196 THE SUTHERLAND CLEARANCES. 



able agent, employed by his Grace the Duke of Gordon, the family of 

 Grant, now the Earl of Seafield, the Earl of Moray, and the greater 

 part of the landed proprietors and most respectable inhabitants of this 

 county. 



I therefore consider it due to Mr. Sellar's character to communicate 

 to you my sentiments of him, as I cannot personally attend myself, and 

 I have the honour to be, 



Sir, 



Your most obedient Servant, 

 GEO. FENTON. 



Thereafter the following witnesses were called and sworn. 



1st, Thomas Gilzean, Esq., Sheriff-Substitute for the county of 

 Inverness. Witness has known the panel from his boyhood. He has 

 borne a most respectable character, and is known to witness to be of a 

 humane disposition. Witness conceives him incapable of doing any- 

 thing cruel or oppressive. 



2nd, Archibald Dunbar of Northfield, Bart. Witness has known 

 the panel from his infancy. He is a young man of respectable character, 

 and of a good heart ; and witness believes him to be incapable of doing 

 a cruel or oppressive action. 



The several decrees of removing, and warrants of ejection against 

 the different tenants were then produced in evidence. 



It was next stated on the part of the panel, that although it was 

 understood from the Public Prosecutor that he had, among many other 

 charges, deserted the second charge in the indictment, yet it was 

 thought advisable to lead evidence in regard to the injury, charged in 

 the indictment to have been sustained by Donald Monro in Garvault, 

 as what passed on that occasion would afford a specimen to the Jury 

 of what had been the actual conduct of the tenantry in general during 

 these proceedings. 



Lord Pitmilly observed, that he gave leave to the panel's counsel to 

 bring forward evidence as to that charge in the libel, if they thought 

 proper. 



3rd, Robert Gunn, fox -hunter in Tongue. Witness knows Donald 

 Monro in Garvault ; remembers the removings at that place. They 

 were executed on the 8th of June, and on the 26th and 27th May. 

 Monro was in company with the witness, apparently in perfect health. 



