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Rh that unfortunate monarch, they were fined by Oliver Cromwell 10,000l. They were afterwards equally remarkable for their support of the revolution, and for their steady loyalty to the House of Hanover. In the rebellion in 1715, when the family mansion was taken possession of by the Old Pretender, the Countess of Northesk was obliged to seek refuge in the Castle of Edinburgh, where she was delivered of the late George Earl of Northesk (named after his Majesty, King George I., who was one of his sponsors by proxy). He died in 1792, having served with a considerable degree of credit in the Royal Navy, and attained the rank of Admiral of the White.

The subject of this memoir is the second, son of the above peer, by the Lady Anne Leslie, eldest daughter of Alexander, fifth Earl of Leven and Melville; and was born about the year 1758. In 1771 he embarked with the Hon. Captain Barrington, in the Albion. He next served with Captain Macbride, in the Southampton, and Captain Stair Douglas, in the Squirrel; was made acting Lieutenant in the Nonsuch, and confirmed by Lord Howe in 1777, into the Apollo. He afterwards served with Admirals Sir John Lockhart Ross, and Sir George B. Rodney; and by the latter was made a Commander after the action with the Count de Guichen, April 17, 1780, and appointed to the Blast fire-ship, from which he removed into the St. Eustatia, and was present in her at the reduction of the island of that name, Feb. 3, 1781. Captain Carnegie obtained Post rank on the 7th April, 1782, and at the ensuing peace returned to England in the Enterprise frigate, and was put out of commission. In 1788 he succeeded his elder brother, as Lord Rosehill; and in 1790, on the Spanish armament, was appointed to the command of the Heroine, of 32 guns; but was paid off when the apprehension of a war with that power ceased. In 1792, on the demise of his father, his Lordship succeeded to the Earldom and estate; in January, 1793, he commissioned the Beaulieu frigate, and went to the Leeward Islands; whence he returned towards the close of that year, in the Andromeda, which ship was shortly after put out of commission.

