MEMOIR OF 1)K WRIGHT. ~ - §3 



About this time, in a letter to his brother, he says, 

 — " I am sorry to acquaint you with the death of se- 

 veral friends, viz. Dr Colin Campbell, of the in- 

 fectious fever at Guadaloupe, and Sir Henry Mar- 

 tin, Comptroller of the Navy. Mr Innes, formerly 

 Roman Catholic priest at Drummond-Castle, had for 

 some years resided in France ; his niece was of the 

 same persuasion, and kept his house. Both of these 

 unhappy persons perished about a month ago by the 

 hands of the executioner." 



Soon afterwards he again writes to his brother : — 

 " Your ideas as to the situation of France are very 

 just. Confusion and anarchy reign in the Convention. 

 Tallien and Barrere are in a precarious situa- 

 tion, and will probably share the fate of their prede- 

 cessors. But the people must at last awake from their 

 delusion, and see the necessity of a head, and a regu- 

 lar government, although that period indeed seems 

 yet far distant. The wretches amongst ourselves 

 rejoice at every disaster, and wish to involve us in si- 

 milar misery, that they may satiate themselves with 

 blood, and seize on riches which they have neither 

 the talent nor the industry to acquire for themselves. 

 Yesterday I went to the Lawnmarket, and saw Ro- 

 bert Watt brought down from the Castle*; I then 

 went to Heriot's Green, where 300 gentlemen volun- 

 teers were under arms. There was happily no disturb- 

 ance. Indeed, every thing was more quietly conduct- 

 ed than at the execution of a common malefactor. I 



* Watt had been convicted of high treason. 



