But the curious letters published in Blackwood's Magazine for December 1817, show this to be an error.

The first of these documents is a petition to Charles Edward.

It is dated 20th September 1753, and pleads his service to the cause of the Stuarts, ascribing his exile to the persecution of the Hanoverian Government, without any allusion to the affair of Jean Key, or the Court of Justiciary.

It is stated to be forwarded by MacGregor Drummond of Bohaldie, whom, as before mentioned, James Mhor acknowledged as his chief.
The effect which this petition produced does not appear.

Some temporary relief was perhaps obtained.