110 TOUR IN THE WESTERN ISLES. 



or your father's friends abroad, or the Colonel's \ By 

 the by, don't you know Mr Coxe 1 Mr Stuart is 

 the late Lord Bute's grandson and the Duke of 

 Ancaster's nephew. He could get recommendations 

 from his friends, but (like myself) is on a concealed 

 march till he is forced to draw. 



"If anything in my power can atone for this 

 trouble, name it. I believe you cannot. I have 

 moved heaven and earth to send you a buck and some 

 birds, but it won't do till the cold weather. With 

 great respect, HENRY BROUGHAM." 



"ON BOARD THE PRIVATEER, 

 ULLAPOOL, Sept. 1, 1799. 



" MY DEAR SIR, You are, I daresay, not a little 

 surprised to receive another letter still from me. My 

 excuses for this offence are now so stale that I shan't 

 any longer trouble you with repeating them ; but, 

 worse than all this, my epistles have been so frequent 

 to you that I am really at a loss to remember where 

 my last was addressed from, and in consequence am 

 in some danger of plaguing you with repetitions. 

 Taking it, however, for granted that you left me 

 under weigh or really so far from Lewis, I proceed 

 to inform you that the captain accuses my friend 

 Stuart and myself of having forced him to sea in a 

 storm against the opinion of every man in the vessel. 

 In truth we were now grown impatient enough on 

 every account at our various and many delays, so I 

 believe our remonstrances had some weight with the 



