I readily undertook to do ་་ |