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1799, in the H.E.I.C.S., and four daughters, Penelope, Susan Mary, Flora (died in 1810), and Jean (died in 1820). Lady Belhaven died in 1816. Ranald was succeeded by his eldest son,

XXIV. JOHN MACDONALD, seventeenth of Clanranald, quite a youth at his father's death. He travelled for several years on the Continent with a learned tutor, who gave him a very liberal education. On his return home, he obtained a commission and became a Captain in the 22d Dragoons. Having made up titles to the family estates, he, soon after, retired from the army, and resided chiefly on his property, among his retainers, by whom he was greatly esteemed while he lived, and much lamented on his death, in 1794, at the early age of twenty-nine.

He married, first, Katharine, daughter of the Right Hon. Robert Macqueen of Braxfield, Lord Justice-Clerk of Scotland, with issue

1. Reginald George, his heir, born in Edinburgh on the 29th of August 1788.

2. Robert Johnstone. 3. Donald.

He married, secondly, his second cousin, Jean, daughter of Colin Macdonald, II. of Boisdale, and grand-daughter of Alexander, first of Boisdale, second son of Donald, fourteenth of Clanranald, without issue.

He died in 1794, and was succeeded by his eldest son,

XXV. REGINALD GEORGE MACDONALD, eighteenth of Clanranald. He was born in Edinburgh on the 29th of August 1788, and was thus a minor only six years of age when he succeeded to the property. He was first sent to Edinburgh, and afterwards to Eton to complete his education. He then proceeded to the Continent, where he remained for several years. Coming of age in 1809, he returned home, and was soon after appointed to the command of the Long Island Regiment of Inverness-shire local Militia, which he held for many years, He represented the Burgh of Plymton (disfranchised by the Reform Act of 1832) in Parliament from 1812 to 1824. He lived to a very old age, and, two years before his death, in 1871, he visited his native land, "and delighted his friends by his never failing vivacity and comparatively youthful appearance." According to the Statistical Account the rental of Clanranald's estate in 1837 was about £4500 per annum; but shortly after that date the property was sold by this chief for a large sum to Colonel Gordon of Cluny, Aberdeenshire. He married, on the 1st of April 1812, Lady Caroline Ann Edgcumbe, second daughter of Richard, second Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, by whom (who died 10th of April 1824) he had issue

1. Reginald John James-George, his heir, now of Clanranald.

2. Caroline-Sophia, who married, 8th September 1842, the Hon. Charles Cust, second son of John, first Earl of Brownlow, with issue-one son, Ernest-Richmond Charles, and three daughters, one of whom, AliceMarian, married, 9th of September 1876, her cousin, Allan-Roger-Charles Porcelli, youngest son of Baron Porcelli, a Sicilian nobleman, who had married Sarah Anne, her aunt.

3. Emma-Hamilla, who married, 21st of April 1840, the Hon. and Rev. Alfred Wodehouse, youngest son of John, second Lord Wodehouse, with issue; Hobart; Reginald, who died 25th of August 1861; Charles; Hamilla-Caroline, who, on the 8th of November 1876, married Edward Taylor, British vice-consul at Dunkerque; Ernestine-Emma, who on the

17th of May 1866 married John Marshall, second son of H. C. Marshall, of Westwood Hall, Leeds; and Laura-Sophia.

4. Louisa-Emily, who married Charles-William Marsham, eldest surviving son of Robert Marsham of Stratton Strawless, County of Norfolk ; and secondly, 4th December 1856, Colonel Hugh Fitz-Roy, Grenadier Guards, son of Lord Henry Fitz-Roy.

5, Flora, Maid of Honour to the Queen,

6. Sarah-Anne, who married, in 1848, Baron Porcelli, a Sicilian nobleman, with issue, one of whom married his cousin, as above.

Clanranald married secondly Anne, daughter of William Cunningham, and widow of Richard Barry Dunning, Lord Ashburton, without issue; and thirdly, Elizabeth Rebecca Newman, also without issue.

He died at his residence, Clarendon Road, London, on the 11th of March 1873, in the 85th year of his age, when he was succeeded as representative of the family by his eldest son,

XXVI. SIR REGINALD-JOHN JAMES-GEORGE, nineteenth and present Clanranald, Vice-Admiral, R.N., K. C.S.I. He married, on the 12th of June 1855, the Hon. Adelaide Louisa, second daughter of George, fifth Lord Vernon, with issue

1. Allan Douglas, his heir, born in April 1856.

2. Angus Roderick, born in April 1858. 3. Adelaide Effrida.

[The Complete HISTORY OF THE MACDONALDS, with Genealogies and Biographical Notes of the principal branch families of the name, will be in the hands of Subscribers (whose names will be published in the work) before our next number is issued. It is therefore not intended to continue a consecutive account of the other and minor families of the clan

in the Celtic Magazine any further. What we have already published has been carefully corrected, revised, and considerably extended; and in addition, a full account, with genealogies to date, of the cadet families of SLEAT, GLENGARRY, and CLANRANALD, in the order in which they branched. off from the main stem-including Balranald, Kingsburgh, Castleton, Vallay, Scotus, Lochgarry, MacEachainn-Macdonalds, Glenaladale, Kinlochmoidart, and Boisdale-have been already printed in the separate volume. Accounts will also appear in the separate work of the Macdonalds of Sanda, Glencoe, Keppoch, Dalchoisnie, and several others. Price to Subscribers-One Guinea; large paper edition (of which only 75 copies are printed, and of which but a few now remain), a Guinea and a half. To non-subscribers, the price of any remaining copies will be, in the meantime, £1 5s and £2 2s respectively. To secure copies names should be sent in at once, as the issue is strictly limited to 425.]

THE CLAN CAMERON.-The next Clan History (after a few chapters on the Mathesons) which will appear in these pages will be that of the Camerons. The Editor will esteem it a great favour if all interested in any way in this clan will communicate with him privately, and supply him with any information in their possess, or direct him to where he can obtain any. A. M.

THE FENIAN SKIRMISHING FUND AND THE HIGHLANDS.

THE following correspondence appeared in recent issues of the Scotsman:

SIR, I have read your article in to-day's issue on the American Fenians and the Skirmishing Fund with considerable interest. I am, however, surprised that you made no reference to the portion of the fund which is alleged to have found its way to the Scottish Highlands. A friend sent me a Canadian paper yesterday in which a telegraphic summary appears of the proceedings at Chicago under date of 8th August. Patrick Crowe, who claims to have originated the Skirmishing Fund, held forth at the "Fenian conclave," and said that the fund "has been squandered; 7000 dollars of it being lent by one of the managers to himself; 20,000 dollars used in building a torpedo boat, which never worked, but was profitable to the ring; and 2000 dollars going to support an Irish paper in the Highlands of Scotland, and the disposition of the rest being known only to heaven and the insiders." What paper can it be that has received substantial aid from Irish-Americans? It is to be hoped a contradiction and repudiation will be at once forthcoming in the name of, I wont say patriotism, but common decency.-I am, &c., NO FENIAN.

SIR, A correspondent of yours, "No Fenian," referring to this subject, quotes certain figures mentioned by Patrick Crowe at the "Fenian Convention" held in Chicago on the 8th August, and, amongst these, 2000 dollars as having been given to an Irish paper in the Highlands of Scotland in support of the movement, and he asks "What paper in the Highlands of Scotland can it be that received substantial aid from the Irish-Americans?" There is no Irish paper in the Highlands of Scotland, but there is a paper published at Inverness, The Highlander, which I heard some time ago had received "substantial aid" from the Irish-Americans, and which, I have reason to believe, would like to have closer relations with the Irish Land Leaguers at home. The editor and proprietor, Mr John Murdoch, some time ago made a prolonged visit to America, and, after a short stay at home, has again gone out to America. The Highlander was, until recently, published weekly, but now appears in the form of a monthly magazine.—I am, &c., ONE BEHIND THE SCENES.

The Highlander Office, 76 to 82 Castle Street,
Inverness, August 29, 1881.

SIR,-A letter under this heading, signed by "No Fenian," appearing in your Friday's issue, contains an inuendo that an Irish paper in the Highlands had received Fenian support. As The Highlander is, I believe, the only paper in the Highlandsor even in Scotland-that has prominently advocated the Irish land question, there can be no doubt that it is the paper alluded to, and I shall therefore be glad if you will allow me, through your columns, to state as plainly and as emphatically as pssible that The Highlander newspaper never in any way received pecuniary aid from the "Skirmishing Fund." As a paper advocating the people's right to the soil they cultivate, The Highlander received the warm support of Irish Americans, who readily subscribed for it; and when Mr Murdoch, its proprietor and editor, visited America and Canada in 1879, he received as hearty a welcome from the Irish as from the Scotch, the former assisting him as much as possible by crowding upon him invitations to lecture, for which he was paid by the local committee inviting him. In January 1880, Mr Murdoch (then in Toronto) was urgently pressed to take part in the "Parnell reception " at Philadelphia, and he thereafter, by invitation, took part in a number of Mr Parnell's meetings, for which he was paid by the Central Committee in New York. But never under any circumstances has Mr Murdoch advocated Fenianism or other violent measures (on the contrary, he has always been most carciul to condemn them), and never has he in any way connected himself with, or received a cent from, the "Skirmishing Fund." Mr Murdoch's present absence in America (fulfilling a second series of lecturing engagements) prevents him writing you himself, but my knowledge of the facts stated above warrants me in giving the statement an un. qualified denial.—I am, &c., A. E. MIDDLETON, Manager.

In the same issue of the Scotsman in which the last of these letters was published, the following telegram, dated New York, August 29th, appeared:

THE FENIAN CONSPIRATORS.

Perhaps no one is better qualified to speak for the Irish Nationalists than William Carroll. The Philadelphia Press to-day prints a long report of an interview with him. He says the organisation which recently sat in Convention at Chicago regards the use of dynamite with contempt and disgust. The Irish Nationalist party is certainly revolutionary in its objects and methods, but it will not sacrifice innocent human life if it can possibly perceive any other method of achieving its purpose. Nothing less than the complete independence of Ireland will content them. Their present efforts are devoted to preparation and patient waiting for England's next war.

From an account in the World, of 31st August, of an interview by one of their correspondents with the arch-Fenian, we extract the following answer by O'Donovan Rossa :

:

You were asking me about that Skirmishing Fund a while ago. Pat (Crowe) knows what he is saying. I transferred the whole thing in 1877 to the Irish National Revolutionary Committee. Pat says that Ford, proprietor of the Irish World, used 20,000 dollars out of the 90,000 collected, on his paper; that Dr Caroll, of Philadel phia, got 7000, on his personal note, for his own uses; that 2000 were handed to Murdoch, who agitated in this country with Parnell for the purposes of founding a paper in the North of Ireland (Scotland?); that 5000 dollars went to Michael Davitt to start the Land League; and that 20,000 dollars went to John Holland for his torpedo.

In an advertisement inserted in the American papers last spring intimating Mr Murdoch's Lectures, we were told "For vacant dates, address "Dr William Carroll, 617 South 16th Street, Philadelphia, Pa." Further comment to show the connection of parties with each other and with the Skirmishing Fund would be a waste of space.

THE SCOTTISH THISTLE.-This ancient emblem of Scots pug. nacity, with its motto, "Nemo me impune lacessit," is represented on various species of royal bearings, coins, and coats of armour, so that there is some difficulty in saying which is the genuine original thistle. The origin of the national badge itself is thus handed down by tradition :When the Danes invaded Scotland, it was deemed unwarlike to attack an enemy in the pitch darkness of night, instead of a pitched battle by day; but on one occasion the invaders resolved to avail themselves of this stratagem; and in order to prevent their tramp from being heard they marched bare-footed. They had thus neared the Scottish force unobserved, when a Dane unluckily stepped with his naked foot upon a superb, prickly thistle, and instinctively uttered a cry of pain, which discovered the assault to the Scots, who ran to their arms, and defeated the foe with a terrible slaughter. The thistle was immediately adopted as the insignia of Scotland.

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