To Elizabeth Montagu from Aberdeen Mrs Arbuthnot has been dangerously ill and Laings thinks she cannto live much longer. Beattie has drawn from Mrs Montagu's generous yearly allowance to her. Abominable atrocities in France should make that people detested by all mankind. But there are people who want to imitate them. One Muir, an advocate in Edinburgh, has been found guilty of sedition and banished for fourteen years. Similarly one who calls himself Fish Palmer, a pupil of Priestly and a preacher od sedition and socinianism. Most people in this country are averse to socinianism and anarchy, and the wrong headed party seems to be on decline. The Earl of Kelly proposed some time ago raising money by subscription to supply the army in Flanders with flannel waistcoats. Beattie's friends in Ediburgh insisted that he should write the advertisement or handbill to be circulated about it. Beattie encloses a printed copy. Over £500 has been subscribed already. 4 November 1793