MEMOIR OP DE. WALKER. 
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After the rebellion of 1745, the act which an- 
nexed the forfeited estates to the crown declared the 
special purposes of that annexation to he for “ civi- 
lizing the inhabitants on the said estates and those 
of the other parts of the Highlands and Islands of 
Scotland; promoting among them the Protestant 
religion, good government, industry, and manufac- 
tures, and the principles of loyalty, and no other 
purposes." The produce of the estates was to be 
expended on the erection of schools for the educa- 
tion of youth, to instruct them in agriculture and 
manufactures, and also to erect and institute manu- 
factures ; and the execution of these great and 
benevolent public purposes was entrusted to com- 
missioners, under the title of “ The Board of An- 
nexed Estates,” of which Lord Karnes was one of 
the most active members. Dr. Walker, who was 
then a frequent visitor of his lordship’s, gives the 
following pleasing trait of his attention to the poor 
claimants. 
“ I have frequently visited him of a morning ; 
and his breakfast, which was at an early hour, was 
a very elegant one, and usually a sort of levee,” — 
“ and I seldom missed finding in the lobby some 
tradesmen or countrymen, who came to speak to 
him about applications they had made to the Board 
of Trustees for bounties or premiums for new inven- 
tions, or to the Commissioners of Annexed Estates ; 
and all such applications he listened to with the 
utmost attention. To do Mrs. Drummond justice, 
