His last letter (in part)...

"BROW, on the Solway Firth, 12th July 1796.
After all my boasted independence, curst necessity compels me to implore you for five pounds. A cruel wretch of a haberdasher, to whom I owe an account, taking it into his head that I am dying, has commenced a process, and will infallibly put me into jail."


May that be a lesson to those of us who long for yet another kilt!