He confessed the violent methods he had used to gain Mrs.Key, or Wright, and hoped his fate would stop further proceedings against his brother James.* * James died near three months before, but his family might easily remain a long time without the news of that event.
The newspapers observed that his body, after hanging the usual time, was delivered to his friends to be carried to the Highlands.

To this the recollection of a venerable friend, recently taken from us in the fulness of years, then a schoolboy at Linlithgow, enables the author to add, that a much larger body of MacGregors than had cared to advance to Edinburgh received the corpse at that place with the coronach and other wild emblems of Highland mourning, and so escorted it to Balquhidder.

Thus we may conclude this long account of Rob Roy and his family with the classic phrase, Ite.

Conclamatum est.
I have only to add, that I have selected the above from many anecdotes of Rob Roy which were, and may still be, current among the mountains where he flourished; but I am far from warranting their exact authenticity.
Clannish partialities were very apt to guide the tongue and pen, as well as the pistol and claymore, and the features of an anecdote are wonderfully softened or exaggerated as the story is told by a MacGregor or a Campbell.
APPENDIX TO INTRODUCTION.
No.

I .-- ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE APPREHENSION OF ROB ROY.
(From the Edinburgh Evening Courant, June 18 to June 21, A.D.1732.