Upon the whole, there was a division in the court, but a
majority decided it. Drummond was pronounced guilty of the
murder; outlawed for not appearing, and a high reward offered
for his apprehension. It was with the greatest difficulty that he
escaped on board of a small trading vessel, which landed him in
Holland, and from thence, flying into Germany, he entered into
the service of the Emperor Charles VI. Many regretted that he
was not taken, and made to suffer the penalty due for such a
crime, and the melancholy incident became a pulpit theme over
a great part of Scotland, being held up as a proper warning to
youth to beware of such haunts of vice and depravity, the nurses
of all that is precipitate, immoral, and base, among mankind.
After the funeral of this promising and excellent young man, his
father never more held up his head. Miss Logan, with all her art,
could not get him to attend to any worldly thing, or to make any
settlement whatsoever of his affairs, save making her over a
present of what disposable funds he had about him. As to his
estates, when they were mentioned to him, he wished them all in
the bottom of the sea, and himself along with them.
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