I shou’dshould be at a loss
what apology to make for offering
your Ladyship the trouble of a Letter,
if your Charitable Disposition towards
the Distress’dDistressed did not Encourage me,
to entreat You to recommend to
Bishop Forbes or any other well
inclin’dinclined Person to make a small
Collection for poor John Macdonell
alias O’sian the principallprincipal of the
five honest thieves (forgive Madam
the IrichismIrishism) who protected the
P—[rinc]e in his Greatest Distress;
Let me Assure your Ladyship that
he is a reallreal object of Charity and
never was Consider’dConsidered for his Services,
Except by Glenalladell, who always
Supported while he liv’dlived, &and now Since
GlenllGlenaladale’s death the poor man is reduc’dreduced with 1868 (1868)
with old age, infirmity, &and a Numerous
helpless Family, to yethe Greatest misery,
I am