L30/12/46/22

Correspondence:

22 May 1779

From: 1779 To: 1779

With respect to your Lordship being kept in the dark, I hope your Lordship will do me the justice to remember that this time 2 years I informed your Lordship my wish to be in Parliament for our county how soon Colonel Pringle should go out, and when that event was like to take place, I took the first opportunity to inform your Lordship and it gave me much satisfaction to have your Lordship's approbation. Since your Lordship has declined to interfere betwixt Mr Hugh Scott and me in our present situation, I hereby pledge myself that I shall not make use of your Lordship's name to any voter; I hope Mr Scott will observe the same rule. Had he kept to the plan I mentioned to him at Edinburgh and recapitulated to his son in presence of your father it would have been better, instead of the present system which can only tend to weaken that interest that ought never to [be] divided. Wish everything to be carried on with candour and good humour.

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Pringle,
Scott, Hugh,
Hume-Campbell, Alexander,
Paterson, John

general elections, CORRESPONDENCE