Kidnapped

Occasionally other trials than those of the Old Bailey would be included in the package of books we received from London; among these my husband found and read with avidity: - THE, TRIAL OF JAMES STEWART in Aucharn in Duror of Appin FOR THE Murder of COLIN CAMPBELL of Glenure, Efq; Factor for His Majefty on the forfeited Estate of Ardfhiel. My husband was always interested in this period of his country's history, and had already the intention of writing a story that should turn on the Appin murder...