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 PUBLICATIONS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY 
 
 VOLUME XXII 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 VOL. Ill 
 
 October 1896 
 
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THE 
 
 LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 OR A COLLECTION OF SPEECHES LETTERS 
 JOURNALS ETC. RELATIVE TO THE AFFAIRS 
 OF PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART 
 BY THE REV. ROBERT FORBES, A.M. 
 BISHOP OF ROSS AND CAITHNESS 
 
 1746-1775 
 
 Edited from his Manuscript, with a Preface by 
 HENRY PAT ON, M.A. 
 
 IN THREE VOLUMES 
 
 EDINBURGH 
 
 Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable 
 for the Scottish History Society 
 1896 
 
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PREFATORY NOTE 
 
 It was originally intended to add to the third volume of the 
 Lyon in Mourning, as a key to the work, an Itinerary and 
 Map showing the Prince's movements day by day from the 
 date of his landing in Scotland to his departure in September 
 1746. 
 
 This Itinerary, which has been prepared by Mr. W. B. 
 Blaikie from many sources, printed and manuscript, confirming 
 or correcting the data of the Lyon, and indicating the move- 
 ments of the Government armies as well as of the Jacobites, 
 has so far exceeded the length at first contemplated, that 
 it has been thought well to issue it separately along with 
 the Map as a supplement to volume iii. This supplementary 
 issue will therefore be treated as belonging to volume iii., and 
 will be due to subscribers for the year 1895-96. 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Conversation with Mr. James Grant of Inverness, . . l 
 
 Letter to Major MacDonald of Glenalladale, . . 8 
 
 Letter received from Donald MacDonald, merchant in 
 
 Edinburgh, . . . . . .11 
 
 Continuation of Narratives, from Rev. George Innes at 
 
 Forres, . . . . . . .11 
 
 Letter from William Jack, a Jacobite prisoner, 1 7th March 
 
 1747, 14 
 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to the Rev. George Innes at 
 
 Forres, ....... 16 
 
 Account of the seizing of the Hazard Sloop in the harbour 
 
 of Montrose, . . . . . .18 
 
 Part of a letter from Rev. James Hay in Inverness, . 21 
 
 Note of a visit from Flora MacDonald, . . .21 
 
 Note of a visit to the old Laird of MacKinnon, . . 22 
 
 Part of a letter from Rev. George Innes at Forres, . . 22 
 
 Part of a letter from Rev. James Taylor at Thurso, . 23 
 
 Account of the sufferings of Rev. James Taylor, . . 24 
 
 Note of visit from MacPherson of Breakachie, . . 37 
 
 Letter from John MacPherson of Strathmashie, . . 37 
 
 Account in the handwriting of Donald MacPherson, 
 
 younger brother of Cluny, of the Prince's sojourn in 
 
 Badenoch, . . . . . .38 
 
 Letter from Captain Donald Roy MacDonald, . . 48 
 
 Conversation with Mr. Hugh MacDonald, brother to the 
 
 Laird of Morar, about the Prince's landing, . . 50 
 
 Part of a letter from Rev. James Hay at Inverness, . 53 
 
 Replies by Rev. James Hay to Bishop Forbes's queries, . 53 
 
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 PAGE 
 
 Memorial of the suffering of David Taylor, wright in 
 
 Inverness, ...... 59 
 
 Letter to Miss Flora MacDonald, . . . .62 
 
 Part of a letter from Captain Donald Roy MacDonald, . 63 
 Latin poem by him on the cruelties after Culloden, . 63 
 
 Letter from William Jack, a Jacobite prisoner, . . 64 
 
 Poem from the Latin of Dr. King on Flora MacDonald, . 67 
 Latin poem by the same (with translation) on seeing the 
 
 Prince's picture, . . . . .67 
 
 Letter from a gentleman in London (Bishop Forbes) to his 
 
 friend at Bath, ...... 68 
 
 Lines fit to be placed below the Prince's picture, . , 77 
 
 An acrostic on the Laird of MacLeod, . . .78 
 
 Lines in Latin by Dr. King of Oxford on seeing Miss Flora 
 
 MacDonald's picture, . . . . .78 
 
 Letter and verses in Latin from Donald Roy MacDonald, . 78 
 Letter from Alexander MacDonald of Kingsborrow, . 80 
 
 Reply by Bishop Forbes to this letter, . . .81 
 
 Visit of MacDonald of Kingsborrow, senior, to Edin- 
 burgh, ....... 83 
 
 Narrative by Alexander MacDonald (Dalely's brother), of 
 
 raids in the Islands of Canna and Eigg, . . 84 
 
 Three epitaphs on Prince Frederick, . . .88 
 
 Latin poem on the same by Donald Roy MacDonald, . 89 
 Memorandum for Mr. Alexander MacDonald (Dalely's 
 
 brother), . gg 
 
 Conversation with Donald Cameron of Glenpean, . . 90 
 
 Letter to Mr. William Gordon, bookseller, Edinburgh, . 92 
 Letter to Mr. John Rattray, surgeon, . .93 
 Letter from Mr. Rattray to George Lockhart of Carnwath, 
 
 Esq., at Dryden, • .... 94 
 
 Letter from Carnwath to Bishop Forbes, . . 95 
 
 Letter to Mr. Donald Cameron of Glenpean, . . 95 
 
 Letter from Mr. Donald Cameron to Bishop Forbes, . 96 
 
 Note of a remark by the Duke of Cumberland upon 
 
 President Forbes, . g§ 
 
CONTENTS ix 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Narratives by Patrick Grant, one of the Glenmoriston men, 
 
 of the sojourn of the Prince with them, etc., . . 97 
 
 Paragraph of a letter from Captain MacNab to Mr. James 
 
 Winrame at Edinburgh, . . . .112 
 
 Conversation with Martin MacDonald, principal servant to 
 
 Sir Alexander MacDonald in 1746, . . .113 
 
 Third meeting with Patrick Grant, . . . .114 
 
 Birthday ode, 1751, . . . . . .117 
 
 Epitaph of Edward Burke, . . . . .119 
 
 Narrative of a conversation with Alexander MacDonald, 
 
 younger of Glengary, . . . . .119 
 
 Letter from London of a design to assassinate the Prince, 
 
 3rd October 1745, . . . . .122 
 
 Narrative by Malcolm MacLeod of his own pursuit and 
 
 capture, . . . . . .123 
 
 Letter from John Anderson (John Farquharson of 
 
 Aldlerg), . . . . . .128 
 
 Part of a letter from Rev. William Abernethie, . .130 
 Part of a letter from Mr. William Abernethie to Rev. 
 
 William Erskyne, at Muthil, . . . .131 
 
 Last speech of Dr. Archibald Cameron before his execution, 132 
 Letter from Dr. Archibald Cameron to his son in France, . 137 
 Account of Dr. Archibald Cameron's behaviour at the place 
 
 of execution, . . . . . .139 
 
 Translation of a letter from the Duke de Bouillon in 
 
 France in 1745, . . . . .142 
 
 Translation of a letter from the Spanish resident in France 
 
 in 1745, ...... 143 
 
 Examination of John Gray of Rogart, a Highland drover, 
 
 in 1746, ...... 144 
 
 Death of the old Laird of MacKinnon, . . .152 
 
 Note on a bogus Glenmoriston man, . . .152 
 
 Paper from an eyewitness (John Farquharson of Aldlerg) 
 
 concerning the cruelties after the battle of Culloden, . 153 
 Protest by Prince Charles to the European Powers in July 
 
 1748, . . . . . .159 
 
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 PAGE 
 
 Lines on the Duke of Cumberland, . . . . l6l 
 
 Paragraph of a letter from Rev. Ludovick Grant at 
 
 Fortrose, . . • ■ • .163 
 
 Note of the destruction of a library at Presshome in Enzie 
 
 by the military, . . • • .164 
 
 Paragraph of a letter from Rev. John Stewart at Tain, . 165 
 Reply to the said letter, . . . • .165 
 
 Another letter from Rev. John Stewart, . . . 1 66 
 
 Warrant by Robert Craigie, Lord Advocate, for the 
 
 imprisonment of John Blaw of Castlehill, . .166 
 Order for and certificates of his liberation, . . .166 
 
 Papers received from Rev. Robert Lyon about Mrs. Gordon 
 
 ofHallhead, . . . . . .167 
 
 Letter from Mrs. Gordon of Hallhead to Mrs. Jane 
 
 Bowdler, . . . . • .168 
 
 Narrative by Mrs. Gordon, written by Thomas Bowdler, . 173 
 List of what General Hawley took from her when she lent 
 
 him her house in Aberdeen, . . . .177 
 
 Narrative of the negotiation of John Blaw of Castlehill in 
 
 France,. . . . . . .180 
 
 A verse on the death of Sir Alexander Mac Donald of Sleat, 182 
 Letter from Rona MacLeod, alias Young Rasay, . .183 
 Visit to John MacKinnon in Edinburgh Infirmary, . .183 
 Additions to John MacKinnon's narrative, , . .183 
 
 A Propos — Lines on the Book of Common Prayer, . .192 
 Note on liberation of Archibald MacDonell of Barisdale, . 192 
 Paragraph of letter from Thomas Bowdler, Esq., near Bath, 
 
 on death of John MacKinnon, . . . .192 
 
 Letter to Mr. Roderick MacKinnon, at Broadford, in the 
 
 Isle of Skye, . . . . . .193 
 
 Representation in favour of John MacKinnon before his 
 
 leaving Edinburgh, . . . . .194 
 
 More explicit representation in his favour, . . .195 
 
 Letter to Mr. Roderick MacKinnon, at Broadford, in the 
 
 Isle of Skye, ...... 195 
 
 Epitaph on John MacKinnon, . . . 196 
 
CONTENTS xi 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Inscription intended to have been put on his grave, . 198 
 
 Note on the church bell at Langside, . . .198 
 
 Paragraph of letter from Mr. Bowdler, . . .199 
 
 A fuller copy of the lines on the Book of Common Prayer, . 200 
 Letter to the Right Honourable Lady Lucy Stewart 
 
 Traquair, ...... 200 
 
 Letter from Alexander MacNabb, . . . .201 
 
 Letter to Bishop Gordon of London, . . . 202 
 
 Paragraph of letter from Rev. John Stewart, . . 203 
 
 Reply to this letter, ...... 204 
 
 Copy of holograph message from the Prince, . .205 
 
 Paragraph of letter from Bishop Gordon of London, . 206 
 
 Paragraph of letter from Rev. John Stewart, . . 206 
 
 Letter to Mr. Roderick MacKinnon, at Broadford, in Skye, 207 
 Inscription on gravestone of John MacKinnon, . . 207 
 
 Paragraph of letter from the Honourable Lady Gask to 
 
 Bishop Gordon of London, .... 208 
 
 Letter to Lady Gask, . . . . .208 
 
 Letter from Lady Gask, . . . . .208 
 
 Paragraph of letter from Mr. William MacKenzy, school- 
 master at Tain, ...... 209 
 
 Paragraph of letter to the Physician in Ordinary, . . 210 
 
 Paragraph of letter from Mr. James George, . . 211 
 
 Paragraph of letter from Lady Gask, . . .211 
 
 Letter to Fidelius, . . . . . .211 
 
 Paragraphs from letters, . . . . .212 
 
 Inscription on the tomb of the titular Dukes of Perth, . 212 
 Letters to the printer of the London Chronicle, . . 214 
 
 Lines on the death of King James the Eighth, . . 214 
 
 Paragraphs of Letters — 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, . . . . .215 
 
 From J. G., . . . . . .215 
 
 From Lady Gask, . . . . .215 
 
 From Bishop Gordon (three letters), . . .216 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, . . . . .216 
 
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 PAGE 
 
 Paragraphs of Letters — continued. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, . . . . .217 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, . . . . .217 
 
 From John Farquharson of Aldlerg, . . .218 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, . . . . .218 
 
 From the Laird of Gask, . . . .219 
 
 From Bishop Gordon (three letters), . . .219 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, . . . . .219 
 
 From Lady Gask, . . . . .220 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, . . . . .220 
 
 From John Farquharson of Aldlerg, . . . 220 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 220 
 
 From John Farquharson of Aldlerg, . . .221 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, . . . . .221 
 
 From Mr. Brown alias Laurence Oliphant, younger of 
 
 Gask, . . . . . .221 
 
 From John Farquharson of Aldlerg, . . .222 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, . . . . .222 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, ..... 222 
 
 From letter by Nisbet to his brother Mr. John 
 
 Nisbet, Writer in Edinburgh, . . .222 
 
 From Lady Gask, . . . . .223 
 
 From John Farquharson of Aldlerg, . . . 223 
 
 From Bishop Gordon concerning Nisbet's paragraph, . 223 
 From Lady Gask, . . . . .224 
 
 From John Farquharson of Aldlerg, . . . 224 
 
 From Vienna, . . . . . • 224 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 224 
 From Lady Gask, . . . . .225 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, . . . . .225 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 226 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 227 
 A Journal of a journey to Moffat, .... 227 
 Note of visit from Laurence Oliphant of Gask, . 244, 245 
 
 Letter to Bishop Gordon, ..... 246 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 xiii 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Paragraphs of Letters — 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, .... 246, 247 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, ..... 247 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 247 
 
 From Lady Gask, ..... 247 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 247 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, ..... 248 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 248 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, ..... 248 
 
 To Lady Gask, ..... 248 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 249 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, ..... 249 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 249 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, ..... 249 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, . . . . .251 
 
 From W. S., London, . . . . .251 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, . . . . .251 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, . . . . .251 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, ..... 252 
 
 Note of introduction to the following letter, . . 253 
 
 Letter from the King of Prussia to His Royal Highness 
 
 Prince Charles, 12th January 1747, . . . 253 
 
 Paragraphs of Letters — 
 
 From Tom Bowdler, . . . . .254 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 254 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 255 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, . . . . .255 
 
 From Laurence Oliphant, .... 255 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, . . . . .255 
 
 From G. C, . . . . . . 255 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 256 
 
 From Bishop Gordon (three letters), . . . 257 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, . . . . .258 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, . . . . .258 
 
 From John Farquharson of Aldlerg, . . . 259 
 
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 PAGE 
 
 Paragraphs of Letters — continued. 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 260 
 To Bishop Gordon, ..... 260 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 260 
 To Bishop Gordon, . . . . .261 
 
 From Lady Gask, . . . . .261 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, . . . . .261 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, ..... 262 
 
 Note of death of Alexander MacDonald of Kingsborrow, . 262 
 
 Paragraphs of Letters — 
 
 From Bishop Gordon (two letters), . . . 262 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, ..... 262 
 
 From Lady Gask, ..... 263 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, ..... 263 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 263 
 
 Letter from John Farquharson of Aldberg, . . 264 
 
 Another from the same on the marriage of the Prince, . 265 
 
 Paragraphs of Letters — 
 
 From Laurence Oliphant of Gask, . . .266 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 267 
 To Bishop Gordon, . . . . .267 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, . . . . .268 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, . . . . .269 
 
 Letter from the Marquis D'Argenson, Minister and Secretary 
 of State for Foreign Affairs, to Mr. Van Hoy, Ambassador 
 of Holland, ...... 270 
 
 Account, of Bruce, Earl of Aylesbury, from handwriting of 
 
 Captain James Menzies, .... 272 
 
 Paragraphs of Letters — 
 
 From Rome, ...... 272 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, ..... 273 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, . . . . .274 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, . . . . .274 
 
CONTENTS xv 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Lines on the marriage of the King with the Princess Louisa 
 
 of Stolberg Guidern, . . . . .274 
 
 Paragraph from the Dedication to King Charles n. of 
 Stanford's Genealogical History of the Kings of 
 England and Monarchs of Great Britain, . . 275 
 
 Paragraphs of Letters — 
 
 From Thomas Bowdler, Esq., to his son Thomas, student 
 
 in physic, in Edinburgh, . . . .276 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 277 
 From Mr. Brett, . . . . .277 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, ..... 278 
 To Rev. John Leith at Huntly, . . . 279 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, . . . . .279 
 
 From Lady Gask, . . . . .280 
 
 Translation of notes by the sisters of Princess Louisa 
 
 Stolberg of their own and sisters' names and ages, . 281 
 
 Translation of letter from them to Mrs. Oliphant of Gask, . 281 
 
 Copy of the letter and notes of ages in French, . .281 
 
 Paragraphs of Letters — 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, . . . . .282 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, . . . . .282 
 
 Letter from Rev. John Leith, .... 283 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to Bishop Gordon, . . 284 
 
 Inscription on a gravestone in the kirkyard of Cumbernauld, 284 
 
 Paragraphs of Letters — 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, . . . . .285 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, . . . . .286 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, . . . . .286 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, . . . . .286 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, . . . . .287 
 
 To Bishop Gordon (two letters), . . . 287 
 
 Lines on seeing a print of ' The Queen of Hearts,' . . 287 
 
 Lines on the birthday of Princess Louisa, sent to John 
 
 Farquharson, . . . . . . 2SS 
 
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 PAGE 
 
 Paragraphs of Letters — 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, . . . . .288 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, ..... 289 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 289 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, ..... 290 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 290 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, . . . . .291 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 292 
 From John Farquharson of Aldlerg, . . . 292 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, ..... 292 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 293 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, ..... 293 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, ..... 294 
 
 Extract from The Public Advertiser of Ash Wednesday, . 295 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to Bishop Gordon, . . 297 
 
 Another letter from the same to the same, . . 299 
 
 Paragraphs of Letters — 
 
 From Rev. George Cheyne, .... 300 
 From Sir William Dunbar of Durn (two letters), . 301 
 
 Letter from Bishop Gordon to Bishop Forbes, . .301 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to Bishop Gordon, . . 303 
 
 Letter from Bishop Gordon to Bishop Forbes, . . 304 
 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to Bishop Gordon, . . 306 
 
 Letter from Bishop Gordon, .... 309 
 
 Letter from Bishop Gordon, . . . .311 
 
 Extraordinary articles ' For the Public Ledger,' . . 312 
 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to Bishop Gordon, . . 316 
 
 Letter from John Farquharson of Aldlerg, . . .317 
 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to John Farquharson of Aldlerg, 318 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to Bishop Gordon, . . 319 
 
 Another letter from the same to the same, . . . 320 
 
 Letter from John Farquharson of Aldlerg, . . .321 
 
 Another letter from the same, . . . .321 
 
 Superlative honour from the Sultana, . . . 322 
 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to John Farquharson of Aldlerg, 323 
 
CONTENTS xvii 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to Bishop Gordon, . . 323 
 
 Paragraphs from The St. James's Chronicle or British Evening 
 
 ■ Post, . . . . . . .324 
 
 Extract of a letter from Paris to a gentleman in England, 324 
 
 ' Political Intelligence Extraordinary/ . . . 325 
 
 Verses on Princess Louisa's birthday, . . . 326 
 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to John Farquharson of Aldlerg, 327 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to Bishop Gordon, . . 328 
 
 Letter from Bishop Gordon, .... 330 
 
 Note on the constitution of the Royal Oak Society, . 330 
 
 Some questions respecting the national debts, . .331 
 Letter from John Farquharson of Aldlerg, . « . 332 
 
 Extract from The Weekly Magazine of 13th October 1774, . 333 
 Letter from Bishop Gordon, .... 333 
 
 Another letter from the same, .... 335 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to Bishop Gordon, . . 336 
 
 Note on the fining and imprisonment of the Brothers 
 
 Woodfall, . . . . . .338 
 
 Letter from Bishop Gordon, .... 339 
 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to Bishop Gordon, . .341 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to John Farquharson of Aldlerg, 342 
 Two verses in Latin on 31st December with a translation, . 344 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to Bishop Gordon, . . 344 
 
 Letter from Bishop Gordon, .... 345 
 
 Another letter from the same, .... 346 
 
 Letter from John Farquharson of Aldlerg, . . . 347 
 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to Bishop Gordon, . . 349 
 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to John Farquharson of Aldlerg, 350 
 Paragraph of a letter from Mr. MacDonald, tutor at Gask, 
 
 to his father in Leith, . . . . .351 
 
 Letter from John Farquharson of Aldlerg about Lord Caryl, 351 
 Letter from Bishop Gordon, .... 354 
 
 Letters from Bishop Forbes to Bishop Gordon, . 354, 355 
 Letter from Bishop Gordon, .... 355 
 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to Bishop Gordon, . . 356 
 
 Letter from Bishop Gordon, .... 358 
 
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 PAGE 
 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to Bishop Gordon, . . 360 
 
 Letter from John Farquharson of Aldlerg, . . .361 
 
 Letter from Bishop Gordon, . . . .361 
 
 Another letter from Bishop Gordon, . . . 362 
 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to Bishop Gordon, . . 363 
 
 Extract of a letter from Pisa, .... 364 
 
 Letter from Bishop Gordon, .... 365 
 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to Bishop Gordon, . . 366 
 
 Declaration for Gray Cooper, Esq. of Gogar, Secretary to 
 
 the Treasury at London, .... 366 
 
 Historical anecdotes for information, . . 367 
 
 Serving of Sir Gray Cooper of Gogar as heir-male, . 369 
 Letter to Alexander Mitchell, Esq., Edinburgh, . . 370 
 
 Paragraph of a letter from Sir Gray Cooper of Gogar, . 370 
 Paragraph from John Farquharson of Aldlerg, . .371 
 Letter from Bishop Gordon, . . .371 
 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to John Farquharson of Aldlerg, 372 
 Letter from Bishop Forbes to Bishop Gordon, . . 372 
 
 Letter from Bishop Gordon, . . . .373 
 
 Appendixes — 
 
 i. Narrative by John MacDonald, . . . 375 
 
 ii. Chronological Digest of the Narratives and Papers 
 
 printed in the ' Lyon/ . . . .384 
 
THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
Wednesday, March 7th, 1750. — Mr. James Grant, 1 merchant foi. 1482. 
 in Inverness, dined with me in my house at Leith, in com- 7 March 
 pany with the Revd. Mr. Alexander Mitchell in Edinburgh, 1750 
 the Revd. Mr. James White in Cupar of FyfFe, and Mr. 
 Patrick Baillie, writer in Edinburgh. 
 
 After dinner I presented to the said James Grant the original 
 paper, a folio in his own handwriting, which the Revd. Mr. 
 James Hay in Inverness had transmitted to me by the hands 
 of the foresaid Patrick Baillie in May 1749. Mr. Grant, after 
 looking at the paper, acknowledged it to be all in his own 
 handwriting, and said, c Had I known that Mr. Hay was to 
 have transmitted this paper to you, or that it could be ever 
 useful in making out a history of these times, I would have 
 taken more pains and have been more exact and particular. 
 For as I imagined Mr. Hay desired such an account of me only 
 for his own information and satisfaction, so I was the less par- 
 ticular and circumstantial. However, such as it is, I do assure 
 you I could with confidence subscribe my name to it, as there 
 is nothing in it but truth, and what is well known to others as 
 well as to myself ; and indeed I can hold up my face to the 
 world for everything I have written in that paper.' 
 
 I then informed Mr. Grant that I had written a long and 
 particular letter to Mr. James Hay, 2 containing several queries 
 concerning the contents of the papers which Mr. Hay had trans- 
 mitted to me, and as I had taken an exact copy of said letter, foi. 1483. 
 I would read the copy in Mr. Grant's hearing and in that of 
 the company (if he pleased), in order to have from him such 
 answers to my queries as he could give me. Mr. Grant was 
 
 1 See ff. 1463-4. 
 VOL. III. 
 
 2 See ff. I425-35- 
 
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 [1750 
 
 March very well pleased with the proposal, and frankly promised to 
 give me answers as far as his knowledge and memory served 
 him. Of which answers here followeth an exact account : 
 
 1. — As to the first query, Mr. Grant said, 4 1 know the 
 servant maid well, but have forgot her name. However, as 
 she still lives in Inverness, I will get her name and send it to 
 you, and I will endeavour to procure you, if possible, the name 
 of the dragoon a«d the names of the two low countrymen that 
 were murdered by the said dragoon, for I know the house in 
 which the said two men were murdered.' 
 
 2. — Mr. Grant said he would easily procure the name of the 
 gentleman whose throat was cut in a high fever, but alleged 
 there would be difficulty in finding out the names of the 
 dragoons who did the deed. However, he would do his best 
 to find out their names. 
 
 3. — That man was called (said Mr. Grant) 4 by some Ewan 
 Mackvee and by others Ewan Mackay." Mr. Grant and Mr. 
 Baillie agreed in saying that there is a tribe of the Camerons 
 distinguished by the name of Mackvee. 
 
 1484- 4. — Mr. Grant said he believed it was General Husk that 
 gave Provost Hossack the severe kick at the head of the stair, 
 but he promised to get me certain account. 
 
 5. — This query is answered by Mr. Hay himself already. 1 
 4 But,' said Mr. Grant, 4 the sogers took away all the books in 
 the Meeting House." 1 
 
 6. — Here Mr. Grant said he really could not affirm anything 
 certain about the poisoned bread, but only that it was a common 
 report in and about Inverness, and that the said report met 
 with credit in that country. Mr. Grant promised to make 
 further inquiry about this matter according to the terms of my 
 query. 
 
 7. — Mr. Grant knows not, but will endeavour to discover. 
 
 8. — Mr. Grant, if he can, is to find out the names of the 
 three compassionate officers. 
 
 9. — Mr. Grant knows not, but will endeavour to discover. 
 
 10. — Right. 
 
 11. — Mr. Grant said, 4 Alexander Macintosh of Issich, being 
 
 1 See f. 1456. 
 
1750] ESCAPES FROM CULLODEN FIELD 
 
 3 
 
 much wounded in the battle of Culloden, did save himself by 7 March 
 crawling on his hands and feet the night immediately after the 
 battle. But then Mr. Macintosh was obliged to procure two 
 shillings sterling to give to the sentinels whom he was obliged 
 to pass through in his crawling, and who were appointed 
 (among others) to guard the field of battle ; the said sentinels 
 taking the two shillings sterling, and saying that the money foi. 1485. 
 was better to them than the taking of his life.'' However, 
 Mr. Grant added, he could not affirm that the said Macintosh 
 of Issich was the person meant by Mr. Hay ; for that he (Mr. 
 Grant) had reason to think that more than one had been saved 
 in the same way, and in the same night with the said Mr. 
 M'Intosh. Mr. Grant promised to make further inquiry about 
 others that were thus preserved. 
 
 12. — Right as to Fraser ; and as to the other parts of this 
 query, Mr. Grant is to endeavour to make them out. Here 
 Mr. Grant told a remarkable narrative which is as follows : 
 That Lauchlan Grant (writer in Edinburgh, and foreman to 
 Mr. Alexander Lockheart, advocate), travelling up the country 
 immediately after the battle of Culloden, and crossing the 
 field of battle, came to a country house near the field, where 
 he halted, and in which house he saw one of the name of Shaw 
 (a Badenoch man, being a handsome, well-looking fellow), 
 wounded and stript, to whom the said Lauchlan Grant gave a 
 shirt and some shillings in money. That in the same country 
 house the said Lauchlan Grant did see likewise, at the same 
 time, another man whose head he (Lauchlan Grant) believed 
 was cloven to the harns, and whose tongue was so hanging out 
 that the poor man himself could not put it in again. But f° l - T 4 86 - 
 Lauchlan Grant put in the poor mans tongue, and tied a 
 napkin about his cloven head, upon which the poor man 
 thanked Lauchlan Grant in Erse, and prayed God to reward 
 him. That same night Lauchlan Grant came to Inverness, 
 took up his quarters with the often-mentioned James Grant, 
 merchant, and gave the said James Grant an account of what 
 he had seen and done in the country house near the field of 
 battle. The next day afternoon the said James Grant, meet- 
 ing accidentally upon the street of Inverness with Mr. Angus 1 
 
 1 Lauchlan, says Mr. Innes, p. 1500. — F. 
 
4 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 7 March Shaw, Presbyterian preacher at Pettie, upbraided him to his 
 face (not sparing the whole fraternity of Presbyterian preachers), 
 for not doing more and interceding for the distressed, par- 
 ticularly those of his own name, and then narrated to him all 
 that he had heard from Lauchlan Grant about poor wounded 
 Shaw (the Badenoch man), lying in the country house. But 
 Mr. Angus Shaw (notwithstanding the pressing importunity 
 of James Grant) did not give himself any manner of trouble 
 about poor wounded Shaw, though afterwards the said Mr. 
 Angus Shaw thought fit to give out in his own vindication (as 
 James Grant expressly and positively affirmed to me, Robert 
 Forbes, and the company, and calling it a downright lie), that 
 he went to the field in quest of the poor wounded Shaw, and 
 that when he came to the field of battle, he (Mr. Angus Shaw) 
 
 fol. 1487. chanced to see the said wounded Shaw set up with some others 
 to be instantly killed in cold blood, and that then he (Mr. 
 Angus Shaw) did not think it proper to interfere, from fear of 
 personal harm to himself from the sogers employed to execute 
 the orders. ' But, 1 said James Grant, ' the plain matter of fact 
 is this, that one Lauchlan Shaw, quartermaster to Sempil's regi- 
 ment, upon hearing the dismal story, sent a brother of his own, 1 
 Alexander Shaw, and a surgeon to the field of battle in order 
 to seek out the said wounded Shaw (the Badenoch man), and 
 to take care of him if possible ; that when the said brother of 
 the quartermaster and the said surgeon were approaching 
 towards the field of battle they spied carts bringing wounded 
 men from different quarters to a certain spot on the field, that 
 upon coming near the said spot they saw wounded Shaw (the 
 Badenoch man whom they were seeking for), placed among the 
 wounded, and the soldiers making ready to kill them in cold 
 blood : upon which the surgeon stopped short and told the 
 quartermaster's brother he would not go further for fear of the 
 worst ; and the quartermaster's brother, looking the poor 
 wounded Shaw (his own relation) in the face, saw him put to 
 death, and durst not venture to say a word for saving of his 
 life lest he should have been made to bear him company to the 
 other world. This, 1 said James Grant again and again, ' is the 
 
 Commonly called Cripple Sandie Shaw, because of a lame leg. — F. 
 
iy So] THE CRUELTIES AFTER CULLODEN 5 
 
 true matter of fact as to the fate of poor wounded Shaw, the 
 Badenoch man. 1 1 
 
 13. — Mr. Grant cannot tell, but will enquire. fih 1488. 
 
 14. — Mr. Grant takes this man 2 to be a tenant of the Laird 
 of Inches, but will enquire about this and the other particulars 
 of this query. 
 
 15. — Mr. Grant could tell nothing about this. 
 
 16. — Mr. Grant cannot tell, but will enquire. 
 
 17. — ' This," said Mr. Grant, 4 is very true ; but then I know 
 not the names of the men. However, being well acquaint 
 with Grant of Daldriggan, I hope I may easily find out their 
 names/ 
 
 19. (As to the particulars in these several queries, Mr. 
 
 20. C Grant said he could not tell, but he would enquire. 
 
 21. ; 
 
 22. — The foresaid often-mentioned James Grant, merchant 
 in Inverness. 
 
 23. — The name of the poor lame man is John MacKenzie. 
 Mr. Grant is to enquire about the dragoon's name. 
 
 24. — The forementioned Lauchlan Shaw of Strathspey by 
 birth. 
 
 25. — Mr. Grant is to enquire about these names. Mean- 
 time he declared he saw at the doors of the King's Milns 
 twelve or fifteen dead corpses, some lying upon dry ground, 
 and others lying in the water. 
 
 26. — Mr. Grant said he can easily get the names of these 
 three women, as he has some acquaintance of them. 
 
 In a word, Mr. Grant promised again and again that upon 
 his return to Inverness he would wait upon the Rev. Mr. Hay, 
 from whom he would ask the use of my letter, and would direct fol. 1489- 
 his inquiries by the contents of it, and that he would moreover 
 lay himself out to find out other things, of all which he would 
 transmit accounts to me. Robert Forbes. 
 
 In talking of the Glenmoriston men, who after the battle of 
 Culloden were prevailed upon by the Laird of Grant to sur- 
 render themselves and to deliver up their arms at Inverness, 
 
 1 See f. 378. 
 
 2 See f. 379. 
 
6 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 7 March Mr. James Grant was very plain and full in his expressions. 
 He said that the bad and harsh treatment of the Glenmoriston 
 men was not owing to any treachery in the Laird of Grant, 
 for that the Laird had actually got assurances that the Glen- 
 moriston men should be safe and should meet with no hardship 
 upon their surrendering and delivering up their arms. But 
 the harsh and cruel treatment used against these men of 
 Glenmoriston was owing altogether to a pique the Duke of 
 Cumberland entertained against the Laird of Grant for not 
 raising his men in the service of the Government. For no 
 sooner had the Glenmoriston men made their appearance at 
 Inverness and delivered up their arms than the Duke of Cum- 
 berland (to be revenged upon the Laird of Grant for not 
 raising his men) gave orders to make them all prisoners, when 
 the poor men were in full expectation of being sent home in 
 foi. 1490. safety. It is very remarkable (as James Grant observed) that 
 the Duke of Cumberland was very much mistaken as to the 
 pique he entertained against the Laird of Grant, for that no 
 man was more zealous and firm in the interest of the Govern- 
 ment and had a greater inclination to promote it than the 
 Laird of Grant. In a word the Laird of Grant did actually 
 use his utmost endeavours more than once to raise his men, 
 but they positively refused to stir a foot unless the Laird would 
 assure them that they were to join the Highland army. 
 
 When James Grant had given this account of the matter 
 the foresaid Patrick Baillie happened to differ from him as to 
 the case of the Glenmoriston men, and did insinuate that the 
 Laird of Grant was blameworthy as to the harsh treatment 
 they met with. But James Grant stood to his tackling, and 
 was positive that the representation he had given was the 
 truth of the matter. 'Not, 1 said James Grant, 4 that I say 
 this with a view to vindicate the Laird of Grant. Let him 
 vindicate himself. But then truth obliges me to say what I 
 have said, because I had it from those very persons who were 
 interested in prevailing with the Glenmoriston men to surrender 
 in hopes of safety."' Mr. Grant and Mr. Baillie agreed that 
 there were about 150 1 of the Glenmoriston men thus cruelly 
 
 1 See f. 1679. 
 
1750] THE GRANTS OF GLENMORISTON 7 
 
 used ; some dying on ship board, some in Tilbury Fort ; others 7 March 
 were banished, and only about half-a-dozen of them returned 
 home. Mr. Grant said, * He made no doubt at all but the f° l - r 49*« 
 Laird of Grant in the event of the surrendering of the Glen- 
 moriston men had it in his view to make a merit of this piece 
 of service thereby, and ingratiate himself with the Duke of 
 Cumberland. But,"* as Mr. Grant truly observed, 'the Laird 
 met with a terrible disappointment, and even let him take up 
 his thanks for what he did / 1 
 
 As to the refusal of the Grants to rise in arms even when 
 desired by their own chief and their attachment to the Prince 
 and his army, James Grant said, he needed only to appeal to 
 the kind and compassionate usage the sculking gentlemen met 
 with among the Grants after the battle of Culloden, who took 
 such care of them (and numbers of them did sculk in the 
 country of the Grants) that they were absolutely safe and 
 wanted for nothing."' 6 But, 1 added James Grant, 4 it is a thing 
 well known that the Grants would not rise in arms even at the 
 importunity of their own chief." Here the Rev. Mr Alexander 
 Mitchel said, he remembred nothing better than that some of 
 the Grants did rise in arms before the skirmish at Inverury, 
 and came down the country as far as Strathbogie, but when 
 they had learnt there that they were to join the Laird of fol. 1492. 
 MacLeod and his following and to march towards Aberdeen, 
 they then (every one of them) refused to go a foot farther, and 
 instantly went home again. In this rising it would appear 
 that the Grants had been imposed upon, and made believe 
 that they were to have joined the Prince's adherents. It is 
 well known that the Laird of MacLeod used this deceitful 
 dissembling art to raise his own following, insomuch that the 
 MacLeods had white Cockades in their bonnets at their rising, 
 and in passing from the Isle of Sky to the continent, which I, 
 Robert Forbes, have had affirmed to me by several persons of the 
 Isle of Sky who had access to know this affair well. As to the 
 arts of dissimulation used by the Laird of MacLeod, see f. 883. 
 
 Monday, March 12th, 1750. — The foresaid Mr. James 
 
 1 See ff. 312, 1329. 
 
8 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1750 
 
 12 March Grant dined with me, renewed his promises to me, and 
 bad farewel to me, being upon his return to Inverness. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 foi. 1493. Copy of a Letter to Major MacDonald 
 
 of Glen allad ale. 
 
 14 March My dear Sir, — When Boradale's son did me the favour of a 
 visit he was in such a haste that I had scarce time to acknow- 
 ledge the receipt of your obliging and satisfying letter of 
 November 10th. 1 I now gladly embrace the opportunity of 
 Milton's return to the Long Isle, in order to do myself the 
 pleasure of writing to you at some length, for truly it is a 
 pleasure of the highest relish to me to correspond with you 
 and such as you are. 
 
 I would not have you rash in transmitting any accounts to 
 Dr. Burton, even though he has desired it. as a favour of you. 
 The Dr. is indeed an honest, worthy gentleman. But then he 
 is too ready to go to the press with the narratives he receives, 
 and (in my humble opinion) this is far from being a proper 
 season for publishing some certain truths to the world. Before 
 the Dr. made his appearance in print he informed me of his 
 design, to which I writ him an answer without loss of time, 
 and intreated him not to entertain any such thoughts till a 
 more safe and seasonable opportunity should offer. But he 
 and his friends in England were so keen to inform the world 
 
 foi. 1494. that (notwithstanding my remonstrance upon the point) his 
 pamphlet soon appeared, a copy of which he sent directly from 
 the press and desired me to amend and to make some material 
 additions. But I absolutely refused to have any hand in the 
 affair for reasons obvious enough to Scotsmen, whatever Eng- 
 lishmen might happen to think, 2 and I writ a letter to the 
 honest Doctor, wherein I used him with great plainness and 
 freedom. 
 
 Since Boradale's son was with me I have had leisure to con- 
 sider your kind and long letter (the longer the better) with 
 
 1 See f. 1447. 
 
 2 See f. 1362. 
 
1/50] THE PRINCE IN GLEN CHOSY 9 
 
 attention, and to compare it with your Journal, and I find a *4 March 
 small difference between them, which indeed is only a mere 
 circumstance. But then I make it my study to be as exact 
 as possible, not only as to facts but likewise as to the circum- 
 stances attending them. The difference is as follows. In your 
 Journal you have these words. 1 'They stayed in the same 
 place till 8 o'clock at night, when, setting out, the Prince 
 travelled stoutly till it became dark, and climbing a steep hill 
 called Drymchossey, to the top, they observed the fires of a 
 camp directly in their front, which they could scarcely shun, 
 at Glen Chossey. However, being resolved to pass at any rate, 
 they came so near without being observed as to hear them talk 
 distinctly, 1 etc. In your letter you have these words. 2 ' It 
 was in climbing up that hill called Drymchossey, immediately 
 after passing by a small camp pitched in the bottom of the foi. 1495. 
 valley or glen of that name, viz., Glen Chossey,"' etc. Now 
 (Dear Sir) whether did you first climb up the hill Drymchossey 
 (according to the words in the Journal), and then pass near 
 the camp in Glen Chossey, or did you first pass near the camp 
 in Glen Chossey (according to the .words in your letter), and 
 then climb up the hill Drymchossey ? Though this difference 
 be but very small and inconsiderable, yet I would gladly 
 have it rectified, and it is in your power to do it. 3 
 
 I thank you kindly for ascertaining to me the truth of the 
 fall upon the precipice and of the danger of tumbling head- 
 long from it. You oblige me particularly in giving me so 
 exactly the names of the faithful Glenmoriston men, and in 
 favouring me with your animadversions upon that subject, for 
 I was not a little anxious to have their names upon record. I 
 hope they are still alive. May God bless and preserve them 
 and reward them for their strict fidelity which was proof of 
 the gilded dust and all its glittering charms. 
 
 I earnestly beg you'll continue your laudable endeavours 
 to find out (if possible) the true account of Rhoderick Mac- 
 Kenzie's death, and to collect for me all the well-vouched 
 accounts you can have of plunderings, pillagings, burnings, and 
 murders, in doing of which pray have a particular attention 
 
 1 See f. 615. 
 
 2 See f. 1448. 
 
 3 See f. 1497- 
 
10 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1750 
 
 14 March to the names both of the perpetrators and of the sufferers 
 foi. 1496. where they can possibly be had, for, in the event of a history, 
 the recording of proper names and sirnames will prove mighty 
 • useful in order to strengthen and fix the facts in opposition to 
 all contradiction and cavilling, as in a point of fact one can 
 never be too strict and nice, especially in an age when even 
 glaring facts are most impudently denied and contradicted 
 with the greatest boldness. 
 
 Pray, Dear Sir, will you be so good as to call to mind 
 what passed in conversation betwixt the Prince and you and 
 his other attendants during the time you happened to be his 
 guardian, and to take it down in writing. This you have 
 omitted to do in your excellent Journal, which indeed is one 
 of the most valuable papers I have ever yet received. In 
 taking down some Journals from persons own mouths, I was 
 particularly careful to ask them questions about what passed 
 in conversation, and have thereby discovered some excellent 
 sayings expressed by the Prince, and likewise how chearfully 
 he bore up under all his sufferings. 
 
 I have heard that Clanranald, during his confinement on 
 board a ship, kept an exact Journal of the sufferings he himself 
 and his fellow-prisoners underwent. If this be so, may I ex- 
 pect to be favoured with an exact copy of Clanranald's Journal, 
 which I would take as a singular favour ? 
 foi. 1497. I had almost forgot to mention one thing, which is as 
 follows. In your Journal you mention a Glengary man 1 who 
 was chased by the troops very providentially to the place where 
 you was with the Prince, and whose father had been killed by 
 the military the day before. Pray can you give me the name 
 of the said Glengary man ? For in that part of your Journal 
 there is something very remarkable and interesting. 
 
 Thus, Sir, have I assumed the freedom, oftener than once, of 
 cutting out work in plenty for you. But I hope your honest 
 zeal to have important truths fairly and exactly represented 
 to the public, when a proper and seasonable opportunity offers, 
 will be sufficient to apologize for me at your hands for any 
 trouble of this kind. My best wishes ever attend you, your 
 
 1 See f. 617. 
 
1750] LETTERS TO AND FROM GLEN ALAD ALE 11 
 
 Lady and family, and all your concerns. With much sincerity 14 March 
 and esteem, I am, Dear Sir, your most affectionate friend and 
 very humble servant, Donald Hatebreeks. 
 
 Tartanhall, March 14th, 1750. 
 
 Copy, etc., from Glenalladale, received from Donald 
 MacDonald, Merchant in Edinburgh, August 
 3rd, 1753. 
 
 The fall the Prince was like to gett over a rock was climbing 3 Aug. 
 up the hill Drimchooise, after passing by the camp formed in 1753 
 Glenchosy. 
 
 The original of the above, on a little bit of paper 
 without date or subscription, in Glenalladale's own hand- 
 writing, is to be found among my papers. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Monday, March 12th, 1750. — I, Robert Forbes, received a /<?/. i 49 8. 
 continuation of Narratives, transmitted to me from the 12 March 
 Revd. Mr. George Innes, at Forress (of date Fasting's Even, 
 February 27th, 1750), all in his own handwriting, and 
 consisting of nine pages in 4to, an exact copy of which is 
 as follows : — 1 
 
 [giment came up to the supporting Barrels and the centre of 16 April 
 the Highlanders was almost surrounded. Then all went to 1746 
 wreck.] The Prince was forc'd off the field by Sullivan and 
 others about him. The Duke of Perth, who commanded the 
 left, having at the beginning of the action observed the dis- 
 order of the right wing, rode gallantly along the whole line to 
 see what could be done ; but, before he could return, the rest 
 of the army had fled. The officers of the Macintoshes suffered 
 prodigiously, but not so many of the private men as might 
 have been look'd for from their dangerous situation. The 
 greatest slaughter was in the pursuit, for Lord Ancrum, who 
 
 1 This is in continuation of the narrative at f. 1278, where the passage in 
 brackets is already given, but is repeated in the manuscript, probably to make the 
 connection quite clear. It is printed in The Jacobite Afemoirs, p. 295, et seq. 
 
12 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1746 
 
 16 April commanded a regiment of dragoons, and Kingston's light horse 
 spar'd few or none. "Tis hard, if not impossible, to say what 
 was the precise number of the kill'd on either side. The best 
 accounts of the loss in general that I have been able to get are 
 from a Presbyterian minister who lives within a few miles of 
 the place. He tells me that one of the surgeons of the Duke's 
 army, a very sedate, grave man, had counted all the bodies 
 
 fol. 1499. that lay on the field of battle as exactly as he cou'd, and in- 
 formed him that the kill'd on both sides amounted to about 
 750, of which he did not doubt but the one-half were of the 
 regular troops, and that he did not believe the number of the 
 slain, both in the field and in the pursuit, exceeded twelve 
 hundred. Among those on the Prince's side was that loyal 
 and brave gentleman, the Viscount of Strathallan, who, re- 
 solving to die in the field rather than by the hand of the 
 executioner, attacked Collonel Howard, by whom, 'tis said, he 
 was run thro' the body. His character as a good Christian, 
 setting aside his other personal qualities and rank in the world, 
 as it endear'd him to all his acquaintances, so did it make his 
 death universally regretted. 
 
 But the most shocking part of this woefull story is yet to 
 come ; I mean the horrid barbarities committed in cold blood 
 after the battle was over. I do not now precisely remember 
 how many days the dead bodies lay upon the field to glut the 
 eyes of the merciless conqueror. But certain it is that there 
 they lay till the stench oblig'd him to cause bury them. In 
 the meantime the soldiers, like so many savages, went up and 
 down knocking such in the head as had any remains of life in 
 
 fol. 1500. them, and except in a very few instances, refusing all manner 
 of relief to the wounded, many of whom, had they been pro- 
 perly taken care of, wou'd undoubtedly have recover'd. A 
 little house into which a good many of the wounded had been 
 carried was set on fire about their ears, and ev'ry soul in it 
 burnt alive, of which number was Collonel Orelli, a brave old 
 gentleman, who was either in the French or Spanish service. 
 One Mr. Shaw, younger, of Kinrara, in Badenoch, had likewise 
 been carried into another hut with other wounded men, and 
 amongst the rest a servant of his own who, being only wounded 
 in the arm, cou'd have got off, but chose rather to stay to 
 
1746] AFTER THE BATTLE OF CULLODEN 13 
 
 attend his master. The Presbyterian minister at Petty, Mr. 16 April 
 Laughlan Shaw, 1 being a cousin of this Kinrara's, had obtain'd 
 leave of the Duke of Cumberland to carry off his friend in 
 return to the good services the said Mr. Laughlan had done fol. 1501. 
 the Government. For he had been very active in disswading 
 his parishioners and clann from joining the Prince, and had 
 likewise, as I 'm told, sent the Duke very pointed intelligence 
 of all the Prince's motions. In consequence of this, on the 
 Saturday after the battle, he went to the place where his friend 
 was, designing to carry him to his own house. But as he came 
 near, he saw an officer's command, with the officer at their 
 head, fire a plattoon at fourteen of the wounded Highlanders 
 whom they had taken all out of that house and bring them all 
 down at once. And when he came up he found his cousin and 
 his servant were two of that unfortunate number. I questioned 
 Mr. Shaw himself about this story, who plainly acknowledge 
 the fact, and was indeed the person who informed me of the 
 precise numbers. And when I ask'd him if he knew of any 
 more that were murder d in that manner on the same day, he 
 told me that he believed there were in all two-and-twenty. At 
 the same time they were busy at Inverness, hanging up the 
 poor men whom they calPd deserters, many of whom had been 
 obliged to list in the Highland army for mere subsistence, the 
 Government never vouchsafing to send any relief to such of 
 their men as were taken, well knowing what a mercifull enemy fol. 1502. 
 they had to do with. And so great was the pleasure they took 
 in looking at these unhappy creatures, that they never buried 
 any of them till the gallows was full, so that I 'm credibly in- 
 
 1 This is the same with that in this vol., fol. 1485, etc. Perhaps it maybe true 
 that Mr. Laughlan [Angus, says Mr. Grant, ff. i486, 1520] Shaw (as well as 
 Cripple Sandie Shaw and the surgeon) went to the field in quest of his wounded 
 kinsman ; but Mr. James Grant was mightily positive in asserting the contrary. 
 I could indeed well see that James Grant had great indignation at Mr. Laughlan 
 Shaw for not going instantly (upon receiving information) to the field of battle to 
 seek out his own kinsman. And, indeed, from this account of the Rev. Mr. 
 George Innes, it plainly appears that the said Mr. Laughlan Shaw was most 
 shamefully dilatory in his motions by his own confession. However, at any rate, 
 Mr. Laughlan Shaw's affirmation upon the point is a plain and strong proof that 
 the wounded Shaw (the Badenoch man) and several others were cruelly put to 
 death in cold blood. — F. 
 
14 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1746 
 
 April form'd there were sometimes fourteen hanging in it altogether. 
 There was one Christy, who had been a serjeant in the govern- 
 ment service, but was taken prisoner, I think, at Falkirk, and 
 had afterwards joined the Prince and was adjutant in the Duke 
 of Perth's regiment. This man, I am credibly inform'd, was 
 recommended to mercy by the whole court martial that sen- 
 tenc'd him, because it appeared at his tryal that he had offer'd 
 to the officers who were taken at that time to be their con- 
 ductor if they wou'd attempt to make their escape. But so 
 great was the thirst for blood that no mercy was to be 
 found. 
 
 Their treatment of their prisoners may easily be guess'd at 
 from what I have already said. And, indeed, history, I believe, 
 can scarce afford a parallell to it. For some days it was 
 dangerous for any person to go near them, or to pretend to 
 give them the least relief ; so that all of them, especially the 
 wounded, were in a most dismal state. And after they were 
 foi. 1503. put on board the ships, numbers of them died every day and 
 were thrown overboard like so many dogs; and several of them, 
 I'm told, before they were really dead. 1 Yea, one of them, 'tis 
 said, came alive to shore near Kessack, tho' as to this last cir- 
 cumstance I will not be quite positive. But the best idea I 
 can give you of their usage is by transcribing part of a letter 
 from one of themselves, an authentick copy of which lies just 
 now before me. The writer was one William Jack, sometime 
 a merchant, and after that a messenger at Elgin, who had been 
 with the Prince and was taken prisoner some weeks after the 
 battle and sent aboard one of their ships from Inverness 
 to London. The letter was directed to several of his friends 
 at Elgin, and came in common course of post. Tho' his 
 stile be none of the best, I chuse to give it you in his own 
 words. 
 
 Gentlemen, — This comes to acquaint you that I was eight 
 months and eight days at sea, of which time I was eight weeks 
 upon half-a-pound and 12 ounces of oatmeal, and a bottle of 
 fol. 1504. water in the 24 hours, which was oblig'd to make meal and 
 water in the bottom of an old bottle. There was 125 put on 
 
 1 See f. 1346. 
 
1747] LETTER FROM A JACOBITE PRISONER 15 
 
 board at Inverness on the James and Mary of Fife. In the 17 March 
 latter end of June we was put on board of a transport of four 
 hundred and fifty tun, calFd the Liberty and Property, in which 
 we continued the rest of the 8 months upon 12 ounces of oat 
 sheelin as it came from the miln. There was 32 prisoners more 
 put on board of the said Liberty and Property, which makes 
 157, and when we came ashore there was only in life fourty- 
 nine ; which wou'd been no great surprize if there had not been 
 one conform to our usage. They wou'd taken us from the hold 
 in a rope, and hoisM us up to the yardarm and let us fall in 
 the sea for ducking of us, and tying us to the mast and whip- 
 ping us if we but made water in the hold. This was done to 
 us when we was not able to stand. I will leave it to the 
 readers to judge what condition they might be in themselves 
 with the above treatment. We had neither bed nor bed 
 cloaths, nor cloaths to keep us warm in the daytime. The 
 ship's ballast was black earth and small stones, which we was 
 obliged to dig holes to lie in to keep us warm till the first of 
 November last, that ev'ry man got about three yards of gross foi. 1505. 
 harn filled up with straw, but no bed cloaths. I will not 
 trouble you no more till I see you. There is none in life that 
 went from Elgin with me but William Innes in Fochabers. 
 James Brander in Condloch died sev'n months ago. Alexander 
 Frigge dy'd in Cromarty Road. John Kintrea, that liv'd 
 in Longbride, died also. . . . Mr. James Falconer is well 
 and remains on board of a ship calPd the James and Mary, 
 lying off Tilbury Fort. — I am, Gentlemen, your most humble 
 servant, 
 
 (Sign'd) Will. Jack. 
 
 Tilbury Fort, 17th March, 1747. 
 
 P.S. — I keep full as good heart as I ever, and have done 
 during all my confinement ; yea, ev'n when I was in a very bad 
 situation. If it had not been so, I shou'd not been in life, for 
 the fish of the sea shou'd got my bones to gnaw, for they wou'd 
 got nothing else. From such another sight, good Lord, deliver 
 me ! for it 's impossible to describe the condition we was all 
 into, for you shou'd thought we had no intrails within us, and 
 
16 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 March all our joints of our body as perceptible as if we were cut out 
 of stone or wood. God be with you all. 
 
 Directed to Messrs. James Sutherland, Alexander Skeen, 
 Alexander Alves, James Peterkin, and William Griggar, at 
 Elgin. 
 
 foi. 1506. From this letter you may easily see wherein consisted the 
 great lenity of the government to their unfortunate prisoners, 
 viz., in starving and murdering them in the most barbarous 
 manner that it might not be said there were many brought to 
 public execution. And indeed, their public executions were 
 the least part of their cruelty. 
 
 I should now return to Inverness, where almost innumerable 
 other instances of barbarity were perpetrated, but I suppose 
 you have got better accounts of them from other hands. I 
 likewise intended to have sent you particular histories of the 
 cruelties of Major Lockhart, Caroline Scot, and others, which 
 they exercised throughout the Highlands, but the gentlemen 
 who promisM me particular and well-vouch' d accounts of these 
 things have never yet made good their word, and I don't care 
 to write vou bare hearsays. I shall therefore only tell you one 
 piece of Caroline Scot's conduct, by which you may judge of 
 the rest, and it is his hanging up three men at a milnspout in 
 Lochaber, two of them nam'd Smith, and the third Grant, after 
 
 foi. 1507. they had come and surrendered their arms to him. The truth 
 of this I was assured of by a captain of militia in the govern- 
 ment service who saw the three men hanging. 
 
 N.B. — The original of the above in the handwriting of 
 the Revd. Mr. George Innes at Forress, is to be found 
 among my papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 foi. 1508. Copy of a return to the Rev. Mr. George Innes 
 
 at Forress. 1 
 
 16 March My dear Sir, — Your large and agreeable pacquet of Fast- 
 ings Even I gladly received on the 12th instant, and I must 
 
 I 1 See f. 1 520. 
 
1750] REPLY TO THE REV. GEORGE INNES 17 
 
 frankly own that when once you get the better of your dilatory 16 March 
 sauntering way and take courage to lift the pen, you write to 
 some purpose indeed and very much to my satisfaction ; and 
 therefore I heartily wish you would not observe such an extra- 
 ordinary de-li-be-ra-ti-on in your epistolary communications 
 with me, whatever you may do with others. 
 
 By the 15th instant I had your curious paper (for which I 
 return you my hearty thanks) transcribed into my black 
 register, and I beg your particular attention to the following 
 remarks and queries upon it. 
 
 1. — Lately I had a conversation with a gentleman of Inver- 
 ness about the particular of the wounded Mr. Shaw, a gentle- 
 man of Badenoch, and he called the Presbyterian minister of 
 Pettie, Angus Shaw, whereas you name him Laughlan Shaw. 
 Which of the two is right ? This Presbyterian minister's 
 plain acknowledgment is a manifest undeniable proof of the 
 murdering in cold blood. 
 
 2. — The particular of throwing some overboard before they 
 were really dead is a fact that I have well vouched from 
 Inverness. 
 
 3. — Did William Jack (whose letter is a most curious piece) IS09 . 
 ever return to Elgin again ? or was he transported ? Is he 
 
 dead or alive ? for he has been blessed with a most surprizing 
 constitution. Is it possible to procure for me in a present his 
 original letter ? For you know how valuable originals are for 
 vouchers in the event of a history which, in the present case (I 
 trust in God), will appear at a proper season. Pray use your 
 good offices to procure this for me, which I look upon as a 
 medal, and would gladly purchase it rather than not have it. 
 Can the said William Jack give me the name of the Com- 
 mander of the James and Mary of Fife and the name of the 
 Commander of the Liberty and Property ? 
 
 4. As to the gentlemen who promis'd you particular and 
 well- vouched accounts of Major Lockhart's and Caroline Scott's 
 cruelties, I beg you may keep them in mind of their promises ; 
 for these monstrous doings ought to be faithfully and circum- 
 stantially collected. Your scrupulosity and nicety as to the 
 accounts you transmit to me please me much ; and very com- 
 mendable it is in you not to write me bare hearsays. 
 
 VOL. III. B 
 
18 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1750 
 
 16 March 5. Can you give me the name of that Captain of Militia who 
 told you that he saw the three men hanging whom Caroline 
 
 foi. 1510. Scott had cruelly put to death after their surrendry ? Consider 
 these particulars and favour me with exact answers if in your 
 power so to do. Most kindly farewel. 
 March 16th, 1750. 
 
 An Account of the seizing of the Hazard Sloop 
 in the harbour of Montrose. 1 
 
 November On Thursday the day of November 1745, the Hazard 
 1745 Sloop (in the government service) carrying 16 guns, 24 swivels, 
 and about 80 men, Captain Hill, commander, came into the har- 
 bour of Montrose and anchored at Ferriden, and fired upon the 
 town for three days and nights, though none of the enemy were 
 there. On Monday thereafter Captain Hill carried the Towns 
 guns from the fort, viz., 4 six pounders and 2 four pounders. 
 He unrigged the shipping and put guns and rigging aboard a 
 vessel of tons, Kobert Arbuthnot, master, and by a gross 
 oversight left the vessel at the key, which afterwards afforded 
 
 foi. 151 1. the enemy an opportunity of taking out the cannon and with 
 them to take his ship. 
 
 On Tuesday Captain Hill burnt two barks, one of 50 tons, 
 James Henderson, master, the other of thirty tons, John 
 Orkney, master. He had also entered into an association with 
 some of the townsmen to go in the night time and surprize 
 about 100 of Lord Ogilvie's men, who were at Brichen at five 
 miles distance with their officers, Captains Erskine and Ferrier ; 
 but had not the resolution to execute it. 
 
 On Wednesday evening a party of Lord Ogilvie's men, 
 under the command of Walter Young, serjeant to Captain 
 Erskine, came to Montrose and carried off Cummin, a super- 
 visor and two gadgers, prisoners to Brechin. And next night 
 Captains Erskine and Ferrier came to Montrose with their 
 men. Erskine possessed the island on the South side, opposite 
 to the town, and where the Hazard Sloop lay. Ferrier lay with 
 
 Printed in Jacobite Memoirs, p. 112, footnote. 
 
745] SEIZING OF THE SLOOP HAZARD 19 
 
 his men on the north side next the town. While they were Nov. 
 there on Friday morning at sun-rising, the Hazard sent her pi. 1^12. 
 boat up to the pier, where the coxon and his men landed, but 
 being fired upon, run back to their boat. One man was killed 
 and another wounded in the back. They rowed off to the Isle 
 and were taken prisoners by Captain Erskine, who saved the 
 coxon from being shot by one of Erskine' s men. The Hazard 
 fired on all sides of the town and Isle, but none were hurt. 
 
 Saturday, Captain Erskine went to the fort at the south 
 point of the water mouth, and at 4 afternoon saw a ship at sea 
 with French colours. He then hoised a waif directing her into 
 the harbour, and she accordingly came in without a pilot, having 
 six guns, 3 pounders, a good many French officers, and about 150 
 of Lord John Drummond's regiment, and the Irish picquets. 
 She also brought in her hold two brass cannons, 16-pounders, 
 two of 12 and two of 9, which being landed, the last two were 
 carried to the battery. The Hazard upon seeing the French 
 ship fired again to the leeward a signal of decoy. But upon a 
 signal from Captain Erskine her officers landed on the south f° l - I 5 I 3« 
 side, and he directed the frigate to run aground out of reach 
 of the Hazard. They then landed her six guns, three on the 
 south side and three on the north, and got them ready to fire 
 on the Hazard next morning, but did her no damage, save 
 cutting some of her rigging. Meantime Captain Ferrier 
 carried Arbuthnot's ship, which had the town's cannon, from the 
 pier to the fish shore, and on Sunday at 4 afternoon got out 
 the cannon, the Hazard firing on the town and that ship all 
 the while, and one of the shot pierced the ship through while 
 they were working, but nobody was hurt. They carried 4 of 
 the six pounders to the Dial Hill, on which the Hazard also 
 fired some few shot. Against 12 at night they got their 
 cannon on the Hill ready, and fired on the Hazard and con- 
 tinued so to do untill morning. 
 
 On this Sunday afternoon, Captain Erskine sent a serjeant toi. i5 x 4« 
 with some French and some of his own men to Ferryden-town, 
 very near to which the Hazard lay, who fired musket shots 
 upon her, but did no execution. And if Captain Hill had had 
 foresight and resolution he might have easily got out to sea 
 with the Hazard on the Sunday night, the wind bein^ fair, and 
 
20 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1745 
 
 Nov. nothing to hinder him, and as the small French frigate wanted 
 her guns, which had been taken ashore and was just in his way, 
 he might have carried her along with him or burnt her, most 
 of her men being on shore. 
 
 On Monday morning the Hazard hoisted a flag of truce. 
 Then his lieutenant and his brother came ashore in his boat, 
 and asked liberty to go off with the King's ship which was 
 refused. The lieutenant and the Captain's brother were carried 
 up to the town to Mr. Carnegie of Balnamon, governor of the 
 county for Prince Charles, and the lieutenant wrote to the 
 Captain with the boat ; upon which the Captain came immedi- 
 ately ashore and surrendered himself and his ship. The officers 
 foi. 151 5. were lodged in public houses, and the common men, being 
 about 75, were put in prison. 
 
 The day before (being Sunday) Captain Erskine (having 
 been informed that a boat sent by the Hazard Sloop to Admiral 
 Bing in the Firth of Edinburgh was returned, and had put in 
 to Usan harbour, about a mile off, and had dispatches to Cap- 
 tain Hill from that Admiral) sent a party and seized the boat 
 and men. But the midshipman who commanded had gone to 
 Dunenald, where he was taken, but he had thrown his dis- 
 patches and all the arms into the sea. 
 
 Monday night (the day Captain Hill surrendered), a French 
 frigate called Le Fine, of 32 guns, came to the back of the Ness 
 and landed Lord John Drummond and about 300 men ; and 
 next day (being Tuesday) about midday appeared the Milford 
 man-of-war of 40 guns. This made the French ship cut her 
 foi. 1516 cable and make for the shore, but the wind being right down 
 against her she was obliged to run ashore within the water 
 mouth. The Milford came after her and dropt anchor at the 
 water mouth, and fired on the French ship and on a boat cross- 
 ing the river, in which boat a young French officer was killed. 
 The Milford finding herself aground cut her cable and fired to 
 windward and leeward to get off, but in vain, untill she sent 
 her boat to the south side and fixed a rope to a rock by which 
 she haled off. And had not the French captain and most of 
 his men deserted their ship, they could with their guns have 
 prevented this boats passing or fixing the rope ; or had the 
 Milford been kept 10 or 15 minutes longer she had never got 
 
1750] THE SEA FIGHTING AT MONTROSE 21 
 
 off, but would have been fixed on the bank till next tide as the Nov. 
 water was then ebbing. The French had carried down % 
 twelve pounders (which came by the first small frigate) and 
 made a battery on the north side to attack the Milford. But 
 she got off before it was ready. 
 
 N.B. — The preceding copy I transcribed from a copy foi. 1517. 
 sent to me from the right reverend Bishop Keith in Edin- 
 burgh, upon Friday, March 16th, 1750. Bishop Keith had 
 got the account from the foresaid Captain Erskine's own 
 mouth, brother to Lord Dun. I returned to Bishop Keith 
 his own copy, which was in the handwriting of the Revd. 
 Mr. Alexander Mitchel. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Copy of part of a Letter to me, Robert Forbes, 
 from the Revd. Mr. James Hay in Inverness. 1 
 
 Dear Sir, — I do assure you that I am doing all in my power 16 March 
 to get what you want. One may think it may be easily and 
 
 soon done, but it is not so. For the beloved C d and 
 
 favourite followers could do no harm ; therefore some do all in 
 their power to conceall what they know. But to steal it from 
 them may be allowable, though it takes the longer time. 
 
 I was told last day that Mr. Grant was again called to Edin- 
 burgh. He hase not been here for many months. I doubt not 
 but Mr. Baillie will make you acquaint with him. I want but 
 two or three of what can be got. There will be some addi- 
 tions. 
 
 March 16, '50. 
 
 N.B. — The original of the above is to be found among 
 my papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 N.B. — Saturday afternoon, March 3\st, 1750. — I was foi. 1518. 
 favoured with a visit of Miss Flora MacDonald, when I 31 March 
 asked her particularly about the names of those who were 
 on board the boat with the Prince (when in the female 
 dress) from the Long Isle to the Isle of Sky. 2 
 
 1 See f. 1425. 2 See f. 529. 
 
22 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 31 March The names of all on board are : Flora MacDonald, 
 
 Betty Burk,Neil MacDonald MacKechan, John MacDonald 
 (cousin german to Glenalladale) at the helm, Duncan 
 Campbell, Macmerry, and Alexander MacDonald. 
 
 All the said five attending the Prince and Miss MacDonald 
 were people belonging to the Long Isle. 
 
 The above John MacDonald at the helm was after- 
 wards drowned in passing from the Long Isle to the con- 
 tinent. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 foi. 151Q. N.B. — Wednesday Forenoon, April %5th, 1750. — I 
 
 25 April waited upon the old Laird of MacKinnon 1 and his lady, at 
 their lodgings in Carrubers Close, Edinburgh, where I 
 asked them particularly about the name of that man of 
 MacKinnon's following, whom Captain John Ferguson of 
 The Furnace caused whip so unmercifully that the blood 
 gushed out at his sides, etc. 
 
 They told me that the name of the man was John 
 MacGinnis ; that after the above whiping bout he was 
 carried a prisoner to London, and that he returned home 
 again to the Isle of Sky, and was still alive. 2 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 foi. 1520. Copy of part of a Letter to me, Robert Forbes, 
 from the Revd. Mr. George Innes at Forres. 3 
 
 29 April Now for William Jack and your queries ; and in answer to 
 your 1st — Mr. Shaw's name is Angus, and not Laughlan 
 Shaw, as your gentleman very rightly told you. My mistake 
 proceeded from my thinking upon one Laughlan Shaw, Presby- 
 terian minister at Elgin. %. William Jack was transported to 
 
 1 Who (as he himself told me) had been prisoner three years, six months, and 
 ten days, and was at last liberate by a order from one of the Offices. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 2 See Alexis, Part 1st, printed page 22nd, and Appendix to the Scots Maga- 
 zine for 1749, page 637, column 1st. [see also hereof, ff. 201, 1224J. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 3 See ff. 1500-150S 
 
CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 23 
 
 Barbadoes, where, I suppose, he yet lives, his friends having 29 April 
 got several letters from him since his transportation. And to 
 make you quite happy as to this point, know that I have got 
 the original letter you seem to value so much, and shall trans- 
 mitt it to you by the first sure bearer, for I don't care to trust 
 this hyrer, as he is given to drink. I cannot learn the names 
 of the commanders of the transports. 'Tis possible Mr. J. 
 Falconar at London may know them. 3. The gentlemen who 
 promised me particular accounts of Lockhart, etc., have not 
 yet been so good as their word. You may be sure 'tis not 
 my fault. 4. The name of the Captain who told me of the 
 three men hang'd by Caroline Scot is (I think William) 
 McKintosh, captain of the company of militia rais'd by the 
 town of Inverness, under Lord Loudon's command ; and the 
 place where he told it was in the house of Earlmilns, where 
 my Lord Moray's chamberlain lives. 
 
 Forres, 29 April 1750. 
 
 N.B. — The original of the above is to be found among 
 my papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Copy of part of a Letter from the Revd. Mr. foi. 1521 
 James Taylor at Thurso to me, Robert 
 Forbes. 
 
 I have sent you under the same cover with this by the bearer, 8 March 
 George Cordner, A true and circumstantial Account of my 
 Sufferings from the sixteenth of April, 1746, till the same 
 day in April 1747, interspersed with some other occurencies 
 which it could not well be separated from. If you, after 
 perusing it, find any particulars worth your notice and excerpt- 
 ing I shall be glad : if otherwise, you may return it to me, for 
 I have not another copy. 
 
 8th March 1750. 
 
 N.B. — The original of the above is to be found among 
 my papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
THE LYON IN MOURNING [1746 
 
 Copy of the forementioned true and circumstantial 
 Account, etc., taken from the handwriting of 
 the said Revd. Mr. James Taylor, in 23 pages 
 8vo. 
 
 April Some days after the people of Cathness had got certain 
 accounts of the action at Culloden, on the 16th of April, in 
 the year One thousand seven hundred forty and six, Daniel 
 Gilchrist, son to Master James Gilchrist, the famous Presby- 
 terian minister in Thurso, came from Inverness, accompanied 
 by one David Forbes, a mean fellow of a very obnoxious 
 character (who had serv'd in Captain Alexander Mackay's 
 foU 1522. Company, and been made prisoner at the battle of Gladsmuir, 
 and confiVd in the Abbay of Holyrood, with many others of his 
 way, who shar d very remarkably in the Prince's clemency and 
 beneficence, notwithstanding which they, contrary to their 
 engagements to him, rejom'd their respective corps how soon 
 they dar'd make any appearance, as did the most of their 
 worthy and honourable officers — brave men of the sword !), 
 and by what means they and their discrete advisers must best 
 know, brought with them a sort of warrant from the puissant 
 Earl of Sutherland (who had no authority for that end), directed 
 to the Laird of Ulbster, then sheriff of Cathness, or his deputy, 
 to apprehend the Reverend Mr. James Taylor, Episcopal 
 minister in Thurso, and to burn his meeting house (the usual 
 way of reformation observ'd by the followers of Core), though 
 he could be charged with no crime, unless his being a nonjuror 
 be deemed one. 
 
 This unwarrantable warrant was delivered to Mr. James 
 Campbell, sheriff clerk of Cathness, then Ulbster s deputy, 
 whereof Mr. Taylor was advis'd about two hours after by a 
 friend of his from the Gerth, the residence of the said Mr. 
 Campbell. This and the many uncommon monstrous barbari- 
 ties acted by the orders of a certain great officer at Inverness, 
 etc., upon the persons, etc., of those were called, or supposed to 
 foi. 1523. be Jacobites, whereof he had daily accounts, made Mr. Taylor 
 judg it would be prudent to retire from his own house to lodge 
 with some friends m the country, to prevent being insulted by 
 
1746] SUFFERINGS OF REV. JAMES TAYLOR 25 
 
 the two above-named fellows, and other furious zealots, who April 
 might have join'd with them to distress him. For in these 
 times of prevailing iniquity the saints believd they had a just 
 right for promoting the interest of the good old cause to seize 
 upon or destroy the effects, and banish and butcher the persons 
 of all who oppos'd their novel tenets in Church or State. 
 
 Mr. Taylor continued for a few weeks after this in Cathness 
 in as private a manner as he thought consistent with his safety 
 and health, till he received two letters from Sir James Stuart 
 of Burray, and one from his lady, earnestly intreating him to 
 go to Burray (as he had us'd to do several summers before), to 
 read prayers and administer to them the holy supper of our 
 Lord. To which he made answer, that he would most readily 
 comply with their request if they thought it safe for him to be 
 in their bounds, after such a warrant had been sent to the 
 deputy sheriff of Cathness against him. 
 
 Accordingly, about three of the clock in the morning of the 17 May 
 seventeenth day of May, he received another letter from Sir 
 James, urging him to come to Burray with a boat he had sent fol. 1524. 
 to bring him over the frith, assuring him of all the security his 
 interest was capable to afford. Upon which he took boat at 
 Scrabster Rings, and got to Flottay in the afternoon, and 
 arrived at Burray the next day, where as usually he met with 
 the kindest reception. 
 
 About two days thereafter Sir James was informed that 
 Master Moodie of Melsater, then a lieutenant of foot in the 
 British service, had accepted a commission to come north, in 
 company with some ships of war designed for the Orknays and 
 Western Islands, in order to search for and apprehend his 
 person, and to burn his house, etc. And on Friday the 23d 
 of said month Sir James was again warned by a gentleman of 
 integrity that if Moodie was not already in Orknay, he was 
 certainly hovering near its coast, and earnestly pressed him to 
 provide for his own and ladie's security. The next day, in the 
 forenoon, several ships appear'd and made to Holm Sound, 
 where some of them anchor'd, and others held on their course 
 to Stromness. About eight of the clock at night two or 
 three big ships past by Burray the same way. About ten 
 o'clock Sir James commanded to send a boat to Holm Sound 
 
26 
 
 THE LYON L\ MOURNING 
 
 24 May for intelligence, which was detain^ by Mr. Moodie ; and this 
 might have convinced Sir James that it was high time to shift 
 fol. 1525. for himself. But neither this nor any other warnings could 
 prevail with him to leave his own house and avoid the impend- 
 ing danger, which proceeded (perhaps) from a consciousness of 
 his innocence, though some people believ'd it to be the effect 
 of another cause. For had he duly considered the unwearied 
 malice which the numerous party that follow'd the Earl of 
 Morton in that country (who had for several years gone all 
 lengths heedless fury was capable to drive them, to blacken his 
 character and ruin his interest) continued still to bear against 
 him, he would have certainly retired to some other country, 
 and remained till the heat of the prosecutions had somewhat 
 abated. 
 
 Between three and four of the morning on Sunday the 25th, 
 Mr. Taylor was alarm'd in his bedroom by one of the servants, 
 who begg'd him immediately to get up and shift for himself, 
 for Mr. Moodie, with a great number of redcoats, had landed 
 in the island, and were hastening towards Burray to burn the 
 house, etc. Upon which Mr. Taylor made ready to get from 
 the house, and when he had gone out of the close, saw Sir 
 James and his brother in law, Mr. Carmichael, running towards 
 the old barnyards, but had not got a furlong from the house, 
 when Moodie with his party surpriz'd them, and apprehended 
 fol. 1526. Sir James, but Mr. Carmichael got off by speed of foot. 
 
 Mr. Taylor and William Watt, merchant in Kirkwall, made 
 all the haste they could towards the Little Ferry, but on their 
 way thither they were advis'd that some of Moodie's people, 
 detach'd for that end, had broke the boats lying near the store 
 house, which made them turn towards the east end of the 
 Island, and on their way applied to one of Sir James's tenants to 
 carry them about Burrayhead to South Ronaldsay in a boat 
 which was lying near to the kirk, promising him a very large 
 reward. But he stifly refused to gratify them, tho 1 he might 
 have done it with all ease and safety, being a consummate 
 coward and traitor, as the bulk of his neighbours commonly 
 are. This necessitate them to proceed further eastward to the 
 rocks within the East park where they might have probably 
 lien conceaPd till the redcoats had withdrawn from the Isle. 
 
1746] ARREST OF STEWART OF BURRAY 27 
 
 But Mr. Taylor being confident of his having acted all along in 25 May 
 so cautious and irreprehensible a manner that he could neither 
 be apprehended nor imprisoned by any British law in being, 
 left the rocks and walked westward, and within a few minutes 
 Mr. Watt and he were surprized by two of Mr. Moodie's men 
 arm'd with musquets, pistols and swords, who, with many others, 
 were now traversing the whole Isle in quest of Mr. Carmichael, 
 who was lurking in a tenant's house, but basely betray'd and 
 catch'd by the pursuers, and carried to the house of Burray, foi. 1527. 
 where Master Taylor and Watt were confined under a guard 
 some time before. 
 
 Sir James was, immediately after being apprehended, hurried 
 away under a guard of soldiers to a boat, and carried to a 
 tender anchor d in Holm Sound, to which Messieurs Carmichael, 
 Taylor, and Watt were caried some few hours thereafter. 
 
 While on board this cutter, Mr. Taylor saw a letter which 
 he had wrote from Thurso to Sir James, containing some 
 accounts of the action at Culloden, which was taken out of Sir 
 James's pocket, and by his uncommon penetration, Moodie 
 believ'd it contained some very exceptionable expressions, and 
 communicated it to Mr. Andrew Ross, the then deputy sheriff 
 of the Orkneys, who being of Master Taylor's acquaintance, he 
 expected might befriend him, and therefore wrote him twice 
 from the cutter, but was favour'd with no answer. This and 
 his mild and Christian behaviour to many others in these days 
 of confusion and scene of inhumanity, is well known to many, 
 but highly detested by all Christianly dispos'd and honest men, 
 and must fix indelible slur on his character while time lasts. 
 
 Copies of this letter were sent to the captain of every 
 ship on board whereof Mr. Taylor was confin'd, and the 
 original, as he was inform'd, was at length sent to the Duke fol. 1528. 
 of Newcastle's office in London, where it was judged quite 
 irreprehensible. 
 
 Sir James and his three fellow captives continu'd on the 
 cutter till 'twas determin'd by Messieurs Moodie and Ross to 
 have them carried to the Tolbooth of Kirkwall, in pursuance 
 of which resolve they were landed after seven at night, and 
 oblig'd to travel to the burgh aforesaid, guarded by all 
 Moodie's command, who, with Mr. Ross, strutted before them 
 
28 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1746 
 
 May all the way like two bashaws after some remarkable victory. 
 When they enter'd the town they were met by the train'd 
 bands of Kirkwall, who made no small and martial an appear- 
 ance, and were kept for some time in the streets to display the 
 glories of the young hero's triumph and to gratify the malice 
 of the Mortonian faction, who, like heedless asses, implicitly 
 followed the subverter of their interest and liberties, and, 
 indeed, mortally hated Sir James, yea, and all that opposed their 
 follies or tendered the good of their country without a cause. 
 After this parade they were carried into the town house and 
 guards plac'd within, and around it without, where they were 
 lodg'd till about four of the clock the next afternoon, when 
 they were taken out and carried in triumph through the streets 
 and led on their way for Stromness, which lies about twelve 
 miles from the burgh. 
 
 Some of the poor redcoats who had slept very little for two 
 days before, and had drunk somewhat too much, which had 
 rendered them incapable to march on foot, were soundly druVd 
 foi. 1529. by Moodie with his feet and pike till he broke the last over 
 one of their heads. Fine discipline this for brave military 
 men ! And he forgot not to add weight to the correction by 
 loud magnanimous curses and horrid imprecations. 
 
 The prisoners came to Alexander Graham's house in Strom- 
 ness about ten at night, and were allow'd to take a small 
 refreshment. During which time a poor man, of the name of 
 Johnstone, had come in to see Sir James Steuart, and was 
 mournfully condoling his present confinement, which, Mr. 
 Moodie hearing, entered the room in a hideous fury, curs'd 
 and unmercifully beat him with his feet, till the poor old 
 man fell to the floor. And immediately the four captives 
 were hurried to a boat and carried to the Shark sloop of 
 war, commanded by Mr. Middleton, then lying of Stromness. 
 This gentleman is famous for his faithful services done to some 
 English merchants by whom he had been employed some 
 years before to find out the north-west passage. And here 
 they were confiVd under many hardships and indignities till 
 the 11th or 12th of June, when they were turn'd over to the 
 Old Loo man of war, commanded by an English gentleman, 
 Captain Noreberry, who us'd them with the greatest humanity 
 and kindness. 
 
1746] JACOBITE PRISONERS ON SHIPBOARD 29 
 
 Some days thereafter, the Zoo, with some other ships of war, June 
 were order'd to sail for the west Highlands to prevent any ships 
 that might come from France their landing in that country, foi. 1530. 
 They cruis'd several days off the Long Island, St Kilda, Skie, 
 etc., and to the westward of Barrahead. While on this cruise 
 the four prisoners had frequently very melancholy news con- 
 cerning the narrow searches were made to find out Prince 
 Charles and his followers, and the monstrous barbarities 
 
 exercis'd by the D of C d, and many of the savages 
 
 under his command upon the persons of many poor gentlemen 
 and others who had the bad luck to come in their way, and of the 
 incredible havock of many innocent people's effects, to the utter 
 ruin of them and their families. Simon, Lord Lovat, MacNeil 
 of Barra, John Gordon, younger, of Glenbucket, were by this 
 time apprehended, as were great numbers of inferior persons, 
 severals of whom were treated most cruelly by some of the 
 officers, specially by Captain Ferguson, a fellow of very low 
 extract, born in the county of Aberdeen, who, being naturally 
 of a furious, savage disposition, thought he could never enough 
 harass, misrepresent and maltreat every one whom he knew, or 
 supposed to be an enemy to the goodly cause he himself was 
 embarked in. 
 
 On the first day of July Sir James Steuart and his three 
 fellow-prisoners were turn'd over from the Old Loo to the 
 Terror sloop, commanded by Mr. Duff, son to Patrick Duff, 
 sometime Laird of Craigstown in Buchan. Good Captain 
 Noreberry sent his first lieutenant, Mr. Manwaring, along with 
 them, desiring him to inform Mr. Duff how they had been 
 treat by him while on board the Loo, and to tell him that foi. 1531. 
 whatever civilities he should show to them he would resent as 
 done to himself. To which the haughty Duff paid very small 
 regard. 
 
 Within some hours after they came to this sloop, they were, 
 by the great indulgence of their new captain, coop'd up in an 
 ugly hole of about six foot long and somewhat less in breadth, 
 where they suffer'd extremely for many weeks ; nor could a 
 Turkish bashaw have born himself higher towards these 
 prisoners than the young officer did towards them while under 
 his command. 
 
30 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1746 
 
 3 July This sloop loos'd from the Island of Barra on the third of 
 July, where the crew had done all the mischief they could, and 
 within three days was on the coast of Buchan opposite to Rosan- 
 tie, and the next day was opposite to Banff, where the brave 
 captain went ashore to visit some of his near relations. That 
 afternoon she made for Cromarty Road where she anchored 
 and continued for some days, whence she was ordered to the 
 road of Inverness, and there lay at anchor till the first of August, 
 when she sail'd as a convoy to the Pamela of Barrowstownness, 
 then a transport in the Government's service, on board of which 
 were several scores of prisoners who (poor men !) had each of 
 foi. 1532. them the allowance of half a pound oat meal, such as it was, a 
 day, and a chopin of water. On the seventh they anchored on 
 the Thames opposite to Woolwich, and the ninth, Sir James 
 was carried by a messenger to New-prison, where he was clapt 
 in irons, soon after fever'd, and died within a week or two. 
 
 It is well known how much this honest gentleman had been 
 abus'd and oppressed by the present Earl of Morton and his 
 brainsick underlings in the Orknays, and the scandalous injustice 
 he met with before a certain court held some years ago in 
 Edinburgh, whose judges had, by his lordship's influence re- 
 ceiv'd peremptory orders from the then prime minister, etc., to 
 pass sentence at all hazards against Sir James, which was 
 accordingly done in plain opposition to common law and 
 national practice. And during his confinement, yea, and after 
 his death, the scurrilous Court scribblers were not ashamed, 
 perhaps from the honest accounts they received from the Orknays, 
 to publish the most arrant falshoods that Hell could invent ; 
 such as : That Sir James had been one of the Young Chevalier's 
 chief officers, and had been frequently with him in some of his 
 adventures, tho' the writter hereof can faithfully declare he 
 never saw that prince in his life. Calumniare audaciter, etc. 
 And they added that Sir James had been at the head of three 
 hundred men in Orknay, whereby he had cruelly harassed the 
 foi. 1533. Earl's partizans and the valuable fautors of the good old cause 
 there ; which was as real a truth as that Presbyteiianism is the 
 only government should obtain in the Christian Church, or that 
 usurpation is no breach of our civil constitution. 
 
 After Sir James was carried from the Terror, the three 
 
1746] SIR JAMES STEWART OF BURRAY 81 
 
 remaining prisoners were more harshly us'd than ever before. 9 Aug. 
 For tho 1 the hold to which they were confin'd had neither air 
 nor light but from the door, and very little of either that way, 
 their humane countryman, the tender hearted Captain, com- 
 manded the door to be shut and padlock'd upon them about 
 eighth at night, and not to be opened till after eighth in the 
 morning. And besides, two centinels were plac'd at the door 
 with swords and pistols for the more security. In this situation 
 Master Taylor was often necessitate to suck in air through the 
 chinks of the door to prevent being stifled. Some days being 
 spent under these new hardships, they were turn'd over to the 
 formention'd Pamela, where many of the poor prisoners had 
 died, and their bodies were thrown into the river. But the 
 dead after this were interr'd at the charge of the inhabitants of 
 Woolwich. Many were still heavily sick, and it was dangerous 
 to be shut up in the hold with them. Here the three foresaid fol. 1534. 
 captives met with MacNeil of Barra and Young Glenbucket, 
 who had been brought prisoners on the Pamela from Inverness. 
 
 On the 24th, the Pamela was order'd down the river to 
 anchor between Gravesend and Tilburry Fort, where some 
 other transports were lying with prisoners, which was no con- 
 venient station for people so confined, for the country on each 
 side the river is very wet and marshy, which occasions frequent 
 unwholesome fogs, and all the grand necessaries of life sell there 
 at a much higher rate than in many places in England. 
 
 At length by the indulgence of the Court every prisoner was 
 allowed half a pound weight of bread a day, and an quarter of 
 an pound weight of cheese or butter for breakfast, and on the 
 flesh days half an pound boiFd beef for dinner, but no ale or 
 beer. But by the avarice and villainy of the victualler, one 
 Bonny, a broken taylor, they seldom or never receiv'd above 
 three-fourths of the said weights, and sometimes not so much. 
 Besides, it was the opinion of many that the fleshes were none 
 of the wholesomest kind, 1 as being purchased from butchers 
 who were suspected to deal in diseased cattle. But they were 
 obliged to use such victuals or starve. And even such of the 
 prisoners as had money were greatly straitned to obtain healthy 
 
 1 See f. 313. 
 
32 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1746 
 
 Sept. provisions by the boundless avarice of the soldiers and back- 
 foi. 1535. wardness of the sailors to bring them honestly from Gravesend. 
 
 Upon the night of of September, Master Carmichael 
 
 made his escape by getting out at the cabbin window, falling 
 into the river, by which he was born up by four bladders which, 
 it seems, he prepared for that end, and was carried to the 
 South wark side whence he got safe to London, and there 
 remained in the safest way he could till after the Act of 
 Indemnity was published in Summer 1747. 
 
 This elopement occasion'd no small confusion among the 
 guard and shipmen, and the following night, Mr. Taylor, upon 
 a mere suspicion that he must have been privy to and favour'd 
 his escape, because they had slept together on the same bed, 
 was after a long and strict examination by the commanding 
 officer, Lieutenant Laurence (tho" otherwise a discrete and very 
 sympathising man), forc'd down to the hold, among the throng 
 of the prisoners, many of whom were now sick of fevers, fluxes, 
 and other distempers ; and here (notwithstanding all his caution 
 to prevent it) he fever'd within three or four days, and con- 
 tinued very bad for the space of two weeks ; and had he not 
 been most tenderly car'd for during his sickness by Mr. John 
 MacDonald, 1 a brother of Kinloch-moidarts, who had been bred 
 foi. 1536. a surgeon, and was one of the prisoners, he had good reason to 
 apprehend it would have been fatal. 
 
 How soon he began, by God's blessing, to recover he much 
 desir'd to be above decks for the benefit of the open air, but 
 was denied that freedom, especially when the foresaid officer 
 was on board. And thus was he treated for the space of six 
 weeks till Mr. Laurence was advis'd that his guard was to be 
 very soon reliev'd by another party, and then he condescended 
 to converse with and use Mr. Taylor more friendly ; from his 
 being convinced that he had no concern in Mr. CarmichaeFs 
 elopement, and the day he was remov'd recommended him 
 most warmly to the officer that was to succeed him, and to the 
 sympathy of Thomas Grindly, master of the Ship. But this 
 last was as void of this Christian quality as a Libyan tyger ; 
 and Barker, the new officer, was a rank atheist of a most 
 
 1 See f. 1441- 
 
1746] JACOBITE PRISONERS AT TILBURY 
 
 33 
 
 scandalous life and lost character ; who had not the least Oct. 
 tincture of the social virtues and a very shame to human nature 
 itself. Cruelty was one of his darling qualities, and had he not 
 been restricted by his commission, he would probably have 
 sacrificed all the poor prisoners to gratifie his impotent fury 
 and madness. He catch'd some letters which Master Taylor 
 had directed to some of his well-wishers in London and else- 
 where, acquainting them with the state of his case and the 
 hardship he had felt and yet fear'd (tho' they contain'd nothing 
 reprensible, and sent them to the Secretary's office). But his fol. 1537. 
 malicious design was (to his regret) fairly disappointed. He 
 oblig'd honest Mr. MacNeil of Barra and Mr. Gordon, younger, 
 of Glenbucket, who was almost blind, to sleep in the hold, and 
 put all the hardships he was capable of inventing upon them 
 and all the captives there. 
 
 On the first day of November, Barra and Mr. Gordon, in 
 company with the Laird of Clanranold, Bysedale, etc., were 
 carried by Mr. Dick, a messenger, to his house in London, where 
 they were confin'd till Summer 1747. After this Mr. Taylor 
 made application to Grindly for the benefit of the cabin now 
 and then to get the use of the fire during the cold winter 
 season, which he sometimes allow'd, and as often denied. But 
 this harsh treatment did not in the least surprise Mr. Taylor, 
 for Grindly is an ignorant, irreligious, intolerably forward, 
 avaritious and self- conceited Whig, who possesses no greater 
 share of sympathy toward his fellow creatures in distress than 
 he does of good manners and common sense. He had been 
 guide to the party that apprehended Sir Alexander Dalmahoy. 
 
 About the beginning of December Mr. Kirk, a surgeon, who 
 was appointed by the Court to attend the sick on board the 
 transports and those confined in Tilbury Fort, seem'd much 
 dissatisfied with Grindly 's neglecting to wait of him with his 
 ship's boat so punctually as he desir'd, and as 'twas said, com- 
 plain d thereof to the Admiralty, from which, on the 25th, there 
 came an order to discharge the Pamela from the Government's 
 service, and to bestow the prisoners in other transports lying 
 off the said Fort. Accordingly Mr. Taylor, with other three 
 prisoners, were carried on board the James and Mary, an English fol 1533. 
 transport, where they met with a great number of prisoners, 
 
 vol. in. c 
 
34 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1746 
 
 25 Dec. among whom were four gentlemen who had been allowed, for 
 some time before, to sleep on a platform above the hold, to 
 whom Mr. Taylor join'd himself. But a few days thereafter, 
 upon the change of the guard, these poor gentlemen were 
 ordered to the common hold which had not been cleaned from 
 the horse's dung and piss, which were sometime before brought 
 over in it from Holland. And here they were confin'd in a sad 
 enough condition long beyond the time when Mr. Taylor was 
 made to look for his liberation. For he was advis'd on the 
 first day of the preceding October by a worthy friend, who had 
 his intelligence from those who managed the then prosecutions 
 against those who were called rebels or disaffected persons, that 
 there had been no legal information enter'd against him, and 
 that therefore he was j udged entirely innocent. This gave him 
 ground to expect he would, within a few days, be set at liberty. 
 But either by the hurry of business the gentlemen at the helm 
 of affairs were then really in, or by their indifference about 
 relieving the poor innocents from their misery and distress, he 
 obtained not his freedom till the thirteenth of February 1747. 
 On the 15th he came to London and found by his long confine- 
 ment and bad entertainment he was hardly able to walk the 
 streets without great uneasiness, and had he not receiv'd assist- 
 ance from some well dispos'd people there, especially from a 
 fol. 1539. worthy, right reverend nonjurant clergyman, 1 his sufferings 
 would have proved next to intolerable. 
 
 Master Taylor had expected, from the time of his imprison- 
 ment, that when his innocence should have been examined into 
 and discover^, and his liberation obtain'd, the ministers in the 
 administration would allow him a reasonable consideration for 
 the losses he had sustained by so tedious a confinement, and for 
 bearing his charges to Thurso. But after he had receiv'd his 
 pass by the Duke of Newcastle's orders from Mr. Larpent, one 
 of his clerks, he was by him advis'd to go to Captain Eyrs of 
 Battera's regiment who had receiv'd some cash to be distributed 
 to several prisoners (who were liberate at the same time with 
 Mr. Taylor) from whom he got the liberal allowance of a guinea 
 and an half, a sum very equal to the expenses he must be 
 
 Mr. Taylor means here Bishop Gordon. — Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
1747] MR. TAYLOR RETURNS TO THURSO 35 
 
 necessarily oblig'd to, considering his character and the valetu- Ma 
 dinary state he was reduc'd to by his undergoing so many 
 hardships. This is a convincing proof of the justice and com- 
 passionate disposition of the celebrated administration to give 
 such a trifle to a clergyman for his dammages and to support 
 him from London to John of Groat's House, a distance of 
 515 miles. 
 
 On the fifteenth day of March he took his passage on a 
 trading sloop bound for Leith, where he landed the twenty 
 second. He went thence to Edinburgh, where he staid about 
 fourteen days to gather some strength, and from that set out for foi. 
 Cathness on the seventh of April by the Highland Road, and on 
 the eleventh came to Inverness, and the next forenoon was 
 attending prayers with the Reverend Mr. James Hay in his 
 house there. But when the half of the Litany was near read, 
 the company heard one calling rudely at the door, which good 
 Mr. Hay himself open'd and found it to be the fellow Forbess, 
 made honourable mention of in the beginning of this paper, 
 who had informed his Captain, Mr. Alexander Mackay, that he 
 had learn'd Mr. Taylor was at Mr. Hay's incog. Upon which 
 the brave, well-thinking Captain informed General Blakeney, 
 who ordered some dozens of his musqueteers to be martial'd on 
 the High street to apprehend Mr. Taylor and carry him to 
 prison. When Forbess entered Mr. Hay's house and was ask'd 
 why he had call'd there so very unseasonably, he answer'd that 
 he was sent to call Mr. Taylor to his Captain's lodgings to 
 commune with him about the time he design'd to take journey, 
 for the Captain was going north and wanted to go in his com- 
 pany. Whereupon Mr. Taylor went immediately towards John 
 Paul's where he lodged the preceding night, and on his way 
 thither was surpris'd to see such numbers of soldiers drawn up 
 in order on the High Street, who allow'd him civilly enough to 
 proceed to his quarters where his pass was secur'd with his foi. 
 baggage, which he put into his pocket and then went to Mr. 
 Mackay's lodging to whom he show'd it. The Captain after 
 reading it went to the street where his General with other 
 inferiour officers were at the head of the musqueteers and 
 acquainted the General that he had seen and read Mr. Taylor's 
 pass ; upon which his Captainship was severely reprehended by 
 
36 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1747 
 
 12 April Mr. Blakeney for putting him and his men to so unnecessary 
 a trouble upon so lame information from the villain Forbess 
 who had been lately punished for his shameful malverses. 
 
 The Captain soon returned to his lodging, where Mr. Taylor 
 still remained, and told him that he might go about his affairs 
 when and how he inclined. 
 
 The next day Mr. Taylor took horse for Cathness, and came 
 to his own house in Thurso on the afternoon of the sixteenth. 
 
 He had heard at London, and on his way homeward, from 
 several persons, that about the 25th of the preceding June, by an 
 order from the then sheriff, the wise and mighty zealous Laird 
 of Ulbster (who had neither advice nor commission from any 
 superior Magistrate for that purpose, except from the Earl of 
 Sutherland, as above hinted in his sham warrant, or by a letter 
 from his uncle, the honourable Laird of Brodie, urging him as 
 foi. 1542. he regarded the Government's good graces forthwith to set 
 about so acceptable a work), Dr. Theodore Dunnet, and John 
 Donaldson, then bailies in the town of Thurso, the pulpits 
 and seats, with the ten commandments affixed to a very large 
 frame, were broken down and carried by great numbers of the 
 Thurso saints of both sexes out of Mr. Taylor's Meeting-house 
 to a void place benorth the town and there burnt to ashes, in 
 presence of the godly sheriff and all the numerous crowd that 
 attended the long wished for show. Would not this have 
 merited mighty favours to the prudent actors from any wise 
 Court ? And 
 
 That such a zealous people might be blest with a priest 
 worthy of them, Mr. James Gilchrist, the Presbyterian in- 
 cumbent at Thurso, who generally puts his sickle into other 
 men's corn, had (as was believed at the desire of all his brethren 
 in the county of Caithness except one) gone to Edinburgh and 
 thence to London to misrepresent and asperse the bulk of the 
 Cathness gentry as enemies to the present Establishment ; and 
 believ'd he would soon have the pleasure to see them and their 
 families totally undone. 
 
 But this wicked design was shamefully frustrated. However 
 Gilchrist's expedition turn'd to some account for he went a 
 foi. 1543. begging through his friends in London, etc., whom he made 
 believe that he could not continue in Cathness for the wicked 
 
1747] SOME OF THE DOINGS IN THURSO 
 
 37 
 
 Jacobites who had threatened to take away his life and destroy 
 his family. Honest Whigry that never thinks shame of lying 
 for worldly interest ! It is well known by many in Cathness 
 that this busiebodie could not keep his own house upon the 
 account of his numerous debts for which he was daily threatened 
 with captions. It was said he begg'd more than two hundred 
 and fifty guineas at London, but is not like for all this to get 
 out of his difficulties. The blessing of the Lord maketh rich, 
 and his curse must make poor. 
 
 N.B. — The original of the preceeding true and circum- 
 santial account, etc., in the handwriting of the Revd. Mr. 
 James Taylor, in 23 pages 8vo, is to be found among my 
 papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Thursday afternoon, about 3 o'clock, May 31st, 1750, I, M r 544. 
 Robert Forbes, was sent for to go to David Watson's house, 3 1 Ma y 
 
 I 75° 
 
 vintner on the Shore of Leith, to see one Mr. MacPherson. 
 When I came I found Mr. MacPherson of Breackachie, 1 
 younger, and Donald MacPherson, Cluny's youngest brother. 
 After conversing a little Breackachie delivered to me a letter 
 from Mr. MacPherson of Strathmashie inclosing a paper 
 consisting of twelve pages in folio, which twelve pages are 
 all in the handwriting of the foresaid Donald MacPherson, 
 youngest brother to Cluny, as he himself acknowledged to 
 me. Breackachie said there were some things omitted in 
 the said 12 pages, and that he would gladly go to my 
 house in order to have a private hour to go over the 12 
 pages with me, and to give me the omissions from his own 
 mouth, that I . might note them down, all which was 
 accordingly done. 
 
 Copy of foresaid Letter from Strathmashie 
 
 to me, Robert Forbes. 2 
 
 My dear Sir, — I must with regrate confess to you that I 
 account myself at an exceeding great loss for the too great a 
 
 1 See ff. 1473-1481. 2 See ff. 890-910. 
 
38 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 i May pause in the corresponding with such ane agreeable and valu- 
 able correspondent. And indeed when I reflect that I have 
 the favour of the last letter from you (tho I doe not really 
 think I'm any one in debt) I can scarcely forbear chideing 
 foi. 1545. myself for soe long a silence. Its true I cannot say that 
 hitherto I was furnished with any materialls fit for seting your 
 pen agoeing, which I hope will apologize in part for me. What 
 is confusedly set furth in the enclosed papers, take as from a 
 friend who wants noe more than ability to doe you a pleasure. 
 I assure you the fault is not in the will, and that assures me of 
 pardon from you ; tho' my escapes and other faults, which pro- 
 ceed only from weakness in the intellects, and may be many, 
 when you may rest satisfied that truth is sacredly observed. I 
 cannot indeed say of this as of the last that I myself was ey- 
 witness to any transaction. But I have all from very good 
 authority that was, and to whom I give equall credite as if I 
 were in person present, who I well know would assert noe 
 falshood. 1 . . . And ever am, with much esteem, My very Dear 
 Sir, Your most obedient and faithfull servant, 
 
 (Sk subscribitur) John M'Pherson. 
 
 Strathrnashie, 1st May 1750. 
 
 Copy of the forementioned 12 Pages in folio, etc. 
 
 After the fatal catastrophe of the Prince's army at Culloden 
 upon the sixteenth of April 1746, and that they meant to 
 make head again about Achnicarry, 2 till upon the Earl of 
 fol. 1546. Loudon's approach with an army the few of 'em that had got 
 together were made to disperse; Lochiel being then bad of 
 his wounds was obliged to shift from his own country the 
 length of the Breas of Rannoch, near which, about the 20th 
 of June, in a hutt called Benvrichk, Cluny M'Pherson and 
 M'Pherson of Breackachie met him and Sir Stewart Threp- 
 land, physician, who attended him for the cure of his wounds. 
 Cluny brought them from thence to Benalder, a hill of great 
 circumference in that part of Badenoch next to Rannoch, and 
 
 1 A portion of this narrative is printed as Appendix 46 to Home's History of 
 the Rebellion, where it is stated to have been dictated by Cluny himself. 
 
 2 See f. 162. 
 
1746] THE PRINCE IN LOCHIEL'S COUNTRY 39 
 
 his own ordinary grassings, where they remained together Aug. 
 without ever getting any true notice of what had become of 
 his Royal Highness for near three months when they received 
 the agreeable news of his being safe and at Locharchaik from 
 one John MacPherson 1 alias M'Colvain, a tenant of Locheirs, 
 who was sent by Cameron of Cluns to find out Locheil and Cluny 
 in order to discover to "em that his Royal Highness was safe, 
 and where he was to be found. And upon M'Pherson's return 
 to Cluns and the Prince being certifyed where to find them, 
 Lochgarry and Doctor Archibald Cameron were by his Royal 
 Highness dispatcht to 'em on some certain private message, 
 when, upon those gentlemen's meeting with Locheil and Cluny, 
 it was concerted amongst 'em all the Prince shou'd come to foi. 1547. 
 their assylum as the safest place for him to pass some time in. 
 On which Lochgarry and Doctor Cameron were immediately 
 returned to his Royal Highness to acquaint him of the resolu- 
 tion taken by his other two friends and them, and that Cluny 
 wou'd on a certain day then fixt meet his Royal Highness at 
 Achnicarry in order to conduct him to Badenoch. Upon 
 Lochgarry and Doctor Camerons return to the Prince (they 
 having set off a day or two before Cluny) his Royal Highness 
 was so impatient to be with his two friends whom he had not 
 for a long time seen, that he wou'd not wait for the Achnicarry 
 trist, believing he woud intercept Cluny on the way, and 
 accordingly set out for Badenoch immediately, where he arrived 
 the 29th of August, having in the meantime missed intercept- 29 Aug. 
 ing Cluny on the way as he believed he woud, by which means 
 Cluny went the length of Achnicarry, where he was acquainted 
 of the turn his Royal Highness had taken, on which he made 
 all the dispatch possible, but did not come up with his Royal 
 Highness untill a day or two after his arrival in Badenoch. 
 
 The Prince lay the first night at Corineuir at the foot of 
 Benalder after his coming to Badenoch, from which he was foi. 1548. 
 conducted next day to Mellanmuir in Benalder, a sheiling of a 
 very narrow compass where Locheil with M'Pherson of Break- 
 achie, Allan Cameron, his (i.e. LochieFs) principal servant, and 
 two servants of Cluny were at the time. It cannot but be 
 
 1 Vol. i. f. 173, where the name is not mentioned but the fact is narrated. 
 
40 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1746 
 
 29 Aug. remarked that when Locheil saw five men approaching under 
 arms, being the Prince, Lochgarry, Doctor Cameron and two 
 servants, taking the five to be of the army or militia who lay 
 incampt not above five miles from them and probably in search 
 of 'emselves, and as it was in vain to think of flying, tho" the 
 numbers had been greater, Locheil at the time being quite 
 learn and not in any condition to travel, much less to fly, it 
 was resolved, (which a message beforehand would have pre- 
 vented) that the attackers as they j udged 'em to be sho'd be 
 received with a general discharge of all the firearms, in number 
 twelve firelocks and some pistols, which they had in the small 
 sheil house or bothie (as we commonly call such little huts) in 
 which they at the time lodged. Whereupon all was made 
 ready, pieces planted and levelled from within and (in short) 
 they flattered "emselves of geting the better of the searchers 
 there being no more than their own number, and likewise con- 
 sidering the great advantage they had of firing at 'em without 
 being at all observed and the conveniency of so many spare 
 arms. But as the auspicious hand of Almighty God and his 
 fol. 1540. Providence, which was so conspicuous in the escorting his 
 Royal Highness at all times prevented those within the hut 
 from firing at the Prince with his four attendants they came so 
 near at last that they were known by those within, and then 
 Locheil tho' lame made the best of his way to meet his Royal 
 Highness without, who it may be believed received him very 
 graciously. The joy at this meeting was certainly very great 
 and much easier to be conceived than expressed. However, 
 such was his Royal Highness circumspection that when the 
 other would have kneeld at his coming up to him he sad, 
 6 Oh ! no, my dear Locheil," claping him on the shoulder, ' you 
 don't know who may be looking from the tops of yonder hills, 
 and if they see any such motions they'll immediately conclude 
 that I am here, which may prove of bad consequence. , Locheil 
 then ushered him into his habitation which was indeed but a 
 very poor one as to the accomodation and make. 
 
 The Prince was gay, hearty, and in better spirits than it was 
 possible to think he could be, considering the many disasters, 
 misfortunes, disappointments, fatigues, and difficulties he had 
 undergone, which are not necessary here to be repeated, as they 
 
1746] THE PRINCE MEETS WITH LOCHIEL 41 
 
 are before now too much felt and known. However, into the 3° Aug. 
 hut his Royal Highness with his retinue went, viz. Lochgarry, 
 Doctor Archibald Cameron, and two servants, where there was 
 more eatables and drinkables provided for his entertainment 
 than he expected. There was plenty of mutton newly killed, f oL J 5S 0 - 
 and an anker of whiskie of twenty Scotch pints, with some 
 good beef sassers made the year before, and plenty of butter 
 and cheese, and besides, a large well cured bacon ham ; pro- 
 visions formerly laid in for Locheil by MacPherson of Breack- 
 achie, younger. Upon his entry he took a hearty dram, which 
 he pretty often called for thereafter to drink his friends healths ; 
 and when there were some minch'd collops dress'd with butter 
 for him in a large sawce pan that Locheil and Cluny carried 
 always about with 'em, which was all the fire vessels they had, 
 he eat heartily, and said with a very chearful and lively coun- 
 tenance, 6 Now, gentlemen, I leive like a Prince,"' tho 1 at the 
 same time he was no otherwise served than by eating his 
 collops out of the sawce pan, only that he had a silver spoon. 
 After dinner he asked Lochiel if he had still lived during his 
 skulking in that place in such a good way. To which Locheil 
 answer d, ' Yes, Sir, I have for now near three months that I 
 am here and hereabouts with my cousin Cluny and Breakachie, 
 who has so provided for me that I have still had plenty of such 
 as you see, and I thank Heaven that your Royal Highness has 
 come safe through so many dangers to take a part." In two days 
 after his Royal Highness lodged with Locheil at Mellanamuir. 
 Cluny came to 'em there from Achnicarry, and upon his coming 
 into the hut, when he wou'd have kneeled, his Royal Highness fol 1551. 
 took and prevented him, and kissed him, as if he had been an 
 equal, and soon after said, 'I'm sorry, Cluny, you and your 
 regiment were not at Culloden. I did not hear till of very 
 late that you was so near to have come up with us that day.' 
 
 Upon the next day after Cluny 's coming he thought it was 
 time to remove the quarters, and brought the Prince about 
 two miles further into Benalder, to a little sheill called Uisk- 
 chilra, where the hut or bothie was superlatively bad and 
 smockie. Yet his Royal Highness took with everything. 
 Here he remained for two or three nights, and then from 
 thence removed to a very romantic comical habitation made 
 
42 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1746 
 
 2 Sept. out for him by Cluny, at two miles farther distance into Ben- 
 alder, called the Cage. It was really a curiosity, and can 
 scarcely be described to perfection. Twas situate in the face 
 of a very rough high rockie mountain called Letternilichk, 
 which is still a part of Benalder, full of great stones and 
 crevices and some scattered wood interspersed. The habita- 
 tion called the Cage in the face of that mountain was within 
 a small thick bush of wood. There were first some rows of 
 trees laid down in order to level a floor for the habitation, and 
 foi. 1552. as the place was steep this rais'd the lower side to equall height 
 with the other ; and these trees, in the way of jests or planks, 
 were entirely well levelled with earth and gravel. There were 
 betwixt the trees, growing naturally on their own roots, some 
 stakes fixed in the earth, which with the trees were interwoven 
 with ropes made of heath and birch twigs all to the top of the 
 Cage, it being of a round or rather oval shape, and the whole 
 thatched and covered over with foge. This whole fabrick hung 
 as it were by a large tree, which reclined from the one end all 
 along the roof to the other, and which gave it the name of the 
 Cage ; and by chance there happen'd to be two stones at a 
 small distance from other in the side next the precipice resem- 
 bling the pillars of a bosom chimney, and here was the fire 
 placed. The smock had its vent out there, all along a very 
 stonny plat of the rock, which and the smock were all together 
 so much of a colour that any one coud make no difference in 
 the clearest day, the smock and stones by and through which 
 it passed being of such true and real resemblance. The Cage 
 was no larger than to contain six or seven persons, four of 
 which number were frequently employed in playing at cards, 
 one idle looking on, one becking, and another firing bread and 
 cooking. 
 
 Here his Royal Highness remained till he was acquainted 
 foi. 1553. that the shiping for receiving and transporting him to France 
 was arrived. In the meantime of his Royal Highnesses having 
 his quarters in the Cage, he sent Cluny and Doctor Cameron 
 on some private affair to Locharchaick, a part of LocheiPs 
 country, who in their way, before they left Badenoch, in a very 
 dark night, had the good luck to meet with the beforemen- 
 tioned John M'Pherson, alias M'Coilvain, he having been sent 
 
1746] CLUNY'S CAGE IN BENALDER 43 
 
 by Cameron of Cluns to find out Cluny, that if it was possible 13 Sept. 
 he might fall on some way to get his Royal Highness acquainted 
 of the arrival of the ships. And this chance meeting was cer- 
 tainly a very great providence, since if it had happen'd other- 
 wise the Prince would not have known of the shippings' arrival 
 till the return from Locharchaik, which delay, as the arrival 
 was sometime before, might have proved of very bad con- 
 sequence. But it pleased God to dispose better for his Royal 
 Highness, who seemed to be still the Almighty's particular 
 care. For tho' the night was the very darkest, as is before 
 observed, the express met the other gentlemen in the teeth, 
 and was known by 'era, whereupon, having got his news, and 
 knowing him to be trustee and might be believed, Cluny im- 
 mediately provided a trustee guide, one Alexander M'Pherson, 
 son to Benjemin M'Pherson in Gallovie, who brought the 
 express directly to the Cage, where they arrived about one in fol. 1554. 
 the morning the thirteenth of September, on which minute his 
 Royal Highness began his journey for the shipping, and against 
 daylight arrived at his old quarters in Uiskchilra. 
 
 Here it must be remarked that before the Prince removed 
 his quarters to the Cage, Breackachie was dispatched from 
 Uiskchilra to find out John Roy Stewart, and then to go 
 together to the East Coast, with a view to hire a ship and 
 take off the Prince, Lochiel, Cluny, and those formerly men- 
 tioned about him. When Cluns dispatched the courier to the 
 Prince in the Cage to certifie him of the arrival of the ships on 
 the West Coast, he at the same time dispatched Murdoch 
 MacPherson (a near relation of Invereshie's) to Mr. Mac- 
 Pherson of Breackachie, younger, desiring him to stop his 
 progress to the East Coast, and to repair immediately to the 
 place where the Prince was. The said Murdoch came to 
 Breackachie when going to bed, and then Breackachie's lady 
 (one of Cluny 's sisters), finding out the matter, began to talk 
 of her dismal situation, having so many children, and being 
 then also big with child. Upon which Breackachie said, 'I 
 put no value upon you or your bairns unless you can bring me 
 forth immediately thirty thousand men in arms ready to serve 
 my master. 1 Instantly Breackachie set out on his return to 
 the Prince, and took along with him John Roy Stewart (whom M *55S 
 
44 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 13 Sept. the Prince used to call the Body), but did not allow John Roy 
 to know that the Prince was in Badenoch, but only that they 
 were going to see Lochiel, etc. When the Prince heard that 
 Breackachie and John Roy Stewart were coming near the hut 
 Uiskchilra, he wrapped himself up in a plaid and lay down in 
 order to surprize John Roy the more when he should enter the 
 hut. In the door of the hut there was a pool or puddle, and 
 when John Roy Stewart just was entring, the Prince peeped 
 out of the plaid, which so surprized John Roy that he cried 
 out, ' O Lord ! my master ! 1 and fell down in the puddle in a 
 faint. Breackachie likewise brought along with him to Uisk- 
 chilra three fusees, one mounted with gold, a second with silver, 
 and the third half mounted, all belonging to the Prince himself, 
 who had desired Breackachie to fetch him these pieces at some 
 convenient time. When the Prince saw the fusees he expressed 
 great joy, saying, ' It is remarkable that my enemies have not 
 discovered one farthing of my money, a rag of my cloathes, or 
 one piece of my arms,' an event which the Prince himself did 
 not know till he came to Benalder in Badenoch, where he was 
 fol. 1556. particularly informed that all the above things were still pre- 
 served from the hands of his enemies. 1 
 
 The Prince (as is already observed) arrived at his old quarters 
 at Uiskchilra in his way to the ships against daylight in the 
 morning of September 13th, where he remained till near night, 
 and then set off, and was by daylight the 14th at Corvoy, 
 where he sleep'd some time. Upon his being refreshed with 
 sleep, he being at a sufficient distance from any country, did 
 spend the day by diverting himself and his company with 
 throwing up of bonnets in the air and shuting at 'em to try 
 the three foresaid favourite fusees, and to try who was the best 
 marksman, in which diversion his Royal Highness by far 
 exceeded ; and in the evening of the fourteenth he set forward 
 and went on as far as Uisknifichit, on the confines of Glenroy, 
 which marches with a part of the Breas of Badenoch, in which 
 last place he refreshed himself some hours with sleep ; and 
 before it was daylight got over Glenroy the fifteenth, and kept 
 
 1 Portions of this narrative have been printed by Mr. Chambers in his History 
 of the Rebellion. 
 
1746} ON THE MARCH TO THE COAST 45 
 
 themselves private all day. As they were approaching LochiePs 15 Sept. 
 seat, Achnicarry, they came to the river Lochy at night, being 
 fine moonshine. The difficulty was how to get over. Upon this 
 Cluns Cameron met them on the water side, at whom Lochiel 
 asked how they would get over the river. He said, 6 Very well, 
 for I have an old boat carried from Lockharkaig that the fol. 1557. 
 enemy left unburnt of all the boats you had, LochieL , Lochiel 
 asked to see the boat. Upon seeing it he said, ' I am afraid 
 we will not be safe with it. 1 Quoth Cluns, 6 1 will cross first 
 and show you the way.' The matter was agreed upon. Cluns 
 upon reflection said, * I have six bottles of brandy, and I believe 
 all of you will be the better of a dram." This brandy was 
 brought from Fort Augustus, where the enemy lay in garrison, 
 about nine miles from that part of Lochy where they were 
 about to cross. Lochiel went to the Prince and said, ' Will 
 your Royal Highness take a dram ? 1 6 O, 1 said the Prince, 
 ' can you have a dram here ? ' 6 Yes, 1 replied Lochiel, 6 and 
 that from Fort Augustus too.' Which pleased the Prince 
 much that he should have provisions from his enemies, etc. 
 He said, 6 Come, let us have it. 1 Upon this three of the bottles 
 were drunk. Then they passed the river Lochy by three cross- 
 ings, Cluns Cameron in the first with so many, then the Prince 
 in the second with so many, and in the last Lochiel with so 
 many. In the third and last ferrying the crazy boat laked so 
 much that there would be four or five pints of water in the 
 bottom of the boat, and iu hurrying over the three remaining 
 bottles of brandy were all broke. When the Prince called for fol 1558. 
 a dram it was told that the bottles were broke, and that the 
 common fellows had drunk all that was in the bottom of the 
 boat as being good punch, which had made the fellows so 
 merry that they made great diversion to the company as they 
 marched along. 
 
 After the morning of the 16th the Prince arrived in Achni- 16 Sept. 
 carry, LocheiFs seat, where he was as ill off as anywhere else 
 for accommodation, as the enemy had brunt and demolished 
 all there. All the sixteenth he stayed there, and set out at 
 night and arrived the seventeenth at a place called Glen- 
 camger, in the head of Lochharkaig, where he found Cluny 
 and Doctor Cameron, who had prepared for him, expecting 
 
46 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1746 
 
 17 Sept. him. By a very great good chance, Cluny understanding that 
 he himself and others of 'em would be necessarily obliged to 
 travel often betwixt Badenoch and LocheiPs country, and 
 knowing that it was scarce possible for people traveling that 
 way, even those that cou'd be seen, and much less they that 
 cou'd not, to find provisions in their passage, as all was rum- 
 maged and plundered by the enemy, planted a small store of 
 meal, carried from Badenoch, in the house of one Murdoch 
 
 foi. 1559- M'Pherson in Coilerig of Glenroy, a trusty e man and tennant 
 to Keappoch, in the road, and about half way, to be still a 
 ready supply in case of need, from which secret small magazine 
 he and Mr. Cameron brought some with "em as they went for- 
 ward from Benalder, and had it made into bannocks against 
 the Prince's coming to Glencamger. And when he and his 
 company arrived there was a cow kilFd, on which bannock 
 and beef his royal highnes with his whole retinue were regalled 
 and feasted plentifully that night. On the eighteenth he set 
 19 Sept. out from Glencamger with daylight, and upon the nineteenth 
 arrived at the shipping, 1 what was extant of the Glencamger 
 bonnacks and beef having been all the provisions till then. 
 
 The whole time his Royal Highness took in Badenoch was 
 from his arrival there upon the twenty-ninth of August till 
 his leaving it, and being in Uisknifichit upon the fifteenth of 
 September, during which he was still in good health and hearty, 
 and in such a close private way, tho' within six or seven miles 
 at most of Loudon's camp of militia at Shoromore, or SherifF- 
 muir, in the head of Badenoch, a large mile from Garviemore, 
 
 fol. 1560. and no more than four or five miles from Dalchunnie, which is 
 one of the most publick and best frequented stages betwixt 
 Edinburgh and Inverness, upon the Highland Road, that all 
 his own party except the few that kept him company were at 
 a loss to think what had become of him, and his enemies 
 quite nonpluss'd. They some times thought he had got 
 himself removed to the east coast through the hills of Athol, 
 and laid an imbargo upon all the shipping from that quarter. 
 At other times they had information that he lurked in the 
 shires of Angus or Mearns, and a search was made for him in 
 the most suspected places of those shires, and particularly Mr. 
 
 1 See ff. 1476, 1572. 
 
1746] SEARCHING FOR THE LOST PRINCE 
 
 47 
 
 Barclay of Ury's house in the shire of the Mearns, whose lady Sept. 
 is aunt to Locheil by the father, and to Cluny by the mother, 
 was most narrowly searched, while he was quite safe and 
 unconcerned about "em in the Cage and others his dwellings in 
 Benalder. When he came there he was indeed in a pretty 
 deplorable way, interely destitude not only of the comforts but 
 even of the necessaries of life. His royal person had not as 
 much as one shirt to put on his back except that which he then 
 wore, untill Cluny set his sisters german, Isobell, relict to fol. 1561 
 M'Intosh of Aberarder, Christian, married to M'Pherson, 
 Breackachie, and Unn, then unmarried, now married to 
 M'Pherson of Dalrady, who were all three together in one 
 house at Breakachie, about making some for him in all haste, 
 whereby he was soon provided. He sat and drank all the time 
 pretty well and hearty, and seem'd to be quite reconcifd with 
 his entertainment, which was generally sent from Breakachie 
 by the above three ladies, as there was no family at Cluny, all 
 having been burnt there, and his lady being then at Edinburgh. 
 
 His Royal Highness (as is well known) went thro"* a rare 
 scene and train of difficulties from the unhappy day of 
 Culloden till he went on board for foreign parts, and was no 
 doubt in many places in the Highlands and Islands, sometimes 
 private enough. But "'tis a question if at all he pass'd so 
 much of his time anywhere so private and secure as he did that 
 he spent in Benalder, being always within the circumference of 
 six miles. 'Tis true indeed Cluny kept good trustee spies of 
 his friends in Loudon's camp so that one man cou'd not stir fol. 1562 
 there without intelligence being brought to the Prince's 
 quarters. And when laying out the best intelligence, safe 
 passage from the kingdom was not found out, there was 
 actually a plan laid of his passing the whole winter, which was 
 approaching, with Cluny and as he wou'd direct, which, if there 
 had no safe mean of getting over seas cast up, wou'd in all 
 probability have succeeded with equal privacy to the time his 
 Royal Highness had already spent in Benalder, and the 
 beginning to put this scheme in execution by some of those 
 then with his Royal Highness their otherways shifting for 
 'emselves, as a throung cou'd not as well keep together privately 
 as a less number, was only put off till Cluny's return from 
 Locharchaik. 
 
48 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 Sept. All about his Royal Highness during his abode in Benalder 
 of Badenoch were Locheil, Cluny, Loehgarry, Doctor Cameron, 
 and Breakachie, one Allan Cameron, a young genteel lad of 
 Calard's family, who was principal servant to Locheil, and 
 four servants belonging to Cluny, particularly James M'Pher- 
 son, his piper, Paul M'Pherson, his horsekeeper, Murdoch and 
 foi. 1563. Duncan M'Phersons. This Murdoch the Prince generally 
 called Murik, who and Paul cou'd speak no English and were 
 commonly employd in carrying provisions from Breakachie. 
 
 N.B. — The original of Strathmashie's letter to me, and 
 the original of the 12 pages in folio, are both to be found 
 among my papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 /*/. 1564. Copy of a Letter to me, Robert Forbes, from 
 Captain Donald Roy MacDonald. 
 
 31 May Reverend Sir, — I give you this trouble to convince you of 
 1750 Captain Malcolm M'Leods lys in part of what he reported to 
 you. He mentions that the Prince being about to part with 
 him after delivering the charge of him to the Laird of 
 M'Kinnon, said to him, 'Don't you remember that I promis'd 
 to meet Murdo M'Leod, the Doctor, and Donald Roy 
 M'Donald at Cammistinavaig, so I must write them a letter 
 of apology for not meeting, which he wrote verbatim, or to 
 the same purpose, mentioned in the Appendix of the Scots 
 Magazine , 1 749. As he intimats, the letter was directed to the 
 Doctor, tho* 1 he intended to pass a complement upon him, he 
 rather does him ane injury. For according to Captain Mal- 
 com's tale the Doctor ought have met the Prince at Cam- 
 mistinavaig, since he had made such a promise. 1 But to 
 vindicate the Doctor, if he had promised such a thing, any that 
 foU 1565. is acquaint with him wou'd believe he wouM stand to his word, 
 and therefore I take his words and confute his cousine, Captain 
 Malcom. For he told me when I came early in the morning 
 accompanied with the young Laird of Raarsay to the Byre 
 under Nicolson's big rock, that the Prince with Captain 
 
 1 See ff. 233, 247, 764, 867, 871. 
 
1750] CAPTAIN DONALD MACDONALD 49 
 
 Malcom went off (he knew not no better) about 8 o' th" clock 31 May 
 at night, and left orders that Donald Roy M'Donald shou'd 
 meet him late upon Sunday next or early Monday at Cam- 
 mistinavaig, without making the least mention that himself 
 had receiv'd the like orders. 
 
 I went alone to the place appointed. If the Doctor promis'd 
 to come there, why did not he goe alongst with me. I receiv'd 
 my orders from the Doctor, and the Doctor from the Prince, 
 so the Doctor ought have been more ready to execute them. 
 If the Prince's letter was directed for the Doctor, why did 
 Captain Malcom under night send a boat with it to me from 
 Raarsay to Cammistinavaig in Isle of Sky, or if he only sent 
 me a perusall why did he never ask it back. Perhaps he'll 
 say the Doctor cou'd not come to the place upon account of 
 his wound being not fully cur'd then. In objection to that, I f olt I566, 
 say his wound was thwart the two shoulder blades and cou'd 
 not infect his feet and leggs, whereas my wound was in the 
 foot, and consequently more uneasy for me in time of travelling. 
 I cou'd find several objections against Captain Malcom, but 
 what I said may be sufficient in the meantime. I know he 
 meant to robb me of the honour receiv'd of the Prince and 
 conferr the same upon the Doctor. 
 
 I allow him to tell as many lys as he pleases to his own 
 advantage, but let him tell no lys to my disadvantage while 
 I 'm in life to deny them, otherwise if I tell reall truth of him, 
 shall make him blush. He believes he cou'd aggrandize 
 himself by words since he cou'd not do it by actions. 
 
 Quae sine teste gerit, quorum fuga conscia sola est. Ov. Met. 
 L 13. 
 
 I am, reverend Sir, your most humble servant, 
 
 (Sic subscribitur) Donald MacDonald. 
 Edinburgh, May Z\st, 1750. 
 
 p.S. — In the lines made upon my lame foot, 1 where you 
 Sibilans per aura?,, mark it Volitans per auras by blotting out 
 Sibilans. 
 
 N.B. — The original of the above is to be found among 
 my Papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 1 See f. 780. 
 
 vol. in. D 
 
50 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1750 
 
 foi. 1567. Narrative of a Conversation about the Prince s 
 landing in Scotland, with Mr. Hugh Mac- 
 Donald, brother to the Laird of Moror. 1 
 
 15 June Leith, Friday, June 15th, 1750. — Mr. Hugh MacDonald, 
 
 1750 brother to the Laird of Moror, of Clanranald's family, favoured 
 
 me, Robert Forbes, with a visit, and told me that when the 
 Prince came first upon the coast of Scotland he himself was in 
 Edinburgh, and that in returning to the Highlands he 
 happened to meet with MacDonald of Kenlochmoydart 
 crossing the water of Lochy, who asked him, * What news ? 1 
 4 No news at all have I, 1 said Mr. Hugh. 4 Then,' said Kenloch- 
 moydart, 4 1 '11 give you news. You 11 see the Prince this 
 night at my house. 1 4 What Prince do you mean ? ' said Mr. 
 Hugh. 4 Prince Charles,* 1 said Kenlochmoydart. 4 You are 
 certainly joking,"' said Mr. Hugh, 4 1 cannot believe you." 
 Upon this Kenlochmoydart assured him of the truth of it. 
 4 Then, 1 said Mr. Hugh, 4 what number of men has he brought 
 along with him ? 1 4 Only seven, 1 said Kenlochmoydart. 4 What 
 foi. 1568. stock of money and arms has he brought with him then ? 1 
 said Mr. Hugh. 4 A very small stock of either, 1 said Kenloch- 
 moydart. 4 What generals or officers fitt for commanding are 
 with him ? 1 said Mr. Hugh. 4 None at all, 1 replied Kenloch- 
 moydart. Mr. Hugh said he did not like the expedition at all, 
 and was afraid of the consequences. 4 1 cannot help it, 1 said 
 Kenlochmoydart. If the matter go wrong, then I "11 certainly 
 be hanged, for I am engaged already. I have no time to spare 
 just now, as I am going with a message from the Prince to the 
 Duke of Perth. 1 They then took leave and parted. 
 
 When Mr. Hugh MacDonald came to Kenlochmoydart he 
 met there with Angus MacDonald, banker, brother to Kenloch- 
 moydart, who told him that the Prince was still on board in 
 Lochnannuagh, that he might see him to-morrow if he pleased, 
 but that he behoved to take no notice of him at all in quality 
 of a prince, as he was known to none of the crew, with whom 
 he passed for a Monsieur L'Abee, being in the habit of one. 
 
 1 Printed in Jacobite Memoirs, p. 20 et seq. See also the beginning of the 
 Appendix of Scots Magazine for 1747, and the volume for 1749, pp. 165, 166. 
 
1745] LANDING OF THE PRINCE IN MOROR 51 
 
 Next day, Angus and Mr. Hugh MacDonalds went on board the June 
 vessel in Lochnannuagh when the Prince happened to be above 
 deck, to whom Mr. Hugh made up, saluting him as an abbee, foi. i 
 welcoming him to Scotland, asking how he liked the country, 
 etc. The Prince soon learning what Mr. Hugh was, went to 
 the cabin desiring Mr. Hugh to be brought to him and dis- 
 covered himself to him, informing him upon what design he had 
 come. Upon this Mr. Hugh paid his respects to him as to a 
 prince, and begged he would be exceedingly cautious and keep 
 himself very private, as the garrison at Inverlochie was not far 
 off, and the Campbells in the neighbourhood thereof, who (all 
 of them) would be too ready to take him, and give him up to 
 his enemies, etc. ' I have no fear about that at all," said the 
 Prince. 
 
 In talking about the expedition Mr. Hugh suggested his own 
 fears as to the event, and hinted that he was afraid the Prince 
 would find it the most eligible course to return ag%in to France 
 and wait a more favourable opportunity, as he had brought no 
 forces along with him, etc. 
 
 The Prince said he did not chuse to owe the restoration of 
 his father to foreigners, but to his own friends, to whom he 
 was now come to put it in their power to have the glory of that 
 event, and as to returning again to France, foreigners should f° l - 1 
 never have it to say that he had thrown himself upon his friends, 
 that they turned their backs upon him, and that he had been 
 forced to return from them to foreign parts. In a word, if he 
 could get but six stout trusty fellows to join him, he would 
 chuse far rather to sculk with them among the mountains in 
 Scotland than to return to France. 
 
 Young Clanranald and Allan MacDonald, senior (brother to 
 Kenlochmoydart), had been dispatched by the Prince to Sir 
 Alexander MacDonald and the Laird of MacLeod, and when 
 they returned with their absolute refusal, and with instructions 
 from them to importune the Prince to return, then friends 
 became more pressing than ever in persuading a return to 
 France ; insomuch that the few that had come along with the 
 Prince (Sir Thomas Sheridan not excepted) joined in urging 
 him to return. The Prince was single in his resolution of 
 landing. Mr. Hugh MacDonald observed to the Prince that 
 
52 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 June Sir Alexander MacDonalcTs and the Laird of MacLeod's refusal 
 would make many others backward that liked the cause well 
 fol 1571. enough, and would throw a great damp upon the design. In 
 this he was supported by all present. But the Prince still 
 insisted in his resolution, and gave always the same answer as 
 above. 
 
 Dr. Archibald Cameron came from his brother Lochiel to 
 urge the Prince to return, and was very positive that Lochiel 
 would not join. To him the Prince gave likewise the same 
 answer and desired to know of MacDonald, younger of Scotus 
 (of Glengary's family), who had come of himself to pay his 
 respects to the Prince, if he would go a message from him to 
 Lochiel, and endeavour to persuade Lochiel to do his duty. 
 Young Scotus complied, and succeeded so well that he brought 
 Lochiel along with him to Borodale, the Prince being by that 
 time landed. 
 
 When Mr. Hugh MacDonald saw the Prince positive (before 
 leaving the ship) to make a trial of what could be done, he 
 importuned his young chiftain to go ashore immediately and 
 raise as many men as might be sufficient to guard the Prince's 
 person and to preserve him from being surprized by any small 
 fol. 1572. party of redcoats or Campbells that would attempt to make 
 him prisoner, for it must be remarked that Sir Alexander 
 MacDonald and the Laird of MacLeod endeavoured to 
 procure a promise from Young Clanranald not to join, and 
 indeed they prevented so far as to make him backward enough 
 in joining. But Mr. Hugh MacDonald and other friends 
 joined in persuading him to consider the urgency of the case, 
 and to consult the safety of the Prince's person, to which 
 he listened and immediately raised his following upon the 
 continent. 
 
 As Mr. Hugh MacDonald had gone off for France in 1746, 
 at the same time (though not in the same ship) with the Prince, 
 I asked him about the particular time of their setting sail. He 
 said they weighed anchor about 12 at night of September 19th, 
 or about 1 in the morning of the 20th. 1 
 
 1 See flf. 1476, 1559. 
 
1750] THE PRINCE'S LEAVING SCOTLAND 53 
 
 June %0th, 1750. — At 10 o'clock in the morning I was with 2 ojune 
 Mr. Hugh MacDonald in his own room at Edinburgh and 
 read my prima cur a (which is to be found among my 
 papers) of the preceeding narrative in his hearing, and 
 he approved of it as true and exact. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A. M. 
 
 Tuesday, July 3d, 1750. — I, Robert Forbes, received a letter foi. 1573. 
 from the Revd. Mr. James Hay at Inverness, containing 
 in it eight pages in 4to, in the handwriting of said Mr. 
 Hay, and three pages in folio in the handwriting of some 
 other person, perhaps of David Taylor, wright, in 
 Inverness, as would appear from the tenour of the 
 paper. 1 
 
 Copy of part of the foresaid Letter from the 
 Revd. Mr. James Hay at Inverness. 
 
 Reverend dear Sir, — As I have been expecting to get a 
 sure bearer, but found none, I have ventured to send the 
 inclosed by post. Pray let me know when it comes to hand. 
 
 June 30. 
 
 Copy of foresaid eight pages in 4to in the hand- 
 writing of Mr. James Hay. 
 
 Answers to your Queries. 
 
 1. Margaret Grant, a servant maid in town was commanded 
 by one in the habit of a dragoon to hold his horse on the 
 street when he went into the well-house and kilFd two 
 unarm'd men who fled there for protection. He was one who fol. 1574- 
 came there first after the battel. When Margaret Grant heard 
 the poor mens cryes she run away from the horse and at some 
 distance saw him come out and take his horse and go to Mr. 
 
 1 Printed in Jacobite Memoirs, pp. 31 1 et seq. See of this Collection 
 ff. 1425- 1435, 1482- 1492. 
 
54 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 April Hay 1 the minister s house, when he told he was a volunteer from 
 the county of Cumberland come out to feight for his religion 
 and liberty, and that he had a billot upon that house, for minis- 
 ters had always good things. He had blood upon him. His 
 name was Rea. The volunteers being abhorrd and disregard 
 by the officers who believed they did nothing but go with 
 
 storys to C d. That house was appointed by the 
 
 quartermaster for others, and Rea being turnd from one bed 
 to another was told by his landlady that she had no more beds, 
 and said he was ill rewarded. He replyd he was so. He had 
 doupt into that affair without thinking as many others had 
 done, and was it to do again they would not get one for ten. 
 foi. 1575. To which she replyed that she was very glaid. His return was 
 he believd that. He would not leave the house, was very 
 oblidging to the family. Upon his being desired by his land- 
 lady to get a youth into the kirk to see a near relation who 
 was prisoner, he went willingly and ordered the guard to let in 
 that youth. The sogar told him he was orderd to let all men 
 and boys in, but none out ; upon which Rea pulld him back, 
 and said he could not get in at that time : of which he advised 
 his landlady, which prevented others going there. The sogars 
 name cannot be known. 
 
 % The gentleman kill'd by the dragoons in Inverness was 
 James Aberdeen, merchant in Old Aberdeen, who had a wife 
 and six children. It was in Widow Davidson's house. The 
 dragoon's names cannot be known. 
 
 3. I am told Ewen M'Cay, not Kay, to be of the M'Cays of 
 Ha, an old tribe of the M'Intoshes from David son. His 
 fathers name is Donald. They lived in Lochils lands. 
 
 4. When Generall Hally commanded that all the ports in 
 foi. 1576. town should be shut that no rebell might escape, and that the 
 
 meeting house with the seditious preacher in the midle of it 
 should be burnt, Generall Husk said : It was his opinion that 
 the meeting house should be taken down and the timber given 
 to the ovens, as there was great scarcity of fireing. When 
 Pro vest Hosack said they shoud mix mercy with judgement, as 
 their enemies were now at their mercy, Hally said, 6 Damn the 
 
 ] i.e. the forementioned Revd. Mr. James Hay.— Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
1746] HAWLEY AND HUSK AT INVERNESS 55 
 
 puppie. Does he pretend to dictate to us ? Carry him away. 1 April 
 And another cryed, 6 Kick out,' which Sir Robert A or Odair 
 did on the top of the stairs with such a force that he did not 
 touch them till he was at the end of the first flat. 
 
 5. The meeting house was not burnt, but taken down. The 
 sogars went to Mrs. Hay with the books, cups, flagons, paten 
 and gown, and said they were come to give her the first offer 
 of these, because they were her own. She offerd so much, 
 which they rejected, saying their D. knew they were not to 
 work for nought. Upon which she said, He had another way 
 to pay them than by her effects. In the mean time the officers 
 forbad her to buy them for they would take her mony and fol. 1577. 
 return for them as they had done in other places. It was not 
 known that any meeting house or effects were destroyd untill 
 
 they came into town. 
 
 6. There can be no exact account got of the poisond bread. 
 The gentleman nor sogars name (I mentiond) cannot be known 
 and the person of credit had it only from hearsay. (See the 
 paper inclosed). 1 
 
 8. Lieutenant Hugh Fraser in Bleckny's regiment, Captain 
 Urquart and Lieutennant Ward in Ballero's, did all the good 
 offices in their power for the prisoners. I refer this to the paper ! 
 
 9. The young Captain who was heard more than once say 
 that he saw 72 men killed was young M'Leod. 
 
 10. Your conjecture about Belfinly is right. 
 
 11. The man who crawld from the field of battell to the 
 house of Cantray was Donald Dallas, Cantrays lieutennant. Its 
 about 2 miles. He hase recovered. 
 
 12. 2 The gentleman whose body was taken up twenty days 
 after it was coverd with a litle earth was James Dallas of Can- 
 tray, a loyall, kind, brave young man, who rais'd his company 
 at a great expence to serve his royall master. 
 
 13. The other was Alexander M'Gillevry of Dumnaglass who 
 was more than six weeks unburied, and without smell. He was fol. 1578. 
 collonell of the Clan Chatton, the Mackintoshes, in this coun- 
 try. I may add many have not produced a finer youth. Had 
 
 1 i.e. the three forementioned pages in folio. — Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 2 Should be 13. 
 
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 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1746 
 
 April all acted the part that these two gallent young gentlemen did 
 with Gallish M'Bain, major, Angus M'Intosh of Far, Alexan- 
 der M'Gillevry and Robert M'Gillevry, all three captains (who 
 fell upon the field) and the rest of that clan with some others, 
 that day would have brought forth other things than it did. 
 
 14. Alexander Young in Inches, not knowing of a battel 
 that day, was with his yok'd plough two miles from the field of 
 battel, who, upon seeing the retreat advance, he went speedily 
 towards his house, whom Kingstoun's horse followed and shot 
 in the leg, and went after him into the house and shot him 
 dead ; and a son about 8 or 9 years of age they shot also. An 
 elder son made his escape by going into the next room, and 
 making a hole in the wall, sav'd himself. The said Alexander 
 and his sons corps's were covered with earth near his house 
 untill about Christmass, when they were taken up and carried 
 to Inverness to their burriall place without any disagreeable 
 
 1579. smell. The poor disconsolate widows horses, cattle, and effects 
 were taken away, and she borrowed money to buy some of them 
 back. 
 
 15. The gentleman lying on the ground wounded was young 
 Inverallachy. It was told by the sogars that one officer of 
 
 distinction and then another were orderd by C d to shot 
 
 that man, which they refusing to do, C d inquird a 
 
 common sogar if his gun was chargd. He replying it was, 
 
 C d ordered to shot that man, which he did. His corpse 
 
 ly yet on the field of battell, a place on the opinion of some 
 of his friends preferable to the finest burriall place. 
 
 16. 'Tis impossible for me to find out the place where the 
 woman in labour of childbirth, with nine others, were burnt 
 alive, it being in the Highlands. Collonell Desaing told it in 
 Banff, and thankd God that he was not the person who com- 
 manded there ; and Mr. Jno. Stuart, the Presbyterian teacher 
 in Lochaber, told that it was true and consisted with his 
 knowledge. 1 
 
 1 I myself heard the said Mr. John Stewart (some time in Summer, 1747), 
 declare in general in the house of my Lady Bruce, in Citadel of Leith, that many 
 strange cruelties, shocking things, had been done by the redcoats in the High- 
 lands after the battle of Culloden. In Summer, 1747, the said Mr. John 
 Stewart had come up to Edinburgh with Keppoch's son, a young boy whom the 
 Duchess Dowager of Gordon had desired to have to give him his education. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A. M. 
 
1746] CRUELTIES AFTER CULLODEN 
 
 57 
 
 17. Hugh Fraser and his son, about 18 years of age, and April 
 John M'Donald were shot 1 when harrowing, by Lockhart's 
 party, in Glenmoristoun. Daldrigan was forced in a naked /<?/. i 5 8o. 
 condition to witness the hanging up of the corpses of the said 
 
 three men by the feet on a gallows. Old Lady Glenmoristoun 
 witness'd this, whose house and all her effects were burnt. The 
 first party that went to her after that, threatnd to take her 
 plaid and napkin from her, but by importunity they left them ; 
 but the second party took her napkin, and the third party her 
 plaid, so she was left destitute of both. 
 
 18. The above-named lady says she was informd that Isoble 
 M'Donald, in Glenmoristoun, 2 was ravishd by some of Major 
 Lockharts party while her husband, Alexander M'Donald 
 (skulking), did see it. And Kathrin M'Donald, in Knoidart, 
 big with child, was ravishd, with many more whose names I 
 cannot get. 
 
 19. Hugh Fraser, who had Mr. Chisholm, the Presbyterian 
 teacher in Kilmorack in the Aird, his protection, was shot dead 
 by Lockar^s orders (I always mean the famous Major), and 
 when Mr. Chisholm spoke to Lockart about him, he said he 
 would do so with him. 
 
 20. The woman brought to bed, Sunday before the battle, 
 was Elspet M'Phail, in Gask. Her husband is Donald 
 M'lntosh, and the child born on Sunday is Alexander, whom M 1581. 
 one of the dragoons took by the leg or thigh and threw it 
 about his hand, not head. 
 
 21. Paul M'Bain, near Faillie, his wife, Jean Clerk, had her 
 nose slit and head cut, out of which came severall bones. Its 
 impossible to get the officers or sogars names, for none durst 
 ask them questions. 
 
 The author 3 of the paper in folio tells me he satisfyed you 
 about the rest of the queries. 
 
 Addenda. 
 
 The women running races at Fort Augustus, having no 
 cloaths but their shirts, and women upon horses, some with 
 
 1 See f. 1680. 2 See f. 1681. 
 
 3 i.e. James Grant, merchant in Inverness, who formerly sent me a paper in 
 folio in his own handwriting. See f. 1482.— Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
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 April short coats, others with sogars coats, who, by turning of the 
 
 stoup, fell from the horses, which was fine diversion to C d 
 
 and his h — 1 — ish followers, is a certain fact which many do 
 assert. 
 
 Three men of Slanes, going to deliver up their arms at Fort 
 William, were orderd by the famous Caroline Scot to be hung 
 foi. 1582. over the miln spout with the ropes of a salmon net, which was 
 done until they died. 
 
 Lieutennant Parsons, in Blyths regement, travelld from the 
 one end of Locherchal to the other and saw not horse, catle, 
 sheep, goat, or any man or woman, untill he came to the end 
 of it, where there were in a hutt seven dead men. Upon one 
 saying to him that these men had starvd for want of food, He 
 answer'd, No. But by holding out his hand disco verd it was 
 by shoting them. 
 
 Alexander Thomson, gardener in Culloden, and William 
 Ross, grive there, declair'd that there was sixteen or seventeen 
 wounded men taken out of a byre at Culloden by a party of 
 men commanded by an officer to whom the grive applied for a 
 young boy whom he asserted coud not have carried arms. But 
 the officer said he coud not leave him. However, he left him 
 at last, and the rest were thrown into carts and waggons. The 
 persons who saw this, believing the poor wounded were to be 
 carried to the town to an hospitall, saw them taken up to the 
 foi. 1583. field of batle, where they were all shot. The officer nor sogars 
 names cannot be known. The above-named men may be 
 
 believed, as they wisrTd well to C d, of whom they would 
 
 not designdly tell a bad thing. 
 
 All the wounded on the field of batle were killd on the 
 Thursday, and the wounded in houses were carried to the field 
 on Fryday, where they were killd. 
 
 You are right about John Fraser. But, as I have no 
 acquaintance where he is, I cannot answer your queries about 
 him. 1 
 
 1 This should have been Article 12. See ff. 1429, 1577. F. 
 
1746] MEMORIAL OF DAVID TAYLOR 
 
 59 
 
 Copy of the fore-mentioned three pages in folio, 1 etc. 16 A P ni 
 
 A memoriall of David Taylor, wright in Inverness, his usage 
 and confinement after the batle of Coloden, being the 16th 
 Aprile, 1746, when many were kilFd in cold blood and att 
 three or four miles distance from the field, besides many 
 beggars they met on the high way. And next morning they 
 kilFd all the wounded that lay in the field. This I was told 
 by Ballfinlay, who was providencially saved by ane officer who foi. 1584. 
 came by when two souldiers were disputing, the one for saving 
 and the other for killing him. This officer took a cordial out 
 of his poket and gave him, and hade him carryed to the next 
 houses, and next day to an hospitall. And as the souldiers 
 were rude to him, Doctor Adare hade him and Mr. Nairn 
 carryed to a privat place, where he ordered care to be taken of 
 there wounds ; and some good gentlewomen took care to get 
 all necessaries conveyed to them. The eavening of the batle 
 they sett a litle town on fire, where they burnt a great many 
 wounded, whose bodies were a most melancholly sight next 
 day. And on the Fryday, being the third day after the batle, 
 they gathered all the wounded they found in the houses and 
 other wheres about Coloden, and carryed them to the field, 
 where they sett them in rank and shott them. 
 
 The next morning after the batle, Robert Mathies, servant 
 to Governor Caulfield, came with a partie and planted one 
 sentrie within my house, one other without, and one at my foi. 1585. 
 shope door, ordering them to let nothing out, where they con- 
 tinued for two months. About ten o'clock in the morning of 
 the day after the batle, five of Generall Blackney's officers took 
 possession of my house, where they meass'd for two months, 
 when their followers took and demolished what they pleas'd. 
 And when they left the house, they carryed be way of borrow- 
 ing all the furnitur they thought usfull for themselves, but 
 never return^ any. 
 
 On the 27th Aprile, I was taken up by ane officer and put 
 into the Tolbooth, which was full of wounded and dead men ; 27 April 
 and all the roome that twentie five of us hade was a litle 
 pleace callM the Justice of Peace loaft, and no person durst 
 come to give any support to these wounded for nine days. 
 
 1 See f. 1573. 
 
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 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1746 
 
 untill the Judge Advocat came and caus'd carry away the 
 dead, and ordred a pound of meall a day to each prisoner. 
 2 May On the 2d of May, fortie five of us were gaurded down to 
 
 foi. 1586. the harbour and ship'd aboord of a small sloup, and as the 
 sailors look'd on us from the quarter decke, the carpenter calFd 
 me and told me that their hould was alreadie full of prisoners, 
 and that how soon they came to the road we were to be divided 
 betwixt four other ships and only four of us to be keept, and 
 that they made choice of me, and desired that I should pick 
 out other three, and they would do their best for us. I 
 humbly thanked them, and told them I would. How soon we 
 came to the road it happened as they said, and in this sloup I 
 was most civily us'd. The master's name was Thomas Nicle, 
 of Alaway. He was verie good to the prisoners in generall, 
 and as their was no officer on board but a Serjeant's command, 
 I gott the favour of a dozen of prisoners on dake att once till 
 they came all by turns from morning till eaven, for they were 
 in a most miserable condition in the hould. Besides, he gave 
 them a pound of meall a day, when Walker, ship master of 
 
 foi. 1587. Leith, gave them but half a pound a day, and hade near to 
 three hunder prisoners that were sick. 
 
 On the 30th May we saiPd down to Cromertie Road where 
 I was liberated by Mr. Bruce, Judge Advocate, and after 
 comeing home I was taken up by Captain Massie (one of the 
 officers that meass'd in my house), on a second sign'd informa- 
 tion given in to Generall Blaikney. One of these signers was 
 Forsyth, merchant in Cromertie, a man that knew nothing of 
 me. Then I was put up into the clerks chamber in the Town 
 house with Messrs. Halden and Irvin, two young gentlemen 
 who dyed of their wounds. The last of June Mr. Nill of 
 Barra, Glenbuickt, younger, Doctor John M'Donald, a brother 
 of Kenloackmuider's and I were put up to a higher roome by the 
 Judge Advocat. And at the end of July orders came to ship 
 off all the remaining prisoners that were then in goale when 
 orders came to stop me from being shipt. After the prisons 
 were clean'd out I was brought over to the Tolbooth, and 
 
 foi. 1588. some wounded that were carried on blankets. After this came 
 on my greatest hardships and misery, the number of prisoners 
 daylie increass'd, and new hardships always put on us, no 
 access to us, no pen, ink, or paper alow'd. The midle of Sep- 
 
1746] TRIAL OF JACOBITE PRISONERS 61 
 
 tember my wife, my two children fell into fevers and great 15 Sept. 
 sickness, of which my wife dyed, when severall strong petitions 
 were given to General Blaickney and strong solicitations made 
 to him and any securitie he could ask for to alow me goe 
 under a guard to see my dying spouse; but his cruell heart 
 would not alow me. Tho' a minister offered to secure his 
 person in my pleace untill my return and likways offered him 
 any securitie the magistrates or town could give ; but nothing 
 would do with him. He told I was most active in the rebel- 
 lion and if I had a hunder wives dying that he would not 
 alow me go to see them without orders from Lord Albemarle. 
 Att this time and still after we are under the greatest hard- foi. 1589. 
 ships, a great number of sentries within and without. Two 
 officers (Lieutennant Jo Ward in Ballero's and Lieut ennant 
 Hugh Fraser in Bleckneys regement) confined and suspended 
 for allowing two poor women come in to the prison. 
 
 The last two days of October and first of November was my 
 tryall before the ShiriefF when a great number of witnesses 
 were examined ; when I was brought these three deferent 
 days to the town house under a strong guard, and a vast 
 number of witnesses were examined in my absence. Captain 
 Dunlop of Blaikney regiment, a Scotsman, was my principall 
 persecuter as a lawier, and did not alow the Sherrief to ask one 
 querie. He interupted me in every word I spoke, telling me 
 I was too much indulged when I hade libertie to be present at 
 the examination of a witness, and at last he told me he would 
 send for a drumstick to gagg me. This Captain Dunlop has 
 put the prisoners under all the hardships possible he could, fol 1590. 
 In December he ordred his serjeant to put out and take away 
 all our candles, and had it put in orders next day that no fire 
 or candle should be alowed into goale. In this dark condition 
 were we in untill Captain Urquharts turn came to be captain 
 of the guard, who sent his serjeant to ask if we wanted to 
 light our candles. This most be thought verie comfortable to 
 distress^ prisoners who were in the dark in this season of the 
 year I hade almost forgot Colquahoun, Fort Ajitant, who satt 
 the whole time of my precognition, starting a great many new 
 articles not lybelled, but non of the witnesses could say, but 
 they were all pointedly payd their wages, nor was their a 
 shilling to be asked by any workman or labourer or for 
 
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 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1747 
 
 materialls of any kind within the town of Inverness so far as I 
 could find out before the Prince and his armie went to the 
 field. 
 
 23 April On the 23d of Aprile 1747 I was sett at libertie by the 
 foi. 1591. return of a petition sent to my Lord Justice Clerk upon 
 giveing a thousand merk beall. 
 
 Severall ladies, gentlewomen and others in this town were 
 verie kind to the prisoners. Some both cloath'd and fed the 
 poorer sort and severall contributions of money were sent the 
 gentlemen ; and their would have been a great many more 
 good deeds of this kind done them hade it not been the terror 
 that Dunlop and those of his disposition put them under. 
 
 N.B. — The original of the Revd. Mr. Hay's fore- 
 mentioned letter to me, and the original of the fore- 
 mentioned eight pages in 4to in the handwriting of the 
 said Mr. Hay, and the original of the forementioned three 
 pages in folio are to be found among my papers. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A. M. 
 
 pi. 1592. Copy of a Letter to Miss Flora MacDonald 
 at Armadale in the Isle of Sky. 
 
 I \j$o f Madam, — The agreeable accounts of your safe arrival at 
 Armadale by your letter to Miss Main, afforded me no small 
 pleasure, as I will ever think myself interested in every event 
 of life that happens to Miss Flora MacDonald whether pros- 
 perous or adverse ; a mixture of which we must pass through 
 in this lower state, which is a chequered scene at best. You 
 have already experienced both sides of fortune, and your con- 
 duct in each of them has engaged the attention of the public, 
 and has justly entitled you to the esteem of every well think- 
 ing person. You have had a recent instance of that blending 
 of sweet and bitter which inseparably attends the transactions 
 foi. 1593. of human life. Methinks I feel somewhat of that mixture of joy 
 and grief which would ensue upon your first meeting with your 
 mother, — joy to see one another once more in health and 
 safety, but grief in your mutual condolences for the affecting 
 loss of two hopeful youths : if we dare take upon our selves 
 
1750] LETTER TO FLORA MACDONALD 63 
 
 to call any thing a loss that comes from the unerring appoint- n July 
 ment of Heaven. May God support you both under the 
 trying affliction and grant all concerned in it the happy and 
 proper effects of it. 
 
 Your friend and fellow-adventurer, Donald Roy MacDonald, 
 was lately with me aud asked very kindly about you. He 
 returned to Glasgow and is in a good way of getting into 
 business again. 
 
 There are many worthy persons in your corner of the world 
 for whom I entertain a great veneration. Pray be so good as foU 1594- 
 to remember me kindly to them when they happen to come in 
 your way. I beg leave to name some of them. Present then 
 my most respectful and best wishes to Armadale and your 
 mother, Rasay and his family and Malcolm MacLeod, Kings- 
 borrow and his family, MacKinnon and his lady, Balshar and 
 Milton, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc. I heartily wish you all things 
 good and happy, and sincerely am, Madam, your most affec- 
 tionate friend and very humble servant, Robert Forbes. 
 
 Leith, July \Mh, 1750. 
 
 Copy of part of a Letter received August 10th 10 Aug. 
 1750 (inclosing a Latin poem) from Captain / 0 i. 1595. 
 Donald Roy MacDonald, to me, Robert 
 Forbes, directed thus : To Mr. Donald Hate- 
 breex, etc., but had no date, he being then in 
 Glasgow. 1 
 
 Reverend Sir, — You have inclos'd the product of some idle 
 hours concerning the year — 46. I am, Revd. Sir, your most 
 humble servant, 
 
 (Sic subscribitur) Donald Macdonald. 
 
 In Homicidiam inclementissimum C a D m sub 
 
 nomine Neronis. 
 I satia mentem timidam, faucesque voraces, 
 Sanguine civili flagitiose Nero. 
 
 1 See f. 1564. 
 
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 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1750 
 
 Quis nisi vel timid us vel qui coelestia spernit 
 
 Numina devictos caedere victor avet. 
 Tu bene de patria meritos suspende, securi 
 
 Percute, semineces dilaniaque viros. 
 Orphanos, viduas, spolia, nec parce senecta 
 
 Scevitiam vestram sexus uterque ferat. 
 Justa propositis et quae potes omnia, ferro 
 
 Fatifero et flam ma perde flagrante loca. 
 Quaque feres gressus, laniantia telaque ; parias 
 
 Egregio nulli magne tyranne viro. 
 At tibi judicium non evitabile, vestris 
 
 Viribus invitis, haud procul esse scias. 
 fol. 1596. Ultio te divina brevi captabit, iniquis 
 
 Debita turn factis praemia nactus eris. 
 Sit tuus invisum, rivalem cernere casus, 
 
 Gestantem, pulso te, diadema patrum. 
 Splendeat in solio, superatis hostibus, aequa 
 
 Mente suum populum, justiciaque regens. 
 Sit tibi dispar amet cives, patriamque ; propinquis 
 
 Regibus incutiat marte feroce metum. 
 
 N.B. — The originals of the above are to be found 
 among my papers. Robert Forbes, M.A. 
 
 29 Aug. At Leith, Wednesday, August 29th, 1750, the Reverend Mr. 
 
 George Innes at Forres was with me, Robert Forbes, and 
 delivered into my hands the original letter of William 
 Jack, an exact copy of which is as follows. 1 
 
 17 March Gentlemen, — This comes to acquant you that I was eight 
 1747 mounths and eight days on sea, of which time I was eight weeks 
 upon half pound and 12 ounces oat meall and a botle of watter in 
 the twenty four hours, which we was oblig'd to make meall and 
 
 fol. 1597. water in the botam of ane old botle. Ther was one hunder 
 and twenty five put on board at Inverness one the James and 
 Mary of Fyfe. In the letter end of Jun we was put board of a 
 
 1 See ff. 1503, 1509, 1520. 
 
1746] ORIGINAL LETTER BY WILLIAM JACK 65 
 
 tranceport four hunder and fifty tuns called the Liberty and June. 
 Property, which we containued the rest of the eight mounths 
 upon twelve ounces of oat shilling as it came from the milln. 
 There was thirty two prisoners more put a board of the said 
 Liberty and Property, which makes on hundered and fifty seven, 
 and when wee came a shore we was but forty nine in life ; 
 which would been no great surprise if there hade not been on, 
 conform to our ousages. They would taken us from the hold 
 in a rope and hysed us to the yeards arme and let us fall in the 
 sea in order for ducking of us, 1 and tying us to the mast and 
 whiping us if we but made watter in the hold. This was done 
 to us when wee was not able to stand. I will leave it to the 
 readers to judge what condition they might been in themselves 
 with the above treatment. We hade neather bede nor bed 
 cloaths nor cloaths to keep us warm in the daytime. The foi. i< 
 shipes ballast was black earth and small stons, which wee was 
 obliged digge hols to ly in too for to keep us warm till the 
 first day of November that every man gote about three yards 
 of gross harn filled with straw, but no bed cloaths. I will not 
 trouble you ane more till I see you. There is none in life that 
 went from Elgin with me but William Innes in Fochabers. 
 James Brander Smith in Conloch dyed seven mounths agoe. 
 Alexander Frigg dyed in Cromarty Road. Jo Kintrea that 
 lived in Longebride dyed also. 
 
 During all this time I was but in a bade state of health. 
 But blissed be God I 'm in a pritty good steat of health at 
 preasant in spyte of my enimes, those I mean who pretended 
 some time ago to be my frinds supose they proved otherways. 
 But its possable Fie make them a sutiball recompence sooner 
 then they expect. But I know some of them will 2 strive to fol 15' 
 
 1 See f. 1786. 
 
 2 Here begins vol. viii. of The Lyon in Mourning. It is entitled : ' The 
 Lyon in Mourning, or a Collection (as exactly made as the iniquity of the 
 times would permit) of Speeches, Letters, Journals, etc., relative to the Affairs, 
 but more particularly the dangers and distresses of ... . 
 
 Vol. 8th, 1750. 
 
 Exultat, ah I princeps quo non prcestantior alter 
 Dignior aut sceptro, gens male sana tuo. 
 
 The following original letter is attached to the front board of vol. viii. : 
 [Toni]ll Macdonalds respectfull compliments [to] Mr. and Mrs. Forbes, and 
 VOL. III. E 
 
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 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1747 
 
 17 March, serine themselves with some shadow or other. But all there 
 reatrick will not take place, for once they gote me apprehended 
 and put one board they thought they hade the ball at there 
 foot, expecting they should never see me more. 
 
 Be so good as to acquant the clerke that I leaft playing at 
 cairds that he will see his frind werie soon, and that his cautioner 
 in his suspenchan will take his head out of the pock with great 
 deficualty; and that Mr. James Falconer is in good health 
 and remaines on board of a shipe called the James and Mary, 
 lying off Tilbury Fort. Be so good as to acquaint my father 
 I received his letter in the first of February last, and will write 
 him wery soon. Our newes gives ws account that the French 
 since there war hase taken on thousand two hundred and up- 
 wards of our shipping. 
 
 Pray be so good as give my complements to all my reall 
 foi. 1600. frinds, not forgetting any of you and your famielys. I ame, 
 gentelmen, your most humble servant, 
 
 (Sic subscribitur) Wm. Jack. 
 
 Tilbury Fort, 17th March 1747. 
 
 P.S. — I keepe full as good heart as ever, and hase done 
 during all my confinement, ye, ewen when I was in a very bade 
 sutituation. If it hade not ben so, I should not been in life, 
 for the fish of the sea should got my bones to gnaw, for they 
 could not got nothing else. From such another sight, good 
 Lord, deliver me ! for its impossable to descrive the condition 
 
 is extreamly [grievjed at the disagreeable news [he] had last post from the 
 Highlands, which he cannot omitt communicating to Mr. Forbes, as he is fully 
 convinced he will have an equall share of concern for the unexpected death of 
 the good and truly worthy man Glenalladale. He died on a remarkable day, 
 the 30th January, and was interred Wednesday last. To sum up his character, 
 with which Mr. Forbes was not unacquainted, he was THE honest man, and 
 few such, if any, remain behind him in that country. 
 
 His eldest son, who is yet under age, is at his education at the College of 
 Ratisbon. His facher ordered him home some months ago, and I'm told he has 
 devolved the whole charges of him and his affairs on me, which must oblige me, 
 by all appearance, go there in the Spring. I know you '11 esteem the son for the 
 deserts of the father, and when he comes to Scotland he shall be made known to 
 you. When Mr. Forbes calls in town would gladly see him. 
 
 Monday, 9 o'clock. [Added by R. F., ' Febry. 9th, 1761.'] 
 
 Addressed — To the Rev. Mr. Forbes, at his house, South Leith. 
 
1747] MISS FLORA MACDONALD 
 
 67 
 
 we was all unto, for you should thought we hade no interalls 17 March 
 within us, and all our jointes of our bodie as perceptele as if 
 we were cute out in wood or stone. William, be so good as 
 give my service to your brother, wife, and daughter. God be 
 with you all. Tell also my father I gote the bill from Mr. 
 King. 
 
 N.B. — The original of the preceding letter is to be 
 found among my papers, directed thus : To Mesurs. 
 James Sutherland, Alexander Skeen, Alexander Alves, f oL l601 - 
 James Peterkin, and William Griger in Elgin, N. Britain. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 From the Latin of Dr. King. 1 
 
 Here, too, the beauteous Flora's taught t' assume, 
 Than ere the goddess knew a brighter bloom. 
 The faithful canvass softens with her smile, 
 Who in the royal youth preserved the Isle. 
 She led thro" treach'rous firths and ev'ry storm 
 The hero lurking in the handmaid's form. 
 O born to better fate ! O Heaven design'd 
 To succour nations and preserve mankind. 
 So to her son, as thro the wilds he stray 'd, 
 The Cyprian goddess shone a sudden aid. 
 A veil of thick'ned air around she pours 
 And safely lands in Carthage lofty towrs. 
 What thanks, O wondrous maid, to thee we owe ! 
 As long as verse shall soar or canvass glow 
 So long thy name, thy praises shall remain, 
 The pencil's labour and the poet's strain. 
 
 October 1st, 1750. — Copies of the two following had I, Robert f oL 1602 
 Forbes, transmitted to me from Mr. J — s E — n, in Edin- 
 burgh. 
 
 Ipsemet ecce Heros ! summa ad penetralia surgens, 
 
 C us efFulget, spiratque coloribus arte 
 
 Eximia, et celebrem pictura fatetur Apellem. 
 
 1 See f. 162 1. 
 
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 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 t Oct. Qualis heros ! Quantus blando decor enitet ore ! 
 
 Et vigor exurgens, et vividus ignis ocellis 
 Fulgurat, egregioque sedet constantia vultu. 
 O virtus invicta malis ! O inclyte pr[ince]ps ! 
 Consilioque gravi, saevoque in marte potentem, 
 Te caneret Musa, et Phoebi te carmine dignum ; 
 Conscia sed metuit, cceptis ingentibus impar. 
 
 From the Latin of Dr. King upon the Princess picture by J. E. 
 
 But, lo ! the Heroe meets our wishing eyes. 
 
 See C s himself in living colours rise ! 
 
 Such master art seems nature to command, 
 
 The glowing canvass owns ApelWs hand. 
 
 What god-like man ! what sweetness mixM with grace ! 
 
 What vigour flushes in the princely face ! 
 
 What spirit sparkles in the radiant eyes ! 
 
 What bold sedateness foes and fiends defies ! 
 
 O virtue unsubdu'd ! O glorious prince ! 
 
 Thy fame nor pen nor pencil needs evince. 
 
 Yet thee, in council sage, in battle strong, 
 
 Thee, highly worthy our Apollo's song, 
 
 Thee, undated with the first success, 
 
 Thee, undetected in the last distress, 
 
 Thee, fain the Muse would sing, but wise refrains, 
 
 Unus'd, unequal to exalted strains. 
 
 Copy of a Letter from a Gentleman in London to 
 ?/ 1603 his Friend at Bath. 1 
 
 17 Sept. Sir, — Before I set out for Scotland you may remember you 
 importuned me to make inquiry about several remarkable trans- 
 
 1 This letter, which, as will afterwards be seen, is from Bishop Forbes himself, 
 was written with the object of endeavouring to incite the Government to make 
 inquiry into the cruelties in the Highlands. It is printed in Jacobite Memoirs y 
 p. 325 et seq. 
 
1746] LETTER BY BISHOP FORBES 69 
 
 actions within a certain memorable period of time, particularly 
 the case of John (Alexander) Fraser, 1 the printed account of 
 which is looked upon by many in England as wild and romantic. 
 In compliance with your repeated desires, I made it my busi- 
 ness to find out the truth, and (woe 's me !) I discovered much 
 more than ever I imagined to have been done. The printed 
 account of John (Alexander) Fraser's case is not only literally 
 true, but likewise there are several remarkable circumstances 
 in his history not yet known in England. I shall endeavour 
 to give you a specimen of my discoveries, such as is consistent 
 with the bounds of a letter, for to give the whole would serve 
 to make up a volume. 
 
 John (Alexander) Fraser, commonly called Maclver, an officer 16 April, 
 in the regiment commanded by the Honourable the Master of 
 Lovat, was about the beginning of the battle upon Drummossie 
 Muir shot through the knee, and was carried off in the heat of 
 the action to a park wall pointing towards the house of 
 Culloden. Some short time after the battle, he and about / 0 i. 1604. 
 eighteen other wounded officers of the Highland army (who 
 had made their escape towards a small plantation of wood in 
 the neighbourhood of the place where Fraser was lying) were 
 carried to the area of Culloden House, where they remained 
 two days in the utmost torture, wallowing in their own blood, 
 and without any the smallest assistance from physician or 
 surgeon ; but they met with very kind and compassionate treat- 
 ment from one of President Forbes's doers, Mr. Thomas Stewart, 
 who performed acts of beneficence to the wounded in and about 
 the House of Culloden, at the hazard of his own life. Upon 
 the third day, Fraser and his companions were tied with ropes 
 and thrown into carts, and then carried to a park wall at some 
 small distance from Culloden House. There they were dragged 
 out of the carts like dogs by the soldiers, and ranged in order 
 close along the park wall. Then the commanding officer of the 
 party cried to the unhappy gentlemen to prepare for death, 
 and those who had any use of their limbs, fell down upon their 
 knees and began to pray to God for mercy to their poor souls. 
 But alas ! (Horresco referens !) they were scarce allowed any 
 
 1 See f. 1239. 
 
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 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1746 
 
 18 April, time for that purpose, for in a minute the soldiers received the 
 foi. 1605. word of command to levell their pieces and to give fire! which was 
 instantly done ; and as they were posted at the distance only 
 of two or three yards from the breasts of the prisoners, they 
 could not well fail to perform the service compleatly. How- 
 ever, that this butchery in cold blood should be performed in 
 the most leisurely way, and to make sure work on't, the com- 
 manding officer gave orders to the soldiers to club their muskets 
 and to dash out the brains of such as were not quite dead ; 
 which accordingly was done to the best of their observation. 
 Most of them expired in an instant, and needed not a knock on 
 the head, but though Mr. Fraser had received a shot, yet he 
 was still in life, which one of the soldiers observing, he struck 
 Fraser on the face with the butt of his musquet, broke the 
 upper part of his nose and cheek bone, dashed out one of his 
 eyes, and left him for dead. All this exactness of procedure 
 proved vain and ineffectual as to Mr. Fraser, who appears to 
 have been pointed out by Heaven not to fall a victim at this 
 time to enfuriate rage and cruelty, but to live a monument of 
 such a deliberate massacre as would make the remotest savages 
 toi. 1606. blush at the infamy. The slaughter thus finished, the soldiers 
 went off and left the dead bodies above ground. Lord Boyd 
 happening to ride out that way, and seeing so many dead 
 bodies, turned his eyes towards them with some attention. One 
 of them he spied at a small distance from the rest, and observ- 
 ing him to be in life, called out to him and desired to know 
 what he was. The poor mangled man answered that his name 
 was John (Alexander) Fraser, and that he had been an officer 
 in the Master of Lovat's regiment. Lord Boyd said he was 
 well acquainted with his colonel, and made an offer of money 
 to him. Mr. Fraser thanked him, and told him he had no use 
 for money, but begged him, for God's sake, to cause his servant 
 either put an end to his miserable life, or carry him to a cottage at 
 a small distance, which he named. The first part of the request 
 was not a little shocking to this young Lord, but he ordered 
 his servant to carry Mr. Fraser to the place he had named, 
 where he lay concealed in the bottom of a kiln for about three 
 months, in which time (under God), with the assistance of his 
 compassionate landlord, he became so well recovered of his 
 
1746] THE CASE OF ALEXANDER FRASER 71 
 
 several wounds and bruises, as to be able to step about upon 18 April, 
 crutches, and is still a living object and witness of this interest- foi. 1607. 
 ing dismal narrative I now transmit to you. 
 
 To render his case still worse and worse, upon returning to 
 his own house, poor Mr. Fraser found his wife and children 
 stript of all they had in the world by the soldiery, and making 
 ready to beg their bread from door to door. What heart is 
 there so steeFd in wickedness as not to drop a tear? But, 
 behold ! admire and adore the wonderful hand of Providence, 
 that brings about unexpected reliefs in the greatest extremities 
 of distress. While Mr. Fraser is sorrowfully viewing the desola- 
 tion of his empty house, and weeping over the miseries of his 
 hungry and starving family, he receives a letter advising him 
 that his wife's brother (a surgeon by profession) had died in 
 France, and by his will, in the hands of trustees in London, had 
 bequeathed to his sister, Mrs. Fraser, upwards of four hundred 
 pounds sterling, which sum Mr. Fraser accordingly received 
 payment of some time in the month of May 1748, from the 
 hands of an attorney in Edinburgh. A most providential and 
 seasonable supply indeed ! and which serves to make out a 
 moderate subsistence for him in his present miserable state of f 0 i. 1608. 
 body, deprived of the use of his limbs, one of his eyes, and 
 being lame too in one of his arms. 
 
 Upon Thursday, the day after the battle, a party was ordered 
 to the field of battle to put to death all the wounded they 
 should find upon it, which accordingly they performed with 
 the greatest dispatch and the utmost exactness, carrying the 
 wounded from the several parts of the field to two or three 
 spots of rising ground, where they ranged them in due order, 
 and instantly shot them dead. 
 
 Upon the day following (Friday) parties were ordered to go 
 and search for the wounded in houses in the neighbourhood of 
 the field, to carry them to the field, and there to kill them, 
 which they did, as in the case of John (Alexander) Fraser and 
 his fellow prisoners. To the honour of some particular officers 
 (whom I could name) be it remarked that by their clemency 
 some few of the wounded were saved. 
 
 John MacLeod of MacLeod, junior, Esquire, has had the 
 
72 
 
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 April, honesty and courage to declare oftener than once, that he him- 
 
 1609. self saw seventy two killed in cold blood. 
 
 At a small distance from the field there was a hut for shelter- 
 ing sheep and goats in cold and stormy weather. To this hut 
 some of the wounded men had crawled, but were soon found 
 out by the soldiery, who (immediately upon the discovery) 
 made sure the door, and set fire to several parts of the hut, so 
 that all within it perished in the flames, to the number of 
 between thirty and forty persons, among whom were some 
 beggars, who had been spectators of the battle, in hopes of 
 sharing in the plunder. Many people went and viewed the 
 smothered and scorched bodies among the rubbish of the hut. 
 Sure the poor beggars could not be deemed rebels in any sense 
 whatsoever. 
 
 In several parts of the Highlands in Scotland the soldiery 
 spared neither man, woman, nor child, particularly those under 
 the command of Major Lockheart, Caroline Scott, etc. The 
 hoary head, the tender mother and the weeping infant, behoved 
 to share in the general wreck, and to fall victims to rage and 
 , T 6io. cruelty by the musquet, the bloody bayonet, the devouring 
 flame, or famishing hunger and cold ! In a word, the troops 
 sported with cruelty. They marched through scenes of woe, 
 and marked their steps with blood. Believe me, Sir, this is 
 far from exaggerating. It is in my power to condescend upon 
 particular instances of these more than Neronian cruelties, 
 which I am ready to do when called upon by proper authority 
 to bring to light, not the hidden things of darkness, but 
 monstrous transactions that were deliberately perpetrated in 
 face of the sun by gentlemen and (shall I say it ?) Christians ! 
 In all I have said, I have omitted one thing, which is that 
 even the yet unborn babe (I tremble to narrate it !) felt the 
 effects of the fury of our military butchers. 
 
 I am afraid I have been too long upon the gloom, and 
 therefore I shall shift the scene a little, and touch upon some- 
 thing that is farcical, if I dare take upon me to call anything 
 farcical that rubs upon dignities. But if dignities will affront 
 and insult dignities, let them answer for it at whose door the 
 blame lies. 
 
 . 161 1. When John Fraser, Esquire, the then Lord Mayor (in Scotch 
 
1746] CONDUCT OF THE GOVERNMENT TROOPS 73 
 
 — Provost) of Inverness, and the aldermen (attended by Mr. April 
 Hossack, the then late Lord Mayor), went to pay their levee 
 to the Duke of Cumberland, the Generals Hawley and Husk 
 happened to be deliberating and making out orders about 
 slaying the wounded upon the field of battle, etc., Mr. Hossack 
 (a man of humanity, and the Sir Robert Walpole of Inverness, 
 under the direction of President Forbes) could not witness 
 such a prodigy of intended wickedness without saying some- 
 thing, and therefore, making a low bow to the generals, he 
 spoke thus: 'As his Majesty troops have been happily suc- 
 cessful against the rebels, I hope your excellencies will be so 
 good as to mingle mercy with judgment. 1 Upon which this 
 General Hawley bawled out, 4 Damn the puppy ! Does he 
 pretend to dictate here ? Carry him away." Another cried : 
 4 Kick him out ! Kick him out ! 1 The orders were instantly 
 and literally obeyed, for good Mr. Hossack received kicks upon 
 kicks, and Sir Robert Adair had the honour to give him the 
 last kick upon the top of the stair to such purpose, that Mr. 
 Hossack never touched a single step till he was at the bottom foi. 1612. 
 of the first flat, from which he tumbled headlong down to the 
 foot of all the sjtair, and then was he discreetly taken up and 
 carried to the Provo's guard. A notable reward for zeal, in 
 which Mr. Hossack was warm enough, but with discretion and 
 good nature, as I was informed. 
 
 But this is not all. Mr. Mayor himself (John Fraser) behoved 
 to have a specimen of their good sense and genteel manners ; 
 for he was taken from dinner at his own table by an officer and 
 some musqueteers with a volley of oaths and imprecations to a 
 stable, and was ordered to clean it instantly upon his peril. 
 Mr. Mayor said he never cleaned his own stable, and why 
 should he clean that of any other person ? After some debate 
 upon the dirty subject, Mr. Fraser was at last indulged the 
 privilege to get some fellows to clean the stable. However, he 
 was obliged to stand a considerable time almost to the ancles 
 in dirt, and see the dirty service performed ! O notable treat- 
 ment of a king's lieutenant ! 
 
 This singularity of military conduct towards Messrs. Hossack fol 1613. 
 and Fraser is the more amazing as none in Great Britain can 
 be more firmly attached to the present establishment as settled 
 
74 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 April, in the illustrious House of Hanover than they are. But whether 
 or not, this unaccountable treatment has thrown a dash of 
 lukewarmness into their zeal I shall not take upon me to 
 determine. Had it been my case, I am afraid my zeal would 
 have turned as chill as ice itself. 
 
 The wanton youngsters in and about Inverness distinguish 
 these two gentlemen by the names of the Kick-provost, and of 
 the Muck or Dirt-provost. 
 
 Several others who were zealous friends to the Government 
 were thrown into jayl at the same time with Mr. Hossack. 
 Liberty and Property with a witness ! mere empty sounds 
 without a meaning. 
 
 In the north of Scotland I happened to fall in with a vener- 
 able old gentleman, an honest Whig, who looking me seriously 
 in the face asked if the Duke of Cumberland was not a Jacobite. 
 4 A Jacobite ! ' said I. 4 How comes that in your head ? ' ' Sure," 
 foi. 1614. re pli e( J the old gentleman, 6 the warmest zealot in the interest 
 of the Prince could not possibly devise more proper methods 
 for sowing the seeds of Jacobitism and disaffection than the 
 Duke of Cumberland did. I wish I could draw a veil over the 
 shocking cruelties and many other illegal doings committed by 
 the army under his command. These I pass over as now too 
 well known for me to insist upon. But what do you think of 
 the unaccountable treatment of Messrs. Hossack and Fraser, 
 and of some other honest whigs who could have hazarded all 
 in support of the present Government ? Above all, what do 
 you think of the return the Lord President of the Court of 
 Session, the sagacious Duncan, met with for all his remarkable 
 services ? Remarkable indeed they were, and yet the utmost 
 scorn and contempt he had in return for them ! When his 
 Lordship was paying his levee to the Duke of Cumberland at 
 Inverness, he thought fit (as it well became his character and 
 station) to make mention of the laws of the country, etc. To 
 which the Duke of Cumberland was pleased to say, " The Laws 
 of the Country, my Lord ! I '11 make a brigade give laws, by 
 foU 1615. G — d!" A plain indication this of a hearty desire to introduce a 
 military government. It was well," continued the old gentle- 
 man, 4 that President Forbes escaped a kicking-bout, as the 
 Duke of Cumberland uses his friends with freedom. For my 
 
1750] A PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY WANTED 75 
 
 own part, 1 added he, 6 1 would not wish to be the person that 17 Sept. 
 had received the sage advice of the sagacious Duncan with 
 derision, because it would have been a lasting imputation upon 
 my judgment and discretion. For certain it is that his Lord- 
 ship was a gentleman of very extraordinary and uncommon 
 parts, and had an extensive knowledge of men and books. It 
 was not beneath the dignity of a crowned head to listen to his 
 words. He was one of a very high spirit, and the usage he 
 met with for all his services, joined with the miseries of his 
 country, bore so hard upon him that it is indeed a prevailing 
 opinion among us in Scotland that he died of heart-break. 1 
 Thus spoke the old honest Scotch Whig, and I must own, I 
 found myself unable to make him any return. 
 
 I am quite tired with writing, and by the time you come this 
 length I doubt not but you will be tired with reading. For I fbl 1616. 
 know you are not much in concert with long letters. However, 
 I find an inclination to say still some few words more. 
 
 Do you think, Sir, that the wisdom of the nation could be 
 better employed than in engaging their attention to bring 
 about a Parliamentary inquiry into the uncommon doings that 
 happened to be transacted in Scotland by our gentlemen of the 
 sword in 1746. Sure I am there is much need for such a 
 procedure. Suppose a man to be a rebel, a murderer of father 
 and mother — the most flagitious wretch the sun ever shone 
 upon, yet, I hope, even this very wretch should be put to death 
 only by the laws of the land, and not be knocked in the head 
 instantly without trial, without proof, without doom or law. 
 It is a maxim of wisdom : Better ten guilty escape than one 
 innocent suffer. But, perhaps (through the degeneracy of the 
 times), this is now inverted into a political maxim : Better ten 
 innocent suffer than one guilty escape. If this be our case, then fol. 1617. 
 every free Briton (falsely so called) has reason to lament his 
 condition in sackcloath and ashes. It is an excellent proverb : 
 When our neighbour's house is on fire it is high time to be look- 
 ing to ourselves. Many of our fellow subjects in Scotland have 
 suffered death itself in a most barbarous, illegal manner, and, God 
 knows, how soon we in England may come to feel the same 
 effects of military, lawless power. We have already had a very 
 odd piece of military conduct in Shrewsbury, and how far the 
 
76 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1750 
 
 Sept. frenzy may spread, where is he can tell ? unless a timely stop 
 be put to the prevailing military madness. Woe's me ! that 
 our protectors should so far forget themselves as to become our 
 cut-throats. To make such a parliamentary inquiry, the more 
 disinterested and free of all suspicion of any biass whatsomever 
 on the part of the sufferers, be it humbly proposed that not a 
 single Highlander (those Highlanders only excepted who served 
 under the Duke of Cumberland) should be admitted as a 
 evidence, but let the whole affair be examined into by the 
 affidavits of the Presbyterian parsons in and about Inverness, 
 of the Mayor and Aldermen of Inverness for the year 1746, of 
 
 1618. the other inhabitants in Inverness whose firm attachment to 
 the present Establishment can admit of no dispute, of the 
 gentlemen and soldiery that appeared on Drummossie Muir 
 under the command of the Duke of Cumberland, and of the 
 servants of the late Lord President Forbes of Culloden. — I am, 
 Sir, your humble servant, etc. 
 London, September 17th, 1750. 
 
 N.B. — Leith, Monday morning, 8 o'clock, October 22d 
 1750. I delivered the original of the preceding letter to 
 Robert Chessor, staymaker in Edinburgh, to be by him 
 carefully transmitted to James Bayne, taylor in the Strand, 
 London. Meantime I ordered the said Chessor to write 
 in his own letter to the said Bayne the following words 
 precisely, of which I gave him an exact copy. ' I now 
 transmit to you much more than you desired, 1 with full 
 liberty from the author to publish it to the world in as 
 prudent and cautious a manner as possible, and in the 
 same form in which you receive it, viz., as a letter from a 
 gentleman in London to his friend at Bath. He bids me 
 assure you that every sentence is strictly and literally true 
 as to the facts mentioned, all which could be proved as 
 
 1 Some time in Summer of 1750, the said James Bayne was in Scotland and 
 called for me, Robert Forbes, when we had a conversation about the case of 
 John (Alexander) Fraser, the printed account of which (as he said), met with 
 little credit in England. I told him it was all fact, but that it was by far too 
 short. Then he begged to have a full account of it, and this became the founda- 
 tion of the preceding letter from me. — Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
1750] THE PRINTING OF THE LETTER 
 
 77 
 
 clear as the light, and, indeed, much more than he has 22 Oct. 
 said. He expressly forbids you ever to mention his name 
 in the matter to any person whatsomever, and, therefore, 
 you must not let it be known from whom you have the 
 paper. He is desirous that even you yourself should be as 
 little seen in the publication as possible for your own 
 safety whatever may happen, and that any Scoticism in the foi 1619. 
 language may be corrected, but that not a single sentence 
 of what he has said be left out."' 
 
 Bayne informed Chessor that the paper was published 
 at London some time in the month of February 1750/1. 
 Upon this Chessor writ to Bayne desiring to have some 
 few copies, and at length after writing five or six letters, 
 Chessor received twelve copies (by a private hand) sealed 
 and directed to himself, upon Wednesday, August 21st, 
 175L Upon Thursday, August 22nd, Chessor waited upon 
 me and delivered to me the said twelve copies, four of 
 which I returned to him, and one I dispatched by him to 
 William Gordon, Bookseller in Edinburgh, in order to 
 have it reprinted there, which accordingly was done, and 
 several hundreds were cast off privately, and as privately 
 
 Robert Forbes A.M. 
 
 N.B. — Mr. David Chisholm, Presbyterian minister at 
 Kilmorack in the shire of Inverness, when in Edinburgh 
 at the General Assembly in May 1758, told that said 
 Fraser or Maclver still lives in said parish of Kilmorack, 
 at a place called Wellhouse ; that his name is Alexander 
 and not John ; that the preceeding account of said Fraser 
 was all literally true, as he had seen the printed copy of 
 it ; and that he himself, Mr. Chisholm, is a blood relation 
 to said Alexander Maclver's wife. 1 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Lines ft to be placed below the Prince's picture. Composed by f oL l62 °- 
 the Rev. Mr. G. U 
 When Heav'n would form a hero truly great, 
 It often trains him in a sufFring state. 
 
 1 See f. 1242. 
 
 2 Evidently George Innes. 
 
78 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 To greatest danger does his life expose, 
 Yet always saves him from his numerous foes. 
 And shews at last to thoughtless, giddy men, 
 That Heaven ne'er works its miracles in vain. 
 
 An acrostick by the same hand. 
 
 Make room below ! Here comes a mighty don ! 
 
 A soul that claims a place near Satan's throne. 
 
 Crimes of the deepest dye his worth proclaim. 
 
 Lewd, cowrdly traitor speaks but half his fame. 
 
 Ev'n bloody monsters held him in disgrace. 
 
 O Judas ! thou wast painted in his face ! 
 
 Down with the traitor then with Judas to his place. 
 
 foi. 162 1. By Dr. King of Oxford upon seeing Miss Flora Mac Donald's 
 
 Picture. 
 
 Hie calamo simulata viget pulcherrima Flora, 
 Nata Donaldorum, servatrix Principis. Ilia 
 Per mare, per scopulos, per multa periclaque duxit 
 Mentitum ancillam juvenem, melioribus annis 
 Servatum fato, regnis succurrere avitis. 
 Sic Venus iEneam per devia lustra vagantem 
 Obscuro nebulae, circum dea fudit amictu, 
 Incolumemque altas tulit ad Carthagenis arces. 
 Quae tibi pro tantis non debita ? Semper amata 
 Semper honorata, insignissima Virgo, manebis. 
 
 Wednesday, November 91st, 1750. — I, Robert Forbes, received 
 a letter from my worthy Donald Roy MacDonald (dated at 
 foi. 1622 Glasgow, November 16th, 1750), which he ended with the 
 
 following. 
 
 P.S. 
 
 Esto memor nobis transmittere, chare Roberte 
 De Carolo quicquid tu novitatis habes. 
 
 Vale. 
 
 In forementioned letter he sent me inclosed a Latin poem 
 in his own handwriting, and of his own composing, an 
 exact copy of which is as follows. 
 
1750] DONALD ROY MACDONALD 79 
 
 Montanus patriis vestimentis privates, ad libertatem recuperandam 2 i Nov. 
 Scotos hortatur. 
 
 Haccine libertas toties promissa Britannis, 
 
 Quae facit ut Vestis nos peregrina tegat ? 
 Vestibus antiquis rutilis spoliamur et armis, 
 
 Num gens servitium libera tale feret ? 
 Signa sequi nolet miles regalia, qui non 
 
 Pro victu aut cultu bella cruenta geret. 
 Surge, licet sero, de longo Scotia, somno 
 
 Clausaque, jamdudum lumina pande, precor. 
 Arma cape intrepide, caesos ulciscere natos ^ oL l6z; 
 
 Sic tibi libertas est repetenda vetus. 
 Det Deus, in reges veteres tua turpia cernas 
 
 Crimina, Germanum decutiasque j ugum. 
 N.B. — The originals of the preceeding are to be found 
 among my papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Leith, Saturday \ December 8th, 1750. — Donald Roy Mac- 
 Donald was with me, Robert Forbes, when he gave me 
 a Latin poem of his own composing, an exact copy of 
 which is as follows. 
 
 Montanus, arma et braccas deponere coactus, queritur. 
 
 Ne studeam martis pugnacis munera, ferre 
 
 Impius oppressor bellica tela vetat. 
 Me, vice braccarum femoralia sumere cogit foi. 1624. 
 
 Georgius, antiqua ne levitate meem. 
 Hei mihi ! difficile est montanos scandere montes 
 
 Impedit insolitus nexus utrumque femur. 
 Non mihi per campos vestigia stringere fas est, 
 
 Lex brevibus gradibus carpere cogit iter. 
 Nulla mihi sexus muliebris blanda videtur 
 
 Quod dare consuetum gaudia career habet. 
 
 Leith, Monday, December 10th, 1750. — Donald Roy Mac- 
 Donald was with me, Robert Forbes, when he gave me 
 
80 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1750 
 
 10 Dec. a Latin poem of his own composing, an exact copy of 
 which is as follows. 
 
 Montanus Campbellos, ob fidelitatem erga Georgium, nil 
 mercedis adeptos, irridet. 
 
 Ingemo, deletae, flammis lanionis et armis 
 
 Cum patriae miserum mente revolvo statum. 
 Plaudite, Cambelli, lanionia signa secuti, 
 
 Redditus est vobis quem meruistis, honor. 
 Montani reliqui cultu spoliantur et armis 
 
 Vestitus 1 vobis armaque ferre datur. 
 fol. 1625. Lex corrupta licet veteres mutavit amictus 
 
 Mens 2 eadem nobis quae fuit ante, manet. 
 Non procul esse diem spero, quo fulgidus armis 
 
 Belligeris habitu multicolore tegar. 
 
 Copy of a Letter from Alexander MacDonald 
 of Kingsborrow to me, Robert Forbes. 
 
 Rev. Dear Sir, — For fear our acquantance should wear out, 
 I thought fitt to give you this trouble by ane express goeing 
 there, tho 1 I have litle more to say than to acquant you that 
 all your welwishers here are well, except Malcom MaLeod of 
 Brea, who is in such a bad stat of health that I am afrayed he 
 will not gett the better of it. Seeing he was not able to obey 
 your comands, he sent your letter to me in order to be sighted 
 to the new maryed couple, which, you may easily believ, was 
 acceptable to old and young, tho the young folk has the gaity 
 of youthood to cheer them, the old must become spiritless for 
 fol. 1626. many reasons, needless to trouble you with, unless it were in 
 your power to let us partake of the proper medicine, which, if 
 not speedily aplyed, will be of no use to some of us, as I beginn 
 my sixty third tomorow. Old MacKinnon has been very bad, 
 but is now better. I and the great man here are not on speak - 
 
 1 Ironice dictum. 
 
 2 Vide proverbium, Lupus pilum mutat non mcntem. 
 
1750] MARRIAGE OF FLORA MACDONALD 81 
 
 ing terms on acount of the unhallowed letter (which I have 31 Dec. 
 still be me), which, I assure you, gives me no maner of pain. 
 My ribb and I offers you our kind service, as does as my son 
 and daughter. Pray mind us to worthy Lady Bruce, Mr. 
 Rattry and his lady, and Mr. Lader, the surgeon, if you be 
 acquant with him, and all others that will be soe good as 
 enquire for us, and am, with esteem, Reverend Dear Sir, Your 
 most humble servant 
 
 (Sic subscribitur), Alex. M'Donald. 
 
 Kingsborow, December Qlst, 1750. 
 
 I wish you a happy New Year, and many of them, in order 
 to be doing good to the souls and bodys of all true Scotsmen. 
 
 Copy of a Return to the preceeding Letter. m 1627. 
 
 My dear Kingsborrow, — Your handwriting of December 31st 
 proved a real cordial to me, especially as I had some anxiety to 
 have agreeable accounts about you and your nearest concerns, 
 though, I must own, the melancholy narrative you give me 
 about honest Malcolm MacLeod served to throw a dash of 
 bitters among my sweets in the perusal of your letter. May 
 God Almighty grant him a happy and speedy recovery, (woe's 
 me !) the faithful are minished from among the children of 
 men. 
 
 The welfare of the happy pair I heartily rejoice at, and shall 
 be glad to have the like information renewed to me as fre- 
 quently as possible. That match is much to the good liking 
 of all friends and wellwishers, who agree in affirming it to be 
 one of the best judged events of life that could be devised by 
 any sett of honest folks. Pray make an offer of my best wishes, 
 in the kindest manner, to my worthy Mrs. Flora MacDonald, /*/. 1628. 
 and tell her, from me, that I looked for some few lines under 
 her own hand to let me know her marriage day, which I and 
 some others are quite ignorant about. 
 
 I am glad to find that your birth proved to be a new years 
 gift, which has turned out to be so in more senses than one. 
 And though you be advancing well in age, yet may God grant 
 
 vol. in. F 
 
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 THE LYON IN MOURNING [175 1 
 
 18 Jan. y OU to see many happy and agreeable returns of your birthday, 
 and that you may live to see your children's children at their 
 own firesides in health and prosperity, and then your gray 
 hairs will go with joy to the grave. I most earnestly wish it 
 were in my power to apply the proper medicine. In that 
 event you should have a fair chance for renewing your age. 
 
 Sometime ago I writ to Dr. Burton accounts of your son's 
 marriage, upon which he writ me the following words. ' I 
 heartily wish my worthy Flora as happy as it is possible to 
 fol. 1629. be on this side the grave, and that she may live to see her 
 children's children so too ; and also peace upon Israel, which 
 God grant that we may soon see and we be saved. Amen.' 
 
 Honest old Nestor ! I am glad to hear of his recovery. 
 May he live to enjoy all he wishes and all he wants, and to 
 have a son and heir to chear his heart in his old days. 
 
 I truly deem you at no loss in not conversing with a certain 
 notorious, grand etc., for there is neither comfort nor credit in 
 conversing with those whose hearts are steel'd in wickedness 
 and treachery. For God's sake, take care of a certain extra- 
 ordinary letter, and let it not depart out of your family, for 
 (besides other considerations) it may prove of no small use to 
 you and yours in a certain event. Pray will you favour me 
 with an exact and faithful copy of said letter, which I solemnly 
 promise to preserve as a dead secret till a proper and season- 
 foi. 1630. able opportunity shall offer of bringing to light the mysteries 
 of iniquity and the hidden works of darkness. 
 
 All friends here join with me in wishing all things good and 
 happy to you and Mrs. MacDonald, the young pair, and Mr. 
 aud Mrs MacAllastar, and in praying that all of you may enjoy 
 a happy and prosperous year with large amends. 
 
 What is become of Donald MacLeod's family, and what are 
 they doing ? I have a respect for them all upon account of 
 that honest old cock, now in eternity, the faithful Palinurus. 
 With great sincerity and esteem, I ever am, My Dear Sir, 
 Your most faithful friend and humble servant, 
 
 Donald Hatebreeks. 
 
 Floradale, January ISth, 1751. 
 
 P.S. — Pray, how does the worthy Armadale ? Make my 
 
175 1] THE LAIRD OF MACLEOD'S LETTER 83 
 
 good wishes acceptable to him and his nearest friend, Mac- i8jan. 
 Kinnon and his lady, the family of Rasay, etc. etc. etc. May 
 they all be as happy as I wish them. Adieu. 
 
 N.B. — The original letter from Kingsborrow is to be 
 found among my papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Wednesday morning (twixt 8 and 9 o'clock), March 6th, 1751, foi. 1631. 
 I waited upon Mr. MacDonald of Kingsborrow, senior, at his 
 quarters in the Canongate, when (among other things) he told 
 me that the Laird of MacLeod had complained to one Lieu- 
 tenant MacDonald (a relation of Kingsborrows) that he (Mac- 
 Leod) had been ill used by Kingsborrow in that Kingborrow 
 would not deliver up to him the original letter, nor give him a 
 copy of it ; for that he MacLeod had forgot what he had 
 written in that letter. Lieutenant MacDonald said he was 
 persuaded that the Laird behoved to be mistaken as to Kings- 
 borrow's giving a copy of said letter to the Laird himself, and 
 accordingly engaged to procure a copy, to which the Laird 
 agreed. Soon after Lieutenant MacDonald brought a copy of 
 the letter from Kingsborrow's own hands to the Laird of Mac- 
 Leod, who perused it with great attention and expressed him- 
 self in these or the like words, c I have never seen a genuine 
 copy of the letter till now, and I believe this to be a genuine 
 copy indeed ; but O ! this is the devil of a letter ! this is the M 1632. 
 devil of a letter ! 
 
 At the same time Kingsborrow declared that the copy 
 which was handed about was not genuine, but that it con- 
 tained the substance of the original, though the original was 
 still worse. He refused to give me a copy of the letter, 
 because (as he said) he was unwilling to give any offence to 
 several worthy persons who were connected with the Laird of 
 MacLeod ; and withal he positively declared that he had never 
 given a copy of the letter to any person whatsomever, but that 
 some person or other from perusing the original letter with 
 attention and leisure had endeavoured to draw out a copy from 
 strength of memory, which came far short of the original letter. 
 Kingsborrow gave me a most wretched character of the Laird 
 of MacLeod in more instances than one. 
 
84 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 6 March He informed me that his (i.e. KingsboroughV) son and Flora 
 MacDonald were married at Armadale in Sky, upon Tuesday, 
 November 6th, 1750. 1 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 foi. 1633. Monday ', April %%?id, 1751. — Alexander MacDonald (Dalely's 
 brother) 2 made me, Robert Forbes, a visit, when he put 
 into my hands the four folio pages all in his own hand- 
 writing, an exact copy of which is as follows. 
 
 3 April Upon the 3d of April 1746, Lieutennant Thomas Brown, an 
 1746 Irish gentleman with a command of 80 men, did sail with a 
 tender from the Baltimore man of war by Captain Fergusons 
 order, which layed then at the harbour of Lochnadaal at Sky, 
 at whose end Lord Loudon had a camp then, came to the 
 haven of Canna, and after sending for James M'Donald, bailie 
 of the Island, and uncle to Glenaladal, told him he was sent by 
 Captains Ferguson and Dove for some fresh beef and mutton, 
 vizt., 20 fat cows and so many wedders. The gentleman asking 
 his orders was answered he woud show him noe commission of 
 that kind, but if he would not present his demands without 
 further controul he would take them brevi manu. He had 60 
 armed men at his heels ; the flower of the Islanders was with 
 foi. 1634. the Prince ; soe that the bailie judged it safer both for himself 
 and inhabitants to grant his request, and consequently sent off 
 to the meadows for the above number of cattle, and took them 
 up in proportion to the number of the tenements the Isle con- 
 sisted of. But being wind-bound for 4 days in Canna harbour, 
 behold ! they complained to the said bailie the beef of the cattle 
 slaughtered stunk, and that the country should give them the 
 same number over again. The bailie reckoned this both unjust 
 
 1 Her husband was Allan MacDonald, then a Captain in the 84th regiment. 
 They lived at Flodigary till 1766 when Kingsburgh died, then removed to Kings- 
 burgh, but in 1775 emigrated to North Carolina. The War of Independence, 
 however, breaking out, involved them in much trouble, and at its close they 
 returned to Skye, where Flora died on 5th March 1790. See ff. 265, 701, 793, 
 851. 2 Ste f. 576. 
 
I ; 4 6] RAIDS ON THE ISLE OF CANNA 
 
 85 
 
 and cruel, and that it was enough for the poor inhabitants to A P ril 
 gratify him of what they received already. Upon which the 
 officer was petted and said with a rage he knew where and by 
 whom he woud be served. He meant Laaig's cattle, whom he 
 heard was in the Prince's army. So he hurls away his 60 armed 
 men, gathers all the cattle of the Isle into a particular creek, 
 shot 60 of the best dead, threw the old beef overboard and 
 woud not allow the poor distressed owners to finger a gobbet of 
 it, no, not a single tripe of the first or former. 40 of the last 
 cattle belonged to Laaig, 20 to the tennants. Captain Duff and f° l > 1635. 
 Captain Ferguson aboard the Commodore came again a little, or 
 about the 15 of April, harrass'd all the Isle, and at a certain 
 night when they became fully acquaint through all the country, 
 they (I mean all the young luxurious men among them) com- 
 bined to make ane attack upon all the girls and young women 
 in all the Isle marryed or otherwise. But a certain marine who 
 had some grains of Christian principles about him advertised the 
 whole, and was obliged to climb and hide themselves in grottos 
 and in the hollow of hideous precipices that were somewhat 
 unaccessable, which rescued them from the unhumanity of those 
 libidinous hounds. A certain company of them came to execute 
 their sensuality into a certain family, Evan More Maclsaac, 
 his house, from which fled two girls, the landlord's daughters. 
 Their mother who was fifty years old, worn with sickness and 
 within a month of her time, stayed at home as dreading noe 
 danger of that sort. But they missing their aim and geting f oL l6 3 6 - 
 none of the females within a houseroof but that poor creature, 
 they setts a strong guard with drawn swords upon the door of 
 her house, fettered her husband in order to quench their concupis- 
 cence on his spouse. Providence favourd the creature so far 
 that she wonn out through the guard, and the darkness of the 
 night concurrd to make her rescue. For they got out in pur- 
 suit of her in a great hurry, and 12 of them was at her heels, 
 when she meeting and sinking down into the very depth of a 
 quaggmire, they leaps over her believing she was still before 
 them. The poor woman contented herself to continue there 
 all the night, till she understood they were all back to their 
 ships. But then she was so much afflicted with the rigour of 
 the cold, and she being bigg with child, turned ill, aborted and 
 
86 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1746 
 
 April died next night. The rest continued their sculking in a starv- 
 ing condition till the men of war saiPd off. After the battle of 
 Culloden was hard fought, Captain Dove and Captain Fergu- 
 sone went to Canna successively and committed several branches 
 foi. 1637. of cruelty upon the poor people, wanting them to inform them 
 of the Prince or any of his officers. After General Campbell 
 turned back from the search of his Royal Highness from the 
 Western Coast, he calls at Canna, and hurls away the honest 
 bailie prisoner into his ship without allowing him to speak for 
 himself, or as much time as to shift himself or take leave of his 
 wife. At this stretch he was brought the length of Horse- 
 shoe in the shire of Argil e, from Horseshoe was brought back 
 to Canna. Then he believed he would be liberate, but instead 
 thereof they caus'd 40 of his cows to be slaughtered, would 
 not permit him as much liberty as goe ashore to take leave of 
 his wife or children, or to bring his cloaths with him, but 
 brought him prisoner to London where he continued upwards 
 of 12 month, notwithstanding of Loudon's protection in his 
 pocket. 
 
 20 June Sometime about the 20th of June 1746, Captain Duff went, 
 foi. 1638. ^ orders of his superiour officer, to the Island of Eigg in the 
 shire of Inverness, of Clanrannald's property, for executing the 
 disarming act ; called the inhabitants into one place, and were 
 strictly charged to carry with them all their arms upon their 
 peril. They conveend, delivered up some arms, but got onely 
 recepts for them. The poor people afterwards looked on them- 
 selves out of the reach of any danger. But then some weeks 
 thereafter, Captains Ferguson and Duff went to Eigg to look 
 after one Captain John MacDonald, commonly called Doctor, 
 brother to the late Kinlochmoydoirt, whom they heard to be 
 under covert in the Isle. After examining some of the inhabit- 
 ants to that purpose, they stifly denyed the Captain to be 
 there with their knowledge. With this they sends about 100 
 men, divided into small corps, in search of him. One Mr. 
 Daniel MacQueen, minister of the Gospell at the Isle of Rum, 
 happend to be then at Eigg, being a parte of his parish, and 
 foi. i6 39 . was D0 th agent and interpreter 'twixt the inhabitants and the 
 enemie. He, Mr. MacQueen, well knew the very place where 
 MacDonald was hiding himself, and understood by reason of the 
 
1746] PROCEEDINGS IN THE ISLAND OF EIGG 87 
 
 narrow scrutiny they were resolved to make after him, they June 
 would fish him out. Therefore he goes himself in person where 
 he was, and, after explaining him the danger he was under, 
 prevailed with him to surrender and yield himself prisoner to 
 Captain Fergusone. Accordingly he did. He was first well 
 us'd. But behold the unluckiness of the poor Eigg people ; for 
 one of the party that was traversing the country back and for- 
 ward, glens and mountains, found out so many stands of arms 
 that they reserved for their own use. Captain Ferguson did 
 not seem to be much disobliged at this ; but reflected that, 
 notwithstanding what they formerly delivered him, they still 
 reserved their full compliment. However, he bespeaks Captain foi. 1640. 
 MacDonald, the doctor, and earnestly desires him, for the poor 
 people's own safety and good of the country, he shoud call them 
 all and perswad them to come in, the whole inhabitants with 
 their whole arms of all kinds, and that he woud give them full 
 protections for both their persons and effects that woud save 
 them against any future danger : otherwise, and if they shoud 
 not come in heartily, all of them come to the years of dis- 
 cretion and to the age of bearing arms, he woud immediately 
 (after elapsing of such an hour of the day) cause his men burn 
 all their houses, destroy all their cattle and carry the whole 
 men away. Mr. MacQueen advises Captain MacDonald to 
 send for the men with the remainder of their arms in the terms 
 spoken by Ferguson. He sends some dozen of lads for them. 
 They were seen comeing in a body. Immediatly Ferguson 
 ordered Captain MacDonald to be seizd upon and made prisoner fit- l6 4 I - 
 of, brought into a house to be confined thereto for ane hour. 
 The men laid down their arms, such of them as had any. The 
 few old people that came among them were picked out and 
 dismist home. Then Captain MacDonald was brought out of 
 the house, was stript of all his cloaths to the skin, even of his 
 shoes and stockins, brought aboard the Furnace, barisdalFd in 
 a dark dungeon. And to the poor people's additional mis- 
 fortune, there was a devilish paper found about him, containing 
 a list of all the Eigg folk that were in the Princes service. 
 Then that catalogue was read by their patronimicks in the 
 name of giving the promised protection, which ilk one answered 
 cheerfully, and was drawn out into another rank, so that there 
 
88 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 foi. 1642 were noe fewer than 38 snatched aboard the man of war, were 
 
 June 
 
 brought to London, from thence transported to Jamaica, where 
 the few that lives of them continue slaves as yet. Many of 
 them dyed and starved ere they arrove at the Thames. The 
 most of them were marryed men, leaving throng families behind 
 them. They slaughtered all their cattle, pillaged all their 
 houses ore they left the isle, and ravished a girl or two. This 
 relation I had from the bailie of Canna and the bailie of 
 Eigg. 
 
 N.B. — The original of the above, in the handwriting of 
 the forementioned Alexander MacDonald, is to be found 
 among my papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 foi. 1643. Three Epitaphs upon, etc. 
 
 Here lies FredVick the Silly. 
 I M rather it had been Willie. 
 The whole generation 
 Woud been no loss to the nation. 
 But since God 's ta'en the best, 
 May the D 1 take the rest. 
 
 March 20th, 1751. 
 
 Had I ten thousand pens and ink, 
 Had I ten thousand brains to think, 
 All I can think, all I can say, 
 Is that Prince Frederick died this day. 
 
 The Oxford Aloa 1 liv'd and died ; 
 Then let another plant be tried. 
 To mourn too long nothing avails ; 
 Give us another Prince of Wales. 
 Forgive our sins, Lord ! Bless the Nation ! 
 And send a speedy restauration. 
 
 A remarkable tree. — F. 
 
175 1] EPITAPHS ON PRINCE FREDERICK 89 
 
 Here lies within this sacred place 
 
 (Have mercy, Lord ! upon him !) 
 A weasel in a leaden case, 
 Exempt from human plagues, unless 
 
 You lay his brother on him. 
 
 And yet, methinks, 'tis odd that he 
 
 Should be so long deserted. 
 Death ! canst thou longer cruel be, 
 Since all good people do agree 
 
 1r Tis pity they were parted ? 
 
 I, Robert Forbes, had a letter from Donald Roy MacDonald, foi 1644. 
 dated at Fort William, May 15th, 1751, in which he sent 
 me inclosed a Latin poem, an exact copy of which is as 
 follows : 
 
 In Fredericum Germanum Principem Epitaphium. 
 
 Vermibus Angligenis Germani corpus edendum, 
 
 Hie procul a patria gleba Britanna tegit, 
 Georgii erat natus, frater lanionis iniqui, 
 
 Est tamen in dubio quis fuit ejus avus. 
 Desidia totam vitam tenebrisque peregit 
 
 Iste, boni pariter nescius atque mali. 
 Cum per lustra novem gereret nil Principe dignum, 
 
 Insipido melior non nebulone fuit. 
 Sunt qui non dubitant atro periisse veneno, 
 
 Id quaque Germano fratre fuisse datum. 
 Ut tulit hunc ; patrem, patris cunctosque nepotes, 
 
 Trans Stygium fluvium Mors properata ferat. 
 
 N.B. — The original of the above is to be found among 
 my papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Copy of a Memorandum for Mr. Alexander foL 1645. 
 MacDonald (Dalelys brother), given by me, 
 Robert Forbes, June 10th, 1751. 
 
 1. To try if Clanranald will favour a friend with a copy of 
 that journal which he kept of the hardships and cruelties used 
 
90 THE LYON IN MOURNING [175 1 
 
 10 June against himself and the other prisoners while on board the 
 ships, etc. 
 
 2. To put Glenalladale and Boradale's sons in mind to draw 
 out an exact and circumstantial account of all the pillagings 
 and plunderings, burnings, and other cruelties committed in 
 and about their bounds, being a thing much wanted. To find 
 out, if possible, the true history of Rhoderick Mackenzie's 
 death, a thing earnestly desired. 
 
 3. To make out as exact and compleat a list as possible of 
 the names of the several Episcopal ministers in the Highland 
 parishes upon the continent and in the Isles, at the Revolu- 
 tion, as to the following classes : — 
 
 1st. Which of them were put or thrust out of their 
 charges. 
 
 foi. 1646. %d\y. Which of them kept their kirks, and by what 
 
 means, whether by interest of friends, without qualifying 
 or turning Presbyterian, or by qualifying and continuing 
 Episcopal, or by qualifying and turning Presbyterian. 
 
 N.B. — A copy of the preceeding third article, about the 
 Episcopal Clergy at the Revolution, I transmitted 
 to Alexander MacDonald of Kingsborrow, in the 
 Isle of Sky, and another of the same to Malcolm 
 MacLeod of Brea, in Rasay, upon Saturday, August 
 31st, 1751, by young Rasay's servant. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 foi. 1647. Monday afternoon, July %%d, 1751. — I, Robert Forbes, was 
 favoured with a visit of Donald Cameron of Glenpean, 
 with whom Donald MacDonald, taylor in Edinburgh, 
 came along. I talked over with him his part of The 
 Escape, and he declared my information had been good 
 and exact. 
 
 23 July He said that Glenalladale accidentally saw him coming 
 1746 through the mist, 1 and made directly up to him (Donald 
 Cameron), and thereby preventing his missing the Prince, 
 
 1 See f. 608. 
 
1746] DONALD CAMERON AND THE PRINCE 91 
 
 which otherwise would have happened ; that the precipice (at 25 July 
 the top of which the Prince slipped a foot) was so very high 
 that the Prince would unavoidably have been dead before he 
 could have tumbled to the foot of it, had not he (Donald 
 Cameron) catched hold of him, 1 which he did only with one 
 hand, being obliged to grip fast by the heath with the other 
 hand to preserve the Prince and himself from tumbling head- 
 long down together, and to cry to Glenalladale to haste him 
 down to their relief ; which Glenalladale accordingly did, and 
 assisted Donald Cameron in recovering the Prince. Donald foi. 1648. 
 Cameron likewise said that the story about the yuicking of his 
 nose was very exact, as I had got it from Macpherson of 
 Breackachie, 2 and that one day sculking on the side of a hill 
 and happening to spy the military and the Campbells driving 
 away some of his own cattle, he said to the Prince, 4 Does your 
 Royal Highness see yon ? Yonder are they driving away my 
 cattle. 1 4 How many cattle may you have ? ' said the Prince ; 
 4 500 or 400 ? ' 6 No, not so many," replied Donald, 4 only about 
 two or 300. 1 6 Well, 1 said the Prince, 4 1 am sorry to see this. 
 But keep up a good heart, Donald ; I hope to see you yet 
 taking five for one from the Campbells.' This speech from 
 Prince pleased Donald Cameron very much. Donald said he 
 was only six or seven days with the Prince in his sculking, and 
 that the Prince had been a night or two in his house at Glen- 
 pean in his way to Boradale after the battle of Culloden. 
 Donald Cameron alledged he had the best evidence in Europe 
 to prove the taking away of his cattle, as the Prince was look- foi. 1649. 
 ing on and them driven away by the enemy. 
 
 After talking over the part he had acted in the Escape, I 22 July 
 asked if any friends in and about Edinburgh had taken any 1/51 
 notice of him. To which Donald Cameron very modestly 
 answered, 4 No. Nobody has taken any notice of me. I did 
 nothing worth anybody's taking notice of me. I have used 
 freedom with none but with yourself.'' 
 
 Upon this I said 'twas pity he should not be taken notice of 
 by friends, and importuned him to dine with me on the next 
 Monday, July 29th, when he would have his business at a 
 
 1 See f. 1449. 
 
 2 See f. 1474. 
 
92 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 22 July period for that session, and that I would employ my thoughts 
 about him till he should make me the second visit. But I 
 could not prevail upon him to give me a promise, even though 
 his companion, Donald MacDonald, seconded me in my im- 
 portunity, the honest worthy still insisting that he had done 
 nothing worthy of notice, and that he longed much to be at 
 home again with the wife and the bairns, and therefore he 
 foi. 1650. would immediately set out for home when he had got his 
 witnesses examined in his process before the Court of Session. 
 
 Upon Friday, July 26th, I was in Edinburgh, and once more 
 took an opportunity of begging Donald Cameron, in a very 
 earnest manner, to be with me on the Monday following, 
 assuring him that I had devised a scheme for him which would 
 make him better known, and would fetch him as much at least 
 as might bear his charges home. But still he modestly refused. 
 I then had recourse to Donald MacDonald, expressly desiring 
 him to keep sight of Donald Cameron, and to be sure to con- 
 duct him down to Leith the Monday following, to dine with me, 
 which accordingly was done. 
 
 29 July Upon Monday, July 29th, 1751, I gave Donald Cameron 
 several letters, which I desired him to deliver out of his own 
 hand to the persons for whom they were severally addressed. 
 
 Copy of a Letter to Mr. W illiam Gordon, Book- 
 seller, at his shop in the Parliament Close, 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 Sir, — I am sorry I miss'd seeing you on Friday last at your 
 own shop, when I intended to converse with you upon the 
 subject of this letter, which will be delivered to you by that 
 remarkable man, Donald Cameron of Glenpean, the personal 
 conductor of the Prince through the chain of camps, and con- 
 sequently (with great truth it may be said) through his greatest 
 dangers. I should be sorry if this worthy should be allowed 
 to go out of Edinburgh without some small acknowledgment 
 of his merit, which is not the less by his being a most modest, 
 disinterested person ; for when I made an offer of some small 
 present to him, I behoved to press it upon him before he would 
 
175 1] DONALD CAMERON OF GLENPEAN 
 
 93 
 
 accept of it. Besides he is engaged in a just and well-founded 29 July 
 plea before the Lords against some of the Campbells, which I 
 am afraid may turn out to his loss, as it serves to empty his 
 light purse without any great view of reimbursement. This 
 hint, I am persuaded, is sufficient to prevail upon you to try 
 your interest with friends in Edinburgh in behalf of this truly 
 heroic man ; and did I not imagine that hereby I afford you a 
 pleasure, I assure you I should not have given you the trouble 
 of this. He brings along with him a voucher, 1 who knows foi. 1652. 
 him personally, and whose assertion in this matter you may 
 rely upon. 
 
 After making a proper use of this, pray commit it to the 
 flames, and thereby oblige, Sir, your humble servant, 
 
 Robert Forbes. 
 
 Leith, July Z9th, 1751. 
 
 N.B. — After sealing, having got notice that the said 
 Mr. Gordon had lately set out upon a jaunt into England, 
 I writ below the seal the following : 
 
 N.B. — Let this be made open by the Revd. Mr. William 
 Harper, if Mr. William Gordon shall happen to be from 
 home. 
 
 Accordingly the letter was made open by the said Mr. 
 Harper, who shewed much civility and kindness to Donald 
 Cameron, and introduced him to several persons, who were 
 generous and liberal to him, as Mr. Harper himself was. 
 
 At the same time I gave Donald Cameron letters for Mr. 
 William MacDougal, wine merchant in Edinburgh, and for 
 Mrs. Christian Cochran, at her house in Edinburgh, both foi. 1653. 
 written much in the same strain with the preceding one to 
 Mr. William Gordon. Mrs. MacDougal, and Mrs. Cochran 
 were likewise generous and kind to Donald Cameron, and made 
 several persons know about him. 
 
 I likewise gave Donald Cameron a letter for Mr. John 
 Rattray, surgeon, at his house, foot of Foulis's Close, Edin- 
 burgh, an exact copy of which is as follows : 
 
 Sir, — Forgive the freedom of this address in favours of the 
 
 1 The foresaid Donald MacDonald, taylor. 
 
94 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 29 July bearer, Donald Cameron of Glenpean, the personal conductor 
 of the Prince through the chain of camps, and consequently 
 through his greatest dangers. He is engaged in a just and 
 well-founded plea before the Lords against some of the Camp- 
 bells, and has pitched upon Mr. Lockheart to plead his cause. 
 But so bashful he is that he cannot think of informing Mr. 
 Lockheart about the above particular of his history. How- 
 ever, says he, 4 1 could with freedom inform Carnwath about it 
 
 foi. 1654. could I see him by any recommendation.' For this end, Sir, it 
 is that I give you the trouble of this, as Mr. Cameron tells me 
 that Carnwath's son (with the oldest Lochiel) lodged in his 
 house four nights after the battle of Culloden ; and this he 
 assigns as the reason why he could use such freedom with 
 Carnwath. A few lines from you will serve to introduce him 
 to Carnwath, and, if you judge it proper, you may transmit 
 this in one inclosed from yourself to that gentleman. For 
 well did I know all Mr. Cameron's history as to the escape 
 long before I ever had the pleasur of seeing him, and my infor- 
 mation proceeded from the best hand, MacDonald of Glenalla- 
 dale, who procured Donald Cameron to do the important deed, 
 * which, 1 to use his own words, ' was a little difficult to do. 1 
 
 He brings along with him a voucher who knows him per- 
 sonally, and whose word you may rely upon, for I have experi- 
 enced his fidelity before this time. 
 
 To you and yours I heartily wish well. 
 
 foi. 1655. After making a proper use of this order it to the flames, 
 and oblige, Sir, your affectionate humble servant, 
 
 Robert Forbes. 
 
 Leith, July 29th, 1751. 
 
 N.B. — The original of the above is to be found among 
 my papers, for Carnwath returned it to me in a cover from 
 himself. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Copy of Mr. Rattray's Letter to George Lock- 
 hart of Carnwath, Esq., at Dry den. 
 
 Dear Sir, — I send you the inclosed by Mr. Cameron, who 
 brought it to me himself this morning. I make no doubt but 
 
175 1] ASSISTANCE FOR DONALD CAMERON 95 
 
 you will comply with his request, as you have always shown 30 July 
 your self very ready to assist people oppressed and in distress. 
 I am, Dear Sir, your most obedient humble servant 
 
 (Sic subscribitur), John Rattray. 
 
 Edinburgh, Tuesday, 11 d clock forenoon. 
 
 N.B. — The originall of the above was likewise returned 
 to me from Carnwath, and I gave it to Mrs. Rattray, who 
 committed it to the flames in sight of l6 5 6 - 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Copy of a Letter from Carnwath to me, Robert 
 
 Forbes. 
 
 Revered Sir, — I have seen your friend here, and shall do 
 him every service in my power. But to be honest with you, 
 my brother needs not spur when honesty calls on him to assist 
 in a just cause. Yet Mr. Cameron shall not suffer from my 
 not telling my brother all his titles to our assistance. — I am, 
 Reverend Sir, Your most humble servant 
 
 (Sic subscribitur), G. Lockhart. 
 
 August 2, 1751. 
 
 If any collection is making throw in the enclosed guinea 
 for me. 
 
 N.B. — The original of the above is to be found among 
 my papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Copy of a Letter to Mr. Donald Cameron of 
 Glenpean. 
 
 Dear Sir, — I am sorry I had not the favour of seeing you /<?/. ^57. 
 once more before your going from Edinburgh, especially as I 
 have in my hands a guinea and a half for your use, which you 
 may command when you please. I had the guinea from 
 Carnwath and the half-guinea from my Lady Bruce. If you 
 desire any person to call for the cash, pray fail not to send me 
 a letter under your own hand with that person. 
 
 I am glad it is in my power to assure you with great truth 
 
96 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 26 Aug. that Carnwath has spoke earnestly to his brother upon your 
 account, and that nothing will be omitted to make out your 
 process to your own hearts content, which I pray God to bring 
 about. 
 
 Make my respectful compliments acceptable to the worthy 
 Glenalladale and his family. 
 
 To you and all your concerns I heartily wish all things good 
 and happy, and most sincerely am, my dear Donald, your firm 
 friend and humble servant, Robert Forbes. 
 
 Leith, August 26th, 1751. 
 
 foi. 1658. Copy of a Letter to me, Robert Forbes, from the 
 said Donald Cameron and his co-plaintiff in 
 the process. 
 
 Glendessary, 1st October 1751. 
 
 Reverend Sir, — We have been favoured with yours some 
 time ago, and we are infinitly oblidged to you for the care you 
 have taken of our affairs, and returns you our most dutiful 
 thanks ; and we beg of you and acquaint Mr. Lockhart that 
 we are singularly oblidged to him, and wherein we can serve him 
 that we are always ready. Or wherein we may be deficient we 
 hope sometime or other (will thank and reward not only him 
 but all friends). Some people who cannot at present make the 
 due returns that their inclination is well known to you. The 
 post going off you '11 hear further from us very soon. And we 
 are, Reverend Sir, Your much oblidged humbell servants, 
 
 (Sic subscribitur), Donald Cameron. 
 
 Alex. M'Phie. 
 
 N.B. — The original of the above is to be found among 
 my papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 foi. 1659. N.B. — Friday, September 27th, 1751. — I, Robert Forbes, 
 
 was dining with my Lady Bruce in her own house in the 
 Citadel, the Revd.Mr. William Law, Dr. John Clerk of 
 Edinburgh, and my wife being in company. My Lady 
 Bruce happening to turn the conversation upon the Duke 
 
175 1] NARRATIVE BY PATRICK GRANT 97 
 
 of Cumberland and President Forbes, Dr. John Clerk said 27 Sept. 
 that the Duke had a very odd unlucky expression when 
 in Inverness, which made him very low in the opinion of 
 many, and it was this that when the Duke spoke of the 
 President he used to say 4 that old woman that talked to 
 me about humanity.'' 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Leith, Friday, October 18th, 1751. — At my own house by ten foi. 1660. 
 o'clock forenoon, taken down from the mouth of Patrick 
 Grant (commonly called Black Peter of Craskie), one of 
 the famous Glenmoriston men, Donald MacDonald, taylor 
 in Edinburgh, being interpreter, as the said Patrick Grant 
 could speak nothing but Erse. 
 
 Patrick Grant agreed exactly in the names of the Glen- 
 moriston men as given me by Major MacDonald of Glenalla- 
 dale, 1 and moreover told me that the first seven of them had, 
 after the battle of Culloden, entred into an association (by oath) 
 of offence and defence against the Duke of Cumberland and his 
 army (he and the Laird of Grant having betrayed so many of 
 their countrymen upon giving up their arms) 2 never to yield, 
 but to die on the spot, never to give up their arms, and that 
 for all the days of their lives. That Alexander MacDonald 
 (MackDonell) and Alexander Chisholm are now dead, and 
 that Macmillan did come accidentally upon them as narrated foi. 1661. 
 by Glenalladale and did enter with them into the same 
 association. 3 
 
 Patrick Grant said they used to call the Prince for certain 
 Dougald MacCullonoy, the better to conceal him. This rectifies 
 a mistake of memory in Glenalladale. 4 
 
 Then I began to read such parts of Glenalladale's Journal as 
 I knew Patrick Grant to be interested in, he having been an 
 eyewitness of what was narrated therein, in which parts Patrick 
 Grant agreed, but telling moreover that when the Prince, 
 Glenalladale, and those with him came towards their cave 
 
 1 See f. 1452. 2 See f. 312. 3 See f.1679. 4 See f. 1452. 
 VOL. III. G 
 
98 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 J ul y. there were only three of them together, viz., John MacDonald, 
 alias Campbell, Alexander MacDonald (MackDonell) and 
 Alexander Chisholm, the other four being out a foraging, or 
 providing provisions for the whole company. 1 These three, 
 well knowing the Prince, were sorry to see him in that condition, 
 and immediately complied with taking an oath of fidelity and 
 secrecy at the Prince's own desire, which oath was administred 
 fol. 1662. by Glenalladale in the following or like dreadful terms, ' That 
 their backs should be to God and their faces to the Devil ; that 
 all the curses the Scriptures did pronounce might come upon 
 them and all their posterity if they did not stand firm to the 
 Prince in the greatest dangers, and if they should discover to 
 any person, man, woman, or child, that the Prince was in their 
 keeping, till once his person should be out of danger, etc." Which 
 * oath they most sacredly observed, never once mentioning that 
 the Prince had been among their hands till about a twelve- 
 month after he had set sail for France. 
 
 The Prince and Glenalladale, etc., got a refreshment of 
 whiskie and mutton, butter and cheese, but no bread from the 
 above three. 
 
 Next day the other four (who likewise knew the Prince at 
 first sight) came with their purchase, being a dead deer which 
 they had shot, and an ox in life which they slaughtered in the 
 fol. 1663. Prince's presence. But they had got no bread yet. Upon 
 this meeting the four took the same oath with the three, and 
 when Macmillan joined them afterwards (about two weeks) he 
 likewise took the same oath of fidelity and secrecy. 
 
 It is remarkable that the Prince and Glenalladale, much 
 pleased with the resolute behaviour and firmness of the Glen- 
 moriston men made an offer (which was indeed first suggested 
 by the Prince himself) to take a like oath of fidelity to them, 
 viz., 6 that if danger should come upon them they would stand 
 by one another to the last drop of their blood. 1 But the Glen- 
 moriston men refused to take any oath at all of the Prince and 
 Glenalladale. 
 
 Upon this the Prince said that they were the first privy 
 council that had been sworn to him since the battle of Cullo- 
 
 1 See ff. 623, 1451, 1690, 1777- 
 
1746] AMONG THE GLENMORISTON MEN 99 
 
 den, and that he should never forget them or theirs if ever he J ul y 
 came to his own. Upon which some of the Glenmoriston men 
 hinted to the Prince that a Churchman (a Popish priest) who 
 used to come among them in their own country frequently had fol. 1664. 
 told them that King Charles the Second after his restauration 
 was not very mindful of his friends. The Prince said he was 
 very heartily sorry for that, but that he hoped he himself would 
 not follow the same measures, and that they might depend upon 
 his word as the word of a Prince. 1 
 
 Patrick Grant affirmed he was very sure that the Prince 
 came to them about eight days before Lammass, for that he 
 minds nothing better than that they took a hearty drink at the 
 beginning of that quarter of the year, and that the Prince had 
 been with them some days before that. This rectifies (among 
 others) Glenalladale's mistakes as to dates [See his Journal 
 throughout from beginning to end] and shews that I, Robert 
 Forbes, am pretty right in the draught of dates I gave to John 
 Finlayson for his map, which map see. 
 
 F. 625 Coirmheadhain — Patrick Grant called this place by 
 the name of Coirskreaoch, no less romantic indeed, said he, than fol 1665. 
 the former cave. 
 
 F. 626. Left two and not one (Alexander MacDonald [Mack 
 Donell] and Alexander Chisholm) to watch Campbell's motions. 
 
 F. 627. Climbed a hill (says Patrick Grant) called Peinachy- 
 rine, which hill will be about 40 miles (i.e. Highland miles) 
 from Polliew, that part in Seaforth's country which the Prince 
 was desirous to be at. 
 
 This hill Peinachyrine, is the farthest place in the North that 
 the Prince was at towards Polliew. 2 
 
 F. 629. When returned to Glenmoriston Braes the Prince 
 was pretty positive to proceed forward sooner than the 
 Glenmoriston men thought it safe for him, and they 
 would by no means allow him to go till they should think 
 it safe for him so to do. In a word the kind contention 
 ran so high that they threatened to turn their backs upon 
 him and to leave him if he did not listen to their counsel, as 
 they knew the country best and what danger might happen 
 to him in it ; and immediately insisted upon his taking some 
 
 1 See f. 917. 2 See f. 1617. 
 
100 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1746 
 
 July little refreshment and rest, and staving there as long as they 
 foi. 1666. judged it safe for him. But the Prince refused to eat or to 
 drink because they would not do as he desired. Upon this 
 they plainly told him that if he did not eat and drink heartily 
 he could not well hold out with the fatigues he was obliged to 
 undergo in his present situation ; that if he should happen to 
 turn faintish by abstaining from meat and drink too long and 
 then danger should come nigh them, he would not be in a con- 
 dition, either to get away from it, or to act his part in any 
 shape so well as he would wish to do. And therefore they 
 urged him more than ever (as being absolutely necessary for 
 him) to take some refreshment and rest, which accordingly he 
 did. The Prince said, 6 1 find kings and princes must be ruled 
 by their privy council, but I believe there is not in all the 
 world a more absolute privy council than what I have at pre- 
 sent, etc. They added they had rather tie him than comply 
 with him, so well did they know his danger. The Prince was 
 at last obliged to yield the point, as he found them positive to 
 the last degree, and as they assured him, if he complied with 
 foi. 1667. their requests in behalf of his safety, the enemy should not get 
 within two miles of them without being discovered. 
 
 This was the only time, said Patrick Grant, that we ever 
 differed with the Prince in any one thing, and we were verv 
 sorry for it. 
 
 When at this time in the Braes of Glenmoriston, Patrick 
 Grant and Alexander Chisholm one day were set out a foraging 
 and happened accidentally to meet with the Laird of Glen- 
 moriston, who asked them many questions, viz., ' Where they 
 now lived, as they were now seldom seen ? What were they 
 doing and how they made purchase for sustenance, etc. ? What 
 is become of the Prince (said he) as I have heard that he has 
 passed the Braes of Knoydart,' etc. ' 1 wish, 1 added he, 6 if he 
 came this way that I might know of it, for he should be taken 
 good care of. 1 But as to all this they kept Glenmoriston much 
 in the dark and w r ould not at all acknowledge that they knew 
 anything about the Prince or his motions, etc., ' that as the 
 enemy were pillaging and plundering the country it were pity 
 not to share in the spoil, upon part of which they made a shift 
 foi. 1668. to live rather than that the enemy should have all,' etc. 
 
1746] THE PRINCE AND HIS PRIVY COUNCIL 101 
 
 Upon their return to the Prince and his small retinue, they July 
 informed him exactly what had pass'd between them and the 
 Laird of Glenmoriston, assuring the Prince withal that they had 
 not revealed the smallest thing to Glenmoriston about him or 
 his motions, but that if the Prince pleased they would fetch 
 Glenmoriston to him, he being a faithful and trusty friend. 
 The Prince said he was so well pleased with his present guard, 
 that he wanted none other, and that he had experienced poor 
 folks to be as faithful and firm as any men, rich or high, could be. 
 
 F. 633. Patrick Grant was the one who shot the hart, 
 Alexander MacDonald (MackDonell) now dead, being then 
 with him. All their provisions now consisted of this hart and 
 half a peck of meal. They sometimes had salt. 
 
 F. 637. The Glenmoriston men (Patrick Grant 1 excepted, who 
 stayed with the Prince till he set out for Badanoch to find out 
 Lochiel and Cluny MacPherson), were dismist three days before 
 Glenalladale was sent off to the West coast to look out for ships. 
 
 N.B. — Having gone through all the parts of Glenalla- 
 dale's Journal in which Patrick Grant had any knowledge foi. 1669. 
 or concern, I then began to read such parts of Mr. John 
 Cameron's Journal as consisted with the knowledge of the 
 said Patrick Grant, upon which he made the following 
 observations and remarks. 
 
 Patrick Grant affirmed that they were not within seven miles 
 of Glenstrathferrar, in which he cannot well fail to be right, 
 as he himself was then with the Prince, and Mr. John Cameron 
 was not, who therefore tells this part only from hearsay or con- 
 jecture. The man's name was, indeed, John MacPherson, alias 
 MacColvain, a tenant of LochieFs (said Patrick Grant) as given 
 by MacPherson of Breakachie. 1 
 
 F. 174. True of the Prince's long beard and dress, etc. 
 
 F. 175. Trueof the bread from Fort Augustus or Killywheeman. 
 
 'The Prince had a good appetite, 1 said Patrick Grant, 
 ' and we all sate in a circle when eating and drinking, every one 
 having his morsel on his own knee, and the Prince would never 
 
 1 See f. 1546. 
 
102 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 July allow us to keep off our bonnets when in his company.' The 
 fol. 1670. p r j nce use j sometimes to roast his own meat, and sometimes to 
 give directions about the homely cookery, taking a bit now and 
 then from off the speet while roasting. 
 
 F. 176. In the wood of Torvauilt it was that the Prince 1 had 
 the interview with the two French officers (said Patrick Grant) 
 whose names he has forgot. 
 
 F. 177. The alarm was true, but by whom given Patrick Grant 
 remembers not. 
 
 F. 179. The Prince when about crossing the water of Lochy in 
 going down the country to Lochiel and Cluny MacPherson, 
 ordered MacDonald (MackDonell) of Lochgary to give some 
 money to Patrick Grant for himself and the other Glenmoriston 
 men. For Patrick Grant had been kept purposely (after his com- 
 panions had been dismist) till the Prince should have some 
 money to gratifie his Glenmoriston guard. Lochgary accordingly 
 gave Patrick Grant twenty four guineas, being three guineas 
 fol. 1671. j. Q gg^h Q f them, and then Patrick Grant took his leave of the 
 Prince and his company at the side of the water of Lochy and 
 instantly made off to the Braes of Glenmoriston to share in the 
 fortune of his own associates. 
 
 N.B. 2 — When at Fassanacoill, 3 the farmer there, John 
 Chissolm, used to furnish Patrick Grant, and the other pro- 
 visors with meat and drink for themselves and their company ; 
 John Chissolm, in the meantime, knowing nothing at all about 
 the Prince. When the Prince heard that John Chissolm had 
 furnished him with provisions, he desired that John might be 
 brought to him ; and accordingly Patrick Grant and Hugh 
 Macmillan were dispatched to John Chissolm with that intent. 
 They desired John to come along with them to see a friend 
 whom he would like very well to see without telling who the 
 friend was. John answered, 8 1 believe there is some person of 
 consequence amongst you, and as I have one bottle of wine (the 
 property of a priest with whom I am in very great friendship), 
 I will venture to take it along with me.' Patrick Grant said, 
 4 What ! John, Have you had a bottle of wine all this time and 
 
 1 See f. 634. - This should be insert in fol. 1665. * See f. 628. 
 
1746] 
 
 THE GLENMORISTON MEN 
 
 103 
 
 not given it to us before this time ? ' Away they went to the July 
 Prince, whom John Chissolm knew at first sight, having been l6?2 ' 
 in his army. Upon delivering the bottle of wine to the Prince, 
 Patrick Grant desired the favour of his Royal Highness to 
 drink to him [Patrick Grant] for, added he, 6 1 do not remember 
 that your Royal Highness has drunken to me since you came 
 among our hands/ Accordingly the Prince put the bottle of 
 wine to his mouth and drank a health to Patrick Grant and all 
 friends. John Chissolm having received good payment for any 
 provisions he had furnished, and finding they had been purchased 
 for the use of his Prince, immediately offered to return the 
 whole price, and pressed the thing much. But the Prince 
 would not hear of that at all, and ordered him to keep the 
 money. John Chissolm took the same oath of secrecy with 
 that before mentioned as taken by the Glenmoriston men ; who 
 were so lucky that the Prince was in absolute safety, during 
 the time he was in their hands, and (under God) they would 
 have promised for his safety to this very day, had he thought fit. 1673. 
 fit to have continued amongst them. And (said Patrick Grant) 
 we were the more fit for such a service as all the eight of us 
 had been bred to military discipline, having served some part 
 of our lives in the Highland Independent Companies. Patrick 
 Grant particularly was in Lord Lovat's Independent Company 
 about four years. 
 
 As to Gregor MacGregor, his history is somewhat singular. 
 He had inlisted in Lord Loudon's regiment in Inverness, and 
 had deserted to the Prince's army before coming to Corierag, 
 as that regiment had been a raising some time before in the 
 Highlands, and it is notour that Cluny MacPherson, Lochgary 
 and others, had commissions in that intended regiment. Some 
 time after the troubles in Scotland, Gregor MacGregor had the 
 misfortune to be made prisoner in the Tolbooth of Inverness, 
 and was to have been tried as a deserter, but (very luckily for 
 him) he broke prison and got off, and is still alive and in good 
 health, as ready for a good play as ever. 6 All the eight of us 
 Glenmoriston men, 1 said Patrick Grant, 'had been in the 
 Princes army.'' Patrick Grant said he doubted not that they M 1674. 
 used the expression Haos Ian or Hose Ian, but he was sur- 
 prized that the Prince could mind such little things. He said 
 
104 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1746 
 
 July that John MacDonald (MackDonell) is a bold, resolute, sensible, 
 pretty fellow. 1 
 
 Patrick Grant said that the Prince, when with them, used 
 to declare that he had great confidence in the King of France 
 as a true and fast friend, 2 and that the king, his father, and his 
 own brother, Henry, would risque all to save him [the Prince J. 
 He used to say much in praise of Prince Henry as one prefer- 
 able to himself in all respects, and as one of great spirits and 
 activity. 
 
 There was one thing which Patrick Grant was very unwilling 
 to tell, and he needed much solicitation before he would speak 
 it out, and it was this, that as the Prince did always sleep in 
 his cloaths and plaid, in his wig and bonnet in caves, and often 
 in the open air upon the tops and sides of mountains, in woods 
 
 foi. 1675. and among the heath and ferns, so he would not have changed 
 a shirt (having only four in number) but (perhaps), once in a 
 fortnight, whereby it happened that he was troubled with lice. 
 Upon this I told Patrick Grant, I had heard the like before 
 from Malcolm MacLeod, 3 and that it was not at all to be 
 wondered at, considering the coarse way of living in every 
 respect to which the Prince was then reduced. Patrick Grant 
 added that the Prince upon rising in the morning used to 
 retire for some time by himself to say his prayers, and, said 
 Patrick, 6 1 believe the Prince is a very good Christian indeed.'' 
 He likewise said that the Prince, while with them, was some- 
 times troubled with a looseness, and that he bore up under all 
 his misfortunes with great resolution and chearfulness, never 
 murmuring or complaining at the hardships and severity of his 
 condition. 4 Glenalladale,' said Patrick Grant, ' was interpreter 
 between the Prince and us, and it was agreed upon that we 
 
 fol. 1676. should say nothing but what the Prince should be made to 
 understand, and that the Prince should say nothing but what 
 we should likewise be made to understand. By this means the 
 Prince discovered that we were much addicted to common 
 swearing in our conversation, for which he caused Glenalladale 
 reprove us in his [the Prince's] name ; and at last the Prince, 
 
 1 See ff. 1477, 1872. 
 3 See f. 236. 
 
 2 See ff. 214, 626. 
 
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 HABITS OF THE PRINCE 
 
 105 
 
 by his repeated reproofs, prevailed on us so far that we gave July 
 that custom of swearing quite up."' Patrick Grant assured me 
 that the Prince, while with them, could not speak many words 
 in Erse, and that he knew but very little about that language. 
 
 Patrick Grant remarked that the Prince walked so nimbly in 
 the daytime that few persons could hold out with him. 1 But 
 then he was as bad at it in the night time, for, not being used 
 with such rough and plashy footing as is commonly to be found 
 in the hills, braes, and glens of the Highlands in Scotland, he 
 was every now and then (through the darkness of the nights) 
 slumping into this and the other clayhole or puddle, insomuch fol. 1677. 
 that very often he would have been plashed up to the navel, 
 having no breeches, but a philabeg, and when he had arrived at 
 any place to take a little rest, he would have taken a nook of 
 his plaid and therewith have rubbed his belly and thighs to 
 clean them the best way he could. In narrating this Patrick 
 Grant smiled and said, 4 1 believe this story is not so fit to be 
 noted down, though it be literally true. 1 This account agrees 
 exactly with what is narrated by Malcolm MacLeod. 2 
 
 Patrick Grant cannot read. He said he had come to Edin- 
 burgh in his way to go beyond seas to seek out his master, the 
 Prince. ' For, 1 said he, ' if he be on the face of the earth, I '11 
 find him out, as I hear they are good Christians on the other 
 side of the seas. And, meet when we will, the Prince and I 
 shall never part again.' In a word, it cost him some pains to 
 persuade him not to think of going abroad, as he could speak 
 nothing but Erse, and that it was impossible for him to find 
 out the Prince, as he had thought fit to conceal himself even f 0 i. 1678. 
 from many who were among his best and greatest friends. At 
 last he was persuaded to think of returning once more to the 
 Breas of Glenmoriston, and to desist from an enterprize he was 
 exceedingly fond of. 
 
 Patrick Grant promised to brush up his memory, and to 
 call to mind any other passages, etc., he might have forgot ; 
 and if he remembred any more, I should be sure to have them, 
 when I thought fit to appoint another meeting with him. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 See f. 300. 
 
 2 See ff. 238, 243. 
 
106 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 isoct. A T .B. — I gave Patrick Grant a certificate desiring him 
 
 to try if he could make anything for himself among 
 friends in and about Edinburgh, to whom Donald Mac- 
 Donald (his interpreter) would direct him, and even attend 
 him. Here follows an exact copy of said certificate : 
 
 Leith, October 18th, 1751. 
 That the bearer hereof, Patrick Grant, is one of the Glen- 
 moriston men, so noted for the amazing preservation of One in 
 fol. 1679. the greatest extremity of danger and distress, at the manifest 
 hazard of life and all, the immense sum notwithstanding, is 
 attested by Robert Forbes, Clergyman. 
 
 N.B. — The bearer can speak Erse only. 
 
 A second meeting with said Patrick Grant and 
 his interpreter, the 'said Donald MacDonald, 
 at Leith, in my own house, on Friday, Novem- 
 ber 1st, by eleven o'clock, 1751. 
 
 April Vol. 2, pages [ff.] 312, 313. Sixty or seventy Glenmoriston 
 1746 men, betrayed by the Duke of Cumberland and the Laird of 
 Grant, said Donald and Malcolm MacLeods. Vol. 6, page [f.] 
 1329. Here likewise the said betrayed Glenmoriston men are men- 
 tioned. Vol. 7, page [fol.] 1490. The betrayed Glenmoriston 
 men said to be 150. But Patrick Grant, who must know best, 
 said that there were betrayed sixty-nine Glenmoriston men and 
 twelve men out of Urquhart, in all 81 ; that those who did 
 not die on shipboard or in prison were banished to Barbadoes ; 
 that two of them had returned (Alexander Grant about three 
 fol. 1680. years ago, and Donald Grant in August was a year) to their 
 own country, Glenmoriston. Both of them being married, 
 their wives and children were overjoyed at the unexpected sight 
 of them. They left only sixteen of their companions alive in 
 Barbadoes, as they themselves had told. 
 
 Vol. 6, pages [ff.] 1330, 1331. Lord Lovats country, Aird and 
 Glenmazerin. Is there such a place as Glenmazerin ? Patrick 
 Grant knows no such place, but says that Glen Strath ferrar, 
 
1746] THE CRUELTIES AFTER CULLODEN 
 
 10? 
 
 Glencormigle, etc., belonging to Lord Lovat, were pillaged and April 
 plundered severely. 
 
 Ibid. Lockhart shot two old men and one young man (viz., 
 Hugh Fraser and his son, James Fraser, and John MacDonald 
 (Vol. 7, page 1579), when harrowing, etc. ; stript Grant of 
 Daldriggan quite naked, tied him hand and foot, etc., and 
 made him thus witness the hanging up of the three said dead 
 bodies by the feet on a gallows. Daldriggan's life saved by 
 one Captain Grant, of Lord Loudon's regiment, etc. All true, 
 said Patrick Grant. 
 
 Ibid. In Braes of Glenmoriston a party ravished a gentle- 
 woman (viz., Isabell MacDonald (MackDonell), in Glenmori- foi. 1681. 
 ston, while her husband, Alexander MacDonald (MacDonell), 
 sculking did see it, and tenants wives. 1 True, said Patrick 
 Grant. That said Isabel MacDonald (MacDonell) was ravished 
 as here described in the Brae of Coiraghoth, about two miles 
 from the cave, and about six weeks before Lammas ; and that 
 one Flora MacDonald (MackDonell), wife of John MacDonald 
 (MackDonell), was ravished by the same party at the same 
 time and at the same place. 
 
 Ibid. Lockhart shot a man wading a water, and having the 
 Whig teacher's protection in his hand to show him, viz., Hugh 
 Fraser, with a protection from Mr. Chissolm, preacher at 
 Kiln wrack (Vol. 7, page 1580). True, said Patrick Grant, that 
 one was thus shot (though having Mr. Thomas Chissolm's 
 protection), named Fraser ; but Patrick does not remember his 
 Christian name. 
 
 Ibid. Thereabouts ravished a woman big with child, and left 
 her on the ground almost dead. 4 1 have heard such a thing,"* 
 said Patrick Grant, 6 by report, but cannot be certain about it.' 
 
 Ibid. About the 8th day of July 1746, 4 1 distinctly re- M 1682. 
 member, 1 said Patrick Grant, 4 that Campbell, chamberlain to 
 Seaforth, did so behave (as here mentioned) to Fraser of Kil- 
 bokie, and his poor lady, brought to bed about eight or ten 
 days before that, to the best of my remembrance. I may well 
 remember this, 1 said Patrick, 4 as my own house and effects, 
 being then a farmer, were plundered and pillaged by the same 
 
 1 See ft". 1580, 1707. 
 
108 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 April party the day before." The parties that thus came a ravaging 
 to the Braes of Glenmoriston, after the battle of Culloden, 
 stript the women and children of all the cloaths that could be 
 useful to them [the sogers], and left them only the rags. 
 
 As to Glenmoriston's own house, Patrick Grant said that 
 Lord Loudon, Sir Alexander MacDonald, and the Laird of 
 MacLeod, coming from the Isle of Sky, lodged a night in Glen- 
 moristons house, and next day burnt it to the ground, destroy- 
 
 fol. 1683. ing at the same time all the ploughs, harrows, and other such 
 like utensils they could find. The Militia of the Isle of Sky 
 (at the same time) dividing themselves in three parties, went a 
 rummaging up and down the Glen, destroying all the ploughs, 
 harrows, etc., pots, pans, and all houshold furniture, not except- 
 ing the stone quarns, with which they grind their corn, breaking 
 them to pieces, and driving along with them such cattle as (in 
 their then hurry) they found in the Glen. * Our country," said 
 Patrick Grant, 8 blame the Laird of MacLeod more than any 
 other for this piece of military execution, that Lord Loudon 
 was against it, but that MacLeod should have insisted upon it 
 as a meritorious piece of service, fit to recommend them to the 
 good graces of the Duke of Cumberland.'* 
 
 As President Forbes was a man of great humanity, and 
 having fled with Lord Loudon, etc., to the Isle of Sky, I, 
 Robert Forbes, asked at Patrick Grant if the President was 
 along with them when they thus burnt Glenmoriston's house 
 and pillaged his Glen ? To which Patrick Grant said he could 
 
 foi. 1684. not be positive that the President was then with them, as he 
 knew nothing about his being present at these doings. 
 
 Patrick Grant affirmed that three men were shot in Glen- 
 kengie by a party of Cumberland's army, tho"* they had a 
 Presbyterian ministers protection in their custody. They 
 were three Camerons, two of them being brothers. 6 1 know, 1 
 said Patrick Grant, 'the very spot upon which these three 
 were killed, viz., Tommadow in Glenkengie. This happened 
 in the beginning of their bloody doings through the country 
 towards the end of May 1746. 11 
 
 In Summer 1746, said Patrick Grant, as the Glenmoriston 
 
 1 See f. 168. 
 
1746] SUFFERINGS IN GLENMORISTON 109 
 
 people were forced to keep the hills, so when any of them died June 
 they would have been kept unburied three or four days, because 
 of the parties then scouring up and down the country, and 
 when they could, they would have carried the dead bodies 
 privately in the night time to the kirkyards to bury them. 
 Hereby the Glenmoriston people, having suffered much both 
 by hunger and cold, so in the ensuing winter, 1746, a great foi. 1685. 
 mortality happened among them. 
 
 Patrick said that some time after the battle of Culloden 
 (about the beginning of June) some bickerings happened 
 between some parties of red-coats and Lochgary, who had 
 along with him about a dozen of stout, resolute fellows, taking 
 care of his cattle, that in Glenkiaig, Lochgary, and his said 
 attendants killed three red coats in defending his own cattle, 
 and that about eight days thereafter they killed, much about 
 the same place, eight red-coats more, and chased the party to 
 the distance of some miles. Lochgary, finding such difficulty 
 in preserving his own cattle, sold them afterwards to Cluns 
 Cameron, 1 who (tho" he had never joined neither the one side 
 nor the other) had these and all his cattle taken from him at 
 last. Some short time after Lochgary and his partizans had 
 killed the red coats, a stronger party came to seek out Loch- 
 gary, but not finding him nor any of his accomplices, they were foi. 1686. 
 resolved not to return without blood, whether innocent or 
 guilty, no matter to them ; and therefore they basely murdered 
 in Glenkiaig one Alexander MacDonald (MacDonell), a Glen- 
 gary man, about eighty years of age. 
 
 In Glencanna, upon Lammass day (said Patrick Grant), the 
 Prince spoke much to the praise of one of the daughters of the 
 King of France, and drank her health, and made all the com- 
 pany do so likewise. Patrick does not remember her name, 
 but that the Prince told them that her hair was as black as a 
 raven, that she was a mighty fine agreeable lady, being sweet 
 natured and humble; that he (the Prince) could not fail to 
 love her, as he was very sure she entertained a great regard for 
 him, as did likewise the Dauphin, whom the Prince com- 
 mended much. Upon this John MacDonald (MackDonell) said, 
 
 1 See f. 166, 7. 
 
110 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 July 6 As that lady is so good-natured, agreeable and humble, 
 foL 1687. would to God we had her here, for we would take the best care 
 of her in our power, and if possible be kinder to her than to 
 your Royal Highness.' This made them all laugh very heartily, 
 and the Prince answered, * God forbid. For were she here 
 and seized, to ransom her person would make peace over all 
 Europe upon any terms the Elector of Hanover would propose.'' 
 They spoke upon this lady about a whole hour without inter- 
 mission. 1 
 
 c. 1 July 6 About twenty days before the Prince came to us Glen- 
 moriston men,' said Patrick Grant, 6 seven redcoats going from 
 Fort Augustus to Glenealg with some provisions (wine, loaf- 
 bread, etc.), upon two dragoon horses, had gone out of their 
 way about six miles, whether designedly by their guide (Archi- 
 bald MacPherson of Sleat in Sky, afterwards a corporal in 
 Loudon's regiment, and now living in Inverness) or to take a 
 shorter way to Glenealg (which last seems most probable), I 
 will not say. But so it happened, that as the seven sogers, with 
 their two dragoon horses, came among some rough rocks, four 
 
 foi. 1688. of our number (viz., Alexander and John MacDonalds (Mack- 
 Donells), Alexander and Donald Chissolms) made up to them, 
 and firing upon them, killed two of them. The other five 
 threw away their arms and made off with themselves, desiring 
 the guide to do the best he could for himself.'' They buried 
 the two soldiers. In the end of the fray Patrick Grant came 
 up to his companions. They lived like princes (for some time) 
 upon the good bread and wine.'' And 'O!' said Patrick Grant, 
 4 we made a bonny bonfire of the two sogers redcoats. The 
 wine being contained in square hampers of leather with pad- 
 locks, we fell to breaking up the hampers with stones, whereby 
 (wo be to the stones) we brake some of the bottles ; and when 
 we got them opened, we were very angry we found no money 
 in the hampers. 1 They held a council of war upon the two 
 horses what they should do with them, whether they should 
 
 foi. 1689. kill them or not. But after some debate, they allowed the 
 poor beasts to shift for themselves, taking them three miles 
 from the place where they had slain the two sogers, which was 
 
 1 See ff. 293, 1690. 
 
1746] ATTACKS UPON THE REDCOATS 111 
 
 near the Cave of Coiraghoth. They put some of the bread c - * July 
 under ground, which when dug up again was all spoiled. The 
 wine did last but about five days. When the Prince came to 
 them, they were angry with themselves for living so lordly 
 upon the wine, as they might still have had some of it for the 
 Prince's use, who was much pleased to hear this narrative from 
 them, as it convinced him that such men would by no means 
 trust to the mercy of their enemy, but would stand out to the 
 last, and die rather than yield or deliver up their arms ; and 
 consequently they were the fitter for his purpose in his present 
 circumstances. This action happening upon Chissolm of 
 Strathglass his ground, just upon the march of Glenmoriston, f 0 i. 1690. 
 he was much threatened upon that account, and therefore 
 Strathglass undertook to take the suspected Glenmoriston men 
 prisoners. Accordingly John MacDonald (MackDonell) alias 
 Campbell was at last made prisoner in his bed sometime in 
 November 1746, and carried to the prison of Inverness, but 
 there being no proof against him that he had any hand in that 
 affair, he was therefore dismist, especially as the Act of Indem- 
 nity too was past before he was liberate. 
 
 Patrick Grant said, ' Had the daughter of France been with 
 us we would have made the best bed we could of heather and 
 ferns for the Prince and her, and would kept sentry upon them 
 that nobody should have disturbed them."' 1 
 
 Patrick Grant remarked that when the Prince came to the July 
 three of them at the Cave of Coiraghoth he declared himself 
 very well pleased with them alone and that they needed not foL 1691. 
 wait for the other four, but that they might go immediately 
 with him whithersoever it should be thought most proper. 
 The three desired Glenalladale to tell the Prince that they 
 could not comply with that desire as they were under a mutual 
 oath of engagement to one another which they would by no 
 means break ; and that if the Prince wanted them to be useful 
 to him, which they would gladly be with all their heart he 
 behoved to trust himself to the other four as well as to them. 
 This is a strong instance of the steady resolution and good 
 sense of these three, for they were resolved inviolably to adhere 
 
 1 See f. 1687. 
 
112 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1746 
 
 July to their oath of association, and in the meantime to do their 
 duty to the Prince to much better purpose with the assistance 
 of the four than they could possible do without them, as 
 thereby they could more strictly keep a sentry post where they 
 foi. 1692. lay most open to danger or alarm, and could more easily 
 detach one or two of their number now and then to procure 
 provisions. [This should be insert in page [fol.] 1661 of this 
 volume.] Robert Forbes A.M. 
 
 Copy of a Paragraph to Mr. James Winrame at 
 Edinburgh from Captain MacNab. 1 
 
 7 Oct. The bearer is one of the seven 2 lads that preserved our 
 1751 Master under God Almighty for the space of five or six weeks 
 in the most dangerous times he met with, and it gives me 
 unexpressable pain to think that poor lads of soe great honour 
 should now suffer by poverty till they happen to see him 
 again. Therefore I presume to offer you the trouble, knowing 
 it will be rather a pleasure to you, to imploy proper agents for 
 fol. 1693. him, to see what collections can be made for him to preserve 
 him for a short time from starving ; for he never was brought up 
 to any work. He Mall tell you the whole history himself if 
 you have an interpreter; which you may rely upon his 
 veracity. His name is Patrick Grant from Glenmoristone ; 
 and if any doubts him to be an imposter they may be fully 
 satisfied of the truth of what I write from the Laird of Glen- 
 moriston or any gentleman in that country. For I should be 
 sorry to impose upon honest men, and I remain unalterable, 
 dear Sir, Your most sincere and afFectionat humble servant 
 (Sic subscribitur), Alex. MacNab. 
 
 Inishewen, 1th October 1751. 
 
 1 See f. 1870. 2 Eight it should be. 
 
 1 
 
1746] BURNING OF GLENMORISTON'S HOUSE 113 
 
 Leith, Monday, December 16th, at 12 o'clock, 1751, the 
 foresaid Patrick Grant brought along with him to my 
 house one Martin MacDonald, whom I was glad to see, 
 as I knew him to have been principal servant to Sir Alex- 
 ander MacDonald in 1746, and therefore capable (perhaps) 
 to clear up some things to me. 
 
 I asked the said Martin MacDonald whether or not he Ap™ 1 
 attended Sir Alexander MacDonald from the Isle of Sky to 
 Inverness after the battle of Culloden ? To which he answered, 
 Yes. Then, said I, Did you see the Laird of Glenmoriston's fol. 1694. 
 dwelling house set on fire and burnt down to the ground ? 
 Were Sir Alexander MacDonald and the Laird of MacLeod 
 present at burning of the said house ? And who was to 
 be blamed for said burning ? To all which the said Martin 
 MacDonald answered, 'I was (with a sore heart) an eyewitness 
 to setting fire to the Laird of Glenmoriston's house, and its 
 being burnt down to the ground ; that Sir Alexander Mac- 
 Donald and the Laird of MacLeod were present at said burn- 
 ing, and that Lord Loudon had orders from the Duke of 
 Cumberland for so doing, and also for scouring the Glen of 
 Glenmoriston, which was accordingly done exactly enough, tho' 
 I believe,' added he, 'much against Lord Loudon's own in- 
 clination both as to the house and the glen : and that among 
 Sir Alexander MacDonald's following there happened to be 
 two MacDonalds who were nephews to old Lady Glenmoriston, 
 whom they pitied much in her then distress, and honestly told fol. 1695. 
 her it was not in their power to do her any other service than 
 to take her furniture out of the house and to put it into a 
 hut which they accordingly did, and then they were obliged to 
 witness the burning of their aunt's house to ashes.' 
 
 Then I desired to know if President Forbes was along with 
 Lord Loudon, etc., at burning the house of Glenmoriston. 
 To this Martin MacDonald answered, 6 President Forbes was 
 not present at burning the house of Glenmoriston ; for,' said 
 he, 4 the President instantly, upon having accounts of the 
 battle of Culloden, left the Isle of Sky and went directly for 
 Inverness.' 
 
 I likewise asked if the young Laird of MacLeod was present 
 
 VOL. III. h 
 
114 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1746 
 
 A P ril at burning Glenmoriston's house ? To this Martin MacDonald 
 answered, 6 The young Laird of MacLeod was not present at 
 burning of said house, as he happened to be in Ross-shire at 
 the time of the battle of Culloden ; and I believe," added he, 
 foi. 1696. 6 that he was at Inverness the day after the battle.'' 1 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 A third meeting with the said Patrick Grant and his in- 
 terpreter, Donald MacDonald, at Leith, in my own 
 house, on Friday, January 3d, 1752, 'twixt ten and eleven 
 o'clock, forenoon. 
 
 17 July 'About July 17th, 1746, some days before we joined the 
 Prince,"' said Patrick Grant, 6 we, coming from the Cave of 
 Coiraghoth met with a herd-boy upon the hill of Lundy, who 
 informed us that that day about 12 o'clock a body of redcoats 
 and militia (about 100 men as the boy conjectured) had taken 
 away all Patrick Grant's uncle's cattle (viz. Allan MacDonald 
 (MackDonell), brother german to the late Arnaby), and no 
 sooner had the boy done with informing us than the said body 
 of men appeared in our view, driving the cattle to the hill of 
 Lundy by a narrow pass on the high road leading from Fort 
 Augustus to Glenealg and about 8 miles from Fort Augustus. 
 Upon which we the 7 Glenmoriston men made up directly 
 with all speed to the party till we came within musket shot of 
 them, and then roared out to them with a volley of oaths that 
 foL 1697. made all the rocks about us resound not to advance one step 
 farther but to leave the cattle to us and to march off. The 
 officers (three in number) immediately drew up their men 
 (being 60 redcoats and 7 militia men, with one Donald Fraser 
 for their guide) to engage us the said seven Glenmoriston 
 men, and dispatched to us the said Donald Fraser to know 
 what we wanted, and to desire us to surrender ourselves and 
 we should have protection. Upon this I, Patrick Grant, 
 cocked my piece and swore by Him that made me that I 
 should give them all protections that would serve them to the 
 
 1 See ff. 1608, 1683. 
 
1746] AN ENGAGEMENT IN GLENMORISTON 115 
 
 day of Judgment. Donald Fraser answered, I come to you as a 17 July 
 friend and not as a foe. To this all of us joined in making an 
 absolute answer, that we would have no other terms but that 
 the whole party should immediately retire and leave the cattle 
 to us ; that we would die upon the spot rather than surrender, 
 and that we had a great party of men (though, by the bye, 
 there was really no such thing) in our rear coming up to our 
 assistance. Donald Fraser went back to the principal officer 
 who was upon horseback and told him all that had passed 
 between himself and us Glenmoriston men; upon which a 
 march was instantly beat and the party advanced on in their way 
 towards Glenealg, driving the cattle along with them. This 
 so irritated us that we ran before them and fired two muskets, 
 viz., Patrick Grant and Alexander MacDonald (MackDonell), 
 we having so ordered matters as to keep a street fire upon foi. 1698. 
 them two at a time. This obliged the party to make a halt 
 and the officer dismounted, causing a man then wounded to be 
 put upon his horse, and then the officer drew up the men a 
 second time. One of the soldiers (before orders given) fired 
 upon us, for which the principal officer caned him heartily. 
 Then the party marched on with the cattle, and we made off 
 to another narrow pass through which the party behoved to 
 march, and there took up our ground for a second attack, and 
 when the party came up we fired three shot upon them, which 
 so terrified the party that some of them fell down upon the 
 ground, and others threw away their arms and ran off with 
 speed, leaving the cattle to us according to our orders, the 
 officers being unable to command their men and to make them 
 stand to a defence. Upon this the principal officer dispatched 
 a second message to us by one MacDonald, one of Mr. Alex- 
 ander MacDonald's following and an officer of militia, to 
 capitulate with us, which MacDonald asked, what we were 
 about? and if we were mad making such an attempt, being 
 so few in number, to resist the King's forces ? To this we 
 answered, Were your king himself there, he should meet with 
 the quarters he deserved. Then MacDonald spoke most dis- f° l - l6 99- 
 creetly and kindly to us, assuring us he was our fast friend, 
 and that we would do well to keep to our resolution to die 
 rather than surrender, because though protection was promised, 
 
116 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 17 J ul y that we would meet with no such thing, but would be sure to be 
 tied neck and heel ; that if we should fire a third time he 
 begged we would mark better, for if that we shot the prin- 
 cipal officer we would have all the cattle and the baggage too. 
 We thanked MacDonald kindly for his remarkable friendship 
 and begged if a third firing should ensue he (MacDonald) 
 would endeavour to keep himself and the militia men aside 
 from among the redcoats. MacDonald returned to the prin- 
 cipal officer and assured him of our fixed resolution not to 
 yield but to have the cattle. The cattle having run away and 
 dispersed with the firing the principal officer ordered his 
 militia men to gather the cattle together and to give them up 
 to us, we and our enemies (the few that remained with the 
 
 foi. 1700. officer) being then under a cessation of arms ; and accordingly 
 we received all the cattle (60 in number) at the hands of the 
 militia within half a pistol shot of us in the rear of the party. 
 Then we demanded some provisions to be left to us, keeping 
 two of the militia men as hostages, till we should have our 
 said demand. The officer said he had none to spare. Well 
 (said we) if you will not share your provisions with us, we are 
 as ready to fire for provisions as we were ready to fire for the 
 cattle, and as you have two horseloads, you may leave us one 
 of them. The officer then thought fit to send us some bread 
 and cheese and whiskie. Upon this we bade them farewel and 
 desired them when they should come that way again, they 
 might fetch more provisions with them/ 
 Nov. Sometime in November last, the foresaid Donald Fraser, 
 
 foi 1701 na PP enm g to be in Edinburgh, fell into company with the said 
 Patrick Grant, Dr. John MacDonald (brother to Kenlockmoy- 
 dart), and the said Donald MacDonald, interpreter, when they 
 conversed over the whole of this surprizing story, and Donald 
 Fraser acknowledged the truth of it, adding withal a most 
 comical incident, which was that as the said Patrick Grant had 
 taken from Donald Fraser, when dispatched by the officer to 
 the seven Glenmoriston men, a quarter of a pound of tobacco, 
 so Patrick should now pay him for it or give him the like 
 again. What ! said Patrick Grant, as you was an enemy then, 
 your tobacco was lawful spoil to me, and I will never pay you 
 for that. This occasioned a hearty laugh to all the company. 
 
THE PUNISHMENT OF A SPY 
 
 117 
 
 Donald Fraser told likewise at said interview in Edinburgh Nov. 
 that the principal officer of the party used to declare that the 
 said Glenmoriston men were surely not men, but devils, and 
 that 10,000 of such bold men would do more service abroad f° l - I 7Q2. 
 than all the British forces had done. 
 
 Donald Fraser was, and still is, a miller in North Uist, which 
 belongs to the family of Sir Alexander MacDonald. 
 
 Patrick Grant likewise told that two or three days before the 
 foresaid bickering, they, the seven Glenmoriston men, happen- 
 ing to meet with one Robert Grant, a Strathspey man who had 
 formerly served in the Highland regiment (commonly called 
 the Black Watch), and who now had become a most villainous 
 spy and informer against all that had been in the Prince's army 
 as far as he could find them out. They therefore shot him 
 dead, and then cutting off his head, placed it upon a tree (in a 
 little wood) upon the high road between two farmer towns in 
 Glenmoriston, viz., Innerwick and Downcathick, about three tol 1703. 
 miles from Fort Augustus ; and there the head remained about 
 a year as a terror to others (as we designed it, said Patrick 
 Grant) not to do such villainous things as the said Robert 
 Grant had done against his own countrymen, and even his own 
 flesh and blood. And now the head still lies at the foot of the 
 said tree, to be seen by any traveller that shall happen to pass 
 that way. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 N.B. — Poor Patrick Grant was pressed and forced to 
 go to North America, sometime in Summer, 1759. He 
 returned to Glenmoriston in 1761 or 62, upon Chelsea 
 pension. 1 
 
 The Birth-day Ode, 1751. fol. 1704. 
 
 1. 
 
 Phoebus, strike thy golden lyre ! 
 EvVy loyal breast inspire ! 
 Music, raise thy charming voice ! 
 EvYy honest heart rejoice ! 
 British bards, your tribute pay ! 
 Hallow this auspicious day. 
 
 1 See f. 1873. 
 
118 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 2. 
 
 Hail, lovely youth, 
 Pattern of honour, wisdom, truth ! 
 Britons, search the globe around. 
 Where 's such virtue to be found ? 
 Where in the old records of fame 
 Is there a more illustrious name ? 
 
 3. 
 
 The deeds by fabled heroes done, 
 That in poetic annals shine, 
 
 Which deified Alcmena's son, 
 
 Are now surpassed, great Prince, by thine ! 
 
 4. 
 
 Those talents which thy mind adorn 
 Compel thy enemies to own 
 
 That, wert thou not for empire born, 
 Thou sure deserv'st the noblest throne. 
 
 5. 
 
 foi. 1705. Majestic Pallas ! Warlike maid ! 
 
 Come to thy fav rite Heroe's aid. 
 
 Once more assume sage Mentor's form, 
 Display thy power and art, 
 And ev'ry faithful heart, 
 Great goddess, into action warm ! 
 
 Grand Chorus — 
 
 In the cause of our Prince let all Britons unite ; 
 
 To his merit allow what he claims as his right. 
 
 Let the genius of England resume his command, 
 
 And corruption for ever be banish'd the land ! 
 
 Let Britannia no more bow to Br[unswic]k her knee ! 
 
 Let her sons of all orders for ever be free ! 
 
 While the Muses themselves the grand chorus shall sing. 
 
 And pronounce our isle blest when Great Charles is our king. 
 
175 1] EPITAPH ON EDWARD BURKE 119 
 
 To perpetuate the Memory of Edward Burk, f° L ^ 
 
 who died in Edinburgh, on Saturday morning, 
 
 November 23d, 1751. 
 
 Born in an humble Cottage, 
 
 And of mean parents, 
 In the Island of North Uist ; 
 Ignorant of the first principles 
 Of human learning ; 1 
 Doomed to converse with the meanest 
 Of mankind, 2 
 And exposed to the various temptations 
 Of poverty. 
 Happy in these disadvantages 
 Since thereby 
 His genuine worth 
 Was the more conspicuous. 
 
 Fidelity 
 And disinterested friendship 
 Eclips'd his other virtues. 
 Let the venal tribe behold and admire, 
 And blush, 
 If yet a blush remains ! 
 Learn by his example, O ye great ! 
 He preferred a good conscience 
 To thirty thousand pounds. 
 
 Narrative of a Conversation with Young Glen- f° L 
 
 GARY. 
 
 Leith, Thursday, April 9th, 1752.— Alexander MacDonald 9 April 
 (MackDonell), younger, of Glengary, did me the honour to dine 
 with me, when I read in his hearing Patrick Grants Journal, 
 in this volume, pages [ft] 1660-1703. When I came to the 
 top of page 1681, he made an observation, which was, That 
 when lately in the Highlands the Laird of Glenmoriston had 
 
 1 He could neither read nor write. 
 
 2 He was a chairman in Edinburgh. [See fif. 326-345.] 
 
120 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 9 April told him in presence of the two husbands that Isobel Mae- 
 Donald (MackDonell) and Flora MacDonald (MackDonell), 
 after being ravished, formed a resolution not to allow their 
 husbands to lie with them till nine months should be expired, 
 lest they should have been with child, which resolution the 
 husbands agreed to. But they happened (luckily) not to fall 
 with child by the ravishing, nor to contract any bad disease. 
 
 Young Glengary likewise told me that some time in the 
 month of May 1745, he set sail from New port, Glasgow, 
 
 foi. 1708. carrying along with him a pacquet subscrib'd 1 by several of the 
 Highland chiefs, and desiring the Prince not to make an 
 attempt at that time without foreign assistance ; that he was 
 actually landed in France, and was in Paris before the Prince's 
 setting sail ; and that though he had taken care to have his 
 being in France, and the business upon which he had come, 
 communicated to Sir Thomas Sheridan, in order to find out the 
 Prince (who then had thought proper to be incog.), and to be 
 introduced to him, yet Sir Thomas would not own where or 
 how the Prince was to be found, and denied that he knew any- 
 thing at all about him. In a word, Glengary, junior, laboured 
 in vain to get at the Prince, and could not discover anything 
 about him till after he had set sail for Scotland, and had dis- 
 patched a letter to the King of France, intimating his having 
 set sail, which was the first notice of his motions. 
 
 foi. 1709. In the course of this conversation, I told young Glengary 
 that I had oftener than once heard the Viscountess Dowager of 
 Strathallan tell that Lochiel, junior, had refused to raise a man, 
 or to make any appearance till the Prince should give him 
 security for the full value of his estate in the event of the 
 attempt proving abortive. To this young Glengary answered 
 that it was fact, and that the Prince himself (after returning to 
 France) had frankly told him as much, assigning this as the 
 weighty reason why he (the Prince) had shewn so much zeal in 
 providing young Lochiel (preferably to all others) in a regi- 
 ment. 6 For, 1 said the Prince, ' I must do the best I can in my 
 present circumstances to keep my word to Lochiel."' 
 
 1 See a Letter to the Right Honble. The Earl of Traquair, particularly my copy 
 (at page [f.] 14 19) bound up with Ruddiman's Dissertation upon Logan, etc., and 
 his Animadversions on Mr. Love's pamphlet.— Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
1752] NARRATIVE BY YOUNG GLENGARRY 121 
 
 Young Glengary told me moreover that Lochiel, j unior (the 9 A P ril 
 above bargain with the Prince notwithstanding), insisted upon 
 another condition before he would join in the attempt, which 
 was that Glengary, senior, should give it under his hand to foi, 1710. 
 raise his clan and join the Prince. Accordingly Glengary, 
 senior, when applied to upon the subject, did actually give it 
 under his hand that his clan should rise under his own second 
 son as Colonel, and MacDonald (MackDonell) of Lochgary as 
 Lieutenant-colonel. Then, indeed, young Lochiel was gratified 
 in all his demands, and did instantly raise his clan. 
 
 Glengary, j unior, likewise assured me that Cluny Macpher- 
 son, junior, made the same agreement with the Prince before 
 he would join in the attempt with his following, as young 
 Lochiel had done, viz., to have security from the Prince for 
 the full value of his estate lest the expedition should prove 
 unsuccessful ; which the Prince accordingly consented unto and 
 gave security to said Cluny MacPherson, j unior, for the full 
 value of his estate. Young Glengary declared that he had 
 this from young Cluny Macpherson's own mouth as a weighty fol. 1711. 
 reason why he (Cluny) would not part with the money which 
 the Prince had committed to his care and keeping. 
 
 Tuesday morning, April 14^th, 9 o 'clock, 1752. — I, Robert 
 Forbes, waited upon young Glengary at his own lodg- 
 ings in Edinburgh, when I read in his hearing all that is 
 written in the preceeding narrative, and he agreed to every 
 single sentence thereof. At the same time I delivered to 
 him a copy of an Abstract, etc., which he was very well 
 pleased to have, and he promised to furnish me with some 
 curious papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
122 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1745 
 
 foi. 1712. Copy of a Letter from London, received on Thurs- 
 day, October 3d, 1745, and addressed thus : To 
 the Revd. Mr. Robert Keith, Minister at 
 Edinburgh and delivered by the said Bishop 
 Keith to Secretary Murray. 
 
 Ruxby, who wears his own black hair, aged twenty seven, of 
 a middle stature, and who dined with the Marquis of Tweeddale, 
 the 20th, from whom he got a pass, is in Scotland, with the 
 design of assassinating the Prince. If this do not come too 
 late, for God's sake, stop the blow. 
 
 N.B. — Friday morning, September %9th, 1752. — I, Robert 
 Forbes, waited upon Bishop Keith at Bonnyhaugh, and in 
 his presence transcribed a copy of the above extraordinary 
 letter, he informing me that he received it by the common 
 post, that (immediately upon receipt thereof) he went to 
 the Abbey of Holyroodhouse and delivered it into the 
 hands of Secretary Murray, who, after perusal thereof, told 
 Bishop Keith that he (Secretary Murray) had that very same 
 foi. 1713. morning, at 3 o'clock, been raised out of bed to talk with 
 one (a Scotsman) who had rode post from London ; that 
 the said Scotsman (having no letter but a verbal message) 
 had plainly told him (Secretary Murray) a narrative exactly 
 conformable to the contents of said letter, and that the 
 poor man was very much distressed with posting so ex- 
 peditiously as he had done. Bishop Keith likewise told 
 me, Robert Forbes, that he left the original letter with 
 Secretary Murray, but had taken a copy of it for his own 
 use ; of which copy the preceeding is an exact transcript ; 
 and that he did not know anything about the hand- 
 writing of the original letter. Bishop Keith added that 
 the foresaid Ruxby had never cast up so as to be seized 
 by any of the Highland army. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
1746] NARRATIVE BY MALCOLM MACLEOD 123 
 
 Friday ', October %0th, 1752. — I, Robert Forbes, received a foi. 1714 
 paper of eleven pages, 4to, sealed, addressed, and trans- 
 mitted to me from Malcolm MacLeod of Brea in Rasay, 1 
 an exact copy of which is as follows. 
 
 The 4 of July I parted with the P s at Strath, came to 4 July 
 
 Rasay the fift. 2 I spoke to the old Laird and his tow sons, the 
 young Laird and the Doctor, I mean the Laird of Rasay. My 
 brother was with them, Normand. So I told them that my 
 freind went to the meanland alongs with the Laird of Mac- 
 Kinnon, Rasay, the Doctor, and my brother went to Rona 
 with five lads more. Rasay desired me, if I would heard 
 anything, to send him word that moment. So I went to 
 Trotterneis the 7. The 8 I was going to Kingsborrow, how 
 mett me within a mile of her house, but the Mrs. of Kings- 
 borrow, and her daughter, and some womens servantts with y oL I7IS> 
 them. So the Mrs. of Kingsborrow and I sat near the rod. 
 We began to speak a litle of my servent and master. 3 What 
 did we see going by in great haste but six of the M'Leods 
 under Sandy M'Leod of Balmainach command, who did com- 
 mand a partty of the M'Leods of Harries near Mogstote. Then 
 as the soldiers was going by, Mrs. M'Donald asked what news 
 they had. They did answer, Very cold. They had no news. 
 Only that General Campbel and Captain Farguson landed 
 at Moystote with fifteen hundered soldier with them. Says I, 
 Its time for me to turn. So I took live of Mrs. M'Donald and 
 her daughter. I cam to my brother in law house at Snizort. 
 It was let. Next morning early we saw some of there shipes foi. 1716. 
 landing some of there men. So I went of in great heast, my 
 wife being on the island of Rasay, the old Laird, his son, the 
 Doctor, and my brother, without any word, I could not help 
 going to Rasay, tho"* it wou'd cost my life. So I went on 
 straght to Rasay, and got a boat whenever I cam to the ferrie 
 side. I was not far from the shore when some soldiers cam to 
 the shore side. They began to cry after uss. The people of 
 the boat said they would turn. I told them I woud make use 
 
 1 See ff. 228, 266. 2 See ff. 247, 262, 767. 
 
 3 See ff. 235-245, 249. 
 
124 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1746 
 
 8 July of my arms first. Then the soldier began to fire after us. I 
 
 desir the men to go on. Whenever I landed at Rasay I sent 
 tow or three lines to the Laird, telling hime how it was, and 
 to take good care of himself. 1 I had not a home. I cam where 
 foi. 1717. my wife was with some cows. It was night then. I got word 
 that they saw ships at the other end of Rasay. I took litle 
 
 9 July rest. At break of day I went to the top of the Island with 
 
 my servantt and told nobody where I was going. When I 
 came to the top what did I see but fourty redcoats very near 
 me. I heard a shot nearer then that to me, then a soldier 
 apeired to me and began to pursue me, and cryed to me to 
 halt. I ran as fast as I could. There was another partty 
 before me with there officers. When they saw me runing so 
 fast, and having on a clen shirt and good closs, they thought 
 
 it was the P s. After coming very near them I turned 
 
 another way. They did fire at me. They took the man that 
 
 foi. 1718. was my servantt and I left them. The man was by name 
 Donald Nilcolson. 2 They tiyed him to a ston and worked at 
 
 him there, asking of him if it was the P s that was his 
 
 Master and left them, or how was the man that left them. 
 But Donald gave them no answer at all. They left him 
 there for dead. He was a long time before he did recover 
 it. Then I got another servantt, John Roy Montgumury. 
 All that day there was not anywhere that I wou\l turn 
 my face but a partty of rid coats would meet me. At last 
 my servantt told me that he knew a rock that no body woud 
 find use. 3 So I went with him to that rock and stayed there 
 tow days and tow nights without meat or drink, seeing the 
 
 foi. 1719. soldiers passing and repassing every day. The third day 
 we cam out of the rock, and my wife met me and told me she 
 did not know if they left Rasay or not. Then I sent my 
 servantt to a freind of my own, on Murdo M'Leod, tacksman of 
 Brea. Murdo sends me word all the soldiers wer away and 
 left Rasay, that I might go to his house, and so I did, and got 
 meat and drink, which I had need of. However, I told him 
 that I woud not slep within a house that night. So I went to 
 a top of a hill near the house. This was the 12 of July. 
 
 See ff. 305, 873. 
 
 2 See ff. 249, 875. 
 
 3 See f. 250. 
 
1746] MALCOLM MACLEOD IN HIDING 125 
 
 About tow in the morning there came on a pure of rain that I l 3 J ul y 
 was not able to stay there. So we got up and went to an old 
 barn near the houses. My servantt, John, said that he was fol. 1720. 
 feard some poeple cam to the country because his dog he left 
 with his mother three days before that he met him. Go, say I, 
 and look about the town. So he did and saw nothing. We 
 did slep without any cloess but body does. I desired him to 
 tell the servent maid who was his sister if she wou'd see any- 
 thing that he was in that barn. About six in the morning I 
 heard the lass claping her hands, crying, 'John, John, the 
 soldiers are about the house. 1 I started up and went out. I 
 saw them in Highland cloese. I heard the Commander saying, 
 6 Donald, throu off your plaid — there he is. This was Captain 
 M'Leod of Tallisker, and I took them for Campbells, for I never 
 thought that my own freinds and relations wou'd use me in fol- 1721. 
 that way. I ran of very fast. They ran fast after me. When 
 they saw they woud make nothing of me they did fire at me. 
 Whether it was Tallisker that desired them to do that or not I 
 cannot tell. However, I left them. I saw fourty more of them 
 the way I was runing. I past by them myself and servantt. 
 Another boy met me. I cou'd not turn him from me. I got 
 to the old habitation, the rock, was there three days and three 
 nights without meat, but litle thing that a wife brought me 
 once. She was the only person that know of my being there. 
 The third day I could not keep the boy with me any longer. 
 I was for keeping him, but my servantt and himself prevealed f° l - ^722. 
 that I allowed him to go for meat, and that he woud come 
 back that night with meat and news. So Tallisker and his 
 hunder men were sicking me for tow days. The third day he 
 caused all the country poeple to go after me. When that did not 
 do, he and his men took up all the cows and horses 1 and sheep 
 and goats that was left befor that on the Island of Rasay and 
 brought them to on pleace, and swered he wou'd ferry them all 
 out of the Island if I was not got. That was a poor sight. 
 What women and children was after them starveing for want 
 of meat when they catle was taking from them. So then he got 
 word that this boy was with me. The boy was brought to fol. 1723 
 him. He offered silver and gold if he wou'd tell where I was. 
 
 1 See f. 876. 
 
126 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 i5J ul y Then he told him he wou'd hang him if he wou'd not tell 
 where I was. At last he told them he wou'd let them see 
 where I was that night. Tallisker sent his lieutenant, Donald 
 M'Leod, with fifty of his men with the boy where I was. The 
 boy brought them to the rock and told them where I was. 
 The rock was very ugly place. There was but on way to come 
 to the part where I was in, and when my enemy came that way 
 I had not any other way to go. I used alwas to send my 
 servantt befor day for watter that wou'd sarve use all day. At 
 daybreak, John, says I, you best go for watter befor its day. 
 
 foi. 1724. So my servantt went his way. He did not went far when I saw 
 him coming back. John, says I, what turned you so soon ? 
 John said, Sir, we are prisoners, for I did see so many men 
 coming down the rock and rid croses in there bonets. Befor 
 he ended his teal, they did apear at hand, six of them, and all 
 there guns cokt, desired me to hold my hands, that there^s were 
 ready. I told them I had non. If I had that I had better 
 hands to make use of gunns. I told them that I wou'd give 
 them all the money I had if they wou'd go back and tell the 
 rest they could not find me, and befor any more wou'd come I 
 wouM go out of the rock. They said they wou'd not. I said 
 no more, went with them. I myself nor my servantt had not 
 gun nor sowrd nor pistol nor a weapon of any kind. Donald 
 
 foi. 1725. M'Leod, the lieutenant, said he was very sory for my misfortune. 
 
 I told him there was not any neame in Scotland wou'd take me 
 prisoner but thairsalvies. He brought me to Tallisker. My 
 wife was sent for to take live of her. I left all my shirts at 
 Inverness but the one I had on me that day. I got another 
 from my brother. That shirt I left with my servantt, and 
 some of Tallisker's men took it away. My wife told this to 
 Tallisker. He asked her how was saying that. She told him 
 it was her own woman servantt. Bring her here. So she was 
 brought. He caused to bor a hole and put the woman finger in 
 
 foi. 1726. it, and stricking a wadge asid her finger that anybody wou'd see 
 her in that condition woud pitty her case. For my own part 
 it did wext me more then taking myself prisoner. I spoke to 
 Normand M'Leod of Watterstien, who was a captain with 
 Tallisker, and desired him to go where Tallisker was, that I 
 ask as a favour to let the woman go. Sir, said Normand 
 
1746] MALCOLM MACLEOD A PRISONER 127 
 
 M'Leod, I did as much as I could already. Go yourself ; I '11 16 J ul y 
 go with you. So I went, but he wou'd not hear me, but 
 desired to strick the wadge harder. Normand MacLeod of 
 Watterstain offered his purse to me. I thanked him and told 
 him I had plenty of my own. Weel, say he, I wish to God it 
 was for money you was to be got this day while I had of the 
 world, and you would not go this day. So Tallisker went with foi. 1727. 
 me to Porttree, and delivered me to Captain M'Nail, who 
 commanded a company half red coats and half Campbells. 
 That night I was put with the rest of the prisoners they had 
 to the gard hous, amongst whom was Donald M'Leod of 
 Garttigill (Gualtergill). 1 They took all the rum befor I went 
 in, for they puts us all one sid of the fire, for I was under the 
 ridcoats feet. I send out for Captain M'Nail. I beg'd of him 
 as a favour to let me the other sid of the fire. He told me 
 that Tallisker desired him to keep a duble sentry and a duble 
 gard on me. If I would leave them they woud not take me 
 again. That is very kind, say I. f° l - 1 7^- 
 
 I stayed at Porttree that day and the nixt day. The third 
 day we was send abourd of a tender : the fourt day we were 
 sent abourd of Captain Farguson, being the 19 of July 1746, 2 T 9Juiy 
 where General Campbell was for twenty days after we were 
 sent abourd. We wer illus'd for went of meat, and beds we 
 had non but the cable. Captain Farguson brought us to 
 London. We wer sent abourd of a transport befor Tilberri 
 Fort. I was brought from them the first of November, and 
 brought up to London, and put to Mr. Dick's house, where I 
 was keept till the fourt of July 1747. As I live this is all 
 trouth, and much mor. Written by me 
 
 (Sic subscribitur), Mat.com MacLeod of Brea in Rasay. 
 
 Make your own use of this. If you do puplish this I hope f° l - *7*9- 
 you '11 put it in better dress. 
 
 Reverend Dear Sir, — I could not make out your memor- 5 Aug. 
 andum 3 as yet to my contentment, as I was tender and every 1752 
 cross coming in my way. My only brother dyed about a month 
 
 1 See f. 266. 
 
 See ff. 257, 311. 
 
 3 See f. 265. 
 
128 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 5 Aug. ago, who was as pritty a man is was of his neam or any other 
 neame. If you went that as yet acquant me per bearer, or 
 any news that will give me comfort, and how all my weel- 
 wishers are. Excuse went of paper, I cannot get a but where 
 I'm. Wishing you and lady all happyness, I'm your most 
 affectionatly humble servantt 
 
 (Sic subscribitur), Mal. MacLeod. 
 Scouzar, August 5th, 1752. 
 
 This is to let the world know how I was taken prisoner, and 
 the people that took me. 
 foi. 1730. N.B. — The original of the preceeding narrative, all in 
 
 the handwriting of the said Malcolm MacLeod, in 11 
 pages 4to, is to be found among my papers. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 foi. 1731- Copy of a Letter to me, Robert Forbes, received 
 on Monday, August 31, 1752, by post. 
 
 Dear Sir, — I fancie upon the first sight of this you 11 say 
 that Anderson's acquaintance begins now to be troublsom ; but 
 that is what I cannot help, for I most be pelting my friends 
 with letters, tho there be little in them of either good sence or 
 stile. But pray what coud be weell expected from a skull as 
 thick as a deall board. If there is anything good coud per- 
 spire throw such thickness, my inclination leads me to give it 
 to Mr. Forbes, upon which account receive it kindly, as it is 
 diverting to me to be scribbling somthing to divert melancholie 
 upon the sad news of the Young Pretender's appearing pub- 
 lickly now at one of our Protestant Courts of the Empire, and 
 going publickly to one of the Lutheran Churches every Sunday. 
 No doubt you 11 in your merry mood laugh at this piec of my 
 news. But Alas, Sir, so true it is that the whole members of 
 foi. 1732. the Privie Counsell are summoned from their country houses 
 to a generall counsell this night upon it. I wish I had him 
 and his adherents at Tyburn. Then we shoud be quite of 
 our fears, which (I am afraid) we have more reason for now 
 than in former times, whilst that family's bigotry in a prin- 
 cipal! quite contrary to ours continued. But this young man 
 
1752] RUMOURS ABOUT THE PRINCE 129 
 
 has thrown that bigotry away, and is now at Berline publickly 26 Aug. 
 a protcstant declared. What deplorable effects may this pro- 
 duce — an intestin war, loss of blood, confusion, stop of trade, 
 the support of our nation, father fighting against the son, the 
 son against the father, women tearing other by the hair ; in a 
 word, nothing to be seen but desolation. And we cannot now 
 say that he 's the Popish Jesuiticall pretender, but a protestant 
 one. O that word protestant may cause many of the unthink- 
 ing foolish mob turn disloyall to our best of soveraigns, in whose 
 golden age trade flourishes and wholsome laws are made. But 
 I hope still that the better kind most know the loss of wanting /<?/. i 733 . 
 such a king, and will not be for a change. But the Divell ! 
 O the Mob ! Mob and protestant does much in this unthink- 
 ing country. Its said he 's marryed too there, but this I do 
 not assert as a fact. I leave this Saturday first. My compli- 
 ments to you and Mrs. Forbes, and propagate my dismall news 
 to all your worthy brothers, and belive me allways to be your 
 most humble servant 
 
 (Sic subscribitur), John Anderson. 1 
 
 London, A gust %6th, 1752. 
 
 N.B. — The original of the above is to be found among 
 my papers. It is remarkable that not a word more did 
 we hear of the preceeding particulars but once or twice a 
 surmise in the newspapers about the protestantism, till 
 Saturday, January 13th, 1753, when David Brodie, ship- 
 master of Leith, did land in Leith from Dunkirk, and 
 brought letters along with him importing that the Gover- 
 nour of French Flanders had notified to the Governour of 
 Dunkirk the marriage of Prince Edward or Charles with fol. 1734. 
 the Princess Royal of Prussia. But this was speedily and 
 industriously contradicted and suppress'd in private con- 
 versations, insomuch that some who had received letters 
 from Dunkirk denied their having received any such at 
 all. Some few believed both the marriage and the pro- 
 testantism, and for so doing were laughed at by others. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 1 Alias John Farquharson of Aldlerg. See f. 1782. 
 VOL. III. 
 
 I 
 
130 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1753 
 
 Copy of part of a Letter from theRevd. Mr. William 
 Abernethie, by post, to me, Robert Forbes. 
 
 12 June Poor Dr. Cameron ! 1 — I believe I should say Happy Dr. 
 Cameron ! — for never did man make a more glorious exit. He 
 met the last great enemy with as much intrepidity and as 
 much decency as even the great Balmerino. When he was 
 loosed from the sledge on which he was drawn to the gibbet, 
 he sprung up with great alacrity, mounted the steps into the 
 
 foi. 1735. cart from which he was to be hung off, and viewed the spec- 
 tators with as much serenity and as much firmness of mind as 
 if at the head of his company he had been about to give the 
 word of command. Then beckoning to the Sheriff to approach, 
 he told him that he came there to pay his last duty to his king 
 and his country, which he did the more chearfully as he had 
 all along acted in the affair which the Government called the 
 Rebellion according to his conscience ; that he died a stedfast 
 tho' unworthy member of the Church of England, heartily 
 repented of his sins, and hoped for forgiveness thro' Christ's 
 merits, but did not reckon that for which he died among the 
 number of his sins, and therefore never did, never would repent 
 of it. In fine, he forgave his enemies and offered up his depart- 
 ing soul to God in the words of our blessed Lord, 6 Father, 
 into thy hands," etc. But I need not trouble you with more 
 on this subject, for Mr. Fal — r, who attended him from the 
 Sunday before his execution and at the gibbet, will no doubt 
 
 foL 1736. S oon give you a fuller and more exact account than I can, who 
 only write by hearsay. I may, however, add that he has 
 done the Government more hurt by his death than 40 such 
 lives could have done, and certainly his Majesty was not well 
 advised to take away a life against the inclinations, the wishes, 
 and (if ever the folks of this country did pray), against the 
 
 1 Dr. Archibald Cameron was the brother of Cameron of Lochiel, and refer- 
 ences are made to his lady at ff. 374 and 547, as also to a pamphlet purporting 
 to be a history of his life. A notice of him will be found in the History of the 
 Camerons, by Alexander Mackenzie, pp. 276-280, where are printed the fol- 
 lowing fragments of the Doctor's intended speech (pp. 132-137), from a copy 
 made by Oliphant of Gask, and which is printed in the Appendix to the Jacobite 
 Lairds of Gask, pp. 473-478. 
 
1753] DEATH OF DR. ARCHIBALD CAMERON 131 
 
 prayers too of all ranks and degrees of people, high and low, 12 June 
 rich and poor, Whigs and Jacobites ; for never were they more 
 united than in their wishes for his safety, nor could there a 
 more acceptable thing been done them than to have spared his 
 life. — I am ever, Dear Robin, yours, 
 
 (Sic subscribitur), W. A. 
 
 London, June l%th, 1753. 
 
 N.B. — The original of the above is to be found among 
 my papers. Robert Forbes, AM. 
 
 Copy of part of a Letter from said Mr. William foi. 1737. 
 Abernethie to the Revd. Mr. William 
 Erskyne, at Muthill, which letter came open 
 to me, Robert Forbes, by post, under my 
 cover. London, July 14th, 1*~53. 
 
 You would see by the papers an account of Dr. Cameron's 14 July 
 death and behaviour, and probably, too, his speech to the 
 Sheriff at the gibbet, and therefore I need not trouble you 
 with a repetition of it. There is, however, one clause in the 
 speech, which he left with his wife, and which will be printed 
 when she is gone, that will probably entertain you as a piece 
 of news, though it can give you no joy as a well-wisher to the 
 illustrious house. It is to this purpose, ' I do declare on the 
 word of a dying man that the last time I saw my dear Prince, 
 he told me, and bid me assure his friends, that he is a member 
 of the Church of England.' This, I believe, are the ipsissima 
 verba et hisce oculis vidi. This is an authority above all objec- 
 tion, and (what every friend to his Majesty, King George, must foh 1738. 
 regret), this will be believed how soon it is known that Dr. 
 Cameron has said it, for all the world here have a great opinion 
 of his honour, integrity, etc., as everybody indeed must, and 
 do admire the wonderful constancy and firmness of his mind 
 in the blackest and most aweful moments of his life. The 
 rest of his speech contains nothing particular. It relates only 
 what services he did the friends of the Government in the '45 
 by preserving them from being burnt or plundered, complains 
 of the cruel treatment he received in return, and declares how 
 
132 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1753 
 
 14 July conscientiously he all along acted while engaged in his master's 
 service, whom he extolls to the skies. 
 
 foi. 1739 Copy of what Dr. Archibald Cameron intended to 
 have delivered to the Sheriff of Middlesex 
 at the place of execution, but which he left in 
 the hands of his wife for that end. 
 
 6 June On the first slip of paper dated — Tower ; 6th June 1753. 
 
 Being denied the use of pen, ink, and paper [except in the 
 presence of one or more officers, who always took away the 
 paper from me whenever I began to write my complaints] 
 and not even allowed the use of a knife with which I might 
 cut a poor blunted pencil that had escaped the diligence of my 
 searchers. I have, notwithstanding, as I could find oppor- 
 tunity, attempted to set down on some slips of paper in as 
 legible characters as I was able, what I would have my country 
 satisfied of with regard to myself and the cause in which I am 
 now going to lay down my life. 
 
 As to my religion, I thank God I die a member [tho** 
 unworthy] of that church in whose communion I have always 
 lived, the Episcopal Church of Scotland, as by law established 
 before the most unnaturall Rebellion begun in 1688, which for 
 foi. 1740. the sins of these nations hath continued to this day ; and I 
 firmly trust to find at the most awful and impartial tribunal of 
 the Almighty King of Kings, through the merits of my blessed 
 Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, that mercy [tho 1 undeserved] to 
 my immortal part, which is here denied to my earthly by an 
 usurper and his faction, tho' it be well known I have been the 
 instrument of preventing the ruin and destruction of many of 
 my poor deluded countrymen who were in their service, as I 
 shall make appear before I have done, if opportunities of 
 writing fail me not. 
 
 [On the second slip of paper.] 
 
 In order to convince the world of the uprightness of my 
 intentions while in the Prince of Wales's army, as well as to 
 shew the cruelty, injustice, and ingratitude of my murderers, I 
 
!753] LAST SPEECH OF DR. CAMERON 
 
 133 
 
 think it proper, in the first place, to take notice, how much 6 June 
 better usage I might have expected of my country if humanity 
 and good nature were now looked upon with the same eyes as 
 in the times of our brave and generous ancestors. But I 'm 
 sorry to observe that our present men in power are so far sunk 
 below the noble spirit of the ancient Britons as hardly at this 
 day to be distinguished from the very basest of mankind. foU 1741. 
 Nor could the present possessor of the throne of our injured 
 sovereign, if he looked on himself as father and natural prince 
 of this country, suffer the life of one to be taken away who had 
 saved the lives and effects of more than 300 persons in Scot- 
 land who were firmly attached to him and his party. But it 
 seems it is now made a crime to save the lives of Scotchmen. 
 
 As neither the time nor the poor materials I have for 
 writing will allow me to descend to a particular enumeration 
 of all the services I have done to the friends of the usurper, 
 I shall, therefore, only mention a few of the most known, and 
 such as can be well attested. 
 
 In July 1745, soon after the setting up of the royal 
 standard, and before our small army had reached Corryarick, 
 it was moved by some of the chiefs to apply to the Prince for 
 a strong detachment of clans to distress Campbell of Invera's 
 house and tenants in the neighbourhood, which my brother, 
 Lochiel, and I so successfully opposed, by representing to our 
 generous leader [who was always an enemy to oppression], that 
 such proceedings could be no way useful to his undertak- foi. 1742. 
 ing, that the motion was entirely laid aside, to the no small 
 mortification of the proposers. 
 
 My brother and I likewise prevented such another design 
 against Braidalbin, to the great satisfaction of our dear Prince. 
 And on our return from England to Glasgow, 
 
 Archibald Cameron. 1 
 
 [On a third slip of paper.] 
 My brother and I did service to the town of Glasgow, of 
 which the principal gentry in the neighbourhood were then, 
 
 1 Mr. Cameron, as was his custom when interrupted, subscribed his name, as 
 he told his wife, to make what he had written the more authentic, in case he 
 should not have an opportunity of writing any more. 
 
134 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1753 
 
 6 J une and are to this day, very sensible, if they durst own the truth. 
 But that might be construed as disaffection to a Government 
 founded on and supported by lies and falshood. 
 
 On our march to Stirling I myself [tho 1 I "m like to meet 
 with a Hanoverian reward for it] hindered the whole town of 
 Kirkintulloch from being destroyed, and its inhabitants put to 
 the sword by my brother's men, who were justly incensed 
 against it for the inhuman murder of two of Lady LochieFs 
 fol. 1743. servants but two months before. Here was a sufficient pretence 
 for vengeance had I been inclined to cruelty. But, I thank 
 God, nothing was ever further from my nature, tho" I may 
 have been otherwise represented. Mr. Campbell of Shawfield 
 likewise owes me some small favours done to himself and 
 family, which at least deserved some return in my behalf. 
 
 And Lady Duncan Campbell of Lochnell, 1 now in London, 
 can, if she pleases, vouch for the truth of some of the above 
 facts. Archibald Cameron. 
 
 [On a fourth slip of paper.] 
 
 June 6, 1753. 
 
 I thank kind Providence I had the happiness to be early 
 fol. 1744. educated in the principles of Christian loyalty, which as I grew 
 in years inspired me with an utter abhorrence of rebellion and 
 usurpation, tho'' ever so successful. And when I arrived at 
 man's estate I had the testimony both of religion and reason 
 to confirm me in the truth of my first principles. Thus my 
 attachment to the Royal Family is more the result of exami- 
 nation and conviction than of prepossession and prejudice. 
 And as I am now, so was I then, ready to seal my loyalty with 
 
 1 Sir Duncan Campbell waited upon the Duke of Argyll and earnestly 
 solicited his grace to interceed with the Court for the preservation of Dr. 
 Cameron's life. The Duke of Argyll spoke these or the like words, 'Sir 
 Duncan, were I to crawl on all fours to these men, they would not grant me that 
 favour.' Another gentleman went to one of the Secretaries of State and inter- 
 ceded for Dr. Cameron's life. The Secretary gave for answer, ' Why come you 
 to me ? Why don't you go to your countryman, the Duke of Argyll ? If he 
 will ask the favour, it will not be refused. He is our first man in Scotland, and 
 it is not our interest to deny him a favour when he thinks proper to ask it.' 
 Let the world judge between the Duke of Argyll's words and the Secretary's. 
 It is indeed generally thought that the truth of the last seems to be the most 
 probable of the two. — F. 
 
1750] SERVICES OF DR. CAMERON 
 
 135 
 
 my blood. As soon, therefore, as the royal youth had set up 6 June 
 the king his fathers standard, I immediately, as in duty 
 bound, repaired to it, and as I had the honour from that time 
 to be almost constantly about his person till November 1748 
 [excepting the short time after the affair of Culloden that his 
 Royal Highness was in the Western Isles], I became more and 
 more captivated with his amiable and princely virtues, which 
 are indeed in every instance so eminently great as I want 
 words to describe. 
 
 I can farther affirm [and my present situation, and that of my 
 dear Prince too, can leave no room to suspect me of flattery] 
 that as I have been his companion in the lowest degree of 
 adversity that ever prince was reduced to, so I have beheld 
 him too, as it were, on the highest pinacle of glory, amidst foi. 1745. 
 the continual applauses, and I had almost said adorations, of 
 the most brilliant court in Europe ; yet he was always the same, 
 ever affable and courteous, giving constant proofs of his great 
 humanity and of his love for his friends and his country. 
 What great good to these nations might not be expected from 
 such a Prince, were he in possession of the throne of his 
 ancestors ! And as to his courage ! None that have ever heard 
 of his glorious attempt in 1745, can, I should think, call it 
 in question. 
 
 I cannot pass by in silence that most unjust and horrid 
 calumny (viz. of giving no quarter to our enemy) raised by the 
 rebels under the command of the inhuman son of the Elector 
 of Hanover, which served as an excuse for the unparallelled 
 butchery committed by his orders in cold blood after the 
 unhappy affair of Culloden ; which, if true, must have come to 
 my knowledge, who had the honour to serve my ever dear 
 master in quality of one of his aides de camp. And I hereby 
 declare I never heard of such orders. This above is truth. 
 
 Archibald Cameron. 
 
 I likewise declare on the word of a dying man that the last foi. 1746. 
 time I had the honour to see his Royal Highness, Charles, 
 Prince of Wales, he told me from his own mouth, and bid 
 me assure his friends from him that he was a member of the 
 Church of England} Archibald Cameron. 
 
 1 See ff. I73I-I733- 
 
136 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1753 
 
 [On a fifth slip of paper.] 
 6 June To cover the cruelty of murdering me at this distance of 
 time from passing the unjust attainder, I am accused of being 
 deeply concerned in a new plot against the government [which, 
 if I was, neither the fear of the worst death their malice 
 could invent, nor the blustering and noisy threatnings of the 
 fol. 1747. tumultuous Council, 1 nor much less their flattering promises, 
 could have extorted any discovery of it from me], but not so 
 much as one evidence was ever produced to make good the 
 charge. But it is my business to submit, since God in his all- 
 wise providence thinks fit to suffer it to be so. And I the 
 more chearfully resign my life, as it is taken away for doing 
 my duty to God, my king, and my country ; nor is there any- 
 thing in this world I could so much wish to have it prolonged 
 for as to have another opportunity of employing the remainder 
 of it in the same glorious cause. 
 
 Archibald Cameron. 
 
 I thank God I was not in the least daunted at hearing the 
 bloody sentence which my unrighteous judge 2 pronounced with 
 a seeming insensibility, till he came to these words, but not till 
 fol. 1748 you are dead ; before which he made a pause, and uttering 
 them with a particular emphasis, stared me full in the face, to 
 see, I suppose, if I was as much frightened at them as he per- 
 
 1 Dr. Cameron while on his examination was asked, ' What had determined 
 him to go to Rome (for that they had heard he had been there) as it was a long 
 journey, and travelling was expensive ? ' The Dr. honestly and plainly an- 
 swered, ' I went to see my old master, and to receive his commands for my 
 young master.' 'Did you see your young master lately?' Answer, 'Yes,' 
 'Where did you see him?' Answer, 'At Paris.' [Here a considerable pause 
 was made, and orders were given to note down exactly the words of the Dr. , 
 they imagining now some mighty discovery to be made by him]. Then it was 
 asked, ' When did you see your young master (as you call him) last at Paris?' 
 Answer, ' In 1748.' They were much inraged at this answer, as they conjectured 
 the Dr. would have condescended upon some later time, viz. in 1751 or I75 2 - 
 The Duke of Newcastle, in particular, was so provoked that he stormed furiously 
 and bawled out, ' This is the height of insolence ! most insufferable insolence ! 
 insolence not to be borne with ! ' etc. etc. etc. In a word, such was the 
 blustering that Dr. Cameron (as he acknowledged to a particular friend) was 
 almost ready to smile, even in presence of the Council. — F. 
 
 2 Justice Lee, or Lord Chief Justice Lee. — F. 
 
1753] LAST SPEECH OF DR. CAMERON 137 
 
 haps would have been had he been in my place. As to the June 
 guilt he said I had to answer for, as having been instrumental 
 in the loss of so many lives, let him and his constituents see to 
 that. At their hands, not at mine, will all the blood that has 
 been shed on that account be required. 
 
 God of his infinite mercy grant they may prevent the pun- 
 ishment which hangs over their heads by a sincere and timely 
 repentance, and speedily return to their duty. 
 
 I pray God to hasten the restoration of the Royal Family 
 [without which this miserably divided nation can never enjoy 
 peace and happiness], and that it may please him to preserve 
 and defend the King, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of 
 York 1 from the power and malice of their enemies ; to prosper 
 and reward all my friends and benefactors, and to forgive all 
 my enemies, murderers, and false accusers, from the Elector of f° l - J749- 
 Hanover and his bloody son, down to Samuel Cameron, 2 the 
 basest of their spies, as I freely do from the bottom of my 
 heart. (Sic subscribitur), Archibald Cameron. 
 
 I am now ready to be offered. 
 I have fought a good fight. 
 All glory be to God. 
 
 The above is a faithful transcript of my late dear husband's 
 dying sentiments. (Sic subscribitur), Jean Cameron. 
 
 Copy of a Letter from Dr. Archibald Cameron m i 75 o. 
 under sentence of death, to his son in France. 
 
 Tower of London, June 6th, 1753. 
 My dear Child, — It is with the highest satisfaction that I 
 have for some time past observed in you a sense of honour and 
 
 1 Dr. Cameron frequently owned that he was under particular and personal 
 obligations to the Duke of York. — F. 
 
 2 Brother to Cameron of Gleneavis, and a lieutenant in Lord Lewis Drum- 
 mond's regiment in France. Upon Mrs. Cameron's going over to France, after 
 her husband's death, the said Samuel Cameron was tried by a court-martial and 
 thrown into a dungeon. — F. 
 
138 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1753 
 
 6 June loyalty much beyond what could have been expected from a 
 boy of your years, and tho" death will soon deprive me of the 
 power of being of farther service to my king, prince, and 
 country, yet what greatly adds to my satisfaction is the prin- 
 ciple you shew in your letter to your mother on the news of 
 my being in custody, and the confidence you have of my in- 
 violable fidelity to the royal cause. I give you the joy to 
 assure you that your confidence is well grounded ; for I have 
 been unalterable even in the smallest matters, and my 
 approaching death and the most severe usage will rather serve 
 to confirm than shake my fixed resolution of remaining so for 
 ever. 
 
 I am far less concerned about myself than about my friends 
 foi. 1751- and ruined country. They, not I, claim pity, tho" I fall a 
 victim to truth, honour, and uprightness, by the rage of Hano- 
 verian counsels, the declared enemies to every virtue. I thank 
 God I am hearty and in much better health than I have been 
 for some years past, more especially since I saw that letter 
 which gives me such hopes of your future conduct from the 
 desire you express in it, that I should rather sacrifice my life 
 than save it on dishonourable terms. [Macht mur in d'hair 1 
 (as Rothie used to say) i.e. the Son is like the father i\ I thank 
 my God I was always easier ashamed than frightened. 
 
 I have no money to leave you as a legacy, but take what is 
 of infinite more value, viz.: Above all things first serve God, 
 next your king, prince, and country ; then be always in your 
 duty to your mother, brothers, and sister ; act honourably and 
 honestly by your neighbour; meddle in no party quarrels; but 
 foL 1752. when you are personally wrong'd, demand justice with coolness, 
 regularity and resolution, without personal reflections. Beware 
 of ever speaking to the disadvantage of the absent, even tho 1 
 they should deserve it. 
 
 I recommend to you in a particular manner the care of your 
 health. Observe great moderation in eating; at any rate 
 abstain from heavy and late suppers ; and, above all, avoid 
 
 1 Macht ??iur in d^hair is an Erse saying. These and the other words inclosed 
 thus [ ] were in the original letter ; but Mrs. Cameron, from a delicacy of senti- 
 ment, earnestly begged and insisted they might be kept out of the printed copy, 
 and her request was complied with. — F. 
 
1753] DR- CAMERON'S ADVICE TO HIS SON 139 
 
 drinking and whoring. Be a good ceconomist of your little 6 June 
 money and cloaths. Let the company you frequent be rather 
 of your betters than your inferiors. 
 
 My time and writing implements allow me only to recom- 
 mend my most hearty thanks to my noble and worthy colonel. 1 
 Don't neglect your duty to him. 
 
 My love and dying benediction to my children, affection to 
 my brother's children, best wishes to all my friends, and hearty 
 compliments to all my good acquaintance and . . . 
 
 Here this great, good man was obliged to leave off, pro- 
 bably for want of a knife to cut his bit of a pencil, and 
 he never had another opportunity to add what he had to fol. 1753. 
 say farther to his son, except what he told a friend by 
 word of mouth, the morning of his execution, in delivering 
 him the last present he sent his son, which was a pair of 
 steel shoe-buckles, with the charge (which, that it might 
 not be forgotten, he repeated several times), viz.: 6 These 
 I send by you to my wife as my last present to my son, 
 and bid her tell him from me that I send him these and 
 not my silver ones, and that if I had gold ones I would 
 not send him the gold, but these steel ones which I wore 
 when sculking. For as steel is hard and of small value, it 
 is therefore an emblem of constancy and disinterestedness. 
 So I would have him constant and disinterested in the 
 service and defence of his king, prince, and country, and 
 neither be bribed nor frightened from his duty.' 
 
 A genuine and authentic Account of the behaviour foi. 1754. 
 
 of Dr. Archibald Cameron at the place of 
 
 execution, on Thursday, June 7th, 1753, by an 
 
 eye and ear witness. 2 
 
 When this gentleman came to the place of execution, he 7 June 
 looked on the officers and spectators with an undaunted and 
 
 1 Lord Ogilvy. — F. 
 
 2 The Revd. Mr. James Falconar, a Scots, nonjurant, Episcopal clergyman, 
 residing in London, and who attended the Dr. the last four days of his life. Mr. 
 Falconar writes this to me, Robert Forbes (London, August io, 1753), inter alia: 
 
140 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1753 
 
 7 June composed countenance ; and as soon as he was unloosed from 
 the sledge, he started up, and, with an heroic deportment, stept 
 up into the cart by the help of one of his executioners, whence 
 looking round with unconcern on all the awful apparatus of 
 foi. 1755. death, he smiled ; and seeing the clergyman that attended him 
 coming up the steps, he came forward to meet him and en- 
 deavoured with his fettered hands to help him up, saying, 6 So, 
 are you come ? This is a glorious day to me ! 'Tis my new 
 birth day. There are more witnesses at this birth than were at 
 my first."' The clergyman asked him how he did. He said, 
 4 Thank God, I am very well ; but a little fatigued with my 
 journey. But, blessed be God, I am now come to the end of 
 it/ 
 
 On hearing one of the gentlemen who presided at the execu- 
 tion ask the clergyman whether he would be long about his 
 office, Dr. Cameron immediately took the word and said, He 
 required but very little time, for it was but disagreeable being 
 there, and he was as impatient to be gone as they were. The 
 clergyman then asked the gentleman who had spoke whether 
 he was the sheriff, 1 and on his being answered in the affirmative, 
 he told him Dr. Cameron's business there would be chiefly with 
 foi. 1756. him, that he had something to communicate to him if he would 
 take the trouble to come near, which he very readily complied 
 with, and endeavoured to bring his horse close to the cart. 
 But, finding the horse a little unruly, and that he could not 
 hear what the Dr. said by reason of the noise of the multitude, 
 he beckoned with his hand for silence, but to no purpose. 
 Whereupon he very obligingly alighted and came up to the 
 steps, and with great civility and attention listened to the 
 Doctor, who spoke to this purpose : 4 Sir, you see a fellow- 
 subject just going to pay his last debt to his king and country. 2 
 
 1 May you, nor I, nor none we wish well or who wish us well, ever have such 
 another scene to act as I had on that melancholy yet glorious occasion. I was 
 obliged (indeed, by his own desire) to go to the very gallows with my ever dear 
 friend, and I had almost rather been hanged with him than be witness to his 
 death. But he kept up my spirits, or otherwise I should never have been able 
 to go through with my office,' etc. — F. 
 
 1 Mr. Missen, deputy-sheriff of Middlesex. — F. 
 
 2 These words, 1 to his king and country, were omitted by the newsmongers, 
 
1753] CAMERON'S ADDRESS TO THE SHERIFF 141 
 
 I the more chearfully resign my life, as it is taken from me for 7 June 
 
 doing my duty according to my conscience. I freely forgive 
 
 all my enemies, and those who are instrumental in taking away 
 
 my life. I thank God I die in charity with all mankind. foi. 1757. 
 
 6 As to my religion, I die a stedfast (tho 1 unworthy) member 
 of that Church in which I have always lived, the Church of 
 England, in whose communion I hope, thro"* the merits of my 
 blessed Saviour) for forgiveness of my sins, for which I am 
 heartily sorry. 
 
 'The custom of delivering something in writing on such 
 occasions as this, I should willingly have complied with, had 
 not my uncommon hard usage, even after sentence, put it out 
 of my power, being denied the use of pen, ink, and paper, ex- 
 cept in the presence of some of my keepers. But what I intend 
 my country should be informed of with regard to my dying 
 sentiments, I have by the means of a blunt pencil endeavoured 
 to set down on some slips of paper as I could come by them, in 
 as legible characters as I was able ; and these I have left in the 
 hands of my wife, charging her, on her duty to her dying 
 husband, to transmit with all convenient speed a faithful f° l - 1 75 8 - 
 transcript of them to you, and I am confident she will honour- 
 ably discharge the trust.' 1 
 
 He then told the Sheriff he would presume no longer upon 
 his patience, but the Sheriff with looks that bespoke a good 
 deal of concern and with much good nature, begged he would 
 take as much time as he pleased, for they would wait till he 
 was ready. The Doctor thanked him, then turning to the 
 clergyman he said, 6 1 have now done with this world and am 
 ready to leave it.' 
 
 He joined heartily in the commendatory prayer, etc., then 
 repeated some ejaculations out of the psalms. After which 
 he embraced the clergyman and took leave of him. 
 
 P.S. — As the clergyman was going down from the cart he 
 
 for which reason the foresaid Mr. Falconer caused print off the account of the 
 behaviour by itself in two 8vo leaves (which see) and insert the above words. 
 See Scots Magazine for 1753, May, p. 251, June, pages 279-305. — F. 
 
 1 Which Mrs. Cameron most faithfully performed, sending along with it a 
 letter from herself. — F. 
 
142 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1753 
 
 7 June had like to have missed the steps, which the Doctor observing, 
 foi. 1759. called out to him with a chearful tone of voice, saying, 4 Take 
 care how you go. I think you don't know the way as well as 
 I do/ 
 
 N.B. — Leith, Saturday, August 9.5th, 1753. — I, Robert 
 Forbes, received from the hands of the Rev. Mr. George 
 Cheyne, a copy of Dr. Cameron's last and dying words, as 
 also a copy of his letter to his son, both in manuscript ; 
 and likewise a printed copy of the Dr.'s behaviour at the 
 place of execution ; all which three papers were trans- 
 mitted to me from the foresaid Rev. Mr. James Falconar, 
 through the said Mr. Cheyne's hands, and were soon after 
 printed at Edinburgh in one sheet 8vo, which see. The 
 marginal notes at the foot of pages [ff.] 1743, 1746, 1747, 
 1748, and 1757, 1 took down in writing from Mr. Cheyne's 
 own mouth as he had them from the mouth of said Mr. 
 James Falconar. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 foi. 1760. Copy of a Letter (translated) from the Duke de 
 Bouillon in France in 1745. 
 
 i 745 Mon Maitre 1 , — [After a compliment or two follows thus] — 
 On the receipt of the charming letter with which you honoured 
 me, I flew to the king, and on my knees with tears in my eyes 
 conjured him to sustain the design which he knew to be so 
 lawful. I pointed to him the perils to which you was exposed. 
 I said every thing you might expect from the sentiments that 
 attach my life to your Royal Highness. 
 
 Judge you the joy which the answer he made infused into 
 me, when he assured me that he had taken to heart as much as 
 it was possible for me the project you had formed, and that I 
 might assure your Royal Highness that everything you might 
 possibly have occasion for was ready. I insisted with the 
 ministers to send the troops immediately. But they answered 
 that it was absolutely necessary to have the news of your 
 
 1 i.e. ' My master,' a compellation given in the French language by inferiours 
 to persons of royal extraction. — F. 
 
1745] LETTERS FROM FRANCE AND SPAIN 143 
 
 arrival before anything should be sent, and that then your m I7 6i. 
 Royal Highness had but to ask what should be convenient and 
 useful for your design and it should be ready. 
 
 I dare flatter myself that you will not leave me long in this 
 mortal inquietude through the ignorance of your being safely 
 arrived, and that your Royal Highness will again permit me 
 to assure you that all my estate and all my blood is at your 
 disposal. And in whatever service you shall employ me, in me 
 you shall find both fidelity and vivacity to serve you with all 
 my power and most profound respect, with which I shall have 
 the honour to be while I live, Mon Maitre, your most humble 
 and most obedient servante, 
 
 (Sic subscribitur), Louis de Bouillon. 
 
 N.B. — Friday, February 15th, 1754. — The preeceding 
 and the following letter transcribed from copies in the 
 custody of the right reverend Bishop Keith. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Copy of a Letter (translated) from the Spanish foL 
 resident in France in 1745. 
 
 Mon Maitre, — When I received the order of my Court on 
 the subject of the interest of your Royal Highness, I did not 
 lose a moment to go and act with this Court. His most 
 Christian Majesty did not hesitate to promise a prompt succour 
 of men, money, and arms, and he ordered that all should be 
 ready. I immediately dispatched a courier to the king, my 
 master, to inform him of this resolution, and I can assure your 
 Royal Highness that his Catholic Majesty has entirely con- 
 formed himself to the disposition of the most Christian king, 
 his nephew, and that he will furnish a succour altogether 
 equal to that of this Court. 
 
 But this is not all, for the most Christian king added that 
 how soon he should learn that the dispositions of your people 
 were fortified by your presence, and that they had taken their 
 resolutions, he would augment these succours by making some 
 more troops to pass to whatever place should be thought 
 
144 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1745 
 
 convenient for sustaining them. And I have reason to believe 
 fol. 1763. the brigade of Ireland is appointed for this. The king, my 
 master, will furnish the same number of troops with his most 
 Christian majesty. 
 
 I have the honour to inform your Royal Highness of this 
 disposition with a satisfaction of heart so very lively that 
 nothing can add to it but the wishes I have to the happy 
 success of so just an enterprize. 
 
 I pray your Royal Highness to receive this assurance, and 
 also that of the most profound respect with which I have the 
 honour to be, Mon Maitre, your Royal Highness's most 
 humble and most obedient servant, 
 
 (Sic subscribitur), Le Prince de Campo Florido. 
 
 P.S. — We wait here with the utmost impatience the 
 news of your Royal Highness's debarquement. 
 
 Copy of the Examination of John Gray of 
 Rogart, a Highland drover, in 1746. 
 
 Mr. Gray being called to the bar of the House of Commons. 
 Mr. Speaker. What is your employment ? 
 Gray. I have a little estate of my own. 
 Sp. Do you know anything about the Earl of Kelly ? 
 Gr. I do not particularly know that man, but I saw at 
 Perth a person called the Earl of Kelly. 
 Sp. What did you see him do there ? 
 
 Gr. I saw him drunk in the streets, and in the coffee-house 
 forcing people to play with him at backgammon, but could 
 get none. 
 
 Sp. Do you know William, Viscount Strathallan ? 
 
 Gr. I do not know whether William or James be his name, 
 nor never saw such a man till I was brought before him at 
 Perth, and afterwards committed to prison by his orders, as I 
 heard ; but I did not see him give the order. 
 
 Sp. Had he Highland cloaths on, and a white cockade ? 
 
 Gr. I am sure he had not Highland cloaths on ; and as to 
 a white cockade, I am not positive whether or not. 
 
 fol. 1764, 
 
 1746 
 
1746] EXAMINATION OF JOHN GRAY 145 
 
 Sp. Why did they commit you to prison ? 
 Gr. They told me no reason nor law for it. 
 Sp. Withdraw, sir. 
 Gray withdraws. 
 
 Speaker asks if any here knew this man. To which foi. 1765. 
 Sir John Gordon of Invergordon answered, If General St. 
 Clare were here, he knew him very well, for he was agent 
 for him at two elections in 1740. For his own part he 
 was not well acquainted with him. 
 Gray was called in a second time. 
 Sp. Did you not believe Perth to be in the hands of the 
 rebels, or in their possession then ? 
 
 Gr. The inhabitants and burgesses were in their own houses 
 for anything I know. But there were a great many men in 
 Highland cloathes going and coming to and from the place 
 while I was a prisoner. 
 
 Sp. What time was you prisoner there ? 
 
 Gr. About Christmas last. 
 
 Sp. Do you know Lord Elcho ? 
 
 Gr. Very well. 
 
 Sp. Where did you see him ? 
 
 Gr. At Dunrobin, in the Earl of Sutherland's house, some 
 years ago. 
 
 Sp. But I ask you, Did you see him among the rebels ? 
 Gr. I never saw him since he was at Dunrobin. 
 Sp. Do you know William Drummond, eldest son to the 
 Viscount of Strathallan ? 
 Gr. I do not. 
 
 Sp. Did you see Simon Fraser, Master of Lovat, there ? 
 Gr. I know very little about him. 
 Sp. Little as it is, let me hear it. 
 
 Gr. As to the person called the Master of Lovat, I never 
 saw him before I came to Perth. But a friend of mine told f o! - *766. 
 me he would interceed with the Master to get me enlarged. 
 And when I was set at liberty I addressed a young lad in the 
 streets and thanked him. But I do not affirm that person to 
 be the Master of Lovat. 
 
 Sp. What said that person to you ? 
 
 Gr. He said, I was welcome. 
 vol. in. k 
 
146 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1746 
 
 Sp. Had he arms on ? 
 
 Git. I cannot condescend on any arms but a cutlace by his 
 side. 
 
 Sp. Was the Master of Lovat at the head of the Frasers ? 
 
 Git. He is not their head till his father die, for my Lord 
 Lovat is their head or chief. It is true he is my Lord's eldest 
 son. 
 
 Sp. Were not the Frasers at Perth when you were there ? 
 
 Gr. Indeed, I believe, there might be Frasers there. 
 
 Sp. But you seem to have a doubt that the Master of Lovat 
 was the person you thanked for your liberty. And how could 
 you address such a person when you are not certain it was he ? 
 
 Gr. Would not your honour thank a person had done you 
 a good office, although you was not acquainted with him ? 
 
 Sp. Do you know the Duke of Perth ? 
 
 Gr. I do not. But I saw a person called the Duke of Perth 
 at Stirling, but would not know him if I saw him again. 
 foi. 1767. Sp. Do you know James Graham of Duntroon, now Viscount 
 of Dundee ? 
 
 Gr. I know nothing about him. 
 
 Sp. Did you see Lord Nairn ? 
 
 Or. I saw a chaise pass by Down, and I heard Lord Nairn 
 was in the same. 
 
 Sp. Did you see Lord Ogilvy ? 
 
 Gr. I saw a person called Lord Ogilvy at Stirling ; but if 
 he was here now otherwise dressed than what he was there, I 
 would not know him. 
 
 Sp. Did you see Lord Lewis Gordon ? 
 
 Gr. When I was on my way south, towards Aberdeen, six 
 miles on this side of Huntly, there came a party of armed 
 men, and carried me back with them towards Huntly on the 
 Sabbath day, which was very stormy. 
 
 Sp. To whom did these men belong ? 
 
 Gr. They told me I would be obliged to wait till the Lord 
 Lieutenant came from Aberdeen. So I was kept there twelve 
 days, but met with civil treatment, and was honoured every 
 night with a couple of centinels on my lodging. 
 
 Sp. Who was the Lord Lieutenant ? 
 
 Gr. After I was kept twelve days or thereby at Huntly, I 
 
1746] EXAMINATION OF JOHN GRAY 147 
 
 was carried one night to the Castle of Huntly by six armed 
 men, and brought into a room where there was a person called 
 Lord Lewis Gordon (whether he was actually that person I 
 cannot say), but he and those about him took an obligation 
 of me, a copy whereof they gave me attested. This copy I 
 gave in to the Lord Justice Clerk when I was carried before f oL *7 68 - 
 him at Edinburgh. 
 
 Sp. What was the import of that obligation ? 
 
 Gr. So far as I mind, the import of it was that I should not 
 carry arms against them for six months. 
 
 Sp. Against whom ? 
 
 Gr. They worded it as they pleased. I think it was against 
 the king or prince. 
 
 Sp. Did you understand their meaning to be, by that king 
 and prince, the pretender and his son ? 
 
 Gr. I make no doubt of that. 
 
 Sp. Did they advise you to join in their service ? 
 
 Gr. They thought their labour would be in vain, so gave 
 me no trouble that way. 
 
 Sp. What do you know of Lord John Drummond ? 
 
 Gr. I saw a man at Perth called Lord John Drummond, and 
 also at Aberdeen. Whether he was Lord or Laird I cannot 
 be positive. 
 
 Sp. What cloaths had he on ? 
 
 Gr. He had a short blue coat trimmed with silver, and a 
 blue bonnet on. 
 
 Sp. Did you never see him give any orders to the rebels ? 
 Gr. I never did. 
 
 Sp. Did not he sign a declaration of war against his Majesty ? 
 
 Gr. So he might unknown to me. 
 
 Sp. Recollect yourself as to this declaration. 
 
 Gr. I saw a declaration in print at Aberdeen, and John 
 Drummond printed at it. But whether he signed it or not I 
 can't tell. 
 
 Sp. Did you see Sir William Gordon of Park ? 
 Gr. I am not acquainted with that man. 
 
 Sp. But did you not see him ? foi. 1769. 
 
 Gr. I saw at Stirling a person called Sir William Gordon. 
 Sp. Did you see that person do any acts of hostility ? 
 
148 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1746 
 
 Gr. No. 
 
 Sp. Was Stirling then in possession of the rebels ? 
 Gr. It was after the battle of Falkirk. 
 Sp. Was General Blackney then in the castle ? 
 Gr. So they told me. I was never in the castle. 
 Sp. Do you know John Murray of Broughton ? 
 Gr. No. 
 
 Sp. Did you see John Gordon of Glenbucket ? 
 Gr. Yes. 
 Sp. Where? 
 
 Gr. In a house in Stirling. 
 Sp. What was he doing ? 
 
 Gr. He was coughing. He is a very old man. 
 Sp. Do you know Cameron of Lochiel ? 
 Gr. I know none of the Camerons. 
 
 Sp. Did you see Donald MacDonald of Clanronald, junior ? 
 
 Gr. I might see him, but I would not know him by any 
 other man. 
 
 Sp. Did you see none of the MacDonalds ? 
 
 Gr. None that I mind now but Lochgary. 
 
 Sp. Where did you see him ? 
 
 Gr. Going into a house near where I lodged. 
 foi. 1770. Sp. What commission had he ? 
 
 Gr. I heard that he was once in Loudon's regiment, a lieu- 
 tenant. 
 
 Sp. But don't you know of any other commission he had ? 
 Gr. He never shewed me his commission. 
 Sp. Did you not hear ? 
 
 Gr. I heard he was aid de camp to the Pretender. 
 Sp. Did you see Evan Macpherson of Cluny ? 
 Gr. I never did. 
 
 Sp. What do you know of Lachlan MacLachlan of Castle 
 Lachlan ? 
 
 Gr. Nothing. 
 
 Sp. What do you know of George Lockheart, younger, of 
 Carnwath? 
 
 Gr. Very little. 
 
 Sp. Little as it is, let us hear it. 
 
 Gr. I was in the prison of Stirling, after the battle of Fal- 
 
1746] EXAMINATION OF JOHN GRAY 149 
 
 kirk, with Major Lockheart of Cholmondley's regiment, who 
 was then prisoner at the same time. I saw a young man speak- 
 ing with the Major, and after this man parted with him, I asked 
 him who that was. He told me, It was young Carnwath. I 
 never saw him before nor since, nor would I know him if he 
 was standing here now. 
 
 Sp. What do you know of Laurence Oliphant of Gask ? 
 
 Gr. I am not acquainted, nor ever spoke with him. I heard 
 he was deputy governor of Perth. /<?/. i 77 i. 
 
 Sp. From whom had he his commission, as you heard ? 
 
 Gr. From the Lord Strathallan. I never saw his commission. 
 
 Sp. Had he Highland cloaths ? 
 
 Gr. The person shown me out of the prison window as Gask, 
 had on a laced hat and long cloaths. 
 Sp. Did you see Mr. Graham of Airth ? 
 Gr. I never saw him. 
 
 Sp. Did you know John Stewart, commonly called Roy ? 
 Gr. I have been acquainted with him when he was quarter- 
 master in some of the Dragoons. 
 
 Sp. Did you see him among the rebels ? 
 Gr. I saw him at Stirling. 
 Sp. What cloaths had he on ? 
 
 Gr. He goes always very gay. Sometimes he had Highland 
 cloaths, and other times long cloaths on. 
 Sp. What did you see him do ? 
 Gr. I saw him in the streets. 
 Sp. Do you know Monaltery ? 
 Gr. No. 
 
 Sp. Do you know Alexander Macllvray of Drumnaglass ? 
 Gr. I can't say that I know him, for I never saw him but 
 once at the Laird of Macintosh his house of Moyhall in 1741. 
 Sp. Did you see him in the rebellion ? 
 
 Gr. I saw a man called Drumnaglass one night in Perth. M l 77*. 
 I am not positive if it was him or not ; nor do I think I would 
 know him if I saw him again. 
 
 Sp. Were the Macintoshes at Perth at that time ? 
 
 Gr. There was such a mixture of people that I could not 
 distinguish which was which. 
 
 Sp. But was Drumnaglass at the head of them ? 
 
150 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1746 
 
 Gr. I 'm not positive. 
 
 Sp. What cloaths had he on ? 
 
 Gr. Highland cloaths. 
 
 Sp. What arms had he on ? 
 
 Gr. I cannot condescend on any arms. 
 
 Sp. Do you know Lachlan Macintosh, merchant in Inver- 
 ness ? 
 
 Gr. Yes, I am very well acquainted with him. 
 Sp. Did you you see him at Perth ? 
 Gr. Yes. 
 
 Sp. What had he on ? 
 Gr. Highland cloaths. 
 Sp. Had he any arms on ? 
 Gr. I know not. 
 Sp. Did he speak to you ? 
 Gr. Yes. 
 
 Sp. What did he say to you ? 
 fol 1773- Gr. He kissed and saluted me, and seem'd hurried. He said 
 he would at greater leisure speak and drink with me. 
 
 Sp. Are you acquainted with Malcolm Ross of Pitcalny ? 
 
 Gr. I have seen him. 
 
 Sp. Where did you see him last ? 
 
 Gr. At the prison of Perth. I wrote a letter to him to 
 come and see me. 
 
 Sp. Why did you send for him ? 
 
 Gr. To see if I could be got out of prison. 
 
 Sp. What interest did you think he might have ? 
 
 Gr. As he was my countryman, I thought he might assist me. 
 
 Sp. Did you not know or hear of a commission he had ? 
 
 Gr. Yes. 
 
 Sp. From whom ? 
 
 Gr. From his Majesty. I think it was an ensign in Lord 
 Loudon's regiment. 
 
 Sp. But you could not imagine he could have any interest 
 that way at such a juncture ? 
 
 Gr. There was a great many officers in and about Perth 
 when I saw him there, and I was applying to every one I could 
 see, being so anxious about my enlargement. 
 
 Sp. What cloaths had he on ? 
 
1746] EXAMINATION OF JOHN GRAY 151 
 
 Gr. He had a blue frock, a black wig, and no arms. foi. 1774- 
 
 Sp. But did you not see him among the rebels ? 
 
 Gr. I saw Sir Hary Monroe, Captain MacNab, Lieutenant 
 Andrew Sutherland, and several officers in his Majesty's service, 
 walk the streets among the Highlandmen as well as Malcolm 
 Ross. 
 
 Sp. This man knows nothing. 
 
 A Member. Do not the Sutherland men wear Highland 
 cloaths ? And are they not loyal to the present Government ? 
 
 Gr. All the Sutherland men are most loyal to a man, for I 
 ought to know ; and I believe they gave proofs of that lately, 
 and they all wear Highland cloaths. 
 
 Another member asks a question. 
 
 Gr. 1 11 answer Mr. Speaker. 
 
 Sp. Did you not hear those people talk treasonable expres- 
 sions while amongst them ? 
 
 Gr. I heard them drink the king, prince, and duke's health. 
 
 Sp. It is strange you know so little of the rebels when you 
 was so long amongst them. 
 
 Gr. Altho"' I had the misfortune to be taken prisoner by 
 them, I was not a spy to penetrate into their actions, or dive 
 into their secrets. Moreover, I never thought I was to be foi. 1775. 
 examined before this honourable House till three days ago that 
 Solicitor Sharp caused serve me with a writ. And it is not to 
 be imagined that a person like me, who was about forty days 
 prisoner, would know much about these people's transactions. 
 Gray withdraws. 
 
 Solicitor Sharp says — We might as well let you stay out 
 still. 
 
 Gr. If you were to torture me, you '11 get no more of me, 
 and I told you so when you caused charge me before this house. 
 
 N.B. — Saturday, February 16th, 1754, the preceding 
 copy taken from a copy in the custody of the right 
 reverend Bishop Keith. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 N.B. — It is worth the remarking, that the foresaid John 
 Gray, upon coming from the House of Commons, after 
 said examination, to his own lodging, found upon his 
 table a letter sealed and directed to himself, which letter 
 
152 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1756 
 
 when opened was blank, but contained a bill of fifty 
 pounds sterling for his own particular use. 
 
 Robert Fobres, A.M. 
 
 N.B.—May 1th, 1756.— Died at his house of Kilmane 
 in the Isle of Sky, John MacKinnon of that Ilk, i.e. the 
 old Laird of MacKinnon, in the 75th year of his age, 
 leaving issue two sons and a daughter, Charles, Lachlan, 
 and Margaret, all born after the 71st year of his age. He 
 used to say he hoped God would not take him off the 
 earth but on the field of battle when fighting for his 
 king and country. He frequently retired to the cave in 
 which the Prince and he himself and his lady dined just 
 before the Prince's leaving Sky in his sculking, and there 
 he would have entertained himself with laying down a plan 
 for the restoration, and with the execution thereof in 
 theory, and then came home extremely well pleased. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 777- N.B.— At Edinburgh, Thursday, October 28th, 1756, 1 dined 
 with the right reverend Mr. William Falconar in his own house, 
 in company with Mr. Duncan Campbell of the family of Calder, 
 and Patrick Grant, 1 one of the 8 noted Glenmoriston men in 
 1746, when the said Mr. Campbell took occasion to examine 
 the said Patrick Grant very strictly and minutely about a 
 matter that had hitherto prevailed, and met with credit univer- 
 sally, viz., that John MackDonald who was hanged at Inver- 
 lochie upon Friday, May 31st, 1754, for cow stealing, had been 
 one of the said noted Glenmoriston men. Patrick Grant 
 assured us that this story was far from being true, for that 
 John MackDonell (one of the above eight) was his door-neigh- 
 bour, and still in life and good health, and that he was really 
 and truly a Campbell, having changed his name to that of 
 MackDonell upon his coming to live in the bounds and under 
 the protection of the family of Glengary, it being the usual 
 custom for those of a different name to take the name of the 
 chiftain under whom they live in the Highlands of Scotland. 
 Patrick Grant said as to the above story 4 the matter of fact 
 
 1 See ff. 1660, 1703. 
 
1756] A BOGUS GLENMORISTON MAN 153 
 
 was this, that the hanged John MackDonell, upon his being 28 Oct. 
 taken up, affirmed himself to be one of the 8 noted Glenmoris- 
 ton men in 1746, the sameness of the name favouring his design, 
 he vainly imagining that this story if once credited might be of 
 use to him in the event of his being brought to a trial, — that 
 the story was indeed so universally credited, never meeting with 
 the smallest contradiction, that the people in and about Inver- 
 ness, both gentry and commonalty, commiserated his case very 
 much, and shewed him singular acts of kindness and sympathy f° l - I 77 8 » 
 [insomuch that some of them exerted themselves for the preser- 
 vation of his life, as may be seen among mv papers], 6 and that 
 the other John MackDonell, really and truly one of the fore- 
 said eight, did not think himself at freedom to appear then or 
 afterwards for the discovery of the cheat, because that would 
 have tended to have set himself up as a mark to be aimed at 
 some time or other ; and therefore it behoved him to lie snug, 
 to allow the imposition to pass from hand to hand and to con- 
 sult personal safety by a profound and seasonable silence.'' 
 Bishop Falconar and Mr. Duncan Campbell were extremely 
 pleased with the whole of the conversation, but particularly 
 delighted with the clearing up of the truth as to the foresaid 
 current story. Mr. Duncan was not a little fond to discover 
 that a Campbell had a share in the truly heroic conduct of de- 
 spising ^30,000 Sterling at the manifest hazard of life itself. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Copy of a Paper from an Eyewitness concerning /*/. 1779. 
 the cruelties after the battle of Culloden, in form 
 of a letter to me, Robert Forbes. 1 
 
 Sir, — The repeated solicitations of a man of your worth and April 
 merit for whom I have the greatest value has at last prevailed 1746 
 upon me to sit down and write in my form and language, a 
 sketch of the cruelties were upon the rebell prisoners, fell in 
 our hand at and after the batle of Culloden. 
 
 I had two great objections against this task (or you would 
 
 1 Printed in Jacobite Memoirs, p. 337 et seq. 
 
154 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1746 
 
 April have it sooner), the first knowing my own incapacity for it, and 
 the second, that these more than Neronian cruelties ought not 
 to be put to light, but burry'd in oblivion. But as I know you 
 to be a curious man, and only wants to have this sketch for 
 your own perusale in your cabinet, I have complied with your 
 desires. 
 
 Mr. John Frazer's letter gives a pretty good account of what 
 was done in the field of batle, 1 and the two Englishmen's letter 2 
 
 fol. 1780. give yet a greater light into it, but not one half of what hap- 
 pen'd. But I design to confine myself only to their usage after 
 these poor unhappy people were put up in goalls, kirks, and 
 ships. You '11 find by the sequell (and I am sorry to say it) 
 the tragedy of Richard the Third or Spitamenus's wife, who 
 brought her husband's head to Alexander, is nothing in com- 
 parison to this, as the first was done out of avourice, and the 
 last thorow love. Its known that Spitamenus was as great a 
 rebell to Alexander and as dangerous an enemy, as any of these 
 poor people coud be to this present government. But when 
 his wife appear'd at Alexander's tent with her husband's head, 
 he was so choked at the sight that he ordered [her] to leave the 
 army. c Mais enfin l'enormite du crime l'emporta sur la con- 
 sideration du service si bien qu'il luy fit commandement de 
 sortir de l'armee.' But our generall officers saw it in another 
 light, for the more cruelties were comitted, the better thought 
 of and rewarded. I have known officers raise themselves 
 from nothing by their cruelties. Richard the Third and Spita- 
 menus's wife were induced to comitt their horible crimes by 
 their two different passions, which are the strongest of any with 
 some, and it was over in a hurry ; but ours was a continuall 
 scene of cruelties, from the sixteenth of Aprile fourty six to 
 
 fol. 1781. Aprill forty seven, wantonly without any honorous cause, but for 
 cruelty's sake. A Spaniard or Neapolitan falling into the hands 
 of the Algeriens is not so ill used ; for if they deny their Jesus, 
 theyr set at liberty. But altho these poor people woud 
 
 1 See ff. 1239, 1326. 
 
 2 Meaning that letter in this volume, f. 1603, and, not knowing the real 
 author of it, but supposing two English gentlemen to have writ it, who had actu- 
 ally come into Scotland in order to make all the inquiry they could about the 
 cruelties, and they met with many shocking stories. — Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
1746] AT INVERNESS AFTER CULLODEN 155 
 
 deny their Charly or Jamie, they meet the same usage, because April 
 they loved them once. The gallys is nothing to it, for there 
 they have meat with their labour and confinement. Yea, even 
 the Inquisition itself in the worst sense is not comparable 
 to our scene. 
 
 To begin. When we had filld all the goalls, kirks, and 
 ships at Inverness with these rebell prisoners, wounded and 
 naked as they were, we ordered that non shoud have any access 
 to them either with meat or drink for two days. By means no 
 doubt we thought at least the wounded woud starve either for 
 want of food or cloaths, the weather being then very cold. 
 The two days being passed there was a corum of officers pitched 
 upon to goe and visit them in order to take down their names 
 and numbers, which was dimished prety weell (without having 
 the least regard to order the remaining part either meat or 
 drink to suport nature). Amongst the number I was myself, 
 but, oh Heavens ! what a scene open to my eyes and nose all at 
 once ; the wounded feltring in their gore and blood ; some 
 dead bodies covered quite over with pish and dirt, the living fol. 1782. 
 standing to the middle in it, their groans woud have pirsd a 
 heart of stone, but our corrupt hearts was not in the least 
 touched, but on the contrary we began to upbraid them the 
 moment we entred their prisons. Doctor Lauder's case of in- 
 struments was taken from him for fear he shoud end any of 
 the wounded, and on, John Farqrson of Aldlerg, 1 who was, I 
 believe, a kind of a Highland blooder, his lancet was taken out 
 of his pocket for fear he should begin to blood them, after his 
 Highland way, to save some few of the woundfed] to have fallen 
 in fevers. That night it was determined in the privy counsell 
 that each prisoner should have half a pound oat meall per day 
 (but Haly thought it too much) and accordingly they sent 
 some of their commissarys to distribute the meall. I coud not 
 help laughing in the time of the distribution when the poor 
 things had nothing left them to hold their meall but the fore- 
 skirt of their shirts, rather exposing their nakedness to the 
 world than want their meall. They made very odd figures 
 every on with his half pound meal tied up in his shirt lap, and 
 
 1 See ff. 1733. 
 
156 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1746 
 
 April all below naked. Some were handcuffed, especially Major 
 foi. 1783. Stewart and Major M'Lachlan. Their handcuffs were so 
 tight that their hands swelld and at last broke the skin so that 
 the irons coud not be seen. I can compare their case to no- 
 thing better than a horse sore sadle-spoild which runs a great 
 deall of thick matter and blood. In this excessiff agony were 
 they keep ten days notwithstanding all the application they 
 made only to get wider handcuffs, or their being changed and 
 put upon their other hands. Amongst the rest I seed a 
 Frenchman in the agonies of death lying in nastiness up to his 
 stomack, and I myself put a great stone under his head that he 
 might not be choaked with which he ly in. We allways took 
 care not to bury their dead untill such time as we had at least 
 a dozen of them. Only imagine to yourself what for an agree- 
 able smell was there — their own excraments with the stink of 
 the dead body is that seldome were taken away befor they began 
 naturaly to melt by the heat of the weather. 
 
 Captain Walker, aboard who's ship a good many prisoners 
 were put, obeyed his master's orders so punctually that he, 
 even he woud not give the poor prisoners the water he boild 
 his beeff in, but rather threw it over, and said it was to good 
 foi. 1784. for rebells. A great many of those that were not wounded, by 
 the ill usage and hunger sicknd, nor coud they have the benefite 
 of a surgeon, it being absolutely defended, 1 by which many died 
 that might still have been in life. Amongest the woundfed] I 
 pityed non more than on Cameron of Callort, who was a gentle- 
 man. He had his arm broke ; a great many freends in the 
 place, even in our army ; notwithstanding all, he coud not have 
 a surgeon to dress him for ten days time ; that att last Mr. 
 Menzie att Inverness made stolen marches to see his freend. 
 The Sunday senight after the batle there was orders given that 
 all the prisoners shoud be reviewed publickly in the streets of 
 Inverness, and accordingly there was two lines of our men from 
 on end of the Bridge Street to the other, and twixt these two 
 lines the prisoners were to pass munster. Such a scene was 
 
 1 i.e. denied. This letter writer was bred for some time in the business of a 
 writer. Everybody knows what the terms ' plaintiff' and 'defendant ' mean ; 
 the latter readily denying all that is complained. Besides he knows Erse much 
 better than English.— Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
1746] CRUEL USAGE OF THE PRISONERS 157 
 
 never seen — some entirely naked, others in their shirts, and April 
 their meall tied as before. The wounded men even behoved to 
 come out ; neither crys nor intreaties woud save them ; and 
 those who were not able either to stand or wake were carryd 
 by their fellow prisoners, amongest the loud huzhuza of officers foi. 1785. 
 and soldiers, non more delighted than Mr. Bruce. 
 
 Any reasonable thinking man woud have thought their 
 cruelty woud have ceased again the twenty-ninth of May, which 29 May 
 day these poor people were set aboard the tenders to be carried 
 to London. But it rather increased, for there was no more 
 regard for them there than what they had showen at Inverness. 
 They put so many aboard each ship that their own breath and 
 heat made them swarm with vermine. You 'd have laughed to 
 have seen them lying 'twixt decks, like fish in a pond, and every 
 one had a twig in his hand to defend himself from the atacks 
 of his nighbour's lice. There was a little space 'twixt every 
 two, and on the centure of this space was a mark distinguishing 
 thir marchis. There you woud have seen the lice marching 
 and contre marching in order for an asault ; but the moment 
 the lice of the one came to the forsaid mark, he took his twig 
 and beat them back, because they said their nighbour's lice bite 
 sorer then there own. But att last, by hunger, bad usage, and 
 lying upon the ballasts and twixt decks exposed to all weathers, 
 they were ceased with a kind of a plague which caryed them foi. 1786. 
 off be dozens, and a good many of those who woud have out- 
 lived their sickness was wantonly murdered by the sailors by 
 diping of them in the sea in the crissis of their fevers. This 
 was the sailor's diversion from Buchanness point till we came 
 to the Nore. They 'd take a rope and tye about the poor sicks 
 west, 1 then they woud hawll them up by their teckle and plunge 
 them in the sea, as they said to drown the vermine ; but they 
 took specell care to drown both together. Then they'd hawll 
 them up upon deck and ty a stone about on the leggs and over 
 board with them. I have seen six or seven examples of this in 
 a day. After we brought them up the river Thames, we got 
 orders to seperat their officers from what they called soldiers, 
 and bring the officers to Southwark new goall, and leave the 
 
 iSeeff. 1345, 1597. 
 
158 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 July comons att Tillburry Fort, without meat, drink, money, or 
 cloaths, and actually they woud have starved had it not been 
 for the charity of the English, the Government not giving 
 them on sols to live upon except those few that turned 
 evidences. Its no great wonder if they all had turnd evidences 
 
 toi. 1787- to get out of this miserable situation, the prospect of which 
 behoved to appear worse than death ; for, in my opinion, 
 nothing coud come up to it save the notion we conceve of hell. 
 And I do not know if hell itself be so bad, only that it may 
 be of a longer duration. 
 
 But to return to our gentlemen officers ; they were brought 
 up in rank and file, exposed to the furry of a tumoultous mob, 
 who nether spared them with their outrageous words, spitles, 
 dirt, and even stones and bricks, and in that manner carryd 
 through all the streets in Southwark, and at last delivered over 
 to the hands of a goaller who neither had the least fear of God 
 nor humanity, a creture entirly after our own heart, who 
 loaded them the moment they entered his gates with heavy 
 irons and bad usage. Those amongest that had mony to pur- 
 chase the liberty of on leg, was relived a litle, but such as had 
 not must groan under their weight. Nor woud their freend be 
 allowed sent the least nessessaries of life. The Government 
 was deafF to their crys and petition, so that this bloody rascall 
 of a goaler might use them at discreation, which he very im- 
 piously and cruely did ; nor woud their friends get to see them 
 without paying for their liberty, not even to make up some 
 
 fol. 1788. sort of defences for their lives, which was wantonly taken away. 
 
 After every execution the mangled bodies were brought back 
 to the goall, and remained there some days to show the remain- 
 ing prisoners how they were to be used in their turn. I am 
 very shure nothing coud be more chocking to nature than to 
 see their comrades, their friends brought back in such a condi- 
 tion, all cut to pieces, the very comrades they parted with 
 about an hour and a half before in perfect good health and 
 top spirits. They had even the cruelty to keep up the reprives 
 of those that were to be saved till some hours before their 
 execution. Of all that fell in our hands none were pardoned 
 but two. All the rest were either transported or put to death, 
 either with or without law. By this we see that the Govern- 
 
1743] PROTEST BY PRINCE CHARLES 159 
 
 ment of England has fallen upon more cruell ways to punish 
 their disobedient fellow-creatures than the Creator to punish 
 even the disobedient angells and sons of men, with this differ- 
 ence — the one to eternall, and the other only for a time. But 
 when the time of times shall come, woe be to them. 
 
 I belive again you come this lenth, you'll be as tired reading fol. 1789. 
 as I am writting. So hopes you '11 freely and frankly excuse all 
 faults and faillings. I am, Your etc. 
 
 (Sic suhscribitur), Brutus Scotorum. 
 
 Leith, November 24, 1752. 
 
 N.B. — The original of the preceeding paper or letter 
 (though disguised under the name of an officer, etc.) is the 
 handwriting of John Farquharson of Aldlerg, commonly 
 called * John Anderson my jo,' and mentioned in this same 
 paper near the top of page [f.] 1782. He made his escape 
 from London out of a messenger's hands after being under 
 sentence of death. The said original is to be found among 
 my papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Copy of a Protest, etc. / 0 i. I79 
 
 Charles, P. R. 
 
 Charles, Prince of Wales, Regent of Great Britain, etc., to 16 July 
 all the kings, princes, republicks, etc. 1748 
 
 Nobody is ignorant of the hereditary right of our royal 
 house to the throne of Great Britain. It is needless to enter 
 into a detail of it here. All Europe is instructed with the 
 troubles which have so often harrassed these kingdoms, and 
 with the wrongs which we have experienced. It knows that 
 no length of time can alter the constitution of that country, 
 nor form a prescription contrary to its fundamental laws. It 
 could not without astonishment see us remain silent when the 
 powers at war are holding an assembly for peace, which might, 
 without regard to the justice of our cause (in which every 
 sovereign power is interested), statute and stipulate articles 
 prejudicial to our interests and to those of the subjects of our 
 most honoured lord and father. 
 
160 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 16 July For these causes, and authorized by the examples of our most 
 0 ' 1791 honoured grandfather and of our most honoured father and 
 lord, we both in the name of our most honoured father and 
 lord, who has given us his full powers in confiding to us the 
 regency of his kingdoms, and in our own and private name, as 
 natural heir of that crown, Protest in the manner the most 
 solemn, and in the best form that may be, against all that 
 which may be said, done, or stipulated in the Assembly which 
 is presently held at Aix-la-Chapelle, or in any other assembly 
 which may be held in consequence of it in any place whatsoever 
 to the prejudice and diminution of the lawful rights of our 
 most honoured father and lord, of our own, of the princes or 
 princesses that are or will be born of our roval house. 
 
 We protest in the like manner against all conventions that 
 may be stipulated in the said assemblies, so far as they shall 
 be contrary to engagements already entered into by us. 
 
 We declare by these presents that we regard, and will always 
 regard, as null, void, and of no effect, everything that may be 
 statuted or stipulated which may tend to the acknowledgment 
 of anv other person whatsoever as sovereign of the kingdoms 
 foi. 1792. of Great Britain, besides the person of the most high and most 
 excellent prince, James the Third, our most honoured lord and 
 father, and, in default of him, the person of the nearest heir 
 agreeably to the fundamental laws of Great Britain. 
 
 We declare to all the subjects of our most honoured lord and 
 father, and more particularly to those who have given us re- 
 cently strong proofs of their attachment to the interests of our 
 Royal family, and to the primitive constitution of their coun- 
 try, that nothing shall ever alter the lively and sincere love 
 which our birth inspires us with for them; and that the just 
 gratitude which we have for their fidelity, zeal, and courage, 
 shall never be effaced from our heart. That, so far from listen- 
 ing to any proposition that tends to destroy and weaken the 
 indissoluble ties which unite us, we look and always will look 
 upon our selves as under the most intimate and indispensible 
 obligation to be constantly attentive to all that which may 
 contribute to their happiness, and that we shall be always 
 ready to spill the very last drop of our blood to deliver them 
 from a foreign yoke. 
 
1757] LINES ON THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND 161 
 
 We protest and declare that no defects which may be in this 16 
 present protestation shall hurt or prejudice our royal house, fol 
 and we reserve to ourselves all our rights and actions which 
 shall remain safe and entire. 
 
 Given at Paris this 16th day of Julv, 1748. 
 
 C. P.R. 
 
 N.B. — The above is only a translation of the original, 
 which was in French, and which was presented to the 
 members of the Congress then held at Aix la Chapelle. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 On the Duke of Cumberland's happy return to England f 0 i 
 in 1757. 
 
 1 
 
 Ye British bards ; why thus asleep ? 
 Awake as in the days of yore ! 
 See William wafted o'er the deep 
 And landed safe on Britain's shore ! 
 Wake then ! and your united voices raise 
 To sing the hero's triumph and his praise ! 
 
 2 
 
 0 ! could I touch that tuneful lyre 
 Whose most melodious birthday odes 
 So oft have rank'd great William's sire 
 With heroes and with demigods ! 
 Then would I sing in like harmonious lays, 
 The glorious William's triumph and his praise. 
 
 3. 
 
 I 'd sing how valiantly he fought 
 At the fam'd field of Dettingen, 
 Where by his puissant arm, 'tis thought, 
 Some thousands of the French were slain. 
 Where, all at once, he learn'd the art of war, 
 At the expence of one poor harmless scar. 
 vol. in. L 
 
THE LYON IN MOURNING [1757 
 
 4. 
 
 Next wou'd I sing his martial skill 
 And conduct shewn at Fontennoy, 
 Which so much Gallick blood did spill, 
 And Saxe and Lewis so annoy. 
 Nor woiTd forget the column raised there 
 By the poetic pen of great Voltaire. 
 
 5. 
 
 But oh ! what muse cou'd next rehearse 
 
 His warlike deeds beyond the Forth ? 
 
 What poet could set forth in verse 
 
 His generous actions in the North ? 
 
 His clemency — which made more hearts to yield 
 
 Than all he conquer'd on Cullodden field. 
 
 6. 
 
 How good and great it was to see 
 
 The wounded freed of all their pain ! 
 
 The many prisoners set free ! 
 
 The decent burials of the slain ! 
 
 The army with their leader so combhVd 
 
 To bless and save both man and womankind ! 
 
 7. 
 
 'Tis not indeed for ev'ry quill 
 To celebrate these deeds so bright. 
 Ev'n Homer, were he living still, 
 Wou'd puzzled be to paint them right. 
 To tell how deep recorded they will stand 
 In Fame's great book and Caledonia's land. 
 
 8. 
 
 Nor wou'd it be an easy matter 
 
 His other victories to trace. 
 
 At Vail, how much he got the better, 
 
 Tho" > forc'd, in end, to leave the place. 
 
 For there four thousand British only fell, 
 
 Whilst fifteen thousand French were sent to Hell ! 
 
i;58] LINES ON THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND 163 
 
 9. 
 
 But still a noble scene remains, M 1796. 
 
 For tho" at Hastenbeck defeated ; 
 
 It wou'd require the loftiest strains 
 
 To tell how he to Stade retreated. 
 
 How there he bubbled the French politicians 
 
 And shew'd himself the flower of state physicians. 
 
 10. 
 
 Tho" Prussia murmurs and repines 
 
 At his most glorious convention, 
 
 Yet Richlieu evYy time he dines 
 
 Will drink his health with pure intention. 
 
 And evYy pen that truly tells the story, 
 
 Will say, This treaty crowned his former glory ! 
 
 11. 
 
 Ye British senators ! make haste 
 And vote him some more thousands yearly. 
 Ye Londoners ! prepare a feast 
 And treat him whom ye love so dearly. 
 Ye Britons all ! exert your utmost spirit, 
 And give him the reward his glorious actions merit ! 1 
 November 10th, 1757. 
 
 Copy of a Paragraph from a Letter from the foi. 1797. 
 Revd. Mr. Ludovick Grant at Fortrose, to 
 me, Robert Forbes. 
 
 In the fatal year '46 I was forc'd to abscond, else had been 1746 
 sent prisoner by sea to London. UnrooFd the meeting-house 
 and burnt the timber in the churcheyard, for if they burnt it 
 otherwise it woud endanger the town. 
 Fortrose, October 25, 1758. 
 
 N.B. — The original of the above is to be found among 
 my papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 1 As a tail-piece to this poem Mr. Forbes has drawn the picture of a 
 gibbet. [Ed.] 
 
164 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1759 
 
 18 Jan, Edinburgh, January 18^/t, 1759. The Revd. Mr. Alexander 
 Mitchel informed me that there was before, and in 1746, an 
 excellent library at Presshome in the Enzie, a part of Banfshire ; 
 that the said library belonged to the Roman Catholicks in the 
 North of Scotland, Mr. John Gordon, a priest, being librarian, 
 and dwelling in the said house of Presshome, one room of 
 which was compleatly fitted up all around with books, there 
 being likewise books in some other rooms, and a good many 
 more books in chests, for which proper places had not been yet 
 
 foi 1798. fitted up ; that there were among them good editions of the 
 fathers of the Church, as also Protestant authors not a few ; 
 and that after the battle of Culloden a command of soldiers 
 with an officer at their head came to Presshome, took down all 
 the books of said library and put them in carts, dragging them 
 to the burgh of Cullen of Boyn, at the cross of which they 
 burnt them all to ashes in face of the sun and in presence of a 
 crowded mob. So careful and exact were they in bringing them 
 along that when any of the books dropt out of the carts the 
 country people in the procession durst not touch them, but the 
 soldiers gleaned them up and replaced them in the carts. O 
 sordid, illiberal souls ! Who would ever imagine that such low, 
 dirty animals knew so much as a single letter of the alphabet ? 
 An instance of barbarous, savage conduct more truly Hotten- 
 tot-like than anything else ! Mr. Mitchel told me that he had 
 been frequently in the said library, and that the books were all 
 in good condition. Some short time after burning said books 
 the officer who commanded the party was shot dead (unde- 
 signedly) on the spot where he had stood to preside over the 
 burning of them, which happened thus. One Campbell, an 
 officer (perhaps of militia), having been put under arrest for 
 some malverse or other, happened to see a loaded musket in 
 
 foi. 1799. the room in which he was coop'd up, and levelFd the piece from 
 a window at that officer who had been the principal instrument 
 of his arrest, and who was then standing close by the command- 
 ing officer of the book-burning party, just where the infamous 
 scene had been acted, the latter of whom Campbell shot dead, 
 and missed the one he had aimed at. A most remarkable miss, 
 and as remarkable the hit. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
1759] BURNING OF MEETING-HOUSES 165 
 
 Copy of a Paragraph of a Letter from the Revd. 
 Mr. John Stewart at Tain, to me, R. F. 
 
 My meeting-house was burnt to ashes in the moneth of May May 
 1746, and my dwelling house was plunder'd of all that was not 1746 
 put out of the way before the plundering party came. 
 
 Tain, February 2&th 9 1759. 
 
 N.B. — The original of the above is to be found among 
 my papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Copy of a return to the above paragraph. 
 
 I thank you for informing me about burning your meeting March 
 house, etc. But pray by whom or what party were the deeds 1759 
 done against you ? Let me know likewise of all the other foi. 1800. 
 burnings and pillages within your knowledge. Can you give 
 me any certain accounts of the death of Rorie Mackenzie? 1 
 This is a particular I have long made inquiry about, but as yet 
 to no purpose. 
 
 Robert Forbes. 
 
 Leith, March 1th, 1759. 
 
 Copy of part of a Letter from said Mr. John 
 Stewart to me, Robert Forbes. 
 
 My best meeting house was burnt by a party of the Earl of 26 March 
 Sutherland's militia, and by virtue of his lordship's order, and 
 it was said that he had his from the commander in chief. My 
 other house lay more retired, and was safe. Mr. Grant's house 
 in Fortrose was burnt. The other was only shut up : and Mr. 
 Urquhart's two meeting houses were both shut up. There was 
 no other burning in this shire that now occurrs to me. 
 
 I can give you no authentick account of Roderick M'Kenzie's 
 death. I know well that it was early, and generally believed 
 over all this country and in the Highlands, in the neighbour- 
 hood of the place where it was said to be acted. And it was 
 
 1 See f. 146. 
 
166 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1759 
 
 26 March certainly in the pamphlets of those times, tho I cannot sav 
 that I conversed with any that were eyewitnesses of it. But 
 few or none in this country call it in question. His mother 
 
 foi. 1801. and his sisters, I believe, still live at Edinburgh, and its pro- 
 bable they have made ane exact and sure scrutiny into it, of 
 whom it might be proper to enquire. 
 
 Tain, March 26th, 1759. 
 
 A 7 . B. — The original of the above is to be found among 
 my papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Copy, etc. 
 
 Edinburgh, 5th June 1745. 
 5 June George 1 Blaw of Castlehill incarcerate upon the following 
 1/45 warrand by Robert Craigie, Esq., his Majestys Advocate, and 
 one of the Justices of the Peace of the County of Midlothian. 
 
 Whereas there is just reason to suspect that George 1 Blaw 
 of Castlehill, lately arrived from France, and now in custody 
 of a messenger in the Canongate, is guilty of high treason, 
 these are therefore authorising and requiring yow to committ 
 the said George 1 Blaw prisoner to the Tollbooth of Edinburgh 
 for suspition of high treason, there to be detain'd till he is 
 delivered by due course of law. Given at Edinburgh the fifth 
 day of June 1745 years. (Signed) Rob. Craigie. 
 
 To Messengers att Arms, Constables, and other officers of 
 the law, and to the keeper of the Tolbooth of Edinburgh. 
 
 Eodem die. 
 
 18 June \Sth June 1745. — George 1 Blaw, designed as above, was 
 liberate by the following order : 
 foi. 1802. John, Marquis of Tweedale, Earl of Gifford, Viscount of 
 Walden, and Lord Hay of Yester, one of the Lords of his 
 Majesty's most honourable Privy Councill, and principall Secre- 
 tary of State. These are in his Majesty's name and authority 
 to authorize and require you to deliver the body of George 1 
 
 A misnomer. It should be John. — F 
 
1759] JOHN BLAW OF CASTLEHILL 167 
 
 Blaw, prisoner in your custody on suspision of high treason, n June 
 to the bearer William Haite, one of his Majesty"^ messengers 1745 
 in ordinary, in order to his being brought before me to be 
 examined and further dealt with according to law. And for so 
 doing this shall be your warrand. Given at Whitehall the 
 11th day of June 1745, in the nineteenth year of his Majesty's 
 reign. (Signed) Tweedale. 
 
 To the keeper of the Tolbooth at Edinburgh or his deputs. 
 
 Edinburgh the 18th June 1745. 
 I acknowledge to have received, in pursuance of the above 
 authority, the body of George 1 Blaw from the keeper of the 
 Edinburgh Tolbooth. Per me, Wm. Haite. 
 
 N.B. — The following from the original : 
 
 Edinburgh, 15th June 1759. 
 These do certify, that what is above written is a just copie 15 June 
 of the warrand for committing George Blaw of Castlehill to 
 the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, and an order for his and warrand 
 for his being delivered to William Haite, one of his Majesties 
 messengers, for his being carried to London. Extracted furth 
 of the Records of the Tolbooth of Edinburgh by me, clerk 
 thereto, 
 
 (Sic subscribitur) Robert Sanders, Clk. 
 
 Leith, November 2Xth, 1759— Several papers were delivered fol. 1803. 
 to me from the Revd. Mr. Robert Lyon, in Lady Cotton's 27 Nov. 
 family in London, which papers he had got from Thomas 
 Bowdler, Esquire, at Ashley, near Bath (brother-german 
 to the after mentioned Mrs. Gordon of Hallhead), to be 
 transmitted to me. Here follow true and faithful copies 
 of said papers. 2 
 
 N.B. — The three following paragraphs are taken from 
 the holograph of said Mr. Bowdler, as written to the said 
 Mr. Lyon, without date, subscription, or address. 
 
 I herewith send you a copy of a letter from my sister, Gordon, 
 to my sister, Jane Bowdler ; also a copy of what I took down 
 
 1 Still a misnomer. It should be John. — F. 
 
 2 Printed in the Jacobite Memoirs, pp. 211-230. 
 
168 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1759 
 
 Nov. from her own mouth relating to her affair, and an inventory of 
 what she lost, so far as she could recollect the particulars. 
 
 I believe I told you the paper was sign'd by her ; but if I 
 said so it was a mistake, for I now recollect that when I read 
 over what I had wrote down from her mouth, I found the 
 language so incorrect, that I resolved to alter it at my leisure, 
 and then to give it to her to sign when put into a more perfect 
 form. This, however, I delayed too long, for it pleased God 
 to take her before I had done anything towards it. So you 
 can only now have what I may call a rough draft. 
 
 Mrs. Jackson, a lady who had been long acquainted with 
 Mrs. Gordon, and who knew the china, having seen it at Mr. 
 Gordon's house in London, going one day along the streets, 
 saw some of the china in the window of a china shop, and had 
 the curiosity to go into the shop to ask the man of whom he 
 bought it, and he said he had it from a woman of the town, 
 who told him it was given her by the Duke of Cumberland. 
 
 1804. Copy of the forementioned Letter to Sister 
 
 Jane Bowdler. 
 
 That you, my dear Mrs. Bowdler, Miss Hariott, and my 
 brother, have been all very much astonished at not having for 
 so long a time heard from me (especially as I have had several 
 kind letters from you all), I verily believe ; but what is worse, 
 the reading of this will give you and all my friends great con- 
 cern, and surprize you very much, when I shall tell you that 
 the day before the Duke of Cumberland came here, which was 
 the 23d of Feberuary, Colonel Watson, one of General Hawley's 
 aid-de-camps, my neighbour, Mrs. Thomson, and Provost 
 Robinson, came to me and said that the College which was 
 designed for the Duke was not found convenient, and that my 
 house and Mr. Thomson's was what they must have. It was 
 no difficulty for Mr. Thomson to find a place to go to, because 
 all his and his wife's relations live here. But that was not my 
 case. However, these gentlemen told me that when I had found 
 a place to put myself in, all the difficulty was over, for that as 
 to everything that was in the house greater care would be 
 taken of it then of any other : for I might and ought to depend 
 
1746] DUKE OF CUMBERLAND IN ABERDEEN 169 
 
 on it, that as I lent my house for their conveniency, they would 23 Feb. 
 not let me be a sufferer in any respect ; that as to my chinea and 
 linnen, I must lock it up, and put my kitchen furniture in the 
 celler, that it might not be in their way, and lock them, only foi. 1805. 
 leaving them a place for their coals, and two maids in the 
 house to do anything for them, and make myself quite easie, 
 for they would not stay above 2 or 3 days here. I did not 
 know where to go or what to do, for everbody's house was filled. 
 Whilst I was in this anxiety Sir Arthur came in and said I 
 might send the child to his house in the country, which was a 
 great releife to me. I then sent to ask my evening friend if he 
 could lodge me and my maid, which he very obligingly did, by 
 putting part of his family to shift for themselves. When I 
 had provided myself with a lodging, the next was to set all 
 things by as I was desired, and realy thought that I had done 
 everything in so right a manner, that there was no room to 
 doubt but that what had been said to me would prove true. 
 But as you will find by what follows it did not. For the very 
 morning after they came, before I was out of my bed, General 
 Hawley sent two messengers to command me to send him every 
 key I had. And so I did, still thinking that when he had satis- 
 fied his curiosity he would send them to me again. But about 
 six o'clock in the afternoon he sent one of his aid-de-camps to foi. 1806. 
 me (whose name is Wolf), who, after telling me rudely enough 
 that he had a great deal of trouble to find me out, said that he 
 was come to let me know that I was deprived of every thing I 
 had but the cloths on my back. Do not wonder that I thought 
 this an uncommon hard sentence, for I am very sure that I never 
 either said or did anything that could offend any of them, or 
 any of the inhabitants of the place. The gentleman told me 
 that indeed the generall had been very strict in his inquirys 
 about me, but could not find anything to lay to my charge. 
 The next day there was a petition read to the Duke, setting 
 forth the cruelty of this sentence, and desiring that at least I 
 might have my cloths belonging to myself and child with my 
 provisions, with what I could make plainly appear belonged 
 intirely to me or other people. It was said he seemed quite 
 amazed at it, and said he would take care that I should not 
 be robed. And indeed the same gentleman came to me again, 
 
170 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1746 
 
 24 Feb. and said the Duke had ordered that my things should not be 
 taken from me. So I thought I might depend on this message. 
 But Generall Hawley, who lived in my house, took care to 
 
 foi. 1807. prevent that, for he packed up every bit of chinea I had, which 
 I am sure would not be bought for two hundred pound, all my 
 beding and table linnen, every book, my repeating clock which 
 stood by the bed in which he lay every night, my worked 
 screen, every ragg of Mr. Gordon's cloths, the very hat, 
 breeches, night gown, shoes, and what shirts there was of the 
 childs, 12 tea spoons, strainer and tonges, the japan'd board on 
 which the chocolate and coffee cups stood, and put them on 
 board a ship in the night time, directed to himself at Holyrood 
 House at Edenburgh. The flutes, musick, and my cane, he 
 made presents off. I had 5 lb. and half of tea, 7 loaves of fine 
 sugar, half a hundred of lump, 7 lb. of chocolate, a great stock 
 of salt beef, pickled pork, hams, peas, butter, coals, peats, ale, 
 verme jelly, rice, and spice, some cheese, brandy, rum, sago, 
 hartshorn, salop, sweetmeats, Narbonne hony, two dozen wash- 
 balls, with many things which 'tis impossible to mention, all 
 which he kept for himself, nor would he give me any share of 
 them, even my empty bottles he took. The morning he went 
 8 April away, which was on Tuesday the 8th, he took the blankets and 
 pillows of the beds, even the larding pins, iron screws, the 
 
 foi. 1808. fish kettle and marble mortar, and yet sent me word by his 
 own serjeant but the day before that Mr. Bruce, who is their 
 Judge Advocate, had made it appear to him that my case was 
 very hard, therefore he would replace everything that was in 
 my house. In short he has left nothing behind him but the 
 beds without coverings. The chairs and tables, my writing 
 tables, the corner cupboard and Mr. Gordon's desk he has 
 broke as much as can be, and tho he had the keys, he has 
 taken off the locks, and taken the part of it that was at the 
 bottom for holding his acompt books to pack part of the 
 chinea in. In short a house so plundered, I believe, was never 
 heard off. It is not six hundred pounds that would make up 
 my lose ; nor have I at this time a single table cloth, napkin, 
 nor towel, tea cup, glass, or any one conveniency. You may 
 think what effect the low condition he has reduced me to has 
 had on my health and spirits better than I can express it, 
 
1746] SPOLIATION OF MRS. GORDON'S HOUSE 171 
 
 especially as you know my affairs were not in a flourishing 8 April 
 
 condition before, and that my furniture was what I chiefly 
 
 depended on to enable me to do justice to those that had 
 
 demands on me. There was ten dishes, 40 plates, and 3 dozen 
 
 of plates that were sent in to me by two merchants to see if 
 
 I would buy them. He knew they did not belong to me, yet 
 
 he took them, and I have ten pound to pay for them. The foL 1809. 
 
 cheif of my own clothes I brought away with me, meerly by 
 
 the accident of the trunk, in which they were, not standing in 
 
 the room without looking like a litter, or else they would have 
 
 been gon too ; for what was left I have lost. I have sent to 
 
 my landlord to desire him to take his house off my hands, for 
 
 it is left in such a way that it is impossible for me to go into 
 
 it again. Nor am I any longer in a condition to keep it. I am 
 
 puting away Bob's master, and Appy ; then my family will 
 
 consist of myself, Bob, and two maids, which I should be very 
 
 much puzzled how to dispose off, but that my friend I am now 
 
 with pittys me so much that he is fitting up a room for my 
 
 accommodation, and will let me stay with him till you and my 
 
 brother give me your advice what I should do. For I am in 
 
 great distress and do not know which way to turn myself, and 
 
 the only two that would serve me are gone to England, viz., 
 
 Sir Arthur and Mr. Duff, who with his wife, I believe, you 
 
 will see (and if you do, pray tell him how much I own myself 
 
 obliged to him, for indeed he tryed very much to have been of 
 
 use to me) for they talked of being at Bath, tho 1 they have sent 
 
 all their furniture to London. Nor is here anybody left that can fol. 1810. 
 
 get away, which is what they think I ought to do. But, alas, 
 
 my affairs are so intangled that I cannot tell how to behave. 
 
 And I know nobody into whose hands to put them, for those 
 
 that used to assist me are gone, and other people have behaved 
 
 to me as lately did. 
 
 As to myself, whilst things are in this uncertain situation, 
 believe I may be of some use to stay here a little. But the 
 childs being here frights me terribly, for in some events I have 
 too much reason to think he would not be safe ; and can I get 
 any opportunity of sending him to England, should be very 
 glad to do it. If they will let him stay at Stretton, my brother 
 would be so kind to make him mind his writting and book, so 
 
172 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 ii April would hope he could not be very troublesome in the family. 
 I know you and Miss Harriot cannot take him, nor is the place 
 where you are proper for him (besides do not know how soon 
 I may be obliged to come a begging to you myself) I am not 
 able to pay for his board, or I would not have mention^ his 
 being there. 
 
 The contents of this epistle I desire you will let my brother 
 know, and give him my thanks for telling me he had got a 
 son, of which I wish his wife and him much joy, and, if I can, 
 will write to him soon. But I thought it proper to write this 
 to you. The only worldly comforts I have had under my 
 foi. 1811. m i s fortunes has been that my friends did not know the ill 
 usage I have met with. For as they were at so great a distance 
 to help me I thought it a happiness that they were not feeling 
 with me ; and till the Duke and General was gone, and I found 
 that they realy had taken every thing that was possible to 
 carry away, I hoped it would not have been quite so bad as I 
 find it is. But now I cannot help letting you know it, tho"* I 
 am sure it will give you great uneasiness. 
 
 Mr. Gordon does not know what I have suffered, nor do I 
 know where he is. But be that where it will, I hope he has 
 had more peace of mind than I have lately known. After 
 receiving this, if you should read in the newspapers that a 
 handsome recompense was left by the generall, etc., to make 
 up any loss that might have happened by the carelessness of 
 his servants to the goods of the person in whose house he 
 stay'd six weeks, perhaps you may wonder at it. But I have 
 lately read such things in the papers that I should not be at 
 all surprized at it, tho 1 he did not give either of the maids a 
 farthing. The Duke gave them 4 guineas. 
 
 All the Episcopal meetings are pulled down. The alters, 
 pulpits, and seats were imploy'd to heat the ovens. I am 
 sorry to have wrote you so long a letter without having been 
 able to say anything that would be agreeable, but I hope that 
 foi. 1812. w iH no t always be my case, etc. I expect Bob from the 
 country this night. Then follows some love and kindness to 
 me which is nothing to the purpose. Afterwards she says : 
 Letters come very safe at present, but as I have changed my 
 habitation, so pray direct to me at Dr. Rose's, phisician, at 
 
1746] 
 
 MRS. GORDON'S STORY 
 
 173 
 
 Aberdeen. When you have opportunity pray let my friends n April 
 in London know what has happened to me, particularly Mrs. 
 Martin. 
 
 Aberdeen, 11 A prill. 
 
 Copy, taken from the handwriting of the fore- 
 mentioned Thomas Bowdler, Esquire, of what 
 he wrote, from the mouth of his sister, the 
 foresaid Mrs. Gordon. 
 
 In the month of February 1745-6, George Middleton of February 
 Seton, Esq., came to me at my house in Aberdeen, and asked 
 me what spare rooms I had in the house, for the English army 
 was come, and some of them must be quartered in it. I told 
 him I had but one room to spare, and that I would lie in that 
 myself, and give up my own chamber if he pleased. He then 
 said he would bring Colonel George Watson to be in my 
 house ; that the Colonel was an old friend of his father's and 
 his, and would protect me from any insult. At night Mr. 
 Duff came to me and brought Colonel Watson with him who 
 supp'd with me, and lay in the house that night. Next foi. 1813. 
 morning the Colonel went out early, and returned in the fore- 
 noon with Provost Robinson and my next door neighbour, Mr. 
 Thompson. They then told me the Colonel had been to see 
 the apartment that was designed for the Duke of Cumberland 
 in the College, but did not think it would do, and had there- 
 fore fix'd on my house for him. Upon my telling him it would 
 be very inconvenient to me to go out of the house, because as 
 the army would fill the town I could not tell where to get a 
 lodging, he said that if I could anyway find a lodging he would 
 take care that nobody should be quarter'd in the house I went 
 to. I told him that I was not able to find linen and other 
 necessaries for so many people as were to come with the Duke 
 of Cumberland. He said that they would bring everything 
 with them ; that I should lock up everything I had ; that my 
 kitchen furniture must be put by, for they would bring their 
 own, that I might put it into some of the cellars, not any of 
 which need to be left open except one for them to put coals 
 
174 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 February into ; that I might lock up my linen, etc., in a closet ; and 
 that I must leave two maids to do the work of the house. He 
 added that they would not come till the next night ; that they 
 
 foi. 1814. would not stay above two days or three at the most, and that 
 I might make myself very easy, for everything would be more 
 safe than if I was to stay in the house myself, and if any 
 damage was done to anything it should be made good to me. 
 After this Provost Robinson and many other of my friends did 
 during that day congratulate me on this affair, as they thought 
 the Duke of Cumberland's being in my house would be a pro- 
 tection to me. The next morning, which was Thursday, the 
 Duke of Cumberland came to my house attended by General 
 Hawley and several others. The General lay in my bed, and 
 very early on Friday morning sent a messenger to the house 
 where I was demanding all my keys. My answer was that my 
 maid was gone to market and that as soon as she returned she 
 should carry them to him. But before she did return I 
 received a second message that he would have them that 
 minute or he would break open all the locks. I then sent him 
 the keys by his messenger. That evening, one, Major Wolfe, 
 came to me, and after asking me if I was Mrs. Gordon, and 
 desiring a gentleman who was with me to go out of the room, 
 he said that he was come to tell me that by the Duke of 
 Cumberland and General Hawley's order I was deprived of 
 everything I had except the cloaths upon my back. After 
 
 foi. 1815. delivering this message he said that General Hawley having 
 enquired into my character of several persons, who had all 
 spoken very well of me, and had told him I had had no hand 
 in the rebellion, and that I was a stranger there without any 
 relations in that country, he, the General, would make interest 
 with the Duke of Cumberland, that I might have any particular 
 thing that I had a mind to and could say was my own. I 
 then desired to have my tea, but the Major told me it was very 
 good, and that tea was scarce in the army, so he did not believe 
 I could have it. The same answer was made me when I asked 
 for my chocolate. I mentioned several other things, parti- 
 cularly my china. That, he told me, was, a great deal of it 
 very pretty, and that they were very fond of china themselves, 
 but as they had no ladies travelled with them I might perhaps 
 
1746] SPOLIATION BY GENERAL HAWLEY 175 
 
 have some of it. I then desired to have my pictures. He February 
 said he supposed I would not wish to have them all. I replied 
 that I did not pretend to name any except my son's. He 
 asked me if I had a son, where he was ? I said I had sent him 
 into the country to make room for them. To what place ? 
 said he. I answered, To Sir Arthur Forbes's. He asked, How 
 old my son was. I said about fourteen. Fourteen, said he, foi. 1816. 
 then he is not a child and you will be made to produce him. 
 And thus we parted. This Major Wolfe was aid de camp to 
 General Hawley. 
 
 The next day a petition was drawn up and was read to the 
 Duke of Cumberland at his levee by Captain Forbes, who was 
 also aid de camp to General Hawley, and I was told the Duke 
 said he would take care I should not be robb'd. That day 
 Major Wolfe came to me again and told me that the Duke of 
 Cumberland had sent him to let me know that my petition had 
 been read to him and that he would take care that every thing 
 should be restored to me. Notwithstanding this, when I sent 
 to the house to ask for anything, as in particular I did for a 
 pair of breeches for my son, for a little tea for myself, for a 
 bottle of ale, for some flour to make bread, because there was 
 none to be bought in the town, all was refused me. 
 
 Afterwards, hearing that many of my things were pack'd up, 
 I wrote a letter to General Hawley and inclosed it in one to 
 Sir Everard Fawkner, to which Sir Everard sent me this answer, 
 that he could not deliver my letter to General Hawley, but 
 that he had read it to the Duke, who said he would take care 
 I should have everything again. 
 
 The Duke of Cumberland, General Hawley, etc., stay'd in foi. 1817. 
 my house about six weeks, and the day before General Hawley April 
 went away, a person came to me who told me he was the 
 General's own serjeant, and was come by his order to say to me 
 that, as my case was very hard, he would take care that every- 
 thing that belonged to me should be put into the hands of Mr. 
 Bruce, the Judge Advocate, and that I should find everything 
 as I had left it. But notwithstanding all these repeated 
 messages, the best of my things were pack'd up, and actually 
 shipp'd off a fortnight before they left my house ; and the very 
 morning that General Hawley went away, he had the blankets 
 
176 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1746 
 
 April on which he lay, and several other things, pack'd up, and took 
 them with him. That day I received a letter in the following 
 words : 
 
 ' Madam, — I shall begin my letter by returning you thanks 
 for the conveniency your house has been to me of, and in par- 
 ticular for the use of your young gentleman's room. But I 
 must make you an apology at the same time for what necessity 
 obliges me to do. It has not been in my power to find such 
 accomodations for a field bed as my present circumstances 
 require. I am thereby forced to occasion you perhaps some 
 foi. 1818. little inconveniency by taking with me part of the bedding of 
 your son, viz., the quilt, two blankets, and the pillow, all which 
 I have had valued by Ramsay, who has fiVd the price at 
 £1, 14. Wherefore I herein inclose two Portugal eighteen 
 shillings pieces, chusing rather to exceed than fall short of 
 what may be your due. I wish some opportunity may offer 
 wherein I may be of use to you, as I am with truth, Madam, 
 Your most humble and most obedient servant, 
 
 4 Edward Mason." 
 
 Who this Mr. Mason is, or what post he had, I don't know. 
 
 I should have mentioned above that Major Wolfe did one 
 day bring me my sons picture, but without the frame, and he 
 then told me that General Hawley did with his own hands 
 take it out of the frame, which was a gilt one and very hand- 
 some. This frame the General left behind him, and I after- 
 wards found it in the house. 
 
 I have hereto annexed a list of many of the things that were 
 taken from me. 
 
 Alexander Scott, the carpenter, who pack'd up my things for 
 General Hawley. told me that he desired the General not to 
 spoil the mahogany bureau by making use of it to pack china 
 in, and offered to make him a box for that purpose, but the 
 General refused it. 
 
 The beds and tables, etc. that were left behind them I found 
 very much broke and damaged ; and, upon the whole, six 
 foi. 18 19. hundred pounds would not repair my loss. 
 
 The above mentioned Alexander Scott, the carpenter, told 
 me that the best tea equippage was pack'd up in part of the 
 mahogany bureau, and was directed to the Duke of Cumberland 
 
1746] LOSSES OF MRS. GORDON OF ABERDEEN 177 
 
 at St. James's, and that the set of coloured table china was April 
 directed in the same manner. The rest of the things were 
 directed to General Hawley, by whose directions the other two 
 boxes were directed to the Duke of Cumberland. 
 
 I should have added above that when they refused to give 
 me some flour to make some bread, my maid insisted on my 
 having it or some bread, and said she would stay in the room 
 till the Duke of Cumberland sat down to dinner, and would 
 then speak to him for some bread for me, as there was none to 
 be bought. They at last threw her a piece of the bottom of a 
 loaf, and when she asked if that was all they would give me, 
 they answered it was as much as I could eat, for they believed 
 I had not then a very good stomach. 
 
 Copy of a List of what General Hawley took 
 from me when I lent him my house at Aber- 
 deen. 
 
 One set coloured table china, viz., 10 dishes, a soop dish, 
 and 4 dozen and 10 plates. 
 
 One set of blue and white, viz., 10 dishes and 40 plates, and foi. i 
 S dozen plates. Note, these were not my own, but were sent to 
 my house to see if I would buy them, and I was forced after- 
 wards to pay for them. 
 
 10 blue and white dishes, a large soop dish. 
 
 3 dozen and 7 plates of the same sort. 
 
 2 dozen of another sort. 
 
 2 dozen of another sort. 
 10 of another sort. 
 
 22 soop plates of 2 sorts. 
 10 coloured plates. 
 12 fine coloured water saucers. 
 6 blue and white ditto. 
 
 5 couloured bowls of different sizes, a scolloped china bowl. 
 A blue and white bowl holding 17 bottles. 
 
 3 couloured scollop shells. 
 
 10 ditto tea cups, saucers, and slop basin. 
 A blue and white bowl. 
 vol. in. M 
 
178 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1746 
 
 April 6 half-pint basons, 4 pint basons. 
 
 4 blue and white large tea cups and 6 saucers. 
 A small couloured dish. 
 
 12 common blue and white cups, saucers, and slop basin. 
 
 12 couloured tea cups, saucers, milk pot, tea jar, sugar dish 
 with a cover and plate, a slop basin and plate, 2 tea pots, one 
 with a silver spout and scolloped plate for it. 
 foi. 1821. 12 tea spoons, straineer, and sugar tongs, silver. 
 
 9 couloured chocolate cups and saucers. 
 
 6 coffee cups. 
 
 A coffee pot, slop bason, and sugar dish with a cover, and a 
 true Japaned board on which they stood. 
 2 blue and white candlesticks. 
 4 ditto chocolate cups. 
 8 ditto coffee cups. 
 Sago, sallop, coals, and peats. 
 A couloured shaving bason. 
 A small blue and white mug. 
 A ditto tea canister. 
 
 A red ditto and teapot ; with many little bits that I cannot 
 remember, for he did not leave a single tea cup or plate. 
 
 2 dozen wine glasses, with several decanters. 
 
 For my own linnen, he took 11 table cloaths of the largest 
 size that are made, 10 of them damask, and one bird's eye 
 diaper ; ten small ones and 2 kitchin ones ; 3 dozen large 
 damask napkins ; 1 dozen smaller ; 3 dozen bird's eye diaper, 
 and 1 dozen diaper ; a vast many towels ; 6 pair of fine pillow 
 biers ; several pairs of sheets, some very good ones. Many 
 dusting cloaths, for he left none ; an embroidered fire screen ; 
 a repeating clock, with the stand for it, which stood by the bed 
 in which he lay ; all the books, 3 flutes, and music books ; two 
 canes with china heads ; 2 maps ; a large marble mortar and 
 pestle ; a very big copper fish kettle, with a fish drainer in it ; 
 foi. 1822. several larding pins, and a dozen of iron scures ; 3 pillows and 
 2 pair blankets — these were on the bed in which he lay; 12 
 shirts ; 24 stocks ; 2 pair of quite new black silk stockings ; 20 
 white India dimety waistcoats ; a great many thred stockings 
 and handkerchiefs ; a new black velvet waistcoat, and 3 pair of 
 new velvet breeches. Many pairs of gloves, shoes, and 3 wigs, 
 
1746] ARTICLES TAKEN FROM MRS. GORDON 179 
 
 belonging to Mr. Gordon ; and 3 pairs of breeches, a new hat April 
 (worth £9.\ and pair of shoes, with several shirts and night- 
 gown of Bob's. He took of my provisions 5 lb. and half of 
 very good green tea, 7 loafs of fine, J 100 lb. of lump sugar, 
 7 lb. of Venello chocolate, 2 large casks of butter, almost a 100 
 weight of peas, a vast deal of pickled porks and hams, salt beef, 
 17 or 18 dozen of ale, rice, all sort of spices, pickles, a good 
 deal of Narbon honey, sweet meats, 3 lb. of Vermy jelly, 
 shavings of Hartshorn, 2 dozen of wash-balls, a pint of Laven- 
 dar water, two quart bottles of Hungary water, 6 of brandy, 
 and 6 of rum, which was all I had, and a vast quantity of 
 Chesser cheese ; a gross and a half of new bottles to bottle his 
 wine in, and those that were used was sold ; a large painted 
 cloth, and two strong chests to pack up what he had taken, and 
 part of a mahogany bureau to put the tea china in. The 
 writing table, bureau, and corner cupboard, tho 1 he had every 
 key on asking them, were broke in an uncommon way, and the 
 locks quite spoiled. A codrill box and japan'd saucer for the 
 fish ; a new marble iron snuff box in pinchbeck ; a mourning 
 sword ; a J lb. of small wax candle; a copper coffee pot ; 6 new foi 1823. 
 bottle stands ; a brass candle-stic ; 3 flasks of Florence oil ; a 
 small portmantua ; a spit ; 8 covers for chairs stuff ; the bridle 
 belonging to my own saddle, with many other things. 
 
 Note, I have not a catalogue of all the books. 
 
 A master of a ship, Keith, I think, was his name, belonging 
 to Aberdeen, told Thomas Bowdler that he saw at the Custom 
 House at London several boxes in which were many of these 
 things, and as he knew them to belong to me, having often 
 been in my house at Aberdeen, he had the curiosity to look on 
 the outside of the boxes to see to whom they were directed, and 
 they were directed to General Hawley at his house in London. 
 He told Thomas Bowdler some were directed to the Duke 
 of Cumberland at St. James's House and some to General 
 Hawley. 
 
 Mr. Dunlop, the watchmaker in Spring Garden, has own'd 
 that he has since mended this repeating clock for General 
 Hawley. The clock was bought by Mr. Gordon, of Dunlop, 
 which was the reason of his knowing it again. 
 
 N.B.—Leith, January 9, 1760. This day I dispatched 
 
180 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1744 
 
 all the forementioned Papers to Mr. Robert Lyon for 
 Mr. Bowdler by a private hand sailing for London. 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 foi 1824. Copy of a Narrative of the negotiation of John 
 Blaw of Castlehill, in France, taken from the 
 original in the handwriting of said John Blaw. 
 
 1744 1745. John Blaw of Castlehill was sent by the Duke of 
 Perth to France to Charles, Prince of Wales, to let him know 
 the situation of his affairs in Scotland, and those who would 
 espouse his interest in that country, amongst whom the Laird 
 of MacLeod was of the number. I choose to mention him be- 
 cause of his behaviour afterwards so nottarly known to the 
 world. I left Scotland the week of Christmas, and about 24 
 
 1745 days after I arrived in Paris, about Candlesmas (New Style) 
 1745, where I mett with the Prince and delivered my creden- 
 tials. He kept me there about six weeks, during which time 
 the then minister of France, having got intelligence that there 
 was a Scots gentleman that had come to the Prince, he caus'd 
 Sir Hector MacLean write me to come to Versailles, that he, 
 the minister, wanted to see me. Upon receipt of Sir Hector's 
 letter I went and acquainted the Prince of the matter, who 
 desired me to go and acquaint him what past when I returned. 
 Accordingly I went at the hour that was appointed me by the 
 minister, which was seven a clock at night. This was about the 
 
 February midle of February, 1745. I had along with me my Lord Semple, 
 who introduced me to the minister, and there wee had the honour 
 
 fol. 1825. of at least one hours audience, relating to all the affairs of Europe 
 as they then stood, as well as of our own. In the course of 
 our conversation, my Lord Semple demanded in his master s 
 name 10,000 workmen for England, and the minister ask'd 
 me how many we wanted for Scotland. I made answer very 
 readily if the above number was sent for England, Scotland 
 would do their own affairs themselves, but if they had two or 
 three 1000 to spare, we should take them ; but if not, we 
 could do without them. He, the minister, then told my Lord 
 and me, that had we made our demand two moneths sooner, we 
 
1745] J OHN BLAW IN FRANCE 
 
 181 
 
 could have got them, but that at present there was not one February 
 regiment in France but what had their operations assigned them 
 for the inshewing campaign. Upon which I made answer that 
 if they answered the present demand that they would have 
 England immediately upon their side, which would enable 
 France to do with the Empress Queen what they pleas'd. The 
 minister was for some time silent without ever giving a return. 
 Then I told the minister that I was shortly to set out again for 
 Scotland, and I wanted to know what I should say to the King 
 my master's friends when I returned, how far his most Christian 
 Majesty would do in that affair. Upon which the minister left us 
 a little and went into the nixt room where his most Christian foi. 1826. 
 Majesty was, and when he return'd, directing his discourse to 
 me, — That I might assure my master's friends in Scotland that 
 his most Christian Majesty should give the men now demanded 
 against the moneth of October nixt, if the campaign was any 
 way successfull to France. And how successfull they were the 
 annals of Europe will testify. The truth of the above narration 
 I can go to death with. 
 
 Some time about the beginning of March I left Paris for March 
 my return, and dificulty enough I had to get back again to 
 Holland, having both armies to go through, as I had come 
 through them in my going in to Paris in time of war, is a task I 
 would not undertake again. But by the providence of God, I 
 in a manner miraculously escaped falling in bad hands, and got 
 safe back to Scotland, and delivered my answer to the Duke of 
 Perth about the first of May (new style), but was unfortunately 
 taken prisoner the 5th of June along with Sir Hector, and 
 wee were both carried up to London, where wee were detained 
 for nigh two years and a half in different prisons. Some 
 moneths of that time I was thrown amongst the thives and /<?/. 1827. 
 pickpockets in Newgate in double irons, the marks of which I 
 carry about with me to this day ; and not one farthing I had 
 from the Government for my subsistance, tho I was a state 
 prisoner all the time, and was at last dismiss'd without ever 
 bringing me to any tryal or to tell me for what they so usM 
 me. O the blest liberty and property of England! 
 
 N.B. — The original of the above is to be found among 
 my papers. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Leith, January 7th, 1760. 
 
182 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1760 
 
 fol 1828. Wednesday afternoon, January 16th, in the house of James 
 16 Jan. MacDonald, on the Coalhill in Leith, I met with Ranald 
 MackDonell of Aberarder and his brother german, Alexander 
 MackDonell of Tullucherom, on the Loch Laggan side of 
 Badenoch, cadets of the family of Keppoch. The said Alex- 
 ander told me that he had the honour to give a brown short 
 coat, a shirt, and a pair of shoes to the Prince in his sculking, 
 just on his entring Badenoch to go to meet with Cluny and 
 Lochiel. After the battle of Culloden, Alexander MackDonell, 
 having made his peace with Lord Loudon, and procured a pro- 
 tection, was now and then sent out to search for the Prince, 
 and by his reports became an instrument in his preservation. 
 The Prince told Alexander MackDonell that he had learned now 
 to know the 4th part of a peck of meal, upon which he had 
 once lived for about eight days. The Prince while in Badenoch 
 had plenty of everything. 1 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 f 0 i, l829 . On the death of Sir Alexander MacDonald of 
 Slate, who died suddenly at Bernera in Glenelg, 
 
 28 Nov. November 28th, 1746, on his way to Edin- 
 
 1746 * 
 
 burgh. 2 
 
 If HeaVn is pleas'd when sinners cease to sin ; 
 If Hell is pleas'd, when sinners enter in ; 
 If Earth is pleas'd, freed of a truckling knave ; 
 Then all are pleas'd — MacDonald's in his grave. 
 
 30 Jan. January 30th, 1761, died in the 49th year of his age, Alex- 
 1761 ander MacDonald of Glenalladale, in Moydart, a man well 
 known for being proof of the gilded dust when no despic- 
 able quantity thereof, and his own personal safety, with that of 
 his helpless family, the weeping mother and the hungry babes, 
 stript of every thing, tempted his acceptance. Firm to his 
 word and steady to every trust, his soul was impregnable as a 
 rock amidst all the storms and tempests this fluctuating state 
 of things could dash against him. 
 
 Let all the world say what they can, 
 Glen liv'd and died the honest man? 
 
 1 See ff. 1473. 1545- 
 
 2 See f. 253. 
 
 a See ff. 576, I447- 
 
1760] JOHN MACKINNON IN EDINBURGH 183 
 
 Copy of a Letter to me, Robert Forbes, from foi. 1830. 
 Rona, alias Young Rasay. 
 
 Rasay, November 17th, 1760. 
 Rev. Sir, — This will be deliver d you by one John Mac- 17 Nov. 
 kinnon, whom upon a little conversation you '1 know. He has 
 been confin'd to his bed for three years past, having lost the 
 power of his legs, by which means he is reduced to poverty and 
 meer want, with the burden of a wife and four children. He 
 was so low that we, his friends here, made a contribution for 
 him to bring him to Edinburgh, as we make no doubt he will 
 be taken care off once he arrives there. His scheme is to get 
 into Infirmary if he can any ways recover his health, as in no 
 other shape can he bestow upon his own cure. Once you know 
 the man, I scarce need recommend to you to do him what 
 service may be usfull to him ; and by examining with yourself 
 a little at home you'l be convinced who he is, and so will say 
 no more. We all here salute Mrs. Forbes and you, and 
 am with sincerity, Reverend Sir, your most obedient, humble 
 servant, (Sic subscribitur) John M'Leod. 1 
 
 Saturday, April 25th, at 11 o'clock, 1761, I was with John foi. 1831. 
 Mackinnon in the Infirmary of Edinburgh (see vol. 6, p. [fob] 
 1226), when he acknowledged that John Walkinshaw of London 
 was careless and in too great a hurry when taking down his 
 account of things in writing, and therefore he gave me the 
 following additions : 2 
 
 On turning the point (vol. 6, page [fob] 1219) they came so 5 July 
 near to the enemy as that their oars struck upon the boat tied 1746 
 to the rock. 
 
 When they spied the five men with red crosses, John Mac- 
 Kinnon had the Prince sitting low down on the bottom of the 
 boat betwixt his knees with his head leaning back on John's belly, 
 and John's plaid spread over him, so that the Prince could not 
 be seen at all. John said he was obliged to be very positive and 
 
 1 See ff. 241-245, 1216. 
 
 3 The Narrative in Jacobite Memoirs, p. 488 et seq.> is partly taken from 
 these Notes. 
 
184 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1746 
 
 July peremptory as to keeping the Prince in his then snug situation 
 when he offered to get up and to jump ashore, insomuch that 
 he affirmed with an oath he would by no means allow of any 
 such thing, as he well knew the danger of such an experiment. 
 Meantime the Prince and John kept up a close conversation 
 together, the Prince asking now and then how they kept their 
 distance from the red crosses. John assured him they kept 
 their distance very well, and that the red crosses did not gain 
 a single foot on them. 
 
 1832. John gave orders to the rowers to have their muskets close 
 by them, but by no means to fire till he himself should fire 
 first, which was to be the word of command, ' And then, my 
 lads, 1 said he, 6 be sure to take an aim, mark well, and there is 
 no fear. We will be able to manage these rogues if we come 
 to engage them. 1 Upon this the Prince earnestly intreated 
 John not to take any life without any absolute necessity. 
 John said he would observe his direction and that he would not 
 make an attempt unless better could not be ; but that if they 
 were forced to come to blows it was necessary that none should 
 get off to tell tidings. John observed to the Prince that as 
 the landing place they were sailing to was all wood down to 
 the water, they would be very safe if once there, because the 
 red crosses would be afraid of being fired at from behind the 
 trees or out of the thickets, and, therefore, would be sure to 
 sheer off for their own safety. Which, accordingly, happened 
 without their coming near to the boat in which the Prince 
 had been. 
 
 John MacKinnon narrated to me, with no small concern, 
 what pass^ between him and old Clanranald. When John 
 was going to Scotus's house, he spied Clanranald at a short 
 distance from it, who, upon seeing John coming towards him, 
 made all the haste he could to get within doors. But John 
 1833. mended his pace and got hold of the tail of Clanranald's coat 
 just as he was entring the door of Scotus's house. Clanranald 
 turning about said, 6 O ! Mr. MacKinnon, is this you ? I did not 
 know you. How do you do ? It is not easy to know people that 
 come to visit us now. 1 6 Indeed, 1 said John, 6 it is hard now-a-days 
 to distinguish friends from foes. But I come as a friend, Clan, 
 and have something to impart to you, if you will please to 
 
1746] CLANRANALD DECLINES TO ASSIST 185 
 
 take a turn with me. 1 They went to the back of Scotus's 5 July 
 
 garden, and then John told Clanranald that he came to him 
 
 not only with a message but with orders to him. In some 
 
 surprize and confusion Clanranald desired to know them. 
 
 ' Well then, Clan," said John, 6 1 am come from the Prince, who 
 
 is not very far off from hence, and desires to know from you 
 
 into whose hands he is now to be put, for that he will think 
 
 himself safe with any person or persons you will recommend. 
 
 He desires me likewise to tell you that he wants not to see 
 
 you, or that you should run any personal risk on his account, 
 
 as you did not join him in person, but that you'll only name 
 
 any one with whom you think he will be safe." ' Why," said foi. 1834. 
 
 Clanranald, * Old MacKinnon was with me yesterday and did 
 
 not mention a word about the Prince, or that he knew any- • 
 
 thing at all of him.' ' In that he did right and like a wise 
 
 man, 1 said John, 'as he had no orders, and yet he knew as 
 
 much about him as I do, as he and I came over with the Prince 
 
 from Sky. But now I come to [you] with orders, and have 
 
 faithfully delivered them to you and wait to have your return. 1 
 
 'Well then, 1 said Clanranald, 'what muckle devil has brought 
 
 him to this county again ? For a second destruction to it no 
 
 doubt, as the troops upon hearing of his motions, will be sure 
 
 to follow him fast and raze us all to the ground, leaving us 
 
 nothing that they can either carry off or destroy.' ' It is truly 
 
 astonishing, 1 said John, ' to hear a gentleman like you, Clan, 
 
 talk at such a rate, when you know the Prince to be in the 
 
 utmost danger, and, therefore, that he stands as much in need 
 
 of faithful care and assistance as ever. To whom can he go 
 
 for a sanctuary in distress but to friends ? And must he not 
 
 move about from place to place, as shall be judged most fit, 
 
 for to keep him out of the hands of his enemies who are 
 
 continually hunting after him ? I tell you over again that he 
 
 expressly desires you may not run any risk whatsoever in your f oL l8 3S- 
 
 own person, not even by looking him in the face, but that you 
 
 may name to me any person in whose hands you would judge 
 
 him to be safe. It is very hard if you will not do that much 
 
 for him in his greatest danger. 1 ' I tell you, Mr. MacKinnon,' 
 
 said Clanranald, ' I know of no person into whose hands I can 
 
 put him. But if my advice or opinion can be of any use, it 
 
186 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1746 
 
 5 J ul y is that you should directly return with him from whence you 
 came and land him speedily in the Island of Rona. 1 8 Indeed, 1 
 said John, 'I would as soon give him instantly up to the 
 troops as do any such thing as you advise. For you know, 
 Clan, as well as I do, that Rona being a little grass island not 
 a single goat or sheep could escape a search on it, much less a 
 man. If this be the best advice or opinion you have to give, 
 Clan, you had better keep it to yourself, for the following of 
 it would be to throw the Prince directly into the hands of his 
 
 foi. 1836. enemies. I plainly see you are resolved not to do the smallest 
 service to the Prince in his greatest distress, and that you 
 want only to be rid of him, therefore you shall have no more 
 trouble about him. But remember, Sir, that I will honestly 
 inform him of every word that has passed between you and me 
 on this subject, be the consequence what it will. 1 
 
 Accordingly, John MacKinnon made a faithful report to 
 the Prince, who received it without any emotion, and most 
 easily said, 4 Well, Mr. MacKinnon, there is no help for it. 
 We must do the best we can for ourselves. 1 
 
 In coming to the ford near Morar 's house a comical ad- 
 venture happened. Mr. MacKinnon desired the guide to be 
 so kind as to take the poor sick young fellow (meaning the 
 Prince) upon his back across the ford, as it was then pretty 
 deep. ' The deel be on the back he comes, 1 says the guide, 6 or 
 any fellow of a servant like him. But I Tl take you on my 
 back, Sir, if you please, and carry you safely through the ford. 1 
 4 No, no, by no means, 1 said Mr. MacKinnon, 4 if the lad must 
 
 fol. 1837. wade, I "11 wade along with him and help him, lest any harm 
 should happen to him. 1 Then John MacKinnon took hold of 
 the Prince's arm and they went through the ford together. 
 This adventure pleased Mr. MacKinnon very much, as it served 
 to conceal the Prince more and more, for the guide had not the 
 smallest suspicion that the sick lad was the Prince. 
 
 When they came to Morar's house none could be more 
 hearty and ready to serve the Prince, and to take all possible 
 care of him than Morar was. But when he returned next day 
 from seeking out young Clanranald, he became all at once 
 very cool and backward. For when he told young Clanranald 
 was not to be found, the Prince said, 4 Well, Morar, there is no 
 
1746] WITH MACDONALD OF MORAR 187 
 
 help for that, you must do the best you can yourself? To 6 July 
 which Morar answered, he was sorry to tell him he could do 
 nothing at all for his Royal Highness, and as little did he 
 know of any one to whose care he could commit his person. 
 ■ This is very hard," said the Prince. 4 You was very kind yester- 
 night, Morar, and said you could find out a hiding place proof 
 against all the search of the enemies forces, and now you say 
 you can do nothing at all for me. You can travel to no place fol. 1838. 
 but what I will travel to. No eatables or drinkables can you 
 take, but what I can take a share along with you, and be well 
 content with them, and even pay handsomely for them. When 
 Fortune smiled upon me and I had pay to give, I then found 
 some people ready enough to serve me, but now that fortune 
 frowns on me and I have no pay to give, they forsake me in 
 my necessity."* 
 
 This provoked John MacKinnon highly, insomuch that he 
 told Morar very roundly, 4 1 am persuaded, Morar, though you 
 deny it, you have met with your betters and gotten bad 
 counsel, otherwise you would not have changed your mind so 
 much as you have done in so short a time. For yesterday you 
 was as hearty as one could have wished to do everything for 
 the preservation of the Prince, whose situation is just the same 
 as when you left us ; and as there is no change at all in his 
 circumstances, why this sudden change in your resolutions? 
 Morar still persisted in the denial of having seen young 
 Clanranald, and of having received any bad counsel in the 
 matter. But old MacKinnon and John were as positive on the 
 contrary that he had certainly met with young Clanranald, 1 
 and that Morar's present conduct had been the result of the 
 conference. 
 
 This dilemma vex'd the Prince greatly, insomuch that he 
 cried out, 4 O God Almighty ! Look down upon my circum- 
 stances and pity me ; for I am in a most melancholy situation, fol. 1839. 
 Some of those who joined me at first and appeared to be fast 
 friends, now turn their backs upon me in my greatest need, 
 and some of those again who refused to join me and stood at 
 a distance are among my best friends. For it is remarkable 
 
 1 See ff. 601-606. 
 
188 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1746 
 
 7 Tuly that those of Sir Alexander MacDonakTs following have been 
 most faithful to me in my distress, and contributed greatly to 
 my preservation. 1 Then he added, ' I hope, Mr. MacKinnon, 
 you will not desert me too and leave me in the lurch, but that 
 you "11 do all for my preservation you can. 1 
 
 Old MacKinnon, imagining these words to be spoken to him, 
 declared with his eyes gushing out the tears, 6 1 never will leave 
 your Royal Highness in the day of danger, but will, under 
 God, do all I can for you, and go with you wherever you order 
 me. 1 6 O no, 1 said the Prince, 4 that is too much for one of 
 your advanced years, Sir. I heartily thank you for your readi- 
 ness to take care of me as I am well satisfied of your zeal for 
 me and my cause. But one of your age cannot well hold out 
 with the fatigues and dangers I must undergo. It was to your 
 friend John here, a stout young man, I was addressing myself. 1 
 ' Well, then, 1 said John, 6 with the help of God I will go 
 through the wide world with your Royal Highness, if you desire 
 me. 1 
 
 fol. 1840. Then the Prince proposed to go to Boradale. 6 1 am pretty 
 sure, 1 said he, 4 honest old iEneas MacDonald will be ready 
 enough to do all he can for me. 1 Then he asked at Morar if 
 he would do that much for him as to give him a guide, seeing 
 John MacKinnon, being a stranger in that part of the country, 
 did not know the way thither. Morar said he had a boy, a son 
 of his own, who knew the road very well and whom he would 
 send with him as guide. The Prince very readily answered, 6 If 
 that son of yours did never see me, well and good ; he will do 
 very well. But if he has ever seen me, let him not come near 
 us ; we will do the best we can for ourselves. 1 Morar assured 
 the Prince his son had never seen him, and therefore it was 
 agreed to take him. 
 
 The Prince said he longed much to hear what they were 
 doing in the camp at Fort Augustus, and asked if Morar could 
 procure any one to go and bring intelligence from that quarter. 
 Morar said there was a packman or pedlar in that corner who 
 used to go sometimes to Fort Augustus to sell his wares in the 
 camp, and he doubted not but he might be prevailed upon to 
 
 fol. 1841. go. The Prince pulFd out a guinea and desired Morar 1 to give 
 
 1 Here ends Vol. VIII., except that there is inserted a copy of the print 
 
1746] THE PRINCE LEAVES MORAR 189 
 
 it to the pedlar to dispatch him for intelligence in Morar's own 7 July 
 name, and to tell him to return as speedily as possible. Morar 
 said a guinea was too much, that the one half might do very 
 well. To which the Prince scornfully replied, * Well, then, Sir, 
 if you think so, give him the one half and keep the other to 
 yourself." After this, the Prince and John MacKinnon slipt 
 out of the cave and went to Boradale, the foresaid boy con- 
 ducting them. 
 
 When John MacKinnon was under examination, General July 
 Campbell failed not to represent to him in very strong terms 
 what a notable opportunity he had let slip of enriching himself 
 and his posterity by not doing his duty as law directed, for that 
 he could not fail to know what a high premium was to be given, 
 and what good security there was for it to any one who should 
 deliver up that young gentleman ; whereby likewise great 
 trouble and fatigue would be saved to the troops who were still 
 in close search of him. To all which John gave for answer as 
 follows : 6 It never was in my power, Sir, to deliver him up, for 
 your excellency very well knows I am a man of no power, and 
 therefore could not command the assistance of any men in such 
 an enterprize. As little durst I attempt it by myself, though foU 1842. 
 my inclination had led me to it, for he is able to tie two of me, 
 
 intitled, Alexis ; or, the Young Adventurer : a Novel. Qui capit, ilk 
 facit. London, printed for T. Cooper, mdccxlvi., 32 pp. i2mo. At the foot 
 of the title-page Mr. Forbes has written the following : — 
 
 ' N.B. — This is not at all according to the MS. that was sent to London. To 
 omit other instances, this makes Celestius recover (pag. 29), whereas the MS. 
 made him die, and his head to be cut off and carried away in triumph.' On 
 p. 26, line II from foot, ' love '-abandoned is altered with the pen to * low,' etc. 
 And in the ' Key,' p. 31, Veracius-' MacLean ' is scored out, and ' MacDonald ' 
 written in. 
 
 Here, therefore, begins Volume Ninth of Bishop Forbes's manuscript. It is 
 entitled 
 
 The Lyon in Mourning, or a Collection (as exactly made as the iniquity of 
 the times would permit) of Speeches, Letters, Journals, etc., relative to the 
 Affairs, but more particularly the dangers and distresses of ... . 
 
 Vol. 9th, 1 76 1. 
 
 Aspicis hanc animam gemino succtcmbere fato ? 
 
 Nec tua sunt velis astra secunda meis ? 
 Aspice nec rabido luctantem desere ponto, 
 
 Naufraga nec medio Una relinquefreto. 
 Tende manum potius miserce, Patinure, natanti, 
 
 Et mente digitos, subde, vocate, tuos. 
 
190 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 July neck and heel, at any time. 1 6 Tie two of you, Mr. Mackinnon ! 
 Why, he must be a dreadful young fellow. He must be re- 
 markably strong indeed,' said the General. ' Truly, 1 said John, 
 ' I can assure your excellency that he is as strong and nimble a 
 young man as any one in all the Highlands of Scotland, and 
 the fatigues he undergoes plainly prove him to be so. 1 £ By all 
 the accounts I have had of him, 1 said the General, 4 1 believe 
 him to be a pretty young fellow indeed. But, pray, Mr. Mac- 
 Kinnon, was he not troubled with a bloody flux when among 
 your hands, as I have heard the like from others ? And in 
 that case he would have been easily subdued.' 'No, 1 said 
 John, 4 he was in health when with me, and stout and bold as a 
 lion. 1 
 
 N.B. — When John MacKinnon was narrating this part to 
 me, he frankly owned that the Prince, when in his hands, was 
 troubled with a bloody flux, though he held out wonderfully 
 well. But then it luckily came into his mind that had he 
 owned it, this might have encouraged them to have gone in- 
 foi. 1843. stantly in search of him as imagining him not in a condition to 
 make his escape by moving quickly from place to place. He 
 observed that his affirming him to be stout and strong, etc., had 
 the desired effect. 
 
 Moreover, John added, 6 But to be plain with your excellency, 
 what a base, unworthy action would it have been in me who 
 had been in his service, had received his pay, and broke his 
 bread, to have given him up when in his greatest extremity he 
 came to me and threw himself into my arms and desired me to 
 do with him what I pleased. I would not have done it for the 
 whole world. And had I done it, I dare say your excellency 
 would have looked upon me as a monster of a wretch. 1 
 
 General Campbell, turning to Campbell of Skipness and 
 MacLeod of Taliskar, who were then in the cabin, said : 
 6 Gentlemen, let us lay to heart what Captain MacKinnon has 
 just now said, and let us determine from honour and conscience, 
 and then surely we must applaud his conduct. For should any 
 of us chance to be in the service of one, to follow his fortunes 
 foi. 1844. and to receive his pay, and let us only suppose that such an one 
 should be reduced to the necessity of shifting for himself by the 
 fate of war, and that he should come to us and throw himself 
 
1746] EXAMINATION OF JOHN MACKINNON 191 
 
 into our arms, desiring us to do anything with him we pleased, July 
 would not our behaviour in such a case be the same with Cap- 
 tain MacKinnon's ? To be sure it should be such.' Campbell 
 of Skipness and MacLeod of Taliskar readily assented to what 
 the General had said. 
 
 4 Pray, Captain Ferguson, 1 said the General, 4 fill up a glass 
 for me to drink to Captain MacKinnon, and fill up another for 
 him, - ' which was accordingly done. Here John MacKinnon 
 observed to me that his pride had never been more acceptably 
 gratified than by Captain Ferguson's being obliged to stand 
 and to serve him with a glass sitting. For the General would 
 by no means allow John to stand, and ordered Captain Fer- 
 guson to be sure to give Captain MacKinnon a good bed. 
 
 As in the course of the conversation General Campbell had 
 oftener than once term'd John 6 Captain," he modestly refused 
 it and said he merited no such title. The General said he had 
 been informed John had bore such a commission under his late f° l - l8 45- 
 master, and therefore he gave him the name. John still 
 refusing it, MacLeod of Taliskar affirmed he bore such a com- 
 mission, as he himself (Taliskar) well knew that both John 
 and MacKinnon of Coriechattachan had been the old Laird of 
 MacKinnon's two captains by their proximity of blood. 
 
 After this, the ships soon moved about to Lochnannuagh, 
 and anchored there for some time. John MacKinnon, having 
 the priviledge to walk on deck, often looked wishfully and with 
 a very sore heart towards Boradale with his eyes fixed upon the 
 very spot where the Prince then lay concealed, and where he 
 remained for some days after anchoring of the ships till Glen- 
 alladale was found out to be his guardian in chief under God. 
 So that the Prince would have been an easy prey had his 
 enemies known his haunt, as he was only about a gunshot from 
 the ships. 
 
 Here John MacKinnon desired me to take particular notice 
 that part of the shore towards Boradale is a rocky precipice, so 
 steep that some parts of it are almost perpendicular ; that in a 
 cleft, or between two rocks of said precipice, there was a bothie f° l - l8 46. 
 or hut, so artfully contrived with the grassy side of the turf 
 outward, that it exactly represented a natural green brae. In 
 this hut the Prince then was, so near to the enemy that one 
 
192 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1746 
 
 July from on board of any of the ships might have killed a single 
 bird on the hut with a musket. 
 
 N.B. — Thursday, May 21st, between 11 and 12 o'clock, 
 1761, I was with John MacKinnon in the Infirmary of 
 Edinburgh, when I read in his hearing all the above, from 
 page [fol.] 1831 inclusive, and he declared it was all very 
 right. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 1847. A PROPOS. 
 
 6 Jan. Since George has abus'd our good Common Prayer, 
 
 By placing his name in large characters there, 
 1 11 absent from the service so foully perverted, 
 And wait untill James for George is inserted. 
 For how can I tune out Amen to that part, 
 While the words of my mouth give the lie to my heart ? 
 To join in one part and take snuff at the rest, 
 Is but shameful dissembling with God at the best. 
 
 January 16, 1762. 
 
 1848. N.B. — Archibald MackDonell of Barisdale came out of 
 March the Castle of Edinburgh by a remission, on Monday, 
 
 March 29th, 1762, after a confinement of about eight 
 years, and instantly appeared before the Court of Justi- 
 ciar v, where he took the oaths of allegiance and abjuration. 
 
 He was apprehended on July 18th, 1753, and was com- 
 mitted to the Castle of Edinburgh August 26th of that 
 same year. Sentence of death was pronounced against 
 him by the Lords of Justiciary on March 22nd, 1754. 
 
 Copy of Paragraph from Thomas Bowdler, Esq., 
 
 near Bath. 
 
 Ashley, May 13, 1762. 
 May Honest J[ohn] M[acKinnon] deserves an article in the Scots 
 Magazine, in which might be told as much as you think proper 
 of what he refused and of what he suffered. But it should also 
 be told as an addition to his character, that being advised to 
 come to Bath, and there finding his disorder would require 
 
1762] DEATH OF JOHN MACKINNON 
 
 193 
 
 great expence, he chose to go into the hospital rather than to 13 May 
 be supported by the contributions of a few friends ; that in 
 that hospital he had the best advice, and was treated with the 
 greatest care, till his death, which happened the day of, etc. 
 Think of this, and if you approve of the hint, you will improve 
 it as you see best. 
 
 Copy of a Letter to Mr. Roderick MacKinnon, f 0 i. i8 49 . 
 at Broadford in the Isle of Sky. 
 
 Sir, — With submission to the wise appointments of Almighty 22 May 
 God, I am sorry it should fall to my share to inform you and 
 all concerned of the death of the worthy John MacKinnon, who 
 left this world of sin and misery on Tuesday morning, the 
 eleventh instant. This intelligence I had only by last post, in 
 a letter from a worthy gentleman 1 about five miles from Bath, 
 who visited him with frequency in his distress, and took parti- 
 cular care that he wanted for nothing. That gentleman tells 
 me that the care which was taken of him, and the attendance 
 that was given him, cannot be described, which, as he very 
 justly says, ought to be a great satisfaction to his friends, that 
 he died full of hope, faith, and resignation to the will of God, 
 which, as the gentleman piously observes, should be matter of 
 great comfort to all honest John's concerns; that one Dr. 
 Haviland, and some other good gentlemen at Bath, had re- 
 solved to give him a proper and decent funeral in the very 
 spot of ground where the said Mr. Haviland designs to be 
 buried, and that they intend to put a stone upon his grave, 2 fol 1850. 
 with a short inscription relative to his good character. 
 
 Thus you see what respect and honour have been put upon 
 your uncle both in life and in death, upon account of his superior 
 merit and heroic conduct in a certain period of his life, and 
 all by some worthy gentlemen who had never seen him before, 
 but who well know how to value virtue under a cloud, and 
 merit in distress. 
 
 I beg you '11 make my compliments of condolence acceptable 
 
 1 Thomas Bowdler, Esq., at Ashley. — F. 
 
 2 This the Rev. Mr. George Cheyne told me. — F. 
 VOL. III. 
 
194 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1762 
 
 May to the widow and her children, two of whom, the youngest 
 boys, Mr. MacKinnon, I am told, express'd much anxiety 
 about, particularly that they should be put out to trades. It 
 is therefore my opinion that they should be bound apprentices 
 in any employment they chuse at Inverness ; for to bring them 
 up to Leith or Edinburgh would be to ruine them altogether, 
 such wickedness and perverseness do prevail in those places. 
 And when they are at Inverness, they must be under the care 
 and direction of the Revd. Mr. John Stewart, for their instruc- 
 tion in religious matters. But more of this afterwards, when 
 I come to be certified what money the father has left for that 
 
 1851. purpose, which I cannot know till Mr. George Cheyne be 
 returned to Bath, for which place he set out only some time 
 this week, and it must be about tbe 29th instant before he get 
 home ; after which he will lose no time to inform me fully, and 
 then you shall know all about that matter. Wherefore you 
 need not write any answer to this letter till you hear from me 
 again by a second letter. Meantime be it your province to 
 have your thoughts employed upon what I have said about the 
 two boys, that you may be the readier to make a proper return 
 when desired. 
 
 I beg you "11 make a tender of my good wishes to all with 
 you who are pleased to indulge me with a place in their remem- 
 brance, particularly Malcolm MacLeod, whose sister the widow 
 is, if I be not mistaken. 
 
 I much respected the worthy John MacKinnon when alive, 
 and now I do revere his memory when dead ; and therefore to 
 you and all concerned in this event I am sincerely, Sir, a most 
 sympathising friend and very humble servant, 
 
 Robert Forbes. 
 
 Leith, May 22d, 1762. 
 
 1852. Copy of a Representation in favours of the said 
 
 John MacKinnon before his leaving Edinburgh. 
 
 Leith, June 13, 1761. 
 3 June Whereas John MacKinnon, from the Isle of Sky, afflicted 
 T/ 1 with a lameness from the tops of the thighs down, has been in 
 the Infirmary for several months past, and that now it is a 
 
1 76 1] CONTRIBUTION FOR JOHN MACKINNON 195 
 
 declared opinion, nothing can be of any avail to him on this side 13 June 
 the Bath. And whereas the said John MacKinnon is in very 
 necessitous circumstances, with the additional burden of a wife 
 and four children in Sky, it is therefore humbly hoped that 
 those who look upon this will have a compassionate feeling for 
 this gentleman in distress and indigence, and thereby be induced 
 to contribute somewhat in order to defray his charges in going 
 to Bath, especially as he is worthy for whom this is asked. 
 And may God reward the givers. 
 
 Copy of a more explicit Representation in favour 
 of Do., before leaving Edinburgh. 
 
 July Mh, 1761. M 1853. 
 To all whom it may concern. These are declaring that John 4 July 
 MacKinnon is now discharged out of the Infirmary, where he 
 has now been for upwards of six months, and is preparing to 
 go to Bath, the only method of cure, under God, for his lame- 
 ness in thighs, legs, and feet; and that, as this same poor 
 distressed gentleman had the integrity of heart and greatness 
 of soul to despise thirty thousand pounds sterling, so it is hoped 
 some will be moved with a compassionate feeling for such dis- 
 tinguished merit in affliction and indigence, to give somewhat 
 for defraying his charges in going to Bath. And may God 
 reward them. Besides, Mr. MacKinnon has a wife and four 
 children in the Isle of Sky. Robert Forbes. 
 
 N.B. — The contribution amounted to eighteen pounds 
 and eight shillings sterling. All glory be to God. Amen. 
 
 Copy of a Letter to Mr. Roderick M'Kinnon, / 0 l i8 54 . 
 at Broadford, in the Isle of Sky. 
 
 Sir, — I hope my letter of May 22nd reached you in course 21 June 
 of post. And now this comes to inform you that I have in my 1762 
 hands twenty pounds two shillings and sevenpence Sterling, 
 to be expended on Mr. MacKinnon's two youngest boys, as 
 expressed in that letter, and I would fain think it may do for 
 binding them both apprentices to some honest calling or other. 
 
196 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1762 
 
 21 June But lest I should misjudge the case, I send this open under 
 cover to the Revd. Mr. John Stewart, that he may peruse it 
 and subjoin his opinion — whether it will do for both or only 
 for one — as I am to deposite the money into his hands for the 
 faithful application of it, as intended by the worthy father. 
 Meantime, I think proper to inform you that I intend, God 
 willing, to set out upon a jaunt to Inverness on Monday, July 
 12th, and will be there readily on the Wednesday evening or 
 fol. 1855. Thursday morning at farthest of that same week, when I would 
 be glad to see you there with one or both of the boys, as Mr. 
 Stewart and you shall agree in opinion. At any rate, if you 
 do not meet me at Inverness, which I would be sorry for, you 
 must have a letter waiting me there against the time above 
 prefixed, to let me know your whole mind in this matter. But 
 allow me to repeat it. I had far rather see you face to face, 
 and in that case you need not write to me at all. However, 
 if you chuse the latter, direct to me thus : To Mr. Robert 
 Forbes, by the care of the Revd. Mr. John Stewart, Inverness. 
 Let all this remain dead betwixt you and the widow, to whom 
 and her family I heartily wish all things good and happy ; and 
 am, Sir, your humble servant, Robert Forbes. 
 
 Leith, Jane 21, 1762. 
 
 fol. 1856. May 11th, 1762. 
 
 At Bath died John Mackinnon, from the Isle of Sky, 
 Aged 48. 
 
 A person of distinguished merit. 
 Ignorant of avarice 
 And the venal bribe, 
 He bravely preferr'd innocent poverty 
 To great riches, 
 Basely to be purchased 
 At the expence of character, 
 Tho* nothing in view 
 By the undaunted refusal 
 But the severest hardships, 
 fol. 1857. A series of which he underwent 
 
 With Christian fortitude, 
 Influencing all his steady conduct. 
 
1762] EPITAPH ON JOHN MACKINNON 197 
 
 Afflicted with an obstinate lameness, 
 By the best advice 
 He struggled to Bath, 
 Where some generous souls, 
 Enamoured with virtue under a cloud 
 And merit in distress, 
 Generously insisted to support him 
 In every article of expence. 
 But his goodness of heart, 
 Inflexibly the same, 
 As generously refused, 
 
 And chose 
 To go into the Hospital, 
 Rather than be burdensome to friends, 
 Where he remain'd till his death. 
 The tender care 
 And assiduous attention 
 So feelingly given him 
 Are past all description. 
 
 Virtue, 
 Attractive of veneration, 
 Has honourably deposited his remains 
 In the burying place of a gentleman, 1 
 By order 
 And at the sight 
 Of the generous proprietor, 
 With a monumental inscription 
 
 Descriptive of his character, 
 For the instruction of posterity. 
 
 Regarded in life ; 
 Revered when dead. 
 
 N.B. — The above was published in the Scots and the 
 Edinburgh Magazines for May 1762. 
 
 May 
 
 foU 1858. 
 
 1 Mr. Haviland, apothecary in Bath. — F. 
 
198 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1762 
 
 foi. i860. Here follows the Inscription intended to have 
 
 been put upon his Grave. 
 
 H. s. E. 
 
 Joannes MacKinnon a Skia, 
 in Scotia. 
 Denat. Maij 11, 1762. 
 Vir, 
 
 Nunquam sine laude nominandus. 
 Filius et subditus fidelissimus, 
 Nihilo auri emendus, 
 Nullo periculo deterritus ; 
 Amicus sincerus, firmus, 
 Maritus et parens amantissimus ; 
 Ut verbo omnia 
 Christianus, vere orthodoxus, pius. 
 
 Marmor hoc 
 Mirantes posuere amici. 
 
 N.B. — Friends at Bath were afraid, and therefore would 
 by no means use the above as desired, though no harm 
 would have ensued in the case. 
 
 >/. 1861. At Leith, Monday, June 22d, 'twixt one and two o'clock, 
 22 June 1761, when Sir William Dunbar of Durn, the Revd. Mr. Alex- 
 ander Mitchell of Edinburgh, the Revd. Mr. John Skinner of 
 Langside, and his son, Mr. John Skinner, were dining with me 
 and Mrs. Forbes, the said Revd. Mr. John Skinner gave the 
 following narrative, to which, he said, five hundred and more 
 could give their attestation, and upon which he would make no 
 observation. That it had been a common constant practice in 
 the said parish of Langside in Aberdeenshire to have bonfires, 
 and even to ring the parish bell, on April 2d (old style), the 
 birthday of Earl Marischal, and that on Thursday the 12th of 
 February, 1761, being a general fast throughout Scotland, when 
 the bellman was ringing the first bell, the news came to Lang- 
 side containing the accounts of the Earl MarischaPs having 
 taken the oaths at London, and at that very instant the said 
 bell rent from top downwards, and then across near the mouth, 
 and that likewise soon after the bell had begun to ring. 
 
1762] THE CHURCH BELL AT LANGSIDE 
 
 199 
 
 A gentleman walking in his own garden, about a quarter of 
 a mile from the Church of Langside, asked at a man passing f° l - x862 - 
 what the matter was with the bell in stopping so suddenly ; the 
 answer being that she was rent. 6 Well,' said the gentleman, 
 4 do you know what the bell says by that ? even, The deil a 
 cheep mair sail I speak for you, Earl Marischal." 
 
 Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 N.B. — I sent a copy of the above to Thomas Bowdler, 
 Esq., under cover to the Revd. Mr. Robert Lyon, who, 
 being dead before receipt, it came into the hands of the 
 right reverend Bishop Robert Gordoun, in London, who 
 transmitted it to Mr. Bowdler, and wrote me the following 
 paragraph in way of N.B. : 
 
 London, August 1, 1761. — N.B. — It has been sounded to me 
 that the rent bell utter'd a dying groan in that peer's ear in 
 London, no doubt to his no small mortification. 
 
 Paragraph from Mr. Bowdler to me, Robert 
 
 Forbes. 
 
 Ashley, August Sth, 1761. — That story of the parish bell 8 Aug. 
 was too good to be lost. I can assure you it has been sent to 
 E[arl] Mfarischall], and I hope it has, crack'd as it is, made his l86s ' 
 ears to tingle. Am told said E[arl] Mfarischall] is much 
 despised and neglected. 
 
 N.B. — I had sent a copy of the 8 lines (page [f.] 1847) 
 to Mr. Bowdler, who wrote me the following return, June 
 12, 1762. 
 
 Your lines on the good Common Prayer are very imperfect. 12 June 
 After the first six lines there is an omission of no less than 1762 
 twelve lines, and then come the two concluding lines as in your 
 copy, 4 Take snuff at the rest.' 1 That you may understand these 
 words, be it known to you that when Mr. Nelson agreed to go 
 to the public churches, it was on condition he should be allowed 
 to shew his dissent as to some prayers which he did not like, 
 and accordingly he did rise from his knees and feel in his pocket foi. 1864. 
 for his snuff-box, and to this these words allude ; and thus ex- 
 
200 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1762 
 
 12 June plained, they pretty well point out the date of them, for this 
 transaction was not long before Mr. Nelson's death. 1 
 
 foi. 1865. Since G[eorge] has abused our good Common Prayer, 
 And fiVt his vile name in large characters there ; 
 I '11 absent from the service so foully inverted, 
 And stay untill J[ames] for G[eorge] is inserted. 
 For how can I say an Amen to that part 
 Where the words of my mouth give the lie to my heart ? 
 To pray an u[surpe]r may long rule the throne, 
 And in quiet enjoy what is none of his own ; 
 To pray after him that his son may succeed, 
 And, after that wretch, a whole train of his breed ; 
 To pray for the rebels that now rule the State, 
 That all their sham plots may succeed as of late ; 
 
 foi. 1866. To downright deny both my God and my king ; 
 
 To pronounce these vain words when I mean not the thing. 
 
 Nor, sure, is the sin of those wise ones abated 
 
 Who stand up and break off when the words are repeated. 
 
 For Christ's coat was seamless, which seems to require 
 
 All forms in his Church should be whole and entire. 
 
 To join in one part, and take snuff at the rest, 
 
 Is basely dissembling with God at the best. 
 
 pi. 1867. Copy of a Letter addressed thus : To the Right 
 Honble. Lady Lucy Stuart Traquair, at her 
 Lodgings, Edinburgh. 
 
 2 Dec Madam, — I shou'd be at a loss what apology to make for 
 offering your ladyship the trouble of a letter if your charitable 
 disposition towards the distressed did not encourage me to 
 entreat you to recommend to Bishop Forbes, or any other well 
 inclin'd person, to make a small collection for poor John Mac- 
 donell, alias CTsian, the principall of the five honest thieves 
 (forgive, Madam, the Irichism), who protected the Prince in his 
 greatest distress. Let me assure your Ladyship that he is a 
 reall object of charity, and never was consider'd for his services 
 
 1 He died January 16th, 17 14, aged 59. — F. 
 
1762] 
 
 SUPPORT CRAVED FOR O'SIAN 
 
 201 
 
 except by Glenalladell, who always supported while he liv'd, 2 Dec 
 and now, since GlenalladelFs death, the poor man is reduced foi. 1868. 
 with old age, infirmity, and a numerous, helpless family to the 
 greatest misery. I am, Madam, your Ladyship's most obedient 
 humble servant (Sic subscribitur), John Macnabb. 
 Inshewen, %d December, 1762. 
 
 Copy of a Letter addressed thus : To the right 
 reverend Mr. Robert Forbes, at Leith. 
 
 Sir, — It pains me to see those that are open hearted in our 5 Jan. 
 country get the whole burden to serve such as are in distress of 
 their felow creatures, and tho you have not the least share of 
 their repeated troubles, the present is to be an addition to your 
 former. The person who was formerly mentioned to yow is 
 called John McDonald (alias Osean), lives in the Brea of Glen- 
 moriston, near the farm of Craskie, sixty years of age, very 
 poor and tender, having a wife and several weak bairns near 
 starving ; as you already knows, refused i?30,000 sterling rather 
 than betray his trust. What pity it is a poor fellow that have foi. 1869. 
 done so much honour to his country should now starve for want 
 of livelyhood in the heart of Scotland, when two or three pound 
 yearly would make him now happier than i?30,000 formerly. 
 I thank God I hope there are still remaining of good people as 
 many as will contribute to make poor Osean happy. Whatever 
 you get for his relief, Mr. John Moir, merchant, will remit it 
 to me before the moneth of Aprile next, which time I expect 
 to see him and cheer his drooping spirits. I am sorry I did not 
 meet yow according to appointment yesterday morning, being 
 hindered with the badness of my cold, that I was too long 
 before geting out of my room, tho I shall expect the happiness 
 to see you before leaving the town. I beg you offer my sincere 
 good wishes to Mrs. Forbes. Believe me always unalterable, 
 Sir, Your most affectionate friend and servantt, 
 
 (Sic subscribitur), Alex it. McNabb. 
 
 Edinburgh, 5th January 1763. 
 
202 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1763 
 
 foi. 1870. Copy of a Letter to the right reverend Bishop 
 
 Gordoun of London. 
 
 April Right Reverend Dear Sir, — For some time I have wish'd 
 for an opportunity to put the two inclosed letters into your 
 hands, as it is not yet fit to transmit any such by post. And 
 yet it is with reluctance I now do it, as I well know your great 
 feelings for those in distress, especially worthies, and your 
 laudable zeal to fetch them all the aid you can. If, then, my 
 dear Sir, you can procure easily any small assistance for poor 
 O'sean, it shall be most thankfully acknowledged and honour- 
 able accounted for. Easily I say, as I am afraid such applica- 
 tions are too frequently repeated to you ; and therefore I beg 
 you may not put your self to much trouble in the present affair. 
 I could wish to have the two letters returned by the same hand, 
 as they are my vouchers in applying to others ; for I always 
 knew the worthy O'Sean 1 to be in no opulent circumstances, but 
 never imagined him to be so low and distressed till now that I 
 have it so well vouched. Alexander Macnab was a captain 
 under the Prince. John is a brother of his, and both are 
 gentlemen of character and reputation. John should have said 
 eight and not jive honest, etc., for such truly was the number. 
 fol. 1871. Is it not remarkable that the number 8 should have been 
 amongst the most principall preservers of the son of J . . . 
 the 8 in the most trying and dangerous distresses of life ? To 
 put this beyond all doubt, take their names — and you are the 
 only one to whom I have as yet given them 2 — John MackDonell, 
 Alexander MackDonell, Alexander, Donald, and Hugh Chis- 
 holms, being three brothers, Gregor MacGregor, Patrick Grant 
 (of this one I have an excellent original painting as he happened 
 to come in my way), and Hugh Macmillan. Be it remarked 
 here that all these 8, after having had the superlative honour 
 to despise ,£30,000 sterling, etc., quitted their former way of 
 doing and never did a dirty action. Alexander MackDonell 
 and Alexander Chisholm died about 12 years ago. The reason 
 of giving the name of O'Sean to John MackDonell is as follows. 
 When the Prince came at length to Lochiel and Cluny, he 
 
 1 See f. 1692. 
 
 2 See ff. 1452, 1660. 
 
1763] ASSISTANCE CRAVED FOR O'SIAN 203 
 
 asked if they knew a pretty fellow called O'Sean. They smiled April 
 and told him that there was no person of that name. He 
 answered certainly there must be one of that name, for that 
 when he was among the faithful Glenmoriston men, they used 
 frequently to speak to one of their own number, and always to 
 call him by that name. O, 1 said they, 6 his name has been John, 
 and they have been referring cases or debates to him ; for that fol. 1872. 
 the expression means, 6 Hark you, John,' or, 6 Hear you, John.' 
 Just so it happened to be, and John ever since goes by that 
 name. The words should be, Hose, Ian, 1 or rather, according to 
 the true spelling of Galic, 6 Aos Earn. 1 I have told several 
 Highland gentleman that John's children should all take this 
 as a patronymic or sirname, and convey it down to their pos- 
 terity from generation to generation. These gentlemen owned 
 it should be so, and that the appellation was most honourably 
 founded. I resolve to insist particularly upon this with John 
 by proper mediation ; for all the 8 could speak not a word but 
 Galic. 
 
 Perhaps these anecdotes may not be unentertaining to 
 Mr. Bowdler, and therefore, if you think fit, you may com- 
 municate them to him. I ever am, right reverend Dear 
 Sir, Your most affectionate brother and obedient humble 
 servant, Robert Forbes. 
 
 Leith, April, 1763. 
 
 Copy of a Paragraph from Rev. Mr. John m 1873 
 Stewart. 
 
 Inverness, March 24, 1763. 
 I had two visits this winter and spring from your old friend, 24 March 
 Patrick Grant, whose picture, I 'm told, hangs in Tartan Hall. 
 This favour, no doubt, I owe you, as it is certainly on your 
 account he pays me that compliment. He certainly has a most 
 grateful sense of your obligations to him, and openly declares 
 you are the man in the world he loves best and that he owes 
 most to. But do you know a secret about him ? He made a 
 notable figure in North America 2 for one campaign only 
 
 1 See ff. 1477, 1674. 
 
 2 See f. 1703. 
 
204 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1763 
 
 24 March against the French, owing to a particular friend who would not 
 dispense with his attendance, and he has returned safe and 
 sound, and has Chelsea pension. He was a night in the neigh- 
 bourhood of Leith, but had not countenance enough to visit a 
 certain friend, being afraid of being banter d for something. 
 The last time he was here he gave me a pair of good Isle of 
 
 foi, 1874. Sky garters in order to be sent to you as a present, and Mr. 
 
 Ross is so kind as undertake to carry them, so that you 11 receive 
 them, I hope, safe herewith. 
 
 Copy of a return to the above. 
 
 9 April It is most providential that you and Patrick Grant are be- 
 come acquainted, for I was meditating to put a piece of service 
 upon you in which he can be most useful, and it is this : There 
 is one John MackDonell, alias Os'ean or Oslan, i.e. 'Hark you, 
 John ! 1 or, ' Hear you, J ohn ! ' who was chief of the 8 heroic 
 Glenmoriston men who did much honour to their country by 
 their most generous, disinterested conduct. Now this same 
 John, I am well informed by the best authority, is old, has a 
 family, and is extremely poor. What pity is it, then, not to 
 say reflection, that he has never been considered for his most 
 seasonable, superlative services ! A plan, therefore, is now laid 
 to raise a contribution for him, which, if it takes place, you are 
 to be made almoner of. Do you then enquire at Patrick Grant 
 foi. 1875. about this same John, where he lives, and all about him, without 
 allowing Patrick to know anything of your design, that so you 
 may have him in your eye and at a call if aliquid boni chances 
 to come in the way. He lives, if I am rightly informed, some- 
 where in the Brae of Glenmoriston, near the farm of Craskie. 
 But Patrick can well inform you. Find out John^s age, and 
 how many children he has, and inform me. Let me know the 
 right syllabication of OS'ean or OS'ian according to the Galic, 
 for I reckon this ordinary spelling to be corrupted. The founda- 
 tion of this appellation to John is most honourable, insomuch 
 that John ought to order it to be adopted by his posterity 
 from generation to generation, as a patronymic or sirname. 
 Pray mind to enjoin this. 
 
1763] 
 
 A MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCE 
 
 205 
 
 I have Patrick's picture indeed, and a most striking likeness 9 April 
 it is, with a proper inscription upon it. I would not give it 
 for any money. I did him some small services which he seems 
 to overvalue. He was extremely fond of his own portrait. I 
 knew well of his being pressed to North America, sometime in 
 1759, and that he returned to his own home by this place upon foi. 1876. 
 Chelsea pension. But all these old sinners, when they are 
 inured to the paths of tergiversation, fly from me as they would 
 do from a thing that would hurt them. But Patrick, I know, 
 was forced, and therefore he might have pulPd up as much 
 courage as to see me. You say he made a notable figure in 
 North America. Pray, then, be so good as to write down his 
 feats from his own mouth, and let me have the history of them. 
 Mind this by all means, and be particular. He has my thanks 
 for the garters, tho" I have not yet got them. I dare say they 
 are pretty, and I will wear them for his sake. I will get them 
 from Mr. Ross when I have the good luck to see him. Re- 
 member me kindly to the stout, resolute, sogerly Patrick, and 
 tell him I am still the old man whatever change may chance to 
 be in him by smelling powder in the wilds of North America. fol. 1877. 
 I would wish to know the particular time of his return to the 
 Braes of Urquhart and Glenmoriston. Here is work cut out 
 for the leisurely Appinus of well known de-li-be-ra-ti-on. 
 
 Leith, April 9, 1763. 
 
 A True and Exact Copy, etc. 
 
 August mh, 1762. 
 
 Assure my friends in Britain that I am in perfect good 
 health, that I hope it will come like a thunderbolt, and that I 
 shall not neglect to recompense every worthy subject as soon as 
 it shall be in my power. They may be assured I shall live and 
 die in the religion of the Church of England, which I have em- 
 braced, and that no kind thing can be said but what I wish to 
 all my dear friends, for whose good I wish more to be amongst 
 them than for any advantage it would be to myself, as 1 have 
 no great ambition except for their welfare. 
 
206 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1763 
 
 N.B. — The above, transcribed from a true copy taken 1 
 upon honour from the original holograph of that faithful 
 friend who wrote every word of it at the desire and from 
 the mouth of C. P. R. When written, he desired the said 
 friend to read it audibly to him, and then said, It is very 
 well. After which he desired to have it in his own hands, 
 to peruse it with his own eyes, and then he said, It is 
 perfectly right. Let it be sent as it is. 
 
 Copy of a Paragraph from Bishop Robert 
 Gordoun of London. 
 
 London, May 28, 1763. 
 I thank you, Dear Sir, for your entertaining anecdote relating 
 to Os'ean, which I have communicated to our worthy friend 
 Mr. Bowdler, and he, good man, will order five guineas for 
 Os'ean this year, and I (God willing), if it shall please the 
 divine mercy to spare me, will undertake for the like sum next 
 year at the term of Midsummer. Mr. Bowdler will return Mr. 
 MacnaVs letters by Mr. Cheyne. 
 
 Copy of a Paragraph from the Revd. Mr. 
 John 1 Stewart. 
 
 Inverness ; June 4, 1763. 
 4 June Patrick Grant has not been here since the receipt of yours, 
 nor will for two or three weeks to come. He only comes two 
 or three times a year, according as his pension is paid termly. 
 When he comes shall have a long chat with him on what you 
 desire to be informed of. Osian is pretty well spelFd, and quite 
 intelligible to all that understand Galic, but, perhaps, it would 
 be more orthographical to spell it thus, Os"Ian. But the 
 other does very well. 
 
 1 Deposited herein. — F. See a facsimile of the original in the handwriting of 
 Lawrence Oliphant of Gask, the faithful friend here referred to, in The Jacobite 
 Lairds of Gask, p. 322. Gask, and Bishops Forbes and Gordon were now 
 plotting together for the revival of the efforts for restoring the Stuarts. 
 
 2 See f. 1874. 
 
 12 Aug. 
 
 fol. 1879. 
 
 28 May 
 
1763] JOHN MACKINNON AND HIS SONS 207 
 
 Copy of a Letter to Mr. Roderick MacKinnon, /<?/. isso. 
 at Broadford, in Sky, by the hands of Mr. Mac- 
 Donald of Kingsbarrow. 
 
 Sir, — Yesternight our good friend, Mr. George Cheyne, came 22 June 
 to my house from Bath, and brought along with him from some 
 worthy friends in England twenty pounds sterling for the 
 behoof of Donald MacKinnon, fourth lawful son of your uncle, 
 John MacKinnon, who died at Bath, in order to bind him 
 apprentice to some honest employment. I have therefore to 
 have the money settled in some good hand in Inverness upon 
 interest, and for that end to employ the Revd. Mr. John 
 Stewart to have a bill drawn in the same terms with that which 
 you saw for the money belonging to Charles. 
 
 Receive from Kingsborrow, the opportunity of whose return 
 to Sky I glady embrace, your uncle's silver stock buckle for his 
 son Charles, according to the contents of a short note wrapt 
 up with it. With joy I write this to be communicated by you 
 to the widow and children of honest John. Mr. Cheyne has 
 deposited into my hands a list of the contributors, thirteen in 
 number, for poor Donald, whom may God Almighty bless with f° l - i88t - 
 all health and happiness, and make him worthy of the attention 
 of such generous and valuable friends. Be it your care to let 
 me know from time to time, as opportunities come in your way, 
 how these boys, Charles and Donald, are doing, as Mr. Cheyne 
 and I are particularly interested in them. All glory be to 
 God for all his mercies. 
 
 Mr. Cheyne joins with me in all kind good wishes to you, 
 the widow, and her fatherless children. I beg that Mrs. Mac- 
 Kinnon may remember me in the kindest manner to her brother, 
 honest Malcolm MacLeod. — I am, Sir, your sincere friend and 
 humble servant, Robert Forbes. 
 
 Leith, June 22d, 1763. 
 
 N.B. — There is a decent grave-stone laid over your 
 uncle, with the following inscription : 
 
 Here lies John MacKinnon, of the Isle of Sky, 
 an honest man, who died at Bath, May 11, 1762. 
 
208 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 /,/. >^ Copy of a Paragraph to the right reverend Bishop 
 GoRDOUH of London, by the Honble. Lady 
 Gask. 
 
 a8 June iV./f. — I must now trll you thai this same lady is to con- 
 sult von upon a poinl extremely interesting to herself and 
 family, and about the marriage of a cousin, for whom her 
 ladyship lias a very particular regard. I give these hints, 
 thai the articles may not be forgol throw a crowd and hurry 
 of business on hand. God grant success. Amen, 
 
 June 88, 1768. 
 
 Copy to the said Lady GaSE to meet her at 
 
 London. 
 
 30 June Madam, — Bishop Gordoun should by all means be consulted 
 as to the fitness of the Kevd. Mr. White's being aboul your 
 
 cousin in the station VOU suggested to me; for he knows him 
 full as well as I do. Besides, thai worthy person OUghl to be 
 consulted in everything relative to that cousin whom your Lady- 
 ship rightly and so justly values. May this meet you in 
 London in all health and safety. God bless, preserve, and 
 direct you. Adieu, dear Lady, Adieu. 
 
 June 80, 
 
 l8 8 3 . Copy from the said Lady Gask. 
 
 London, Wednesday ) July (>. 1768. 
 6 July DEAR Sir, — My companion and I arrived safe and in good 
 health, thank God ! Sunday the 8d, about two o'clock. The 
 continual Iuptv I have been in with my affairs, making and 
 receiving visits, has prevented my writing to you sooner. 
 Besides, I was Willing to see the good honest Bishop, who did 
 me the favour to come here to my lodgings this morning. We 
 had a Lonff Conversation. He told me he had seen one that saw 
 my cousin in May, and that she was in very good health, and 
 even better than for some time past. He approves much of her 
 
1763] PROPOSALS FOR THE PRINCE'S MARRIAGE 809 
 
 marriage, and in his opinion one of a good family in her own 6 July 
 country might suit her very well as matters stand. The 
 Dutchess of Dowglass has done her the honour of a visit. He 
 seem'd very well pleased with your little paper. 1 The Bishop 
 says he does not think Mr. Whytt a fit man for a chaplain. 
 He would prefer Mr. Maitland, notwithstanding what I told 
 him. 
 
 (Sic subscribitur), Am. Whytt. 
 
 Copy of a Paragraph from Mr. William >/. i88 4 . 
 M'Kenzy, Schoolmaster at Tain. 
 
 I happened to be two weeks ago in Strathglass, at the young 7 j u i y 
 Chisholm's house, and on the 25th ult., as I was walking alone 
 by the river's side I met an aged man, who saluted me, as is 
 ordinary in the Highlands, and asked if I had snuff, which I 
 answered by giving him my box, which introduced a parley. I 
 enquired whence and who he was. He answered, From Glen- 
 morison, and that his name is John Macoilvee Eandue, or, if I 
 pleased, John MackDonell. I enquired if he knew Patrick 
 Grant. He said, Very well ; and that he shared in the cause of 
 Patrick's reputation ; that he frequently attended summa fide 
 his Royal Master, ministering sometimes to his relief, and that 
 the Prince called him often by the name of Os Ean. I told 
 him if he could find good credentials for what he advanced, his 
 fidelity at the critical juncture might yet avail him. He de- 
 clared that Patrick Grant and others of repute could vouch 
 what he asserted ; that he is now reduced to great want. He 
 had one of his sons, a pretty boy, with him, seeking service for 
 him, having kept him a little time at a charity school. After 
 giving him a mite to buy his supper, we bad good night. He fol. 1885. 
 told me he was prisoner at Inverness, but got off on the indem- 
 nity. Being two days thereafter in company with the Romish 
 clergyman of that country, I enquired if he knew such a poor 
 fellow. He said he did, and that he was the person already 
 specified whom the Prince often called Os Ean. 
 
 Tom, July 7, 1763. 
 
 1 See f. 1877. 
 VOL. III. 
 
 0 
 
210 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1763 
 
 Copy of a Paragraph to the Physician in 
 Ordinary. 
 
 June a s {- 0 the marriage, good Mrs. Whytt 1 spoke very seriously 
 to me about it the morning (June 28) she went from Edina, 
 and asked my opinion. I honestly and plainly told her ' that 
 in my humble opinion it was not in the power of man, as 
 matters were circumstanced at present, to devise a better or 
 wiser match than an English one, all things fairly considered 
 and weighed in the ballance of sober reason."' This startled 
 her greatly. I then added, ' that to be sure for soundness and 
 healthiness of constitution, etc. etc. etc., I would prefer a Scots 
 match, but then, who would be so mad as to entertain such a 
 thought, as such an event would evidently make matters worse 
 and worse still ? 1 In a word, I reasoned this particular point 
 fully, and the good lady came to see the force of my reasoning 
 and the seasonableness of the plan, could it be brought to bear. 
 She then urged the common objection. But I soon discussed 
 that point, by showing her that this was truly a vulgar error, 
 
 r886 as it was only matter of precedent, and that there was no law 
 in the case. However, I desired that my suggestion upon the 
 interesting point might go for nought, but that the opinion 
 of good Bishop Gordoun should be taken about it, and for 
 that end I gave a written memorandum, that it might not be 
 forgot, and you see he heartily approves, as indeed all sincere 
 friends must see the expediency of such a measure if they will 
 impartially take a view of the whole, and not confine their views 
 to this or the other particular. The conversation ended with 
 saying, 4 O Madam ! if this same confabulation between you and 
 me should happily end in a real match, how joyous should we 
 be ! 1 6 Ay, that is true indeed, 1 said she. God grant success. 2 
 
 1 Laurence Oliphant, sixth Laird of Gask, and his lady, are the persons 
 designated in these letters Mr. and Mrs. Whytt. 
 
 2 See ff. 1882, 1883. 
 
1763] THE BISHOP AND THE BROGUES 
 
 211 
 
 Copy of a Paragraph from Mr. James George, 
 August 8th, 1763. 
 
 I received your favours of the 28th July, inclosing one to 28 July 
 Mrs. Whytt, which I forwarded. I received by yesterdays 
 mail a letter from that lady which mentions that she arrived 
 safe among her friends, who were all well. Your cousin thanks 
 you for the marmalade, etc. She, poor girl, like the rest of 
 her sex, and it is too very natural, would be glad to see her 
 friends after so long an absence, and waits, she says, for a 
 convenient opportunity, which she hopes will cast up, to pay 
 you a visit. 
 
 N.B. — A pot of marmalade was actually bought in f° l - l88 7- 
 Edina, 1 and safely delivered to the said cousin. 
 
 Copy of a Paragraph from L. Gask. 
 
 Char, August 9, 1763. 9 Aug. 
 I have not made my visit yet, but will, God willing, in a 
 few days. I cannot tell if I shall write to you the success, or 
 delay it till meeting, as I am not fond of putting these things 
 in writing, so that if you do not hear from me, imagine that is 
 the case, which you will inform the Doctor of, and tell him his 
 cousin is in good health and spirits. I heard of his laughing 
 very heartily a few days ago. 
 
 Copy of a Letter to Fjdelius. 
 
 Dear Sir, — Your cousin was in perfect good health, God be 2 7 0ct - 
 thanked, on September 14 and 25. Having been well informed 
 about a certain friend, 2 particularly that he had sacredly 
 preserv'd the favourite brogs and made friends drink out of 
 them. He laughed most heartily and said, 6 01 he is an 
 
 This was bought and sent by Mrs. Forbes. 
 Bishop Forbes himself. 
 
212 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1763 
 
 27 Oct. honest man indeed, and I hope soon to give him proofs how 
 much I love and esteem him — Adieu. 
 October 27, 1763. 
 
 foi. 1888. L[ady] G[ask] and her friend 1 arrived safe, God be thanked, 
 in Edinburgh, on Wednesday, October 26th, at 5 o'clock after- 
 noon, and I was with them at 7 o'clock, 1763, in Ramsay's 
 house over against the Cowgate Port. 
 
 Copy of a Paragraph. 
 
 OldhaU, March 19, 1764. 
 I9 i/64 Ch ^ a ^ e ^ er °f March 4th, the amiable lady is in very good 
 health, but her father is in a very weak way and ordered 
 by the physicians to keep his bed. 
 
 Copy of a Paragraph. 
 
 OldhaU, May 24, 1764. 
 24 May By a letter I had within these few days, of a late date, I am 
 told your favourite young lady is in perfect good health ; but 
 her poor mother is so weak that she keeps her bed. 
 
 M. S. 
 
 fol. 1889. Fratrum, illustriss. Jac. et Joan, Ducum de Perth 
 
 Antiquiss. nobiliss. familiae de Drummond apud Scotos, 
 Principum. 
 
 Jacobus, ad studia humaniora proclivior, 
 Literis excultus, 
 Artium bonarum et liberalium fautor eximius ; 
 In commune consulens, 
 Semper in otio civis dignissimus. 
 Mira morum suavitate et animi fortudine ornatus, 
 Intaminata fide splendebat humani generis amicus. 
 In pace clarus, in bello clarior. 
 Appulso enim Carolo P. in Scotiam, 
 Gladio, in causa Gentis Stuartorum re, arrepto, 
 Caeterorum cura posthabita, 
 
 Laurence Oliphant of Gask, senior. 
 
1764] THE TITULAR DUKES OF PERTH 213 
 
 Gloriae et virtuti unice prospiciens, 
 Alacri vultu labores belli spectabat ; 
 Pericula omina minima ducebat : 
 In proelio strenuus, in victoria clemens, heros egregius. 
 Copiis Caroli tandem dissipatis, 
 Patria, amicis, re domi amplissima, 
 Cunctis praeter mentem recti consciam, fortiter desertis, fol. 1890. 
 
 In Galliam tendens, solum natale fugit. 
 Verum assiduis laboribus et patriae malis gravibus oppressus, 
 In mari magno, 
 Die natali revertente, ob. 13 Maij, 1746, iEt. 33, 
 Et reliquiae, ventis adversis terra sacrata interclusae, 
 In undis sepultae. 
 
 Joannes, ingenio felici martiali imbutus, 
 A prima adolescentia, militia? artibus operam dedit ; 
 Fortis, intrepidus, propositi tenax, 
 Mausuetudine generosa et facilitate morum, militis asperitate lenita. 
 Legioni Scoticae regali, ab ipsomet conscriptae, 
 A rege Christianiss. Lud. 15 propositus. 
 Flagrante bello civili in Britannia, 
 Auxilia Gallorum duxit ; 
 Et post conflictum infaustum Cullodinensem 
 In eadem navi cum fratre profugus, 
 In Flandria, sub Imperatore Com. de Saxe, multum meruit : 
 Subjectis semper praesidium, 
 Belli calamitatum (agnoscite Britanni !) insigne levamen. fol. 1891. 
 
 Ad summas Martis dignitates gradatim assurgens, 
 Gloriae nobilis metae appetens, 
 In medio cursu, improvisa lethi vi raptus 
 28 Septemb. a.d. 1747, Mt. 33, 
 In Angl. Monarch. Sacello Antwerpiae jacet. 
 
 Fama perennis, lauru porrecta, vetat mori 
 Principes immaculatis proavum honoribus dignos. 
 Hoc Elogium 
 
 D. D. D. 
 
 T. D. LL.D. 1 
 
 N.B. — The above is engraven, all in capitals, on the 
 tomb at Antwerp, with the coat armorial of the family on 
 the top of the Inscription. 
 
 i.e. Thomas Drummond, Legum Licentiatus Doctor, 
 
214 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1765 
 
 foi. 1892. To the Pinter of the London Chronicle. 
 
 Sir, — By inserting the under written in your paper you will 
 oblige a former correspondent and No Flatterer. 
 
 Hie, 
 
 Morte victus, jacet, 
 Qui 
 Victor olim 
 in Agro Cullodense. 
 Qualis erat, 
 Scotia Moerens indicat. 
 
 To the Printer of the London Chronicle. 
 
 Little Chelsea, November 19, 1765. 
 IQ Nov. Sir, — As you obliged me in printing the Latin epitaph I 
 3 sent you the other day I persuade myself you will not refuse 
 room to the translation by the same hand, and hope it will 
 prove equally acceptable to your readers. I am, sir, your 
 humble servant, though No Flatterer. 
 
 Here lyes a victim to all-conquVing death ; 
 The man who conquered on Culloden's heath. 
 What else he was, or what his victims were, 
 The groans of weeping Scotland best declare. 
 
 foi. 1893. Upon the Death of King James 8, January 1, 
 V 7 66 i after 9 at night, 1766. 
 
 Farewel, O pious Prince ! the palm is won. 
 The everlasting crown of bliss thy own. 
 Why should I weep thy fate ? Alas ! thy life 
 Was one continued scene of injury and grief. 
 This guilty land was markM by angry Heav n. 
 Thou, blameless infant, from her aether driv'n 
 Long mourn'd her woes. Now freed from wo, you rise, 
 But poor Britannia in dishonour lies ! 
 
1766] DEATH OF THE OLD CHEVALIER 
 
 215 
 
 O Power Almighty ! stop th 1 avenging hand, i Jan. 
 
 In pity view the desolated land. 
 Restore her royal exile. On his head 
 Thy choicest gifts, thy richest bounties shed. 
 As thou hast made him good and great, bestow 
 The means that goodness and that worth to show. 
 Grant him o'er these repenting lands to sway; foi. 1894. 
 
 Grant all his people may with joy obey ; 
 And with exulting voices all in one 
 What they refused the father, give the son. 
 Again, O Heav'n ! thy humbled Albion bless 
 Restore her Charles, and all her wrongs redress. 
 
 Copies of Paragraphs. 
 
 January 20, 1766. — What do you hear of the young lady 1 foi. 1895. 
 that has made her escape out of her nunnery ? — L. G. 2 ° 7 66° 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — February 13, 1766. — The Lady, your 13 Feb. 
 favourite, after whom you enquire, is very well ; nor have I 
 the least suspicion of her not supporting her character with 
 her usual firmness and dignity, notwithstanding what may at 
 any time be reported by an slanderous, lying, and malicious 
 race of men. 
 
 J. G. — February 18, 1766. — The first of January (about a 18 Feb. 
 quarter after nine o'clock at night) put a period to all the 
 troubles and disappointments of good old Mr. James Mis- 
 fortunate. 
 
 L[ady G[ask\ — March 22, 1766. — I was favoured with yours 22 March 
 of February 23, which I would thanked you for ere now, but 
 waited to hear from my correspondent that I might have 
 something to say. Last night I had a letter from my friend, 
 who says for one piece of news that the son of the late Chevalier 
 de St. George is gone to Rome and with him three Scots 
 
 1 As will be evident to the reader, the young lady who under different names 
 figures in these paragraph and letters following is none other than the hero of 
 the Rebellion. 
 
216 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1766 
 
 22 March gentlemen, all of his own religion, that is Protestants. He has 
 fol. 1896. often been heard to say, it was the religion he would live and 
 die in. 
 
 17 May Bishop Gordon. — May 17, 1766. — The lady, our friend, for 
 whose health and welfare I well know you are not less solicitous 
 than myself (Blessed be God !) was lately very well, and behaves 
 to admiration. I am proud in being honoured with more than 
 one message from her since her late movements. 
 
 19 Aug. Bishop Gordon. — August 19, 1766. — I have the pleasure to 
 tell you that your worthy and amiable friend was not many 
 hours in town before he did me the honour to call upon me, etc. 
 
 Mr. Oliphant. — I had a long tete a tete discourse at our first 
 interview, when you may be sure your flame was not forgot, 
 who I could assure him was well, and still constant in strongly 
 adhering to her professions, whatever unhappy jealousies might 
 be entertained by some from certain untoward circumstances in 
 her present situation. 1 But time and patience (I doubt not) 
 will clear all up to your satisfaction and entire content. 
 
 24 Sept. Wednesday, September 24, by 7 o'clock morning 1766, most 
 agreeably was I surprised with a very short visit of Mr. Ofliphant], 
 fol. 1897. less than an hour, who told me, inter alia, that some great and 
 principal persons were beginning to turn their views to my 
 favourite lady, as the only one to extricate them out of their 
 difficulties, and set to rights their disjointed affairs. 
 
 27 Nov. Bishop Gordon. — November 27, 1766. — Pray know our 
 common friend was lately very well : and as to your flame, Sir, 
 for your comfort I tell you, she assures us she is fixed and firm in 
 her professions, whatever may be insinuated by her enemies to 
 the contrary, who are ever watchful to give the most unfavour- 
 able turn to all her motions and little inoffensive gaieties, as she 
 thinks them. 
 
 23 Feb. j> 0 Bishop Gordon. — February 23, 1767. — I long much, very 
 
 1 For some years now the reported intemperate habits of the Prince and his 
 alleged preference for Popery had been causing his friends great concern. 
 
1767] THE RELIGION OF PRINCE CHARLES 217 
 
 much, to hear full accounts of my favorite lady, as there is one 23 Feb. 
 in Edina who was lately with her and her sister, and who gives 
 out that my favorite lady is for certain a papagee ; that she goes 
 frequently to mass, and that she has two priests in her family. 
 How much this galls me to the heart, and how manfully I con- 
 tradict it, I leave you to guess. One thing I constantly affirm, 
 That if friends can do no good with their talking, they should do 
 no ill with their idle tales. This same idle prattler is a papagee, f° l - l8 9 8 - 
 and you shall know name and sirname, and all about her, a 
 lady indeed, without loss of time, as a private bearer offers 
 soon, who must be recommended to your care and sacred offices. 
 I am desirous to have it in my power to reprimand such hurtful 
 whispers. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — February 26, 1767. — I hope you have 26 Feb. 
 received mine of the 23 instant by post. The one hinted at 1767 
 therein is Mrs. Anne Cameron, daughter of Colonel Cameron, 
 
 who died at R[ome] in the family of , and whose relict 
 
 and two daughters had a pension assigned them. Upon the 
 death of the mother it was continued to the daughters, one of 
 whom dying, it was continued to the surviving one, who upon 
 a late event went to my favorite lady, who and her sister 
 received her most kindly, conversed with her in an easy and 
 friendly way, and renewed the grant of the pension to her. 
 Whether or not her prattles should be made known to my 
 favorite lady by friend W[agstaf]fe, I know not ; but you know j- ot l8g8 
 well ; ergo tumet esto judex. I think it is very unwise in her, 
 papagee as she is, to talk in such a way, all things considered. 
 I will be glad to have something to say upon the point, and 
 you shall never be seen or heard of in the matter. But I will 
 contradict boldly if you clear up the affair to me, which I am 
 persuaded you will do to satisfaction. 
 
 From Bishop Gordon. — March 31, 1767. — I would not, by 31 March 
 any means, dear Sir, have you disquieted by any clash from 1767 
 abroad or at home about your poor cousin Peggie, who, poor 
 thing, is greatly to be pitied, having many things laid to her 
 charge from which, on account of her unhappy and (as she 
 says) unchosen situation, she has it not in her power to excul- 
 
218 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1767 
 
 31 March pate herself. Disagreeable things are put upon her continually, 
 and bear them, alas ! she tells us, she must, for the present at 
 least. You will pardon me ; but to compare small things with 
 
 fol. 1900. great, poor Peggie's circumstances put me very much in mind 
 of Charles the Second's situation in Scotland. He was 
 watched, he was baited, he was driven. Have compassion then 
 on poor cousin Peggie, and believe not every report, tho 
 appearances, she confesses, may be sometimes against her, and 
 these, magnified in every respect to her disadvantage. She 
 wishes and intreats yourself and family to believe her steady 
 and unalterable. What signifies what Miss this or Miss t'other 
 may say thro' vanity or jealousy, or really through ignorance 
 of causes ? Mr. [Wagjstaffe and his friend were pure well 
 not long ago. 
 
 20 May From John Farquharson of Aldlerg. — Dunkerque, May 20, 
 1767. — The Chevalier de St. George, or, as his followers here 
 call him, King, is very well, but in a very private way att Rome, 
 fol. 1901. and has created John Hay of Lesterick, 1 knight. This I had 
 from one who corresponds with them. The gentleman is 
 positive that he is the peculiar care of Heaven, as passing 
 through so many dangers, and that he is designed for some 
 great end, takes all his misfortunes (if you believe those about 
 him) like the true Christian hero. His answer to the Pope 
 when he sent him word that he would not allow him to take on 
 any titles there was somewhat good. He told the Nuncio that 
 the loss of Culoden gave him more reall concern than the loss he 
 could suffer by any orders from his holiness, and that whatever 
 titles he woud take, neither Pope nor Conclave could nor had 
 any right to take from him. This I had from a gentleman 
 was present. 
 
 8 June From Bishop Gordon. — June 8, 1767. — In a letter in- 
 tended to be sent by a private hand, though therein dis- 
 appointed, I had spoke of your poor cousin Peggie's being 
 well, which has since and very lately too been confirmed, 
 Poor girl ! You seem to understand her case perfectly well. 
 
 1 Restalrig is meant. 
 
1763] 
 
 THE PRINCE AND THE POPE 
 
 219 
 
 She greatly laments her present situation, and says she hopes 8 June 
 her friends will not abandon her for some unhappy appearance, 
 which, as things stand with her, are altogether unavoidable, foi. 1902. 
 and wishes they would point out to her any other place of 
 tolerable safety where she might see and converse with them. 
 
 Lair[d] G\ask\ — July 9, 1767. — My son and I would, with 9 July 
 the greatest pleasure, give our advice or do anything in our 
 power for the young woman you mention. Her situation is no 
 doubt very hard, but for her business London is the properest 
 place ; but who can venture to advise it for a young woman 
 like her. Her own good sense, of which she has a great share, 
 will make her see the place she is in not at all proper for her. 
 But by taking proper steps and bestirring herself a little, 
 something that 's good will cast up. For surely the offspring 
 of the righteous shall never be forsaken. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — September 24, 1767. — "Tis not long agoe 24 Sept. 
 since I heard from cousin Peggie. She was very well, and was 
 told of Mr. White's death, and at the same time the com- 
 pliments of the worthy family were presented. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — November 10, 1767. — I heard of your foi. 1903. 
 cousin Peggie's family last week. They were all well. Our 10 Nov 
 best respects to good Lady G[ask] and family. I daily pray 
 for them and for success to their good wishes. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — February 13, 1768. — I should be glad to 13 Feb. 
 hear of good Lady G[ask]'s welfare, I mean the Dowager. For 1768 
 Mr. George told me sometime last month he heard her ladyship 
 was very ill. Pray on the first occasion let us be respectfully 
 remembred to that worthy family. Cousin Peggie and her 
 family were all well when I heard last. What do her relations 
 in your part of the country say of her ? Do they wonder at 
 and regret her absence ? 
 
 To Bishop Gordon.— February 9, 1768. — Lady G[ask], God 9 Feb. 
 be thanked ! is well again and in good health, by a letter 
 yesterday under her own hand, wherein many, many good 
 
220 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1768 
 
 9 Feb. wishes to you and yours, and most zealous inquiries about the 
 friendly fair lady, whose long absence her relations here do 
 greatly marvel at and most feelingly regret. Ten thousand 
 thanks for your notice. Will cousin Peggie never make you 
 another visit ? 
 
 ^SFeb 4 " G\ask\— February 25, 1768.— We are very glad to 
 
 know the fair lady is in health. I think it need not be 
 doubted but all her friends would be glad to have her nearer 
 them, and, above all, out of that country that is so detestable 
 to all that wish her well. It is hard if nobody lets her know 
 so much. When you write the good Bfishop], return the most 
 affectionate and respectfull compliments to him from all here. 
 Long may he be preserv'd for a blessing to all who have the 
 honour of his acquaintance. 
 
 5 March Bishop Gordon. — March 5, 1768. — Your cousin Peggie, I 
 have heard, lately continues very well, and desires to be kindly 
 remembered to all enquiring friends. 
 
 12 March From John Farquharson of Aldlerg. — Dunkerque, March 12, 
 1768. — I heard lately from your old friend and mine, Charles 
 Jamyson. He was very well then, and in the same way. His 
 old friends, at least his pretended friends, use him very cruelly. 
 As St. Paul says, God reward them conform to their merit. 
 That's all the harm I wish them. However, he is in good 
 health and keeps up the heart. 
 
 5 May Bishop Gordon. — May 5, 1768. — I thank you, Sir, for the 
 extract of good Lady Gask's letter. Her ladyship does me but 
 foi. 1905. too much honour in the obliging notice she is pleased to take 
 of your humble servant. I beg my best respects and all proper 
 acknowledgments may be returned to that excellent lady and 
 her house, for whom I bear the highest esteem. Indeed, I 
 think I may truly say they are almost daily in my thoughts, in 
 prayers and good wishes. And let that worthy lady know that 
 her cousin, Miss Peggie, was well not long ago, and is not less 
 
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 CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 221 
 
 impatient to be at home than her ladyship is to see her there. 5 May 
 But times and seasons which are not in our own power must be 
 patiently waited for. 
 
 Your capital, it seems, stands in direct contrast to us, for 
 you are so hardy as to burn Wilkes and liberty. In short, the 
 Government is sadly perplexed about this man. Fear and 
 distrust operate strongly. Pray what think you of the majority 
 of your new set of Commoners ? 
 
 From John Farquharson of Aldlerg. — Dunker que, June 30, 3°J une 
 1768. — Our common friend (thank God !) is very well. I have 
 heard of him lately. He has still great hopes of recovering his 
 health, and I hope (tho" the Doctors do not) his flow of spirits 
 will get the better of his stubborn illness. Stubborn indeed ! 
 God send him the proper cure. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — July 12, 1768. — You rejoiced us greatly foi. 1906. 
 in the welcome account your letter brought us of the worthy 12 J ul y 
 Mr. Brown's 1 lady being safely delivered of a son. May the 
 dear babe live and grow up to be a comfort to all his family, 
 and a right worthy and honourable representative of it. And 
 pray, my dear sir, let our most sincere and hearty gratula- 
 tions be made to the good old lady (that excellent woman) and 
 the most respectable parents on the happy occasion. Their 
 cousin Peggie, I dare say, will be glad to hear it. God bless 
 them all. 
 
 Mr. Brown alias 0[liphani]. — September 15, 1768. — Mr. and 15 Sept. 
 Mrs. Robertson, Woodsheal, came from Givet where Strowan 2 
 lives, August 8th, and had heard very lately before that all in 
 the South were well. Lachlan M'Intosh stay'd only six months, 
 and lives now at Boulogne.'' 
 
 1 Mr. Brown was the name by which Laurence Oliphant of Gask, younger, 
 was known, as Mr. Whyte was the secret appellation of his father. They 
 were respectively the father and grandfather of the gifted Baroness Nairn, who 
 was the previous baby in the family, born 16th July, 1766. The grandfather, 
 however, had died in 1767. See f. 1902. 
 
 2 Robertson of Strowan. 
 
222 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1768 
 
 25 Aug. From John Farquharson of Aldlcrg. — Dunkirk, August 25, 
 1768. — All jour friends and wellwishers on this side are well. 
 My particular friend is still in the same way, and that by the 
 caprice of an old deazed father whose value intrinsically is not 
 worth a groat, and some old damn'd scoundrells about this 
 old fool. Strange language from a papagee upon the pope. 
 
 4 Oct. Bishop Gordon. — October 4, 1768. — I was glad to hear of the 
 ° 1 ' I9 ° 7 ' welfare of our good friends at Gask. May they long be so. 
 Cousin Peggie was lately very well, which I dare say they will 
 be glad to hear of. Pray on the first occasion let my best 
 respects be presented to that worthy family. 
 
 7 Feb. To Bishop Gordon. — February 7, 1769. — I am most heartily 
 1/69 vex'd they, either Mr. Wfagstaff] or Mr. and Mrs. 0[liphant], 
 do not mention Cousin, as a most malicious story prevails here 
 
 to the no small hurt and prejudice of . 'That the 
 
 usual attendants are all dismist to a man and their places 
 filled up with strangers, even It[aliansJ, and that this happened 
 upon a drunken fit.' This woful intelligence comes in a letter 
 from one Nisbet, late of the Navy, now at R[ome] to his 
 brother at Edinburgh. How industriously it is trumpeted 
 about and how greedily swallowed down, I need not tell you. 
 I do all in my power to quash this mischievous report. Help 
 me in this distress, I beseech you, dear Sir, if you can. 
 
 Copy of the abovementioned paragraph taken from the 
 original holograph addressed thus : 6 To Mr. John Nisbet, 
 Writter, Cowgate, Edinburgh, L'Ecosse. Rome, 31 
 fol. 1908. December 1768. 
 
 31 Dec Pray tell my cousin Adam that I have never been in com- 
 1768 pany with Mr. Lumsden, and at present I don't know where 
 to find him, as he and the other gentlemen that lived with the 
 Pretender within these few days past had a fallen out with 
 him, and have left his house. Some say that he had drank a 
 
1769] THE PRINCE AND HIS ATTENDANTS 223 
 
 little too much and wanted to go to an Oratorio. These 31 Dec. 
 gentlemen, his ministers and followers, advised him very 
 strenuously to stay at home. He thought they used too 
 much freedom with him. They were either dismissed or re- 
 signed. I hear the Cardinal his brother wanted them to go 
 back again. They said it would be to no purpose. Their 
 places are supplied by some Italians. I have seen him several 
 times since in his coach accompanied by one Italian gentleman. 1 
 N.B. — The author of the letter does not subscribe his 
 name to it. 
 
 From L[ady] G[ask\— February 13, 1769. — They (Mr. and 13 Feb. 
 Mrs. 0[liphant]), saw at Rome Miss Murray, Polmese, Miss 
 Peggie and her sister, who were very obliging, and they dined 
 with them and they are both in good health. Not a word fol. 1909. 
 more about them. 
 
 From John Farquharson of Aldlerg. — Dunkirk, February 25, 25 Feb. 
 1769. — I have no kind of news to send ; only my old friend is still 
 in good health and much in the same way. The head of the 
 Church of Rome is gone where he deserves. This may change 
 a little the situation of a certain young gentleman to the 
 better. The Turk has turn'd Catholick and the Empress of 
 Russia Protestant. This is all my little news. Once more, 
 strange language from a papagee upon the pope. 
 
 N.B. — Having sent a copy of Nisbefs paragraph as in 
 the preceeding page to Bishop Gordon, I had the follow- 
 ing return. 
 
 London, March 23, 1769. — In answer to yours which came 23 March 
 to hand last night, and as far as I am able to give you satis- 
 faction in the particular you so anxiously enquire about ; you 
 are to know then, Sir, I have seen, with that you communicate, 
 three different accounts of the matter, all agreeing in the 
 secession, but each differing in the reasons assign'd for it. 
 But upon the whole, for my own part, I conclude there have 
 been too great freedoms taken, and which in certain circum- 
 
224 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1769 
 
 foi. 1910. stances, is but too often the case and very hard to bear. I sav 
 
 23 March . 
 
 no more for the present. Time must unfold the rest. O ! how 
 difficult it is to know the truth of things at a distance. 
 Especially in great families, too, even almost in our own 
 neighbourhood. 
 
 13 April L\ady\ G\ask\ — April 13, 1769.— Yours of March 9 came 
 1769 safe to hand. I own the copy you give of the letter distresses 
 me much as I think there is an air of truth in it. I had a 
 letter from my friends (March 7), lately, who, thank God! 
 seem to be pretty well in their healths and think of leaving 
 Naples about this time. They propose coming by Venice to 
 make the journey the longer, as travelling is the chief medicine 
 prescribed for the asthma. God grant it may have the desired 
 effect. They write thus : 6 Miss Murray of Polmaise whom 
 you mention is turn'd Roman Catholick. Her cousin, Miss 
 Peggie, is perfectly well and a lovely lass, but finds I imagine a 
 proper settlement for her difficult. 1 Now you see there is no 
 light about these stories that go upon that poor girl. I 
 cannot say I expected it. 
 
 fol. i 9 i 1. From John Farquharson of Aldlerg. — Dunkerque, April 9, 
 1769. — From Rome, March 16. — We can assure the publick 
 
 16 March that the Chevalier de St. George has put away all his Scots 
 attendants. The reason of this sudden change is yet a secret, 
 tho 1 it occasions great speculations with some grumbling. 
 
 From Vienna. — 'Tis now no secret that the Emperor has 
 gone to Rome, some say to take possession of some temporals 
 formerly given by his predecessors to the Pope ; others, to be 
 crown'd king of the Romans ; and some say, out of meer 
 curiosity to see the election of a new Pope. 
 
 20 April Bishop Gordon. — April 20, 1769. — We are told the Govern- 
 ment appears to be a good deal alarmed at the discontent and 
 disturbances occasioned by Mr. Wilkes's party. For petitions, 
 and I dont know what, are said to be in agitation, which all 
 your loyal Scotch addresses, 'tis thought, will hardly be able to 
 
1769] THE PRINCE AND HIS ATTENDANTS 225 
 
 prevent. God only knows what is to become of us, for clouds 20 April 
 seem to be gathering from all quarters. 6 To your tents, O 
 Israel ! ' 'tis reported was an expression uttered in Dom. Com. 
 on Saturday night, or Sunday morning last, for they sat till 
 2 o'clock. 
 
 L[ady] G[ask]. — May 15, 1769. — As I know it is agreeable 15 May 
 to learn of a letter's coming safe to hand this informs you that 
 I had yours of April 29, with the paragraph from Dunkerque. 
 I doubt it is true about the servants. I wrote to my correspon- 
 dent to know if it was so. I got a letter from him last night fol. 1912. 
 and all he says for or against it is, — Meg is very well, but you 
 must really excuse her being in masque sometimes. I had a 
 letter from Mrs. 01ip[hant] at the same time, dated March 31. 
 She says they saw the King of Naples wash the feet of 12 old 
 men on Holy Thursday. There was a fine supper prepared for 
 them. The king handed the first service to servants who set it 
 on the table, and the karles sat down with great ease. After 
 that the King and Queen visited seven churches on foot, and a 
 grand procession it was, which they saw from a Princess's 
 window where all the British were. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — May 16, 1769. — I was favoured with 16 May 
 yours of the 29th ult., but alas ! as to giving you any farther 
 light into the particular about which you so anxiously enquired 
 in your former letter, indeed I confess myself altogether un- 
 able. Time and patience must unravel. The matter is too 
 delicate to ask questions about it at the fountain head. Clouds 
 have been gathering a long time, and great struggles have been 
 already made. And tho' the Parliament be prorogued yet 'tis 
 my opinion the fire is far from being extinguished ; to such a 
 height of audacity and insolence is the discontented party fol. 1913. 
 grown. 
 
 P.S. — As to the particular with which I begun my letter 
 all I shall farther say upon that head is, that as my corre- 
 spondent takes no notice of it in his letters I ought to con- 
 clude it either false, or at least, not to be so much as spoke of 
 amongst friends. 
 
 vol. in. p 
 
THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1769 
 
 Saturday, July 8, 1769. — I was with the two fellow-travel- 
 lers 1 about 7 o'clock at night, and supped with them in 
 Edinburgh. I went to them on the Sunday night imme- 
 diately, and took a bed in their lodgings, and saw them 
 safe off at J after 6 morning, Monday. At these interviews 
 I received entire satisfaction as to the above particular so 
 often mentioned, and several other very interesting 
 articles did they communicate to me. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — BurnhaU, July 8th, 1769. — I am so far in 
 my way to Dumfries, where (God willing) I purpose being the 
 latter end of this month, and honest David Lyon and his wife 
 are to meet me there, where I intend staying some small time 
 with my poor sister. 
 
 Before this comes to your hand, you will probably have seen 
 the worthy Mr. Olpphant] and his agreeable lady, whom, to my 
 great mortification, I did not see as they passed by here. The 
 manner how this happened 'tis very probable Mr. Olfiphant] 
 may have told you. Had I been aware of his not setting off 
 from Durham till 8 o'clock, I should have made a hard shift 
 foi. 1914. hut 1 WO uld have seen him. But he had named a much earlier 
 hour (6 o'clock) in a note he left over night [Bishop Gordon 
 being then in bed] at Burnhall gate, so near were we to each 
 other. Pray, my best respects to him and his good lady, and 
 tell them how sorry I am I did not see them. I beg, dear Sir, 
 you would likewise give Mr. 0[liphant] my best thanks for his 
 care of Mr. [WagJstafFes letter, and also for his own which 
 accompanied it from Durham. I trust Mr. 0[liphant] will be 
 able to give you satisfaction in some doubts and difficulties, and 
 consequently relieve you from the distress under which you 
 have sometime laboured. He is a man of understanding and 
 well qualified to discuss the subject thoroughly. 
 
 Instantly I made a return to the above, and most earnestly 
 desired Bishop Gordon to bring Mrs. Gordon along with 
 him, and to take up their abode with us for some time ; 
 but if this did not suit his convenience, that he would 
 meet me at the house of Mr. Angus MackDonell, in 
 
 8 July 
 
 8 July 
 
 1 Mr. and Mrs. Oliphant of Gask. 
 
1769] MR. AND MRS. OLIPHANT 227 
 
 Moffat, on a day to be appointed by him, tho 1 I had far 8 July 
 rather chuse his coming to my house as above, where he 
 might be as private as he pleased, even incog, if he 
 thought fit. To which I had the following answer. 
 
 Burnhall, July 20, 1769. — In answer to your last of the 12th 20 July 
 instant, which was exceedingly welcome, you have this to inform 
 you that, after mature deliberation and variety of matters 
 weighed and considered, I am at last determined (God willing) 
 to meet you on the 8th of August at Moffat, in the house you 
 mention, where I trust we shall agreeably chatt over many foi. 1915. 
 things to our mutuall satisfaction which could not so conveni- 
 ently be committed to paper. My wife thinks herself much 
 obliged to yourself and good Mrs. Forbes for your truly kind 
 and friendly invitation to your habitation at Leith. But she 
 desires me to tell you she hopes she shall be excused, being so 
 poor a traveller that she dares not attempt any farther progress 
 than Burnhall, where she says she must be content to set up 
 her steed till she turns her face again towards London. It gave 
 me great pleasure to hear that your worthy friend and his ex- 
 cellent lady had both arrived safe and at Edinburgh. Indeed, 
 it was very mortifying to me that I did not see them in passing, 
 especially, too, after the pains they had so kindly taken to 
 afford me that singular satisfaction. But, thanks be to God ! 
 you have seen them safe and well. 
 
 I shall think with much satisfaction on our interview now in 
 prospect, which will make ample recompence for my late affect- 
 ing disappointment ; so unexpectedly does our loss often turn 
 to gain, as I trust will be verified in the present instance now 
 before us. 
 
 A Journal. 
 A. D. O. M. P. F. S. S. 1 
 
 Set out accordingly, taking Mrs. Forbes along with me, on a 7 Aug. 
 jaunt to Moffat, Monday, August 7, 1769, 35 minutes after 
 8 morning. In travelling to the south side of the Pentland 
 Hills, you come to a peep, on the left hand, of Pennycuick 
 
 1 i.e. Ad Deum optimum maximum, Patrem, Pi Hum, Spiritum Sanctum, 
 
228 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1769 
 
 7 Aug. House, the charming seat of Sir James Clerk of Pennycuick, 
 richly beautified with large plantations of wood, and several 
 vistas of stone pillars on the banks of the water of Esk. 
 fol. 1916. Soon after this you pass by the foot of the avenue of Windle- 
 straelee on the right hand, the country house of Mr. William 
 Tytler, Clerk to the Signet, of a south exposure at the foot of 
 the Pentland Hills, and surrounded with a bush of wood. 1 
 
 We came to Linton, 13 long Scots miles from Leith, 44 
 minutes after 12 o'clock, where we dined on very good things at 
 the house of one Dalziel, vintner. 
 
 We left Linton 35 minutes after 2 o'clock. After travelling 
 over Broughton Muir, we came in view of Broughton House, 
 once of Murray, now of Dickson, on the left, and Kilbuckie 2 on 
 the right, two agreeable situations. John Murray purchased 
 Broughton not many years ago for £6000 sterling, and Mr. 
 Dickson, commonly called Havannah, paid Murray for it 
 ^16,000 ; and I am credibly informed, were he to sell it, he 
 would now have i?22,000 sterling for it. Mr. Dickson has 
 built at Broughton Lon or village, on the highway, some hand- 
 some houses for tenants in so regular a way that one would 
 take them to be a factory of one kind or other. 
 
 You then come to a single tower, four miles from the Crook, 
 on the right hand, an old ruin called Kittlehall, near to which, 
 a little farther on the journey and on the same hand, at the 
 foot of an hill, is another old ruin called the Wrae Castle, once 
 the property of the name of Tweedie. There appears to have 
 been a good deal of building about the castle. 
 
 Some distance beyond this you come to see, still on the right 
 and on a rising ground, the house of Mossfennan, the mansion 
 of Mr. Welch, of a south exposure and adorned with wood ; 
 near to which is a slate and lime quarry on the brow of a hill 
 to the right, belonging to Polmood, though on this side of 
 Mossfennan and very nigh to it. 
 
 After this you come in full view of Polmood which, tho"* on 
 
 1 The Bishop apparently means here Woodhouselee, which he would pass at a 
 distance of some miles before obtaining at least any near prospect of the Penicuik 
 estate. The Bishop's calculation of miles is (as he notes) Scots miles, which 
 equal i| of our present miles. 
 
 2 Dickson. — F. 
 
1769] A JOURNEY TO MOFFAT 229 
 
 the north side and at the foot of an hill, is a most charming 7 Aug. 
 little seat on the banks of and so near to the Tweed, that in ^ oL Igi? ' 
 much rain the river flows up to the entry of the house, upon 
 which, I am persuaded, in the shortest days of Winter, the sun 
 hardly ever shines. It is now the property of Mr. Alexander 
 Hunter, merchant of Edinburgh, and has been in the name of 
 Hunter, as is reported, since the days of Malcolm Canmore, 
 who flourished about 1100. William, who flourished about 
 1170, gave a charter to the then Hunter in the following words r 1 
 6 1, William, King, the third zeir of my ring, gevis to thee, 
 Normand Huntere, to me thow art baith leif and dere, the hop 
 and the hoptoun, and all the bounds up and down, under the 
 erd to hell, above the erd to hevyn, fra me and fra myne, to 
 thee and to thyne, als fre as the kingrick is mine. To verify 
 that this is suith, I bite the quhit walx with my tuith, before 
 Meg, Maid, Marjory, and my eldest son, for ane bow and ane 
 braid arrow, quhen I come to hunt upon Zarrow."" 
 
 In sight of Polmood we came to the Crook, 25 minutes after 
 6, 12 long miles from Linton, George Black, landlord, at whom 
 I asked if he could give us some trouts for supper. He said he 
 had been just thinking to go an angling for a little. I told 
 him I would go along with him and share in the sport. In a 
 short time he took 7 or 8 trouts, upon which and a duckling 
 we made a very good supper, the hospitable landlord taking a 
 share with us. 
 
 Tuesday, August 8th. — Set off from the Crook, 5 minutes 8 Aug. 
 after 7 o'clock, morning. A mile farther on you come to fol. 1918. 
 another inn, called the Bield, up the hill from which, on the 
 right hand, is the house of Oliver, the mansion of Mr. Tweedie, 
 who is supposed to be the chief of the name, the family of 
 which bore a great sway of old in that part of the country. 
 Mr. Tweedie is the proprietor of the Bield, a little beyond 
 which you come in view of the kirk of Tweedsmuir, on a little 
 green hill down in a valley on the left hand, the Tweed gliding 
 by the kirk. Here I told Mrs. Forbes that for 9 long miles 
 she would not see a grain of corn growing, that is, from the 
 
 1 Meaning words of which the following is a translation, as charters were then 
 written in Latin. 
 
230 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1769 
 
 7 Aug. Bield to the side of Errickstane Brae towards Moffat. But we 
 saw plenty of natural hay on the banks of the Tweed, winding 
 its course between two ridges of green hills, great flocks of 
 sheep ranging and browsing upon them at pleasure. 
 
 Then we came to Tweedie-Brae-foot, on this side of which a 
 little purling stream runs down called the Smidhopburn, and 
 soon falls into the Tweed. Here we saw plenty of natural hay 
 mowing down and in ricks. After passing over the Brae you 
 come to Tweedshaw, i.e., where Tweed first shows itself. Here 
 we spied to my surprize a very little park of beer, 1 not bigger 
 than a kailyard. This prompted me to halt a little and call 
 for a dram. The landlord not being at home, I asked the 
 landlady if this was not the first grain that had ever appeared 
 in that country. She answered the same spot had been in 
 beer the last year for the first time, which had succeeded so 
 well that it was in beer this year with more seed than formerly. 
 
 On this side of Tweedshaw and a little above it, Tweed rises 
 from its source in a bogue or marsh. Here it is so small that 
 one may walk over it without wetting a foot. This bogue is 
 foi. 1919. a t the foot of a hill called Errickstane, out of which other 
 two rivers take their rise, viz., Clyde and Annan, and all the 
 three rivers run different ways, Tweed shaping its course east- 
 ward, Clyde westward, and Annan southward. 
 
 In journeying over Errickstane Brae, near the top of it, you 
 come to a large green circular hollow of old called the Marquis 
 of Annandale's Beef Stand, but now MacLaurin's Leap, because 
 one MacLaurin, a drover, in 1746, made his escape from a 
 party of soldiers taking him to Carlisle to be tried for his life, 
 by rolling down this hollow, there happening very luckily to be 
 a thick mist at the time, which favoured his design greatly. 
 None of the souldiers durst attempt following him, so steep is 
 the descent, but they ran round the mouth of the hollow, 
 discharging their muskets at random. Lieutenant Howison, 
 one of the officers commanding the party, cried after him, 
 
 6 By G , I arrest you in the King's name, 1 when, behold ! 
 
 MacLaurin could not stop his own motion had he been ever 
 so willing, which is not to be supposed. He slept that night 
 
 1 i.e. barley. 
 
1769] MEETING WITH BISHOP GORDON 
 
 231 
 
 in George Black's house at the Crook, tho' a command of 8 Aug. 
 sogers happened to be there. 
 
 The other side of Errick-stane Brae towards Moffat was 
 once a very steep road, insomuch that travellers walked, and 
 machines went empty down and up it ; but now of late it is 
 made such a very fine pathed way in the spiral form that 
 coaches and chaises can move easily upon it full of company. 
 
 When on the top of Errickstane Brae a fine valley of a 
 corn country towards Moffat opens to you, which exhibits a 
 chearing prospect of a beautiful variety. 
 
 We arrived at Moffat J before 11 o'clock, and Bishop 
 Gordon with Mr. and Mrs. Lyon came to us about 5 o'clock f° l - I 9 2 °- 
 when we were beginning to tea. 
 
 Soon after tea Bishop Gordon and I retired to his bed- 
 chamber, solus cum solo, to talk over some matters before 
 entering upon which he begged leave to inform me that he had 
 great doubts of ever having received the benefit of confirmation. 
 For though his mother used to say he had been confirmed, 
 yet he could never recollect hands having been laid upon him, 
 and that he had received the sealing benediction. He well 
 remembred that, when between 11 and 12 years of age, he had 
 been in the quire at Durham with a crowd of boys, when Lord 
 Crew was bishop, and that he then saw several young folks 
 confirmed, but he did not remember that he himself had 
 kneeled down and received that benefit. He, therefore, begged 
 that to remove all doubts and scruples from his mind I might 
 make up this defect. Agreed — and to-morrow's morning was 
 accordingly appointed before breakfast for that purpose in his 
 own bed-chamber, none to be present but Mrs. Forbes only. 
 
 I then told him that lest I should forget anything I had 
 written a memorandum of several articles as to what I had to 
 inform him about, in such a manner and so short as to be 
 understood by none but myself, and then pulling out my 
 scribble I went on as follows, he listening with the greatest 
 attention. 
 
 Article 1. That John Hay, Andrew Lumisden, and Captain 
 Urquhart had been dismist for a real act of disobedience. It 
 was true indeed that the K[ing] had been in use for some time 
 past to call frequently for to'ther glass of wine at dinner and 
 
232 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1769 
 
 8 Aug. supper, not from any liking to liquor, but like one absent in 
 mind when he met with things that vex'd him, as ,too often 
 was the case. That one day at dinner he had done so till he 
 was somewhat intoxicated, and in that condition proposed 
 going to an oratorio in the afternoon, but they absolutely 
 
 foi. 1921. refused to attend him. Yea, he went into his coach and they 
 would by no means go into it ; upon which he returned to his 
 apartments and dismist them. In a day or two he sent for 
 them to return to their duty, but they happening to consult 
 with the Cardinal York, he advised them absolutely not to 
 return ; which counsel they followed, and he took care to have 
 four Italians put into their places as persons more fit for his 
 purposes and designs ; the principal one of whom, our common 
 friend 1 declared, was very fit to be about a great personage, 
 having been bred up at the Court of Modena. The Cardinal 
 would have been well enough pleased had John Stewart, a 
 constant and faithful attendant, been likewise dismist, but 
 that could not take place, as both master and servant, an 
 Athol man, were not willing to part. Therefore, there are still 
 two Britons with him, Mr. Wagstaffe, an Englishman, and 
 John Stewart, a Scotsman. [Here Bishop Gordon asked if 
 ever he conversed with Mr. Wagstaffe. To which I could make 
 no answer as this particular had not been mentioned ; but I 
 promised to enquire.] That he now enjoys more ease and quiet 
 than formerly, and has never been seen concerned in the least 
 with liquor since that event, which had been happily attended 
 with one good effect, to make him think very seriously upon 
 what had happened ; and that no man could be of a more firm 
 and determined resolution when once formed than he was 
 known to be. Too great freedoms had been used which were 
 not easily to be put up with. Such were condescended upon 
 when he was in Scotland. Not a blot, nor so much as a pimple 
 was in his face, though maliciously given out by some as if it 
 were all over blotted ; but he is jolly and plump, tho" not to 
 excess, being still agile and fit for undergoing toil. Bishop 
 Gordon regretted the dismission of Andrew Lumisden, as being 
 
 fol. 1922. a man 0 f p ar ts, in which I heartily join'd him. 
 
 Laurence Oliphant of Gask. 
 
1769] THE PRINCE'S RELIGION AND MARRIAGE 233 
 
 Article 2. It having been asked by our common friend what 8 Au g- 
 he should say to friends as to particular ways of thinking in 
 religious matters ; it was answered that he left that to his own 
 discretion, as he knew well his resolutions in that shape. 
 Meantime he could not fail observing that he was in a most 
 miserable situation in this respect, 6 Being looked upon where 
 I am, 1 said he, ' to be a firm Protestant, and at home in Britain, 
 to be a rank Papist ; ' and that his change of opinions was not 
 of a late date. 4 Having been deem'd a sprightly quick young 
 fellow when between 11 and 12 years of age, I was now and 
 then putting questions to my pedagogue upon religious sub- 
 jects, whose answers not being satisfactory, he put treatises 
 of controversy into my hands in which the arguments and the 
 answers to objections appeared to me so weak and trifling that 
 in place of persuading they rivetted me in my resolution of a 
 change. 1 
 
 Article 3. There were two grand points he always had in 
 
 view, his R on 1 and an earnest desire to be married. As 
 
 to the first, he was ever attentive to any circumstance that 
 might be conducive to that good end. As to the second, he 
 hoped to have that soon accomplished. Our common friend 
 having been indulged the honour of speaking freely what he 
 might think best for promoting the interest of all concerned, 
 could not help suggesting that his Mfajesty] in his present cir- 
 cumstances could have none but a Popish princess, which might 
 prove an injury rather than an advantage in the eyes of friends. 
 To this it was answered, 'You know, Sir, that I made my 
 addresses to a Protestant princess, 2 and that this negotiation, 
 when upon the point of being concluded, was frustrated by the 
 misconduct of those who had the management of it. But if I 
 should match with a Popish princess, and be so happy as to 
 have children, she should have nothing to do with their educa- 
 tion. I would positively take that upon myself, and have them 
 educated in my own principles. 1 [Here Bishop Gordon observed 
 that he believed Harry Goring had the management of the 
 
 1 Religion is here meant. 
 
 2 In 1749 the Prince had in view a marriage with the daughter of the Land 
 grave of Hesse Darmstadt. 
 
234 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1769 
 
 foi. 1923. foresaid negotiation, and that the Princess was a German one 
 8 Aug. » ' 
 
 and a very pretty person.] 
 
 Article 4. It having been suggested that his residence at 
 Rome was far from being fit or convenient upon several 
 accounts, he said he resolved to stay there till he should be 
 introduced to the then-to-be-elected Pope, with particular 
 views. Upon this it was remarked that such an introduction 
 might prove prejudiciall to his interest amongst friends, and 
 therefore perhaps better to be let alone. To this he answered 
 that if the Pope should acknowledge him in his proper rights 
 and titles, he would not only have a pension from him, but 
 likewise this would afford him a proper foundation in applying 
 for pensions from Spain and other foreign courts, and thereby 
 he would be put on a respectable footing for entering into the 
 conjugal state. But at any rate he was resolved to leave Rome 
 after settling business. [Bishop Gordon could not help remark- 
 ing here, 'Twas pity he had ever gone to Rome ; that had he 
 gone to Switzerland, that Canton having agreed to receive him, 
 the French Court were to have given him carte blanche, and 
 friends in E[nglandJ would have given him liberally. And not 
 only so, but he himself had as much in the Chambers of Paris 
 as would support him, tho" not like a Prince, yet like a gentle- 
 man.] 
 
 Article 5. Our common friend, desirous to bring him upon 
 the dismission of the three gentlemen, tried one piece of address, 
 which was that if any persons were coming to Rome who had a 
 mind to see him, he begged leave to know how or by whom 
 they might be introduced. To which it was answered that, as 
 his hours of retirement and of his being to be seen were well 
 known, there was no difficulty of access to him ; and that he 
 kept no secretary, but dispatched all his business and wrote all 
 his letters with his own hand. In a word, it was not in our 
 friend's power to have the remotest hint upon the dismission of 
 the three gentlemen. 
 
 Article 6. That the Cardinal York was extremely polite, 
 fol. 1924. frank, and free, more like a companion than a superiour, inso- 
 much that one would have taken him to have been brother to 
 either of the two fellow-travellers who had visited and dined 
 frequently with the K[ing]. [Bishop Gordon asked, ' How 
 
1769] CONFERENCE ABOUT THE PRINCE 235 
 
 often ? This I could not answer, but promised to be informed 8 Aug. 
 and to let him know. He was likewise very desirous to know 
 if our common friend had visited Alexander Murray in London, 
 as he had left it in charge with James George that this should 
 by all means be particularly attended to, seeing Bishop Gordon 
 looked upon Alexander Murray as a firm and staunch friend, 
 much to be noticed and regarded, worthy of the highest trust, 
 etc. I knew nothing at all about this, but promised to make 
 inquiry and to report.] 
 
 Article 7. That Mrs. Forbes had given the two fellow travel- 
 lers a piece of seed-cake, which they took entire to the K[ing], 
 making a present of it to him, and withal telling him from 
 whom they had it. 6 Ay ! 1 said he, ' a piece of cake from Scot- 
 land, and from Edinburgh too ! 1 Then rising from his seat 
 and opening a drawer, ' Here," said he, 6 you see me deposite it, 
 and no teeth shall go upon it but my own. 1 
 
 Article 8. The common friend had the honour to take leave 
 of the Cardinal York, tho' cadged up like a bird in the Con- 
 clave, which was extremely well taken, the Cardinal declaring 
 he would have been sorry if this had not been done. 
 
 Article 9. As our common friend had told me that John 
 Hay had suggested to him that he imagined Mr. Wagstaffe to 
 be a bishop, I asked if it was so or not ? To which Bishop 
 Gordon answered that Mr. Wagstaffe was not a bishop. 
 
 Article 10. I shewed Bishop Gordon a memorandum written 
 by common friend in presence of the K[ing], containing these 
 words only, Travels in the Highlands, Coohry Book of English 
 Paistry, puddings, etc., and told him that I had brought along 
 with me four copies of the Narrative of the Escape, etc., which 
 was what is meant by Travels in the Highlands ; viz., one for 
 the K[ing], the second for Mr. Wagstaffe, the third for Mrs. 
 Smith of Burnhall, and the fourth for Mrs. Gordoun, all hand- 
 somely gilded. But that for Cookery it behoved Mrs. Gordoun 
 to make choice of the best author upon that in London, which M 1925- 
 was agreed to. 
 
 Article 11. I told Bishop Gordon I had brought along with 
 me some principal papers, 8 in number, and marked in order as 
 they should be read, relative to the late election of a bishop 
 for Aberdeen, all which he and Mr. David Lyon perused with 
 
236 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1769 
 
 8 Aug. attention, and both of them concurred in heartily disapproving 
 
 of what had been done in that affair. Bishop Gordon would 
 repeatedly say, 6 The conduct of your brethren, Mr. F., is 
 shameful indeed ! Very shameful, truly ! If an election is 
 allowed, why, then, let it go on easily and freely, and don't 
 make a fool of it in any shape whatsoever. ' I told them I had 
 resolved to take up with retirement, which they frankly owned 
 they could not disapprove of. 
 
 Article 12. I asked Bishop Gordon if present jarrings and 
 confusions, etc., could not be improved to the advantage and 
 interest of Cousin ? Yes, they might. That he himself had 
 fallen upon ways and means to have something put into the 
 hands of a certain person without the same person's knowing 
 from whence, and that he thought he could see from that 
 person's ways of acting he was pointing to the interest of 
 Cousin. 
 
 At supper I proposed that for a jaunt of pleasure we should 
 go next day to view the Gray Mare's Tail, perhaps the finest 
 fall of water in all Scotland, and about seven long Scots miles 
 from Moffat, which was agreed to. 
 
 9 Aug. Wednesday, August 9th, 'twixt 9 and 10 morning, in Bishop 
 
 Gordon's own bedchamber, the defect was made up as agreed 
 upon, none present but Mrs. Forbes. Soli Deo, Patri, Filio, 
 Spirituique Sancto sit laus et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen 
 et Amen. 
 
 When about to take breakfast, Bishop Gordon took me aside 
 to a window and told me he was so much pleased with my 
 method of articles that he desired I would take an opportunity 
 of going over them once more with him, which I promised to 
 do. 
 
 Dinner was ordered to be ready by 1 o'clock, that we might 
 foi. 1926. set out by 2 upon the jaunt of pleasure. Set out accordingly 
 at 2 o'clock, three chaises in company, Bishop Gordon and I in 
 one, Mrs. Forbes and Miss Jackie MackDonell in another, and 
 Mr. David Lyon and his servant, Sandie, in the third ; Mrs. 
 Lyon not being so well as to go ; and Mr. Angus MackDonell, 
 our hospitable landlord, on a good mare, to be our conductor. 
 
 When about to be gone, I called for a bottle of wine and 
 some bread, my fellow-jaunters wondering what I meant. I 
 
1769] A DRIVE UP MOFFAT WATER 237 
 
 told them these implements were to be taken along with us, as 9 Aug. 
 perhaps it might be seasonable and convenient to take a glass 
 of wine when looking cold water in the face, and a bit of bread 
 would not be amiss at the same time. 4 Right, my friend," said 
 Bishop Gordon, 4 'tis well thought on. We may probably have 
 use for such materials before we return.'' 
 
 After driving about two miles, we enter into one of the finest 
 and richest vallies I have ever seen, called the Glen of Moffat 
 Water, standing thick with corn and hay, interspersed with 
 meadow grounds, and bounded on each hand with a ridge of 
 green mountains, decorated with bushes of wood, and with large 
 flocks of sheep feeding and frisking up and down under the 
 eyes of the careful shepherds tending them by day and by night 
 with their sagacious dogs. 
 
 In this fertile valley there were likewise herds of horses and 
 black cattle, fat and sleek as otters, which upon the sight and 
 rattling of the chaises took fright, stared, snorted, and galloped 
 up and down with ears erect and tails standing out. There 
 was one colt, of a brownish colour beautiful and well shap'd, 
 which Bishop Gordon admired greatly. 
 
 The eye was regard on viewing the lofty hills, not only with 
 the verdant woods and a rich variety of glossy green both upon fol. 1927. 
 trees and grass, but likewise with several openings between hills 
 on each hand as inviting the traveller to enter. But behold, 
 when we came directly over against any of those openings, a 
 huge mountain appeared with a stern, austere aspect just like 
 an aged sire with grim looks and knit brows forbidding the 
 promised access. 
 
 Bishop Gordon was so highly delighted that he was sorry 
 Mrs. Gordoun did not share in the jaunt 4 as,' said he, 4 she is a 
 curious observer and excells in description. I will make her 
 regret her absence from this rural entertainment. Were a 
 philosopher here, what a fund for contemplation, or a poet, 
 how would the numbers flow ! 1 4 Yes," said I, 4 were a Pope or 
 a Voltaire here, how would the subject swell !' And, indeed, a 
 more beautifully variegated landscape cannot well be seen with 
 a rushing natural cascade to crown the whole. 
 
 When in the midst of a wood about halfway to the fall, one 
 of the ends of the flitchet of our chaise happened to break, 
 
238 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1769 
 
 Aug. which occasioned a halt. Instantly all got out and Mrs. Forbes 
 held a council of war against me for a safe retreat in time with 
 the shrill vociferation of a female general. 4 I can, 1 said she, 
 4 with pleasure be fell'd myself rather than that Bishop Gordon 
 should be felPd. For how can we account to Mrs. Gordoun if 
 he be felFd sae far frae hame ? 1 4 Ay ! ay ! very pretty indeed, 1 
 said Mr. Lyon, 4 there is not a word of your husband tho 1 in 
 equal danger with Mr. Gordon or any of us. 1 4 Oh ! 1 said she, 
 4 he has no fear. He can take care of himself. But for Mr. 
 Gordon, who is a stranger, we ought, all of us, to have a par- 
 ticular concern about him. 1 This occasioned a loud laugh to 
 the re-echoing of the woods. Mr. Gordon would frequently 
 say, 4 O that good woman ! O that good woman ! who is pleased 
 to have such a great concern about my safety. 1 
 
 1928. The kind contention was so much in earnest that Mr. Mack- 
 Donell, tho 1 one of absolute courage, joined Mrs. Forbes 
 heartily for an immediate return. 4 What ! Mr. MackDonell, 1 
 said I, 4 did you not tell me that many wheel machines have 
 been driven the same way ? And may not chaises go now 
 where chaises have gone before ? 1 4 All true, 1 said he, 4 but 
 then such heavy rains have fallen of late that the fords will be 
 very deep, and they are rough and bad enough of themselves. 1 
 4 O then, 1 said I, 4 the fall will be in its greater glory, and if all 
 of you should return I will go on. 1 Mr. Gordon luckily joined 
 me which ended the debate. But then Mrs. Forbes strenuously 
 insisted against Mr. Gordon's going into the broken chaise, 
 tho 1 the breach was inconsiderable, as with the help of a rope 
 it was made as strong as ever, and so Mr. Gordon and I went 
 into it again. 
 
 Mr. MackDonell, for the greater safety, soon after this called 
 for a guide who directed us well through the rough fords. 
 
 At length the rush of mighty waters reached the ear before 
 we could see it with the eye. When we came in view of it I 
 could well see that by crossing that large burn flowing from it 
 into Moffat Water, and called the Tail burn, we could have 
 still a fuller view of the fall, and therefore I stept over the burn 
 and scamper'd up a green hill the best way I could ; about the 
 midst of which I came to a level bit of green about the extent 
 of an ordinary table, where I took up my station directly over 
 
1769] 
 
 AT THE GREY MARKS TAIL 
 
 239 
 
 against the face of the fall about the middle of it. I then 9 Aug. 
 hallooed to those below what a fine view I had of the fall, 
 begging them to follow me. Jackie MackDonell skip'd up to 
 me like any roe. Mr. Gordon mounted the conductor's mare 
 and crossed the burn. I cried to Mr. MackDonell to hand Mr. 
 Gordon up after me as far as he would chuse to come, which 
 he did only halfway. Mr. Lyon likewise mounted the mare 
 and crossed the burn. He came up to me with such leisurely 
 steps as his corpulence would allow, and squatted down in- 
 stantly. ' What do you mean, Sir ? , said I. ' Get up and 
 view this grand sight.' ' Oh ! sir,' said he, 4 1 have lost all my 
 breath, Oh ! Oh ! Oh ! ' After resting a little he rose up and 
 took a view of it with his spects on his nose. 
 
 When descending I took hold of Jackie MackDonell and foi. 1929 
 guided her in the spiral way, and Mr. Lyon's servant took him 
 by the arm. But no, that would not do. Looking behind me 
 I saw Mr. David hitching down like any hare on his breech. 
 1 Ay ! Mr. David,' said I, 4 what is the matter with you ? ' 4 O, 
 
 Sir,' said he, 6 1 man take my to it.' This I failed not to 
 
 repeat when down at the burn, taking our seasonable glass of 
 wine which made the hills resound with a loud peal of laughter. 
 
 During all the time we were upon the face of the green hill, 
 Mrs. Forbes down below turned her back towards us, and with 
 fright, was seized with a pain in one of her shoulders, taking a 
 peep now and then to see if any of us were tumbling down and 
 wondering how she would fall upon a scheme to get back to 
 Moffat with three chaises and six dead men, with many a thump 
 upon the pain'd shoulder. The drivers diverted themselves 
 with tumbling stones down the hill, which Mrs. Forbes, full of 
 fear, imagined to be some of our hats. 
 
 I asked Mr. MackDonell what might be the height of the 
 fall. He said he was persuaded it was more than 100 fathoms 
 from top to bottom. It is white as snow, and falls with such 
 violence that the drops of water rebound to an extraordinary 
 height. For ordinary it consists of three falls, rushing from 
 one shelf of the rock to another, and at last disappearing into 
 a hollow gulph which no eye could ever yet reach, around the 
 mouth of which some trees wave their tops and serve to add to 
 the beauty. When we viewed this wondrous work of God in 
 
240 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1746 
 
 Au s- nature it consisted only of one fall, as plenty of rain had lately 
 fallen and thereby had increased its grandeur, so that we beheld 
 it, tho' not in its greatest perfection, yet in a medium betwixt 
 its lowest and its highest degree of glory. It issues out of 
 Loch Skeen, of a pretty large extent, in the midst of which 
 there is an island where a pair of eagles nestle every year. This 
 
 1930. loch is clear on one side where speckled trouts are to be had, 
 and muddy on the other where black trouts take up their 
 abode. 
 
 When got into the chaises Mr. Gordon said ; ' We cross'd 
 Moffat Water so often that we will now, in our return, count 
 the number,' which turned out to be no less than 16, without 
 counting several other crossings of rivulets that discharge them- 
 selves from the hills into Moffat Water. But we brought the 
 crossing of the Tail burn into the reckoning. 
 
 At supper we recounted the beauties and adventures of the 
 chequered scene with great good humour and pleasantry. Mr. 
 Gordon smiling in Mr. Lyon's face said, 4 Well, Mr. Lyon, I 
 hope you will indulge me the pleasure of making merry with 
 my wife at your method of moving down a hill.'' 4 With all 
 my heart,' answered he. ' Then, Mr. Lyon, I assure you, your 
 bum shall not be forgot. Ha ! ha ! he ! ' 
 Aug. Thursday morning, August 10th, I went over the articles 
 once more with Bishop Gordon solus cum solo. And when he 
 was putting things in order for his departure, Mrs. Forbes 
 delivered to him some raisins 1 and seed cake to refresh himself 
 with in the chaise. When he called for a bill I told him all 
 was paid, as I looked upon myself no less than much honoured 
 by the interview in more respects than one. We had vespers 
 and matins every day. 
 
 Bishop Gordon left Moffat in Mr. MackDonell's chaise at 
 8 o'clock, morning, which he journeyed in, as I was afterwards 
 informed, till he came within 20 miles of Newcastle. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Lyon dined with us at Moffat, which we left 
 10 minutes after 2 o'clock and parted at the top of Errickstane 
 Brae, they going to the left and we to the right. 
 
 1 Intended for George Smith of Burnhall, Esq., had he come along with 
 Bishop Gordon. — F. 
 
1769] HOMEWARDS BY TWEEDSIDE 241 
 
 We came to Tweedie-Brae-foot 45 minutes after 5, where I 10 Aug. 
 discoursed the landlord, who told me that the true name of 
 the place in papers is Tweedhopfoot. I asked him how it came foi. 1931. 
 to pass that the Smidhopburn was not reckoned the source of 
 Tweed as it is larger than what is so reckoned. He answered 
 that the Smidhopburn takes its rise a good way above his house 
 and is there still less than the source of the Tweed. 
 
 Here a child 'twixt 2 and 3 years of age took such a conceit 
 of Mrs. Forbes, that she would by no means part with her, but 
 stuck close to her and went into the chaise. She was offer'd 
 raisins and money. But no : she would accept of nothing ; 
 positively she would go along with us. An aunt of the child's 
 pulFd her out by force ; but she scream'd and sprawled herself 
 out with such violence that she was like to throw herself into 
 fits ; and therefore we took her again into the chaise to give 
 her a short jaunt, when looking wistfully into Mrs Forbes's 
 face she said, 6 1 will go wherever you go. 1 ' Ay ! but, 1 says Mrs. 
 Forbes, ' what will your mammy say, if you go with me ? 1 
 ' Indeed she '11 say, my bonny Ellie Welch is awa ! 1 Which 
 words the child pronounced with a mournful tone of voice. A 
 servant walked by the side of the chaise, and after driving a 
 little Mrs. Forbes told the child that when we returned we 
 would give her a ribband and a bonny mutch. Upon this she 
 was persuaded, though with some reluctance, to return with 
 the servant, but not till she gave us the parting kiss. 
 
 A little before we came to the Bield by looking up into a 
 very narrow glen on the left hand, I saw some little ridges of 
 rie. 
 
 We came to the Crook 25 minutes after 7 o'clock where 
 Lord Kaimes and his lady were before us, but we got a good 
 room and a better supper. 
 
 Friday, August 11. — Left the Crook 40 minutes after n Aug. 
 7 o'clock, when our hospitable landlady would needs have 
 us take a cheese in a present. 
 
 To vary the scene we resolved to return by Peebles, the 
 road to which passes off on the right hand over against the 
 House of Mosfennan already noticed, where you soon cross the foi. 1932. 
 Tweed by a fine ford. 
 
 Then you come in view of Drummellier Castle in a hollow, 
 vol. in. Q 
 
242 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1769 
 
 n Aug. on the left hand an old mine of much building over against 
 the Wrae Castle, but they are on different sides of the Tweed. 
 There is a large fir-park up on the right hand from the kirk- 
 town of Drummellier, where I made a short halt, and got one 
 Cleghorn, a weaver, to conduct me to Tennis Castle, an old 
 ruin on the top of a steep green hill to the right hand, once 
 the seat of the Frasers of Salton, about the time of King 
 James the Fifth, as was narrated to me. 
 
 In going up to Tennis Castle you walk on a green road of a 
 good breadth which appears to have been made on purpose for 
 the easier access by the side of a purling stream issuing from 
 the high ground, where you come to a large stone, naturally in 
 form of an elbow-chair, called the Chesweld Chair, in which 
 one can sit or lie along as he pleases. If you loll downwards, 
 as it has a little slop, your lips can touch the murmuring 
 stream and drink of the finest water. Some of the ruines lie 
 in huge lumps. I measured one of them which was about 
 6 feet thick. The walls of one watch-tower of a round form 
 are pretty entire. The whole seems to have been built of 
 small stones, all strongly cemented, so that it would be far 
 easier to work any quarry than to separate them. 
 
 All along on the banks of the Tweed, which we crossed 
 thrice, and seldom out of sight of it from its very source. We 
 came to New Posso, the princely seat of Sir James Naesmith, 
 grand and beautiful truly, tho^ on the north side of a 
 hill, in view of the Tweed from the front windows, and 
 abounding with the verdant fir through which there are 
 foi. 1933. many different vistas. It has a large avenue down to the 
 Tweed terminating in iron ballistradoes decorated with two 
 statues of gladiators. Here the Tweed is a large river. 
 Methinks there is one superfluous beauty, which is an artificial 
 cascade in the avenue forming a circular piece of water, though 
 Tweed be winding its course in full view. 
 
 Sir James has a fine green-house of a pretty large extent, 
 where at this time, as I was informed, an American aloe was in 
 flower, the stem of which being about 27 or 30 feet high. 
 
 After leaving New Posso we came in view of Stobo kirk and 
 Stobo hills which make a fine appearance ; travelling now 
 along in an avenue of planting, many of which apple-trees 
 
1769] AT AND ABOUT PEEBLES 243 
 
 on each hand, which avenue is a mile or two in length, if not « Aug. 
 more. After which, still in view of Tweed, we came to Need- 
 path, to the right hand, an old castle of great strength, the 
 seat of the Earl of March, on a green bank slopping down to 
 Tweed, with much barren wood of different kinds on both sides 
 of the river. Near to this, on the other side of the Tweed, is 
 Burnet of Barns, an ancient snug little seat, which besides its 
 own plantations has in view all the beauties of Needpath 
 woods ; and Needpath enjoys the same enchanting view of 
 Barns and its towers and lofty trees. 
 
 At Peebles by 12 o'clock, which Eddlestone Water divides 
 into two, the old town and the new town, discharging itself 
 into Tweed below Peebles, on the south side of which a fine 
 bridge of several arches over the Tweed from the top of which 
 you have a most beautiful prospect. Here I called for John fol. 1934. 
 Robertson, the sheriff-clerk, upon account of the Rev. Mr. 
 George Innes at Aberdeen, who is married upon a sister of 
 the said Robertson. He dined with us at the house of Ritchie, 
 vintner, and made me a present of four franks addressed to 
 Mr. George Innes. 
 
 Set out from Peebles \ after 3 o'clock. Near to Peebles on 
 the left hand stands Chapel Hill, church-lands no doubt, as 
 there was of old in Peebles a monastery of the Red Friars called 
 the Ministry or Cross Church, founded by Alexander the 3d, 
 1257 [see Keith's Catalogue of Scottish Bishops, p. 243]. The 
 steeple, tho' unroof d, of the monastery is still standing, and in 
 the churchyard of it they still bury their dead. 1 
 
 Then as you travell along you view Cringaltie, Blackbarony, 
 the Whim, built by the Earl of Isla in the midst of a moss, 
 and now the property of Mr. Montgomery, advocate ; Penny - 
 cuick and Mortonhall, on the left hand and Auchindinny on 
 the right, all of them beautiful seats, adorned with plantations 
 of wood in great plenty. Near to Auchindinny is a fine new 
 bridge over the Esk, so that some of the above seats are 
 decorated with wood and water. 
 
 Stopt at the Howgate 'twixt 5 and 6, to refresh the horses 
 
 1 The words 'not the case' are written here in a different hand, and are 
 struck through in pencil. 
 
244 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1769 
 
 11 Aug. and at home (all glory be to God) I before nine o'clock at 
 night. 
 
 Total charge of this jaunt, including chaise-hire and every 
 article of expense, £8, 4s. 6d. sterling. 
 15 Aug. Tuesday, August 15. — The common friend favoured us with 
 a visit, much to my comfort, 'twixt 1 and 2, when we were at 
 fol. 1935. dinner, and took a share with us. We soon retired by our- 
 selves and talked over several interesting particulars. 
 
 In consequence of this seasonable visit I wrote to Bishop 
 19 Aug. Gordon on Saturday, August 19, informing that our common 
 friend had visited Cousin with frequency and freedom at least 
 5 or 6' times, and that the two fellow travellers had dined with 
 him twice; that Cousin would gladly confer with Mr. Wagstaffe, 
 but durst not attempt it, so closely was he eyed and all his 
 motions watched; and that he himself had not visited Alexander 
 Murray, as it might have been ill taken for him to go from 
 the house of the brother banker's to visit any such person ; 
 but that had Bishop Gordon been at home, he then could 
 have visited Alexander Murray by his direction and under his 
 eye. I likewise informed Bishop Gordon at the same time that 
 since seeing him I had changed my mind, and did not now 
 regret the dismission of Andrew Lumsden as I had been in- 
 formed of his being much upon the deistical way of thinking. 
 But whether the brother-in-law had poisoned him, or he the 
 brother-in-law, I would not say. 
 
 As a strong jealousy upon a certain point had haunted my 
 mind, I wrote another letter to Bishop Gordon, an exact copy 
 of which is as follows : 
 22 Aug. For God's sake, my very dear friend, beware of Alexander] 
 Mfurray]. I had very great doubts of, and, therefore, have 
 this day made strict inquiry into that character. Our friend 
 in his modest way gave hints that it was none of the best, 
 which, with my own suspicion, prompted me to sift the matter 
 to the bottom upon your account, not to mention other 
 fol. 1935. weighty considerations. I have it from the best authority, 
 and from one with whom I could trust my life that (to use 
 the identical words) 6 he is an ingrain'd villain ; that gold is 
 his god ; a small portion of which will throw the ballance 
 with him to either side, and that he is in keeping by the 
 
1769] ALEXANDER MURRAY 
 
 245 
 
 C s of W s 1 whom he has influenced to enter into a 22 Aug. 
 
 most flagitious action against her own flesh and blood. In a 
 word, the two infamously concurred to deprive one of her 
 children of bare bread, even to the length of tampering with 
 and informing the Government." All this with much more I 
 had from one who knows Alexander] M[urray] intimately 
 from his youth up untill now, both in private and publick life, 
 and is truly a friend, not an enemy to Alexander] Mfurray]. 
 
 In my humble opinion it is prudent not to break with him, 
 but not to tell him anything of importance. However, your 
 own better judgment will do better than I can suggest, and 
 may God direct all to the best. Meantime I will correspond 
 with none but yourself and our common friend upon these 
 matters. 
 
 I hope you have mine of the 19th instant. With wonted 
 good will and good wishes to you and all yours, 
 
 Adieu, dear Sir, Adieu. 
 
 August 22, 1769. 
 
 N.B. — In the foresaid conversation with the common friend, J 5 Au g- 
 he told me the Protestant princess was afterwards married upon 
 the Prince of Baden Durlach ; that Cousin, when going abroad 
 to air, had two coaches, the one for himself and a gentleman or 
 two with four horses, and the other for attendants with two foi. 1937- 
 horses ; but when the second coach did not go out, then he had 
 six horses in his own ; and that he had four principal gentle- 
 men for valet de chambres, eight or ten footmen, besides those 
 of the kitchen, and such as belonged to the stables, etc. etc. 
 
 He likewise informed me that Alexander M[urray] had no 
 good character at Paris and was believed by Cousin to have had 
 a principal hand in stealing away his daughter from him, which 
 he highly resented ; and that Alexander] Mfurray] had wrote 
 several letters to Cousin, who never had made him the smallest 
 return. I informed him that Mr. Wagstaffe was not a bishop, 
 
 1 The Countess of Wemyss is here meant, who at this time had some differ- 
 ences with her son, David, Lord Elcho. The Hon. Alexander Murray was the 
 fourth son of Alexander, Lord Elibank. In 1750 he had been confined in New- 
 gate prison for contempt of the British Parliament, but afterwards went abroad. 
 
246 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1769 
 
 15 Aug. and suggested to him what Bishop Gordon had said with 
 respect to what Cousin had in the Chambers of Paris. But 
 common friend differed in opinion from Bishop Gordon, that it 
 could not be above i?1000 sterling yearly, as considerable pen- 
 sions had been bequeathed by the father to his servants, which 
 were punctually paid, and therefore lessened the income greatly. 
 He likewise observed that Cousin was a great oeconomist, and 
 paid all accounts once a month at farthest, and that he got up 
 in the morning about 4 o'clock, took breakfast about 7, dined 
 at 12 on the plainest dishes, drank tea at 4, supped twixt 7 
 and 8, and was in his bed-chamber by 9 or before it. So that 
 no man can be more regular in his hours than he continues 
 to be. 
 
 foi. 1938. I have forgot to remark that in my conversation with Bishop 
 Gordon, he told me he had seen Voltaire when in London ; 
 that one needed only to look him in the face to see him to be 
 wrong-headed — such a stare and rolling he has in his eye, and 
 that he is a peevish, fretful body, of meagre looks. 
 
 15 Aug. Bishop Gordon. — Burnhall, August 15, 1769. — In compli- 
 ance with your kind request, and at the same time to return 
 my best thanks to your self and good Mrs. Forbes for all the 
 trouble and expence you have been at in affording me so satis- 
 factory and pleasing an interview as you were so kind as to 
 favour me with at Moffat, you have this to inform you, Dear Sir, 
 that (All thanks be to God !) I arrived safe and sound at Burn- 
 hall yesterday before dinner, along with my dear nephew whom 
 I found at Newcastle on Friday evening, waiting for me at Mr. 
 Burden's, where you were kindly enquired after, and by Mr. 
 Mansfield too. But to return to Burnhall (Blessed be God !) 
 I found all well there, my wife and sister expecting us, who 
 with our young friend all join in kind compliments and best 
 respects to yourself and the truly kind and friendly Mrs. Forbes, 
 of whose obliging concern about me I trust I shall never be 
 unmindful. And here I must not omit, as desired by my 
 nephew, to return his best thanks and acknowledgments to the 
 kind and bountiful Mrs. Forbes for the good things she sent 
 him by me, of which we all partook, and the Highland lassie 1 
 
 1 A name I gave to Mrs. Deighton when in Scotland with Mrs. Smith, because 
 good at walking and climbing a hill like any Highlander. — F. 
 
1769] LETTERS ABOUT THE PRINCE, ETC. 247 
 
 too, who presents her best respects. It made her mouth water to f° l - 1939- 
 hear the relation of the memorable Tail-burn expedition, which 15 Aug- 
 you may believe, Sir, entertained the rest of the company. 
 
 Sister Smith and my wife return their best thanks for your 
 obliging present. 
 
 JV.J5.— Mine of the 19th of August [f. 1935] was in 
 return to the above kind letter. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — Burnhall, September 14, 1769. — I thank you 14 Sept. 
 for your last, and particularly for your friendly caution with 
 regard to Sandy, to whose character and all the particulars 
 hinted at in your letter I am not in the least a stranger, having 
 been many a day acquainted with his manoeuvres. Yet after 
 all, without trust, we must make the best use we can of such 
 people in their way. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — September \&th, 1769. — Yours of the 18 Sept. 
 14th instant is now lying before me. I am heart and hand 
 with you in making the best use we can of some certain folks, 
 without trust in their own way. However, I cannot fail in 
 remarking to you that I could easily discover in our common 
 friend an aversion at seeing Sandy but in your presence. A 
 report is current, and prevails here, that Peggie is actually 
 married and very honourably too. Though I most heartily 
 wish for this event, yet I will not believe it till I have it from 
 your hands. I need not tell you how agreeable such a piece of 
 intelligence will prove to our common friend and his valuable 
 connections. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — Barnhall, September %4<th, 1769. — I shall 24 Sept. 
 long as much as you to hear of poor Peggie's being happily 
 married, and if should hear any satisfactory accounts of it, you 
 may depend on sharing in the good news. 
 
 Lady Gask. — October 15, 1769. — My son heard lately that 15 Oct. 
 your favorite, Miss Peggie, is in good health. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — London, November 14, 1769. — This same 14 Nov. 
 scribble is not to go without the satisfaction of telling you that f° 1 ' I94 °' 
 I have very lately heard of your Cousin Peggie's welfare, but 
 
248 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1769 
 
 14 Nov. nothing positive relating to her marriage yet ; and moreover 
 that I have luckily had an opportunity of transmitting to her 
 by a safe hand the two elegant pieces of Cookery 1 you had pro- 
 cured for her which, no doubt, will be acceptable. 
 
 25 Nov. To Bishop Gordon. — Ten thousand thanks for the agreeable 
 
 account of my favorite lady. Do you observe a paragraph 
 from Viterbo ? Let me have your comment upon it. I am 
 glad the two pieces of Cookery have been safely transmitted. 
 November 25, 1769. 
 
 9 Dec. Bishop Gordon. — December 9, 1769. — You tell me, Sir, you 
 want my comment on a late article from Italy. All I can say 
 to it is that the party hath certainly removed his quarters for 
 the present at least, but where gone and for how long time, I 
 have not heard. Time and patience will tell. 
 
 13 Jan. To Bishop Gordon. — January 13, 1770. — You oblige me 
 1770 much by your comment on a late article of intelligence. God 
 be thanked that the party has changed quarters. Let time and 
 patience, as you say, tell the rest, which I will be glad to learn. 
 Have you seen a North Briton extraordinary ! a spirited piece 
 truly, and ends with a threatening of the claymore. 
 
 The letter from Junius to is an extraordinary of ex- 
 
 traordinaries, and makes a great noise here. It shews little 
 respect for dignities. Perhaps it will end in vapour and smoke 
 in your huge city. 
 
 Strange and staring are the fears of some, and the expecta- 
 foi. 1941. tions of others amongst the Goverment folks hereabouts with 
 respect to the present meeting of Parliament. I am an in- 
 different spectator. Conjectures, suspicions, and jealousies 
 prevail. Politics, politics, are the prevailing topic at present 
 in all companies, high and low. 
 
 26 Jan. To Lady Gash. — A curious gentleman in Edinburgh atten- 
 
 tive to public transactions has kept an exact account of the 
 
 1 Two copies of the Narrative of the Escape, etc., as mentioned f. 1924 hujus. 
 — F. 
 
 2 This is apparently his letter of 19th December 1769, containing an address 
 to the King, which created a great sensation. See Letters of Junius, published 
 in 1 81 2, vol. ii. p. 62 et seq. 
 
i77o] LETTERS ABOUT THE PRINCE 249 
 
 amount of all the estates sold and bought in Scotland in the 26 Jan. 
 circle of one year, and they amount to no less a sum than six 
 hundred thousand pounds sterling. O ! O ! O ! Perhaps they 
 will come to a round million in one year. — January 26, 1770. 
 
 Bishop Gordon, — February 2, 1770. — Your presents of 2 Feb. 
 Cookery 1 to Cousin Peggy, and the worthy old gentleman, her 
 neighbour, were delivered, and the latter desires his thanks to 
 be returned for the present ; and I perceive they have thoughts 
 of giving it a new dress as being a composition preferable to 
 anything they have met with of the kind. My old friend tells 
 me honest Peggie is perfectly well and chearful, and is returned 
 to town again ; but not a word does he say of the marriage. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — February 20, 1770. — I am glad the 20 Feb. 
 presents of Cookery came safe to hand. If a new dress appears, 
 could a copy be obtained for a friend ? I would be well 
 pleased to have one. Might it not be fit and proper to trans- 
 mit an account of some of the cruelties committed at a certain 
 time ? A specimen of these you have in A copy of a letter from 
 a Gentleman in London to his friend at Bath, London, September 
 17, 1750, said to be printed at Bath. The ms. was delivered foi. 1942. 
 to one James Bain, a taylor, who, if I mistake not, is married 
 on a daughter of Mr. Bettenham's. It contains truths that 
 can to this day be well vouch 1 d ; and perhaps it might be of use 
 to give this likewise a new dress. Tumet esto judex. I am 
 heartily sorry there is no word of the marriage. I and others 
 long much to hear of it. May it be speedy and happy. Chear 
 me, dear Sir, with good news if you can. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — London, February 26, 1770. — Advice very 26 Feb. 
 lately of Peggie's being well. The new dress of the Cookery 
 shall be attended to, as shall the anecdote of 1750 which you 
 mention. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — March 17, 1770. — God be thanked for 17 March 
 Cousin Peggie's good health. But O ! to know more, what joy 
 would it give me and many others ! 
 
 See note 1 at foot of preceding page. 
 
250 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1770 
 
 17 March A curious gentleman in Edinburgh, etc. (as in the preceeding 
 page). Bankruptcies still prevail in Edinburgh at a very strange 
 and alarming rate. To give you a sketch of them for some few 
 years past. One gave way for £150,000 sterling ; a second for 
 £70,000 sterling ; a third for £50,000 sterling ; a fourth for 
 £16,000 sterling ; a fifth for £20,000 sterling ; a sixth for 
 £50,000 sterling ; and a seventh for 1000 ; besides others for 
 like sums to the two last. God knows where these things will 
 end. Our paper credit [fides ventosa]. These repeated failures 
 in trade, and our increasing luxury, with the high prices for 
 every thing necessary and comfortable in living must undo us 
 at last, and perhaps terminate in a national bankruptcy, con- 
 sideratis consider andis. Talking with some folks on these 
 matters, ' O ! 1 said they, 4 what better would you be of all this ? ' 
 4 Why,** said your friend, 4 1 could suffer with the Philistines. 1 
 If these anecdotes be worthy the attention of our dearest Cousin, 
 foi. 1943. tumet esto judex. More failures in business are still dreaded, as 
 every one is now become jealous of another, and people know 
 not whom to trust. May God amend the times and send us 
 better days. Amen. 
 
 Since writing the above, I have discovered by an odd chance, 
 that one great dealer in Edinburgh is on the brink of tumbling 
 down, that, to use the words given me, 6 he is tottering on one 
 leg, and that nothing less than a miracle can save him from 
 giving way."' In a word, it is strongly dreaded by those of 
 skill in these matters, that before Whitsun wind blow several 
 considerable dealers will fail. 
 
 Some staunch Whigs and parity folks hereabouts begin to 
 use very strange and uncommon language : — ' that they are 
 
 heartily wearied of the G n succession, being loaded with 
 
 despotism, oppression, etc. ; and drowned in luxury, and a 
 total debauchery of manners; that therefore they wish for 
 a change, even for a trial of those that were dismist, to better 
 themselves, as they then imagined, etc."' You see with what 
 boldness the minority possessses people. The hearts of men 
 are in the hands of God, and he can turn them whithersoever 
 he pleases. There are some despairing folks amongst us, with 
 whom I do not like to converse on a certain delicate subject. 
 
1770] AFFAIRS IN SCOTLAND AND LONDON 251 
 
 I chuse to hope and not to despond, waiting the will of God l 7 March 
 with patience and submission. 
 
 I have read the Remonstrance from the Livery, etc., of 
 London, and a bold and daring piece it is. What ! to quote 
 the despotism of Charles and James, and that, too, as inferiour 
 in kind to the present management ! Comparisons are odious. 
 On what side I mean, I leave you to judge. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — London, March 23, 1770. — I must tell you, 23 March 
 sir, that Cousin Peggie was lately very well, and, I believe, is 
 well disposed to change her condition, provided a suitable match foi. 1944. 
 should offer ; and who can tell how soon ? She 's so lively and 
 active. Peggie writes sensibly and strong, not like an idle 
 sipper of tea. 
 
 W. S., London, March 23, 1770. — Yesterday we had a great 
 mob in town upon account of Wilkes. At night the windows 
 were illuminated, and many hundreds were broke to pieces that 
 were not so. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — You rejoice my heart with the agreeable 5 A P ril 
 accounts you give of Cousin Peggie, particularly that she 
 writes sensibly and strong, which I would gladly know, if I 
 may be indulged that honour and pleasure. What is this 
 whisper that occasions such a noise and bustle ? 
 
 April 5, 1770. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — London, April 19, 1770. — If I should 19 April 
 happily pick up any crumbs of comfort, be sure they shall be 
 sent. Peggie's letter, which I mentioned to you, was a family 
 affair concerning an upper servant which she wanted. 
 
 The state of publick credit in your part of the world appears 
 to be not a little alarming. Indeed, things on every side seem 
 to be tending to dissolution. It may with equal justice be 
 said, Oh, temporal Oh, mores! 
 
 The opposition doth not seem to abate at all of its rigour, 
 and God only knows to what lengths it may be carried. But 
 surely such boldness, I should say impudence and scurrility in 
 writing, were never heard or thought of. Speaking of these 
 
252 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1770 
 
 19 April things, perhaps it may make you smile when I tell you Cousin 
 Peggie has the curiosity to see the publick papers, and has 
 them accordingly sent to her, even that superlatively scurrilous 
 and abusive paper called the Whisperer. ""Tis amazing the 
 Government should suffer these factious papers to come abroad, 
 foi. 1945. which are the grossest outrage against all order, decency and 
 decorum, a scandal and reproach to civil society. But this 
 evil hath been fostering many years. 
 
 2 May To Bishop Gordon. — May 2, 1770. — Hereby I give you the 
 opportunity of saluting a valuable, favorite friend, whom I 
 commonly call by the name of the Elect Lady, the Honble. 
 Mrs. Mary Nairne, sister to Lady Gask. Her ladyship will 
 inform you fully of the business she is most piously going about, 
 and will readily have the pleasure of seeing you in her return. 
 May God be with her, and bless her laudable endeavours with 
 the wisrTd for success. 
 
 With pleasure I inform you that a lady of my acquaintance 
 has a fine pearl necklace, 1 of six rows round the neck, and of 
 two down the breast, which being at a loss how to dispose of, 
 as it is valued by some at no less than 500 guineas, my bosom 
 friend suggested to have it given in a present to Cousin Peggie 
 upon the happy event of entering into the conjugal state. 
 This proposal was so well received, that the lady anxiously 
 wishes to be quit of it in that very shape. 4 But O ! ' said 
 she, 4 how shall it be transmitted ? ' 4 Leave that to me," said 
 a friend of yours, 4 and, God willing, it shall be carefully con- 
 veyed to your heart's desire. 1 Agreed accordingly. Do you 
 then, dear Sir, make more than one happy in having this same 
 valuable gem to pass through your hands, valuable indeed in 
 foi. 1946. more senses than one, as it was once the property of the royal 
 family of Scotland about the year 1500. I need say no more, 
 but that the method of conveyance is not to be made known 
 to the lady or any one else. 
 
 I am delighted that Peggie has the public papers, a most 
 notable, and to her a most useful amusement. 
 
 1 See ff. 1767, 2004. 
 
1770] A FINE PEARL NECKLACE 253 
 
 Copy, etc., found among the papers of a gentleman 
 after his decease in 1770. 
 
 My Lord, Tho 1 this letter hath so long heen kept in secret, 
 and hid from the publick, I give you my honour it is genuine. 
 It was with great difficulty I obtained a copy of it, and tho" 
 I am not a perfect master of the French language, I attempted 
 the translation of it. And if it is not so correct or sublime in 
 the English tongue as in the original, yet will in a great 
 measure discover the real sentiment of his Prussian Majesty to 
 the unhappy family of Stewart. 
 
 The King of Prussia's Letter to his Royal 
 Highness, Prince Charles. 
 
 Much beloved Cousin, — I can no longer, my dear Prince, 12 Jan. 
 deny myself the satisfaction of congratulating you on your 1747 
 safe arrival in France, and tho 1 the connection I have with the fol 1947. 
 reigning family did not permit me to rejoice too openly at 
 the progress of your arms, I can assure you, on the word of 
 a king, I was sincerely touched at your misfortunes and under 
 the deepest apprehensions for the safety of your person. 
 
 All Europe was astonished at the greatness of your enter- 
 prize, for tho 1 Alexander and other heroes have conquered 
 kingdoms with inferior armies, you are the only one who ever 
 engaged in such an attempt without any. 
 
 Voltaire, who of all poets is best able to write, is, above all 
 men, indebted to your Highness for having at length furnished 
 him with a subject worthy of his pen, which has all the requi- 
 sites of an Epick poem, except a happier event. However, 
 tho' fortune was your foe, Great Britain, and not your Highness, 
 are the only losers by it, as the difficulties you have undergone 
 have only served to discover those talents and virtues which 
 have gained you the admiration of all mankind, and even the 
 esteem of those amongst your enemies in whom every spark 
 of virtue is not totally extinct. 
 
 The Princess, who has all the curiosity of her sex, is desirous 
 
254 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1770 
 
 Jan. of seeing the features of a heroe of whom she has heard so 
 747 much, so that you have it in your power to oblige both her 
 
 and me in sending us your picture by the Count de , who 
 
 is in his return to Berlin. And be assured, I shall esteem it 
 the most valuable acquisition I ever made. 
 
 You are frequently the subject of my conversation with 
 General Keith, whom I have had the good fortune to engage 
 1948- in my service ; and besides his consummate knowledge in 
 military affairs, he is possessed of a thousand aimable qualities. 
 Yet nothing endears him to me so entirely as his entertaining 
 the same sentiments with regard to your Royal Highness that 
 I do. Was I differently situated I would give you more. 
 Potsdam, January 12, 1747. 
 
 May T[oni\ B[owdler\ to whom I had wrote (as in f. 1942). — Bath, 
 770 May 5, 1770. — Your description of the waterfall near Moffat 
 makes one wish to see it. Is it far out of the road to your 
 great city, if Fortune should ever carry a body that way ? 
 It is a melancholy account you give me of bankruptcies and 
 the like. At London, too, and in many parts of this kingdom, 
 there is a spirit of rebellion gone forth that seems to threaten 
 great things. You may live to see the doctrine of resistance, 
 and of the power of the people brought to perfection. Perish 
 with the Philistines, say you ! Be it so ; but I doubt it may 
 be worse than that. Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek may 
 join with the Philistines, and all against the poor Israelites. 
 The last times draw on apace, and such damnable papers are 
 printed against religion, against God, and that, too, unpunished, 
 that we have reason to fear he may draw the sword against 
 a country whose iniquity seems to be almost full. I grow 
 old and have pretty well done with the world ; but I feel for 
 those that are to come after me. They may see sad days. I 
 have been reading a new book on the Prophecies, by one Mr. 
 Hardy, who says the Millenium will not begin till 1971. It 
 is a long time to wait. 1 
 
 May Bishop Gordon. — London, May 23, 1770. — In your last, you 
 say you give me the opportunity of saluting a valuable, favorite 
 friend, but that opportunity, alas ! was not bestowed upon me, 
 
1770] THE KING OF PRUSSIAN LETTER 
 
 255 
 
 for the lady sent your letter to me by Mr. Conacher (at whose 23 May 
 house, it seems, she lodged), desiring him to tell me I should f° l - r 949 
 see her the next day. But the next morning Mr. Conacher 
 came with the lady^ compliments, to acquaint me that she 
 was obliged to set off that day, which is all I can tell you 
 of the Elect Lady. May God be with her, and bless and 
 prosper all her laudable endeavours. I honour her and all her 
 connexions. 
 
 Mr. Bowdler and concerns, the last time I heard of them 
 (thank God !) were all well ; and so was Cousin Peggie too, 
 for I heard of her not long ago, but not a word of the wedding. 
 
 I am apt to think I mistake in imagining the jewel was to 
 come to me by the hand of your favourite friend. However 
 that may be, I am humbly of opinion that the noble present 
 would be better delayed to a more seasonable occasion. 
 
 Bishop Gordon, London. — May 29, 1770. — The copy of a 29 May 
 letter you sent me, dear Sir, you will pardon me if I suspect 
 it to be spurious, for to me it seems to want internal characters 
 to establish its authenticity, tho 1 the letter altogether be 
 prettily enough wrote. However some use may perhaps be 
 made of it. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — June 2,1770. — You may remember I 2 June 
 said nothing of a copy of a letter I transmitted to you. In a 
 word, what you say confirms me in my opinion of it. 
 
 L[aurence] 0[liphant]. — July 29, 1770. — I heard lately that 2 9 J ul y 
 Cousin Peggy was well, much in company now with the great 
 folks, and received all the honours from them she could desire. 
 
 Bishop Gordon, London. — July 28, 1770. — Pray, Sir, have 28 July 
 you seen lately in any of your newspapers a letter from the fol. 1950. 
 K[ing] of Prussia to Prince Charles ? It has been printed, I 
 am told, in two or three papers here and is mightily liked. 
 
 G. C. — October 9, 1770. — Yes, I have had a very agreeable 9 Oct. 
 letter from Mr. Putei wherein he desires his most respectful 
 compliments to you, and commends himself and his affairs to 
 
256 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 9 Oct. our prayers. His friends to whom he was addressed give him 
 most promising hopes of success in his mercantile engagements, 
 and does not doubt but in ten or twelve months he shall give 
 me the pleasing accounts of his worthy employer and himself 
 being as successful as they can wish. He met with his friend 
 at the place appointed, who delivered him his credentials, 
 written in his employer's own hand. His letter bears date the 
 21st of August, and he was to sail the first week of September. 
 He writes prettily, and much like a Christian, as you shall see 
 when we meet. He writes the French as easily as the English. 
 I am greatly interested in his success, you may believe, and he 
 gives me the hopes of seeing him in Stirlingshire in due time. 
 No news of the political world, he says, except that the Coffee- 
 house politicians of the nation (Williamites) loudly exclaim 
 somewhat in the style of Junius. 
 
 3 Nov. Bishop Goj'don. — London, November 3, 1770. — I could have 
 wished before I wrote to have been able to tell you I had heard of 
 Cousin Peggie. But indeed she has been such a rambler of late 
 that I cannot wonder at it. Nor, indeed, can I say I am sorry for 
 it, for exercise and little tours will be of service to her health, 
 and I know she is advised to it. However, now winter is setting 
 in, I shall be in expectation every day to hear of her. Mr. 
 Maitland from Dunkerk has been some weeks on this side the 
 water. He came over with poor Mr. Haliburton, who, it seems, 
 is but in a very indifferent state of health. I have conversed 
 with Maitland several times. He is a very sensible, well- 
 foh 1951. behaved man, and hath seen a good deal of the world. Yes, 
 you may guess how the King of Prussia's letter came into the 
 papers, and perhaps guess right to. 
 
 Faction here seems to be strongly on the ferment again. 
 God only knows when it will abate or where reside. As to 
 peace or war, the politicians at present seem to be much 
 divided. Be it as it may, it must greatly distress the 
 ministry. But I am going out of my depth, therefore it 
 will be wise in me to stop. 
 
 N.B. — Having sent a copy of the King of Prussia's 
 letter to Bishop Gordon (as in f. 1949) I began to guess 
 how it came into both English and Scots newspapers, 
 and into Magazines too. 
 
177 1] DEATH OF MR. WAGSTAFFE 257 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — London, November 26, 1770. — Though I 26 Nov. 
 have nothing material to write since my last, yet the excellent 
 lady who condescends to takes the trouble of this, asking me if 
 I had anything to write to you, I would not neglect the occa- 
 sion of telling you that Peggie was not returned from the 
 country a month ago. Yet at the same time there was no 
 doubt (thank God !) of her being in good health, for she is 
 still lively and active and ready for employment : and now 
 troubles seem to be rising in the world more and more, I 
 think it not improbable but she may again find occasion for 
 the exercise of her talents. May God direct and preserve 
 her ! 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — London, December 4, 1770. — I would fain 4 Dec. 
 hope through God's goodness that your enemies will at last 
 be defeated in their cruel devices and malicious attempts, 1 for 
 their intemperate zeal, I am persuaded, will not meet with 
 much encouragement from the Government ; for if we really 
 have any government, it doth not appear at least to be atten- 
 tive to such matters. They have other business to mind, which 
 more nearly concerns themselves, hesitating about war, and a fol. 1952. 
 party clamorous and watching every motion to take advantage 
 of distressing them. Such is the present situation. Yes, 
 your Cousin's jauntings I hope will do her good. Exercise, we 
 all know, is absolutely necessary to health. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — London, January 12, 1771. — I am sorry 12 Jan. 
 that our hearty gratulations of the New Year, and sincere 1771 
 wishes of many more happy ones to yourself and good Mrs. 
 Forbes, should be accompanied with the doleful news of the 
 death of my old and very dear, dear friend, Mr. Wagstaffe, 
 who departed this life full of days and full of honour and all 
 true worth, on the 3d ult. in a fit of apoplexy, which was 
 notified to me by his patron, who seems a good deal affected by 
 the loss, speaking of him in terms of high esteem and regard. 
 But God's will be done and His name ever glorified, who hath 
 permitted it so to be. The good man departed will be the 
 
 The Buchan persecution. 
 VOL. III. 
 
 R 
 
258 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1771 
 
 12 Jan. gainer in being removed to the mansions of peace and rest ; 
 and our temporary loss, tho" grievous to poor mortals, will be 
 compensated in the reflections on the rare virtues and illustrious 
 and edifying example of our dear brother, now happy, I doubt 
 not, in the society of the faithful departed to which society 
 may we who survive prepare ourselves by constant and assiduous 
 endeavours to be united. Faxit Deus ! You may perhaps, Sir, 
 see an account of my late dear friend's death in the publick 
 papers. 
 
 26 jar. To Bishop Gordon. — January 26, 1771. — Ah ! for the death 
 of Mr. W agstaffe ! Woe 's me ! for the faithful are minished 
 from among the children of men. Requiescat in pace, beatamque 
 obtineat resurrectionem et nosmet simus parati in adventum 
 Domini, in nomine Dei, Patris, Filii, Spiritusque Sancti. Amen 
 foi. 1953. e i ji menm What is become of his library ? For I know from 
 those that have seen it that he had a very fine one. Is any 
 one desired to be in his place ? If so, I may humbly suppose 
 Mr. Maitland to be the person. I doubt the Cookery will not 
 now appear in a new shape. I most heartily sympathize with 
 the patron, whose return to the old place proves afflicting to 
 some, particularly to friends at Gask, who ever remember you 
 and your bosom friend in the kindest mainer. As you hinted, 
 an account of the death appeared soon after receipt of yours in 
 one of our papers well and wisely worded. God in mercy look 
 upon us. 
 
 War appears now to be unavoidable. What do you think, 
 Sir, of the 7000 troops to be embarked at Embden without the 
 destination being known ? A gentleman the other day asked 
 your friend what he took to be the meaning of such an em- 
 barkation ? 6 One thing, 1 said he, ' appears to be plain and 
 evident, viz., that the King of Prussia will force a war to com- 
 mence, tho" 1 others should be ever so much against it : and that 
 wherever the milk is to be found he will be sure to take off the 
 cream.'' 
 
 9 May To Bishop Gordon. — Friends of Gask are ever mindful of 
 you and your bosom friend. We are very desirous to hear of 
 Cousin Peggie. "lis pity she cannot improve circumstances 
 
1770] EMIGRATION FROM SCOTLAND 259 
 
 and differences amongst friends to the recovery of her own 26 Jan. 
 patrimony which has been so long and so unjustly withheld 
 from her. May she live and be happy ! Perhaps you have fol. 1954. 
 heard that Mr. Douglas has settled upon John Hay of Restal- 
 rig £\ 00 sterling a year during life, a genteel and most season- 
 able supply. Two thousand emigrants are preparing for their 
 departure from the Isle of Sky to some one part of our foreign 
 settlements, perhaps the Island of St. John. They are all of 
 the estate of Sir Alexander MacDonald, who may chance to be 
 a proprietor of land without tenants. That they may go as a 
 formed colony a parochial preacher and a thorough-bred surgeon 
 are to go along with them. They have already subscribed 
 dC2000 sterling for the purpose. Last year 800 went from 
 Argileshire and about 500 from the island of Islay, and others 
 are still making ready to emigrate, which, if not timeously and 
 wisely looked to, may terminate in depopulating Old Caledon ! 
 All, all this is owing to the exorbitant rents for land. In a 
 late auction at Edinburgh the following uncommon article 
 appeared, A Collection of very scarce and valuable pamphlets from 
 1500 to the 'present time, collected in 9 volumes folio, 46 volumes 
 quarto, and 113 volumes octavo. Communicate this to Mr. 
 Bowdler and let him compare notes, as he told me he himself 
 had a vast collection of pamphlets. The above sold at only fol. 1955. 
 between ^9 and £\§ sterling. May 9, 1771. Is Mr. Mait- 
 land like to succeed Mr. W[agstafle] ? 
 
 From John Farquharson of Aldlerg. 
 Dunherque, April 30, 1771. 
 
 Your old friend has made this year several large excursions, 3° April 
 and has been nobly entertain'd wherever he went. He keeps 
 his health very well, wou'd be glad to see you and some others 
 of his friends, and only wants the opportunity of giving you 
 convincing proof of his regard. You may assure his mother . 
 he is not that ungrateful, debauched child he was represented 
 to her. He has now fairly turned physician, and has made 
 this year several wondrous cures, particularly one of a princess 
 looked upon incurable. This has been of service to him, adds 
 greatly to his character, and has given him the name of the 
 
260 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 30 April miraculous doctor ; for he uses no kind of drugs known to 
 other doctors, and yet so simple is his cure that everybody 
 may have it. I 'm sorry I have no kind of news to divert you 
 with — only the French king and his Parliaments are on very 
 bad terms, but he will certainly get the better as he has 
 200,000 horned beasts at his command who will stick as close 
 to him as a burr wou'd stick to your President's parliament- 
 peruick. Received May 29, 1771. 
 
 N.B. — Transmitted copy of the above to Bishop Gordon, 
 with some limits, to have it inserted in some of the news- 
 papers at London. May 31, 1771. Time will explain this. 
 
 29 June Bishop Gordon. — London, June 29, 1771. — I begin to think 
 Wilkes will carry his election for sheriff, tho' I am apt to 
 believe had not a ministerial letter appeared, which is now 
 printed in the papers, he would have lost it. The ferment is 
 great in the city. But the poll will determine this day or 
 Monday. The copy of the letter from abroad pleased me much, 
 but I could not see a way to introduce the contents of it properly 
 into the newspapers. Besides, considering the times we live in, 
 I feared it might be turned into ridicule. It would have been 
 foi. 1956. throwing pearls before swine. Peggie was not long ago well 
 and hearty, tho', I fear, poor girl, her family does not think of 
 her so much as they ought to do. 
 
 23 July To Bishop Gordon— July 23, 1771. — Mr. John Hay of 
 Restalrig is now apud Edinam. He has not yet called for your 
 friend, who will by no means voluntier. Andrew Lumisdaine is 
 soon to follow, which perhaps you know from his connections 
 in your great city. Many are sore troubled (non ego) with 
 these matters. O for some crumbs of comfort to some of these 
 many ! Do these two move with leave asked and given ? 
 
 24 Aug. Bishop Gordon. — London, August 24, 1771. — Cousin Peg has 
 been some time at Pisa, but whether she has left that place 
 now I know not. But she was well when I heard last. I don't 
 wish Mr. Maitland to accept the invitation you speak of. I 
 think him much better where he is to be at a call. I hope the 
 worthy family of Gask were all well when you heard of them 
 
1772] PRINCE CHARLES AT PISA 261 
 
 last. Pray let us be respectfully remembred to them when you 24 Aug. 
 write next. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — August 31, 1771. — Ten thousand 31 Aug. 
 thanks for your intelligence of Pisa, which will refresh some 
 friends. Those of Gask are ever mindful of you and yours. 
 Your good wishes shall be duly remembred. Yes, dear Sir, 
 you judge well in the matter of Mr. Maitland. Were he to 
 accept, Taodunus has positively declared he would claim him as 
 his presbyter, which would ruine poor Mr. M. to all intents and 
 purposes. Causa sciential patet. If I rightly remember I men- 
 tioned this in some former letter. 
 
 L[ady] G[ask]. — November 4, 1771. — Tho 1 1 have little to say 4 Nov. 
 I write this to answer your demand. Sir John came and dined 
 here in his way from Machany to Duplin. He told Mr. 
 Ofliphant] that his friends had obtained leave for his coming 
 over without his asking it, desired that he should go to Edin- 
 burgh and present himself to the people there in power. 
 Upon his arrival he writ a card to know when it would be 
 agreeable that he should wait upon the Justice Clerk. Was 
 answered that he would be glad to see him next day to break- 
 fast, where he went and found company with him. He was 
 politely received and nothing passed more than if he had never 
 been out of the country. At the other houses just the same. f° l - I 9S7- 
 He proposed going back to Paris about this time, and dispose 
 of a lodging he had furnished, etc., as he wanted to fix one foot 
 before lifting another, and see if the country and his reception 
 in it were to his mind. He proposed seeing you ; spoke as 
 became him of a certain person, and that he had lived regu- 
 larly since the affair that parted them. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — London, January 28, 1772. — I must tell 2 8jan. 
 you, Sir, that Sir John did not call upon me in passing. How- 1772 
 ever I have learned that the liberty indulged him was owing to 
 the Duke of Queensberry. Yes, I heard his master had been 
 at Paris and looked exceeding well and fresh after having 
 travelled a thousand miles in seven days. I know you are 
 always glad to hear of Cousin Peggie's welfare, therefore have 
 
262 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1772 
 
 28 Jan. the pleasure to tell you I was furnished with a kind remem- 
 brance from her not long ago, when she was very well. 
 
 7 March To Bishop Gordon. — March 1th, 1772, — I like it not that 
 Sir John did not call for you. I heartily wish he may be steel 
 to the back, for I doubt him greatly. Your anecdote of 1000 
 miles and yet looking well and fresh was and still is a refreshing 
 cordial that gives comfort to several friends, specially consider- 
 ing the shortness of time, a plain indication of vigour and 
 activity, the increase and success of which I heartily pray for. 
 God be thanked for the welfare of Cousin Peggie. Continue, 
 Sir, those agreable accounts every time it is in your power. I 
 condole with you on the death of Mr. Fitzherbert. It would 
 appear from your few words of him that he was a friend indeed. 
 Wo's me ! for the faithful are minished from among the 
 children of men, and are much upon the decrease. 
 
 13 Feb. Isle of Sky, February 13, 1772, died the hospitable, dis- 
 interested and worthy Alexander MacDonald of Kingsborrow, 
 aged 83. 
 
 Let all the world say what they can, 
 He liv'd and died an honest man. 
 
 21 March Bishop Gordon. — London, March 21, 1772. — Cousin Peggie 
 was lately very well, and was so kind as to send me a most 
 obliging remembrance in a letter I received from one of her 
 family. 
 
 foi. 1958. Bishop Gordon. — London, April 28, 1772. — Till Sunday last, 
 28 April an( j no j. before, had I absolute certainty of a late interesting 
 event. God grant it may be followed with every happy and 
 truly desirable consequence. It is certainly what one of the 
 parties has been for some time very desirous of. My most 
 respectful compliments to Lady G. and the family. I know 
 they will have had undoubted intelligence of the affair before 
 this reaches you. 
 
 5 May To Bishop Gordon. — May 5, 1772. — Ten thousand thanks 
 for your most comfortable intelligence. Tho 1 I believed the 
 
1772] MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE 263 
 
 interesting event in part, I suspended my firm belief of it till 5 May 
 I should hear from you. I transmitted the intelligence 
 instantly, as I suppose it may be the first well-grounded one, 
 and Lady G. and the family, but you shall know right soon, as 
 I have plenty of franks. I most heartily join in your prayer. 
 Several inquiries have made about the age, the person, the 
 looks, the fortune, of the young lady, and whether or not 
 Popish. Forgive, dear Sir, such questions, proceeding more 
 from a profound regard than from curiosity. I hope you will 
 in due time inform about these particulars with your own con- 
 venience, which no doubt will prove very refreshing and com- 
 fortable to sterling friends. 
 
 L[ady] G[ask]. — May 9, 1772. — The good Bishop says we have 9 May 
 
 got intelligence by this time of marriage. I do assure 
 
 you it is only from him by your means that we know anything 
 certain about it, except what everybody must know. I would 
 be glad to know her Christian name, as you know there is one 
 expects a little body soon. I leave it to you to find out the 
 name if you can. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — May 11, 1772. — My very dear Sir. — For « May 
 God's sake gratify the laudable curiosity, not only of the 
 worthy lady, whose handwriting you have enclosed, but like- 
 wise of others who are desirous to give the name to daughters foi. 1959. 
 when they appear. The more particulars you give of the 
 delightful subject, still the better, for I am agreably teazed 
 with many questions from sterling friends as to looks, person, 
 fortune, sirname, age, and whether or not Popish. I did not 
 think of writing at present, as I wrote by Mr. B[row]n who is 
 to be in London soon. But you see the pressing necessity of 
 giving you this trouble in which, give me leave to say, I have 
 a particular pleasure. I hope Penncmfs Tour is come to hand. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — London, June 4, 1772. — Within these two 4 June 
 hours I have been enabled to inform you that the Lady's name 
 is Louisa, and a most amiable princess by all accounts she is. 
 May she ever be happy and make those so with whom she is 
 connected. Pray my best respects and every kind wish to the 
 
264 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1772 
 
 4 June worthy lady who has been so anxious to know the name, and 
 to all that worthy family, whom I love and esteem. 
 
 From John Farquharson qfAldlerg. 
 Dunkerque, April 25, 1772. 
 25 April I was favoured with your letter, which puzzled me not a little 
 to get it read. I see you still keep some of your Norland lingo. 
 I gave it to read to a particular friend of mine here who could 
 not make it out. At last he swore by G — it was a shame for 
 me to keep correspondence with a person that cou'd not spell 
 better. But what was his surprize when I told him the writer 
 of the letter was not only a good English scholar but a Latinist 
 and a Grecian. He then swore that language is only fit for 
 the Devil. You surprize me not a little with regard to my 
 fair Cousin and Amazon. Tell her that I say 'tis a shame for 
 a person of her capacity to be fifty years in the right and then 
 turn wrong. But we have a proverb that people are twice 
 bairns. I believe this may be her case, or she is fond of 
 foi. i960. Solomon's example to doat after strange men as he did after 
 strange women in his old age. O Nanny ! Nanny ! who would 
 have thought it ? I wish she does not, like Solomon, adore 
 strange Gods ; for I never knew any yet that set justice aside, 
 but turned indifferent about their Creator. What have I to 
 tell you but that that very man she has abandoned is just now 
 married to a German princess, tho' not of much money, yet of 
 very good blood as any of the buggs ever had their legs aur. 
 This you may depend is truth. Her name and family you shall 
 have soon. So this will be adding an article, you know when. 
 I had almost lost this winter my poor old caillich by a fall 
 she got from the top to the bottom of the stair. She was 
 greatly hurt, but, thank God, now on the way of recovery, tho' 
 slowly. Otherwise she and I keep health pretty well consider- 
 ing our years. We have had a very great mortality in this 
 town all this winter, and it continues still. But, thank God, 
 the Scots bodies are teuch and hold out. 'Tis only amongst 
 the flabby Flamans and silly French. My poor half bruised 
 caillach joins me most heartily in compliments to yourself and 
 lady, and as sure as a candle is a candle, I am yours to serve 
 you while Johxy Farquharson. 
 
1772] MARRIAGE AT MACERATI 
 
 265 
 
 From the same. — Dunkerque, May 22, 1772. 
 
 Tho' I wrote you lately by a friend of mine by the way of 22 May 
 Aberdeen, which I hope is come safe to hand ere now, yet upon 
 seeing a letter from Rome my fingers took such an itching to 
 write again that I behoved to obey or to cut them off. And 
 rather than lose them, bad as they are, I took up my quill. No 
 doubt you have heard that the Chevalier de St. George, or as foi. 1961. 
 some of his followers here call him, King Charles the Third, has 
 been married with a daughter of the Prince of Stolberg's. Now 
 I design to make you laugh with the whole ceremony, which was 
 as great as that of a prince indeed. The Chevalier with my 
 Lord Carryll and five servants left Rome incog., and came to 
 Macerati, from whence my Lord Carryll set out for that holy 
 place, Loretto, where he received the princess, an amiable lady 
 of twenty years of age, and brought her to Macerati, where 
 they were married by the Bishop thereof on Good Friday — the 
 better day the better deed. They stayed there till Easter 
 Sunday at night, when they set off, and next day came to 
 the palace of the Count de Spada, whose brother is in the 
 Chevalier's service, where they stayed one day and arrived in 
 Rome the next. 
 
 Their entry into Rome was as follows : first, four couriers, 
 the Chevalier's post chaise, then the princess's coach and six, 
 followed by two other post chaises, the Chevalier and the 
 princess in their coach, followed by two coaches and six with 
 his attendants, then two coaches and six with the Cardinal's 
 attendants. The confluence of people was surprizing at the 
 cavalcade. 
 
 The Cardinal York paid a visit to the Princess next morning, 
 had a conference with her for an hour, and made her a present 
 of a gold snuff-box set with diamonds of great value. But 
 what shall I tell you ? The outside, beautiful as it was, was 
 nothing in comparison of the beauty within. Oh ! my dear 
 Lord ! it contained an order upon his banker to pay her down 
 forty thousand Roman crowns, near equal to ten thousand 
 pounds sterling, with a settlement of four thousand pounds f° l - I 9 62 - 
 sterling a year upon her. What think you of this affair ? 
 She is pretty and young, he strong and vigorous. They 
 may produce a race of pretenders that never will finish, 
 
266 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1772 
 
 22 May which the French will be always playing upon every quarrel. 
 Crescant lites. Honi soit qui mal y pense, which is the motto 
 of the Star. Sandy Blair wishes you well and desires his kind 
 compliments. He is sorry you could not go to see his wife 
 with that black clouts dangling at their lugs. I hope to see 
 these black rags take another hue, and then they'll not be so 
 terrible to honest men. I cannot say I like the colour of 
 black myself, as the old devil is always represented in black, 
 and he is enough to frighten bairns. Don't grudge the 
 postage, for whether you do or not I must be always pelting 
 at you with my ugly scraull, ill spelt and worse connected. 
 But what can a man bring out but what is within, or as the 
 French say, Mauvis arbres ne produite de bonnes fruites. But 
 pray what was the use of all this precalition, when I'm sure 
 you wouldn't grudge the postage to hear that I and my little 
 cailach are well. She deafs me in her din about your civilities 
 to her. And now I must give yourself and lady her blessings 
 and compliments, otherwise I sud hae my lugs pouked. Allow 
 me to join mine. Be assured I wish you well and have reason 
 foi. 1963. so to do, for I 'm one of those antiquated fellows that never 
 forget a good turn. Mind me kindly to Mr. and Mrs. Lawson 
 and to little Cheapie, and I ever am, commes il faut, my dear 
 Lord, your Lordships most humble servant, while 
 
 JOHNY FARQJJHARSON. 
 
 P.S. — "Lis whispered about here that the Courts of France 
 and Spain have settled four hundred thousand livres a year 
 upon him on account of this marriage ; and I really believe 
 there is a settlement made. — Adieu. 
 
 N.B. — I sent a true copy of the two preceeding letters 
 and of the postscript to L[aurence] 0[liphant], Esquire, 
 from whom I had the following return. 
 
 8 June Gash, June 8, 1772. 
 
 I am very much obliged to you for your long and agreeable 
 letter, and write this with my thanks, and to let you know that 
 my wife was safely delivered of a son, after an easy labour, this 
 day between one and two. The child appears thriving, and 
 the mother is as well as can be expected. He is to be named 
 Charles to-morrow, and an oak bough to be his chief ornament. 
 
1772] THE WIFE OF PRINCE CHARLES 267 
 
 I know the namefather likes the boys best, therefore, will not 8 June 
 grudge that his royal consort does not get a name daughter 
 till next occasion. Pray remember all of us here in the most 
 kind manner first time you write to the Bishop, and if he will foi. 1964- 
 offer felicitations in the proper manner, and acquaint of this 
 trifling circumstance of my child, it will be vastly obliging, for 
 I know of no direct correspondence or I should not be wanting 
 on so happy, interesting, and much wish'd for occasion. 
 Remember us kindly to Lady Stewart and all other acquaint- 
 ances that fall in your way, etc. 
 
 N.B. — I send off a copy of the above letter, and like- 
 wise a copy of John Farquharson's second letter from the 
 words, 1 Now I design to make you laugh,' to these words, 
 6 Motto of the Star, 1 inclusive, adding Joints postscript, to 
 Bishop Gordon in London. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — London, May 30, 1772. — Having this op- 30 May 
 portunity by a private hand recommended by Miss Keith, I would 
 not delay answering your last, in part at least, tho' I cannot 
 tell you the lady's Christian name. But you shall know it, 
 God willing, the very post after I know it myself, which I am 
 in expectation of every day — probably by the next mail. The 
 lady is a fine person, well-turned, rather tall, exceedingly 
 amiable in her disposition. Fortune we want not ; sirname, 
 Home ; age about 25. Her grandmother, the daughter of the 
 Earl of Ailesbury Bruce, married Thomas Home, prince of 
 Stolberg, a very ancient and respectable family in Thuringia. 
 The lady, I am apt to believe, is of the Romish communion, but foi. 1965. 
 I am informed is no bigot. She is related to several of the 
 English nobility, particularly the Dukes of Montague, Rich- 
 mond, Chandos, and the Duke of Buccleugh. This you are to 
 take, sir, as the best information I am capable of giving you at 
 present. 
 
 I thank you for the use of Pennant which you have greatly 
 improved ; for I have a great delight in natural history. But 
 the man himself I don't like ; I mean, neither his religion nor 
 his politicks. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — June 15, 1772. — I am glad that my 15 June 
 
268 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1772 
 
 strictures upon Pennant could add in the least to your enter- 
 tainment. I imagined, indeed, his religion and politics would 
 not be to your good liking. 
 
 28 July To Bishop Gordon. — July 28, 1772. — A friend lately invented 
 two new toasts, viz., God bless Louisa Horxe and Jock in the 
 han cellar, and God bless and reward the lad that has been so 
 kind to Louisa Horxe. The former of these appears to have been 
 
 somewhat prophetical, as a gentleman lately arrived from R 
 
 declares he had the honour not only to see, but likewise to 
 talk with the amiable Louisa, and that it is his opinion she 
 is pregnant. All glory be to God for all his mercies. Amen,. 
 
 Lately we had in our newspapers, Extract of a Letter from 
 Rome, May 22, 1772, taken from your London papers. 
 Methinks I can guess the hand that directed this publication. 
 But the publishers made only seven carriages in the cavalcade 
 by omitting the two coaches and six with the principal person's 
 attendants, which made nine in all, and which, if I rightly 
 remember, was in the copy transmitted. But if not, then the 
 transmitter is to be blamed. However, the directing friend 
 has been careful to make one remarkable alteration which turns 
 out to be a most excellent and seasonable improvement ; viz., 
 in place of Crescant Utes, he has been attentive to insert 
 foi. 1966 Crescant laete, meaning literally and pointedly, May they 
 increase fruitfully. Which when a friend of yours suggested to 
 some folks they were ready to laugh at it as a sally or flight of 
 his own ; but he referred them to their dictionaries, and then 
 they saw the justice and propriety of the observation, and 
 became extremely fond of it as a rare curiosity of its kind. 
 And now Crescant Icete is become a new toast with some. 
 
 The last week was a mad one with us here, occasioned by our 
 races. We had no fewer than four or five diversions every day. 
 We will not think as we ought to do, though our poor country 
 be bleeding at every vein in the article of circulation. For 
 some time past if a nobleman or gentleman of the first estate 
 in Scotland had been in Edinburgh to borrow 100 guineas, he 
 would not have got even that small sum in hard cash from either 
 of the two public banks or from any banker, such has been the 
 inexpressible run upon them all for cash. The South Sea was 
 
1772] FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES IN SCOTLAND 269 
 
 a joke in comparison of the present convulsion. For in that 28 July 
 the landed interest was mostly concerned ; but now trade and 
 commerce, agriculture and manufactures are deeply plunged 
 and suffer greatly. There is still a general stagnation in 
 business with us. The shopkeepers in Edinburgh may shut up 
 shop for some time to come. About 150 charges of horning 
 have been lately issued out from Edinburgh into the country, 
 and I have ventured to foretell that by the time the Martinmas 
 wind blows they will be flying through Scotland like hail foi. 1967. 
 stones, hard and ponderous. The distress is but beginning, and 
 where it may end God only knows. Long ago I used to say 
 frankly and frequently that our paper credit would choak us 
 some day or other ; at which some of the Babylonian merchants 
 laughed. But they will not laugh now when they see that a 
 touch more would have done it. 
 
 God be thanked that Messrs. Bowdler and Burdon are safe. 
 I was in no small anxiety about them as the sons can witness, 
 who are both of them in good health, fresh and jolly. 
 
 But if these severe convulsions in the high and opulent world 
 shall happen luckily to bring light out of darkness and order 
 out of confusion, then the hand of an over-ruling Providence, 
 adorably conspicuous, would stand confest ! O ! that we were 
 ripe for such a happy and desirable change. 
 
 The lady who had the pearl necklace 1 thought fit to sell it 
 to a near relation of her own for 130 guineas, despairing of a 
 late happy event. And now she seems to regret her not wait- 
 ing a little longer, that she might have applied it much more 
 properly, and with greater dignity, too. But there is no help, 
 as it was sold some short time before the above event came 
 about. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — London, August 1, 1772. — I am much 1 Aug. 
 obliged to you, Sir, for the sight of your much improved copy 
 of Pennant's Tour, which afforded me much pleasing entertain- f° l - r 9 68 - 
 ment ; and particularly your preface, which plans out a more 
 perfect and compleat account than any hitherto attempted. 
 'Tis pity, methinks, it should not be carried into execution. 
 
 1 See ff, 1945, *949. 
 
270 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 i Aug. As for Pennant himself, tho 1 I allow him to be a great natur- 
 alist, yet in other respects I cannot forbear entertaining a very 
 low opinion of him. I will return your book (God willing) by 
 the first safe conveyance I can lay hold on. 
 
 Copy of a Letter which the Marquis D Argenson, 
 Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign 
 Affairs, wrote to Mr. Van Hoy, Ambassador 
 of Holland. 
 
 29 May Sir, — The King has ordered me to write to your Excellency 
 1746 concerning the situation of Prince Edward and his party since 
 the advantage gained against them by the English troops on 
 the 27th of last month. All Europe knows the ties of kindred 
 which subsist between the King and Prince Edward. Again, 
 this young prince unites in himself all those qualities which 
 ought to interest in his favour those powers who esteem valour 
 and courage, and the King of England himself is too equitable 
 and too impartial a judge of true merit not to value it even in 
 an enemy. Moreover, the character of the British nation 
 cannot but inspire all the English with like sentiments of 
 admiration for a compatriot so much distinguished by his 
 talents and his heroic virtues. 
 
 All these reasons ought naturally to be the foundation of 
 foi. 1969. hoping for the safety of Prince Edward, and at the same time 
 to expect such moderation and clemency from the King of 
 England that he will not permit the extremity of rigour to be 
 exercised against persons of every age and sex who, in the late 
 disturbances and confusion, followed the standards which are 
 now fallen under the English arms commanded by the Duke of 
 Cumberland. 
 
 Nevertheless, Sir, as sometimes at the first forming a resolu- 
 tion, resentment and vengeance are carried to these excesses 
 which would not have taken place in a more peaceable situation 
 of affairs, the King for this reason thinks he ought, as far as 
 may depend on him, to prevent the dangerous effects of any 
 severe resolution that his Britannic Majesty might take. 
 
1746] FRENCH INTERPOSITION FOR THE PRINCE 271 
 
 "Tis with these views, Sir, which in all respects are just and 26 May 
 becoming, that the King has ordered me to desire that your 1746 
 Excellency will be pleased to write to the English Ministry, 
 and to represent to them with all possible energy and unction 
 the inconveniency which will infallibly result from any violent 
 measure taken against Prince Edward. The right of nations, 
 and the particular attachment of his Majesty to the said Prince, 
 are motives which apparently will have some influence with the 
 Court of London, and his Majesty hopes that he shall experi- 
 ence no other than noble and magnanimous proceedings on the 
 part of the King of England, and of the English nation, and 
 that all those who have at this juncture followed the interest 
 of the Stewart family will have reason to extoll the generosity foi. 197°- 
 and clemency of his Britannic Majesty. 
 
 But if, contrary to expectation, any attempt should be made, 
 either upon the liberty of Prince Edward or upon the lives of 
 his friends and abettors, it is easy to foresee that the spirit of 
 animosity and fury may be the fatal consequence of such rigour; 
 and how many innocent persons may perhaps on one side or 
 other during the present war fall victims to that violence which 
 must necessarily irritate and increase the evil, and certainly 
 will not be edifying to Europe. 
 
 No one, Sir, is more capable than yourself to make all these 
 reasons have their due weight and effect. Your equity and 
 your love of peace will suggest to you on this occasion whatso- 
 ever might be still better said on so interesting a subject. 
 
 Your Excellence will clearly perceive there is not a moment 
 to be lost in writing to the ministers of the King of England, 
 and I hope you will be pleased to communicate to me the 
 answer you receive from them to the end that I may give an 
 account to the King, who in consequence thereof, will take such 
 resolutions as his Majesty shall judge suitable to his glory and 
 the dignity of his crown. 
 
 He wishes very sincerely that the King of England may give 
 him no other example to follow than that of humanity, mild- 
 ness, and greatness of soul, etc. f° 1 ' I97r- 
 
 From the Camp of Bouchont, 
 
 the 26th of May, 1746. (Sign'd) D'Argenson. 
 
272 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1772 
 
 3 Sept. Leith, September 3, 1772. — The following account, taken 
 
 from the handwriting of Captain James Menzies, son of 
 Pitfoddels, lately arrived from France. 
 
 Bruce, Earl of Ailesbury in England, a direct descendant 
 from the great Bruce, King of Scotland, upon the Prince of 
 Orange being made king, retired to Brussels in Flanders, where 
 he lived many years, and there died lamented by all people, 
 being a most generous, charitable man. He married the 
 Baronness of Sneu, of the noble family of Lorquenguien, by 
 whom he had a daughter, who married the Prince of Horn, by 
 whom she had two daughters. The eldest married the Prince 
 of Salm, and the youngest the Prince of Stolberg, which prince 
 had also two daughters. The youngest married the Count of 
 Jamaica, son to the present Duke of Berwick and Liria in 
 Spain, and the eldest is now married to Charles the Third, 
 King of Great Britain, etc. 
 
 N.B. — The Earl of Ailesbury Bruce, the great-grand- 
 father, caused to be erected at Brussels a fine fountain for 
 the town's use, where his memory is held in great esteem 
 for that and many other acts of his charity and generosity. 
 
 Copy of a Paragraph. 
 
 4 June Rome, June 4, 1772. — In writing to my good aunt, you have 
 
 heard of the happy event of our King's marriage, which un- 
 doubtedly gives infinite satisfaction to his well-wishers, and 
 fol. 1972. must add to it much when assured of his consort's being the 
 most affable princess (Louisa) that an honest, well-meaning 
 subject could desire. And it is with infinite pleasure, were the 
 royal personages in possession of their rights, they could not 
 be paid more respect than by the Roman and Italian nobility. 
 As a friend to the cause, I take the opportunity of assuring 
 you of this. And as I have seen some spurious accounts related 
 in the English papers of his Majesty and the present nominated 
 Duke of Glocester, in England, meeting on the streets here, 
 whereupon the King had obliged him to give way in their car- 
 riages passing by, etc., I do assure you, Sir, it is all false. For, 
 on the contrary, the Duke, becoming a gentleman, on there 
 
1772] PRINCE CHARLES AT ROME 273 
 
 meeting accidentally three times voluntarily ordered his car- 3 Nov. 
 riage by, and, with the glasses of his coach down, very re- 
 spectfully saluted his Majesty. Which I have thought fit 
 particularly to relate, as it does honour to both parties, and is 
 more commendable than if the nominated Duke had done 
 otherwise. 
 
 Copies of the two proceeding, sent off to Bishop 
 Gordon with what follows. 
 
 September, 1772. 
 
 May not these be put in a proper dress to make an appear- Se P L 
 ance in a London newspaper ? And then they would easily 
 and safely be introduced into the Scots papers, which would 
 greatly entertain some readers. As to all this tumet esto judex. 
 
 I am repeatedly asked, Cannot a picture, a drawing, or a f 0 i, lg7 
 print be got of the charming Louisa ? I wish I could answer 
 this to the purpose. 
 
 Pennant, I hear, is now in Edinburgh. His next publication 
 is to be 16 shillings sterling. I will not readily be a purchaser. 
 
 The learned Mr. Thomas Ruddiman, in his preface to 
 Anderson^ Diplomat a et Numismata Scotia?, estimates the specie 
 in Scotland at the time of the Union, 1707, to be ^411,117 
 sterling in silver, about half a million in gold, and i?96,000 in 
 copper coin, amounting in all to above a million sterling. A 
 doubt has arisen whether at present there is as much specie in 
 Scotland. Perhaps it does not amount to above a third. An 
 estimate of the supposed amount of gold and silver coin in 
 Scotland, and also that of England is much wanted ; but it will 
 not readily be given, as it would tend to expose the nakedness 
 of the land. 
 
 John Fordyce of Edinburgh has given way for ^243,000 
 sterling, an immense sum, and must bear hard upon many. The 
 Duke of Gordon and Mr. Fordyce are married upon two sisters, 
 which connection has brought his Grace in pro tanto. It is 
 said to be i?16,000 sterling. God knows where these convul- 
 sions in credit may end. I have ventured to foretell that the 
 Martinmas wind will blow more blasts of the same kind. 
 
 vol. in. s 
 
274 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1772 
 
 2 Oct. Bishop Gordon. — London, October 2, 1772. — I have here 
 before me abundance of things to be acknowledged which you 
 have been at the pains to communicate. And to begin with 
 foi. 1974. what you are pleased to call a Gazette, which was very enter- 
 taining ; a small article 1 of which perhaps you may have seen 
 in one of our London newspapers. The rest may follow in due 
 time. Monsieur D'Argenson's letter to Van Hoy was published 
 in the Gazetteer of the 30th ult. A print of Louisa, I think, 
 is put in a way since yours was received, and I have lately 
 heard by a gentleman just come from abroad that he saw at 
 Paris a fine large print done for the King, her husband. 
 
 As for anything for poor Mr. Sangster to be done here, I see 
 not the least encouragement to hope for it. The paper 
 designed for the London Chronicle, in my humble opinion, tho" 
 exceedingly well drawn up, yet must by no means appear in 
 publick light. I have thoughts of making an experiment by 
 it in another way, tho 1 neither through Lord North nor Lord 
 Mansfield, which (God willing) shall be attempted next week, 
 but, alas ! with very slender hope of success. 
 
 21 Oct. To Bishop Gordon. — October 21, 1772. — Upon receipt of yours 
 of the 2nd instant, I wrote to the printer, a special friend of 
 mine, intimating D'Argenson's letter to be in the Gazetteer of 
 September 30th. But it would appear it is a morning paper 
 and does not come to Edinburgh. Can you send me a copy of 
 that same Gazetteer ? I can have the letter still printed here, 
 for whatever is done at London becomes a warrant for reprint- 
 ing here. Verbum sapienti sat est. 
 
 foi. 1975. Upon the marriage of the King with the Princess Louisa of 
 
 20 Oct. 
 
 Stolberg Guidern, by a gentleman in foreign parts. October 
 20, 1772. 
 
 At length our pray'rs are heard. Propitious Heav'n 
 To royal Charles a beauteous queen has given : 
 Undoubted pledge of blessings yet in store. 
 Charles shall yet reign, and Justice weep no more. 
 
 1 i.e. Paragraph from Rome (page [foi.] 1971) which appeared in Caledonian 
 Mercury, Saturday, September 26, 1772. — F. 
 
1772] 
 
 ON THE PRINCE'S MARRIAGE 
 
 275 
 
 The silver rose her drooping head shall rear. 20 Oct. 
 
 Reviving Britain shall no longer fear 
 
 To lose her ancient race. This royal line, 
 
 Bright as the old, shall yet thro 1 ages shine. 
 
 Already see, these happy tidings known, 
 Pale Usurpation trembles on the throne. 
 From the auspicious day her ruine dates, 
 And sees it written in the book of fates. 
 
 Fly swift, ye hours, the happy minute bring foi 1976. 
 
 When fair Louisa to our gracious king 
 
 A wished-for prince shall bear, for bear she will ; 
 
 Tis HeavVs own cause, and Heav'n protects it still. 
 
 And you, blest pair ! if now, as we believe, 
 Of all your sufF'rings you the price receive ; 
 His guardians ay protect your darling son, 
 Point out the road will lead you to the throne. 
 Gainst wily treasons there be your defence, 
 And FlattVy, worst of treasons, banish thence. 
 Teach you to spurn the wicked, seek the good, 
 To raise the humble and confound the proud. 
 So Charles shall reign, of all that 's good possest, 
 His subjects blessing, in his subjects blest, 
 Of men the happiest, and of kings the best. 
 
 N.B. — A copy of this transmitted to Bishop Gordon, 
 November 21, 1772. 
 
 A Paragraph from the Dedication to King Charles f 0 i. i 977 . 
 the 2d of a Genealogical History of the Kings 
 of England and Monarchs of Great Britain, by 
 Francis Standford, Esq., Lancaster Herald at 
 Arms, folio, London, 1683. 
 
 And yet, Sir, there still remains one more signal observation 
 which seems to cry out like a voice from Heaven and challenge 
 our duty and allegiance to your royal line, which is that when- 
 
276 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1772 
 
 1683. ever, for the sins of the people, God hath permitted invaders 
 or usurpers to disturb the peaceable course of some of your 
 ancestors' reigns, yet never did the intrusion last beyond the 
 third or fourth generation, but by some means or other un- 
 thought of by, and undiscernable to mankind, Providence hath 
 ordered the return of the crown to the lawful heir. This, 
 indeed, is digitus Dei, which has powerfully been shown upon 
 sundry occasions. But never did the arm of God more plainly 
 appear than in that miraculous preservation and restauration 
 of your Majesty to the throne when, without dint of sword or 
 any open violence, even the malice of your very enemies was, 
 by the Divine power, lulled asleep, and you endeared to us by 
 being made the restorer of those breaches both in Church and 
 State, which by the pride, ignorance, and folly of a violent party 
 among us were opened so wide that they threatened no less 
 than utter desolation. 
 
 A copy of the above transmitted to Bishop Gordon on 
 November 21, 1772, with the following N.B. — May not 
 the above have a place in some one of your newspapers ? 
 And then it would find its way into one of ours without 
 any scruple. 
 
 I9?8# Copy of a Paragraph from Thomas Bowdler, Esq., 
 to his son, Thomas, student in physic, in Edin- 
 burgh. 
 
 1 Oct. Bath, October 1, 1772. — If anything I send will amuse Bishop 
 Forbes and you, so much the better. If not, you may dispose 
 of them as you please. Tell him I have a great collection of 
 mss. which were lately given me, and which I am now looking 
 over. These, added to what I had before, take up a great deal 
 of room, and tho" there are many things among them which I 
 much value, yet I doubt when I am dead and gone, nobody 
 else will ever be at the trouble of reading them. The person 
 whose they were 1 was at Rome in 1749, and that year saw the 
 
 1 Mr. Wagstaffe, Protestant chaplain in the Court of James the Eighth. 
 
1772] MANUSCRIPTS OF MR. WAGSTAFFE 277 
 
 Cardinal of York's mitra pretiosa which is made of cloth of gold, i Oct. 
 with gold flowers and near 100 diamonds, besides saphires, 
 emeralds and pearls upon it, and is valued at 36,000 Roman 
 crowns, or i?9000 sterling, with his own arms and two or three 
 diamonds on each of the strings. The same person, who was a 
 clergyman of our church, was invited to dine at Monte Porzio 
 with Father Sheldon, rector of the English College of Jesuits 
 there, in company of Father Inglesfield, a Franciscan friar, and 
 several others. Father Sheldon, before dinner, desired the 
 English clergyman to say grace, which he did. This is a 
 remarkable story, but I can assure Bishop Forbes it is true. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — London, November 12,1772. — A friend lately ^Nov 9 
 arrived from Scotland tells me he read Monsieur D'Argenson's 
 letter in a newspaper in your county. However, I send it here 
 inclosed. There have been several interesting things at times 
 in this paper. Does the Middlesex Journal, an evening paper, 
 come to Edinburgh ? "Tis a wicked paper, for the most part, 
 yet now and then there are particulars in it worth reading. 
 
 Mrs. Hope is turned up here again. She tells me her son is 
 somewhere about Huntly on a mission. Pray enquire of Mr. 
 Leith about this young man. His mother tells me he has seen 
 Mr. Leith. I want some information in this affair, to know 
 how to rule my conduct in case of events. 
 
 The inclosed scrap is a paragraph cut out of a letter which I 
 had the other day from Mr. Brett, to which I shall only add, 
 the book mentioned in it shall be sent along with Mr. Pennant's 
 Tour by the first safe conveyance. 
 
 Copy of the scrap of a Paragraph from Mr. Brett. 
 
 I have also sent the first and second Book of Discipline, 
 together with some Acts of the General Assemblies in 1641, 
 which, when opportunity serves, I must beg you to send to 
 good Bishop Forbes. I believe it to be a very scarce pamphlet, 
 having never met with another copy, nor so much as seen the 
 title in any catalogue. Tis in the middle of several other 
 pamphlets without a cover. It should not go in such a garb 
 
278 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1772 
 
 12 Nov. did I live near a bookbinder to have it better dressed. Please 
 to give my humble respects to him, and beg his excuse for 
 sending it in such an uncouth condition. 
 
 foi. 1980. To Bishop Gordon. — November 21, 1772. — I had the pleasure 
 of yours of the 12th instant in due course. Immediately upon 
 receipt of the Gazetteer, D'Argenson's letter appeared in our 
 Caledonian Mercury. The Middlesex Journal comes not to 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 I will carefully attend to what you write about Mr. Hope. 
 
 The kindness of Mr. Brett is truly remarkable, and what I 
 cannot enough prize and be thankful for. With hearty thanks 
 for his friendly and unmerited remembrance, may all things 
 good and happy attend him and his family. I hope to make a 
 proper use of his present. 
 
 Mr. Pennant, when lately at Alloa House in his second tour, 
 was told by Mr. Erskine of Alloa that there was a hill only 
 about 3 miles distant, from the top of which not only the best 
 view in Scotland, but likewise one of the best views in Europe 
 was to be had. 4 Oh no," said Pennant, 4 1 am in such a haste, such 
 a hurry at present, that I cannot go to see it."* 4 Why," said 
 Mr. Erskine, * you shall have a good horse from me, and I will 
 ride along with you, and we can return in about two hours. 
 No, nothing could prevail. Mr, Erskine told this in the house 
 of Touche where Tom Bowdler was present, from whom I had 
 it, and who has conceived a very sorry notion of Mr. Pennant 
 from the narrative. Now this hill is that of Myat, one of the 
 Montes Ocelli, or Ochil-hills, at the foot of which is the 
 dwelling house of Mr. Spittle of Leuchat, who died not long 
 ago, aged about 100. This same gentleman, as he frequently 
 told when at his travels in Italy, was conducted, with other 
 fol. 1981. gentlemen, to the top of an high hill for the sake of a fine view 
 which he was highly commending, when one of the company, a 
 foreigner, said. 4 It is indeed a fine view, but I once saw a 
 much finer one." 4 Where ? ' said a gentleman. 4 In Scotland/ 
 This awakened the attention of Leuchat, who asked, 4 Pray in 
 what place of Scotland, Sir? 1 4 The hill of Myat. 1 When 
 Leuchat used to tell the story he never failed to say, 4 This 
 was my own hill, but I think I kept mine own secret, for to my 
 
1772] MR. ERSKINE OF ALLOA 
 
 279 
 
 shame be it spoke, I had never been on the top of it. How- 21 Nov. 
 ever, I no sooner returned home than I went to the top of it 
 before I crossed my own threshold and, indeed, there was no 
 comparison." Judge now of Pennant. 
 
 Copy 
 
 To the Revd. Mr. John Leith, at Huntly. 
 November 26, 1772. 
 
 What follows must remain a dead secret between you and 26 Nov. 
 me. Is there one Mr. Hope, a Popish churchman in your 
 neighbourhood, and has he visited you? Whether he goes 
 under the name of Mr. Hope I know not, but his mother's 
 name is Mrs. Hope, who some years ago made me several visits 
 at the desire of a particular friend, and I visited her in Edin- 
 burgh, but all this with the greatest caution and secrecy. She 
 is just now in London, and perhaps may cast up here again. 
 In a word, I and another friend, tho" we have never set eyes 
 upon him, have good reason to think the son has a warm side 
 to our poor afflicted Church, not to say more of it. If he be 
 in your neighbourhood and of your acquaintance, as is given 
 out, I earnestly beg you may take the most prudent and cauti- foi. 1982. 
 ous way to sound his inclinations if in your power, and let me 
 fully know the result of your well-advised attempts. But let 
 not the gentleman have the most distant suspicion of your 
 being put upon this. All must be done as entirely of yourself. 
 Meantime be sure to commit this scribble to the flames, as I 
 would not wish anything should ever cast up from me to injure 
 any one in any shape whatsoever. A return to this with your 
 convenience will prove extremely obliging to more than one. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — London^ December 17, 1772. — "Tis time I 17 Dec. 
 should thank you for your last very agreeable and acceptable 
 letter. I had lately a very pleasing account of Cousin Peggie. 
 She was in health and high spirits, and very happy in her new 
 companion. They appear frequently abroad together, and are 
 much respected and carressed by all ranks of people. From 
 what you mention of Pennant's behaviour to Mr. Erskine I 
 
280 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1772 
 
 17 Dec. cannot wonder that Tommy Bowdler should have conceived a 
 very sorry opinion of the man. I am sure I have. Your 
 anecdote relating to the Montes Ocelli is pleasing. 
 
 The narrative 1 is translated into Italian, and printed and 
 sold in bookseller's shops in that country. A friend of mine 
 came lately from Italy and met with it accidentally in a book- 
 seller's shop and purchased it. This is a piece of intelligence I 
 was not sorry to meet with, nor will you, Sir, be displeased to 
 hear. 
 
 22 Dec. L\ady\ G\ask\ — December 22, 1772. — Woodsheal 2 was here 
 in his way home. He left our friends at Givet very well at pre- 
 fol. 1983. sent ; but Struan had been ill with a pain in his stomach, 
 which he thinks is rheumatick, as it is very violent while it 
 lasts. Woodshears business carried him to Charleville, where 
 we were for some time before we came home. There is there 
 a convent for ladies, where we often visited Madame Victoire, 
 who is a most excellent person, and the Abbess. And who 
 should be there now but our Queen's two younger sisters ? He 
 went to the convent and begged of the Lady Abbess that he 
 might have the honour of seeing these two princesses, who, 
 hearing of his country and the attachment he had to the royal 
 family, came to the grate and spoke to him with ease and great 
 politeness. Hearing the Abbess asking for this family she 
 told the princesses of our having been there. How it came 
 into his head I know not, but you '11 say it was not blate in 
 him to desire these ladies would write a line to Mrs. Oliphant ; 
 to which they consented, went to their apartment, not only 
 wrote the letter inclosed, signed by both, but likewise wrote 
 their own and their sisters' names, with their ages and where 
 they were born. You have inclosed the exact copy of both. 
 We have never shewn any body the princesses' letter, and you 
 are the first. The reason is they may make up some story as 
 if we were corresponding with them. The eldest of the two was 
 the writer, and very prettily it is wrote, especially for so young 
 a creature and in a hurry. Besides they wrote a letter to their 
 mother by him, who was then at Bruxelles upon a visit to 
 
 1 See ff. 1924, 1940. 2 Mr. Robertson of Woodsheal. 
 
1772] THE SISTERS OF PRINCESS LOUISA 281 
 
 Prince Charles and his sister. The letter to her was directed 
 to Madame la Princesse de Stolberg nee Princesse de Horn. 
 You will observe that the French always call Louisa, Louise. 
 He missed the mother, she being gone some jaunt with Prince 
 Charles and his sister. 
 
 Here follow translations of the two forementioned papers. 
 
 We cannot, Madam, refuse the satisfaction Mr. Robertson 
 desires of us of writing to you. We have done this with so 
 much the more pleasure as we all know, Madame, your 
 merit. 
 
 Besides, we are not ignorant of the attachment that your 
 family has for Prince Edward, our brother-in-law. This 
 motive is more than sufficient for to assure you of the tender 
 attachment which we owe to you so long as we live, having the 
 honour to be, Madame, your humble and obedient servants. 
 (Signed) De Stolberg, De Stolberg la Cadette. 
 
 Madame Victoire intreats us to recollect her in your remem- 
 brance, and in that of Mr. Oliphant, and to add her most 
 sincere compliments. 
 
 Madame the Princess Louisa Maximiliana Emmanuela de fol. 1985 
 Stolberg, born at Mons in Haynauld, the 21 of September, 
 1752, spouse of Prince Charles, lawful heir to the crown of 
 England. 
 
 Madame the Princess Carolina Augusta de Stolberg, born at 
 Geuderne, in Westeravia, 10 February 1754, spouse of the 
 Marquis of Jamaica. 
 
 Madame the Princess Francisca Clauda de Stolberg, born at 
 Brussels, June 27, 1756. 
 
 Madame the Princess Theresa Gustava of Stolberg, born at 
 Geudernes, August 27, 1757. 
 
 These two last in the convent of the Carmelites at Charle- 
 ville in Champagne, for their education. 
 
 Here follows the foresaid letter in French. 15 Sept. 
 
 A Charleville le 15 Septembre, Fan 1772. 
 Nous ne pouvont, Madame, refuser a Mr. Robertson la satis- 
 faction qu'il nous demande de vous ecrire nous nous y sommes 
 
282 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1772 
 
 5 Sept. rendue avec cTautems plus de plaiser que nous savons, Madame, 
 tous ce que vous valais d'alieur nous n'ignorions pas tout 
 fol. 1986. Tatachement que votre famille a pour le Prince Edouard, notre 
 beau frere. Ce motif est plus que sufisent pour vous assurer 
 du tendre attachement que nous vous vouont pour la vie, aient 
 Thonneur d'etre, Madame, votres humble et obeisante servante. 
 (Signe — ) De Stolberg, De Stolberg la Cadette. 
 
 Madame Victoire me prie de la rapeller dans votre souvenir 
 et dans celui de Mr. Oliphant et d'agrees ces plus sincere 
 compliment. 
 
 Here follows the account of the birthdays in French. 
 
 Madame la Princesse Louise Maxamilienne Emmanuele de 
 Stolberg nee a Mons en Haynauld le 21 Septembre 1752, 
 epouse du Prince Charles Edouard, legitime heritier de la 
 couronne d'Angleterre. 
 
 Madame la Princesse Caroline Auguste de Stolberg nee a 
 Geuderne en Westeravie le 10 de Fevrier 1754, epouse du 
 Marquie la Jamaique. 
 
 Madame la Princesse Francoise Claude de Stolberg, nee a 
 Bruxelles le 27 Juin, 1756. 
 
 Madame la Princesse Therese Gustave de Stolberg, nee 
 Geuderne le 27 Aoust, 1727. 
 
 Ces deux derniers pensionaires au Convent des Carmelites de 
 Charleville en Champagne. 
 
 5* Jan bishop Gordon. — January 5, 1773. — You are to use the 
 
 1773 two bits of papers in French, which I send with pleasure, as 
 you please. May not the genealogy, omitting somewhat, be 
 printed in some newspapers ? There can be no danger when a 
 certain legitime, etc., is kept out. However, do as you may 
 judge most fit and useful. 
 
 Your agreeable accounts of Cousin Peggie, etc., are extremely 
 refreshing, and they are transmitted to L[ady] G[ask] with 
 your kind remembrances as under your own hand. The narra- 
 tive in Italian pleases me much. Could a copy of it be got ? 
 If the genealogy appear in print, let me have a copy. 
 
 9 Feb. Bishop Gordon. — London, February 9, 1773. — I am now to 
 
1773] 
 
 CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 283 
 
 acknowledge the curious and valuable anecdotes from good 9 Feb - 
 Lady Gask, to whom you will be so good as make our best re- 
 spects acceptable together with our best thanks for the honour 
 her ladyship does us. The originals themselves you have here 
 returned under this cover, but I don't see how in their present 
 condition, or without history introducing, they could be pro- 
 perly sent to a newspaper. I purpose before the week be out 
 to have a parcel for you containing Pennant's Tour, the Assem- 
 bly piece from Mr. Brett, and the Italian account of Scots 
 affairs in 1746, put on board a Leith ship. But I am sorry 
 to tell you, to my great disappointment, as it will be, Sir, to 
 yours, that it is not a translation of the Narrative, as I was at f° l - x 9 88 - 
 first by mistake made to hope it was. But my friend who 
 picked it up at Verona was so kind as to make me a present of 
 it, and such as it is, I wish it was better, 'tis at your service. 
 An account of a defeat, tho' it speaks honorably of a great 
 Prince, is not very pleasant to read, especially, too, when for 
 the most part consisting of very insufficient materials. I would 
 hope before the end of this month to hear of Cousin Peggie. 
 Your parcel comes by Captain Kid of Leith, and he purposes 
 to sail on Friday morning. 
 
 Copy from the Revd. Mr. John Leith. 
 
 Huntly, January 27,17*/ '3. — I delayed writing a return to 27 Jan. 
 yours till I had made all the inquiry I could concerning the 
 gentleman you wanted to be informed about, for I was not per- 
 sonally acquainted with him, as you had supposed, nor had 
 ever heard of his name before. The best account I can learn 
 of him is that he passes here under his real name, Mr. H[ope], 
 is greatly esteemed by all that know him, is in great favour 
 with his Grace, the Duke of Gordon, whom he accommodates 
 with his own room when a hunting, and that he teaches the 
 Academy or seminary at Scalen. If ever he comes to this 
 place I have engaged his brother, Mr. Duthie, to make me 
 acquainted with him. 
 
284 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1773 
 
 Copy of the above sent to Bishop Gordon with 
 what follows. 
 
 2 March March 2, 1773. — The original of the above, having been 
 transmitted by a private bearer, was long in coming to hand. 
 Your favour of February 9 reached me in due course. The 
 worthy family of Gask are ever mindful of you and good 
 , Mrs. Gordon]. 1 
 
 fol. 1989. On Ash Wednesday I received the parcel safe and sound, 
 containing Pennant's Tour, the Assembly piece, and the Italian 
 account of 1746. The Assembly piece is a very rare and 
 curious piece, for which many thanks to friendly N[icholas] 
 B[rett]. May he and his fireside live and be happy. I know 
 not the Italian tongue, but from its connection with the Latin, 
 I fear, I fear the pamphlet, as you suggest, is a sorry piece. How- 
 ever, I am acquainted with one who knows Italian thoroughly, 
 and I may chance to have an interview with him upon the per- 
 formance. Meantime you have my hearty thanks for it, and 
 thanks to the gentleman, your friend, who kindly put it in your 
 power to give it to me. Refresh me, I beseech you, with 
 agreeable accounts of Cousin Peggie when you have them. 
 
 N.B. — Particular thanks for newspaper wrapt about the books, 
 as it contains a smart letter by Junius upon poor G[rafton], 
 
 who would do better at his own fireside, H n en. I 
 
 would give him the parting bottle with all my heart. 
 
 Inscription upon a gravestone in the hirkyard of Cumbernauld, 
 published in the Caledonian Mercury of Edinburgh. 
 
 O hold me not, my mother earth, 
 But raise me with the Duke of Perth, 
 With many another loyal lad, 
 Once more to wear the white cockade. 
 
 May not these four lines be transmitted to somebody as a 
 token of remembrance ? 
 
 Perhaps you have heard that some honest Caledonian bodies 
 
 1 See f. 1981. 
 
1773] 
 
 NEWS FROM ABROAD 
 
 285 
 
 met in the Scots College at Paris on the last day of the year, 2 March 
 as they could not have another day that year to solemnize it. f° l - I 99°- 
 When they were chapterly convened, and making innocently 
 merry, in pops, most opportunely, to heighten the solemnity, 
 an highly finished picture of a certain amiable lady, repre- 
 senting one of the most beautiful faces, and one of the finest 
 persons in the world. With what joy this so seasonable a 
 well-timed present to your namesake was received by the whole 
 company is more easily to be imagined than described. I 
 hope prints will soon be cast off, which are much longed for. 
 
 Have you seen Mr. Andrew Stewart's Letters, in 4to, to Lord 
 Mansfield ? a daring and dear publication. If you have read 
 it, I would be glad to be favoured with your opinion of it. 
 I cannot say I will purchase it, but I have taken a cursory 
 view of it in a bookseller's shop. 
 
 We have a most fanciful and chimerical performance by 
 Burnet of Monboddo, one of the senators of the College of 
 Justice, viz., The Origin and Progress of Language, 8vo, as 
 if language were the invention of man, and not the gift of 
 God to our common parents ! Never did I look upon a more 
 ridiculous conceit and speculating maggot ! The world is gone 
 a madding. We are plagued with a sad gipsie from your 
 metropolis, Mrs. Yates, who acts many out of their senses, if 
 they have any. We have had a masquerade in Edina, the 
 first that has ever yet been in Scotland; and may we never 
 have another, say I. The poor are starving, and the rich, and 
 some who cannot well spare expence, are, I may truly say, foU 1991. 
 diabolizing ; for gigantic tempters and seducers they are. 
 
 Bishop Gordon. — London, April 10, Easter Eve, 1773. — After io April 
 the suitable and proper salutations of the great and holy 
 festival now at hand, I think I may now assure my good friend 
 that there are now the strongest appearances of Peggie's bosom 
 friend's pregnancy, and to assure you, too, that (Blessed be 
 God !) the family is very well, and desire to be remembred 
 to all their friends, among whom I need not tell you, Sir, that 
 the family of G[ask] are not the least deserving notice, to 
 whom you will communicate with my best respects. I think, 
 now, I have added to the joy of the festival. Adieu. 
 
286 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1773 
 
 April To Bishop Gordon. — April 20, 1773. — Your laconic epistle of 
 Easter eve, truly multum in parvo, has rejoiced the hearts of 
 several and sundry well-wishers and friends. All glory be to 
 God for all his mercies ! But is there no picture, drawing or 
 print, of the amiable lady like to appear ? It is much longed 
 for by more than one. 
 
 I will endeavour to make a return somewhat in kind. Know 
 then that MacDonal of Castle Semple, member of Parliament, 
 his eldest son, is now at his travels. He wrote lately from Rome 
 to his mother in the following manner: 6 There is a Scots 
 family here, not only in high estimation, but, likewise, greatly 
 revered, nay, almost adored, by all those that approach or see 
 them. I have heard much of the gentleman's beauty. I shall 
 not insist upon this, but I can declare that never did I behold 
 so much majesty in any countenance as in his. As for his lady, 
 never did I see a composition of flesh and blood like her or 
 near to her." The mother makes no secret of the letter. 
 
 1992. Bishop Gordon. — London, May 27, 1773. — I cannot wonder 
 May if you should think it very strange that you have not heard 
 from me for so long a time, after receiving several kind letters, 
 besides several no less entertaining than useful magazines, for 
 all which you have my best thanks. I was exceedingly well- 
 pleased with the vindication of the royal martyr, and so was 
 my old friend to whom I read it. It has been reprinted here 
 in one of the newspapers. I like much, Sir, your strictures on 
 The Origin and Progress of Language, and think there is reason 
 to hope they may do good. God grant they may, and your 
 time and labour will have been well bestowed. The fable of 
 the owl and the ass is very pretty. My old friend smiled, and 
 was entertained with it. 
 
 Aug. To Bishop Gordon, for the present at Burnhall, near Durham, 
 August 6, 1773. — Lately I had in my possession for two days, 
 a fine miniature painting of a certain amiable lady. Tho" it 
 be excellent, and has much meaning in the face, yet it is 
 affirmed that the original far exceeds the picture. She is 
 called the Queen of hearts in the place of her residence. I 
 pleased several persons with a sight of it, and I wished for a n 
 
1773] PICTURES OF PRINCESS LOUISA 287 
 
 invisible cloak and a pair of good wings to make a speedy flight 6 Aug. 
 to Burnhall, to feast the eyes of some worthy friends with 
 viewing the fine figure : but wishes are vain. It is said a print 
 is casting off at London. 
 
 I have been with Andrew Lumisden, who looks well and 
 jolly. The liberty of coming over to breathe his native air 
 was procured, without his privity or knowledge, by some 
 persons in power, from old acquaintance and a personal liking fol. 1993. 
 to him. It appears he is like to return to Paris. He promised 
 to make me a visit when, perhaps, I may have more time of 
 him. I am greatly mistaken if he be not much to your good 
 liking. 
 
 Bishop Gordon, Burnhall. — August 9, 1773. — We should have 9 Aug. 
 been delighted in the amiable picture of the Queen of Hearts, 
 and could wish to behold a good print of her. I am glad you 
 have seen Mr. Lumisden. Yes, I know, he solicited no favours. 
 They were offered to his acceptance, and I believe him a man 
 of strict virtue and honour. I shall be glad to hear how he 
 converses ; I dare say with prudence. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — August 14, 1773. — Prints cast off at 14 Aug. 
 Rome are now selling in London, a number of which are to be 
 in Edinburgh by the first ship that offers. Yes, Mr. Lumisden 
 observes great prudence in conversation. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, August 31, 1773, upon seeing a print of 3 1 Au s- 
 The Queen of Hearts. 
 
 Long seem'd despair and fear with fiercest rage 
 To blot the annals of the coming age. 
 But now with joy the sons of freedom see 
 Their long-lost hopes and wishes live in thee. 
 
 N.B. — The above appears in our newspapers and magazines 
 here, and 'tis hoped it may do so in those of London. The 
 print is nobly designed and handsomely executed. Deus sit 
 tecum tuisque. Amen. 
 
288 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1773 
 
 foi. 1994. By a friend^ meditating in bed, twixt 3 and 4 o'clock morning, 
 21 Sept. Tuesday, September 21, the birthday of the Queen of 
 
 Hearts, 1773. 
 
 Do thou, my soul, with steady patience wait, 
 
 Till God unveil his firm resolves of fate. 
 
 Then Charles shall reign, possess'd of evVy grace, 
 
 And fair Louisa brighten ev'ry face. 
 
 With rising branches of a royal race. 
 
 Fly hence, despair, the bane of happiness ! 
 
 Let chearing hope each faithful heart possess ! 
 
 Toss round the glass with joyous mirth and mien, 
 
 And gladly sing, God bless the King and Queen ! 
 
 Bless them with children virtuous and fair ! 
 
 May they be ever HeavVs peculiar care ! 
 
 N.B. — A copy of this transmitted to John Farquarson 
 of Aldlerg, who, in return, said he would send it to the 
 lovely pair. (See fol. 2041, hujus.) 
 
 21 Oct. October 21, 1773. — Now set to music by John Addison, a 
 native of Perthshire, and to be dispatched to John Farquharson 
 for the amiable fair, her favorable reception. 
 
 foi. 1995. October 4, 1773. — The preceeding was transmitted to Bishop 
 4 0ct ' Gordon with what follows. 
 
 Though I do not much heed dreams, yet I chuse not to 
 disregard them altogether. Know then that my Rachel 
 dream\l a dream, which I cannot fail to give you an account 
 of, as there is something very singular in it. She drearcfd on 
 Friday night, August 13, that a gentleman of the name of 
 Brett, in England, had sent me in a present a number of fine 
 pocket-pistols, and a great coat bedeck" d with white cockades. 
 Saturday morning, when repeating the dream to me, she told 
 me the Christian name of the gentleman had been told her in 
 the dream, but that she had now forgot it. ' Pray," said I, 
 'was it Thomas?' ' No.' 'Was it Nicholas? 1 'Yes, yes, 
 that is it." Now, dear Sir, considering the late transaction 
 between you and me, what wonder that the same dream should 
 have some place in my mind ! Let time, the revealer of secrets, 
 
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 CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 289 
 
 explain the real meaning. If this be a trifle, consign it to 14 Oct. 
 the flames, the proper place for all trifles. 
 
 N.B. — Rachel did not remember that she had ever heard 
 the Christian name before. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — October 14, Friday, 1773, Edinburgh. — 14 Oct. 
 Mr. Oliphant of Gask, and his lady, are now here on their way 
 to London, intending for Seville, Lisbon, etc., as Mrs. Oliphant 
 has an obstinate cough, for which physicians have prescribed 
 some warmer climate during the winter season. They are to 
 call at Burnhall to have the pleasure of seeing you, and other f 0 i. 1996. 
 friends, under that hospitable roof, resolving to set out from 
 this city to-morrow. May God be ever with them ! 
 
 A singular opinion has all at once started up in my mind, 
 which I must impart to you. If ever the amiable youth intends 
 a trip abroad, can he have better company than this valuable 
 pair ? As good is rarely to be met with in this age of boasted 
 light and liberty. Besides, this gentleman and his lady know 
 throughout the exact rules of ceconomy, particularly in travel- 
 ling, well-tried experience having been their instructor. 
 
 If this flight be a trifle, let it pass as such. But if it merits 
 a place in your attention, communicate it to the worthy grand- 
 mother and Mrs. Gordoun, and let a council be held upon the 
 subject. Whatever be the result, I can declare my intention 
 is good in all respects whatsoever. 
 
 All things good and happy to you and all friends with you. 
 
 N.B. — How does the ancle? skinned over I hope by this 
 time, like a child's flesh, my own case truly. In haste, but 
 most cordially. Adieu, dear Sir, Adieu. 
 
 From Bishop Gordon. — Burnhall, October 15, 1773. — We fol. 1997. 
 purpose leaving this place the 25 or 26 instant, and hope 15 0ct ' 
 for better weather, for it has been for a continuance a series 
 of stormy weather, violent rain at times, and hurricanes of 
 wind, very terrible indeed, such as I never remember. Great 
 mischief has been done to the standing corn, which is now all 
 got in hereabout. O that these visitations might have their 
 designed effect ! 
 
 VOL. III. T 
 
290 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1773 
 
 15 Oct. J thank you for the verses on the birthday and like them 
 well. 
 
 The dream is, indeed, very remarkable and extraordinary. 
 My good friend must look to himself. But the white cockades 
 will repell the fire. Time will develope all. 
 
 My leg (Blessed be God !) is become more limber and easy, 
 tho 1 the swelling is not quite gone off ; but all in good time. 
 
 30 Oct. To Bishop Gordon. — Saturday, October 30, 1773. — I hope I 
 may salute you and Mrs. G. in health and safety at your own 
 fireside. Be so good as to inform me how ye held out in your 
 journey, this being the main design of my writing at present, 
 though I am indebted to you for a letter of the 15th instant, 
 far from being long and tedious, as it brought the agreeable 
 foi. 199?. accounts that the leg was become limber and easy. May the 
 amendment increase to the happy removal of the ailment which 
 we will be glad to hear. 
 
 I am glad the verses are to your pleasure. Have you seen 
 the Westminster Magazine for September last ? It has a most 
 curious and bold device not fit to be described even in harmless 
 manuscript. 
 
 Yes, the dream, as you observe, is, indeed, very remarkable 
 and extraordinary. May your interpretation be the event. 
 
 T. Bowdler informs me of a most rare and valuable folio 
 ms. at Burnhall all in the handwriting of the late Revd. Mr. 
 Bedford which has raised my curiosity greatly. But, alas ! I 
 cannot expect to have my eyes and mind feasted with a serious 
 perusal of that collection of secret points of interesting history. 
 
 Give us the pleasure to hear from you, and if you have any 
 refreshing accounts of a certain amiable lady, pray let us share 
 in the cordial. 
 
 I hope Mr. Oliphant and his lady stopt for some short time 
 at Burnhall. Well may they go and come to the joy and 
 comfort of all their friends. 
 
 foi. 1999. Bishop Gordon. — London, November 9, 1773. — I thank you 
 9 Nov. y Qur k« n j an j obliging letter of the 30th ult. which found 
 us (all thanks be to God) safely arrived at our own habitation. 
 No, I have not seen the Westminster Magazine, nor do I re- 
 
1773] INTERESTING MS. AT BURNHALL 291 
 
 member ever to have seen such a periodical publication. I 9 * 
 must enquire after it. Yes, Sir, there is undoubtedly at 
 Burnhall a most valuable curious folio ms. collected from 
 originals by my late brother-in-law, Mr. Thomas Bedford. It 
 is invaluable, composed of letters, etc. of the greatest men at 
 the fatal period of 88 and several years following. I wish it 
 may be preserved in the hands of those that will set a just 
 value upon it and renders it useful to future generations. 
 Since I came to town I have heard that a certain Prince and 
 his most amiable consort were both not long ago very well. 
 Yes, your friend and his lady and daughter were so obliging 
 as to stop at Burnhall, and give us the pleasure of taking a 
 breakfast with us. I have reason to think he left London the 
 day or the day after we arrived. May God grant him and his 
 all the wished-for benefits of their tour. Pray let our best 
 respects be presented to the admirable and good old lady 
 when you shall have occasion. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — November 27, 1773. — May the in- 27 
 valuable folio ms. be preserved according to your earnest 
 and well-judged wish. Ten thousand thanks for your agree- 
 able intelligence of the dear, amiable pair. O for a son and 
 heir ! I hope God in his own good time will send that wish'd- f oL 
 for blessing. Yes, Gask, his lady and daughter left London 
 a day or two after your arrival in it, for the lady wrote me a 
 letter from Salisbury, in their way to Falmouth, to take the 
 packet for Lisbon. It was long, particular and exact, and I 
 transcribed a copy of it for the comfortable information of 
 the good old lady, who evermore remembers you and yours 
 with every good wish. I talked to the worthy gentleman 
 about a pedagogue to his children. 6 Ay, with all my heart, 1 
 said he, 'but then he must be in orders to perform sacred 
 offices in the family." 6 Done," said I, 6 Such an one I have had 
 under my care from his very infancy, ready, God willing, against 
 the term of Whitsunday first to be in the character you desire. 1 
 How comfortable and encouraging is this ! O for many such ! 
 I have often resolved, and as often forgot, to transmit to you a 
 copy of John Roy Stewart's psalm, but now it comes, and I hope 
 it may prove somewhat entertaining to you and Mrs. Gordon. 
 
292 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1773 
 
 27 Nov. Whether or not it may bear publishing in any periodical paper 
 tumet esto judex. 
 
 N.B. — You know the famous Dr. Johnson has been among 
 fol 2001. us# Several anecdotes could I give you of him, but one is 
 most singular. Dining one day at the table of one of the 
 Lords of Session, the company stumbled upon characters, 
 particularly it would appear of kings. 6 Well, well, 1 said the 
 bluff Dr. — George the 1st was a robber, George the 2d a fool, 
 and George the 3d is an idiot." How the company stared I 
 leave you to judge. It was far from being polite, especially 
 considering the table at which he was entertained, and that he 
 himself is a pensioner at £500 a year ! 
 
 14 Dec. From Bishop Gordon. — London, December 14, 1773. — You 
 ask my opinion, Sir, of the bold device in the Westminster 
 Magazine. To me it appears plain — an earnest expectation 
 of something which both you and I heartily wish. 
 
 John Roy Stuart's psalm and the anecdote relating to Dr. 
 Bluff were both offered to several of the newspapers, but neither 
 of them has yet appeared, nor will they now at this distance, I 
 presume. 
 
 I heard lately an account of the amiable pair. They were 
 both very well. 
 
 Gask and his lady were detained on the coast a good while 
 by contrary winds, but I trust long ere this they are safely 
 arrived at Lisbon. Pray when you have occasion, let our best 
 respects be presented to the excellent old lady. 
 
 fol. 2002. From John Farquharson of Aldlerg. 
 
 3 Jan. Dunkirk, January 3, 1774. — I saw lately a letter from your 
 1774 friend that sent you the little pieces of gold by Sandy Blair's 
 means. He was then very well but still in statu quo. His 
 wife is one of the finest women in Europe, admired by all, 
 friends and foes. Oh, how happy would we be had we a firm 
 grip of her on your side of the water and could arrest her 
 there ! 
 
 22 Jan. To Bishop Gordon. — January 22, 1774. — Ten thousand 
 
1774] DR. JOHNSON AND THE GEORGES 293 
 
 thanks for your agreeable intelligence of the amiable pair. 22 j 
 Long be it so. I wrote you December 16th. The preceding 
 day the Revd. Mr. James White died. Requiescat, etc. They 
 have been looking about for a successor, and it would appear 
 they begin, sub rosd, dictum sit, to point their views to your Mr. 
 Smith. On Wednesday last one came from Edinburgh and 
 spoke to me on the snbject. I told him I had sent him to 
 London, but would have no hand in bringing him back again, 
 and that he could not return without the authority of Bishop 
 Gordon. This was granted. I enlarged upon the subject, 
 and positively declared my resolution repeatedly as above. As 
 I look upon your interest and mine to be inseparable, I judge 
 proper to give this hint, and do you use it as your own prudence 
 may direct. I suppose Mr. S. knows nothing of the matter as 
 yet, so that I presume you have the first intelligence. They f° l - 
 thought once on Mr. Maitland, but they seem to have dropt 
 that thought. Time will try all. Perhaps they will not insist 
 upon Mr. Smith. It is only in embryo and may go no farther. 
 
 From Bishop Gordon. — London, February 15, 1774. — Mr. r 5 
 Smith has not told me of any proposals being made to him of 
 becoming successor to Dr. White. Nor will such, I hope, be 
 made, and the young man tempted. I am greatly obliged to 
 you, Sir, for the check you have given to the application, for 
 alas ! were he to leave us, what should we do ? no other 
 priests besides him and myself being now left in London to 
 minister to the necessities of the poor faithful remnant, so 
 much are we minished and brought low. God pity and help 
 us, and leave not the poor remnant destitute ! A woful 
 prospect, God knows, which is matter of pain and grief to 
 me ! 
 
 When you write to Gask pray let us be respectfully remem- 
 bered. I have heard nothing lately of the master of the house. 
 May God ever be with him, preserve and grant a safe return 
 home. His Cousin Peggie and hers were all well lately. Pro- 
 bably he may see her on his return from his travels. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — March 3, 1774. — You have drawn a 3 
 true picture of Lady Stewart. She is a poor creature, indeed, 
 
294 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1774 
 
 3 March to banish herself from the worship of God when in such cir- 
 cumstances as enable her to live where such a benefit can be 
 had. This was very roundly and repeatedly told her. I fore- 
 saw her fixed resolution sometime before she moved, for she 
 began to mutter and find fault with the frequency of prayers, 
 fol. 2004. a most wretched sign to weary in well-doing. Now is the time 
 to tell you that she is the person who had the fine pearl- 
 necklace which she promised to give to a certain person in the 
 event of a marriage ; but no sooner did that happen than she 
 hasted to dispose of it. O ! O ! O. 1 
 
 She has taken a particular liking to a nephew of her own for 
 her particular convenience, as he gives her a house for nothing, 
 and furnishes her mostly with provisions for housekeeping. 
 Meantime he has no children and cannot have any, as his lady 
 is well stricken in years, and, wo's me ! is disordered in her 
 judgment; but his conduct enables the aunt to add a little to 
 the useless heap, her heart being wrapt up in it, as she is a 
 downright earth-worm. As you say, May God touch her heart, 
 and bring her to a right mind ! 
 
 Many thanks for your intelligence about the welfare of our 
 principal friend, whom, I hope with you, our other friend will 
 visit. 
 
 I have some reason to think no proposal will be made to your 
 Mr. Smith, a check having been given to it ab initio. 
 
 Lady Gask never fails in her friendly good wishes to you and 
 yours. 
 
 26 Feb. Saturday, February 26. — Great rejoicings in Edinburgh upon 
 victory over literary property ; bonfires and illuminations, 
 ordered tho' by a mob, with drum and 2 fifes. Deus sit tecum 
 tuisque. Amen. 
 
 ^8 2 Feb' From Bishop Gordon. — London, February 28, 1774. — As pro- 
 bably you may be curious to see one of our daily papers which 
 has had the honour to be censured in very strong terms by the 
 House of Commons, I here inclose it for your entertainment. 
 Perhaps you may be surprized to read anything so plain and 
 
 1 See ff. 1945, 1949. 
 
1774] EDINBURGH AND LONDON 295 
 
 bold in a common newspaper, especially, too, in this paper ; 28 Feb. 
 nay, and at the very time when the printer himself was in 
 custody of the serjeant at arms for printing Horn's letter to 
 the Speaker of the House. It is farther remarkable that this 
 very same South Briton was in the Morning Post the same day, 
 and that Morning Post printed, too, by Mr. Woodfall's own 
 brother, a family remarkable for having all of them been bitter 
 revolutionists. Such strange things do we see in our days. 
 
 I forgot mentioning to you in my last that our nephew, 
 George, is on the very brink of matrimony, nay, perhaps married 
 at this time to a young lady in the county of Suffolk, her name 
 Mott. She is about 19. We have never seen her, nor do we 
 know much of her family ; yet this we know, that she is not of 
 our society, and how long poor George himself may be so, I 
 fear is now become doubtful from his new connexions. It has 
 been an hasty affair, and I wish not too hasty. His good 
 grandmother has not known more of it than we. But time 
 must show all, and, as things appear at present, I cannot say 
 we are very well pleased. To have George married is what we 
 wished, as he has no taste for books and is quite an idle body, 
 and consequently in a dangerous state, but to have had him 
 properly married was the thing desired. All I shall say more foi. 2006. 
 on the occasion is, we must hope the best. George is at present 
 in Suffolk at the young lady's father's house. 
 
 We were sorry to hear of the failures you mentioned, tho' 
 Mr. Lothian's loss does not much affect us, for we know of no 
 good he does with his money, — a poor creature. 
 
 Here follows a Copy of what is referred to in the above 
 letter. 
 
 THE PUBLIC ADVERTISER. 
 
 Ash Wednesday, February 16, 1774. 16 Feb. 
 
 To the printer of the Public Advertiser. 
 
 Sir, — The following curses are by God denounced in holy 
 writ : Cursed is he that curses father or mother. Cursed is he 
 that removeth his neighbours landmark. Cursed are the un- 
 merciful, covetous persons and extortioners. Now, 
 
296 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1774 
 
 16 Feb. As to the first, surely that man must lie under that curse 
 who by force drives his father from his possessions, and hires 
 people with his father's money to murder him. 
 
 As to the second curse, If it is a damnable sin to remove a 
 neighbour's landmark to defraud him of a bit of ground, how 
 great, how tremendously great, must that man's curse be who, 
 although he lets the landmark stand, yet by force defrauds him 
 of his whole ground and property ! And that man who is 
 guilty of the above must certainly be an unmerciful, covetous, 
 extortionable person. 
 
 This day eighty-four years, just at the very time the curses 
 of God were by his lawful ministers pronouncing in every 
 foi. 20C7. church in England, Scotland, and Ireland, an herald was pro- 
 claiming two undutiful children K and Q of England, 
 
 etc. But peace be to their manes. They in a short time after- 
 wards were obliged to appear where rebellion, perjury, fraud, 
 cunning, and deceit would stand in no good stead. 
 
 But let us see and consider the advantages the subjects 
 gained by that glorious day's work. Before that period the 
 subjects were not incumbered with so much as one penny 
 national debt, and the whole of all their taxes united together 
 scarcely amounted to three pence in the pound. 
 
 Now, take all our taxes of every sort united, they amount to 
 about fifteen shillings in the pound, three parts of our whole 
 property (the undoubted cause of provisions being dear) and as 
 
 the K goes on, the remaining fourth must soon follow. 
 
 And suppose the national debt to be one hundred and forty 
 millions, which, funded and unfunded, I believe will amount to 
 
 that sum, then for every single day since the R we have 
 
 been blessed with an accumulating debt amounting to upwards 
 of four thousand, five hundred, sixty two pounds, nineteen 
 shillings, and eight-pence three farthings per day ; a blessing 
 on us and our posterity for ever, so sure as the Revolution was 
 a blessing : if otherwise, a curse and burthen on us and our 
 latest posterity. And all the aforesaid millions were expended 
 to make the poor and distressed states of Holland become rich, 
 high, and mighty, the poor Electorate of Hanover rich and 
 wealthy, and the subjects of Great Britain and Ireland in 
 foi 2008. poverty, distress, and slavery. And since the aforesaid period 
 
1774] THE PUBLIC ADVERTISER 297 
 
 our governors have coaxed us to part with the major part of 16 Feb. 
 our money they did not take by force, and in the room thereof 
 to give us bits of paper, so that the major part of our remain- 
 ing wealth is now in their hands, by which means they keep up 
 the following standing armies to keep the subject in awe, 
 poverty, distress, and slavery ; a standing army of great place- 
 men, a standing army of excisemen, permit-men, custom-house 
 officers, with the other innumerable company of little placemen, 
 a standing army of devouring locusts called pensioners, and a 
 standing army of soldiers, by all which means our liberties are 
 become barely nominal and our paper property of every sort 
 
 whenever the pleases can be wiped out with a spunge. 
 
 If we consider religion, the Church of England flourished 
 before that period. But since that time Popery and fanaticism 
 have increased, especially of late years, to such a degree that, 
 without the spirit of prophecy, we may foretell that in a few 
 years the Church of England will be extinct, unless God in his 
 great mercy preserves us. 
 
 If we look into morality, our governors since that period, by 
 their wicked example of bribery, corruption, dissipation, gam- 
 bling, and every species of wickedness that can be committed, 
 have so debauched the morals of the people that morality is in 
 the same deplorable condition of liberty, property, and religion, 
 viz., almost vanished from these once happy isles. On the 
 whole, if a tree is to be known by its fruits, who dare say the fol. 2009. 
 
 Rebellion against King James was not a g s R n. I 
 
 am, A South Briton. 
 
 N.B. — In the beginning of the printed paper below the 
 word Sir, the initial letter T was decorated all around 
 with the King's arms, having the ordinary motto, Dieu et 
 mon droit. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — March 15, 1774. — Your extraordinary 15 March 
 favor of the 28 ult. I cannot sufficiently acknowledge ; many 
 having been gratified with the perusal of it, all of them declar- 
 ing that such a paper has not appeared since the memorable 
 '88. I transcribed a copy and sent it to Lady Gask, who had 
 much need of some such entertainment, her sister, Mrs. Mary 
 Nairn, the ' Elect Lady J having lately died with her ; upon 
 
298 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1774 
 
 March which, writing a letter of condolence to her ladyship, I thought 
 fit to call another cause by subjoining a copy of the curiosity, 
 which would prove a very seasonable dose of medicine after the 
 mournful event. I have not yet heard from that honest lady 
 in return, but I look for some few lines every post. 
 
 The collector of news for the Caledonian Mercury, George 
 Reid by name, and one of us, came to me and received the 
 strange thing with pleasure, and had no doubt about falling 
 upon a way to introduce it with safety into their paper. When 
 he returned home, Robertson, the master, tho' a Whig, ordered 
 
 ' 2010. it to be printed as one of the greatest rarities he had ever seen. 
 In a word, most of the types were set when luckily Reid thought 
 of looking into the Journal of the House qf Commons, where he 
 found, ' Ordered — That the Attorney general shall prosecute 
 the printer and sellers of such a paper,"' etc. This put a stop 
 to the publication. Mr. Reid returned the rare piece to me, 
 regreting that the issue of the prosecution had not yet hap- 
 pened, for in that event they might have hit upon a way to 
 have inserted it into their paper. However, he intreated the 
 paper might not be offered to any other press, as they still hope 
 for a favourable opportunity to do as intended. I promised 
 that none other should have it but themselves. Meantime, I 
 must earnestly beg of you, dear Sir, to send me every such 
 rarity that comes in the way, and do you put the spur to Bob 
 Keith for franks. Such things prove cordials here, and who 
 knows but in due time they may work a cure ! 
 
 Some of the highest Government folks hereabouts begin to 
 speak out uncommon thoughts, such as, That matters are now 
 in such a situation that Britain must suffer some severe convulsion 
 or other. 
 
 Ah for George Smith ! Quantum mutatus ab illo ! Such a 
 grandmother, and to be so used ! Such friends and to be so 
 neglected ! I am afraid London has made a change upon him 
 to the worse, for when in Scotland a more sweet-blooded and 
 advisable youth did not exist. Perhaps the accession to his 
 oi. 201 1. fortune has done him no good for, 
 
 ' When plenty flows, we good advice despise ; 
 Tis want that sharpens thought and makes us wise. ' 
 
1774] BANKRUPTCIES IN SCOTLAND 299 
 
 Had he been dependent in statu quo, he would readily have *5 March 
 been more observant and submissive. Meantime I heartily 
 join with you in saying we must hope the best. I will not quit 
 my hold of him till his conduct explain the contrary, which 
 would truly give me pain. May God preserve him from every in- 
 stance of tergiversation ! and may he prove a worthy descen- 
 dant of such a father, such a grandfather and grandmother ! 
 If convenient, be so good as to wish the young pair all joy and 
 happiness in the name of me and mine. But in this, Sir, you 
 are to do as you judge most proper. 
 
 Our failures, indeed, are uncommon and very alarming. 
 Campbell of Bellmount for ^60,000 sterling, and Alexander 
 Sheriff in Leith for £44,000, with the latter of whom Mr. 
 Lothian is in for £1 5,000, not much regreted, poor thing ! 
 by any that I know of. These events cut deep, and from the 
 greatness of the sum become in some measure national. May 
 God amend the times and send us better days ! for never was 
 more pressing need. May we be rendered fit to receive such 
 unmerited blessings ! Alas ! alas ! we are come to the very 
 dregs of times. 
 
 I have now some reason to assure you that no tampering will 
 be used with your Mr. Smith. I took an opportunity of speaking 
 home to the heart of the clergyman in Edinburgh who corre- 
 sponds with him, and enjoined him expressly to make no offers f° l - 2 ° 12 - 
 or proposals to Mr. S. He promised to observe the injunction. 
 Deus sit tecum tuisque, Amen. Adieu, dear sir, adieu. 
 
 March 15, 1774. 
 
 P.S. — I expect there will be something curious and in- 
 teresting in the decision against the printers and sellers of the 
 plain and bold daily paper now to be judicially animadverted 
 upon. The pleadings must be of a very uncommon and delicate 
 turn, for facts are very stiff and uncomplying things. — Once 
 more adieu. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — March 26, 1774. — Alas ! dear Sir, Lady 2 6 March 
 Gask is no more. She was in a declining way when I wrote 
 you last, but hoping she might get the better of it, I did not 
 mention it to you. She expired, after five weeks' illness, on 
 
300 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1774 
 
 26 March Friday, the 18th instant, half after 2 o'clock afternoon, having 
 received the Viaticum, and was sensible and distinct to the very 
 last, aged about 75. 
 
 I may with great truth say, Wo's me ! for the faithful are 
 minished from among the children of men. The Church had 
 not a more faithful daughter, nor the King a more steady and 
 loyal subject. She bore up under all the trials and difficulties 
 of life with a firmness and constancy, a mildness and chearful- 
 ness of mind, not to be outdone by any other. When her 
 foi. 2013. ladyship was in use of coming over from foreign parts to do the 
 business of the family, she displayed a fortitude, calmness, and 
 application, endearing and instructive. I admired, I revered 
 her. Gone she is, I hope to reap the fruits of her labours, and 
 may all her descendants tread in her steps. Be she with God 
 and God with her ! 
 
 I heartily wish the honest man, his lady and daughter, were 
 returned home soon and well. 
 
 Tom Bowdler is in perfect good health, and says a certain 
 paper should be written in letters of gold. I am still enter- 
 taining this and the other friend with a perusal, and all are 
 astonished, declaring the like never appeared before. 
 
 Has Mr. George Smith appeared yet with you ? 
 
 A happy and comfortable Easter to you and all yours. 
 
 Best wishes and kindest compliments from me and mine to 
 yourself and nearest friend. Deus sit tecum tuisque, Amen. — 
 Adieu, dear Sir, adieu. 
 
 From the Rev. Mr. George Cheyne. 
 
 28 March Stirling, March 28, 1774. — Now to say one word about the 
 Ash Wednesday paper — curious and bold it is beyond every- 
 thing I have seen ; and then to come thro 1 the hands of 
 
 foi. 2014. bitterest enemies to lawful government is truly extraordinary. 
 
 In short, it is written upon solid principles of religion, and 
 every line is fraught with truths that may be felt as surely as 
 Egyptian darkness was of old. But it is to be feared, however 
 sensible the generality may be of our miseries (plainly enough 
 the effects of Divine vengeance on a guilty land), yet those who 
 chiefly ought, will not have such a right sense of them as shall 
 
1774] 
 
 POLITICAL PORTENTS 
 
 301 
 
 lead to repentance. What becomes of it before the 500 kings, 2 8 March 
 I shall expect to hear when you do, or perhaps in the public 
 papers. 
 
 From Sir William Dunbar of Durn. 
 
 Banff) March %3d, 1774. — The Daily Advertiser, etc., came 23 March 
 duly to hand. Our present condition looks ill. What is done 
 in Boston, and what is intended against them, give France and 
 Spain too glaring an opportunity to play their game against 
 us ; and I am not sure but these powers may in a hidden way 
 support and encourage these malecontents and bring on a war. 
 You see the Hanoverians are ordered to be in arms. From 
 this we may fear his Prussian Majesty may disturb there. 
 I hear General Scott goes over to quell the Bostonians as 
 principal commander. All this shews we are in motion. But I 
 am of opinion the sinews of war will be ill to seek and worse 
 to find, from whence they can arise without a remarkable 
 general distress so as it may ruin Britain and give enemies 
 courage to conquests in many places. I am of opinion our 
 American settlements are in danger. "Tis no wonder if even 
 Whigs begin to see a convulsion coming on. A twelvemonth f 0 i. 2015. 
 hence may give a strange appearance to events not attended 
 to. All will be as God will have it. 
 
 From said Sir William Dunbar. 
 
 Banff, March 27, 1774. — Thanks for many favours. Wood- 27 March 
 fall's paper is true, say Commons, and Satan their supporter, 
 what they please, when they call 2 and 2 six. 'Tis a blunt 
 stile but strong. Veritas vincit. Pm thinking France and 
 Spain have a hand in Boston doings. God help us. We are 
 
 in a sad dismal condition ; all due to the R R on, 'tis 
 
 plain. England is case-hardened almost, sunk in folly and 
 madness infectious like a plague. 
 
 From Bishop Gordon. — London, April 9, 1774. — My dear Sir, 9 April 
 Wo is me for good Lady Gask ! And well did she deserve all 
 the good and great things that could be said of her. Her good 
 deeds go before and follow after her, and I doubt not of her 
 
302 
 
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 [1774 
 
 9 April being received into the mansions of bliss, and there to wait in 
 the society of the faithful departed in the joyful and comfort- 
 able expectation of an happy resurrection to eternal glory and 
 happiness. Alas ! Alas ! the faithful are minished fast away, 
 at a time too when they can be ill spared, for God knows, there 
 is but small, or rather no appearance of their places being 
 filled with equal honour and benefit in the present generation, 
 which stands greatly in need of such illustrious and edifying 
 
 foi. 2016. examples. All I shall add more on the present occasion is, 
 Requiescat vn pace ! It happens unluckily that her worthy son 
 and his lady should, be abroad on this melancholy occasion. 
 But God's will be done, and all for the best. You mentioned 
 sending her ladyship a copy (for a cordial) of a certain paper 
 to cheer her spirits after the loss of her excellent sister, who 
 has left behind her the grateful and sweet odor of an excellent 
 character, and a rare example of piety and virtue. For her 
 too let us heartily join in Requiescat. 
 
 And here now I send you, Sir, a curiosity, admirable in its 
 kind, which will make your heart leap for joy, being I have 
 reason to believe the first that is come to Britain. But say 
 not a word from what quarter you had it. You will please to 
 shew it to my sister, who I reckon is now in Edinburgh. I 
 received a letter from her just before she left Dumfries, and 
 wrote one myself, which would get to the same place j ust after 
 she left it. But to resume the higher and more important 
 subject again of the portrait, I cannot quit it without indulging 
 the vanity of telling you, it was sent me by the express order 
 of my most respectable friend himself, who at the same time 
 was so gracious as to say he has more for me if I desire them ; 
 
 foi. 2017. which in due time and consistent with safety (God willing) 
 shall be done. This and half a dozen more came in a letter 
 yesterday by the ordinary post. Pray let me know by the 
 return of the post if the inclosed comes safe to hand. 
 
 I don't imagine there will be any real prosecution commenced 
 against the printer of the South Briton. It appears to me to be 
 only a piece of mere bluster. It would be meddling with edged 
 tools, and the minister is more prudent than to encourage 
 officious and indiscreet zeal. Pray give my kind love to my 
 sister when you see her, and tell her, now we have seen the 
 
1774] PORTRAIT OF PRINCESS LOUISA 303 
 
 young lady, our nephew's bride, we like her very much. She 9 April 
 seems to be a sweet temper'd, sensible, prudent young woman. 
 She is near as tall as her husband, slender, genteel, and of a 
 elegant form. She has been two or three times at prayers with 
 us since they came from the country, and I would hope if all 
 proper means were used she may still be brought nearer to us. 
 I made your compliments to the bridegroom, and he returns 
 his, and thanks to yourself and good Mrs. Forbes. 
 
 We join as usual in kind compliments and every good wish 
 to you and yours ; and I am, dear sir, yours ever faithfully. 
 Excuse haste and blunders, R. G. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon, — April 14, 1774. — Yes, my very dear Sir, foi. 2018. 
 your cordial of the 9th instant gave no small joy to more than 15 Apnl 
 one. The most agreeable packet came to hand yesternight, 
 and you see I have not delayed one post to acknowledge the 
 singular and refreshing obligation, and even the honour done 
 me by so valuable and distinguishing a present. Ten thousand 
 thanks then for remembring us so speedily with the rare 
 curiosity of two amiable pieces, more of which, could they be 
 spared, I would know well how to bestow properly when 
 additional copies come to hand. But of this you are best 
 judge. No wonder that the most respectable friend parti- 
 cularizes you with a mark of distinction for you are a friend 
 indeed, as he cannot forget ; a faithful keeper in one of the 
 most critical periods of life that could possibly happen to any 
 person whatsoever. These are my words, but you can guess 
 my sense. 
 
 Meantime it shall not be known from what quarter the 
 admirable curiosity comes, which your sister shall see in due 
 time. She has been with us at dinner when we remembred 
 you, Mrs. Gordon, the worthy grandmother, the worthy pair, 
 etc., in a proper manner. I returned the kind visit on Tuesday 
 last, the 12th instant. When with us, I regaled her with a 
 reading of the bold, unparallePd South Briton, to her no small 
 surprize and contentment. I have the pleasure to tell you she foi. 2019. 
 looks well, and is in perfect good health. I intend to see her, 
 God willing, on Saturday first, solus cum sola to the joy of her 
 heart in more respects than one ; for your accounts of the 
 
304 
 
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 [1774 
 
 14 April amiable Mr. Smith, and it would appear his no less amiable 
 companion are extremely agreeable. May all the happiness of 
 the conjugal state ever attend them. 
 
 Yesterday I dined, upon particular invitation, with the 
 ladies of Traquair in company with Lord Linton and his lady, 
 and a gentleman who some time ago wore a black cockade, but 
 whose trim I know well. The twin-ladies desired to hear once 
 more the South Briton for the entertainment of the company. 
 They were, all of them, highly delighted with it, particularly 
 the once cockaded gentleman, who expatiated much upon it, as 
 the boldest, the strongest, the most concise and true history he 
 had ever seen in all his life. 4 And which is worst of all in one 
 sense," said he, 4 it is all matter of fact. Not one word of it 
 can be denied. "Tis pity it should not be more known. 1 He 
 was heartily joined in all this by the whole company. I told 
 them I had done all, consistent with safety, to have it published 
 foi. 2020. in Scotia, but it could not be done. The gentleman of the 
 sword declared his opinion, which now appears to be yours, 
 that the order for a vigorous prosecution would turn out to be 
 a mere puff. ' They will set their foot upon it,"' said he. All 
 the company then declared their liking to have copies of it in 
 harmles ms. But I told them it was rather too long for tran- 
 scribing, and I did not chuse to part with the rarity out of my 
 custody. 
 
 Your expressions upon the worthy Lady Gask's death and 
 that of her no less worthy sister, are most just and well applied. 
 Alas ! Alas ! few such now to be found in these our licentious 
 days of profligacy and boasted enlightening. Requiescat in 
 pace ! etc. You and yours are ever present with us in thought. 
 Deus sit semper tecum tuisque ! Amen et amen. Adieu, dear 
 Sir, Adieu. 
 
 From Bishop Gordon. — London, May 19, 1774. — 'Tis full time 
 your last obliging letter should be acknowledged, which gave 
 us the pleasure of hearing you and good Mrs. Forbes were both 
 well. All thanks be to God ! 
 
 I was glad to hear the prints had come safe. I could not 
 doubt the pleasure you would have in seeing them : and as I 
 foi. 2021. well know how agreeable it will be to you to have it in your 
 
1774] PORTRAITS OF THE PRINCESS 305 
 
 power to oblige some well deserving friend, I here inclose a 19 May 
 duplicate, tW, I can assure you, very hard to be spared. I 
 know a gentlewoman of your acquaintance and mine sent down 
 3 or 4 to some particular friends of hers much about the same 
 time, which probably you may have heard of. 
 
 This moment a letter is come in from my sister in Dumfries 
 who acknowledges your and good Mrs. Forbes's great civilities 
 to her. Her fellow-traveller, I perceive, would not wait her 
 celebrating the great festival just at hand in Edinburgh ; 
 Presbyterian like ! Alas ! how pitiable is the ignorance ! 
 
 I have inclosed some franks to Captain Keith now at Pots- 
 dam with his friend Lord Mareschall. His sister, who favoured 
 me with them, will deliver me what you inclose. 
 
 My sister tells me the Primus had above 200 communicants 
 on Easter day, and Mr. Harper as many more, and, no doubt, 
 Dr. Drummond a great many too. These are pleasing things 
 to hear at this time of day. All glory be to God ! 
 
 It has been whispered, tho' I cannot tell from what quarter 
 it comes, yet, I guess from Mrs. Bowdler's correspondence with 
 Mr. Cheyne, that in case of a certain event, our people won't 
 be received by the Scots' bishops upon the footing they stand 
 now. Dreadfull to hear ! It will be no less than breaking and 
 shattering the faithful remnant of confessors to pieces. What 2 ° 2: 
 says my good friend to it ? We must not wonder at anything ; 
 nor will you, Sir, when I tell you, that Mr. Brett with his 
 family (in case of the said event) as Mr. Dodwell did, seems 
 resolved to go to the publick, and has mustered up all the old, 
 battered, refuted arguments to apologize for his so doing, and 
 presumes to tell the remnant what they ought to do. How will 
 this apply to your dream ? O ! the world ! the world, and the 
 interests thereof ! I have long thought him lukewarm and a 
 moderate man, and this comes of moderation falsely so 
 called. Let them that think they stand take heed lest 
 they fall. 
 
 Knowing your kind concern for my health, I must tell you, 
 Sir, that (Blessed be God !) it is very good at present. I have, 
 indeed, a sore in one of my legs, which I am in no haste to heal 
 up as it discharges a laudable suppuration which, they tell me, 
 will be of service to my health. But God's will be done ! Grant 
 
 VOL. III. u 
 
306 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1774 
 
 19 May me content ! I must not chuse. He only knows what is best 
 for me. 
 
 Mr. Smith, the Revd., sends his best respects and duty, and 
 Mr. Smith, the squire, and his lady, send their thanks for your 
 obliging compliments. The lady is, so far, very complying and 
 attends the church with her husband. I wish they may hold 
 steady in this giddy age. 
 foi 2023. You and good Mrs. Forbes have our best wishes, those 
 particularly suitable to the great and holy festival just near 
 approaching. That God may ever have you and yours, dear 
 Sir, in his holy keeping, is the hearty prayer of, Yours ever 
 faithfully, (Sic subscribitur) R. G. 
 
 23 May To Bishop Gordon. — May 28, 1774. — Yours of the 19th 
 instant is now lying before me, and I hasten to answer that I 
 may make you easy upon a point which seems to be somewhat 
 distressing to you. 
 
 The duplicate is given to Lord Linton's lady, who, upon 
 seeing mine, begged it as a singular favor to have such a 
 present when any more should come to hand, and her ladyship 
 has received it with great pleasure and many thanks. You 
 know, perhaps, that she is an English lady. 
 
 Yes. I knew that Mrs. Strange sent 3 to Mrs. Reynolds, 
 with whom Mrs. Smith of Burnhall lodged when in Edinburgh, 
 and withal wrote that she knew not well how to dispose of 
 them, as it would appear, so few are the friends and such the 
 indifference and lukewarmness in Anglia. Indeed, Sir, had I 
 100, even more than that number, I would know well how to 
 dispose of them to very good purpose. Such is the difference. 
 You cannot imagine how much these same heads and the Ash 
 Wednesday's letter have revived the spirits of not a few. As I 
 foi. 2024. cou l(J not get the rare piece introduced into a newspaper, you 
 see it has been published in another shape. Honest John 
 Wilson has got 1000 of them cast off. They are purchased in 
 dozens and half-dozens, to be given away in order to make them 
 spread. Even some of the greatest Whigs and Presbyterians 
 have purchased copies, and they are heard to say among them- 
 selves, It is all true ! It is all true ! They have reached to 
 Caithness and the Orkneys. When any such rarity comes in 
 
1774] ASH WEDNESDAY'S LETTER 307 
 
 the way, you see who will be a gentle and thankfull receiver, 28 Ma y 
 and will make a proper use of it. Such opportunities ought to 
 be improved. 
 
 All the civilities in our power were extremely well bestowed 
 upon Mrs. Gordon of Dumfries. She purchased a dozen of the 
 bold letter. 
 
 I am now well provided in franks, having no fewer than 16. 
 I expected to have heard from Bob Keith upon his setting out 
 for German dominions. However, I am glad to learn from you 
 of his safe arrival at Potsdam. Much success and a safe return 
 to him in all due time. 
 
 The number of communicants in Edina is within bounds, 
 and not at all exaggerated. I could name two country 
 congregations in Aberdeenshire that have, each of them at 
 Easter, 6 or 7, if not 800 communicants. All glory be to God ! 
 
 Now as to the ill-grounded whisper. Let Mr. C, D, E, F, 
 and G, say what please, your friend's resolution in case of a 
 certain event is fiVd and determin'd, like the laws of the Medes foh 2025. 
 and Persians which altereth not. For he is positive to act as 
 agreed upon under God in case of survivance, being cloathed 
 with full power for that effect by the only one who could give 
 it, and no one has a just right to quarrel it. The agreement 
 betwixt you and your friend has not been so much as hinted to 
 any one man by me, and must not be breathed. 
 
 The intended tergiversation of Mr. Brett is no new thing to 
 me, as I must now tell you, my dearest friend, in the greatest 
 confidence, that some years ago Mr. Brett thought fit to have 
 carefully transmitted to me, sub sigillo corifessionis, his thoughts 
 upon the melancholy subject, earnestly desiring my opinion of 
 them. Without loss of time I wrote remarks upon his argu- 
 ments which were speedily put into his hands. But to this day 
 he has never made the smallest reply either by word or writ. 
 Indeed I am sorry to say it, his reasonings are poor and weak, 
 truly weak as water, as we say in Scotland. They are so open 
 and liable to exception that I wrote the remarks upon them 
 without consulting any one author. He puts me in mind of a 
 man plunged into a river struggling for bare life and catching 
 at every straw on the surface of the water to keep him from 
 drowning. Had not you opened the door to me, I would not 
 
308 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1774 
 
 28 May have entered. Though he communicated his papers to me sub 
 foi. 2026. s }g>in 0 cortfessionis, yet it would be unpardonable in me not to 
 let you into the secret, as he is prematurely voluntiering, and 
 even as you justly say, 6 presumes to tell the remnant what they 
 ought to do? High and bold presumption indeed ! and what I 
 never would have expected from one of his sterling education, 
 learning, and knowledge. Alas ! Alas ! No man enters into 
 an error without wishing to have company along with him. 
 Upon perusal of your letter, I could not help looking once 
 more into his arguments and my remarks upon them, and the 
 more I consider the former, the more silly and futile do they 
 appear to me, just like one at a loss what to say, and beating 
 about to invent some shew or argument. All this applies too 
 well to the dream, for you know, Sir, cockades and pistols 
 portend war. 
 
 By the bye, there are strange unaccountable forebodings and 
 rumors of wars in the country, just like what happened among 
 us before 1745. I listen not much to such things ; but I must 
 frankly own the similarity of appearances strike deep with me. 
 Well, let us wait with patience the will of God ; for all must 
 foi. 2027. be as He will have it. Are there any such forebodings and 
 rumors with you ? 
 
 You are pleased to call Mr. Brett a lukewarm and moderate 
 man, but might you not have added a money-making body ? 
 Where that is the case, the pitiful pelf and the sordid dross 
 will drive a man very strange lengths. I have often heard of 
 him that he was more of the laical than the clerical cast, 
 dipping much in secular affairs and worldly business. Poor 
 man ! I envy him not — but much do I pity him. Were a 
 change happening, that would soon make a change in him. 
 Methinks he should be a little more modest in his presuming to 
 direct the Remnant, etc., as who knows who may go first off 
 the stage of life ? What say our good friends Mr. and Mrs. 
 Bowdler of his arguments ? I hope they do not listen to the 
 new-vamp'd reasons of compliance. 
 
 God be thanked for your good state of health. May it 
 increase and continue ! 
 
 I received the other day a letter from the Revd. Mr. Smith, 
 to whom is inclosed a return. 
 
1774] THE ROYAL OAK CLUB 
 
 309 
 
 We rejoice to hear of the welfare of Mr. Smith of Burnhall, 28 May 
 and his lady, whose behaviour to your good liking is agreeable 
 to hear. I heartily join with you in wishing they may hold fol. 2028. 
 steady in this giddy age. All things good and happy to them 
 and the worthy grandmother. God be ever with you, good 
 Mrs. Gordon and all yours, A Dieu, dear Sir, A Dieu. 
 
 May 28, 1774. 
 
 P.S. — After writing the other leaf I happened to see Mrs. 
 Reynolds, who told me she had got five prints of the two lovely 
 heads. I said she was well off in being the lucky person to 
 have so many of them. 
 
 I was lately highly pleased to find the non-subscribants would 
 be had met with one more rebuff. Lord North, Burke, etc., 
 behaved well. Will ever the enemies of the Church of England, 
 or rather, indeed, of Christianity, have done with their sly and 
 bold attempts ? No, no. They are set on by the old Deceiver 
 who will never give over to the last glimpse of hope. 
 
 We have got a new club in Edinburgh under the name of fol. 2029. 
 the Royal Oak Club. They have a sovereign whose head is 
 adorned with a blue bonnet, having a medal on the front of it, 
 with an oak delineated on it, with these words The Royal 
 Oak, and round the top in the segment of a circle, Pro rege 
 et patria. They meet the first Monday of every month, and 
 the sovereign dictates all the toasts. Each member has such 
 a medal as above described hanging by a ribband on his breast. 
 When one offers to be a member a single vote rejects the 
 petition. All must be unanimous. Once more A Dieu. 
 
 From Bishop Gordon. — London, June 13, 1774. — I am fol, 2030. 
 greatly obliged to you for both your last. The inclosed I3 ^ unt 
 for Mr. Oliphant was duly delivered, and luckily before he 
 set out for Wimbleton, where he and his lady and Miss 
 were going to stay for a week, in order to be in quiet and 
 refresh themselves before they enter upon their long journey 
 northward; for they had had a tedious voyage of no less than six 
 weeks from Seville, in which poor Mrs. Oliphant had suffer d 
 a good deal. But, thanks be to God, I thought she seemed to 
 be recovering before they set out for the country. They are 
 to be in the house of one of the Mr. Drummonds at Wimbleton. 
 
310 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1774 
 
 13 June I hope to see them again before they set out for Scotland. 
 May God grant you all an happy and joyful meeting. Before 
 I proceed farther I must thank you for the Royal Oak. A 
 young lady of my acquaintance is to sing it accompanied with 
 musick. 
 
 I hope to have it in my power in a little time to send you 
 more prints. For my most respectable friend, since I had 
 yours, sends me word in his most gracious way that there are 
 more upon the road coming to me. Mrs. Strange tells me she 
 has not now got one left. I am pleased to hear so good an 
 account of the South Britons, and thank you for the copy you 
 sent me, which I gave to a worthy gentleman of your acquaint- 
 ance who was greatly pleased with it, and put it into his 
 daughter's hand to read it to her mamma. No prosecution 
 
 foi. 2031. is commenced here, nor likely to be. 'Tis an edged tool, and 
 they don't care to handle it rashly in the courts of law, not- 
 withstanding a loud bluster in a certain place, not the most 
 celebrated for wisdom in all their proceedings. No rarity of 
 this kind has lately fallen in my way, but when there does 
 you may depend upon having it. 
 
 Alas ! poor Mr. Brett ! I shall leave a declaration behind 
 me declaring my utter dislike of his MS., as containing matter 
 contrary to the doctrine and principles of the Catholick Church, 
 and the deprived Church of England in particular. I purpose 
 seeing him face to face before this month be at an end ; for I 
 go down (God willing) to do an office for his children, who at 
 present have no concern in a certain affair ; and may God, of 
 his gracious goodness, turn aside the present intentions of a 
 father, consulting the interests of a loose and profligate world 
 more than his own and their everlasting well being ! Pray, did 
 Mr. Bowdler ever know anything of this correspondence be- 
 tween you and Mr. Brett? No, no. Mr. Bowdler and his 
 excellent lady are not to be moved by poor Mr. Brett's stale 
 arguments. The conveniences of the world are not their 
 object in competition with weightier matters. 
 
 No, I don't observe any such forebodings and rumours among 
 us here as you speak of. We are all enervated and drunk with 
 the height of luxury and diversion, and no fear of God left 
 
 fol. 2032. before our eyes to restrain us from what we are prompted to by 
 
1774] CAPTAIN ROBERT KEITH AT BERLIN 311 
 
 our corrupt will and passions. God in mercy look upon us i3jur 
 and tarn our hearts to seek what is good and to do justice 
 and judgment ! 
 
 I have this moment received a letter from Mr. Brett desiring 
 my visit may be deferred for five or six weeks, for which I am 
 not sorry, as matters stand, for I shall have more time to pre- 
 pare for him. If I can I will get a copy of his doughty ms. 
 for you, but then you will readily be desired to take the burthen 
 upon you of writing observations or remarks upon it. 
 
 Miss Keith has frequent letters and commissions from Pots- 
 dam. Her brother was at the late grand review at Berlin when 
 his Prussian Majesty was pleased to do him the honour of 
 taking notice of him in person, which was not done to any 
 other of the British officers, tho" there were several there, and 
 some of Captain Keith's own regiment. Won't this make the 
 little man look big, think you ? Yet for all this he says he 
 wishes to be at home with his sister. 
 
 If a vacancy should happen to be amongst you, who would 
 be most likely, think you, to be elected ? For on that I imagine 
 would our peace here in some measure depend. For envy and 
 jealousy have unaccountable workings. But let us trust in 
 God, and he will order all for the best. 
 
 Poor Mr. Oliphant on his return will, indeed, find a great fol. 203 
 blank at Gask. May God fill it up to him in abundant 
 comfort ! 
 
 My wife joining in respects and all good wishes to yourself 
 and good Mrs. Forbes, I am, dear Sir, commending you and 
 all yours ever to God and his keeping, Your ever faithful 
 friend and affectionate humble servant, 
 
 R. G. 
 
 From Bishop Gordon. — London, Jane 24, 1774. — A curiosity 24 June 
 of Marvellous Impudence. The Public Ledger, 1 Wednesday, 
 June 22, 1774, out of which some following passages. 
 
 Nor was his Majesty used better when he went to the House 
 to pass the Canada Bill the same day after rejecting the City 
 petition against the said bill. For there was an innumerable 
 
 1 Vol. 15, No. 4523. — F. 
 
312 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1774 
 
 24 June multitude of people, for the most part of seemingly good 
 fashion, who accompanied him with groans and hisses, and 
 crying aloud, No popery ! No popery ! going up to the coach 
 windows. In a word, this town, especially the city, is at present 
 in a high ferment. A Dieu ! 
 
 Mr. Oliphant set out on Wednesday last with his lady and 
 daughter for Scotland. May God grant them a safe and 
 comfortable journey ! 
 
 N.B. — People at present seem to be under no restraint 
 either in speaking or writing. 
 
 foL 2034 . FOR THE PUBLIC LEDGER. 
 
 To the people. 
 
 22 June I will follow the Quebec Bill to the throne, as I would the 
 framer of it to a Scaffold. 
 
 I have told the King that if he assents to the Bill he will 
 break his coronation oath, and a breach of an oath whether in 
 a king or a peasant is perjury. 
 
 The English government is founded on an agreement 
 mutually entered into by the King and people. The King 
 swears that the Established laws and customs of the realm 
 shall be the rules of his conduct, and that he will govern in 
 every respect according to them. The people take an oath 
 of allegiance, but it is conditional. They are bound to 
 obey no longer than the sovereign adheres to the terms of 
 his oath. For it would be absurd to suppose the people 
 fettered down to a promise after the first magistrate has 
 thought himself at liberty to sport with the most solemn 
 engagements. I therefore repeat it, that the moment a king 
 of England shall perjure himself, that instant are his subjects 
 absolved from their allegiance. The compact is broken. 
 The government founded on that compact is dissolved. It is 
 no excuse at the bar of reason that the prince was ill advised, 
 for after repeated warnings who, but an obstinate semblance of 
 foi. 2035. majesty would persist in the wrong. It is of no consequence 
 to the people whether a king perjures himself at the instiga- 
 tion of Bute, Mansfield, Jeffereys, or the Devil. He who is 
 
1774] THE PUBLIC LEDGER 
 
 313 
 
 so wicked as to violate his oath at the instigation of knaves is 22 June 
 too weak to be trusted with the rights of honest men. 
 
 I have only then one question to ask of the people. It is 
 this. If ever they should be so unhappy as to live under a 
 perjured prince whether they would not sooner see another 
 scaffold erected, at W hitehall than another coronation in 
 Westminster Abbey ? If I know anything of the spirit of 
 Englishmen, the scaffold would be crowded with heroes, the 
 abbey with children for the sake of the rare show, whilst thus 
 would run the general shout of the people, Off with the head 
 
 THAT PAYS NO REGARD TO THE SACREDNESS OF AN OATH. 
 
 A Scotchman — London. 
 
 jJ§T This day the Citizens' Address, Petition, and Remonstrance 
 will be presented to the king, to the no small diversion of the 
 minikin lords and backsliding ladies who infest a court, as vermin 
 a pantry, to glut themselves with its contents. The petition will, 
 however, be treated with indignant contempt, for it only prays 
 4 that our constitution, civil and religious, may not be violated ; 
 that the interests of our merchants may be a little attended to ; 
 and that the king for his own sake would not break his corona- fol. 2036. 
 tion oath." It also expresses a desire 4 that Popery may not be 
 established in any part of the British dominions, as it is a 
 religion our Revolution kings solemnly swear to reprobate.' 
 To expect that in a reign of favouritism silly requests like 
 these should be granted is the extreme of folly. The only 
 thing therefore the people have to do whilst King Bute retains 
 his influence and his head, the only thing they have to do is to 
 be as merry as a spoliation of their liberties will let them ; for 
 they may rest assured of this, that their complaints but feast 
 the ears of their oppressors ; the groans of the people con- 
 tribute to the merriment of administration, and what forbids 
 but we should laugh most heartily. If folly be an object of 
 ridicule, where reigneth folly so triumphant as at court ? If 
 fools furnish sport for jocund risibility, a drawing-room is 
 littered with them. If scandalous prostitution be fit subject 
 for contempt (to borrow an excellent writers phrase) 4 between 
 the lords of the court and the ladies of the town, tell me, 
 
THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [i774 
 
 ye that for your sins know both, which of the two have the 
 least honour ? The one glory in a pearl necklace acquired at 
 the expense of prostitution ; the other exult in splendid 
 equipages purchased by the sale of themselves.'* All things 
 then considered, the citizens may draw some improvement from 
 every visit they make to St. James's, and on this account a city 
 remonstrance is an excellent thing, as it gives the bearers an 
 opportunity of seeing that there is a species of folly at which 
 they have not yet arrived and a consummate share of tin- 
 selled rascality of which they are totally ignorant. As the 
 fol. 2037. Court will this day laugh at the City, the City should return 
 the compliment by laughing at the Court ; and if integrity 
 be a shield against ridicule, the citizens are compleatly armed, 
 the courtiers defenceless. Besides, contempt and ridicule are 
 effectual weapons to be employed against folly, ignorance, and 
 absurdity. The most reptile, chicken-hearted minister, one as 
 bad as the present, may stand abuse ; but no minister, no 
 system of government, can long bear up against ridicule and 
 
 CONTEMPT. 
 
 On this day the king will act over again that for which 
 James was sent a grazing. He will dispense with those laws 
 he was sworn to observe. He will establish that religion in a 
 part of the English dominions which his family was called to 
 the Crown to protect us against. He will by assenting to the 
 Quebec Bill, abolish trial by jury and the Habeas Corpus 
 Act (though they make a part of those very laws and 
 customs which at his coronation he called God to witness 
 should be the rules of his government). He will sacrifice the 
 Protestant to the Papist interest, the English to the French 
 laws, constitutional liberty to tyranny, the pleasure of govern- 
 ing a free people by a standard of laws to the whim of ruling 
 like a despot by the standard of caprice. What are we to 
 think of ministers who advise a man to precipitate his own 
 destruction ? Are we to despise the advisers, or pity the party 
 advised ? Will no warnings divert, no candid admonitions take 
 effect ? Will not a crown severed from the head of its wearer, 
 a head severed from the carcase of a king, will they have no 
 fol. 2038. preventive operation ? View that Whitehall Spectacle ! See 
 that distorted countenance ! It writhes under each stroke of 
 
i;74] THE PUBLIC LEDGER 315 
 
 the axe and seems to ask the rabble to commiserate its woes. 
 Behold a royal wanderer with helpless infants ! Behold him 
 in a dreary winters night trust himself rather to the mercy of 
 the waves than to the fury of his people. Oh ! Sir, Let not 
 the evil councils of evil men persuade you to pursue the very 
 same path which brought others to destruction ! By those 
 conjugal ties which unite you to the partner of your heart ; by 
 those tender sympathies which dilate a father^ breast, and teach 
 him to feel the fulness of parental affection ; by everything 
 sacred to you as a Christian, dear as a man, and estimable as a 
 king, I conjure you, Sir, to alter your purposes, comply with 
 your people's prayer, own yourself misled (for though about to 
 establish Popery you are not yet infallible) ; sacrifice your 
 favourites before they sacrifice you ; pay some respect to the 
 religion, some to the laws of your country ; and remember, Sir, 
 that as the people of England (at whose bar kings are answer- 
 able for their misdeeds) raised your ancestors to the throne, to 
 be protectors of their laws and defenders of their religion, 
 they will hardly suffer the innovators of the one or destroyers 
 of the other to proceed with impunity in defiance of justice. 
 
 INTELLIGENCE NEW AND WONDERFUL 
 
 It is expected that our pious and most Catholic young 
 monarch, George the Third, King, Defender of the Faith, will foi. 2039. 
 be attended this day to the House of Peers by all the Re- 
 ligious of the Church of Rome now in England, in solemn and 
 grand procession ; that the host will be elevated on the joyful 
 occasion of establishing Popery by a British Parliament, and 
 that a very large crucifix (which the Pope is said to have con- 
 secrated and sent privately to St. James's) will precede the 
 state coach. It is even said that a certain favorite chief 
 Justice, who is just raised to the purple by his Holiness for the 
 eminent services he has rendered Holy Mother Church, in 
 being the father of such a meritorious measure, will appear in 
 the procession on mule-back (which is a stile higher than his 
 heavenly Master rode into Jerusalem) and habited as a 
 cardinal. It is also reported that the Conclave have it in con- 
 templation suitably to reward Lord North and the Attorney 
 
316 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1774 
 
 and Solicitor Generals for their good services in the lower 
 House of Parliament. If these reports are true, the Holy See 
 cannot in its impartial justice forget the venerable bench of 
 Protestant bishops for observing a dead silence in the House of 
 Peers, whilst the enemies of their country were giving a mortal 
 blow to the civil and religious rights of Englishmen. 
 
 The toast of the day is, 6 An axe at the public expence for 
 the framer of the Quebec Bill." 
 
 N.B. This same Newspaper has a most flaming title, 
 viz., in Saxon letters, ' The Public Ledger — a daily, poli- 
 foi. 2040. tical, and commercial paper, open to all parties, but 
 
 influenced by none.'' 
 
 i July To Bishop Gordon. — July 1, 1774. — I am in arrears to you 
 for two, June 13 and 24, not my ordinary truly. Most kind 
 and entertaining they are. 
 
 I would be highly obliged to you for a copy of the declara- 
 tion you intend to leave behind you. If you procure a copy of 
 the doughty MS., it will be extremely kind in you to transmit 
 it, and strictures if desired, shall, God willing, not be wanting. 
 
 Bob Keith has been highly honoured, but I am persuaded it 
 will not elate him. He is judicious, and his longing to be at 
 home with his sister is a plain indication of it. 
 
 It is hard to say who may be most likely to be elected to 
 strengthen our succession. Time must explain that. 
 
 Our three friends arrived at Edinburgh half after one o'clock, 
 Wednesday, June 29, well and hearty, God be thanked ! I 
 spent that afternoon and supped with them. Your health and 
 that of Mrs. Gordon were not forgot. Next day I took break- 
 fast with them and was obliged to go into the country by 
 appointment. They were to set out homeward a little after 
 mid-day. May God be always with them ! They and their 
 company were highly entertained with the extraordinary 
 Public Ledger, for which ten thousand thanks. I shewed it 
 to Tom Bowdler, who laughed most heartily and declared he 
 had never seen the like. I am highly pleased to here from 
 him that his brother and a companion are to be here in the 
 beginning of August. I heartily wish they could bring along 
 with them Mr. Smith of Burnhall and his lady. Pray remem- 
 
1774] 
 
 NEWS OF THE PRINCE 
 
 317 
 
 ber me most kindly to Jack Bowdler, and bid him try to i July 
 accomplish this earnest desire of mine and of some others. 
 
 I am obliged to be in Edinburgh this day upon some business, foi. 204T. 
 and therefore must have done sooner than I incline. God be 
 ever with you, Mrs. Gordon, and all your concerns ! Adieu, 
 dear Sir, Adieu. 
 
 On a separate bit of paper what follows : 
 
 N.B. — Yes, dear Sir, Mr. Bowdler knows the whole of the 
 correspondence between Nicolas Brett and your humble ser- 
 vant. But then as the whole was offered sub sigillo coiifessionis, 
 so the particular article of Mr. Bowdler's participation was 
 most strongly recommended as a deep and dead secret. How- 
 ever, I can assure you with truth that the flimsy arguings make 
 no impression upon Mr. Bowdler. Nay, sub rosa dictum sit, he 
 has frankly allowed me to know that Nicholas Brett is by far 
 too much of this world, which he sincerely regrets. Pray 
 commit this bit to the flames, and be sure to take all they say 
 upon the subject as entirely new to you. 
 
 From John Farquharson of Aldlerg. 
 
 Dimkerque, July 8th, 1774. — Upon this scrap of paper I must 8 July 
 even plague you with my nonsense. The bearer, my friend and 
 relation, tho"* diametrically opposite to you in principle of 
 religion, tho 1 not in other things, I hope, you will take by the 
 hand and give him the friendly shake. He will give you all the 
 news about the Sultan and Sultana, as he is come lately from foh 2042. 
 Constantinople. I wrote to you in a former letter 1 that I sent 
 your verses to Ougle to be laid at the feet of the Sultana, and 
 in return of post she sent me her picture and that of the Sultan, 
 to be sent to our worthy friend, the Bishop of Ross ; and they 
 have lain by me ever since, waiting a sure hand to deliver them. 
 Now Providence has put my friend, Mr. Gordon, in my way in 
 order to send them safe. I expect something else muckle better 
 to send you, and that is a scrawl of thanks fra her ain bra white 
 finger and thumb. At least Ougle wrote me that that was her 
 ain intention. Many bra days may she see ! Vow ! man, if we 
 
 1 See f. 1994. 
 
318 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1774 
 
 8 July had her in Tartan Ha ! how we would hug and kiss her. You '11 
 get all her news fra the bearer. So I shanna say mickle mair 
 about her ain sell, but that I like her dearly, and so do many 
 mair, even mony o these folks that wear the black clout aboon 
 their lugg, to that degree that some o their money behoved to 
 be stop'd by their friends. I have nae kind of news to send 
 you, only that I and caillich keep well, as does Sandy and his 
 deaf rib. O man, we hae got a fine new king, and if he pays 
 me, he '11 be still finer. He is greatly upon the saving order, 
 and has made a present to his gentle subjects of sixty millions 
 of French money, and has made a very great reform in his 
 stables and houshold. How soon that scrawl comes to my 
 hands I shall take the proper care o 't. The little wifie never 
 forgets your civilities, and joins me in wishing you and lady 
 everything that is good, and that you may soon see what you 
 want. This is and shall be the earnest wish of him who is, 
 Your most humble servant, John Farquharsox, 
 
 alias John Anderson, my Jo. 
 
 To John Farquharson. 
 foi. 2043. Dear Sir, — Your kind and obliging letter of July 8th by 
 your friend from Constantinople chear'd the cockles of my 
 heart. By your transmission of a certain scribble to the hands 
 of a friendly fair lady you have procured me much honour. I 
 highly value the genteel present, as, from the bottom of my 
 heart, I venerate the lovely hand it came from, whose hand- 
 writing is too exalted an honour for me to look for. May the 
 amiable pair live and be happy, to the joy and comfort of all 
 concerned ! 
 
 Your cousin has been twice with me, when the healths of the 
 goodman and the goodwife aur the hills and far awa were duly 
 remembred out of a proper cup, with all their fast friends; 
 among whom John Anderson my Jo and his caillich, honest 
 Sandy, and his bosom friend, were not forgotten. I have so 
 many letters on hand at present that I must have done sooner 
 than I incline. 
 
 Your cousins here are in good health, and remember you and 
 yours with much kindness. All things good and happy to you 
 and all the lovers of the mathematics. Soon may you all 
 
1774] 
 
 CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 319 
 
 appear in your proper colours. I ever am, dear Sir, Your very ^ A ^^ 
 faithful friend and most obedient humble servant, 
 
 Donald Hatebreeks. 
 
 Tartan Hall, August 12, 1774. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — August 12, 1774. — My last to you was 12 Aug. 
 of July 1. I now inform you that there is, God willing, to be 
 a meeting of us at Forfar, upon the 24th instant, for the con- 
 secration of the Revd. Mr. Charles Rose at Down for Glasgow. 
 He is son of Bishop James Rose, who lived and died at Cupar 
 in Fife. 
 
 The Primus and I are to set out together on Monday the 
 22nd, so that you can favour me with some few lines before that 
 day. Let us have a place in your prayers. 
 
 The inclosed is for a gentleman to whom I had transmitted 
 a copy of the few lines upon the morning of September 21, 
 1773. He thought fit to have them laid at the feet of the 
 amiable person whose birthday that is. In return he had a 
 present for me, now in my custody, from that friendly, fair hand, 
 by which I am highly honoured, and the inclosed is a letter of 
 thanks for his particular attention and for the uncommon 
 honour conferred upon me. 
 
 T[om] B[owdler] is in very good health. Lady G[ask] is far 
 from being well. The woful long voyage will prove, I am fol 2045. 
 afraid, fatal to her. May God in mercy pity and relieve ! The 
 gentleman and his distressed lady remember you with great 
 kindness and affection. 
 
 What is like to become of Mr. Woodfall in the issue of his 
 trial, which was thought by many not to happen ? 
 
 I have been busy in threshing the buff of Mr. Pennant. He 
 is a sad fellow, a downright Stewart-hater. In his two splendid 
 volumes, quarto, now published, of two tours in Scotland, he 
 not only takes every opportunity of throwing a poisonous dart 
 at that royal family, but likewise, where they come not fairly 
 in his way, he drags them in to have a lash at them with his 
 lampoonish pen. Even Charles the First must be with him an 
 uxorious husband. 
 
 A gentleman was with me the other day who had come from 
 Constantinople some time in the month of May last. He waited 
 
320 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1774 
 
 12 Aug. on the Sultan and Sultana immediately before his departure, 
 
 and asked to be honoured with commands. The Sultan said, 
 Remember my best wishes in the kindest manner to all my faithful 
 foi. 2046. and loyal mussidmen. These are my words, but you may guess 
 my sense. 
 
 After writing as above, your most valuable packet of the 8th 
 instant comes to hand. Thousands of thanks for the three pairs 
 of lovely, heads. Ah, for Nicolas Brett, his obstinacy ! I am 
 sorry for Jack Bowdler, whose father's remarks are worth gold, 
 from which it plainly appears that Nicolas Brett varnishes 
 over matters, if not smothers the truth. It was extremely well 
 done to give Mr. Smith a reading of the papers. The remarks 
 you need not doubt of having again in due time. I hope Mr. 
 Woodfall will come off with flying colours. 
 
 All things good and happy to you and yours from me and 
 mine. Adieu, dear Sir, Adieu. 
 
 August 12, 1774. 
 
 13 Aug. To Bishop Gordon. — August 13, 1774. — With great joy of 
 
 heart and to your no less comfort, dear Sir, do I write this, 
 though I wrote by yesterday's post. Know then that, having 
 been this day with the Primus concerting measures about our 
 intended journey, he asked, ' If Thomas Bowdler had ever men- 
 tioned anything to me of the affair between his brother and Mr. 
 Nicolas Brett."' 4 Not a single word, 1 said I. This brought on 
 foi. 2047. a conversation, easy and agreeable, upon the subject of a certain 
 event, which it is needless minutely to recapitulate. The faith- 
 ful remnant having been mentioned oftener than once, the 
 Primus used precisely the following words : To he sure we must 
 take care of them. And repeated, To he sure we must by all 
 means take care of them. You may be sure I declared my 
 pleasure in this frank declaration, and will do all in my power 
 to fortifie it. I received all, and communicated nothing. You 
 see Mr. Cheyne is wrong in his opinion which you informed me 
 of. All glory be to God for all his mercies ! 
 
 N.B. — The Primus is not a little displeased at the singular 
 conduct of Mr. Nicolas Brett, and sees that he loves the world 
 too much. Poor man ! he is not to be envied. 
 
 Deus sit semper tecum tuisque ! Amen. Adieu, dear Sir, 
 Adieu. 
 
1774] JOHN FARQUH ARSON OF ALDLERG 321 
 
 From John Farquharson of Aldlerg. f oL 20 4 8 - 
 
 Dunkerque, August %%d, 1774. — I received thy scrawll, and 22 Aug. 
 thanks thee. When thou seest my cousin, Mr. Gordon, the 
 honest man, tell him when he goes north that I expect to hear 
 from him with all the news of the country. I have given this 
 day something more valuable for thee than the bonny wily 
 walys, to a captain of a ship belonging to Kinghorn. It is a 
 letter of thanks from a certain lady of quality for thy civilities 
 and good wishes. Thou wilt see by my letter the reason why 
 it was so long on the road. It is addressed to Mr. Lawson of 
 the Ship Tavern. I shall not be much at ease untill I hear it 
 is come safe into thy cluicks. Thou wilt see that a lick of thy 
 laddie has made thee a great man amongst the fair sex. Had 
 I such a letter from so much beauty and goodness, I would lay 
 it carefully up among the archives of my family, and every day 
 pay it a visit and kiss the paper the snow-white hand had 
 touched ; then I would say a little prayer for the preservation 
 of the writer. Thou wilt see likewise by my letter where this 
 same lady and all the family intend to spend three months, so 
 shall refer you to all my news in that same letter addressed as 
 above. All the news I have to give thee now is, that my auld f° l - 2 °49- 
 caillich and auld John Anderson are (thank God) teuch, and 
 hadd out well. Believe me to be truly, Your humble servant, 
 
 John Anderson my Jo. 
 N.B. — Adieu, my good friend, Adieu. I hope to have yet a 
 lick of thy lucky laddie in Tartanhall. Vow ! man, to see that 
 day. How merry shou'd I be ! 
 
 From John Farquharson qf Aldlerg. 
 
 I have sent you here inclosed a letter of thanks from the 22 Aug. 
 Sultana for your verses. You may think by the date that it 
 has layn long with me. On the contrary, I had it only last 
 day, or I wou'd have sent by my friend Mr. Gordon, who carried 
 over to you the willy walys. But the truth is that by a 
 letter that I had from Osman Haly, it was returned by mistake 
 back again to Constantinople, and returned to me lately a 
 second time. The writer, friend, and Osman are just now in 
 
 VOL. III. x 
 
322 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1774 
 
 Aug. Pisa, not thro" any necessity bat thro'' wantonness. Do you 
 understand that there is no direction on the back but is directed 
 , within. I was desired to address as needful, but as the 
 whole is of her own writing, I dare not commit adultery and 
 join my scrawll with such sacred writ. I even thought it wou'd 
 
 20 5o- be more agreeable to you whose business it is to preach against 
 that sin of adultery. Besides, you know I 'm too old now to 
 be much troubled with the thorn of the flesh. I shewed Sandy 
 Blair this line. He was happy to see it. He desires his best 
 wishes to you and yours. I have no kind of news to send you 
 worth your notice, only the most shameful treaty of peace the 
 Turks have made, and a fine crop of corn and wine through all 
 this country ; I mean France and Flanders for corn ; and that 
 my little cailach and I hold out toughly, thank God. We both 
 join in compliments to you and lady. Be assured that I am, 
 comme ilfaut, that is to say, your most humble servant, 
 
 John Anderson my Jo, 
 alias Farquharsox. 1 
 
 Dunkirk, August 22, 1774. 
 
 Copy of the Superlative honour from the Sultana. 
 
 April Being visomd by Monsieur Farquharson of Dunkirk of your 
 loyalty and attachment to us and our family, and having seen 
 the verses you sent us, we thank you ; and when opportunity 
 offers shall acknowledge the same. Assure all your friends of 
 our good wishes and regard. Your sincere friend, 
 
 Rome, le 12 Avril, 1774. Louise R. 
 
 For the Revd. Monsieur Forbes. 
 
 Received Wednesday, August 31, 1774. 
 
 1 Stuck on the back board of this volume is a single leaf of blue paper con- 
 taining the following letter : 
 
 No. 11 Queen Street, Edinburgh, 
 11 May, 1859. 
 
 My dear Sir, — I return with thanks the two volumes of the Lyon which you 
 were kind enough to lend me. I found nothing in it absolutely useful, but much 
 that was interesting ; a brother of 'John Anderson my Jo, 'who we say died in 
 childhood, being the alleged ancestor of the other claimant of the property. If 
 the case should be farther moved in, the Government papers relative to the 
 families engaged in the rebellion may give information. Ever yours sincerely, 
 
 Marion Morton. 
 
1774] LETTER FROM THE PRINCESS 323 
 
 To John Farquharson of' Aldlerg. f 0 u 2051. 
 
 Dear Sir, — To make you easy, know that your letter by *p Sept. 
 post came to hand on August 30, and that containing the 
 superlative honour on August 31, which I owe altogether to 
 your friendship, with most hearty thanks, till a better requital 
 come in my way. When you meet with any person going to 
 London whom you can trust to put a letter into the penny 
 post office, you may direct to me thus : To Mr. Forbes, by the 
 care of Mrs. Gordon, Theobald's Road, London. This lady 
 corresponds with me by frank. 
 
 I am to mind the ensuing birthday of the amiable Fair in a 
 proper manner, of which you are, God willing, to have a fair 
 copy, quam cito. 
 
 O to have the Sultana as safe and sure as I have the en- 
 dearing honour of her handwriting in my custody ! However, 
 I hope this is a happy presage and a promising forerunner of 
 her personal presence amongst us in God's own good time. 
 May God Almighty grant it. Amen and Amen. 
 
 Your cousins are in good health and remember you more 
 solito. 
 
 All kind remembrances to you and your caillich, to honest 
 Sandie Blair and his companion from me and my rib. 
 
 The copies of the pair of heads that have reached Scotia f° L 2052. 
 have done much good. Had I hundreds of them I could place 
 them properly in the hands of the worthies, some of whom shed 
 their blood in the cause. I must write multum in parvo for 
 fear of overcharging my frank to London. Most cordially 
 Adieu, dear Sir, Adieu. 
 
 September 13, 1774. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — September 13, 1774. — As I well know 13 Sept. 
 that you and your dearest friend will have pleasure in seeing 
 an holograph of the most amiable Sultana, I send you originals, 
 not copies, which please return soon as possible. You are the 
 only person with whom I will trust the superlative honour out 
 of my own custody. You see Captain Farquharson is a comical, 
 merry man. He made his escape from your great city after 
 being under sentence of death at a certain period. I am to 
 
324 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1774 
 
 13 Sept. remember the 21st instant in a proper manner, of which you 
 are, God willing, to have a copy quam cito. 
 fol. 2053. God have you and yours in his holy care and protection. 
 Adieu, dear Sir, Adieu. 
 
 N.B. — I have seen your friend, Mr. Gordon. 
 
 13 Sept. Tuesday ) September 13, 1774. — Received from London, under 
 frank without any letter, two newspapers in which are the 
 following paragraphs. 
 
 THE ST JAMES'S CHRONICLE or BRITISH 
 EVENING POST 
 
 From Thursday, September 1, to Saturday, September 3, 1774. 
 
 Extract of a Letter from an English gentleman on his 
 travels, dated July 21. 
 
 1-3 Sept. It is not to be described the universal joy which prevailed 
 through this mouldering city when the news was brought that 
 his Britannic Majesty had tolerated and countenanced the 
 worship of the holy Roman religion in Canada. Prayers were 
 immediately offered in the Churches for his Majesty, and an 
 universal fast and thanksgiving ordered through the Papal 
 dominions. 
 
 fol. 2054. The Chevalier seems to derive some hopes from the discontent 
 which this new doctrine may create; nor will he refuse to 
 take the oath of allegiance and supremacy to gain a kingdom 
 he so highly longs to govern. 
 
 It is said he has had pressing invitations to America for 
 which he will not embark unless assisted by the Crowns of 
 France and Spain. 
 
 Extract of a Letter from Paris to a gentleman in England. 
 
 The arrival of a great English peer (Lord Mansfield) has 
 occasioned much speculation here as I find it does on your side 
 the water. It is expected there will be an extraordinary con- 
 
1774] BRITISH RELATIONS WITH AMERICA 325 
 
 gress held a few miles from Paris, in a few days, on business of 1-3 Sept. 
 great importance, and the Chevalier de St. George is to honour 
 the meeting with his presence. It is reported the great peer 
 has had an interview with a loyal relation, and there are 
 whispers here that certain engagements made in the year 1745 
 are to be the chief subjects on the tapis at the intended con- 
 gress. Your countrymen on the north of the Tweed make no 
 scruple of declaring publicly that certain differences or jealousies 
 which have subsisted for twenty-nine years between the Cheva- pi. 2055. 
 Her de St. George and those loyal subjects in England who 
 call themselves the king's friends, will be perfectly removed, 
 and the great orator will convince the royal exile that his 
 friends have not deserted or been idle in his cause. 
 
 It is said the ministry are now convinced that it answers 
 no end to send troops from England to put on the yoke or 
 fasten the chains upon their fellow subjects in America, and a 
 plan has been laid before a certain Council for raising four 
 regiments in Canada to be sent to Boston and Pensylvania, as 
 there cannot be a greater antipathy between any two creatures 
 than a Papist and a reformed fanatic. But it is objected that 
 another Quebec Bill will be necessary to enable Papists to 
 enlist in his Majesty's service ; and in order effectually to crush 
 the rebellious patriots, there is to be a provision in the act that 
 no Protestant shall enlist under the severest penalties. 
 
 The said Newspapers — from Saturday, September 3, to Tues- 3-6 Sept. 
 day, September 6, 1774. 
 
 Political Intelligence Extraordinary. 
 
 The King's friends at the Cocoa Tree are in high spirits fol. 2056. 
 upon the expedition taken by a certain great lawyer to the 
 Continent. The old convivial mirth is revived, the honest 
 toasts and loyal songs circulate as formerly with the social 
 glass. — Here "s to the man that will do us most good! The Royal 
 Exchange! Speedy and happy! These good old toasts are 
 only interrupted by songs of equal sense and loyalty. Pas- 
 sengers, at least such as call themselves the King's friends, and 
 few others can be found in the neighbourhood of St. James's, 
 
326 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1774 
 
 3-6 Sept. stop of an evening under the windows, and appear highly 
 delighted with the old favourite songs. He comes, he comes, 
 
 the hero comes, sung by Mr. the other night, afforded 
 
 particular pleasure, and the friends without doors joined in the 
 chorus — He ''s welcome to the British shores ; as they did to those 
 two admirable songs, Over the water to Charley, and The 
 King shall, enjoy his own again. 
 
 A correspondent remarks that we are indebted to our 
 brethren on the north side of the Tweed for some very singular 
 foi. 2057. obligations. A Scotch favourite, 1 at the beginning of the 
 present reign, disturbed the political tranquility and happiness 
 of the nation. A Scotch banker 2 threw our public credit and 
 commercial system into confusion. A Scotch writer 3 gave a 
 cowardly and almost a mortal stab to patriotism in the person 
 of Algernon Sydney ; and a Scotch bookseller, 4 with Scotch 
 lawyers, have contributed to suppress every effort of genius 
 and demolish the last remains of literature amongst us. 
 
 foi. 2058. On Wednesday, September 21, the birthday of the Queen of 
 Hearts, 1744, in return for the superlative honour done 
 to the author. 
 
 The day returns, the happy day 
 
 That gave Louisa birth. 
 May it abound with ev'ry good 
 
 T inspire true friends with mirth. 
 
 Ye hardy sons of Caledon, 
 
 Exalt your voices high, 
 Tune up the Bagpipes warlike sound, 
 
 To rend the azure sky. 
 
 Let lads and lasses all combine 
 
 With joyous mirth and mien 
 To celebrate the festal day, 
 
 And trip [it] on the green. 
 
 1 Earl of Bute. N.B. Bute was born in England and has his greatest estates 
 there.— F. 
 
 2 Alexander Fordyce failed for ^"3,000,000 sterling. 
 
 3 Sir John Dalrymple. 4 Alexander Donaldson. 
 
1774] BIRTHDAY ODE TO THE PRINCESS 327 
 
 Let them appear in tartan dress, 
 
 With hearts as true as steel, 
 With well-shaped limbs both neat and clean 
 
 To dance a Highland Reel. 
 
 To grace the day with fitting chear 
 
 Let canons loudly roar, 
 Then Highland lads complete the scene 
 
 And brandish the Claymore. 
 
 A health to Charles the great toss round, 
 
 And to the fairest Fair ! 
 May Heaven beam forth its brightest light 
 
 On the delightful pair ! 
 
 With joy the sprightly Harry mind 
 
 That prince of gen'rous heart, 
 With willing mind and liberal hand 
 
 He acts a brother s part. 
 
 To evYy loyal soul good health, fol. 2060. 
 
 Conversion to all foes, 
 And as the happy day begins 
 
 So let the evening close. 
 
 May ev'ry man enjoy his own, 
 
 To make all odds be ev'n. 
 Let all the people sing aloud 
 
 Amen ! Amen ! Amen ! 
 
 N.B. — At the foot of the original of the above were the 
 following words : — 6 N.B. This is written on paper manu- 
 factured in Scotland. ' 
 
 A copy of the preceding sent to John Farquharson of Aid- fol. 2061. 
 lerg, Dunkirk, with the following words : 
 
 Dear Jock, — This comes with the other half-sheet 1 of 21 Sept. 
 grateful remembrance according to promise, and I doubt not 
 
 1 i.e., the preceding poem, together with the articles of news in St. James's 
 Chronicle (f. 2053, etc. hujus) — F. 
 
 fol. 2059. 
 21 Sept. 
 
328 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1774 
 
 21 Sept. of your zeal to transmit it to the bonniest lass in a 1 the wardle, 
 whom may God bless and preserve, and her ain guidman, and 
 send them hame aur to their ain fireside. This is my constant 
 and daily prayer, as I never pray for myself without praying 
 for them. 
 
 Undeemous skaith threatens baith grytt an sma, an naething 
 but ae thing can free us frae utter ruin an undoing. May God 
 send it soon and quickly. Amen. 
 
 O King of Heav'n, our sorrows to allay, 
 Turn Hogmane 1 to twenty-math of May. 
 I ever am, Dear Jock, your faithful friend and humble servant, 
 
 DoXALD HaTEBREEKS. 
 
 Tartan Hall, September 21, 1774. 
 
 foh 2062. Tq Bishop Gordon, with a copy of the foregoing verses on 
 the birthday, etc. 
 
 21 Sept. Upon the 13th instant, after dispatching a packet for you 
 under cover of Bob Keith's frank, there came to hand a frank 
 well stuffed with two newspapers, but without any letter. 
 However, methinks I can well guess the friendly hand that 
 transmitted them, for which entertaining favour ten thousand 
 thanks. What will all this uncommon, unparalleFd boldness 
 end in ? Such things bordering upon treason used, even in 
 my time, to be tried judicially, if not criminally. But now 
 tameness and forbearance do take place. They are attended 
 with one effect, — to let the world know that such a family do 
 still exist. I have not been idle with these rare curiosities of 
 interspersed paragraphs, having exhibited them to the hearing 
 of several persons, whose risible faculties were fully exercised, 
 and I have not yet done with my circle of information. The 
 other day one of the name of Bruce was with me, with kind 
 compliments from you, and telling me your desire to have any 
 more songs that may happen to be among the most noble 
 Order of the Royal Oak. A new one has been lately com- 
 
 foi. 2063. posed, but is not yet in print. How soon it is so you shall 
 have it. 
 
 1 Derived from ay 1a y.r\vy}, the holy month, i.e. the last day of the year, the 
 birthday of Charles III. — F. 
 
1774] PRINCE CHARLES AT ROME 
 
 329 
 
 Lately a Scots gentleman, son of a noble family, and captain 21 Sept. 
 of a ship of war in Britain, happening to be at R[ome], chanced 
 to see the fairest fair, whom he admired greatly. 4 But, 1 said 
 he, 4 1 had rather see the husband. 1 'O! 1 said one in the 
 company, 4 you may see him if you 11 go with me at night to 
 the opera. 1 Done accordingly. No sooner was the Scots 
 gentleman seated than the husband, happening to turn his eye 
 to that corner, said to one in his company, 4 1 will lay any 
 wager that the gentleman in such a box is a Scotsman. 1 6 How 
 is it possible for you to know that ? 1 4 From his face, tho 1 I 
 am sure I never saw him before. 1 To make sure work on 't he 
 made up to the gentleman, and begged leave to ask him a civil 
 question. * You are extremely welcome, Sir. 1 6 Are you not a 
 Scots gentleman? 1 'Yes, Sir, I am. 1 Then pointing to one 
 at some distance, 4 Is that your servant ? 1 4 Yes, Sir, he is. 1 
 4 How long has he been with you ? 1 4 For several years. He 
 was in our family before I could have any use for him. 1 4 1 f° l - 2o6 4- 
 think I know him ; I can recollect his face. 1 4 It is impossible, 
 how can that be ? as he was never out of Britain till he came 
 abroad with me. 1 Then, turning to the servant, 4 Pray, friend, 
 did not you deliver a letter to me at Falkirk upon such a day ? 1 
 4 Yes, Sir, I had the honour so to do. 1 This made the Captain 
 all attention and astonishment. After this, addressing the 
 Captain once more, he asked if he knew such and such families, 
 and made particular enquiry about their welfare. The Captain 
 said he knew them all very well, and that they were all in good 
 health when he left Scotland. This singular interview struck 
 so deep into the mind of the Captain that he wrote the whole 
 of it to his mother much in the same terms with the above, 
 telling her that as he knew their family had an attachment to 
 
 the , he thought such an intelligence and narrative would 
 
 not prove disagreeable. 
 
 All this makes good what John Rattray, surgeon, used to 
 say of the husband, 4 that he was one of the greatest discern- 
 ment he had ever conversed with, for that he never saw a face 
 but what he could know and recollect afterwards at first sight. 1 fol. 2065. 
 
 After writing as above, yours of 17th instant comes to hand. 
 Alas ! Alas ! for your poor prospect at Spring-grove. God 
 help, for vain is the help of man. A good journey and a 
 
330 
 
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 [1774 
 
 1 Sept. happy return. Commending you, your dearest friend, and 
 all your concerns to God and his gracious care and keeping, 
 Adieu, dear Sir, Adieu. 
 September 21, 1774. 
 
 From Bishop Gordon. London, September 17, 1774. 
 Sept. Your desiring, dear Sir, to have the singular invaluable 
 curiosity returned as soon as possible, I send it to the post two 
 hours after its coming to hand, and at the same time, Sir, you 
 have our best thanks for a sight of it. The letter for 
 Dunkirk shall be forwarded. We shall remember (God 
 willing) St. Matthew's day. I thank you for the perusal of 
 the inclosed letters. My wife joins in compliments to both our 
 good friends, and I am, commending you to God and his keep- 
 ing, yours, dear Sir, ever most faithfully and affectionately, 
 
 R. S. 
 
 N.B. — I propose being at Spring-grove next week, when 
 matters will be talked over, but alas ! I fear no good effect. 
 Adieu. Adieu. 
 
 /. 2066. The Royal Oak Society or Club commenced on February 7, 
 1772, and meets the first Monday of every month. It consists 
 of a sovereign, a secretary, a treasurer, and other members. 
 
 The sovereign is decorated with a blue bonnet, having a 
 medal on the front of it, and with another medal hanging round 
 the neck upon the breast in a blue ribband. He has a painted 
 and gilded batoon in his right hand to give orders and to com- 
 mand silence. The secretary is seated on his right hand and 
 the treasurer on his left. 
 
 Each member has a medal hanging down his breast in a 
 blue ribband from a button hole ; but the secretary and 
 treasurer have theirs round the neck like the sovereign. 
 
 The medal has on one side an oak-tree delineated with 
 Royal on one side of the tree, and Oak on the other, and with 
 these words round the top in a semi-circle, Pro rege et patria. 
 At the foot of the oak are the initial letters of the party pos- 
 sessing the medal. The medal has on the other side two hands 
 clasped and chained together with Concordia above, and 
 February 7, 1772 beneath. 
 
1774] 
 
 THE ROYAL OAK SOCIETY 
 
 331 
 
 Their ordinary expence is one shilling sterling each at every foi. 2067. 
 meeting, and they have always a supper. 7 0ct - 
 
 They have a book wherein are recorded their laws, and each 
 member's name is inserted with the time of his admission, which 
 must be by petition. One refusing voice debars any one from 
 being received, for all must be unanimous. All the members 
 are knights of the Royal Oak. 
 
 They have an annual meeting on the 29th of May, for the 
 election of a sovereign, a secretary, and a treasurer. The 
 sovereign dictates all the toasts, and now and then orders a 
 song as there are some excellent voices among them. 
 
 N.B. — This is by no means to be revealed, but to be 
 carefully transmitted to the amiable fair, whom may God 
 bless, preserve and etc. Amen. 
 
 Tartan Hall, Oct. 4th, 1774. 
 
 P.S. — There are about thirty members, and they in- 
 crease every month. 
 
 The following questions demand a most serious attention. foi. 2068. 
 
 1. Supposing the national debt of poor Britannia 150 7 Oct. 
 millions sterling, how long would a single man be in paying 
 
 it off in shillings, if he wrought 12 hours a day, and counted 
 200 shillings every minute ? 
 
 Answer. 57 years, 28 days, and 4 hours. 
 
 2. The coinage standard is 62 shillings per pound Troy ; at 
 this rate, what is the weight of that sum ? 
 
 Answer. 48,387,096| pounds Troy. 
 
 3. If the same were to be carried from London to York, how 
 many men would it require, supposing each to carry 136 pounds 
 Troy, or one hundredweight avoirdupois nearly ? 
 
 Answer. 355,787 men and a lad, who must carry 64f 
 pounds. 
 
 4. If these marched in a line, keeping two yards asunder, 
 how far would such a train extend ? 
 
 Answer. 404 miles, 534 yards. 
 
 Were these shillings piled up in heaps of 20 each, how many 
 tables would they cover of four feet long and three feet broad, 
 supposing each heap to take up one square inch ? 
 
 Answer. 8680 tables, and a smaller one of two feet, seven 
 
332 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1774 
 
 2069. inches square. Or if spread in single shillings they would in 
 like manner cover 4304 acres and near an half more. 
 
 N.B. — No man but one can ever pay this cursed load 
 of debt and that one could with confidence, honour, and 
 conscience, take a spunge to it, or rather, as an honest 
 Scots Trojan used to say, a dish-clout on the point of a 
 claymore. Soon and quickly may that one thus extinguish 
 it. Amen. Thus prayeth, an auld sinner, 
 
 October 7th, 1774. Donald Hatebreeks. 
 
 • 2 °7°- From John Farquharson. 
 
 Sept. Dunkerque, September 29, 1774. — Well, man, you thought to 
 put tricks upon travellers, for you had neither Tartanha' nor 
 Hatebreeks in your last ; but well did I know the scrawl of 
 your forefinger and thumb ; even as well as they had been 
 turning about the lucky laddie. Vow, man ! to be within a 
 day's march of you ; but I hope that the distance of places will 
 never make you forget old John Anderson ; for sure neither 
 time nor place will ever make me forget thy kindness, nor thy 
 person, nor thy better part ; nor will my old caillich, who turns 
 a year younger every letter I have from you and cries out, God 
 bless him — kind was he to me ! She actually makes more fuss 
 about your letter than about those I get from Constantinople. 
 
 In your last you was pleased to pay me a great compliment, 
 which I really did not deserve. Your own merit procured you 
 what you have. I had no more hand in it than forwarding the 
 verses you sent me. 'Tis true I do correspond frequently with 
 the family, and am honoured with their countenance, and has 
 had always that honour since our first acquaintance. I likewise 
 told the Grand Vizir from whom the verses came. This is all 
 the hand I had in that affair. The family are not at home 
 just now. When they come I shall endeavour to get you some 
 more of these bonny wallies to divert your children. I wish 
 the D had all those that throw glammer on people's eyes, 
 
 . 2071. that they cannot discern their own interest nor the weal of 
 mankind ; something like the occult qualities of the ancients 
 that were neither expressible nor understood. In this way 
 
1774] 
 
 POLITICS IN BRITAIN 
 
 333 
 
 they go on in a kind of lethargy until the vessel be overturned 29 Sept. 
 and lost. 
 
 News I have none worth your notice, so shall conclude with 
 the compliments of my rib, etc. — I ever am, etc. 
 
 John Anderson my Jo. 
 
 Weekly Magazine, Edinburgh, Thursday, October 13, fol. 2072. 
 1774. Page 75. 
 
 O fortunatos nimis, sua si bona norint Anglicanos ! 
 
 Mistake it not then, ye deluded electors, who can freely juggle 13 Oct. 
 and get drunk at your freehold feasts. You are soon with the 
 leech to disgorge the whole. What by multiplied taxes, and 
 what by the weight of the national debt, your very freeholds 
 are already mortgaged to clear your arrears, and the whole land- 
 tax of Great Britain will scarce go half way in defraying the 
 yearly interest of its debt. Blush, ye sons of ancient British 
 virtue, and of ancient British liberty, and be roused from your 
 fatal lethargy ere it be too late, and ye sleep the sleep of death. 
 Hark ! while ye indulge like giddy children the thoughtless 
 riot, and wanton in all the extravagance of feastings and danc- 
 ings, do ye not hear the noise of the bellows and the thunder- 
 ings of the anvil preparing the chains of late repentance for 
 you, and hopeless despair for your young ones. Britons ! be 
 free ! and assert your freedom in time by convincing every man 
 who shall aspire to offer himself a candidate for the supreme 
 dignity, as well as trust of representing your persons and dis- 
 posing of your property, that you will be freely represented 
 and as becometh freemen. For be assured that the man who 
 dares to purchase you with a dinner or a ball, will not fail to 
 sell you again for a post or a pension. — Yours, etc. 
 
 A True Briton. 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, London. — October 11, 1774. — I am fol. 2073. 
 much obliged to you, dear Sir, for yours of the 21st ult., and 
 particularly for the ode, which pleases me well ; the last stanza 
 only I think not equal to the rest. But I pretend not to be a 
 judge of poetry, so hope to be excused the freedom. Had I 
 
334 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1774 
 
 11 Oct. wrote a single word under the cover stuffed with newspapers, it 
 had been charged to you, I don't know what — the whole weight 
 at least. When franks come in use again I have 3 or 4 left 
 which may be applied to the same purpose. 
 
 Bruce of St. Andrews, 1 who called upon you, is a good honest 
 man, a man of piety. I was greatly pleased with the account 
 of the transaction and dialogue held at a certain place, and 
 thank you for it. Such things are pleasing to hear. 
 
 I went and returned from Kent, thanks be to God, in health 
 and safety. My friend met me at the time and place appointed 
 and conveyed me to his house in a post-chaise that evening, 
 and the next day, the feast of St. Matthew, after the great 
 business of the morning was over, I opened with him on a cer- 
 tain affair, told him my concern and astonishment at the part 
 he was taking in dividing a poor remnant of confessors, and 
 leading them I don't where ; and withall presuming to set him- 
 self at their head in telling them what they ought to do. This 
 last he denied he had said ; but I urged and was positive in it. 
 foi. 2074. In short, after much discourse backward and forward upon the 
 subject, I parted with him seemingly undetermined as to the 
 course he is to hold in a case of a certain event. May God of 
 his mercy and goodness guide and direct him ! However, I own 
 to you, my good friend, I suspect worldly considerations have 
 such hold of him that I am apt to suspect he will be warpt the 
 wrong way. He has got two very fine youths to his sons, 
 the eldest 16, the younger 14, and a daughter, a very pleasing 
 young creature about 11 years of age. I spent three days with 
 them very agreeably, tho 1 , God knows, the season was very wet, 
 and much mischief done to the hops and wheat and barley, 
 some standing out cut, and a good deal uncut down, which I 
 fear will be greatly hurt before this fine weather which (Blessed 
 be God we now enjoy !) set in. I have omitted mentioning Mrs. 
 Brett till now, for which I beg her pardon, for she should have 
 come first of the family, because I look upon her to be a kind, 
 hospitable, modest, Christian woman with good understanding, 
 and no kind of affectation. In a word I think our brother 
 Brett happy in a partner. 
 
 1 See f. 2065. 
 
1774] 
 
 MR. NICHOLAS BRETT 
 
 335 
 
 Mr. Bowdler's admirable remarks, which I carried down with h Oct. 
 me to Spring-grove, shall (God willing) be conveyed to you on 
 the first opportunity, which I must have returned after your 
 making your own use of them. I want much to know how 
 Tommy Bowdler came to mention this affair to the Primus, and 
 if he has said anything more to you on the subject. Poor Mrs. 
 Lyon tells me Mr. Bell was very angry with her servant, Sandy, 
 — because he had insisted that his late master had not given up 
 the charge of Dumfries before his death. This I presume is foi. 2075. 
 advanced on Mr. Bell's part to cut off the poor widow from her 
 just claim to her share in the emoluments. My sister writes 
 me last post that Mr. Wood has been with them at Dumfries, 
 and that she is very well pleased with him, which I was glad to 
 hear. Now commending you and yours, my dear Sir, to God 
 and his keeping, I am, Yours ever affectionately and faithfully. 
 
 R. G. 1 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, received only on Sunday Evening, i 7 Sept. 
 November 20. — London, September 17, 1774. — The Countess of 
 Galloway, who does me the honour to be the bearer of this, I 
 recommend to your good offices and advice. Her ladyship is 
 lately returned from France, where she had been to attend her 
 lord, who died at Aix, in Provence. Her ladyship, from her 
 conversation and behaviour, appears to be of sound, good 
 principles, both in Church and State, tho\ alas ! her children, 
 from the example of their father, and the converse and habit fol. 2076. 
 of an evil and excessively corrupt world, are gone but too 
 much into the way of it ; so that the good lady seems to stand 
 alone, yet firm and constant in the principles of virtue and 
 religion. Her ladyship has attended my chapel close ever 
 since her coming to town. I must not omit telling you, Lady 
 Galloway is intimately acquainted with our worthy friend, Mr. 
 Bowdler, who happens to be now in London, and sends his 
 best respects. 
 
 It was great joy to me, indeed, to hear everything went 
 on so happily at Forfar. All glory and thanks be to God. 
 
 1 See ff. 2022, 2025, 2031, 2041, 2047 hujus, and ff. 49, 229, 230, 231, 
 etc., of a folio MS. bound in rough brown leather. — R. F. 
 
336 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1774 
 
 17 Sept. Marvellous were the doings that day of Bishop Raith. No 
 wonder, considering his greatly advanced age, it should pro- 
 duce amazement in all the audience ! 'Tis pity Bishop 
 Killgour s situation would not permit him to be with you. 
 
 I am obliged to you for making my apologv to Mr. Skene. 
 My wife joins in best respects to yourself and good Mrs. 
 Forbes, and commending you and all yours to the blessing and 
 fol. 2077. protection of Almighty God through his Christ, I am, my dear 
 Sir, Yours ever faithfully and affectionately, 
 
 ( Sic subscribitur) Robt. Gordon. 
 
 X.B — After short prayers we had an interesting conversation 
 solus cum sola. 
 
 24 Nov. To Bishop Gordon. — November 24, 1774. — Long, long have 
 I thought for a frank, and, at length, one is procured. 
 
 Herewith you have a piece of music, open not only for your 
 own perusal and satisfaction, but, likewise, to gratify any friend 
 you think fit to take a copy of it. After which, please seal 
 and dispatch. It is circulating here both in town and country. 
 I know five or six copies that have been taken of it, and it is 
 admired by performers. It will readily be an acceptable 
 present, as the Sultana is an excellent performer upon the 
 harpsichord, etc. 
 
 fol. 2078. I have now three of yours lying before me, not my ordinary, 
 truly, especially with one I highly value, and whose corre- 
 spondence is one of the greatest pleasures of my life. 
 
 To that of September 17, containing the return of the 
 singular and invaluable curiosity, as you term it, I only say it 
 gave me the highest delight to lay it before you. 
 
 To that of October 11, you are perfectly right in saying the 
 last stanza is not equal to the rest. Your friend was desirous 
 to introduce the R-t — n in a covert way. But he finds 
 he could have made more of it if he had used the plain truth, 
 which alwavs tells best. I knew you would be highly pleased 
 with the dialogue with the Scots gentleman and the addition 
 of his servant. 
 
 Indeed, N. Brett was not blate in denying the charge you 
 justly laid home to his door, and therefore you did well in urging 
 
1774] MATTERS ECCLESIASTICAL, ETC. 337 
 
 and being positive. I fear, I fear, you judge too well in re- 24 Nov. 
 specting worldly considerations to bear the sway. Your account foi. 2079. 
 of his bosom friend and his family is delightful. 
 
 Pray, Sir, feast me with the sight of Mr. Bowdler's admirable 
 remarks, and keep me not in suspence. You shall have them 
 speedily returned. 
 
 How Tommy Bowdler came to mention Mr. Bretts temper- 
 ings to the Primus, I know not ; nor has he ever opened to 
 me on the subject. Neither has the Primus said any more 
 upon it to me. However, lucky it has been, in the event, as it 
 produced the agreeable conversation you know of between 
 the Primus and your humble servant. 
 
 Yes, Mr. Bell is not pleased with poor Sandy for declaring 
 the truth, and sticking firm to it. 
 
 On Sunday last, in the evening, I was honoured with yours 
 of September 17, by the Countess of Galloway, with whom, 
 after short prayers, I had an interesting conversation, solus 
 cum sola, and it has been repeated oftener than once, about f° 1, 2o8a 
 which you may come to learn somewhat in due time. Mr. 
 Bowdler's kind remembrances of me and mine are, as always, 
 most heartily welcome. He and his have a suitable return. 
 Tom is in great good health. 
 
 Know, Sir, that Bishop Kilgour's absence was purposely 
 contrived, because another, not agreeable nor fit, was intended 
 to have been consecrated at the same time, and appeared upon 
 the spot. To tell the truth, Bishop Kilgour disliked the 
 measure much, but being afraid of pressing solicitation, he 
 chose to be absent, and left the burden upon your friend, who 
 stood his ground, without any fierce opposition or warm con- 
 tradiction. This here is known only to your friend, Bishop 
 Killgour and Mr. George James, and must not go further. 
 Luckily, Bishop Kilgour's apology was received as strong, etc. 
 So much for a secret expedition. 
 
 Gask's lady died on Friday, November 4, 'twixt 7 and 8 at 
 night, sensible and distinct to the last. She called for the foL 2081. 
 children, embraced them, and desired them to be good bairns. 
 Then, looking at the father, she said, £ You see how easily I 
 part with the bairns. I know they are in good hands.' Be 
 she with God, and God with her, now, and for evermore. 
 vol. in. y 
 
338 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1774 
 
 24 Nov. M r# Andrew MacDonald, now in deacon's orders, is at Gask, 
 acting in a double capacity, as domestic chaplain and peda- 
 gogue to the children. Success to all good and laudable 
 intentions. 
 
 General Lockhart's lady speaks most honourably and endear- 
 ingly of the Sultana, that she was intimately acquainted with 
 her in Germany ; that she is one of the prettiest and most 
 agreeable of the sex she ever conversed with, and that if ever 
 she herself should happen to be in Constantinople, she will do 
 foi. 2082. herself the honour to be introduced to the amiable Sultana. 
 Pray, Sir, let this be known, as it has really done good. 
 
 A certain lady and her gallant, with the children, have been 
 lately at the house of the brother by his own particnlar desire. 
 It has been said that two or three of the children were to stay 
 with the brother, and that he was to settle his estate, better 
 than c£1000 sterling per annum, upon the eldest son. How 
 these matters have turned out I know not yet. I may come 
 to learn them. In coming and going through Edinburgh they 
 called only for one gentleman of the name, who happened to 
 be not at home. Madam is said to be bold and imperious, 
 and to rule the roast. Whether this intelligence should be 
 transmitted to the worthy lady of Burnhall you are best judge. 
 All friends there are often in language, but oftener in mind 
 with us. We hope they are all well, and that the young lady 
 is in a state of sickness better than health, which we will be 
 foi. 2083. glad to learn. All in a good time. The above brother was 
 never married, and now is an old man. 
 
 If any letter or packet come to you addressed thus : 6 To 
 Mr. Forbes, by the care of Mrs. Gordon, Theobald's Road, 
 London,"' do you make free and open it, as such will contain 
 things to your good liking, and will cost nothing but, perhaps, 
 the fare of a penny post. After perusal dispatch to me under 
 cover of a frank. 
 
 Ay ! that 's true. Thanks for another frank, November % 
 well stuffed with a large newspaper. That good old lady 
 Commonsense, and her interment. 
 
 The Countess remembers you most kindly. 
 
 26 Nov. Saturday, November 26, 1774. — Mr. Justice Aston fined 
 
1774] THE BROTHERS WOODFALL FINED 339 
 
 the two brothers Woodfall, printers, in the following words : 26 Nov. 
 Court of King's Bench. 6 The Court doth therefore adj udge that 
 you, Henry Sampson Woodfall, do pay a fine of two hundred 
 merks (£133, 6, 8), and do suffer three months' imprisonment 
 and until the said fine shall be paid : and that you, William 
 Woodfall, do pay a fine of two hundred merks, and do suffer three 
 months imprisonment, and until the said fine shall be paid.' 
 
 N.B. — Remarkable it is that the judge gives a wrong date 
 to the paper for which they are fined, and called it February fol. 2084. 
 15, whereas it was February 16. 1 
 
 From Bishop Gordon. — London, December 8, 1774. — Indeed, 8 Dec. 
 your packet was very welcome, for I longed much to hear from 
 you after so long an interruption of franks. The musick piece 
 was immediately dispatched, for I have now no acquaintance in 
 that science to gratify with it ; so to a land of music it is gone, 
 where, no doubt, it will please. For the cantata, my dear 
 Sir, you have my best thanks. I really think it a agreable, 
 sensible performance. If it is not already, it will be printed 
 in one of our daily papers, probably in the celebrated Publick 
 Advertiser, in which the South Briton was published, which 
 made such a noise. 
 
 Has Dr. Shebbeere's pamphlet reached you ? 'Tis a curious 
 performance, a strange mixture ; defends the ministry both as 
 to their measures with the Americans and the Canada Bill, 
 but makes very free with the Revolution and the Prince of 
 Orange's character, whom he makes a very devil indeed. 
 
 A ship going for Aberdeen about three weeks ago, the mate 
 of which, being a hearer of Mr. Innes, and recommended by 
 Mrs. Strachan, Mr. Innes's sister-in-law, I took the oppor- fol. 2085. 
 tunity of sending by him Mr. Bowdler's excellent remarks, 
 and have since wrote to Mr. Innes, desiring, as soon as he has 
 perused them, to forward them to you, Sir, by the first 
 safe conveyance, and God grant they may come safe to your 
 hand, for I know they will give you much satisfaction. When 
 you see Tommy Bowdler, pray let us be affectionately re- 
 membered to the dear youth. 
 
 1 See f. 2006. 
 
340 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1774 
 
 8 Dec. The Countess of Galloway is really a fine lady and truly 
 well bred ; has many virtues ; yet I fear will be troublesome to 
 you. You must be upon your guard not to be put to incon- 
 venience by too great complaisance, which ladies of quality do 
 not always consider when they accept the kind offices of their 
 friends. The good lady, I am apt to believe, has been, and is, 
 illused by some of her family, and yet, withal, I fear her lady- 
 ship has her failings. Pray, Sir, with my best respects to her 
 foi. 2086. ladyship, be so good as tell her the coachman would not abate 
 anything of his bill, viz., £2, 7, 6, which Mr. Bond paid him, 
 and had his receipt upon the bill, which I have somewhere mis- 
 laid and cannot lay my hands upon it at present. 
 
 The account you give me of Bishop Kilgours absence gives 
 me a sensible pleasure. Happy was it you were both of a mind 
 and that you, Sir, stood your ground. Permit me, Sir, to ask, 
 Was it a measure of the Primus's ? 
 
 Poor Lady Gask ! I fear her late voyaging and journeying 
 did not tend much to prolong her life. Her worthy husband 
 and the children must suffer a great loss, tho', I doubt not, her 
 departure to herself is gain. Requiescat in pace ! Her parting 
 with her husband and the dear bairns must have been very 
 affecting. May they all be ever in God's special keeping ! 
 Pray ! dear Sir, let my affectionate condolence be made to our 
 most worthy friend, Gask (whom I greatly honour for his many 
 virtues), on the next occasion you have of writing. I am glad 
 foi. 2087. you have provided a gentleman to be in the family in a double 
 capacity. May they all have comfort and benefit in each 
 other. 
 
 So that infamous woman, and her not less infamous com- 
 panion, have had the effrontery to appear in Scotland together ! 
 And what sort of people must they be that would countenance 
 such an adulterous brood ! Can his brother be possessed of 
 i?1000 per annum to settle upon them ? It looks much like 
 vain boasting, and what we call bounce. I cannot credit it. 
 Mrs. Strachan mentioned above is gone down to be housekeeper 
 at Burnhall on my wife's recommendation, and a very fit person 
 she appears to be. Sister Smith has been now near three 
 months near us, and, thank God ! holds pure well this rugged 
 season ; for it is both frost and snow, which my poor fingers 
 
1774] THE COUNTESS OF GALLOWAY, ETC. 341 
 
 and writing do but too plainly show. Sister Smith hath given 8 E 
 the use of Burnhall and all in it to her grandson and his wife 
 till May next. She looks to lie in about Christmas. M 
 
 Having now tired your eyes, and patience too perhaps, I 
 must relieve my good friend, concluding myself, his ever 
 affectionately and faithfully, R. G. 
 
 My wife sends her best respects, and we join in best wishes 
 and kind compliments to yourself and good Mrs. Forbes, 
 especially the compliments suited to the great and holy season 
 just at hand. Adieu. 
 
 Answer to the above. December 17, 1774. 
 
 Your handwriting gives me pleasure, as it is neat and distinct, 17 Dec. 
 the complaint of poor fingers and writing notwithstanding. 
 
 I could not think of delaying a return any time, considering 
 the approach of the high and solemn festival, and therefore I 
 do hereby heartily wish to you and all yours an happy and 
 comfortable Christmas, in the most Christian and beneficial 
 sense, and a prosperous New Year, with large amends of better 
 times. For never was more pressing need in our own or fore- 
 father's days. fil. 2089. 
 
 I am glad the cantata is so much to your good liking. 
 
 The Dr.'s pamphlet has not appeared with us. I wish I 
 could see it for his account of '88, and of the unnatural Willie 
 whom he depictures as a very devil indeed, for an incarnate one 
 was he, tho 1 with some a glorious and immortal deliverer. 
 
 I heartily wish good accounts of Mr. Bowdler's excellent 
 remarks, as the losses by sea are immense. T. Bowdler is pure 
 well, and remembers you and yours most kindly. 
 
 It is very kind and friendly in you to give some hints of 
 caution and wariness ; but my good fortune it is that long ago 
 I knew the nature of the [Countess] and, therefore, was upon 
 my guard at the very first interview. Yes, dear Sir, tasks, hard 
 and unbecoming, were endeavoured to be put upon me ; but I 
 paryed the genteel and repeated assaults with all plainness and 
 discretion, and got handsomely rid of them altogether ; which 
 
342 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 1 1 774 
 
 17 Dec. was no easy matter, considering the honeyed words of address. 
 fol. 2090. That person never paid an account without some wrangle or 
 dispute, instances of which I could give to your astonishment. 
 
 Your compliments of condolence were instantly transmitted 
 to that most worthy friend, Gask. O ! for many such as he ! 
 
 Indeed, Sir, I can give you my word that the brother is well 
 worth all that was said. He was left a good snug fortune by 
 his father, and he himself has been all along a money-making 
 batchelor, adding to the heap every year. So you may easily 
 imagine an immense sum to accrue from such management in 
 one of the cheapest corners upon earth, according to the old 
 adage, Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit. The 
 estate lies in the country of my nativity. 
 
 You refresh us greatly with the agreeable accounts of the 
 good and valuable grandmother, and of the young lady's being 
 in a hopeful way to make her a great grandmother. May a 
 chopping boy appear by the blessing of God to fill the bonnet 
 fol. 2091. of his sterling predecessors. Best kind wishes of the season, 
 and in every sense to all both at London and Burnhall. What 
 is become of the jolly Rowley ? 
 
 Ay ! ay ! Sir, you will not easily tire my eyes and patience, 
 try as much and as frequently as you please. 
 
 Mrs. Forbes heartily joins with me in every above kind and 
 friendly wish, and that you will be so good as to favour us 
 quam cito with the accounts of the happy delivery of the young 
 lady ; whom may God bless to be the joyful mother of a living 
 child to the comfort of all concerned. 
 
 Have I tired eyes and patience in my turn ? Deus semper 
 tecum tuisque. Amen. Adieu, dear Sir, Adieu. 
 
 N.B. — You are perfectly right. The measure originated 
 entirely as you suspect. Peruse, seal, and dispatch. 
 
 fol. 2092. To John Farquharson of Aldlerg. 
 
 17 ° ct " Dear Sir, — Ship'd on board the Greenhead, Buchanan, 
 master, sometime in November last, a cask of oat-meal and 
 two mutton hams for your own use and Mrs. Farquharson's. 
 But, alas ! the vessel was wrecked on the Dutch coast four 
 miles from land. These little things were intended as a small 
 
1774] LOSSES BY SHIPWRECK 
 
 343 
 
 present, particularly to your caillich, and were directed to Mr. *7 Dec. 
 Gregory at Campvere his care for a safe conveyance to you. 
 God be thanked ! no lives were lost. The poor fellows stript 
 to the buff to stop the lakes as they happened to open, and 
 they were taken to land naked as they were born. Though 
 the contents were of the best kind, I do not regret the loss of 
 them so much as that of a pacquet among the oatmeal contain- 
 ing some printed songs composed by a member of the Royal 
 Oak Club in Scotia ; one set for the Sultana, another for 
 yourself, and a third for Sandy Blair. Besides there were in it 
 some anecdotes in harmless manuscript, which would have 
 proved entertaining both to the Sultan and Sultana. All 
 these can be renewed if I could have the good luck to meet/o/. 2093. 
 with a sure bearer, for I will risk no more upon the roaring 
 billows of the far-sounding ocean. 
 
 This is not the first disappointment you and I and such like 
 have met with in matters of far greater moment. May we be 
 so wise as to demean ourselves under them with true Christian 
 fortitude and patience, and hope for the best to come. 
 
 A happy Christmas and a good new year to you and yours, 
 and to all friends on your side of the water. May the worst 
 be past and the best to come. 
 
 Never was there such havock on the British coast in a storm 
 as in the late one, as you will probably have learnt by the 
 newspapers. Of 340 sail at Harwick, only seven untouched 
 with damage less or more. May God amend the times and 
 send us better days. Poor Scotia has suffered much from 
 Berwick along the coast northward, particularly at Leith and 
 about Aberdeen. f 0 i 2094 . 
 
 I heartily wish I had better news to entertain you with, but 
 you must even take the bad till the good come. 
 
 I hope you have received long before now a grateful tho"* 
 poor return to the Sultana for the superlative honour done to 
 the author ; as also the first ode set to music for her gracious 
 reception and tuneful entertainment. I have been told that 
 the most amiable of the sex is a notable performer in that 
 delightful art both vocal and instrumental. 
 
 May you soon and happily visit Scotia's hills and dales, and 
 get a lick of my ladle to your own heart's contentment, and 
 the joy of all honest men. 
 
344 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1774 
 
 J 7 Dec. Thus prays and wishes an auld sinner, 
 
 Taking a glass just after dinner. 
 Away with trifling scanes and toys. 
 But joy to great Caesar, sing, Boys ! 
 
 I ever am, dear Sir, what I need not tell you, 
 
 Donald Hatebreeks. 
 
 Tartan Hall, December 17, 1774. 
 
 foi. 2095. N.B. — I have been collecting a list of the Royal Palaces, 
 ancient and modern in Scotland, and have come already to 
 thirty. 
 
 In Slmo. Decembris, 1774. 
 
 31 Dec. Legitimum regem patriis fraus expulit oris, 
 
 Ast anguem infestum gens male sana fovet. 
 Interea absenti meritos libemus honores, 
 Laetaque testamur gaudia luce tua ! 
 
 My Lawful Prince, receive this poor behest, 
 Banish'd from thine own, and by fraud opprest ! 
 While we a serpent foster in our breast. 
 Meantime, let us thy rightful honours pay, 
 And celebrate with joy thy natal day. 
 
 iEquam memento rebus in arduis, 
 Servare mentem, non secus in bonis 
 Ab insolenti temperatam, 
 Laetitia, moriture Carle. — Horat. 
 
 In arduous hours an equal mind maintain, 
 
 Nor let your spirit rise too high, 
 Though Fortune kindly change the scene, 
 
 Alas ! dear Charles, thou wert born to die. 
 
 fol. 2096. 
 31 Dec. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — December 31, 1774. — I cannot let this 
 day pass without saluting you and good Mrs. Gordon, as hereby 
 I do in my own name, and in that of my Rachel, not forgetting 
 
1775] LINES ON THE PRINCE'S BIRTHDAY 345 
 
 the worthy grandmother of Burnhall. May all of you live to 31 Dec- 
 enjoy the delight of your hearts and the joy of your eyes, with 
 large amends of the distressful times. 
 
 You have inclosed for Captain Farquharson somewhat 
 intended for the entertainment of the amiable pair. 1 
 
 The two first are copies of what were lost by sea. The third 
 is a poor essay on the day, and speaks for itself. 
 
 The Countess is returned from her country jaunt, healthy 
 and fresh as a new-blown rose. Her ladyship is with me every 
 day, and we often talk of you and Mrs. Gordon. By her 
 friendly hands, you are, God willing, to have a rare curiosity, 
 to be made open by Mr. Bowdler, and after perusal to be 
 transmitted to you. Deus sit semper tecum tuisque. Amen. 
 Adieu. 
 
 From Bishop Gordon. — London, January 6, 1775. — Tho 1 I f^j™ 97 ' 
 have little time I cannot suffer the post to go without acknow- 1775 
 ledging three of your most agreeable epistles, poetry, Royal 
 Oak and all, and telling you at the same time that the two 
 letters inclosed in your last came safe to hand and were 
 accordingly forwarded. I have likewise, dear Sir, the pleasure 
 to tell you that tho 1 the ship in which our worthy friend, Mr. 
 Bowdler's remarks were sent was stranded in the late terrible 
 storm, yet luckily the packet, being in the mate's chest, who is of 
 Mr. Innes's flock, is happily preserved and safely delivered into 
 Mr. Innes's hands, who will in due time, as desired, forward 
 them by the first safe conveyance to you, Sir. 
 
 I send here inclosed Lady Galloway's receipts which you 
 will please to deliver to her ladyship with my best respects. 
 I cannot help feeling for you, Sir, in being teized with the 
 too great frequency of her ladyship's visits. She has her 
 virtues and failings too, and so, God knows, we have all, some 
 more, some less. Her ladyship, I believe, means well and has 
 sterling loyalty, which in my estimation is a great virtue. 
 
 Sister Smith desires to be kindly remembred to yourself and f 0 i 20g8 . 
 good Mrs. Forbes, with the good wishes suitable to the season, 
 in which she is most sincerely and heartily joined by my wife 
 
 See ff. 2066-2069. 
 
346 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 6 Jan. and self. We have heard of no delivery yet at Burnhall. May 
 God grant an happy one ! No, no, George will never fill with 
 like honour his father's and grandfather's bonnet. He wants 
 the sentiment. 
 
 We beg our best respects, with kindest best wishes to the 
 worthy Gask when you write. 
 
 The family of Bath were all well when we heard last, as we 
 hope dear Tommy is, to whom you will be so good as to make our 
 affectionate regards acceptable. Mr. Keith and sister send their 
 compliments. The former purposes to write you very soon. 
 
 I am highly pleased with the Royal Oak Institution. May 
 good come of it ! Commending you heartily, dear Sir, to God 
 and his keeping, I am, yours ever faithfully and affectionately, 
 
 R. G. 
 
 foi. 2099. From Bishop Gordon. — London, December 19, 1775. — The 
 19 ec ' inclosed, dear Sir, came to me yesterday by the penny post. 
 I partly guess from what quarter it comes. However, I would 
 hope it will be delivered safe to your hand, Sir, by the course 
 of the ordinary post, as I flatter myself the poor shipwreck'd ms. 
 will be by some conveyance from Aberdeen, which I shall long 
 to hear of, and shall be glad to know how you like it too ; of 
 which, indeed, I can hardly doubt. Honest Mr. Innes in his 
 last seemed to relish it highly; and in my opinion, well he 
 may, for it is pointed clear and strong, notwithstanding it 
 does not appear to have had the least effect upon Mr. Brett, 
 which to me is a glaring instance of want of candor. I pity the 
 poor man. But the views and interests of the world to serve his 
 family I strongly suspect to be at the bottom of it. May God 
 mend and shew him his danger. 
 
 There was on Saturday last, the 14th instant, in one of our 
 daily papers called the Ledger a letter to his Majesty, the most 
 impudent and audacious I ever read. 'Tis amazing to me that 
 Government can suffer it. Indeed from such coolness and seem- 
 ing indifference it would rather appear we had no government, 
 or at least no regard to insulted majesty. I will endeavour to 
 foi. 3000.1 get you a copy of this notable paper. O Temporal O Mores! 
 
 1 Apparently by inadvertence the paging of the MS. leaps over the interven- 
 ing numbers. 
 
1775] LINES BY JOHN FARQUHARSON 347 
 
 What have you and I, my dear Sir, lived to see? Enough 19 
 surely to be weary of a profligate and abandoned world, let us 
 cast our eyes wheresover we please. Wishing, but, alas ! hardly 
 hoping for better times, but commending you to God, I conclude 
 myself, dear Sir, your ever affectionate and faithful brother 
 and servant in Christ, R. G. 
 
 My wife sends best respects, and we join in every kind wish 
 to yourself and good Mrs. Forbes. We must not omit our best 
 respects and all: good wishes to that worthiest of men, Gask, 
 and all his. To Tommy Bowdler, too, we send kind love. 
 Adieu, dear Sir, Adieu. 
 
 Copy of the above mentioned inclosed. 1 J 
 
 My Dear Dr. Lord, 
 
 I greet the guidman of Tartanha ! 
 
 And a his friends baith grytt an sma. 
 
 May this new year produce that blessing, 
 
 That he deserves for his song, hymns and wishing ! 
 
 Plaguing people wi his songs and rhimes, 
 
 To be sent off to foreign climes. 
 
 Now they are gone, so rest content. 
 
 Begin the year with merriment. 
 
 Wow ! what pleasure for thee and me, 
 
 To see old friends where they should be. 
 
 If you dont give over sending me your compositions it will 
 turn my pate, as you may easily see by what is above. However 
 ere it take that turn I make you and lady my sincere compli- f oL 
 ments of this new year, wishing you both many happy returns 
 in health and prosperity, even to the fulfilling of your most 
 sanguine wishes. 
 
 For it runs always in my head, 
 
 Til see your ladle ere I am dead. 
 
 Then have a turn at Ceres' feats ; 
 
 For well we know how to chuse our guests. 
 
 No blackclout ever shall be there, 
 
 Nor none that scouks like an auld bear. 
 
348 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1775 
 
 1 Jan. Thou seest that thou hast turned my head for I cannot ever 
 write thee a letter without intermixing my nonsense. How- 
 ever, I hope you will excuse. 
 
 By my stinken rhime you '11 plainly see 
 Thy orders have been obey'd by me. 
 And always shall while I have breath, 
 And if I cou'd, even after death. 
 
 Is it possible that the spirits of the dead see what the living 
 do ? This I leave to you to determine as 'tis too deep for my 
 cranie. My little wife will never forget your civilities, as does 
 that Highland thief, Mr. Cameron, who wishes you well. I 
 will now finish with assuring you that I am, my dear Lord, 
 your Lordship's most humble servant, 
 
 John Farquharson. 
 
 Dunkerque, January 1, 1775. 
 
 N.B. — The meal is gone ; the hams I do regret. 
 
 Send me a couple I pray, for Heaven's sake. 
 To drink your health when I hae drouth ; 
 For sure there here is drink enough, 
 Of wine and gin, with good old brandy, 
 And slabs of tea, wf sugar candy. 
 Besides for thee I '11 pray throughout the year, 
 Each time I think on thy good chear. 
 foi. 3002. But see it be in Summer time, 
 
 And then I hope they will not tine. 
 This being first trial of my rhime 
 I pray, dont seance them out of time. 
 
 I have lost since my last one of my best friends in this 
 country, Lord Nicolas Mackenzie, uncle to the present Sea- 
 forth, and cousin german to Monsieur Oglou, the Sultana's 
 great favourite, and who resides continually with her. He 
 went a skaiting the 8th December on the ice, which proved 
 too weak, and he fell in and was misfortunately drowned. 
 This loss and unforseen accident touches me nearly. His 
 body is buried in the Scots College in Douay. If you could 
 
1775] DEATH OF LORD NICOLAS MACKENZIE 349 
 
 get his death and the manner of it with the burial, which was i Jan. 
 conform to his rank and dignity, put into any of your Edin- 
 burgh papers without cost, I should take it kind, for many 
 are the civilities I have received from him and his cousin, the 
 Sultana's friend. In my last I sent you a note from Sandy 
 Blair. He is surprised you don't answer it. He and the old 
 woman desire the most respectful compliments to you and 
 lady. Adieu, dear Tartanha ! Adieu. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — January 28, 1775. — Two letters and a 28 Jan. 
 most extraordinary paper in your debt ! Not my ordinary 
 truly. 
 
 The Countess and your humble servant hit it extremely 
 well, and many times we talk of you, etc. Her ladyship is foi. 3°°3- 
 luckily getting great dispatch of business, and desired me 
 oftener than once to remember you and Mrs. Gordon with 
 respect and kindness, which hereby I do. She is most shock- 
 ingly used by her children, though to her they owe an opulent 
 estate and good provisions. The undutiful, unaccountable 
 conduct, though vexatious, turns out to her advantage, and 
 opens the eyes of the world with lustre to her character. 
 
 I am particularly delighted with your being highly pleased 
 with the Royal Oak institution. I heartily join with you in 
 your wish. May good come of it! This to January 6. 
 
 To that of 19. The inclosed you sent me, which you might 
 have opened according to my desire, was, as you guess, from 
 Dunkirk, advising all to have come safe to hand, and to have 
 been dispatched to the amiable pair. 
 
 Yes, the most excellent ms. is now happily in my custody, 
 which I have perused with pleasure. But perusal repeated 
 again and again will not satisfie me. I must take a copy. Mr. 
 Innes writes to me his high relish of it, as he does to you, and 
 what wonder ! when Mr. Bowdler does not leave poor Mr. 
 Brett a single hole or chink to peep out at. Woes me that a 
 Churchman so knowing and learned as he is should expose him- fol 3004. 
 self and lie open to be so thoroughly worsted by any laical 
 gentleman whatsoever ! But the god of this world hath got 
 fast hold of him and blinded his eyes with gold-dust that he 
 will not see. O for such a son of such a father ! Though 
 
350 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1775 
 
 28 Jan. the masterly performance has had no good effect upon Mr. 
 Brett, yet I would gladly hope it has operated with full con- 
 viction upon the young gentleman for whose use it was in- 
 tended. This I cannot doubt of. 
 
 You judge well, Sir, the paper is the most impudent and 
 audacious ever read. I had it read the other day in the 
 hearing of 13 or 14 friends, who all declared it had not a 
 parallel. I wish I could meet with a private hand to take it to 
 Gask. People would borrow it from me ; but I will not part 
 with it out of my own sight, to Gask only excepted, with 
 orders to return it. He is ever mindful of you and yours, 
 with particular thanks for your compliments of condolence and 
 sympathy. O for many such ! 
 
 Tommy Bowdler is pure well and hearty and an hard 
 student. He ever remembers you and Mrs. Gordon with 
 kindness and affection. 
 foi. 3005. All kind good wishes from me and mine to the worthiest of 
 grandmothers, who, we hope, is by this time a great-grand- 
 mother, in which relation may she be happy. 
 
 The Countess is still in Edinburgh, and with me every day 
 at 12 o'clock. Her ladyship is remarkably charitable to real 
 objects of years and infirmities, but particularly to families in 
 want when made known to her. Deus sit semper tecum tuisque, 
 Amen! Adieu, dear Sir, Adieu. 
 
 January 28, 1775. 
 
 N.B. — Stupid inattention to forget your Declaration, which 
 is very much to the purpose ; though concise yet strong 
 enough to flash conviction into any heart, not sunk into selfish- 
 ness and hardened by error ! God pity poor N[icolas] Bfrett], 
 for poor he is for all his help. 
 
 To John Farquharsoji, Dunkirk. 
 
 Dear Jock, — Your kind intimation of all being come safe 
 to hand, and that you had dispatched as desired, reached me 
 on the 24th instant, for which ten thousand thanks. But how 
 came you not to observe the address I gave you literally and 
 perjinkly ? Know that Theobald's Road is actually a street in 
 
1775] KEEPING BIRTHDAY AT GASK 351 
 
 London. Therefore, henceforth direct thus : 6 To Mr. Forbes 2 * Jan. 
 by the care of Mrs. Gordon, Theobald's Road, London."' This 
 same Mrs. Gordon is a sterling lady. Mark that, clerk. She 
 wishes well to all such auld sinners as you and I are. 
 
 Your account of Lord Nicholas's death was no new thing 
 before yours reached me. A niece of his I have the honour to 
 be acquainted with. Her ladyship and another right honour- 
 able person are extremely anxious to know the real name of 
 your Monsieur Oglou ; for they cannot discover, with all their 
 acuteness, what cousin-german he can be, whether Scots or 
 English. Inform, therefore, and thereby oblige more than one. 
 
 To yourself, caillich, honest Sandy Blair and his bosom 
 friend, all things good and happy, from me and mine. — Adieu, f° l * 3°°7- 
 dear Jock, Adieu. 
 
 Tartanhall, January 21, 1775. 
 
 Copy, Mr. MacDonald, 1 to his Father in Leith. 
 
 GasJc, January 9, 1775. 
 I see you have been somewhat merry on the King's birthday, 
 but you cannot imagine what merriment was here. The tenants 
 to the number of about 50 assembled in the hall before dinner 
 and drew tickets for a cow which Mr. Oliphant gives them 
 annually. Then they adjourned to the barn to dine, and after- 
 wards returned to the Hall and began their dancing, which 
 continued till eleven at night without the least intermission, 
 except about half an hour while the fiddler was getting his 
 dinner, and all the while they got plenty of ale and punch. 
 
 Copy of the above in a separate note transmitted to 
 Bishop Gordon, January 28, 1775. 
 
 From John Farquharson. f 0 i % 300 8. 
 
 Dunkerque, February 15, 1775. 
 I 'm sorry that the young ladies in that once-beloved country 
 have so little curiosity that they do not know their nearest 
 
 1 Mr. Andrew MacDonald, who was acting as tutor and chaplain at Gask. 
 
352 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1775 
 
 21 Jan. relations. This is now owing to fine English education, the 
 mode in this our degenerate time. For there the offspring of 
 Rosinante is far better known than uncles and cousins. So 
 that lady does not know that her grandfather, William, Mar- 
 quis of Seaforth, had a sister, which sister was a foremother to 
 my Ousan Oglu, who has not as yet driven the white horse 
 over Admiral Haddock's pond. This same sister was married 
 to Mr. Carryll of Ladyhoff, who was created a lord the same 
 time her grandfather was created a marquis. Now from this 
 marriage sprung two children, a son, and a daughter who is 
 dead. 1 The son is now with your Sultana, and the only one in 
 favour with her and her Sultan. I wish he had been there 
 thirty years ago, as he is one of the genteelest, best-bred men 
 I ever knew. He has not even dogs-wages for his trouble, but 
 does all for stark love and kindness. Tis true he has always 
 his apartments in the Seraglio. Now I have given you some 
 light with regard to my Ousan Oglu. He is well known to 
 many by the name and title of my Lord Carryll, whose grand- 
 
 1 There is here an inserted tabular pedigree of Lord Caryl which appears 
 to have been prepared by Mr. Denniston or Dr. Chambers : 
 
 I 
 
 John Caryll of Ladyholt = M Dromond. On accession of 
 James 2d., J. C. was sent on a mission to Rome (See 
 Lingard and Macaulay). In 1775* he was appointed 
 Secretary to the Queen, retired with James to France, 
 and when Milford was dismissed, was appointed Sec- 
 retary of State (See Clarke's James 2nd, ii. 532, and 
 Macpherson, i. 493). He was outlawed in 1695-6, and 
 his estate granted to Lord Cults. But J. C.'s brother 
 and nephew bought of Lord Cults for £6,500 the life 
 interest of the entailed estate, which only had been for- 
 feited. This J. C. was ennobled by James, and the title 
 entailed on his brother and brother's children. He was 
 born in or about 1625, and died s.p. at St. Germains, 9 
 September 1711; and is described on a mural tablet in 
 the chapel of what was the Scotch College (I saw it 
 last year) as ' John Caryll, Baron de Dunford, de 
 Harting.' 
 
 Richard: 
 Caryll 
 
 Johanna 
 d. of Sir H. 
 Bedingfield. 
 
 Kenneth = Frances, d. of William 
 4th Earl of I Marquis of Powis. 
 Seaforth. 
 
 I 
 
 William 
 
 John of Ladybolt= Elizabeth 
 died 6 April 1736 I d. of Harrington 
 of Ore. 
 
 Mary= John d. 6 April 1718. 
 
 John, = Dorothy 
 b. 12 Jan. 171? 3. of Viscount 
 
 s.p. Moiyneux. 
 d. Sept. 1780. 
 
 Other children, but all 
 dead, I think, before 1785. 
 
 * Sic, but a mistake for 1675. 
 
1775] PEDIGREE OF LORD CARYL 353 
 
 mother was a daughter of the Earl of Antrim's. So you see he 
 is half English, half Irish, half Scots, and an honest man, the 
 greatest wonder of God. O Robin, Robin ! had I but twenty foi. 3009. 
 thousand like him I would shew thee a dance thou ne'er saw 
 the like, neither at hame nor fra hame. Thou should be paid 
 for thy fair fidling. I wou'd hae thee on the top of the 
 pinacle or I should lose my skill in potage making. He 's a 
 bra wise son of a bitch that kens his ain doom. Wha kens 
 (Vive le Roy, as the French say) but this war with the 
 Americans will be a very destructive one whether Britain gains 
 or loses ! In the first place it will put a stop to all trade with 
 that part of the world, and that will be heavy upon our honest 
 men of Glasgow ; the very honest shire of Air will be sufferers ; 
 so will the Stewartry of Galloway, and the truly honest shire 
 of Anan. Sorry shall I be for their loss, for their honesty, 
 loyalty, and worth cannot be equalled. You on the east coast 
 are all a nest of ill-thinking men and smugglers, and as there 
 is something in the air of your coast that affects the heads of 
 people that live on it, I cou'd wish that as the earth goes so 
 often round the sun, it might stop sometime or other to make 
 the east coast the west, and the west the east. This wou'd 
 prove to a demonstration the rotation of the earth round the 
 sun and which wou'd be more wonderful, might make you all f ol > 3010. 
 honest men, or turn your heads so as to make you all run to 
 
 All these Johns were St. Germains' lords and were generally so called by 
 foreigners, and not unfrequently by Jacobites and Catholics ; and they occasion- 
 ally in their foreign correspondence signed ' Caryll.' The last of them ' Ousan 
 Aglou, ' referred to by John Farquharson, ran through everything, sold his estate 
 in 1767, and then retired to the Continent, and assumed his hereditary title of 
 * Lord Caryll.' 
 
 The descent of the family is from Dallaway and Burrell with corrections. 
 Whether strictly correct or not it shows that Farquharson was wrong. On 
 neither side was Ousan Aglou's grandmother a daughter of the Earl of Antrim. 
 Collins again {Peerage) tells us that, 4 Upon the Revolution when his unfortunate 
 master was forced to retire into France and thence into Ireland, the Earl [of 
 Seaforth] soon followed him thither, at which time James created him a Marquis.' 
 
 When James was in Ireland Ousan Aglou's father was about 3 years old, and 
 he was not more than thirteen or fourteen when James died. 
 
 But even John Farquharson does not support the statement of Mr. Deniston. 
 The former says it was the father who was created a Lord, the latter that it was 
 the son, 1 Ousan Aglou ; ' further, that ' Ousan Aglou ' served in the rebellion of 
 1745, for which no authority is given, and which for reasons I doubt. 
 VOL. III. Z 
 
354 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1775 
 
 the mountains to see the Almighty there, as he cannot be found 
 in towns and villages, the people being so wicked in them. 
 
 From Bishop Gordon. — London, March 2, 1775. 
 
 2 March There arising some doubt when the inclosed came to hand 
 for whom it might be designed, we ventured to open it, in 
 which we hope not to have greatly transgressed. One particular 
 there is in it which I confess I was much pleased to read, which 
 was to see Lord Caryl so well spoken of, and who well deserves 
 all that is said of him ; for he is really a fine gentleman, a 
 person of courage, and a man of business too. I have had 
 many conversations with him since the year ^6. He has not, 
 poor gentleman, been the best economist, but has ever been 
 devoted to his master's service, whom he attended at Gravellin 
 when Count Saxe's disposition was in hand at Dunkirk in the 
 year forty-three. So much for my good friend, Lord Caryll, 
 whom I greatly honour. 
 
 I believe I mentioned to you a new edition of Mr. Brett's 
 Considerations, which he was so obliging as to transcribe for 
 me. I perceive he has made some alterations from the first 
 fol. 301 1. copy. As an Aberdeen ship is likely to be the speediest and 
 most safe conveyance, I purpose sending the ms. to Mr. Innes 
 by the first opportunity, who will convey it to you, Sir, by the 
 first opportunity, and I hope you or he will take in hand to 
 give it a proper answer. You must agree it between you. 
 
 I have nothing new worth communicating. Nothing but 
 the affairs of America are talked of here, and for my part I am 
 quite sick of them. 
 
 I am glad the Countess has got a proper chaplain. Our 
 best respects, we pray, to her ladyship. 
 
 Return to the above. 
 
 9 March Your welcome and most acceptable favour of the 2d instant 
 is now before me. But why make any apology for making 
 open what you sent inclosed when ab initio I begged you would 
 do so with every such letter, as I know well they will contain 
 something to your good liking. After perusal you need not 
 seal, as such come under frank from you. 
 
1775] LORD CARYL AND OTHERS 
 
 355 
 
 Lord Caryll ! Much am I delighted with his amiable 9 March 
 character, especially as being vouched by you. I hear his 
 Lordship has still a good reversion. You never mentioned foi. 3012. 
 before the new edition of Mr. Brett's Considerations; but I 
 am sorry they are still such as need an answer. I wish you or 
 Bob Keith had favoured me with a copy of the pamphlet, now, 
 I suppose, burnt in facie solis. It makes a strange noise here- 
 abouts as singular and unusual. 
 
 The Countess, an extraordinary person truly, remembers you 
 and yours with much affection. The more I know of her 
 ladyship the more is she to my good liking. O for many 
 such ! She is delighted with the character of Lord Caryll. 
 
 March 9, 1775. 
 
 To Bishop Gordon. — March 21, 1775. — Yesterday, after 21 March 
 dinner, the Countess set out from Edinburgh for Bath, intend- 
 ing, Deo volente, to be against Sunday with Mr. Mansfield of 
 Newcastle, and at Bath before Easter. Pray for her ladyship's 
 good and safe journey. 
 
 From Bishop Gordon. — London, April 18, 1775. — Tho' I have 18 April 
 nothing to write worth your notice, yet I cannot suffer this 
 joyful and happy festival pass without our suitable and proper 
 gratulations and hearty wishes of many more happy anni- 
 versaries to yourself and good Mrs. Forbes. Probably you 
 may have had my sister with you before this time. Pray, when 
 you see her, give our kind love to her, and let her know (Blessed 
 be God !) we are both in good health ; and tell her at the same 
 time that Sister Smith sets out for Burnhall next week. And fol. 3013. 
 we also beg the favour to be remembred in kind love and 
 every good wish to dear Tommy Bowdler. His friend and 
 our nephew, Rowley Burdon, is in town from Oxford to keep 
 the festival, as he did at Christmass. 
 
 Pray ! what is become of your Countess ? for I have heard 
 nothing of her ladyship's motions or settlement since you wrote 
 last. I expected, indeed, to have heard of her from Bath, but 
 not a word. Have any of MacPherson's late publications come 
 in your way? I have had a melancholy pleasure in reading 
 King James the %d?s Memoirs, and other original papers. In 
 
356 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1775 
 
 3 April my opinion they do great honour to that poor unhappy misled 
 prince's memory. There is a character drawn of him which 
 forced tears from my eyes. But I must go no farther, only to 
 say this collection of authentick originals are well worth per- 
 usal, and I would hope may open eyes and do good in an 
 ignorant and hoodwinked age. 
 
 Dr. Demas, I am told, has taken an house in our neighbour- 
 
 3014. hood, in Red Lion Square ; which you may imagine, Sir, does 
 not give me much pleasure. 
 
 Return to the above. 
 
 April This is intended to go by T[om] B[owdler], whom may God 
 preserve, and grant him a happy and prosperous journey, that 
 he may see his worthy parents and other friends in health and 
 safety. 
 
 To yours of the 18th instant. May you enjoy many more 
 happy returns of that solemn season to yourself and the kindly 
 Mrs. Gordon and to all your concerns. 
 
 Your sister has been with us, looks well, and is in perfect 
 good health ; from whom we have heard with pleasure that 
 your health is re-established, God be thanked ! Long be it so ; 
 and may you live to see better days and peace upon Israel. 
 
 Your accounts of Rowly Burdon are extremely agreaable and 
 refreshing. May he go on and prosper. 
 
 I had a letter from the Countess dated at Burton-upon-Trent, 
 April 3, in her way to Bath, from which, I suppose, her lady- 
 ship would be with ease at Bath before Easter. I look for a 
 letter every day, and perhaps it may come before this scribble 
 be dispatched. 
 
 3015. I have heard much of MacPherson's late publications, 1 but 
 have not yet seen them. They are a dear purchase, above my 
 
 1 Here begins Volume tenth and last of the Bishop's MS. It is entitled : 
 The Lyon in Mourning, or a Collection (as exactly made as the iniquity of 
 the times would permit) of Speeches, Journals, etc., relative to the Affairs, but 
 more particularly the dangers and distresses of. . . . Vol. ioth, 1775. 
 
 Valet ima suvimis 
 Mutare, et insignam attenuat Deus 
 Obscura promens. 
 
 Horat., Lib. r, Od. 34. 
 
1775] REMARKS ON DR. JOHNSON 357 
 
 reach at present. I wish they had appeared sooner, for the 29 April 
 Budget has been too long in opening. The strong and pointed 
 truths make some people stare ; but it will be no easy matter 
 to make them blush. Dr. Demas in your neighbourhood ! 
 What brings the flirting, wrongheaded body there ? Will he 
 ever settle? No. A light head gives the feet much to do. 
 Stop here till we see if new matter casts up. 
 
 Have you seen The Song of Solomon Paraphrased, with a 
 Commentary and Notes Practical and Critical ? Methinks it is 
 excellent and notably well intended. Favour me with your 
 opinion of it. Such performances are not saleable in these 
 days of boasted light and liberty, immersed in profound dark- 
 ness — darkness that may be felt ! 
 
 Bishops Raith and Alexander are both of them quite ab 
 agendo ! God help ! for vain is the help of man. 
 
 Since writing as above I have seen a bookseller who told me 
 we would soon have a neat edition of the Original Papers pub- /<?/. 3016. 
 lished by Macpherson from Dublin at half, if not a third, of 
 the price. 
 
 I have lately met with an edition, 1701, of Hickes's Devo- 
 tions, in the beginning of which, on the two waste leaves, is an 
 excellent short account of his life from his cradle to his coffin, 
 with the inscription on his gravestone, in the handwriting of 
 one Edward Francklin, Rainham, A.M. I had it for a trifle. 
 
 I have blotted some sheets of paper in threshing the buff of 
 Dr. Bluff as to his fanciful tour in Scotland, which I have 
 interleaved in his pompous account. He is as blind as a mole, 
 a downright ignoramus of a learned fool as to Scots affairs, 
 insomuch that it may be truly said of him, 6 Nay, but to see 
 the nakedness of the land are ye come, 1 for his fertile imagina- 
 tion sees nakedness where no nakedness is. In writing to a 
 friend he called his book A Tour of Notions. And, indeed, so 
 it is, of very odd fanciful notions, false, in fact, in very many 
 instances. 
 
 I have most luckily found out an incontestible proof of a 
 much doubted and much disputed fact, namely, that Mr. David 
 Lindesay, who baptized King Charles 1., was really in holy foi. 3017. 
 orders before his embracing the Reformation in Scotland. 
 (See Keith's Catalogue of Scottish Bishops, p. 119, where this 
 
358 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1775 
 
 29 April point is greatly doubted. On the margin of which I have tran- 
 scribed the strong and pointed proof). 
 
 The Countess was at Bath before Good Friday. 
 
 Deus sit semper tecum tuisque! Amen. Adieu, dear Sir, 
 Adieu. 
 
 April 29, 1775. 
 
 From Bishop Gordon. — London, June 2, 1775. 
 
 2 June Right Reverend Dear Sir, — Your very acceptable letter by 
 Tommy Bowdler came safe to hand, and at the same time the 
 kind bearer gave us the satisfaction of hearing he had left 
 yourself and good Mrs. Forbes both very well. May you long, 
 very long, be so, and enjoy many comfortable returns of the 
 great holy festival just now at hand. 
 
 I hear Mrs. Cotton has been so generous and kind as to take 
 Nancy Falconer off poor Mrs. Murray's hands, to the latter a 
 foi. 3018. great deliverance indeed. But what Mrs. Cotton is doing, or 
 proposes to do with the unpromising girl herself, I have not yet 
 learnt. 
 
 I hear your Countess arrived safe at Bath on Easter Eve, but 
 more I have not heard of her ladyship. 
 
 What pity is it that Mr. M'Pherson's publication of original 
 papers did not appear in the world sooner. What scenes of 
 iniquity, treachery, and misrepresentation have they brought to 
 light ! They appear to be published faithfully and impartially. 
 I wish his history of the time may be wrote with the like im- 
 partiality. But, alas ! I fear that is hardly to be expected from 
 one of his cast. Yet, thus far I can say at present, tho" I have 
 asked questions about it, I have not met with anybody that 
 could give me a satisfactory account. 
 
 Yes, Sir, I have seen The Song of Solomon paraphrased, etc., 
 and am greatly pleased with it, so well pleased that I have read 
 it over no less than three times. It is performed with no less 
 erudition than elegance, both pleasing and admirable indeed, 
 and the language pure and correct throughout. And what 
 renders it still more worthy of approbation and commendation 
 foi. 3019. is the modesty and virtue that appears almost in every page. 
 
 In short, I cannot say enough of it, therefore must hold my 
 pen. It was brought to me by Mr. Smith from Mr. Cheyne, 
 
1775] 
 
 BAPTISM OF CHARLES I. 
 
 359 
 
 to whom I beg you will give my best thanks when you see him. 2 June 
 I greatly fear the publication will not defray the expence of 
 printing. I gave Mr. Smith a guinea for the editor, with an 
 injunction not to let it be known from whom it came. The 
 same injunction, dear Sir, I must lay upon you ; nor had you 
 been troubled with this, but to shew you how much I liked the 
 thing itself. Methinks I have a violent curiosity to know the 
 author, who must be a person of no mean abilities. 
 
 I am glad you are likely to have M'Pherson's Original Papers 
 fron Ireland at a moderate expence. They will be much called 
 for. I dare say, in your country. And tho" they come late, yet 
 bad as the world is, I would hope they may do some good. 
 
 My good friend talks of threshing Dr. Bluff, tho 1 I cannot 
 say but I read his tour with pleasure. However, I am not 
 qualified to judge of the merits of the performance; but you 
 are. I could wish you to give Pennant a drubbing in your foi. 3020. 
 way. He is an ill-principled, sour fellow. 
 
 You have met with a great curiosity indeed in the short 
 account of Dr. Hickes's life, which has happily fallen into your 
 hands. I should be much obliged to you for a transcript of it. 
 One copy would serve both Mr. Bowdler and me. 
 
 The incontestable proof you have lately discovered of King 
 Charles the First's baptism is a valuable curiosity. I am glad 
 it is in such good hands. 
 
 Mr. Innes by now in possession of Mr. Brett's Considerations, 
 etc., and Mr. Bowdlers Remarks I have recommended it to him 
 to take proper notice of them ; yet I wish it may not be incon- 
 venient to him on account of his infirm state of health. Let 
 us pray for him and his good success. 
 
 Tomy Bowdler is still in town with his brother, who seems 
 loth to part with him. My sister (thank God !) got safe to 
 Dumfries, and remembers you and Mrs. Forbes with much 
 gratitude for all your civilities. 
 
 I am sorry to hear the two good old bishops are both ab 
 agendo. I trust care will be taken of the succession. My wife fol. 3021. 
 joins in best respects and every kind wish to yourself and good 
 Mrs. Forbes, and commending you both heartily to God and 
 his keeping, I am, dear Sir, Yours ever faithfully and affec- 
 tionately, R. G. 
 
360 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1775 
 
 Copy of a Return to the above. 
 
 8 June Right Reverend Dear Sir, — Your agreeable favour of the 
 2d instant I gladly received on the 6th. 
 
 To keep a friend in suspence is cruel. Receive, then, inclosed 
 a copy of the short Account of Dr. Hickes's life, and likewise a 
 copy of the proof of the validity of King Charles 1. his baptsm. 
 The latter of these, methinks, might appear in a newspaper, 
 which transmit to me and I shall take care to have it insetted 
 in one of our Scots papers. O for a copy of Alexander BailKe's 
 performance, The Benedictine Monk ! but that cannot be easily 
 had. A rare purchase it would be, if it were only upon account 
 of the orders of Mr. Lindsay. 
 
 May Mrs. Cotton have comfort of the charge [she] has taken 
 in hand, to the great relief of poor Mrs. Murray. 
 
 The Countess is in good health. Her ladyship is slow in 
 the pen and ink work. However, I have had two letters ; but 
 business prompts this. 
 fol. 3022. My fears about Macpherson are the very same with yours 
 that his history may be as you suspect. 
 
 Your encomium upon The Song of Solomon paraphrased, etc., 
 is truly delightful. I know not for certain who is the author, 
 only, by knitting things together, I aim at guessing, which you 
 may come to know something about. 
 
 You must know more of my mind as to Dr. Bluff from my 
 letter by Mrs. Falconar. He impudently asserts things false in 
 fact, and swaggers at a mighty rate, tho' I must own there are 
 some most excellent touches in his Tour of Notions, as he him- 
 self called it. I have bestowed several sheets upon Pennant, 
 which I have carefully interleaved in his two splendid quartos, 
 wherein I have given him a most hearty drubbing. He is a 
 most violent, downright Stewart-hater without rhime or reason. 
 
 Mr. Innes is to buckle on his armour. But how can he con- 
 vince one of an error when the root of all evil is at the bottom? 
 Auri sacra fames, etc. 
 fol. 3023. Let the fratres fraterrimi of Bowdler's know that we wish 
 well to them and all theirs. 
 
 Not a single word this long time about Cousin Peggie, about 
 whom I and others would gladly hear aliquid boni. 
 
1775] NEWS OF THE PRINCE 
 
 361 
 
 Poor Os^Ean, upon failing of his usual moiety, joined the 8 June 
 emigrants in August last to seek a grave in a foreign land, 
 where his merit is not known and would be little regarded. All 
 things good and happy to you and yours. Wearied with 
 scribbling. Adieu, dear Sir, Adieu. 
 
 June 8th, 1775. 
 
 Upon a separate bit of paper what follows : 
 
 N.B. — This upon honour to be committed to the flames, and 
 to be breathed to no person whatsoever. 
 
 Qu ery. Does Mrs. Bowdler understand the Hebrew language? 
 I am sure I have been told this by some one person or other ; 
 perhaps Mr. Robert Lyon. Answer me this by any means. 
 
 From John Farquharson of Aldlerg. f oL 3024 
 
 Bunker que, May 29, 1775. 
 
 My old friend is still in Florence, nor do I believe he will 29 May 
 return home untill he see whether or not he will be welcome. 
 His principal servant has left him — I might venture to add, his 
 most faithful friend — not by any falling out, but for family 
 business and too much fatigue. All you sent me was forwarded 
 conform to desire, which gave a good deal of pleasure to those 
 it was designed for. 
 
 From Bishop Gordon, London [without date], received on 
 Saturday, June 17, 1775. 
 
 Right Reverend and Dear Sir, — A thousand thanks for 
 your most obliging and quick return with the copy of the short 
 account of Dr. Hickes's Life, which is indeed a very valuable 
 acquisition, and will equally gratify our worthy friend, Mr. 
 Bowdler, as well as myself. The copy of the proof of the 
 validity of King Charles the First's baptism is likewise a very 
 valuable and welcome curiosity, and you have my best thanks 
 for it. I wish I were able to make a suitable acknowledgment. 
 
 As to the author of the Commentary and Paraphrase, I am 
 apt to suspect you are upon a wrong scent ; for, if I am not 
 greatly mistaken, the party imagined has neither that correct- 
 
362 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1775 
 
 ness and elegance of style, nor the qualification of languages to 
 foi. 3025. be equal to such a performance. There may be, perhaps, a little 
 smattering of Hebrew, and of Greek surely less ; but as I con- 
 fess myself perfectly in the dark, shall say no more. Wonders 
 may arise, and I may be found really mistaken, and the Misnah 
 and Gemarah may have been studied where I little suspected ; 
 tho' genius there certainly is. 
 
 Poor Os ,r Ean, I am sorry for him. He has been sometimes 
 in my thoughts, and I confess I have had an inclination to allow 
 the poor [man] £5 per annum myself ; but it cannot be done 
 now. 'Tis not long since I heard of Peggie. She and her 
 companion were both well and lived in splendor. 
 
 Your anecdotes concerning Dr. Bluff are curious enough, but 
 he is incorrigibly nasty ; so we shall throw him aside for the 
 present. 
 
 War is now lighted up in America. God only knows where 
 
 it will end, R 1 and against R 1, tho 1 it be melancholy 
 
 to think. 
 
 I was concerned to hear you say you were wearied with 
 scribbling, and to think so free and kind a scribe had so much 
 upon his hands. But 'tis time to think of my wearying with 
 my scribble, so with our best respects and every kind wish to 
 you and good Mrs. Forbes shall conclude. Yours ever faith- 
 fully and affectionately, R. G. 
 
 foL 3026. From Bishop Gordon. — London, Jidy 6, 1775. — You will 
 think it, I am very sensible, of sufficient importance, tho 1 I 
 have little else at present worth communicating, when I tell you 
 that I had a letter the other day from Cousin Peggie who gives 
 me the pleasure of hearing that she and her companion are in 
 perfect good health, and desires, with kind remembrance of all 
 friends, that they may know it. They are in the Dutchy of 
 Tuscany where they have been some time. 
 
 Probably, Sir, you may know, Lady Galloway is at present 
 in town in her way to Edinburgh. Her ladyship frequently 
 mentions you and good Mrs. Forbes, and talks of setting for- 
 ward next week. 
 
 Mr. Bowdler is greatly pleased and obliged by the account 
 of Dr. Hickes's life, which is very valuable and distinct for the 
 
1775] AFFAIRS IN AMERICA 
 
 363 
 
 compass of it ; and likewise for the curious anecdote relating 6 J ul y 
 to King Charles the First's baptism. ,r Tis lucky they fell into 
 your hands. 
 
 Young Bowdler is now with his friend, Rowley Burdon, at f°i- 3° 2 7- 
 Oxford to be present at the Act. Mr. John Bowdler set out 
 yesterday for Kent. He will be at Spring Grove where he is 
 to communicate the sense of the Scots bishops on a certain 
 important affair. 
 
 Copy of a Return. 
 
 Two of yours now lying before me. The first, without date, I r 4 July 
 received on Saturday, June 17. Mrs. Lyon's petition was 
 instantly lodged in the proper hands and is well received. As 
 to the authors of the Commentary, etc., all is merely conjec- 
 tural and guess work. 
 
 Things in America are turning out more and more serious, 
 and, as you justly say, God only knows where they will end. 
 
 Your sufficient importance of the 6th instant is truly 
 valuable. Long may you live to enjoy such like and far 
 better. May your laudable endeavours be crowned with suc- 
 cess, to the joy and admiration of the whole earth. 
 
 Mr. Cheyne went from us this day. We failed not to re- 
 member you and friendly Mrs. Gordon in a proper way cordially 
 and frequently. Messrs. Thomas Bowdlers, senior and junior, 
 their birth days happening in this week were chearfully re- fol. 3028. 
 membred oftener than once. 
 
 We have seen Mr. Innes, spouse and son, in passing to 
 Peebles, and I am glad to tell you they are all fat and fair 
 enough, which I could not fail to tell them. Upon this com- 
 plaints began to be breathed, but upon entering into the spirit 
 of conversation these were soon blown away. He has left with 
 me Considerations and the Appendix till he return this way. 
 He read to me what he had already written. N. Brett will be 
 touched to the quick and Mr. Bowdler sufficiently vindicated 
 and supported. In a word these papers have put Mr. Innes in 
 spirits and the employment will do him service. Be not afraid. 
 Leave him to the freedom of his own will. 
 
 May the Countess enjoy a happy and prosperous journey. 
 
364 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1775 
 
 14 July The new factor, etc. passes up extremely well, to the satisfaction 
 of all concerned. 
 
 It pleases me much that the two little copies are so much to 
 the taste and satisfaction of Mr. Bowdler. 
 
 What is meant by the Act at Oxford or Cambridge ? Is it 
 fol. 3029, conferring of degrees, etc. ? I have read on the title-page of a 
 sermon, preached on Act Sunday. 
 
 I am glad N. Brett knows the mind of the Scots Bishops on 
 a certain point. May it amend him and silence his subtilties. 
 
 July 14, 1775. 
 
 Extract of a Letter from Pisa, March 20, 1775. 
 
 20 March My intention was not to write to you till I should be at Rome, 
 but my wishes happened to be crowned with success nearer hand. 
 We went to Florence from this place on the 18th of last month 
 and arrived the same night. The next morning I was told 
 Prince Jarlagh was in town. I made an impatient ramble 
 till I found out that he had a servant who could speak English, 
 who proved to be a rank Highlander, John Stewart of the 
 family of Ardvorlich. He has been with his royal master ever 
 since the year 1745. He is the upper domestick. We were 
 happy to meet each other. I asked if it was possible I could 
 say in my own country I had spoken to his master. He replied, 
 there was no difficulty and desired me to come next morning, 
 
 fol. 3030. the 22d, and I should obtain my request. Accordingly I came 
 at 9 o'clock, time enough to breakfast with Mr. Stewart before 
 Prince Jarlagh could be seen, which was 11 ; when Mr. 
 Stewart called me upstairs, and introduced me into his dress- 
 ing-room ; where seeing him before me, I kneeFd down. He 
 kindly gave me his right hand, which I did myself the honour 
 to kiss, saying, 6 it was the loyalty of my parents to his royal 
 family that emboldened me to presume this attempt.'' He 
 asked me what family I was of. I answered, 6 Of the house of 
 Glenbucky ; that the late Alexander was a near relation to me. 1 
 6 Ah ! poor man ! 1 said he, 4 1 remember him perfectly well.'' 
 He spoke a few words more in which he said, 6 My lad, I wish 
 you well," and then retired. He looks old in complexion and 
 
1775] A VISIT TO THE PRINCE AT FLORENCE 365 
 
 is pretty stout in person. He keeps a constant grand equipage 20 March 
 especially when at Rome. He is still at Florence, but is ex- 
 pected at Pisa in a month's time. 
 
 From Bishop Gordon. — London, July 25, 1775. — Two days foi. 3031. 
 after the good Countess left town the inclosed were left at my 2C? ^ uly 
 house. But as I know not where with any certainty to send 
 the packets to her ladyship sooner, I hope, Sir, through your 
 kind conveyance they will come safe to her ladyship's hand. 
 We beg our best respects to the worthy Countess and shall be 
 anxious to hear of her safe arrival after so long and tedious a 
 journey in such hot weather. The 2 or 3 first days after her 
 ladyship's setting out from London proved very wet, which gave 
 us a good deal of pain on her ladyship's account. But if it shall 
 have pleased God she be arrived safe and in health, all is well. 
 All thanks be to God ! Your last obliging letter with two 
 inclosed came safe and were accordingly delivered. 
 
 What is called the Act at Oxford, besides conferring the 
 ordinary and regular as well as honorary degrees, there is a com- 
 memoration of founders and benefactors, attended with the 
 performances of musick, vocal and instrumental ; and moreover 
 orations in Latin adapted to the occasion, and often verses in 
 Latin too recited, of the humorous kind, all highly entertaining, 
 magnificent and solemn. Cambridge hath something usually fol. 3032. 
 of the same sort, but, alas ! far short of Oxford in all respects. 
 
 I am glad Lady Galloway's new factor pleases all concerned. 
 I was pleased to hear you saw Mr. Innes and his family, and 
 that they all looked so well, fat and fair. I hope the journey will 
 do them all good. God grant it ! We are obliged to you and 
 Mr. Cheyne for remembring us. This dirty scrap was intended 
 to have been thrust into Lady Galloways packet ; but sus- 
 pecting there might be overweight, when I came to weigh, I 
 found it to be so, therefore am obliged to bestow another frank 
 on this pitiful scrap. Poor Mrs. Lyon is greatly obliged to you 
 for your friendly attention to her affair. 
 
 Yes, indeed, the affairs in America are daily turning out 
 more and more serious. The British Ministry are like to have 
 an ugly affair upon their hands and are, I dare say, at their 
 wits end how to get rid of it. When we are heartily embarked, 
 
366 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 [1775 
 
 2 5 July it will, methinks, be very extraordinary if the French and 
 Spaniards should remain indifferent lookers on. 
 We join in kindest compliments, etc. 
 
 Copy of a Return. 
 
 10 Aug. To yours of July 25. The Countess arrived safe on Friday, 
 foi. 3033- 4th instant, in spirits and good looks, like the eagle renewing 
 her age ; God be thanked ! Her ladyship makes frequent 
 mention of you and good Mrs. Gordon with kindness and 
 esteem. 
 
 Thanks for the account of the Act at Oxford. 
 
 Mr. Innes and his family set out upon their return to Aber- 
 deen on Wednesday the 2d instant. The journey seems to 
 have done them good. 
 
 Your opinion of America, I am perswaded, is very just. The 
 bloody work is begun, but God only knows how and when 
 it will end. Foreigners, as you will observe, will readily inter- 
 fere. Divide et impera is the maxim in all such cases, though 
 mischievous enough. 
 
 Along with this you have some occurences which may add a 
 little to your entertainment. 
 
 Gray Cooper, Secretary to the Treasury at London, prides 
 himself in being reckoned a Scotsman, as descended of Scots 
 progenitors ; and now he has attained his wish by an attested 
 proof of six concurring evidences. God be with you and yours 
 now and evermore. Adieu, dear Sir, Adieu. 
 
 August 10, 1775. 
 
 foi 3034. Declaration for Gray Cooper, Esq., Secretary to 
 the Treasury at London. Leith, July 29, 1775. 
 
 29 July I have often heard Dame Magdalene Scott, relict of Sir 
 William Bruce of Kinross, narrate it consisted with her know- 
 ledge, that Cooper of Gogar was the first gentleman in Scotland 
 who had a coach of his own at the Cross of Edinburgh. 
 
1775] HISTORICAL ANECDOTES 367 
 
 The said Lady Bruce died at the Citadel of Leith, J un24th 29 July 
 1752, in the 82d year of her age, so that the year of her birth 
 must have been 1670. Robert Forbes, A.M. 
 
 Historical Anecdotes for Information, 
 July 31, 1775. 
 
 Juxta se posita magis elucescunt. 
 
 Some instances of what has been the behaviour of this and 3 1 July 
 other nations when great Revolutions happened in them ; how 
 tender they were of those unfortunate clergymen who could 
 not comply with the unexpected changes that fell out, and 
 how careful they were to provide them of means whereby they 
 could subsist. 3 ° 35 ' 
 
 First. At the beginning of the Reformation in Germany, 
 the princes, among other grievances, complained that there 
 were so many idle bellies (meaning monks and friars) in the 
 empire : and though they found them both useless and burden- 
 some, yet considering that the men were unfit for other em- 
 ployments and incapable of getting a livelyhood for themselves ; 
 offered, by way of gentle remedy, that the present possessors 
 should be allowed to enjoy their rents during life, but in case 
 any of them should happen to die, none should be allowed to 
 succeed them. 
 
 Secondly. When at the treaty of Munster the Archbishop- 
 rick of Magdeburg was given to the Margrave of Brandenburgh, 
 in consideration of what the Swedes got from him in Pomerania, 
 it was with this express clause, that the bishop who was in 
 possession should continue in the full enjoyment of his rents 
 during life. 
 
 Thirdly. Let us consider what has been the temper of 
 England when great changes happened in it. First. At the 
 suppression of monasteries by King Henry vm. (not the fol 3°3 6 - 
 tenderest of princes), the abbots and priors had pensions 
 settled on them during life. Secondly. Queen Elizabeth, his 
 daughter, allowed a provision to those popish clergy who were 
 turned out for noncompliance. Thirdly. The English Parlia- 
 ment in King Charles the First's time, notwithstanding their 
 
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 [1775 
 
 31 July violent heat against Episcopacy, voted those clergymen that 
 were turned out for noncompliance should have a competent 
 and honourable maintenance settled upon them during life. 
 Fourthly. When the chief management of affairs was established 
 in the person of Oliver Cromwell, notwithstanding his exceeding 
 hatred to the Church of England, and that he was a man so 
 full of blood as to be void of bowels, yet either to avoid the 
 censure of extreme cruelty, or that the miseries of so many 
 honest men suffering for conscience sake, made some impression 
 upon him, ordered that a fifth part of their rents should be 
 
 foi. 3037. given to such as were unprovided of means of their own to 
 subsist them. Fifthly. At the late Revolution, such clemency 
 so natural to Englishmen, was shewn by the members of the 
 English Convention that they impowered King William to 
 settle provisions even upon those who by reason of scruples of 
 conscience could not come into the interest of his Government. 
 
 If we look into the history of Scotland, such was the temper 
 of our Reformers (though violent enough in other matters), 
 that they allowed the very Popish bishops to enjoy some, if 
 not all their rents during life. And in all the different turns 
 that have happened since (and several there have been), all 
 the clergy who would comply with the changes that fell out 
 were allowed to keep possession of their churches and livings. 
 By these instances we may see what has been the behaviour 
 
 foi. 3038. of this and other nations when great Revolutions happened 
 in them, how tender they were of those unfortunate clergy- 
 men who could not comply with the unexpected changes that 
 happened, and always provided them of means whereby they 
 could subsist. 'Tis only those of the Episcopal Clergy in 
 Scotland who must be excepted from the rule. No compassion 
 must be shown to them, nor could so much as a compliance 
 save such as actually did comply. They were treated with 
 the utmost injustice, the most unfeeling cruelty and barbarity, 
 instances of which are upon record, hundreds upon hundreds 
 having been left to starve. But I chuse not to name 
 particulars. 
 
 From such pious confessors and worthy sufferers has Gray 
 Cooper, Esquire, the honour to be descended. Therefore he 
 may as to his own particular, adopt with great truth either 
 
1775] GRAY COOPER, ESQ. OF GOGAR 
 
 369 
 
 of the following mottos : Virescit vainer e virtus, or Clarior e 3 1 J ul y 
 tenebris. 
 
 Edinburgh, August 1, 1775. — The above two, on separate f° l - 3°39- 
 papers, were read after dinner in the hearing of about 24 gentle- 
 men who had been employed in serving Gray Cooper, Esqr., heir- 
 male in habit and repute to Sir John Cooper of Gogar, in right 
 of his own great-grandfather, the Reverend Mr. James Cooper, 
 clergyman at Humbie, who had retired from the confusions of 
 1688 to Holy Island, and who was brother to the last Sir John 
 Cooper of Gogar, great-grandfather of the late Margaret, Lady 
 Balmerino, relect of Lord Arthur, the said Sir John having 
 only a daughter, grandmother to Lady Balmerino. The said 
 Revd. Mr. James had a son, William, educated a physician, 
 who practised in Berwick, and who had a son, William, bred 
 a physician, who practised in Newcastle, whose son, now Sir 
 Gray Cooper, enjoys the title of knight-baronet of Gogar, foi. 3040. 
 about 6 miles from Edinburgh. 
 
 Lady Balmerino's father, Captain John Chalmers, did spend 
 all he had in a suit for the estate of Gogar, in right of his 
 mother, heiress of Gogar, but failed in the attempt. 
 
 Your friend having a list of the outed and persecuted clergy- 
 men about 1688, became a material evidence in the above 
 service, called in England a Court of Inquest. He dined with 
 the Jury, etc., and said grace before and after dinner, two 
 sheriffs, the mayors of Edinburgh and Berwick, several knights 
 etc., in company. A grand and superb entertainment was 
 served up with the best and richest wines. 
 
 After giving thanks your friend added : God preserve Sir 
 Gray Cooper of Gogar and his family. Amen. Upon which 
 one of the knights said, 6 This is the first time he has been so 
 named, and very properly too."' 
 
 Three brothers were churchmen, Alexander, at Selkirk, who 
 left only female issue and died before the Revolution ; Simon, foi. 3041. 
 at Dunfermline, who demitted to save himself from persecu- 
 tion, had a meeting-house afterwards in Edinburgh, and died 
 without issue : and James, at Humbie, as above. I have some 
 of Simon's sermons in his own handwriting. 
 
 VOL. III. 
 
 2 a 
 
370 
 
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 [1775 
 
 Copy of a Letter to Alexander Mitchell, Esqr., Edinburgh. 
 
 Aug. Sir, — You have inclosed two papers [Declaration and His- 
 torical Anecdotes] to be transmitted when and how you please 
 to Sir Gray Cooper, Baronet, of Gogar, to whom, Lady 
 Cooper, and the family, I heartily wish all joy in the justly 
 revived title of succession of an ancient and honourable family. 
 And may there never be wanting an heir male, lineally de- 
 scended from Sir Gray, to represent so respectable a family till 
 time shall be no more. 
 
 You have, to my certain knowledge, evidenced for about 
 eight years past a steady perseverance and unremitting diligence 
 in searching out this affair of a dormant title, and your laud- 
 able endeavours have, much to your honour, been crowned with 
 
 3042. no less remarkable than deserved success. In all this you have 
 done well, and like a blood relation indeed, as you have the 
 honour to be lineally descended from the reverend and worthy 
 Mr. Alexander Cooper, clergyman at Selkirk, one of the three 
 sons of the once flourishing family of Gogar, who were all of 
 them churchmen before the Revolution. I am, in all truth and 
 sincerity, Sir, your faithful friend and obedient humble servant, 
 
 Robert Forbes. 
 
 Leith, August 8, 1775. 
 
 Copy of a Paragraph in a Letter to Alexander Mitchell, Esqr., 
 Custom House, Edinburgh, from Sir Gray Cooper of 
 Gogar, Baronet. 
 
 Aug. London, August 22, 1775. — You'll be so good as to return 
 my best thanks and acknowledgments to the Reverend Mr. 
 Forbes for the kind and very material assistance he was so 
 
 3043. good as to give in the vindicating the dormant honour of our 
 family, and for his very obliging congratulations on our success, 
 which certainly was owing to your zeal and diligence in 
 searching it out. 
 
1775] THE PRINCE STILL AT FLORENCE 371 
 
 Paragraph faora John Farquharson of Aldlerg. foi. 3044. 
 
 Dunkerque, August 21st, 1775. 21 Aug. 
 
 The only news I have at present is that my old friend lives 
 
 at Florence with his bonny, bonny , and they keep their 
 
 health pretty well ; as I and my caillich do, thank God ! I 
 have sent thee inclosed a print of a certain lady. I wish I 
 could send thee the original ; but I hope all is not lost that is 
 in danger. 
 
 From Bishop Gordon. — London, September 21, 1775. — Look- 21 Sept. 
 ing at the date of your last obliging letter, which accompanied 
 the packet of curious anecdotes, I was surprised to find I had 
 been so long in acknowledging the favour. The late revived 
 baronet is greatly obliged for your researches to establish his 
 title. I have observed him to be frequently mentioned of late 
 to be at court attending the levee. 
 
 I am glad to hear you think our worthy friend, Mr. Innes, 
 better for his late jaunt. Poor Mr. Brett has lately felt some- 
 thing like a stroke of the palsy, and is advised to go to Bath 
 for it ; and I am told is to set out on his journey on Monday 
 next. May God grant him the wished-for relief in that he M 3°4S- 
 may live to be convinced of his error. 
 
 We were glad to hear the Countess was in health, good looks, 
 and good spirits. Pray let our humble service, best respects, 
 and all good wishes be presented to her ladyship. And my wife 
 further begs the favour of you, Sir, to give the inclosed letter 
 to her ladyship when you see her ; for we hear she has been 
 at Aberdeen, and was going to Inverness. We wish her a safe 
 return to Edinburgh. 
 
 Our worthy friend, Mr. Bowdler, has been a few days in 
 London since I had your last, and, thank God, was very well. 
 I communicated your anecdotes to him, with which he was very 
 well pleased. 
 
 What think you of our American affairs ? The storm 
 thickens rather than otherwise. 
 
 We join in every kind wish to yourself and good Mrs. Forbes, 
 and commending you and all yours to the blessing and pro- 
 
372 THE LYON IN MOURNING [1775 
 
 foi. 3046. tection of Almighty God, I am, dear Sir, Yours ever faithfully 
 21 Sept. affectionately 
 
 (Sic subscribitur), 
 
 Robt. Gordon. 
 
 To John Farquharson of Aldlerg. 
 
 3 Oct. October 3, 1775. — Many thanks for your kind letter of 
 August 21, inclosing two prints of a certain amiable lady. I 
 heartily join with you in wishing you could send me the original. 
 But patience must have its perfect work. 
 
 You see I have been at some pains in collecting a list of the 
 Royal palaces in Scotland, with a particular view to the infor- 
 mation of your principal friend, to whom pray transmit this 
 sheet with all dutiful obeisance. Should he think fit to have 
 it published, his will is a law to me. It would appear best at 
 first in some foreign place, and would in due time make its 
 way to Britain, as the author would not wish to be known, 
 especially considering some home touches, which the truer, the 
 harder of digestion. 
 
 May God amend the times, and send us better days ! Amen. 
 Adieu. 
 
 toi. 3047. To Bishop Gordon, October 3, 1775. — Your favour of Sep- 
 3 0ct * tember 21 is now lying before me. Sir Grey did not take on 
 the title till that he and Lady Cooper appeared at Court and 
 kissed hands. 
 
 Poor Mr. Brett. May he live to come to a better way of 
 thinking, which would please me much. 
 
 The Countess has not yet cast up with us. The weather 
 with us is fine and tempting for jaunting, which will readily 
 induce her ladyship to take a swinging trip. 
 
 God be thanked that Mr. Bowdler holds out so well. Long 
 be it so. 
 
 Indeed the American affair may come to shake the empire 
 of Britain. 
 
 Be so good as transmit the inclosed sheet after perusal to 
 friend Farquharson. 
 
 We join in every good wish to you and good Mrs. Gordon. 
 
1775] ASSISTANCE FOR THE CLERGY 373 
 
 God be ever with you and all yours. Adieu, dear Sir, 3 Oct. 
 Adieu. 
 
 N.B. — From whom came the scribble about the Charitable 
 Fund ? The writer is not deficient in point of confidence. 
 I had particular thanks from Sir Grey. 
 
 From Bishop Gordon. — London, October 16, 1775. — Yours, foi. 3048. 
 with Mr. Farquharson's inclosed came safe to hand, which was 16 0ct " 
 accordingly forwarded as directed, and I am much obliged to 
 you, dear Sir, for the perusal of it; for, indeed, it is very 
 curious, and must have cost you a good deal of pains in com- 
 piling ; and no doubt will be acceptable to the parties for 
 whom it was originally intended. I perceive, till I read your 
 account, that I have been under a mistake in believing 
 Charles the First to have been born at Dumfries, instead of 
 Dunfermlin. 
 
 You ask, Sir, from whom came the scribble about the Chari- 
 table Fund? I answer, from Mr. Harper, when he returned 
 Mrs. Lyon the late Mr. Thomson's benefaction. The writer 
 speaks in that scribble of collections made in England for the 
 clergy. In answer to which, I shall only say that in my time 
 I never heard of such collections. I have good reason to believe 
 that, after the Revolution, there were very liberal donations 
 bestowed upon the nonjuring clergy by particular people, 
 besides legacies which fell in afterwards, but no collections. 
 The malevolent Government would not suffer it, so far were fol. 3049. 
 they from doing anything themselves for the poor, distressed 
 clergy by way of provision for their necessities. The poor, 
 distressed, persecuted clergy of the Church of Scotland received 
 at times benefactions from England, both from chapters and 
 particular Colleges in Oxford and Cambridge, besides the gifts 
 of well-disposed persons of the laity : all which, except some 
 few particulars, have, alas ! now for a long time been at an 
 end. 
 
 The weather still continuing fine and inviting, probably the 
 worthy Countess has not yet cast up amongst you. Her lady- 
 ship loves travelling, I believe. 
 
 Indeed, Sir, I am of your opinion that the American affair 
 
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 [1775 
 
 16 Oct. as things appear at present, looks formidable enough to shake 
 the empire of Britain, tho 1 it be purposed, as I am assured, 
 to have an army of 40,000 effective men, besides every other 
 requisite in America in the Spring. I am, etc. 
 
 P.S. — I have this moment received a letter from Cousin 
 Peggy. She and family are well. 
 
 THE END OF THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
APPENDIX I 
 
 JOHN MACDONALD'S NARRATIVE 1 
 
 The following story forms a fitting supplement to Glenaladale's 
 Narrative (vol. i. p. S33). It is reprinted, by the permission of 
 Messrs. Blackwood, from Blackwood's Magazine, October 1873. 
 Mr. Skene's letter, which introduces the narrative, is here in- 
 cluded, but the editorial comments are not reprinted. 
 
 [Edinburgh, September 9, 1873. 
 
 Sir, — The Manuscript narrative of the escape of Prince Charles Stuart, 
 by John Macdonald, one of his companions, of which a copy follows, is 
 the property of the Misses Macdonald of Dalilea, grand-daughters of the 
 author, and was intrusted to me by them. I have transcribed the ms. 
 carefully, verbatim et literatim, and have merely added an introduction 
 and conclusion, partly from information I already possessed, and partly 
 from that furnished to me by the family. Of the authenticity of the 
 ms. itself I have not the shadow of a doubt. The appearance of the 
 original ms., which was in my hands for some time, carries truth in 
 its face, and I know that it has been in the possession of the author's 
 descendants from his death to the present time, having been always 
 prized by them as an interesting family relic. — I am, Sir, yours faithfully, 
 To the Editor of ( Blackwood.' George Skene.] 
 
 A true and real state of Prince Charles Stuarts 
 miraculous escape after the batle of Cullodden. 
 
 When the Prince at the batle of Cullodden perceived and that 
 the horse he rod was wounded, and any stand he and his smal 
 force could make was needless, he made off, accompanied by two 
 Irishmen, Mr. Sullivan and O'Niel, his aid de camp, and few 
 more, and took litle or no rest till they arrived at Glenbiestle 
 
 1 This John MacDonald was the youngest son of Angus MacDonald of Boradale. 
 He had been sent to be educated at the Scots College, Ratisbon, but returned to 
 join Prince Charles, and served during the campaign as lieutenant in Clanranald's 
 regiment. See vol. I. p. 333. — Ed. 
 
376 
 
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 in Arasaig, which is a pendicle belonging to the ffarm of Borradil. 
 Being the place he first landed in the continent at his arrival, he 
 rested there three nights before a sufficient boat, belonging to 
 John Macdonald, son to old Borradil, was procured to transport 
 him to the long Island of Uist, in view to get some vessel at 
 Stornway to carrie him to France, and for that purpose send the 
 Mr. Sullivan, his Aid du camp, to Stornway where he found 
 one, but would not wait the Princes coming, therefore made off 
 with himself, and landed safe in France. 
 
 Being in this maner disappointed, he thought proper to risk 
 his person in the hands of Clanranald's people in South Uist, who 
 gave him all the aid and assistance in their power, till such time 
 the country was surrounded by his enemies ; then clearly per- 
 ceiveing the impossibility of escaping, he was advised to go to 
 Clanranold house, in Benbecula, twenty-five miles from the 
 place he then was at, and endeavour to ferrie to the Isle of Sky, 
 accompanied by the then Miss Flory M 'Donald ; and he, under 
 the name of Miss Bety Burk, and her servant-maid, effected there 
 escape, and arrived safe at Kingsbrough, in Troterness, parte of 
 Lord McDonald's estate. 1 There Miss Flory McDonald parted 
 with him. 
 
 After some rest there, he proceeded to M'Leod Rasa's familie, 
 where he was received with the greatest kindness and friendship. 
 After an night's rest there, he was sent under the care of Malcom 
 M'Leod to the care of one John M'Kinon, alias John M'Rorie 
 vie Lachlan in M'Kinon's estate, who next night conveyed 
 him to the Laird of Moror's ffarm in the mainland, and he beged 
 of Moror to send a sure guide with him to his faithfull old Land- 
 lord (this is what he all ways termed my father) to Borradil ; 
 after his arrival there, the old Gentleman and his two sons, 
 Ronald and I, received him with all the marks of friendship and 
 Respect, and gave our word of honour we would use our uter- 
 most to save him in spite of all his enemies ; and that we depended 
 on Divine Providence that he would grant him and us health, 
 strenght, and vigour to endure all the fatigue and hardship 
 necessaiy for that purpose. 
 
 As the Prince at all times entertained the greatest regard for 
 
 1 The reference to 'Lord M 'Donald's estate' seems to indicate that this 
 narrative was written, or at least revised, long after the event. The peerage was 
 conferred, in 1776, on Sir Alexander MacDonald (9th baronet), a son of the Sir 
 Alexander MacDonald (7th baronet) of Prince Charles's time. — Ed. 
 
JOHN MACDONALD'S NARRATIVE 377 
 
 Mr. McDonald's of Glenaladil's integrity and capacity in aideing 
 him as far as in his power, he ordered me to goe directly to him 
 and acquaint him of his present situation, and hoped he would 
 meet him and his present smal Company in the woods of 
 Borradil next night. 
 
 After Glenaladil considered the message, he looked upon it 
 exceeding hard to depart from his wife and five prety weak 
 children, and his great stock of catle were before then taken 
 awy by the enmie; and haveing received three bad wounds at 
 Cullodden, of which one of them was not then fully cured ; not- 
 withstanding these consideration he despised them, and thought 
 it his duty to grant all the aid and assistance in his power to save 
 a poor distressed Prince, notwithstanding of the great temptation 
 of thyrty thousand pound stel promised by government to any 
 that should deliver him up. Though Glenaladil and his old uncle 
 Borradil, with his children, were in the greatesst distress for want 
 of any support at the time, two nights thereafter he appeared at 
 the place appointed with the above party. They proceeded next 
 morning to M'Leod's Cove, upon a high procipes in the woods of 
 Borradil, where they all deliberated what steps they woud take 
 for there safety ; few days after they visibly saw the whole coast 
 surrounded by ships of war and tenders, as also the country by 
 other military forces ; then it was determined to use all efforts to 
 depart out of the country, and began there march that very night, 
 and came the lenth of Meoble, in the brays of Moror, where the 
 old gentleman Borradil, and his soon Ronald, took there leave of 
 him. The Prince then, accompanied only by Glenaladil, and his 
 brother John and I, made streight for the brays of Glenfinen, 
 which is parte of Glenaladil's estate. To our great surprise we 
 found that place surrounded by three hundred of the Enemies. 
 Then we came to a resolution to departe the country for some 
 time ; and for that purpose sent an express to Donald Cameron, 
 Glenpean, an aged gentleman, to meet us at Corrour, in the 
 brays of Moror, which accordingly he did, we proceeded under 
 night till sunrise next morning, to the top of a high mountain laying 
 between Locharkeig and Lochmoror head, a camp of the enemy 
 laying on each side of us, and two different camps of the military 
 before us. In the course of three nights we passed by four camps 
 and twenty-five patroles, and some so nigh us that we heard them 
 frequently speaken, without any food farther than a smal slice of 
 salt cheese, and aboundance of water. 
 
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 APPENDIX 
 
 The Thyrd morning we arrived near the top of a high mountain 
 near Lochurn head, and found there a bit hollow ground, covered 
 with long heather and brenches of jung birch bushes, where we 
 all five of us lay down to rest, almost fainting for want of food ; 
 these severe tryals and circumstance drew many heavy sighs from 
 his poor oppressed heart. I informed him then that 1 had a 
 leepy of groaten meal wrapt up in a Nepkin in my pocket, 
 which, when I produced, made alwast alteration in the countein- 
 ance of the whole of them. Come, come, says he, let us, in Gods 
 name, have a share ; never was people in more need. I expect 
 soon to meet with plenty ; so I divided the whole of it between 
 us five ; and they began to chat and crak heartily, after our 
 refreshment. We perceived fourty of the military, with a Captn 
 as there commander, laying at the foot of the mountain, all this 
 time ; we saw them visibly all allong, durst not move till dark 
 night, for fear of being discovered, proceeded then on our jurny 
 to the brays of Glenshiel ; the darkest night ever in my life I 
 traveled ; and arrived within a mile of it by sunrise, quite 
 exhausted with hunger and fatigue. 
 
 Glenaladil and I were then sent to the village in view to pro- 
 cure some provisions, and bought a stone of cheese and a half 
 stone of buter, as we could get nothing else ; immediately 
 returned back where we left him, Donald Cammeron, and 
 Glenaladil's brother ; words cannot express the quantity we 
 consumed of the buter and cheese at the time, though both kind 
 exceeding salt. We met that day with one Donald McDonald, 
 a Glengary lad, with whome we agreed to be our guide farther 
 North, as Donald Cameron returned, after his refreshment, to 
 look after his own family ; and we passed the whole day, which 
 was exceeding hot, in the face of a mountain, above a river that 
 run throu Glenshiel ; were all seized with such a druth, that we 
 were all like to perish before sunset. He woud not allow any of 
 us to move for water, though we might have bein provided within 
 fourty yards to us, so cautious he was. At sunset we all went 
 stagern to the river side, and drank water at no allowance ; at 
 same time we saw a boy coming towards us at some distance ; 
 Glenaladil and I went to meet him. This was a son of the honest 
 M'Kra that furnished us with provision in the morning, whom 
 his father sent with five Scots pints of goat milk for our relief. 
 Glenaladil, who had all our bank in a purse hingen before him, 
 gave the boy four shillings stel ; and in the hurry he was in, he 
 
JOHN MACDONALD'S NARRATIVE 379 
 
 happened to drap his purse on the ground till he got his plead 
 kilted on him ; then we bad fareweel to the boy, and returned in 
 great hast to our smal partie, who partook liberaly of the milk, 
 then proceeded an English mile before we missed the purse, in 
 which was a keeping fourty Luisdors and five shillings in silver, 
 which was all we hade to depend upon for our subsistence ; it was 
 determined that Glen and I was to return in search of our smal 
 stock. Found the purse and five shillings in it, in the spot we 
 left it, and none of the gold ; proceeded then about midnight to 
 the boy's father's house, who at the time was sound sleeping, 
 called him out, fairly told him what happened ; without a minute 
 dela he returned to the house, got hold of a rop hinging there, 
 and griped his son by the arm in great passion, and addressed 
 him in the following words : you damnd scoundrel, this instant get 
 these poor gentlemens mony, which I am certain is all they have to 
 depend upon, or, by the heavens, I'll hing you to that very tree 
 you see this moment. The Boy shivereing with fear went instantly 
 for the mony, which he had hurried under ground about thyrty 
 yards from his Fathers house. 
 
 During the time Glen and I spent about recovereing our smal 
 fonds, the Prince and the two persons we left with him saw on 
 the other side of Shiel river an officer to appearance, and three 
 men with him ; our smal partie hidd themselves by favour of 
 some Aron bushes at the river side, but they were convinced 
 they coud not miss to meet Glenaladil and me, and the con- 
 sequence would be squabble between us, though he positively 
 refused to inform us of the danger of meeting them, by one of 
 them that was alongst with him, the night being quite clear and 
 a seren sky. Notwithstanding our passing by one an other on 
 each side of the river, neither of use observed the other, nor can 
 I account for it. 
 
 Then we proceeded all night throu these muirs till ten of the 
 clock next morning, stopt then till the evening, without meeting 
 with any particular accidents, excepting heareing some firing of 
 guns not at a very greatest distance. The evening being very 
 calm and warm, we greatly suffered by mitches, a species of litle 
 creatures troublesome and numerous in the highlands ; to 
 preserve him from such troublesome guests, we wrapt him 
 head and feet in his plead, and covered him with long- 
 heather that naturally grew about a bit hollow ground we laid 
 him. After leaving him in that posture, he uttered several 
 
380 
 
 APPENDIX 
 
 heavy sighes and groands. We planted ourselves about the best 
 we coud. 
 
 Finding, then, nothing by appearance to disturb us, or enemie 
 in our way, we proceeded on, and next night arrived in the brays 
 of Glenmorison, called the Corrichido ; perceived three or four 
 smal huts in the strath of the corry. 
 
 It was then determined upon by us to send Glenaladils brother 
 down to them, to know what they were ; and when he understood 
 them to be all M 'Donalds, and friends to the cause, except Patrick 
 Grant Crosky, who was with them, and equaly a friend to the 
 cause, he addressed one of them, called John M'Donald, alias 
 M'Goule vie Icadui, to goe with a cogfull of milk to Mr. M 'Donald 
 of Glenaladil and M'Donald of Greenfield, which letter was not 
 there at same time. He instantly comply ed with his request ; but 
 to his greatest surprise, at the distance of nine yards from us, he 
 knew the Prince to be there, his head bein covered with a whit 
 night cape, and an old JBonet above ; at this unexpected sight, the 
 poor man changed collours, and turned as red as blood, and 
 addressed him in the following maner : I am sorry to see you in 
 such a poor state, and hope if I live to see yet in a better condition, 
 as I have seen you before at the head of your armie, upon the 
 green of Glasgow ; all I can doe is to continue faithfull to you 
 while I live, and am willing to leave my wife and children, and 
 follow you wherever you incline goeing. After all this discurse 
 was explained to the Prince, he said, takeing him cheerfully by 
 the hand, As you are a M'Donald, whom I allways found faithfull 
 to my cause, I shall admit you to my smal partie, and trust myself 
 to you ; and if ever it should be my lot to enjoy my own, you may 
 depend upon of being equally rewarded. One thing I beg leave 
 to observe to you, says he, there is one large stone in the strath of 
 this corry near these huts you see ; under that stone fourty men can 
 accomodate themselves, and the best water in the highland runen 
 throu it, and a large void heather bed in it already made for your 
 reception. I have a three year old stote I may slaughter for pro- 
 vision, till such time you refresh yourself and your partie : there 
 are four more neighbours and contrimen with me, as trusty as I, 
 who can furnish us from the neighbouring countrys with such 
 necessarys of life as can be expected in such distressed time. 
 
 His advise was so agreable that we all agreed to it without 
 hesitation, and marched all with cheerfullness in our countenance 
 to this new unexpected mansion, and found ourselves as comfortably 
 
JOHN MACDONALD'S NARRATIVE 
 
 381 
 
 lodged as we had been in a Royal pal lace. The other four men men- 
 tioned above came in, and after a short disscourse, gave all chear- 
 fully the oath of allegiance, after which they brought the stote 
 and killed him ; we then fested, and lived there plentifully for 
 three days and nights, till we found ourselves in danger, by one 
 whom they generaly styled the black Campbell, who had a party 
 of militie within six miles to the place we was in ; in that event 
 we thought adviseable, to proceed to the Chissolms firr woods, 
 where we and our whole partie spent near a month in pace and 
 plentie. At the root of one large tree we build for the Prince, 
 Glenaladil, and me, one tent of firr branches ; at the other side of 
 the tree another one of a larger seize. Two of our party was 
 allways employed in provideing provisions ; other two as outposts, 
 enquireing for information. One honest tenant of the name of 
 Chissolm, at the distance of a few miles from us, affoarded us with 
 meal, buter, and cheese, and flesh weekly ; neither did we want 
 for Aquavitae and tabaco, which comodity we all made use of. 
 Nothing particular happened to us dureing our stay there. 
 
 But the Prince, anxious to find out Cameron of Lochiel, insisted 
 upon our return towards that parte of his estate called Locharckeig. 
 After a day or twos march, passed by the brays of Glenmorison, and 
 arriveing to the brays of Glengarie about nightfall, the river Garie 
 swelled to such a degree that we thought it unpassable. He still 
 positeivly insisted upon giving it a tryal, which we did, and with 
 the greatest difficulty, at the hasart of our lifes, succeeded, the 
 night being very dark. Rested near the bank of the river, waet 
 and cold ; next day passed throu Glenkeinie, and stopt at a broken 
 shelhouse above Auchnasaul. We then were out of provisions. We 
 sent two of our partie to repair a smal hut, wherein Lochiel 
 scolked for some time, but observing a Deer at the end of the hut, 
 shut both at him at once and killed him. One of them returned 
 to us withe these most agreable news, where we all in a bodie 
 steered our course, and employed the whole night in dressing for 
 him and ourselves parte of the venison. Next day we sent for Mr. 
 Cameron of Cluns, and after passing two nights together, went to 
 Torrvullen, opposite to Achnacarrie, Locheils principal place of 
 residence once ; killed a good highland cow ; then Doctor Cameron 
 and two french officer that landed some time before that in Pollew, 
 in Rossyne, came to us, and Mr. Cameron of Cluns, and after pass- 
 ing two nights there, they came to the followeing resolution : viz. 
 that the Prince, accompanied by Doctor Cameron, Glenaladil, the 
 
382 
 
 APPENDIX 
 
 two french officer, with a few more, should be conveyed to Locheil, 
 and that I shoud return to the west coast ; and if any frigats from 
 France should appear for the purpose of carreing him to goe 
 aboard till he could be found dead or alive, and that Glenaladil is 
 the person to be employed for procureing him, the Glenmorison 
 lads to return home with his promise, If ever in his power he 
 would make satisfaction for there losses and gratitue ; so that very 
 night I and John Glenaladil's brother made of for the west coast, 
 and arrived there a few days after, and found all left behind us in 
 the greatest distress for want of all necessarys of life, or houses to 
 shelter us from the inclemency of the weather. 
 
 A fourtnight thereafter, in September, two frigats appeared 
 coming to the harbour at Borrodil under English colours. My 
 father and brother Ranald and I immediately hade recourse to the 
 muirs, to avoid being apprehended, and appointed one Donald 
 M'Donald, in whom we hade great confidence, to wait there land- 
 ing ; and after nightfall, twelve french, with two officers at their 
 hade, came to a smal hut we repaired some time before that for 
 our own reception, as all our houses before that were all burned ; 
 the names of the officers were jung Sheridan and Capn ONiel, who 
 at there arrival, enquired for us all, as they knew us weel formerly, 
 and wished much to have some disscourse of consequence with us. 
 Upon our being informed of this, we appeared, and after a long 
 conversation, were convinced of there sincerity, and oblidged them 
 to produce there credentials from France, before we revealed any 
 parte of our secrets to them. 
 
 Next day I went aboord one of the frigats ; and my brother, 
 accompanied by the two french officer, went to Glenaladil to 
 acquaint him of there errand. 
 
 After a night's rest, they were desired by Glenaladil to return 
 to there ships, and that he would goe in serch of the person they 
 wanted, which he accordingly did, and in eight days returned with 
 him to Borrodil, where he first landed ; and after refreshing him- 
 self weel, directly went aboord, and with a fair wind set sail next 
 morning for France, and left us all in a worse state than he found 
 us. Locheil, his Brother Doctor Cameron, John Roy Stuart, the 
 two first mentioned french officers, with one hundred more persons 
 of some distinction, accompanied him, and took there passage 
 alongst with him ; he then seemed to be in good spirit, and 
 addressed himself to such as stayed behind to live in good hopes, 
 and that he expected to see us soon with such a force as would en- 
 
JOHN MACDONALD'S NARRATIVE 383 
 
 able him to re-embures us for our losses and trouble ; so that he 
 ended as he began. 
 
 One material circumstance I cannot omit acquainting you of; 
 that is, the battle fought between three British frigats and two 
 french ones on the 3d of May after Cullodden batle. The french 
 frigats landed the later end of April fourty thousand Louisdors, 
 with some stand of arms and amunition, at the farm of Borradil ; 
 government being informed of the same, despatched three of there 
 own frigats to the place mentioned, in order to capture the French- 
 man ; present Lord Howe, then captn of the Grayhound frigate, was 
 commodore of that smal squadron. They appeared in seight about 
 four in the morning by the point of Ardmuchan, from whence they 
 then visibly saw the french frigats ; they were favoured with a 
 favourable wind directly after them, and before the french hade 
 time to rise there ankors, Captn Howe sliped in between the two 
 french frigats, and gave a broadside to each of them with very 
 great execution. The largest of the french frigats was disabled by 
 breaken her ruder, and was oblidged to lay by till seven o'clock in 
 the afternoon : and the smal french frigat, after several attempts of 
 bourding her, fairly escaped till then, and when soon the largest 
 of them repaired the damage, went to her assistance. Captn 
 Howe haveing run out of ammunition, sheered of about nightfall, 
 and the french persued them for a leage, when they thought ad- 
 viseable to return to there former situation. At two o'clock next 
 morning they steered away for Barra head with a fair wind ; the 
 Ducke of Perth, and several other gentlemen, such as Lord John 
 Drumond, Lockard of Carnwath, and many more took there 
 passage to France. The batle leasted twelve hours, and we found 
 on our shores fefteen frenchmen dead, not one Englishman in the 
 number, as they threew none overboard of them till they came the 
 lenth of the point of Ardmurchan. After that the gold was by a 
 partie conveyed to Lochaber, and parte of the arms, by orders of 
 secretar Morrow, and were then determined to gather and ran- 
 devou there friends and weelwishers, which never happened since, 
 nor by all appearance will. 
 
APPENDIX II 
 
 CHRONOLOGICAL DIGEST of the Narratives and 
 Papers contained in the Lyon hi Mou/ming", so far as 
 these relate to the progress of the Rebellion and the 
 movements of Prince Charles. 
 
 1745. 
 
 January to May. Negotiation of John Blaw of Castlehill 
 in France, ..... 
 
 May, .... Mission of Alexander MacDonell, 
 younger of Glengarry, to the Prince 
 in France, ..... 
 
 June-31 August. Journal of the Prince's Embarkation 
 and arrival in Scotland, and until he 
 reached Blair Castle in Athole, by 
 Aneas MacDonald, .... 
 
 June-17 Sept., 
 
 July, . . . 
 
 10 September, 
 16 September, 
 
 21 September, 
 
 c. September, 
 
 Journal by Duncan Cameron from the 
 embarking of the Prince until he 
 entered Edinburgh, 
 
 Notes about the landing of the Prince 
 in Scotland, ..... 
 
 iii. 180, 181. 
 
 iii. 120. 
 
 i. 281-294 ; 
 351-353. 
 
 i. 201-210. 
 
 ii. 5, 198 ; iii.. 
 50-52. 
 
 ii. 58-61. 
 
 Letter from the Prince when at Perth, 
 The Prince's summons to Edinburgh to 
 
 surrender, . . . . . i. 249. 
 Letter from the Prince to his father 
 
 after the battle of Prestonpans, . i. 211-215. 
 Consultations among the Highland 
 
 chiefs, i. 146-148 ; ii. 
 
 5, 83-85 : 
 iii. 120, 121. 
 . iii. 122. 
 
 3 October, . . Design to assassinate the Prince, 
 17 October, . . Bond by Prince Charles to Hepburn of 
 
 Kingstoun, ii. 261, 262. 
 
 30 Oct. -16 April 
 
 1746, . . . Accounts of James Gib, Master of the 
 Prince's Household, from the leaving 
 ofHolyrood till the battle of Culloden, ii. 115-152.. 
 
CHRONOLOGICAL DIGEST 
 
 385 
 
 1 Nov. -17 Jan. 
 
 1746, . . . An itinerary of the march from Holy- 
 rood till the battle of Falkirk, kept 
 by John Goodwillie, . . . ii. 1.92-11)7. 
 
 November, . . Account of the seizing of the Hazard 
 
 sloop of war in Montrose harbour, . iii. 18-21. 
 
 December, . . Incident of seeing the Prince at Derby, ii. 55-57. 
 
 18 Dec.-IG April 
 
 1746, . . . Account from the battle of Clifton to 
 
 Culloden, ii. 86-93. 
 
 20 December, . Account of the skirmish at Inverurie, . ii. 344, 345. 
 
 1746. 
 
 17 January, . . Account of the battle of Falkirk, . ii. 127-129. 
 1 Feb. -13 Sept. Journal by John Cameron from the 
 Prince's retreat from Stirling until 
 his departure from Scotland, . . i. 83-101, 317 r 
 
 318; iii. 101, 
 102. 
 
 1 Feb. -16 April. Narrative in handwriting of Rev. George 
 Hay, from the retreat from Stirling 
 till the battle of Culloden, . . ii. 268-280. 
 17 February, . The attempt to surprise the Prince at 
 
 Moy, i. 149, 150 ; ii. 
 
 134-137 ; 245- 
 247. 
 
 16 Feb. -16 April. Account of the army's proceedings 
 from the attempt at Moy to the 
 battle of Culloden, by Colonel Ker 
 of Graden, i. 355-364. 
 
 23 Feb. -April, . The Duke of Cumberland at Aber- 
 deen, ii. 330, 331 ; 
 
 iii. 168-179. 
 
 20 March, . . Account of the skirmish at Keith, . ii. 213-217. 
 15, 16 April, . Account of the battle of Culloden, by 
 
 Lord George Murray, . . . i. 254-267- 
 16 April, . . . Notes by James Gib, John Goodwillie, 
 
 and Alexander Stewart, . . . ii. 160, 224. 
 
 225, 231. 
 
 15April-24June. Journal of the Prince's adventures by 
 Captain O'Neil, from Culloden until 
 his meeting with Flora MacDonald, . i. 102-114,353 
 
 365-373. 
 
 ,, ,, Journal by Donald MacLeod for the 
 
 same period, i. 154-183, 
 
 vol. ill. 
 
 268, 269. 
 9 u 
 
386 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 15April-24June. Journal by Edward Burke for the same 
 
 period, i. 189-196. 
 
 14 April-6 July. Account taken by Dr. Burton from the 
 old Laird of MacKinnon and others 
 from Culloden until the Prince re- 
 turned to the mainland, . . . i. 66-82. 
 „ ,, Account by Captain Donald Roy Mac- 
 
 Donald for the same period, . . ii. 5-32 ; iii. 
 
 48, 49. 
 
 16 April-20 Sept. JointAccountbyCaptainAlexander Mac- 
 Donald (Dalely's brother), MacDonald 
 of Glenaladale, and young Clanranald, 
 from the battle of Culloden till the 
 Prince's departure from Scotland, . i. 321-354; ii. 
 
 362-365; iii. 
 8-10. 
 
 16 April-20 Sept. John MacDonald's account of the same 
 
 period, iii. 375-383. 
 
 June, .... Hugh MacDonald of Balshar's account 
 
 of the Prince's sojourn in Uist, . i. 94-103. 
 
 22 June-1 July. Narrative by Flora MacDonald of the 
 
 Prince's passage from Uist to Portree, i. 296-303. 
 29 June, . . . MacDonald of Kingsburgh's account of 
 the Prince's coming to Kingsburgh, 
 and stay there, . . . . i. 117-124. 
 
 29 June-3 July. Narrative by Murdoch MacLeod as to 
 
 the Prince in Rasay, . . . i. 72-77. 
 
 30 June-6 July. Narrative by Captain Malcolm MacLeod 
 
 who led the Prince to Strath, . . i. 130-142; iii. 
 
 48, 123. 
 
 4 July-7 July, . Narrative compiled by Mr. James 
 
 Elphinstone of the Prince under the 
 
 care of John MacKinnon, . . ii. 249-253. 
 
 5 July-7 July, . John MacKinnon's own narrative, . iii. 183-192. 
 July, .... Narrative by Patrick Grant of the 
 
 Prince's sojourn in Glenmoriston, . iii. 97-105, 
 
 109-112. 
 
 23 July, . . . Account by Donald Cameron of Glen- 
 
 pean, i. 317 ; iii. 90- 
 
 92. 
 
 1 August, . . Note by Cameron of Glenevis about the 
 
 Prince at Locharkaig, . . . i. 124, 125. 
 
 29 Aug. -20 Sept. Account by MacPherson of Strathmashie 
 and others of the Prince's sojourn in 
 
 Badenoch, ii. 375-380; iii. 
 
 38-48. 
 
CHRONOLOGICAL DIGEST 387 
 
 20 September, . Departure of the Prince from Scotland 
 
 to France, i. 295 ; iii. 52. 
 
 28 September, . Searching for the Prince at Leith and 
 
 Boghall, ii. 106-113. 
 
 For notices of the Prince's marriage 
 and of some of his movements abroad 
 between 1752 and 1778, see . . iii. 128-end. 
 
 Aug. -Nov. 1746. Some papers connected with the trial 
 and execution of the J acobite prisoners 
 at Carlisle and London, . . . i. 1-66. 
 
ERRATA 
 
 Vol. iii. p. 252, footnote, for 1767 read 1967 
 
 >> P- 331 ■> ninth line from foot, for Mr. George James read Mr. 
 George Innes 
 
 In the preface to vol. i. p. xx, Mrs. Forbes is erroneously made to survive 
 her husband for about thirty years, that impression being conveyed from 
 the letter inserted in p. xxi. In reality, Mrs. Forbes only survived her 
 husband a very short time, for her testament, recorded 28th March 1776, 
 states that she died in that year, her whole estate being valued at 
 £\2. sterling 
 
INDEX 
 
 Aberarder, i. 190. 
 
 See MacDonald, Ranald; M'ln- 
 
 tosh. 
 
 Abercairney. See Murray. 
 
 Aberchalder, i. 208. 
 
 Aberdeen, ii. 272, 331, 317 and n; 
 visionary battle near, 181 ; English 
 soldiers in, iii. 168- 1 73 ; election 
 of bishop of, 235. 
 
 James, merchant in Old Aber- 
 deen, iii. 54. 
 
 Aberlour. See Gordon. 
 
 Abernethy, rev. William, ii. 358 ; 
 extract from letter of, 282 ; letter 
 from, to bishop Forbes, iii. 130; 
 letter from, to rev. William Erskine, 
 
 Abichie, at the skirmish of Inverury, 
 
 ii. 344, 345- 
 Achkirsideallich, i. 195, 268. 
 Achnacarry, i. 88, 91, 96, 99, 100, 
 
 349 ; iii. 38, 39, 41, 45. 
 Achnasual, i. 95-97, 347 n; iii. 381. 
 Adair (Adare), Dr., iii. 59. 
 
 sir Robert, iii. 55, 73. 
 
 Addison, John, iii. 288. 
 Agnew, sir Andrew, i. 356, 357 and n. 
 Ailesbury, earl of, iii. 267, 272. 
 Aird, ii. 10, 306 ; iii. 106. 
 
 See MacDonald, James. 
 
 Aires, captain, i. 283, 284 ; ii. 286, 
 
 287, 296 ; iii. 34. 
 Airth, ii. 131. 
 See Graham. 
 
 Aix-la-Chapelle convention, iii. 160, 
 161. 
 
 Albemarle, lord, i. 79, 312-313 ; ii. 
 86, 110-112, 133, 286, 287, 290; 
 
 iii. 61. 
 
 Aldlerg. See Farquharson, John. 
 Alexander, bishop, iii. 357, 359. 
 Alexis ; or the Young Adventurer, iii. 
 
 189 «; its truthfulness asserted, i. 
 
 77, 78, 82 ; authorship of, 79. 
 
 Alford, ii. 16 1. 
 Allan, Charles, i. 182. 
 Alloa (Alloway), ii. 131, 132. 
 
 house, iii. 278. 
 
 Alves, ii. 274. 
 
 Alexander, iii. 16, 67. 
 
 American war, iii. 325, 363, 364, 365, 
 
 371-373- 
 Amiens, i. 201. 
 
 Ancram, earl of, ii. 157 ; iii. 2. 
 Anderson's Diplomata et Numismata 
 
 Scotia, iii. 273. 
 
 David, i. 184. 
 
 Robert, of Whitburgh, xix, i. 
 
 219 n. 
 Annan, ii. 123, 195. 
 Annandale's beef stand, iii. 230. 
 Annapolis, ii. 241. 
 Antrim, earl of, iii. 353 and 
 Applecross bay, i. 179. 
 Arbuthnot, lord, i. 270 ; letter from, 
 
 to bishop Forbes, concerning the 
 
 case of William Baird, 270 ; letter 
 
 to, in answer, 271. 
 
 Robert, iii. 18, 19. 
 
 Ardmenish, i. 316. 
 
 Ardnamurchan point, iii. 383. 
 
 Ardoch, bridge of, ii. 5- 
 
 Ardshiel. See Stewart. 
 
 Argenson, marquis d', letter from, to 
 
 the Dutch ambassador, on behalf of 
 
 prince Charles, iii. 270, 274, 277, 
 
 278. 
 
 Argyle, duke of, ii. 61 ; refuses to 
 intercede for the life of Dr. Archi- 
 bald Cameron, iii. 134 ». 
 
 Arisaig, i. 69, 206, 319 and n, 322, 
 323, 335. 
 
 Arkaig, water of, i. 100. 
 
 Armadale, ii. 31. 
 
 See MacDonald, Hugh. 
 
 Arnish, i. 79, 325. 
 
 Arnprior. See Buchanan, Francis. 
 
 Ascanius, i. 294 and n. 
 
390 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 Ashbourne (Achborne), ii. 122, 194. 
 
 Athole, garrisons in, defeated by 
 lord George Murray, ii. 91-92. 
 
 duke of. See Tullibardine, mar- 
 quis of. 
 
 Atterbury's plot, i. 284. 
 
 Auchindinny, iii. 243. 
 
 Auchriachans. See Farquharson, 
 Donald. 
 
 Auchtrichatan. See MacDonald. 
 Auldearn, ii. 276. 
 Ault-chace burn, ii. 213. 
 
 Baden Durlach, prince of, iii. 245. 
 Badenoch, ii. 91, 92, 315, 316, 375- 
 
 379; iii. 39, 44, 46, 182. 
 Baggot, colonel, ii. 278. 
 Baillie, Alexander, his Benedictine 
 
 Monk, iii. 360. 
 Patrick, writer in Edinburgh, ii. 
 
 298, 35i» 375 5 ui - 2 , 6 > 21 ; 
 letter to, from bishop Forbes, ii. 
 371 ; letter from, to bishop Forbes, 
 372. 
 
 Robert, baillie of Edinburgh, i. 
 
 250. 
 
 Bain (or Bayne), James, tailor in 
 London, iii. 76 and n, 77, 249. 
 
 Baird, William, trial of, at Carlisle, i. 
 19 n ; letter to bishop Forbes from 
 lord Arbuthnott, concerning the case 
 of, 270 ; answer to the letter, 271. 
 
 Balfour, a surgeon, ii. 6, 81 ; iii. 48, 
 49- 
 
 James, of Beith, ii. 6 n. 
 
 Ballachalun. See Stewart, David. 
 
 Ballinnagallioch, i. 326 
 
 Balmainach. See MacLeod. 
 
 Balmerino, Arthur, lord, iii. 130 ; 
 letter to, from Matthew Johnson, 
 i. 313 ; last speech of, 32 and n, 
 54 ; his death, 34 ; poems upon, 
 56, 57,. 237, 238, 239, 246 ; letter 
 in vindication of, 58. 
 
 lady, i. 32 n, 59, 60, 273, 313, 
 
 314; ii. 349; iii. 369. 
 
 Balnamon. See Carnegie. 
 
 Balshar. See MacDonald, Hugh. 
 
 Banff, ii. 272. 
 
 Bankruptcies in Edinburgh, iii. 250, 
 299. 
 
 Bannockburn, ii. 126, 127, 129-132, 
 
 195, 197- 
 Bannockburn Journal, ii. 197. 
 Barbadoes, iii. 106. 
 Barclay of Ury, iii. 47. 
 James, i. 56. 
 
 Barker, lieut., of the Pamela, iii. 32. 
 Barnhill, Inverness, ii. 190. 
 
 Barra, island of, i. 94, 159, 160, 178, 
 194, 201 ; ii. 286 ; iii. 30. 
 
 Barrel's regiment, i. 262 ; ii. 128, 279, 
 280 ; iii. 11. 
 
 Barrisdale. See MacDonald. 
 
 Bath, iii. 193, 195, 196, 198, 207. 
 
 Beaufort, duke of, ii. 368. 
 
 Bedford, duke of, ii. 373 n. 
 
 rev. Thomas, MS. of, at Burn- 
 hall, iii. 290, 291. 
 
 Beinchillkoinnich, i. 329. 
 
 Beith. See Balfour, James. 
 
 Belfast loch, Ireland, ii. 239. 
 
 Belfinlay. See MacDonald, Ranald. 
 
 Bell, Mr., iii. 335, 337. 
 
 rev. William, ii. 249. 
 
 Belleisle, i. 284, 285. 
 
 Bellona, the, i. 295. 
 
 Benalder, Badenoch, iii. 38, 41-48. 
 
 Benbecula, i. 70, 71, 72, 105-107, 165, 
 166, 178, 196, 199, 297, 299, 323, 
 326 n, 328, 353, 368 «, 370, 372, 
 374 ; ii. 98, 99 ; iii. 376. 
 
 Benchar. See MacPherson, John. 
 
 Benn, alderman, ii. 368. 
 
 Benvraick, iii. 38. 
 
 Bernerain Glenelg, i. 71, 288; iii. 182. 
 Berwick, i. 279. 
 
 duke of, iii. 272. 
 
 John, i. 29 and n. 
 
 Bettenham, Mr., iii. 249. 
 
 Bibles burnt by the English soldiers, 
 
 i. 219 and n\ ii. 157, 177, 272, 
 .353- 
 
 Bigland, Ralph, extract from letter of, 
 
 to Alex. Macmorland, ii. 254. 
 Black, George, merchant in Glasgow, 
 
 ii. 341. 
 
 landlord at the Crook, iii. 
 
 229, 231, 241. 
 Blackbarony, iii. 243. 
 Blacklehall. ii. 117, 192 n. 
 Blackwell, Alexander, ii. 109. 
 
 Charles, ii. 109. 
 
 George, presbyterian preacher at 
 
 Bathgate, ii. 109. 
 Blair, Alex., iii. 266, 292, 322, 323, 
 
 349- 
 
 David, captain of the Peggie, ii. 
 
 243, 244. 
 
 George, of Castlehill. See Blaw. 
 
 castle, i. 208, 293, 294, 357 ; ii. 
 
 134, 138 n, 166. 
 Blairfetty, i. 316, 357 ; ii. 91, 92. 
 Blairphinie, ii. 333. 
 Blakeney, general, ii. 129, 132, 205, 
 
 288, 289, 290, 292, 302 and n ; iii. 
 
 35, 61, 148. 
 Blaw or Bleau, John, of Castlehill, i. 
 
INDEX 
 
 391 
 
 320, ii. in; prisoner in Edinburgh 
 tolbooth, iii. 166, 167 ; his mission 
 to prince Charles in France, iii. 
 180. 
 
 Blelack. See Gordon. 
 Bligh's regiment, ii. 112. 
 Boghall. See Norwall. 
 Boindy, ii. 272. 
 Boisdale. See MacDonald. 
 Bonnyhaugh, iii. 122. 
 
 See Carmichael, Stewart. 
 
 Book of Discipline, iii. 277, 283, 284. 
 
 Bord Cruinn, ii. 12. 
 
 Borniskittaig, ii. 14. 
 
 Borradale, i. 90, 160, 161, 163, 333, 
 
 351, 352; ii. 198; iii. 52, 91, 188, 
 
 189, 191. 
 
 Bouillon, duke of, i. 282; letter from, 
 to prince Charles, iii. 142. 
 
 Bowchel hall, Glenlivet, ii. 333. 
 
 Bowdler, Jane, iii. 167, 168, 361. 
 
 John, iii. 317, 320, 362. 
 
 Thomas, iii. 167, 168, 173, 179, 
 
 192, 199, 203, 206, 254, 255, 259, 
 269, 278, 280, 290, 300, 310, 316, 
 317, 319, 320, 335. 337, 339, 34i, 
 349, 355, 356, 3^4, 37J, 37* ; letter 
 from, on his collection of MSS., iii. 
 276. 
 
 Boyd, lord, ii. 261, 328, 329 ; iii. 70. 
 
 Mr., ii. 319. 
 
 Braco, lady, ii. 293. 
 Bradshaw, Enoch, i. 50 n ; letter from, 
 380. 
 
 James, last speech of, i. 48 and n. 
 
 Braemar, ii, 161. 
 
 Bragach, in Glenrinnes, ii. 333. 
 
 Brahan castle, ii. 85. 
 
 Brampton, i. 265 ; ii. 1 17 and n, 118, 
 
 159, 192, 193 and n. 
 Brandenburgh, margrave of, iii. 367. 
 Brander, James, in Condloch, iii. 15. 
 Brandy a necessity in the Highlands, 
 
 i. 292. 
 
 Breackachie. ^MacPherson, Donald. 
 Breadhaugh, ii. 161. 
 Brechin, iii. 18. 
 
 Brett, captain, of the Lyon, i. 285. 
 
 Nicholas, iii. 277, 278, 283, 284, 
 
 288, 305, 307, 308, 310, 311, 317, 
 320, 334, 336, 337, 346, 349, 350, 
 364, 371, 372 ; his Consideratiotis, 
 
 354, 355, 359, 363- 
 Bridge hole, Inverness, ii. 207. 
 Bridgewater, the, i. Ill, 114. 
 Broadford, Skye, i. 193. 
 Brodie, Alexander, of Brodie, iii. 36. 
 David, shipmaster in Leith, iii. 
 
 129. 
 
 Broughton house, purchase of, iii. 228. 
 Brown, presbyterian teacher at Long- 
 side, ii. 259. 
 
 lieut. Thomas, iii. 84. 
 
 Bruce, of St. Andrews, iii. 334. 
 
 David, judge advocate, i. 217 ; 
 
 ii. 235, 236, 331 ; iii. 157, 170, 175. 
 lady, of Kinross, xiii, i. 37 andw, 
 
 112 n, 115 n, 151, 184, 185, 273, 
 274, 276 ; ii. 2, 17 n, 40, 42, 62, 77, 
 106, no, 204, 229, 320, 343, 349; 
 
 iii. 95, 96, 366 ; death of, 367. 
 
 sir William, of Kinross, i. 37 n. 
 
 Buarblach, i. 332. 
 
 Buccleugh, duke of, iii. 267. 
 Buchanan, an attendant of the prince, 
 
 i. 282 and n, 283, 284. 
 
 master of the Greenhead, iii. 342. 
 
 of Drumakill, i. 282. 
 
 Francis, of Arnprior, i. 21 and n, 
 
 22 ; proceedings connected with his 
 imprisonment, trial, and death, 51- 
 
 53, 246 
 Bulodinghabor hill, ii. 17 n. 
 Bunchrive or Bunchraobg, ii. 6. 
 Bun-rannoch, ii. 91, 92. 
 Burdon, Mr., iii. 246, 269, 363. 
 
 Rowley, iii. 355, 356. 
 
 Burke, Bettie, i. 124, 297, 304, 329; 
 
 ii. 43, 46, 62 ; iii. 22. 
 
 Edward, i. 163, 166, 169, 170, 
 
 171, 321 and n, 322 n, 326 n, 367 n, 
 368 n, 369 11 ; ii. 96, 160 ; his nar- 
 rative of the prince's wanderings 
 until his meeting with Flora Mac- 
 Donald, i. 184, 189-196 ; his adven- 
 tures after parting from Charles, 197- 
 200 ; epitaph on, iii. 119 and n. 
 
 Jacob, i. 197, 198. 
 
 Oliver, i. 197. 
 
 Burn, Alexander, blacksmith in Ban- 
 nockburn, ii. 167. 
 
 Burnet of Barns, iii. 243. 
 
 James, of Monboddo, advocate, 
 
 i. 42 ; his Origin and Progress of 
 Language, iii. 285, 286. 
 
 William, ii. 161, 170, 171. 
 
 Burnhall, iii. 226, 227, 246, 286, 289 ; 
 Burnhall MS., 290, 291. 
 
 Burray, iii. 25, 26. 
 
 See Stewart, sir James. 
 
 Burrayhead, iii. 26. 
 
 Burton, Dr. John, of York, xvii, xviii, 
 i. 66, 143, 281 and n, 294-296 ; ii. 2, 
 72, 335, 336, 363, 3 66 , 377 ; 8, 
 82 ; letters from, to bishop Forbes, 
 ii- 57, 178, 318, 321, 323, 347 
 letters to, from bishop Forbes, iii. 6 
 and n, 105, 180, 320, 342, 349. 
 
392 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 Butcherby, ii. 192 and n. 
 Bute, earl of, iii. 326 11. 
 Byng, admiral, iii. 20. 
 
 G, R., ii. 180, 318. 
 Ca. See Caw. 
 Cabrach, ii. 334. 
 Cahoun. See Colquhoun. 
 Caithness, ii. 271 ; iii. 24, 25, 36, 37. 
 
 lady, i. 223 and n. 
 
 Caledonian Mercury, ii. 197, 333. 
 Callander, Peggie, i. 112 u ; ii. 66. 
 Callard. See Cameron, Allan. 
 Calvert, Benedict, of Annapolis, ii. 
 242. 
 
 Calvin, John, ii. 50. 
 
 Cameron of Cluns, i. 91, 96, 347-351 ; 
 
 iii. 39, 43, 45, 109. 
 Alexander, of Gleneavis, i. 124 
 
 and n, 309, 310 ; iii. 137 n. 
 son of Cameron of Cluns, 
 
 i. 99, 101. 
 brother of Lochiel, i. 312, 
 
 313- 
 
 tenant of Troday, ii. 9. 
 
 shot by captain Grant, i. 
 
 91-92. 
 
 Allan, of Callard, i. 97 ; ii. 312 ; 
 
 iii. 39, 48, 156. 
 
 Anne, iii. 2 1 7. 
 
 Dr. Archibald, i. 80, 89, 96, ioi, 
 
 216 n, 294, 348 n, 349; ii. 366 and n, 
 376 ; iii. 39-42, 45, 48, 52, 381 ; letter 
 from, to his son in France, 137 ; his 
 last speech, 131-137 ; account of his 
 behaviour on the scaffold, 130 and n, 
 139- 
 
 Donald, of Glenpean, i. 95, 191, 
 
 308, 317, 318, 321, 336-341 ; ii. 180, 
 3*9, 335, 336, 363. 364, 376 ; iii. 90- 
 94, 377, 378 ; letter to, from bishop 
 Forbes, 95; letter from, to bishop 
 Forbes, 96. 
 
 of Lochiel, i. 68, 83, 84, 
 
 86-88, 96-101, 174, 210, 259, 260, 
 264 n, 292, 310-312, 348 and n, 349 
 "* 35 x -355, 359 ; 246, 270, 276, 
 376, 379, 380; iii- 38-40, 45, 48, 
 52, 101-103, 120, 121, 133. 
 
 Duncan, his account of the 
 
 prince's leaving France and landing 
 in Scotland, etc., 201 and n, -205 ; 
 taken prisoner, 210 ; escapes to 
 Holland, 211 ; the value of his 
 narrative, 294 ; captain Alex. Mac- 
 Donald's remarks on the journal of, 
 353- 
 
 Jean, wife of Dr. Archibald 
 
 Cameron, i. 40, 216 n, 293 and n, 
 
 307-313, 316-319 ; ii. 112 ; iii. 137, 
 138 n, 141 and n. 
 Cameron, Jennie, at the raising of the 
 standard in Glenfinnan, i. 293 
 and n. 
 
 John, chaplain at Fort-William, 
 
 i. 312 n, 348 n, 349 w, 364 n, 366 n • 
 
 ii. 318 ; his description of the battle 
 of Culloden, the cruelties perpetrated 
 after the action, and the adventures 
 of the prince, 83-101 ; an addition to 
 his journal, 317, 319 ; Glenaladale's 
 corrections on journal of, ii. 364- 
 366 ; Patrick Grant's observations 
 on Cameron's narrative, iii. 101. 
 
 brother of Callart, dis- 
 
 co\-ery of the body of, i. 96, 97. 
 
 brother of Lochiel, his 
 
 goods plundered by captain Caro- 
 line Scott, i. 93. 
 
 Samuel, a spy, iii. 137 and n. 
 
 Camiscross. See MacDonald, Rory. 
 
 Camistinavaig, i. 133 ; ii. 30, 250 ; iii. 
 48, 49- 
 
 Campbell of Bellmount. bankruptcy 
 of, iii. 299. 
 
 of Invera, i. 290 ; iii. 133. 
 
 captain, of Knockbowie, i. 316. 
 
 of Shawfield, iii. 134. 
 
 of Skipness, i. 353, 375 ; ii. 99 ; 
 
 iii. 190, 191. 
 
 general, i. 71, 72, 90, 93, 107, 
 
 115, 124, 162, 179, 198, 267, 279, 
 283, 294-297, 303, 304, 328, 333, 
 
 335, 353, 372-377 ; ii- 32, 33, 79, 
 92, 98, 99, 253, 274, 325 ; iii. 86, 
 123,127,189-191. 
 
 lord Seaforth's chamberlain, ii. 
 
 307 ; iii. 107. 
 
 captain, Seaforth's factor in Kin- 
 tale, i. 344. 
 
 captain, deputy-governor of Fort- 
 William, i. 93. 
 
 Mr., minister at Kirk of Karnie, 
 
 ii. 213. 
 
 Gaelic interpreter to the judges, 
 
 ii. 237, 238. 
 
 captain Alexander, ii. 213. 
 
 lieutenant Archibald, i. 51, 52. 
 
 Donald, i. 166, 169, 172, 191, 
 
 193 ; ii. 100. 
 
 Duncan, iii. 22, 152, 153. 
 
 sir Duncan, of Lochnell, iii. 
 
 134 ft. 
 
 James, sheriff-clerk of Caithness, 
 
 iii. 24. 
 
 colonel John, i. 316. 
 
 Kenneth, ii. 101. 
 
 Campbeltown, ii. 243, 244. 
 
INDEX 
 
 393 
 
 Campo Florido, prince de, letter from, 
 
 to prince Charles, iii. 143. 
 Canna, island of, i. 160, 346 ; ii. 337 ; 
 
 iii. 84-86. 
 Cantray. See Dallas, James. 
 Cape Charles, ii. 240. 
 Cape Henri, ii. 240. 
 Carlisle, i. 29, 265, 290 ; ii. 90, 1 18-120, 
 
 123, 159, 192, 195 and n, 236; 
 
 surrender of, 22 ; iii. 193 ; trial of 
 
 prisoners at, ii. 236-238. 
 Carmichael, Dr., i. 9. 
 James, xii. 
 
 Stewart, of Bonnyhaugh, xii, 
 
 xviii, i. 81, 130 ; ii. 62, 63, 105, 
 181, 318, 320, 343 ; iii. 26, 27, 32. 
 
 Carnegie of Ealnamon, iii. 20. 
 
 Carolina Augusta de Stolberg, iii. 
 281. 
 
 Carrol. See Gordon. 
 
 Carryl, lord, iii. 265, 352 and n, 353 
 
 354; 355- 
 
 Carsaigs company, i. 316. 
 
 Carte, Thomas, ii. 324. 
 
 Castle Downy, ii. 84. 
 
 Castlehill, ii. 137 and n, 138. 
 
 See Blaw, John. 
 
 Castleton. See MacDonald, Donald. 
 
 Castle Weem, ii. 132, 133, 168 n. 
 
 Cathcart, lord, ii. 286, 312 n. 
 
 Caw or Ca, Lewis, i. 134, 138-140, 275. 
 
 Thomas, ii. 160 ; killed at Cul- 
 
 loden, 225. 
 
 Chalmers, captain John, of Gogar, i. 
 32 n • iii. 369. 
 
 Margaret. See Balmerino, lady. 
 
 Chambers, Dr. Robert, xix, xx. 
 
 Chandos, duke of, iii. 267. 
 
 Chapel hill, Peebles, iii. 243. 
 
 Charles I., birthplace of, iii. 373; 
 baptism of, 357, 359"3 6 3- 
 
 Charles II., dedication to, of Stand- 
 ford's Genealogical History, iii. 275. 
 
 Charies xii., of Sweden, ii. 203-204. 
 
 Charleville convent, iii. 280. 
 
 Cheap, Mrs., i. 1 12 n ; ii. 373 n. 
 
 Chessor, Robert, staymaker in Edin- 
 burgh, iii. 76, 77. 
 
 Chesweld Chair, iii. 242. 
 
 Cheyne, rev. George, ii. 224, 282 ; 
 iii. 142, 193 n, 194, 206, 207, 300, 
 305, 320, 363. 
 
 Chisholm (Chissolm), of Strathglass, 
 iii. in. 
 
 Alexander, in Glenmoriston, ii. 
 
 365 ; iii. 97-100, no, 202. 
 David, presbyterian minister at 
 
 Kilmorack, ii. 261 ; iii. 57, 77, 
 
 107. 
 
 Chisholm, Donald, in Glenmoriston, 
 
 ii. 365 ; iii. no, 202. 
 
 Hugh, in Glenmoriston, ii. 365 ; 
 
 iii. 202. 
 
 John, in Glenmoriston, iii. 102, 
 
 103. 
 
 Thomas, iii. 107. 
 
 Christie, Mr., provost of Stirling, i. 
 290. 
 
 Christy, adjutant, iii. 14. 
 Cilistiela, in South Uist, i. 174, 268, 
 269. 
 
 Clark. See Clerk. 
 
 Clasnoir, ii. 333. 
 
 Clatachcaranish, i. 198. 
 
 Cleenhill. See Clynehill. 
 
 Clergy fund, iii. 373. 
 
 Clerk or Clarke, baron, i. 63, 64. 
 
 a vintner in Coupar Angus, ii. 
 
 2 33- 
 
 Helen, ii. 114. 
 
 captain Hugh, i. 38 and n ; ii. 
 
 sir James, of Penicuick, iii. 228. 
 
 or M'Bain, Jean, iii. 57. 
 
 Dr. John, iii. 96, 97. 
 
 Magdalen, i. 112 n; ii. 373 n; 
 
 extract from letter of, to Mrs. 
 
 Rachel Houston, ii. 226. 
 Mary, i. 38 and 11, 41, 1 12 n ; 
 
 ii. 106, 114. 
 Robert, xii. 
 
 William, tailor in Edinburgh, 
 
 i. 154, 156; ii. 170, 171. 
 Clifton, account of the battle of, i. 
 
 381 ; ii. 44, 45, 86-90. 
 Cluns, i. 96, 97, 99. 
 
 See Cameron. 
 
 Cluny. See MacPherson. 
 
 Clynehill, ii. 273, 334. 
 
 Cochivile, i. 316. 
 
 Cochran, Christian, iii. 93. 
 
 James, printer in Edinburgh, i. 
 
 252. 
 
 lady Mary, i. 112 375-378. 
 
 Cockeen, colonel, ii. 189. 
 Ccelestius. See MacKenzie, Roderick. 
 Coilerig of Glenroy, iii. 46. 
 Coiraghoth, i. 343; iii. 107, ill, 
 114. 
 
 Coirmheadhain or Coirskreaoch, i. 
 
 344 ; iii- 99- 
 
 Collinwood, captain, governor of Fort 
 Augustus, ii. 288. 
 
 Colquhoun, fort adjutant at Inver- 
 ness, ii. 289 ; iii. 61. 
 
 provost, ii. 235. 
 
 Common Prayer Book, lines on the, 
 
 iii. 192, 199, 200. 
 
394 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 Communion Office for the use of the 
 
 Church of Scotland, i. 15 and n. 
 Conacher, Mr., iii. 255. 
 Condloch, iii. 15. 
 
 Contrast, the, set in its proper light, 
 
 i. 241. 
 
 Cooper, rev. Alexander, iii. 369, 370. 
 
 sir Gray, of Gogar, secretary to 
 
 the treasury at London, iii. 366, 
 368-372 ; extract of letter from, 
 to Alex. Mitchell, iii. 370. 
 
 : rev. James, iii. 369. 
 
 sir John, of Gogar, iii. 369. 
 
 rev. Simon, iii. 369. 
 
 William, physician in Newcastle, 
 
 iii. 369. 
 
 Cope, general, i. 207, 264 n ; ii. 284. 
 Coppoch, rev. Thomas, i. 22, 246 n ; 
 
 speech before his execution, 60 and 
 
 n ; death of, 53. 
 Coradale, i. 70, 71, 105, 106, 174, 
 
 194, 268, 269, 326, 370, 371. 
 Cordner, George, iii. 23. 
 Coriechattachan. See Mackinnon. 
 Corineuir, iii. 39. 
 Cornwallis, colonel, i. 91, 92, 93. 
 Corrinangaull, i. 338. 
 Corriscorridill, i. 340. 
 Corryarrick, i. 97, 207 ; iii. 103, 133. 
 Corrybeinicabir, i. 334. 
 Corryburgh, i. 363. 
 Corvoy, iii. 44. 
 Cotton, Mrs., iii. 358. 
 Councils of war, i. 264 and «, 265. 
 Coutts, provost of Edinburgh, i. 250 ; 
 
 ii. 162. 
 
 Cowan, captain, ii. 211. 
 Craighall. See Rattray. 
 Craigie, Robert, advocate, iii. 166. 
 Craigstown, iii. 29. 
 Crail, ii. 198. 
 
 Craskie, in Glenmoriston, iii. 201, 
 204. 
 
 Crawford, earl of, ii. 233. 
 
 Crew, lord, bishop of Durham, iii. 
 
 231. 
 Crieff, i. 265. 
 Cringaltie, iii. 243. 
 
 Cromarty, earl of, i. 84, 90, 355, 356, 
 358 and n, 359, 3 62 5 2 34» 271, 
 275. 
 
 Cromwell, Oliver, iii. 368. 
 Cromwell's fort, Inverness, i. 159. 
 Cross, in Morar, i. 332. 
 church monastery, Peebles, iii. 
 
 243. 
 Croy, i. 361. 
 Culcairn. See Monro. 
 Cullen, ii. 273. 
 
 Culloden, battle of, i. 32, 49, 55, 59, 
 65, 66, 86, 87, 102, 103, 260-262, 
 359 n, 361-367 ; ii. 5, 151, 160, 275, 
 277, 278, 380; barbarities com- 
 mitted after the action, i. 91-94, 
 107-109,216-219, 251, 310-312 ; ii. 
 3> 4, 93, 156-157, 188, ail, 212, 
 260, 261, 298-314, 328-330, 354 
 357, 379, 380; iii. 2-5, 12-16, 53 
 60, 69-72, 107, 153-159- 
 
 house, i. 66, 67, 359, 360; ii. 
 
 138, 139, 260. 
 
 Culquich, ii. 333. 
 
 Culraick, i. 256 and 257 and n, 
 258, 259, 263, 
 
 Cults, lord, iii. 352 n. 
 
 Cumberland, duke of, i. 15, 19, 24, 28, 
 29, 46, 48,65, 77, 79, 84, 85, 90,254, 
 255, 279, 280, 310, 311, 317, 357, 
 359, 362, 366, 370, 380 ; ii. 1, 45, 
 92, 102 n, 132, 155, 163, 165, 179, 
 181, 205, 268, 271, 272, 305, 306 n, 
 308 n, 312 n, 313 n, 316, 317, 331, 
 354, 355 ; iii- 6, 7, 56, 74, 97, 106, 
 108, 168-174, 177, 179; poems on, 
 ii. 227 ; iii. 265, 267, 280 ; letter to 
 William (poem), ii. 66 ; cheated by a 
 conjurer, 226, 227, 231 ; lines on his 
 return to England in 1757, iii. 161 ; 
 epitaphs on, ii. 212, 218 ; iii. 214. 
 
 Cummin, supervisor, iii. 18. 
 
 Cunningham, an Edinburgh surgeon, 
 ii. 236. 
 
 Daldrigan. See Grant. 
 Dalkeith, ii. 116, 192. 
 Dallas, lieut. Donald, iii. 55. 
 
 James, of Cantray, iii. 55. 
 
 Dalmahoy, sir Alexander, iii. 33. 
 Dalnacardoch, i. 208, 294, 353 ; ii. 
 
 134, 166. 
 Dalquhinnie, i. 353 ; iii. 46. 
 Dalrachny, ii. 138 n, 168 11. 
 
 See Grant, 
 
 Dalraddy. See MacPherson. 
 Dalrymple, lieutenant, ii. 79. 
 
 sir John, iii. 326 n. 
 
 Dalton, killed at Carlisle, ii. 193. 
 Daunie, Mr., ii. 317, 331, 343 ; his 
 
 account of the skirmish at Inverury, 
 
 344- 
 
 Davidson, widow, ii. 190. 
 
 Dawson, James, lines on the execution 
 
 of, i. 241 and n. 
 Deacon, Charles, i. 22 n. 
 Robert, i. 22 
 
 Dr. Thomas, founder of the 
 
 'True British Catholic Church, 5 i. 
 15 n, 22 n, 24 « ; letter to, describ- 
 
INDEX 
 
 395 
 
 ingthe conduct of condemned rebels, 
 
 221. 
 
 Deacon, Thomas Theodore,letter from, 
 
 to his father, i. 220 ; last speech and 
 
 execution of, 22 and n. 
 Dee, the, ii. 333. 
 Deighton, Mrs., iii. 246 n. 
 Delcrombie. See McGillavry. 
 Demas, Dr., iii. 356, 357. 
 Dennison, Thomas, i. 64. 
 Derby, ii. 122, 194. 
 Desaing, colonel, iii. 56. 
 Devil, the, commits a rape in Windsor 
 
 park, ii. 369, 370. 
 Dial hill, Montrose, iii. 19. 
 Dick, Mr., king's messenger in 
 
 London, i. 305 ; iii. 33, 127. 
 Dickson, Mr., of Broughton, iii. 228. 
 Digs, Edward, of Maryland, ii. 242, 
 
 243, 245. 
 
 Ignashious, of Maryland, ii. 242, 
 
 245- 
 
 William, of Maryland, ii. 242, 
 
 245- 
 
 Dodwell, Mr., iii. 305. 
 Don, Mr., ii. 131. 
 
 Donaldson, Alexander, bookseller, iii. 
 
 326 and n. 
 
 John, bailie of Thurso, iii. 36. 
 
 Dooll, Lachland, in Easter Jaslick, ii. 
 
 333- 
 
 Doos, Mr., ii. 338, 339. 
 Douglas (Dugless), ii. 124, 195. 
 
 duchess of, iii. 209. 
 
 Hugh, i. 56. 
 
 John, surgeon in Edinburgh, ii. 
 
 236. 
 
 sir John, of Killhead, ii. 238. 
 
 Dotitelle, the, i. 202 n, 284-288. 
 Dove. See Duff. 
 Down, i. 209. 
 
 Downcathick, inGlenmoriston,iii. 117. 
 Dremsdill. See MacDonald, Lauchlan. 
 Drimachosie hill, i. 339 ; ii. 201 «, 
 
 363 ; iii. 9, 11. 
 Droynachan. See MacDonald. 
 Drumakill. See Buchanan. 
 Drumlanrig, ii. 124, 153, 195. 
 Drummellier castle, iii. 241. 
 Drummond, of Logie, i. 291. 
 captain, an alias of prince 
 
 Charles, i. 98. 
 
 Dr., ii. 58, 63, 179, 181. 
 
 Mr., Wimbleton, iii. 309. 
 
 lord George, ii. 277. 
 
 lord John, i. 83, 201, 255, 258, 
 
 259, 263, 355, 359, 359, 361, 370; 
 
 ii. 154, 197, 213, 232, 272, 344; 
 
 iii. 20, 147, 383. 
 
 Drummond, rev. Laurence, i. 3 n, 9. 
 
 lord Lewis, ii. 286, 287, 344. 
 
 rev. Thomas, xii, i. 52 ; his poem 
 
 To Mr. Secretary Murray, on his 
 
 turning evidence, 245. 
 
 Thomas, LL.D., iii. 213 n. 
 
 William, son of viscount Strath- 
 
 allan, iii. 145. 
 
 castle, ii. 132, 137, 
 
 Drummossie muir, i. 217 ; ii. 151, 
 
 160. 
 
 Drumnaglass. See MacGillavry, 
 
 Alexander. 
 Dudwick. See Fullarton, John. 
 Duff (Dove), captain of the Terror \ 
 
 ii. 98 ; iii. 29-31, 84, 86. 
 
 Mr., iii. 171, 173. 
 
 Dullmagerry, ii. 93. 
 
 Dumbarton castle, i. 283. 
 
 Dumbenan, ii. 334. 
 
 Dumfries (Dumfrich), ii. 124, 195. 
 
 Dumont, master of a French cutter, 
 
 1 373- 
 
 Dunbar, of Thunderton, ii. 225. 
 
 captain James, i. 51. 
 
 sir William, of Durn, iii. 198 ; 
 
 letter from, on the American 
 
 colonies, 301. 
 Dunblane, i. 209. 
 
 Dundonald, countess of, i. 365 n, 375- 
 378. 
 
 J Dunenald, iii. 20. 
 
 Dungallan. See Cameron. 
 Dunipace, i. 222 n. 
 Dunkeld, i. 357. 
 
 Dunkirk, i. 98 ; iii. 218-225, 264, 265, 
 292. 
 
 Dunlop, captain, ii. 289, 291, 302, 
 
 358 ; iii. 61, 62. 
 
 Mr., watchmaker, iii. 179. 
 
 Dunnet, Dr. Theodore, bailie of 
 
 Thurso, iii. 36. 
 Dunrobin, ii. 271 ; iii. 145. 
 
 castle, i. 359. 
 
 Duntroon. See Graham, James. 
 Dunvegan, i. 183. 
 
 Durbe, captain, of the Doutelle, i. 
 284. 
 
 Durham, iii. 231. 
 
 Durie, George, of Grange. See 
 
 Rutherford, lord. 
 Durn. See Dunbar, sir William. 
 Duthie, Mr., iii. 283. 
 Dykes, sir Thomas, ii. 282. 
 
 Eagle, the, man-of-war, i. 295. 
 Earlmilns, iii. 23. 
 
 Eau, captain d', of the Elizabeth, i. 
 285, 286. 
 
396 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 Eddlestone water, iii. 243. 
 
 Edinburgh, the, man-of-war, i. 295. 
 
 Edinburgh, Jacobite amusements at the 
 parliament house, etc., ii. 221-222; 
 copy of the prince's summons for 
 the surrender of, i. 249 ; bank- 
 ruptcies in, iii. 250, 299 ; scarcity 
 of money in, 268. 
 
 castle, xii, i. 375 ; verses on the 
 
 blockade of, ii. 52 ; prisoners in, 
 112 ; lady Ogilvie's escape from, 
 . I - I 3- 
 
 Eigg, island of, i. 160; ii. 337; iii. 
 86-88. 
 
 Eglintoun, earl of, ii. 204. 
 
 Elcho, lord, i. 48 and n, 160, 190 ; ii. 
 160, 192, 194, 214 ; iii. 145, 245 n. 
 
 Elegy on the church, ii. 182-185. 
 
 Elgin, ii. 142. 
 
 See Mackinnon, John. 
 
 Elizabeth, the, sails with the prince 
 from Nantes, i. 201, 202 ; engage- 
 ment with the Lion, 203, 285-287. 
 
 Ellagol or Ellighuil, i. 74, 139; ii. 
 ^ 250, 253. 
 
 Elphinston, lady, ii. 235 n. 
 
 James, ii. 249. 
 
 pass, ii. 196. 
 
 E It ham, the, ill. 
 
 Embden, embarkation of troops at, 
 iii. 258. 
 
 Emigrants from the highlands, iii. 
 259. 
 
 Epitaph on the duke of Cumberland, 
 
 ii. 212, 218 ; on prince Frederick, 
 
 iii. 88; on Edward Burke, 119 
 and 7i. 
 
 Eriska, island of, i. 70, 204, 289, 319; 
 ii. 256. 
 
 Errickstane brae, iii. 230, 231. 
 Erskine, captain, iii. 18, 19, 20. 
 Dr., physician to Peter the 
 
 great, ii. 203. 
 
 Mr., of Alloa, iii. 278, 279. 
 
 Charles, of Tinwald. See Tin- 
 
 wald, lord. 
 rev. William, letter to, from 
 
 rev. William Abernethie, iii. 131. 
 Esk river, ii. 61, 62. 
 Euirn island, i. 169, 192. 
 Eval hill, i. 197. 
 
 Evan More Mac Isaac, in Canna, iii. 
 
 Evening Courant, ii. 333. 
 
 Fairnton, ii. 132. 
 Faladam, xix, i. 219 n. 
 Falconer (Faukener), sir Everard, ii. 
 325, 331 ; iii. 175. 
 
 Falconer, rev. James, i. 39, 182; iii. 15, 
 23, 66 ; extract of letter to, from 
 bishop Forbes, ii. 172 ; extract of 
 letter from, to bishop Forbes, 176 ; 
 his account of the behaviour of Dr. 
 Archibald Cameron at his execu 
 tion, iii. 139 and n. 
 
 Nancy, iii. 358. 
 
 rev. William, iii. 152, 153. 
 
 Falkirk, ii. 129 and n ; battle of, i. 
 35, 265, 380, 381 ; ii. 90, 127, 196 
 n, 197, 380. 
 
 Falkland, ii. 234, 236. 
 
 Far. See M'Intosh, Angus. 
 
 Faroline, i. 190. 
 
 Farquhar, rev. Mr., of Dumfries, ii. 
 184 n. 
 
 Farquharson (Pharqurson), Donald, of 
 Auchriachans, ii. 333. 
 
 Francis, of Monaltry, i. 253 ; ii. 
 
 345; iii. 149. 
 
 John, of Aldlerg, his description 
 
 of the sufferings of the rebel 
 prisoners after Culloden, iii. 153- 
 159 ; letters from, to bishop Forbes, 
 iii. 128, 218, 220-224, 2 59> 264, 
 265, 292, 317, 321, 323, 332, 347, 
 351, 361, 371; letters to, from bishop 
 Forbes, iii. 323, 327, 342, 372. 
 
 Fassafern, i. 207. 
 
 Fassanacoill, in Strathglass, i. 346; iii. 
 102. 
 
 Fea, John, of Clesterton, ii. 337, 338 
 and n, 339, 340. 
 
 Ferguson, Mrs., of Pitfour, i. 115 n. 
 
 captain John, of the Furnace, i. 
 
 107, 115, 123, 144, 145, 160, 179, 
 180, 193, 198, 297, 303, 305, 312, 
 328, 372, 374; ii. 8, 79, 99, 252, 
 253; iii. 22, 29, 84-87, 123, 127, 
 I 9 I - 
 
 Ferrier, captain, iii. 18, 19. 
 Ferryden, iii. 18, 19. 
 Findal, lady, i. 9. 
 
 Findlater, countess of, ii. 273 ; rum- 
 oured to have driven over Drum- 
 mossie Muir among the dead and 
 wounded, ii. 258. 
 
 earl of, refuses to pay cess to the 
 
 rebels, ii. 272. 
 
 Finlayson, commissary, i. 53. 
 
 John, mathematical instrument- 
 maker, i. 156, 157 ; map by, iii. 99. 
 
 Finsbay, island of, Harris, i. 173, 
 193- 
 
 Fitzherbert, Mr. , death of, iii. 262. 
 Fitz-James, duke of, i. 282. 
 
 regiment, i. 261, 262, 363, 367 ; 
 
 ii. 271, 274. 
 
INDEX 
 
 397 
 
 Fladdachuan island, ii. 7-12. 
 Fletcher, Andrew, of Milton, lord 
 
 justice clerk, ii. 107-111, 161, 162, 
 
 165. 
 
 Flodday, iii. 25. 
 
 Flodigarry, iii. 84 n. 
 
 Fochabers, ii. 213-215, 271. 
 
 Fontenoy, battle of, i. 201. 
 
 Forbes, captain, aide - de - camp to 
 
 general Hawley, iii. 175. 
 
 sir Arthur, iii. 17 1, 175. 
 
 Charles, schoolmaster at Rayne, 
 
 xi. 
 
 David, iii. 24, 35, 36. 
 
 Duncan, of Culloden, lord- 
 president of the court of session, i. 
 147, 175, 207 ; ii. 34, 83-85, 102 n, 
 114, 115, 268-270, 312 », 361, 362 ; 
 i". 73-76, 97, 108, 113. 
 
 Peggie, 112 », 267. 
 
 rev. Robert, bishop of Ross and 
 
 Caithness, parentage and marriage 
 of, xi-xiii ; appointed bishop of 
 Ross, xiii ; his literary contribu- 
 tions : resolves to gather collections 
 relating to the rebellion of 1745, 
 xiv ; description of the Lyon in 
 Moutning, xviii ; his Letter from a 
 Gentleman in London, iii. 68 and 
 n ; his journey to meet bishop 
 Gordon at Moffat, iii. 227 ; their 
 conference, iii. 231-236 ; visits the 
 Gray Mare's Tail, iii. 237-240 ; the 
 return home, iii. 241-244; his ode 
 on the birthday of princess Louisa, 
 iii. 326 ; and lines on the birthday 
 of prince Charles, iii. 344. 
 
 letters from, to Arbuthnot, i. 
 
 271 ; Patrick Baillie, ii. 371 ; Dr. 
 John Burton, ii. 63, 105, 180, 320, 
 324, 342, 349 ; Cameron of Glen- 
 pean, iii. 95 ; rev. James Falconer, 
 
 ii. 172 ; Farquharson of Aldlerg, iii. 
 318, 327, 342 ; Thomas Forbes, ii. 
 347; rev. Andrew Gerard, ii. 316, 
 345 » J' Goodwillie, ii. 340 ; bishop 
 Gordon, iii. 202, passim ; William 
 Gordon, bookseller, ii. 322 ; iii. 92 ; 
 rev. James Hay, ii. 314, 351, 367, 
 375 ; rev. George Innes, ii. 224, 281 ; 
 Mrs. Leith, ii. 249, 357 ; Mac- 
 Donald of Balshar, ii. 39 ; Mac- 
 Donald of Belfinlay, ii. 255 ; Mac- 
 Donald of Glenaladale, ii. 334, 366 ; 
 
 iii. 8 ; MacDonald of Kingsburgh, 
 186; ii. 42 ; iii. 81 ; MacDonald of 
 Tiendrish, i. 38 ; Alexander Mac- 
 Donald, brother of Dalely, ii. 336 ; 
 Flora MacDonald, iii. 62; Roderick 
 
 Mackinnon, iii. 193, 195, 207 ; rev. 
 John MacLachlan, ii. 65, 297 ; 
 MacLeod of Brea, ii. 41 ; Malcolm 
 MacLeod, i. 187, 273 ; MacPherson 
 of Strathmashie, ii. 44, 104, 315 ; 
 Alexander Mitchell, iii. 370 ; Dr. 
 Rattray, iii. 93 ; rev. John Stewart, 
 iii. 204 ; rev. James Taylor, ii. 
 172. 
 
 Forbes, letters to, from rev.Wm. Aber- 
 nethie, iii. 130 ; lord Arbuthnot, i. 
 270; Patrick Baillie, ii. 372; Dr. John 
 Burton, ii. 57, 178, 318, 321, 323, 
 347 ; Cameron of Glenpean, iii. 96 ; 
 rev. James Falconer, ii. 176; Far- 
 quharson of Aldlerg, iii. 128, 264, 
 265, 317, 332, 347, 351, 361 ; Alex. 
 Forbes, iii. 201 ; Thomas Forbes, 
 
 ii. 346, 372 ; bishop Gerard, ii. 330, 
 343 ; J. Goodwillie, ii. 191 ; bishop 
 Gordon, iii. 306, passim ; Wm. 
 Gordon, bookseller, ii. 322 ; rev. 
 James Hay, ii. 297, 367, 370; iii. 
 21, 53 ; rev. George Innes, ii. 267 ; 
 
 iii. 22, 223 ; Mrs. Leith, ii. 248, 
 283 ; Lockhart of Carnwath, iii. 95; 
 princess Louisa, iii. 322 ; Mac- 
 Donald of Glenaladale, i. 39, 40 ; ii. 
 362 ; MacDonald of Kingsburgh, ii. 
 69, 175 and n ; iii. 80 ; MacDonald 
 of Tiendrish, i. 37, 39 ; Donald Roy 
 MacDonald, iii. 48 ; Dr. John Mac- 
 Donald, ii. 360 ; rev. John Mac- 
 Lachlan, ii. 208 ; MacLeod of 
 Raasay, iii. 183; Malcolm MacLeod, 
 i. 273 ; ii. 1,71; bailie Stewart, ii. 
 211 ; rev. John Stewart, iii. 203, 
 206 ; captain Robert Stewart, ii. 
 333 ; rev. James Taylor, ii. 174. 
 
 Thomas, letters from, to bishop 
 
 Forbes, ii. 346, 372 ; letter to, from 
 the bishop, 347. 
 
 William, writer to the signet, ii. 
 
 114. 
 
 Fordyce, Alexander, banker, bank- 
 ruptcy of, iii. 273, 326 and 11. 
 Forres, ii. 268. 
 
 Forrest, Mr., a Roman catholic clergy- 
 man, taken prisoner, i. 178. 
 
 Forsyth, merchant in Cromarty, iii. 
 60. 
 
 Fort Augustus, i. 68, 78, 79, 84, 91, 
 99, 103, 124, 126, 278, 321, 336, 
 35°, 356, 359, 367 and n ; ii. 205, 
 270, 288, 308, 325 ; 111. 45, 57, 101, 
 no, 114, 188. 
 
 Fort George, ii. 137 n. 
 
 Forth, cornet, ii. 133. 
 
 Fortrose, iii. 163, 165. 
 
398 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 Fort William, i. 84, 91, 309, 310, 356, 
 359, 360 ; ii. 70, 270 ; iii. 58. 
 
 Fotheringham, Mrs., i. 210. 
 
 Foulis, George, of Ravelston, i. 222 n. 
 
 John, ii. 185 n. 
 
 Fowler, Mr., i. 33, 55. 
 
 Francisca Clauda de Stolberg, iii. 281. 
 
 Francklin, Edward, iii. 357. 
 
 Fraser of Gortleg, i. 321. 
 
 of Kilbokie, ii. 307 ; iii. 107. 
 
 an officer in Blakeney's regiment, 
 
 ii. 292. 
 
 the blacksmith of Moy, i. 149 ; ii. 
 
 136, 269. 
 
 Alexander or John, account of 
 
 his wonderful escape from death 
 after Culloden, ii. 260, 261, 304 and 
 n, 328, 354 ; iii. 58, 69, 76 n, 77. 
 
 ii. j68. 
 
 Andrew, ii. 167 and n. 
 
 col. Charles, yr. of Inverallachie, 
 
 i. 190. 
 
 Donald, iii. 114-117. 
 
 Hugh, iii. 55, 57, 61, 107. 
 
 James, iii. 107, 338. 
 
 John, provost of Inverness, i. 
 
 218; ii. 207, 301, 330; iii. 72-74. 
 Simon, master of Lovat, iii. 145* 
 
 146. 
 
 Thomas, pastrycook, ii. 168, 169. 
 
 Frederick, prince, epitaphs upon, iii. 
 88-89. 
 
 French officers, treatment of, in 
 
 London prisons, ii. 296. 
 Frigge, Alexander, iii. 15, 65. 
 Fruighvein, i. 336. 
 
 Fullarton, John, of Dudwick, i. 75, 
 82. 
 
 Gairey, Agnes, wife of bishop 
 Forbes, i. xiii. 
 
 Galloway, countess of, iii. 335, 337, 
 338, 340, 34i, 344, 345, 349, 35°, 
 354-356, 358,. 360, 362, 365. 
 
 Gardiner, col., i. 209. 
 
 John, i. 64. 
 
 Garnet, a dragoon in lord Mark Ker's 
 regiment, describes the cruelties 
 perpetrated on the wounded after 
 Culloden, i. 251. 
 
 Garryfleugh. See MacDonald, Donald. 
 
 Garry water, i. 347. 
 
 Garviemore, i. 207, 293; ii. 333. 
 
 Gask. See Oliphant, Laurence. 
 
 Gedd, Peggy, ii. 267. 
 
 Genuine Account of the Prince's escape 
 from . . . Culloden, to llth of July 
 1746, ii. 249. 
 
 George, James, iii. 211, 219, 235. 
 
 Gerard, Andrew, bishop of Aberdeen, 
 letters from, to bishop Forbes, ii. 
 330, 343 ; letters to, from Forbes, ii. 
 316, 345- 
 
 Gib, James, master of the prince's 
 household, accounts and diary of, 
 ii. 115-132, 152, 167; his narrative 
 of the march of the army, the battle 
 of Culloden, etc., 138 n, 152, 158- 
 171 ; his story compared with that 
 of John Goodwillie, ii. 192-195. 
 
 Gifford, earl of, iii. 166. 
 
 Gilchrist, Daniel, iii. 24. 
 
 James, presbyterian minister in 
 
 Thurso, iii. 36. 
 
 Gillder, a member of parliament, and 
 shipowner, ii. 239, 241. 
 
 Givet, iii. 221. 
 
 Gladsmuir, battle of, i. 35, 146, 292 ; 
 ii. 380. 
 
 Glam, in Raasay, i. 131, 302. 
 
 Glasgow, ii. 124-126, 195; iii. 133. 
 
 major, ii. 295 ; at the skirmish 
 
 of Keith, 214-217 ; pillages the earl 
 of Findlater's house, i. 272. 
 
 Glass island. See Scalpa. 
 
 Glenaladale, i. 352. 
 
 See MacDonald, Alex. 
 
 Glenbiasdale, i. 191, 295, 322. 
 
 Glenbucket. See Gordon, John. 
 
 Glenbuckie. See Stewart. 
 
 Glencamger, iii. 45, 46. 
 
 Glencanna, i. 345 ; iii. 109. 
 
 Glenchosy, i. 339 ; ii. 201 n, 363 ; iii. 
 9, 
 
 Glenconlass, laird of, ii. 333. 
 Glencoe, i. 89. 
 
 See MacDonald. 
 
 Glen Coridale, i. 326; ii. 95, 96, 102-3. 
 Glencormigle, iii. 107. 
 Glendessary, iii. 96. 
 Glendulichan, i. 316. 
 Glenelg, ii. 70, no, 1 14, 1 15. 
 Glenevis, i. 94. 
 
 See Cameron, Alexander. 
 
 Glenfinnan, i. 207, 292, 335-337 ; iii. 
 377. 
 
 Glengarry, 1. 321, 346, 347. 
 
 See MacDonald, John (chief). 
 
 MacDonald, Alex, (eldest 
 son). 
 
 MacDonald, Angus (second 
 son). 
 
 Glengyle. See Graham. 
 Glenkengie, i. 92, 100; iii. 109, 381. 
 Glenkiaig, iii. 109. 
 Glenlivet, ii. 333. 
 Glenlyon, i. 89, 347. 
 Glenmallie, i. 88. 
 
INDEX 
 
 399 
 
 Glenmazerin, ii. 306 ; iii. 106. 
 Glenmoriston, i. 95, 114- 117, 346, 
 
 347; ii. 305-307, 3*9, 355 ; »i- 57, 
 
 106-109, 380, 381. 
 men, i. 307 «, 343 n ; ii. 199, 
 
 257, 335, 364, 378 ; iii. 5-9, 97-no, 
 
 114, 115, 117, 152, 153, 202, 203. 
 Glenochie, i. 89. 
 Glenpean, i. 191 ; iii. 91. 
 
 See Cameron, Donald. 
 
 Glenrinnes, ii. 333. 
 Glenroy, iii. 44. 
 
 Glensheil, i. 340 ; ii. 204 ; iii. 378. 
 Glensiarich, i. 292. 
 
 Glen Strathferrar, i. 95 ; iii. 101, 106. 
 Glen Urquhart, ii. 305 ; iii. 106. 
 Goodwillie, John, writer in Edinburgh, 
 
 i. 198 ; ii. 262, 337 ; his journal of 
 the prince's march to and from Eng- 
 land, ii. 192-197; letter to, from 
 bishop Forbes, 340 ; letter from, to 
 bishop Forbes, 190. 
 
 Gordon, duke of, iii. 273, 283. 
 
 of Aberlour, ii. 333. 
 
 of Ardoch, taken prisoner at 
 
 Inverury, ii. 345. 
 
 of Blellack, ii. 334, 345. 
 
 of Carrol, his house burnt by 
 
 the earl of Cromarty, ii. 271, 272. 
 
 Mrs., of Dumfries, iii. 307. 
 
 Mrs., London, iii. 351. 
 
 Mrs., of Hallhead, iii. 167; her 
 
 house plundered by general Hawley, 
 
 169, 170-176; inventory of goods 
 
 taken from her house by general 
 
 Hawley, iii. 177-179. 
 ; Charles, of Terpersie, ii. 223, 
 
 259 n ; letter from, to his wife before 
 
 being executed, i. 252 and n. 
 Mrs. , of Terpersie, letter to, from 
 
 rev. Patrick Gordon, i. 253. 
 John, Roman catholic priest, iii. 
 
 164. 
 
 in Clasnoir, ii. 333. 
 
 of Glenbucket, i. 88, 352 ; 
 
 ii. 197, 279, 288, 293, 333 ; iii. 29, 
 31, 33, 60, 148. 
 
 sir John, of Invergordon, iii. 145. 
 
 lord Lewis, iii. 146, 147. 
 
 Patrick, presbyterian minister at 
 
 Rhynie, letter from, to lady Ter- 
 persie, i. 253. 
 
 rev. Robert, bishop of London, 
 
 xiii ; ii. 51; iii. 34 n, 199, 208, 
 210 ; correspondence with bishop 
 Forbes, 202, 206 and «, 215 
 passim ; his conference with bishop 
 Forbes at Moffat, iii. 231-236 ; visits 
 the Gray Mare's Tail, 237-240. 
 
 Gordon, William, bookseller in Edin- 
 burgh, ii. 321-325, 330, 348; iii. 
 77 ; letter from, to bishop Forbes, 
 ii. 322 ; letters to, from the bishop, 
 ii. 322 ; iii. 92. 
 
 sir William, of Park, iii. 147. 
 
 castle, ii. 142. 
 
 Goring, Harry, iii. 233. 
 
 Gortuleg. See Fraser. 
 
 Graden. See Ker, colonel. 
 
 Grafton, duke of, iii. 284. 
 
 Graham of Airth, iii. 149. 
 
 of Garrock, his house pillaged 
 
 by the English, ii. 156. 
 
 of Glengyle. See MacGregor. 
 
 at Multrees of Hill, i. 41. 
 
 Mr., i. 9. 
 
 Mrs., i. 75. 
 
 Alexander, iii. 28. 
 
 James, of Duntroon, viscount of 
 
 Dundee, iii. 146. 
 
 John, ii. 347, 349, 350. 
 
 of Balgowan, i. 9. 
 
 Susie, i. 112 n. 
 
 Gramstill, Benbecula, ii. 99. 
 
 Grant, laird of, i. 181 ; ii. 305 ; iii. 5, 
 6, 97, 106. 
 
 of Daldrigan, ii. 306, 355 ; iii. 5, 
 
 57, 107. 
 
 of Dalrachny, ii. 134, 135 n, 166. 
 
 Mrs., ii. 134, 138 n, 163. 
 
 of Glenmoriston, iii. 100, 101 ; 
 
 his house burnt and plundered, iii. 
 
 108, 113. 
 
 of Milntown, ii. 310. 
 
 an engineer in the prince's army, 
 
 ii. 308. 
 
 captain, i. 91, 92, 100, 312 n, 
 
 350 ; ii. 307 ; iii. 107. 
 major, surrenders Inverness 
 
 castle, ii. 270. 
 Alexander, in Glenmoriston, iii. 
 
 106. 
 
 Donald in Glenmoriston, iii. 106. 
 
 James, in Inchnachape, ii. 333. 
 
 James, of the Caledonian Mer- 
 cury, ii. 197. 
 
 merchant in Inverness, ii. 
 
 370, 37 1» 372, 375 5 iii- !-7, 13 «, 
 57 »• 
 
 John, ofWhitera, ii. 309. 
 
 in Innerlochies, ii. 333. 
 
 Lauchlan, writer in Edinburgh, 
 
 iii. 3, 4. 
 
 rev. Ludovick, Fortrose, iii. 163, 
 
 l6 5- . 
 Margaret, in Inverness, ill. 53. 
 
 Patrick, in Glenmoriston, ii. 365 ; 
 
 iii. 152, 202-206, 209, 380; his nar- 
 
400 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 rative of the prince's adventures in 
 Glenmoriston, etc., hi. 97-112, 114- 
 117. 
 
 Grant, Robert, an informer and spy, 
 killed by the Glenmoriston men, iii. 
 117. 
 
 Gray, 'solicitor Hume's man,' ii. 236, 
 237. 
 
 David, i. 56. 
 
 John, of Rogart, examination of, 
 
 before the bar of the house of com- 
 mons, iii. 144- 1 51. 
 
 captain John, ii. 286, 290 ; letters 
 
 from, to Mrs. Anne Leith, 295, 
 296. 
 
 William, i. 222 and n. 
 
 Gray's mill, near Edinburgh, i. 209, 
 250. 
 
 Gray Mare's Tail, Moffat, description 
 
 of the, iii. 236, 239. 
 Gregory, Mr., at Campvere, iii. 343. 
 Gretna Green, ii. 236. 
 Grierson, sir William, ii. 349. 
 Griger, William, iii. 16, 67. 
 Grindly, Thomas, master of the 
 
 Pamela, iii. 32, 33. 
 Gualtergill, i. 183. 
 
 Haggyhall, ii. 192. 
 Haite, William, king's messenger, iii. 
 167. 
 
 Haldane, captain, ii. 338. 
 
 Mr., iii. 60. 
 
 Haliburton, Mr., iii. 256. 
 
 Hamilton, ii. 124, 195. 
 
 Gavin,bailie of Edinburgh, i. 249. 
 
 captain James, protects Mac- 
 Donald of Belfinlay when wounded 
 at Culloden, ii. 4, 133, 230, 303 
 and n, 326 ; letter from, to Bel- 
 finlay, 341. 
 
 Wm. , his Paraphrase upon Psalm 
 
 cxxxvii, i. 228. 
 
 Hanley, captain, ii. 106. 
 
 Hardy's prophecy on the date of the 
 millennium, iii. 254. 
 
 an agent employed against the 
 
 Jacobites, ii. 259 and n, 260. 
 
 Harnie burn, ii. 213. 
 
 Harper, rev. William, ii. 209, 210, 
 212, 371 ; iii. 93. 
 
 Harraby, ii. 192. 
 
 Harriot, miss, iii. 168, 172. 
 
 Hart, Archibald, merchant in Edin- 
 burgh, ii. 113. 
 
 Haviland, Dr., Bath, iii. 193, 197 n. 
 
 Hawick, ii. 117, 192. 
 
 Hawley, general, i. 219, 243, 381 ; ii. 
 86, 127, 196 and n, 301 ; iii. 54, 
 
 73, I55> 169-171, 174; plunders 
 the house of Mrs. Gordon of Aber- 
 deen, iii 169-179. 
 
 Hay, lord, of Yester, iii. 166. 
 
 captain, his raid in Raasay, ii. 
 
 78. 
 
 in the French service, ii. 
 
 296. 
 
 rev James, ii. 186, 204, 209, 
 
 211, 249; iii. 1, 5, 35 ; letters 
 from, to bishop Forbes, ii. 297, 298, 
 367, 370; iii. 21, 53; letters to, 
 from bishop Forbes, ii. 314, 351, 
 367, 375- 
 
 captain John, i. 267, 276, 369 n ; 
 
 ii. 173. 
 
 John, periwig maker in Edin- 
 burgh, i. 280, 281. 
 
 of Restalrig, i. 85, 86, 89, 
 
 104, 105, 177, 260, 368, 370; ii. 
 129 n, 160, 170, 171 ; iii. 231, 235, 
 260-262 ; knighted by Charles at 
 Rome, 218 ; receives a pension, 259. 
 
 Hazard sloop, account of the taking 
 of the, i. 358 ; ii. 271 ; iii. 18 ; re- 
 captured, i. 358; ii. 271. 
 
 Henderson, ii. 237. 
 
 captain, James, iii. 18 ; his ship 
 
 burned by captain Hill of the 
 
 Hazard, iii. 18. 
 Hepburn, Mr., a volunteer with the 
 
 highland army at Culloden, i. 259. 
 Patrick, of Kingstoun, bond 
 
 granted to, by prince Charles, ii. 
 
 261. 
 
 Hesse, prince of, ii. 233, 235 and n. 
 i Hickson, Mr., ii. 233; his Devotions, 
 
 357, 359-362. 
 Highland dress prohibited, ii. 225 
 
 and n. 
 
 Hill, captain, of the Hazard, iii. 18- 
 20. 
 
 John, i. 64. 
 
 Hiskar island, ii. 33. 
 
 Holm Sound, iii. 25, 27. 
 
 Holms, Richard, captain of the 
 
 Gillder, ii. 239-242. 
 Holyrood house, ii. 115, 158. 
 j Hope, lieutenant, ii 253. 
 
 Mr. , Roman catholic clergyman, 
 
 iii. 277, 278, 283. 
 
 Home, Thomas, prince of Stolberg, 
 hi. 267. 
 
 I Horner, Robert, supercargo of the 
 
 Gillder, ii. 239-242. 
 [ Hornie chapel, ii. 334. 
 
 Hossack, provost, of Inverness, ii. 
 
 186, 219, 301, 330, 353; iii. 2, 
 
 54, 73, 74- 
 
INDEX 
 
 401 
 
 Ilossack, John, of Fochabers, ii. 314. 
 Household accounts of prince Charles, 
 
 ii. 115-132, 152, 167. 
 Houston, Jean, i. 75. 
 
 Ludovick, of Johnstone, xiii. 
 
 Rachel, second wife of bishop 
 
 Forbes, xiii, i. 75, 112, 115 n; 
 
 letter to, from Magdalen Clerk, ii. 
 
 226. 
 
 Howard, colonel, iii. 12. 
 
 Howe, lord, captain of the Greyhound, 
 
 iii. 383. 
 
 Howgate, iii. 243. 
 
 Howison, lieutenant, iii. 230. 
 
 Hoya, island of, i. 105. 
 
 Huchison. See Hutchison. 
 
 Hunter, Mr., a volunteer in the high- 
 land army, i. 259. 
 
 Alexander, of Polmood, mer- 
 chant in Edinburgh, iii. 229. 
 
 Norman, his charter of the lands 
 
 of Polmood, iii. 229. 
 
 Huntly, ii. 271, 274; iii. 146. 
 
 castle, iii. 147. 
 
 Husk, general, i. 219; ii. 86, 1 12, 
 128, 129, 287, 301 ; iii. 2, 54, 73. 
 
 Hutchison, one of the prince's grooms, 
 a prisoner in Carlisle, ii. 237. 
 
 Hymer, Mr., attorney, ii. 120, 159. 
 
 Ill a water, ii. 216. 
 
 Inches, lady, ii. 371, 375 ; her account 
 
 of the atrocities of the English 
 
 after Culloden, i. 216-219. 
 Inchnachape, ii. 333. 
 Independent electors, meeting of, at 
 
 Westminster, ii. 282. 
 Inglesfield, a Franciscan friar, iii. 
 
 277. 
 
 Inglis, David, bailie of Edinburgh, i. 
 2 49- 
 
 Innerwick, Glenmoriston, iii. 117. 
 
 Innes, rev. George, iii. 13 n, 64, 243, 
 339, 345> 346, 354, 363 ; his narra- 
 tive of the rout of Moy, the taking 
 of the Hazard, the battle of Cul- 
 loden and cruelties perpetrated after 
 the action, etc., ii. 268-280; iii. II 
 and n-16 ; poems by, iii. 77 ; 
 letters from, to bishop Forbes, ii. 
 223, 267 ; iii. 22 ; letters to, from 
 Forbes, ii. 224, 281 ; iii. 16. 
 
 John, ii. 201 n. 
 
 William, in Fochabers, iii. 15, 
 
 Inscription in Cumbernauld kirkyard, 
 
 iii. 284. 
 Invera. See Campbell. 
 Inverallachy, iii. 56. 
 
 vol. in. 
 
 Inverary, ii. 85. 
 
 Invergary, i. 68, 89, 103, 191, 367. 
 Invergordon. See Gordon, sir John. 
 Inverlochy, iii. 51. 
 
 Inverness, i. 84, 86, 90, 150, 151, 
 158, 219, 265, 285-292, 298, 299, 
 312 n, 355-358, 367 ; 4, 35> 84, 
 85, 91, 92, 136, 137 », I39-I5 1 , 
 167 and n, 168 n, 188-191, 268, 
 269; iii. 13, 16, 53-55, 73, 74, 155- 
 157, 194. 
 
 castle, surrender of, ii. 137 n, 
 
 138 and n, 164. 
 Inverury, skirmish at, ii. 268, 3 1 7, 
 
 331, 344; iii. 7. 
 Irvin, Mr., iii. 60. 
 Isla, earl of, iii. 243. 
 Issach. See Macintosh, Alexander. 
 
 Jack, William, merchant in Elgin, 
 iii. 17 ; transported to Barbadoes, 
 22 ; letters from, on his treatment 
 as a prisoner on board the Liberty 
 and Property, 14, 15, 64-67. 
 
 Jamaica, count of, iii. 272. 
 
 James vin., poem on the birthday of, 
 i. 233 «. 
 
 James and Mary of Fife, harsh treat- 
 ment of prisoners on board the, iii. 
 15, 17, 64. 
 
 Jedburgh, ii. 117, 192. 
 
 Jeffreys, captain, of the Scarborough, 
 
 ii- 338, 339- 
 Johnson, Matthew, letter from, to lord 
 
 Balmerino, i. 313. 
 Dr. Samuel, anecdote of, iii. 
 
 292 ; criticisms on his Tour, iii. 
 
 357, 359, 36o, 362. 
 Joy, Thomas, i. 64. 
 Junius, letters of, iii. 248, 284. 
 
 Kaimes, lord, iii. 241. 
 Keaback, isle of, i. 192. 
 Keam of Duffus, ii. 273. 
 Keith, skirmish at, i. 356 ; ii. 212- 
 217, 271. 
 
 shipmaster in Aberdeen, iii. 179. 
 
 bishop, i. 377 ; ii. 51, 83, 152 ; 
 
 iii. 21, 122. 
 miss, iii. 267. 
 
 general Robert, i. 275 ; iii. 
 
 254. 
 
 sir Robert Murray, iii. 298, 305, 
 
 307,311,316,328. 
 
 Kellie, Alexander, earl of, a prisoner 
 in Edinburgh castle, i. 38 and n ; 
 drunk in Perth, iii. 144. 
 
 Kelly, George, a non-jurant clergy- 
 man, i. 201, 282-284. 
 
 2c 
 
402 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 Kelso, ii. 117, 192. 
 
 Kendal, ii. 120, 123, 153, 193, 194, 
 238. 
 
 Mrs. Ellie, i. 281. 
 
 Kendela, colonel, ii. 286, 290. 
 Kenichan or Kynachan, i. 316, 357 ; 
 
 ii. 91, 92. 
 Kenlochnidale, i. 292. 
 Kennedy, major, i. 85, 87, 88. 
 
 David, ii. III. 204. 
 
 Ker, colonel, of Graden, i. 86, 87, 257, 
 
 377 ; his account of the rout of Moy, 
 
 the siege of Blair castle, the battle 
 
 of Culloden, etc., 355-364. 
 
 Patrick, i. 222 n. 
 
 lord Robert, ii. 128, 129. 
 
 Kessack ferry, ii. 270 ; iii. 14. 
 
 Kiaig water, i. 99. 
 
 Kid, captain, of Leith, iii. 283. 
 
 Kilbokie. See Fraser. 
 
 Kilbride, in Troternish, Skye, i. 72, 
 
 300. 
 
 Kilbuckie, iii. 228. 
 
 Kildrummie, ii. 275. 
 
 Killdun, lady, i. 167 and n, 169, 170. 
 
 Killgour, bishop, iii. 336, 337, 340. 
 
 Killhead. See Douglas, sir John. 
 
 Kilmane, Skye, iii. 152. 
 
 Kilmaree, i. 139. 
 
 Kilmarnock, earl of, i. 33, 55, 59 ; ii. 
 
 154 ; lines on the execution of, 237, 
 
 239 and n. 
 Kilmorack, iii. 77. 
 Kilmory, ii. 253. 
 Kilravock house, i. 360. 
 Kilsyth, ii. 126, 131, 195 and 11. 
 Kineathmont, ii. 334. 
 King, Dr., of Oxford, translation of 
 
 his poem on Flora Mac Donald, iii. 
 
 67 ; lines on seeing the prince's 
 
 portrait, 68 ; his poem in Latin on 
 
 Flora MacDonald, 78. 
 King's Milns, near Culloden, ii. 310, 
 
 356 ; in- 5- 
 Kinghorn. i. 154. 
 Kingsburgh, ii. 29. 
 
 See MacDonald, Alexander. 
 
 Kingston's regiment, i. 38 n, 126, 356 ; 
 
 ii. 271 ; iii. 12, 56. 
 Kingstoun. See Hepburn, Patrick. 
 Kinloch, sir James, ii. 232. 
 Kinlochmoidart, i. 160, 292. 
 
 See MacDonald, Donald. 
 
 Kinrara. See Shaw. 
 
 Kintrea, John, in Longbride, iii. 15, 
 
 65. 
 
 Kirk of the Beild, ii. 236. 
 Kirkibost. See MacDonald, captain 
 John. 
 
 Kirkintulloch, iii. 134. 
 Kirkton of Strowan, i. 316. 
 Kirkwall tolbooth, iii. 27. 
 Kirnag, ii. 6. 
 
 See Mackenzie. 
 
 Kirtle, river, ii. 61, 62. 
 
 Kittlehall, iii. 228. 
 
 Knight, Mr., ii. 244. 
 
 Knock, See MacDonald, Allan. 
 
 Knockbowie. See Campbell. 
 
 Knoidart, i. 104, 295, 367. 
 
 Knowles, captain, of the Bridgewater, 
 
 i. 116. 
 Kyle ferry, ii. 35. 
 
 Laig, of Canna, ii. 337 ; iii. 85. 
 Laing, rev. Mr., of Alford, ii. 184 n. 
 Lancaster, ii. 120, 123, 193, 239. 
 
 John, of Maryland, ii. 242, 245. 
 
 Joseph, of Maryland, ii. 242, 245. 
 
 Langholm, ii. 117, 192. 
 
 Langside church bell, iii. 198, 199. 
 
 Langtowne, ii. 192. 
 
 Larpent, Mr., iii. 34. 
 
 Lato, Mr., chaplain to the earl of 
 
 Findlater, i. 55. 
 Land's Liturgy, i. 15 n, 
 Lauder, ii. 117, 192. 
 George, surgeon, iii. 81 ; a 
 
 prisoner in Inverness, ii. 311, 312 n, 
 
 Laurence, lieut., of the Pamela, iii. 32. 
 Law, rev. William, xi ; ii. 210 ; iii. 96. 
 Lawson, Mr., iii. 266. 
 Leckie, laird of, i. 209 ; a prisoner in 
 
 Edinburgh castle, i. 126, 128. 
 Lee, colonel, of Maryland, ii. 242. 
 lord chief justice, i. 47 ; iii. 
 
 136 n. 
 
 Lees, the, lady Inches's house, i. 217. 
 Leek, ii. 122, 194. 
 Leighton, colonel, ii. 207, 208, 302. 
 Leith, Alexander, ii. 283, 293, 294, 
 297, 3I5- 
 
 Mrs. Anne, ii. 361 ; letters from, 
 
 to bishop Forbes, 248 ; letter to 
 Forbes enclosing an account of the 
 escape of lord Lovat, and of her 
 services among the prisoners in 
 Inverness, 283-293 ; letters to, from 
 bishop Forbes, 249, 357 ; letters to, 
 from captain John Gray, 295, 296. 
 
 rev. John, iii. 277, 279, 283. 
 
 Lesmahagow, i. 290. 
 
 Letter directed to Donald Jacobite hi 
 the north-west parts of Scotland, ii. 
 228. 
 
 Letter from a gentleman in London to 
 his friend at Bath, iii. 249. 
 
INDEX 
 
 403 
 
 Letter from a soldier in Cob ham' 's 
 dragoons, i. 380. 
 
 Letterfinlay, i. 207. 
 
 Letternilichk, iii. 42. 
 
 Leven, Fife, ii. 161, 164. 
 
 Liberty and Property, harsh treat- 
 ment of prisoners on board the, 
 iii. 15, 17, 65. 
 
 Library at Presshome, Banffshire, iii. 
 164. 
 
 Liddle, the, ii. 61, 62. 
 Lindsay, David, iii. 357. 
 
 George, presbyterian minister in 
 
 North Leith, ii. 107, 108. 
 
 James, ii. 311 and n. 
 
 Martin, ii. 185 n. 
 
 Linton, ii. 236 ; iii. 228. 
 
 lady, iii. 306. 
 
 lord, iii. 304. 
 
 Lion, the, i. 202 ; her engagement 
 
 with the Elizabeth, i. 203, 285. 
 Liverpool, ii. 239. 
 Livingstone, ii. 244. 
 
 rev. Mr., of Old Deer, ii. 184 n. 
 
 Lochaber, i. 90, 95 ; ii. 379, 380. 
 Locharkaig, i. 68, 89, 91-93, 96, 97, 
 
 125, 174, 321, 336, 337, 346; iii. 
 
 39, 42, 43, 381. 
 Loch Boisdale, i. 71, 105, 174, 175, 
 
 177, 195, 269, 328, 330, 370; ii. 
 
 97. 
 
 Loch Bracadale, i. 178. 
 Lochbroom, ii. 208. 
 Loch Eil, i. 352 ; ii. 364. 
 
 See Cameron, Donald. 
 
 Locherchal, iii. 58. 
 
 Loch Fraon, i. 325. 
 
 Lochgarry. See MacDonald, Donald. 
 
 Loch Karnon, i. 71. 
 
 Lochmaddy, i. 173, 193, 198, 374. 
 
 Lochmoy house, ii. 245. 
 
 Lochnadal harbour, Skye, iii. 84. 
 
 Lochnannua, i. 163, 289 n, 319 and 
 
 35Q-35 1 ; iii- So, 51, 191. 
 Lochnell. See Campbell, sir Duncan. 
 Loch Nevis, i. 333, 335 ; ii. 251. 
 Lochqhuaigh, i. 339. 
 Loch Seaforth, i. 191, 325, 373, 374. 
 Loch Shelg, i. 325. 
 Lochshiel, i. 290, 292, 352. 
 Loch Skeen, iii. 240. 
 Loch Terirtan, ii. 6. 
 Loch Uirn, i. 338 ; ii. 364. 
 Lochuiskibay, Benbecula, i. 173, 193, 
 329. 
 
 Lochy, the, i. 207 ; iii. 45, 50, 102. 
 Lockerbie, ii. 236. 
 
 Lockhart, Alexander, lord Covington, 
 i. 39 ; iii. 94-96. 
 
 Lockhart, major, i. 82, 91, 95 ; ii. 306, 
 307, 355 ; iii. 16, 17, 57, 72, 107, 
 149. 
 
 George, of Carnwath, iii. 148, 
 
 383 ; letter to, from John Rattray, 
 iii. 94 ; letter from, to bishop Forbes, 
 95- 
 
 Logie. See Drummond. 
 
 Long Dykes, near Edinburgh, i. 210. 
 
 isle, i. 105, 160, 175, 178, 183, 
 
 185, 201, 204, 370; ii. 1, 3, 7, 17 
 n, 28, 79, 95, 100, 340 ; iii. 22. 
 
 Lord mayor's ball in London, ii. 
 368. 
 
 Lothian, Mr., iii. 295, 299. 
 
 Loudoun, earl of, i. 88, 90, 91, 104, 
 149, 150, 158, 294, 355, 356, 357, 
 368; ii. 34, 35, 78, 92, 93, 205, 
 270, 284, 285 ; iii. 46, 84, 103, io8 ? 
 113 ; attempts to take the prince at 
 Moy Hall, ii. 134-137 and n, 166, 
 245-247, 269, 270. 
 
 Louisa, princess of Stolberg, wife of 
 prince Charles, iii. 263, 265, 267, 268, 
 274, 280, 281, 323, 336,338,^^; 
 portrait of, 285-287 ; poems on the 
 birthday of, 288, 326 ; letter from, 
 to bishop Forbes, 322. 
 
 Lovat, lord, i. 68, 88, 180, 190, 321 ; 
 
 ii. 5, 83-85, 102 n ; iii. 29 ; escapes 
 from the earl of Loudon, ii. 284, 
 285 ; his lands pillaged, iii. 106, 
 107 ; poem on the execution of, 239 
 and n. 
 
 master of, i. 255, 261. 
 
 Loyde, J., letter to commodore Smith 
 on the burning of Clesterton's house, 
 
 ii- 339- 
 Lude, in Athole, ii. 92. 
 lady, i. 75. 
 
 Lumsden, Andrew, ii. 151, 164, 263 ; 
 
 iii. 222, 231, 232, 244, 260, 287. 
 William, writer in Edinburgh, ii. 
 
 263. 
 
 Lundy hill, iii. 1 14. 
 
 Lyon, Cecilia, i. 6 and n, 8, 22. 
 
 David, iii. 226, 231, 236, 238-240. 
 
 rev. James, i. 12 n. 
 
 rev. Robert, i. 39, 270 ; iii. 167, 
 
 199 ; letter from, before his execu- 
 tion, i. 3 and n ; his ' Dying Speech,' 
 12 and n ; and death, 22. 
 
 Mrs. Robert, iii. 335, 363, 365. 
 
 MacAlister, Ronald, i. 75 n. 
 Mrs., daughter of Kingsburgh. 
 
 See MacDonald, Nanie. 
 MacAulay, John, presbyterian minister 
 
 in South Uist, i. 168, 192. 
 
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 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 M'Bain, major Gallish, iii. 56. 
 
 Paul, iii. 57. 
 
 MacCaghan, lieut., i. 374. 
 
 MacCaskgill, Roderick, i. 163. 
 
 M'Cay or Mackvee, Ewen, ii. 205 and 
 n, 300, 382 ; iii. 2, 54. 
 
 Macclesfeild, ii. 121, 122, 193, 194. 
 
 MacCrath, Gilchrist, i. 342. 
 
 Maculloch, captain, ii. 177. 
 
 MacUermit, Peter, i. 190. 
 
 MacDonald, lieutenant, iii. 83. 
 
 of Auchtrichatan, i. 321. 
 
 — - of Barrisdale, i. 84, 88, 91, 92, 
 100 ; his invention of an instrument 
 of torture, i. 109 ; ii. 253 and n ; 
 suspected of treachery, i. 81, 82 ; 
 credited with burning the house of 
 Gordon of Carrol, ii. 272 ; obtains 
 his freedom and takes the oath of 
 allegiance, iii. 192. 
 
 of Castle Semple, iii. 286. 
 
 of Dalely, ii. 337. 
 
 of Droynachan, i.321. 
 
 of Greenfield, iii. 380. 
 
 of Largie, i. 1 16. 
 
 of Milton, iii. 8. 
 
 of Morar, i. 333, 352 ; ii. 252 ; 
 
 iii. 186-188. 
 
 capt. Alex., i. 320, 326 n, 329, 
 
 340 n, 344 351, 352, 368 n; ii. 
 2, 250 ; his journal of the prince's 
 wanderings after Culloden, i. 321- 
 351 ; criticises the narratives of 
 yEneas MacDonald, Duncan Came- 
 ron, and capt. O'Neil, 352, 353 ; his 
 knowledge of the Erse language, 
 354- 
 
 Alexander, of Boisdale, i. 146- 
 
 148, 160, 174, 175, 177, 205, 206, 
 269, 274, 289, 327 and n ; ii. 95-98, 
 175 n, 256, 325 ; iii. 33. 
 
 of Glencoe, i. 80, 294. 
 
 of Glenaladale, xx. i. 90, 
 
 95, 97, 320, 332-342 and n, 344 n, 
 347, 350 ; ii. 94, 180, 198, 257, 280, 
 
 319, 325> 377, 379; iii- 90, 91, 94, 
 97,98, 101, 104, in, 191,201, 377 ; 
 letter from, to bishop Forbes, ii. 
 362 ; letters to, from Forbes, 334, 
 366 ; iii. 8, 1 1 ; death of, iii. 66 n, 
 182. 
 
 of Glengarry, iii. 119-121. 
 
 of Keppoch, i. 66, 68, 88, 
 
 89, 102 n, 206, 210, 255, 256, 260, 
 264 n, 292, 353, 355, 356 ; ii. 5, 
 34, 96 », 274. 
 
 MacDonald, Alexander, of Kingsburgh, 
 
 1. 123, 146, 152, 220 n, 273, 278 ; ii. 
 
 2, 3, 13-17 and n, 20 », 23, 27, 29, 
 
 41 n, 62, 64, 71, 72, 81, 98, 99-102, 
 179, 181, 325 ; iii. 83, 123, 207 ; his 
 meeting with prince Charles, i. 73, 
 
 77, 9°, 33 1 an d n; ii. 17 n, 18; 
 the prince at the house of, i. 73-81, 
 121, 1 17-122, 130; his hou^e 
 searched bycaptain Ferguson, i. 123; 
 a prisoner at Fort Augustus, i. 78-81, 
 126 ; discusses the authorship of 
 Alexis, 77, 79 ; removed to Edin- 
 burgh castle, 38 and n, 126-128; 
 obtains his release, 82 ; letters from, 
 to bishop Forbes, ii. 69, 175 and 
 n ; iii. 80 ; letters to, from Forbes, 
 i. 186; ii. 42; iii. 81; letter to, 
 from Malcolm MacLeod, i. 275 ; 
 letter to, from MacLeod of Mac- 
 Leod, ii. 1 ; death of, iii. 262. 
 
 MacDonald, Mrs., of Kingsburgh, 
 xviii, i. 81, 122, 143, 278 ; iii. 123 ; 
 her description of the prince in his 
 female dress, i. 75, 76, 118 ; obtains 
 a lock of his hair, 121 ; her inter- 
 view with captain Ferguson, 123 ; 
 visits Kingsburgh in Edinburgh 
 castle, 127. 
 
 sir Alexander, of Sleat, i. 72, 77, 
 
 78, 104, 106, 107, 119, 123, 161, 
 162, 175, 205, 206, 300, 331, 368, 
 369, 37i, 372 ; ii. 1, 5, 8, 9, 24, 33, 
 34, 78, 94, 101, 102 and n, 205, 
 256 and 11, 268 ; iii. 51, 52, 108, 
 113, 188 ; iii. 376 and n ; dissuaded 
 from supporting prince Charles by 
 Forbes of Culloden and MacLeod, i. 
 147 ; emigration from the lands of, 
 iii. 259 ; poems on the death of, i. 
 239 and n ; iii. 182. 
 
 Alexander, of Tullucherom, iii. 
 
 182. 
 
 brother of Dalely, ii. 336 ; 
 
 iii. 84, 89. 
 
 in Glenkiaig, iii. 109. 
 
 in Glenmoriston, ii. 365 ; 
 
 iii- 57, 97-99, 101, 107, no, 115, 
 
 202. 
 
 i. 163, 326 ; iii. 22. 
 
 Allan, i. 178; iii. 51, 84 and n, 
 
 114. 
 
 of Knock, i. 178, 198. 
 
 captain Allan, Roman catholic 
 
 clergyman, i. 163, 167, 178, 321, 
 323, 325 and n, 326 and n, 330 ; ii. 
 95- 
 
 Andrew, iii. 338 ; letter from, 
 
 351- 
 
 /Eneas or Angus, of Borra- 
 
 dale, i. 90, 322-335 ; ii. 252, 253 ; 
 iii. 188, 377. 
 
INDEX 
 
 405 
 
 MacDonald, Angus, of Glengarry, i. 
 294 ; ii. 194 ; iii. 120. 
 
 of Milton, ii. 32, 46, 360. 
 
 banker in Paris, i. 159, 
 
 160, 201 and n, 206, 282, 283 ; ii. 
 373 n ; iii. 50, 51 ; his journal, 
 describing the prince's embarkation 
 at Nantz, and arrival in Scotland, 
 etc., i. 281-294; his opinion of 
 Murray of Broughton, 296 ; re- 
 marks on his journal, by captain 
 Alex. MacDonald, 351. 
 
 in Eriska, i. 289. 
 
 in Moffat, iii. 226, 236, 
 
 237. 
 
 Archibald, of Tarsquivag, ii. 98. 
 
 ii. 252. 
 
 Donald, of Lochgarry, i. 88, 96- 
 
 98, 101, 256, 294, 348-35 1 5 86 - 
 89; iii. 39-41, 48, 102, 103, 109. 
 
 of Scotus, in Knoydart, ii. 
 
 5, 251, 252; iii. 52, 184. 
 
 of Castleton, i. 302 ; ii. 31, 
 
 98. 
 
 of Clanranald, i. 198 ; iii. 
 
 148. 
 
 of Garryfleugh, i. 295. 
 
 of Kinlochmoidart, i. 206, 
 
 246 n, 289 ; iii. 50 ; execution of, 
 
 i. 53. 290. 
 
 merchant in Edinburgh, iii. 
 
 11. 
 
 tailor in Edinburgh, iii. 90, 
 
 92, 93 n, 97, 106, 114, 116. 
 
 major Donald, of Tiendrish, i. 
 
 36, 37 and n, 126, 127, 207-209, 
 246 n, 264 n, 352 ; ii. 112; taken 
 prisoner at Falkirk, 127 and n ; 
 letters from, to bishop Forbes, i. 
 37> 39> 4° ; farewell letter to John 
 Moir, i. 41 ; last speech of, 34 and 
 n ; his execution, 53. 
 
 captain Donald Roy, i. 132 n, 
 
 133 and n, 303 n ; ii. 2, 3, 32, 33, 
 42, 46, 72-76, 78 n, 81, 96, 97 n, 
 100 n, 229, 248 ; his account of the 
 prince's adventures after Culloden, 
 
 ii. 4-35; poems by, 36-38; iii. 63, 
 78-80 ; his epitaph upon prince 
 Frederick, 89 ; letter from, to bishop 
 Forbes, 48. 
 
 sir Donald, ii. 12. 
 
 Flora, xviii, i. 66, 73, 90, 106- 
 
 124, 130 and n, 144, 146, 196, 267, 
 283, 302, 303, 305, 326 n, 329, 331, 
 371 and n, 372, 373 ; ii. 7, 13-26, 
 31, 32, 46, 58, 66, 98 n, 99, 178- 
 180, 319, 321 n, 324, 332; iii. 376; 
 her narrative of the prince's adven- 
 
 tures, i. 296-303 ; in Edinburgh, 
 188; iii. 21, 22 ; her marriage, 80-82, 
 84 and n ; poems on, ii. 82 ; iii. 
 67, 78 ; letter to, from bishop Forbes, 
 62. 
 
 Macdonald, Flora, in Glenmoriston, 
 iii. 107, 120. 
 
 Hugh, iii. 50-53. 
 
 of Armadale, i. no, 148, 
 
 154, 176, 186, 187, 267, 274, 297, 
 303, 304; ii. 18, 31, 32, 41 w, 46, 
 71, 98, 103, 175 n, 180, 186. 
 
 of Balshar, i. 327 and n ; 
 
 ii. 7, 29, 35, 175 «; narrative of, 
 94-103 ; letter to, from bishop 
 Forbes, 39. 
 
 Isobel, iii. 57, 107, 120. 
 
 miss Jackie, iii. 236, 239. 
 
 James, of Aird, ii. 11. 
 
 captain James, ii. io- 
 
 lieut. James, ii. 94. 
 
 James, bailie of Canna, iii. 84, 
 
 86. 
 
 joiner in Leith, i. 75, 130, 
 
 148, 151, 153, 155, 176, 184, 185, 
 
 268 ; ii. 229 ; iii. 182. 
 i. 164, 165, 275, 327; ii. 
 
 33, 42, 44, 97, 103. 
 John, of Glengarry, i. 208 ; iii. 
 
 121. 
 
 i. 197, 198, 326, 328,' 329, 
 
 33i> 334-343 ; i". 32, 60, 86, 87, 
 116; letter from, to bishop Forbes, 
 ii. 360. 
 
 hanged for cow-stealing, iii. 
 
 I52> 153- 
 
 boatman in Long isle, iii. 
 
 22. 
 
 shot by major Lockhart, iii. 
 
 57, 107. 
 
 son of Borradale, i. 163. 
 
 youngest son of Borradale, 
 
 his narrative of the escape of prince 
 Charles from Culloden, iii. 375 and n. 
 
 'Osean,' in Glenmoriston, 
 
 ii. 365 and n; iii. 98, 104, 109-111, 
 152, 153, 202-206, 209, 361, 362. 
 
 of Leek, ii. 205. 
 
 sir John, i. 87, 201, 282, 283 ; 
 
 ii. 312 n. 
 
 captain John, of Kirkibost, ii. 
 
 13, 17 n. 
 
 Kate, i. 112, 115; iii. 57. 
 
 Lauchlan, i. 196, 327. 
 
 of Dremsdill, ii. 97, 102, 
 
 103. 
 
 lady Margaret, wife of sir Alex- 
 ander MacDonald, of Sleat, i. 90, 
 Martin, iii. 113. 
 
406 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 120, I47, 268, 279, 297, 3OO, 305, 
 
 329, 330; ii. 7-10, 13, 14, 16, 17 n, 
 25, 27, 29, 32, 33, 95, 100 and n. 
 
 MacDonald, Nanie, daughter of Kings- 
 burgh, i. 75, 81, 117, 118, 123, 124. 
 
 Neil, i. 196; ii. 360. 
 
 Peter, i. 197. 
 
 Ranald, of Aberarder, iii. 182. 
 
 of Bellfinlay, ii. 3, 206, 229, 
 
 247-249, 257, 303 and n, 325, 326, 
 334, 354 5 iii- 55, 59 5 letter to, 
 from bishop Forbes, ii. 255 and n ; 
 letter to, from Donald MacNeill, ii. 
 340, 341 ; letter to, from captain 
 James Hamilton, 341 ; death of, 
 360, 365, 366. 
 
 of Clanranald, i. 107, 148, 
 
 297, 323, 326, 327, 353, 354; »• 
 l 7S n -> 3 2 5 '■> iii- IO > 8 9, 184-186 ; 
 a prisoner in London, i. 305 ; iii. 
 33 ; liberation of, i. 146. 
 
 junior, of Clanranald, i. 88, 
 
 289, 292, 322, 332 n, 334 and », 
 335 and », 353 ; ii! 5, 176, 256 and 
 », 274, 335; iii. 51, 52, 186. 
 
 of Milton, i. 114. 
 
 of Torulum, i. 327, 353 ; 
 
 ii. 99. 
 
 merchant in Edinburgh, ii. 
 
 34P- 
 
 son of Borradale, i. 334, 
 
 362 ; ii. 198, 256 ; iii. 377. 
 
 Roderick, i. 163. 
 
 of Camiscross, ii. 98. 
 
 lieutenant Rory, i. 328, 329. 
 
 Roger, i. 56. 
 
 MacDougal, William, wine merchant 
 in Edinburgh, i. 377 ; iii. 93. 
 
 MacEachine, Angus, I. 335. 
 
 MacEan Oig or Campbell, Donald, i. 
 324. 
 
 M'Ean Yairs, Calum, i. 332. 
 Macerati, marriage of prince Charles 
 
 at, iii. 265. 
 MacFrier, Donald, i. 132 ; ii. 73. 
 M'Gie, William, i. 56. 
 M'Gillavry of Delcrombie, ii. 305. 
 Alexander, of Drumnaglass, iii. 
 
 55,149-. 
 
 captain Alexander, iii. 56. 
 
 major John, ii. 280. 
 
 captain Robert, iii. 56. 
 
 M'Ginnes, John, ii. 251, 253 ; iii. 
 
 22. 
 
 M'Glashan, Mr., in Blair, ii. 91. 
 MacGregor of Glengyle, i. 39, 255, 
 294. 
 
 Gregor, in Glenmoriston, ii. 365 ; 
 
 iii. 103, 202. 
 
 MacGrowther, Alexander, ii. 372 n. 
 
 Machany, iii. 261. 
 
 house pillaged, ii. 156. 
 
 MacHoule or Cameron, Evan, i. 92. 
 
 W'illiam Dow, i. 92. 
 
 Mackay, captain Alexander, iii. 24, 35. 
 
 Anne, ii. 248, 353 ; the story of 
 
 her services among the wounded in 
 Inverness after Culloden, ii. 206, 
 207 and n, 208, 299 and n, 302, 
 303 n, 304. 
 
 captain George, ii. 93. 
 
 Hugh, ii. 93. 
 
 James, xii, ii. 171, 330. 
 
 MacKechan, John MacDonald, ii. 
 360. 
 
 Neil, i. 76, 77 and n, 130 n, 296, 
 
 297, 299, 300, 330 n, 373 n ; ii. 17 
 n, 20, 21, 23, 25, 46, 360; iii. 22; 
 supposed to be the author of Alexis, 
 i. 79. 
 
 MacKenzie of Kildun, i. 191. 
 
 of Kirnag, ii. 6. 
 
 major, ii. 270. 
 
 Mrs., Edinburgh, ii. 167. 
 
 Colin, presbyterian teacher in 
 
 Lewis, i. 168. 
 James, writer in Edinburgh, ii. 
 
 83- 
 
 John, 1. 132 ; ii. 73 ; iii. 5. 
 
 lord Nicholas, drowned while 
 
 skating, iii. 348, 351. 
 Roderick, ' Coelestius,' i. 78 n, 
 
 278; ii. 319 ; iii. 9, 90, 165. 
 William, schoolmaster at Tain, 
 
 iii. 209. 
 
 MacKinnon of Coriechattachan, iii. 
 191. 
 
 Charles, iii. 152, 207. 
 
 Donald, iii. 207. 
 
 John, of MacKinnon, i. 159; ii. 
 
 5, 98, 252; iii. 22, 48, 185, 187, 188; 
 conducts the prince from Skye to the 
 mainland, i. 66, 74, 76, 90, 93, 141, 
 142, 295, 332, 333 ; ii. 31, 81 ; iii. 
 123 ; taken prisoner, i. 74, 182, 
 334 ; ii. 253 ; iii. 22 n ; obtains his 
 freedom, i. 146 ; his death, iii. 152. 
 
 captain John, of Elagol, i. 138, 
 
 140, 141, 152, 154, 187, 275, 332, 
 333; ii. 31 and n, 41 n, 71, 186, 
 250-254; iii. 194, 195, 207; his 
 account of the prince's wanderings 
 after Culloden, iii. 183-188; death 
 of, 192, 193 ; his epitaph, 196 ; in- 
 scription for his tombstone, 198, 
 207. 
 
 Lachlan, iii. 152. 
 
 Margaret, iii. 152. 
 
INDEX 
 
 407 
 
 MacKinnon, Neil, i. 140. 
 
 Roderick, letters to, from bishop 
 
 Forbes, iii. 193, 195, 207. 
 Macintosh, laird of, i. 149; ii. 134; 
 
 iii. 149. 
 
 lady, i. 149-150, 219; ii. 134- 
 
 137, 139. 189, 191, 246. 
 
 of Aberarder, iii. 47. 
 
 Alexander, iii, 57. 
 
 of Issich, iii. 2. 
 
 Angus, of Far, iii. 56. 
 
 rev. Dr., ii. 280. 
 
 Donald, in Gask, iii. 57. 
 
 Duncan, ii. 243 and n. 
 
 Lachlan, ii. 135, 137, 246 n; iii. 
 
 221. 
 
 merchant in Inverness, iii. 
 
 captain William, iii. 23. 
 
 MacLachlan, colonel, of MacLachlan, 
 
 ii. 209, 210, 262 ; iii. 148. 
 
 major, iii. 156. 
 
 Archibald, i. 92 ; ii. 297. 
 
 rev. John, letter from, to bishop 
 
 Forbes, ii. 208 ; letters to, from 
 
 Forbes, ii. 65, 297. 
 Peter, in Mull, his house and 
 
 goods burnt and plundered, i. 93. 
 MacLaurin's Leap, near Moffat, iii. 
 
 230. 
 
 MacLean, the clan, ii. 209, 277. 
 
 sir Hector, i. 320 ; iii. 180, 181. 
 
 John, surgeon in Troternish, ii. 
 
 6, 8, 13. 
 
 MacLeod, of Geanies, ii. 78- 
 
 lieutenant, ii. 13, 14, 17 n, 27, 
 
 100; iii. 55. 
 
 Alexander, i. 88, 98, 99, 164, 
 
 190, 199, 321 ; ii. 160, 186. 
 
 of Balmainach, iii. 123. 
 
 Donald, of Balmeanagh, ii. 27. 
 
 lieutenant Donald, iii. 126. 
 
 Donald, of Gualtergill, i. 177, 
 
 194, 196, 199, 200, 271, 274, 276, 
 322 and n, 323 n, 326 », 354, 367 
 11, 368 11, 369 n, 378 n ; ii. 2, 28, 35, 
 41 n, 42, 173, 325, 326; attempts 
 to hire a ship at Stornoway to enable 
 prince Charles to escape to France, 
 i. 69, 70, 166, 167; criticises O'Neil's 
 account of the prince's adventures, 
 156, 166; his own version, 158, 
 268; taken prisoner, 178, 179; iii. 
 127 ; obtains his freedom, 182 ; 
 his narrative confirmed by capt. 
 John Hay, 277 ; presentation of a 
 snuff-box to, 183 ; his opinion of 
 Edward Burke, 189; character of, 
 271, 272 and n; his death, ii. 332, 
 
 333, 344, 346, 349, 35°, 359 5 iii. 
 82. 
 
 MacLeod, Hamar, i. 195. 
 
 John, of Raasay, i. 73-77, 130, 
 
 131, 302; ii. 15-20, 26, 29, 30, 71, 
 72, 81, 185 n, 333 ; iii. 48, 71, 113, 
 114 ; extract of letter to, from prince 
 Charles, ii. 78 and n ; letter from, 
 to bishop Forbes, iii. 183. 
 
 of Talisker, i. 144, 199, 
 
 303; ii. 31, 80; iii. 125-127, 190, 
 191. 
 
 Malcolm, of Raasay, i. 145, 146 ; 
 
 ii. 2, 24, 41 n, 79-81 ; iii. 123. 
 captain Malcolm, of Brea, xix, i. 
 
 66, 73, 74, 81, 122, 123, 151, 174, 
 175, 178, 220 n, 277, 278, 302, 332, 
 355 ; ii. 6, 18 n, 20, 26, 29, 30, 31 
 and n, 64, 65, 69, 71, 73-78 n, 81, 
 173, 175 179, 181, 250, 319, 325 ; 
 
 iii. 80, 81, 104, 105, 207 ; describes 
 Loudoun's attempt to capture the 
 prince at Moy, i. 148-150; narrates 
 his adventures with the prince after 
 Culloden, i. 130-142; iii. 123-128; 
 criticisms on, by captain Roy Mac- 
 Donald, iii. 48-49 ; a prisoner, i. 
 144, 179-180, 220 n, 305 ; his 
 return home, 144-146, 275 ; letters 
 from, to bishop Forbes, 273, 275 ; 
 
 ii. 1, 71, 359; letters to, from 
 Forbes, i. 187 ; ii. 41. 
 
 Maron, ii. 80. 
 
 Murdoch, son of MacLeod of 
 
 Raasay, i. 130, 132, 142 ; ii. 6, 20, 
 26, 29, 30, 70-72, 75-78 n, 81, 250 ; 
 
 iii. 48. 
 
 son of Donald MacLeod, in 
 
 Gualtergill, i. 163, 169. 
 
 tacksman in Brea, iii. 124. 
 
 Norman, of MacLeod, i. 129, 
 
 147, 152, 153, 159, 161, 162, 175, 
 205; ii. 5, 34, 62, 64, 83-85, 114, 
 136, 246, 247, 268, 270, 344 ; iii. 7, 
 51, 52, 83, 113, 180; letter from, to 
 MacDonald of Kingsburgh, ii. I. 
 
 brother of MacLeod of 
 
 Brea, iii. 123. 
 
 of Waterstein, ii. 80 ; iii. 
 
 126, 127. 
 
 Macmerry, a boatman in Long isle, 
 iii. 22. 
 
 M'Millan, Hugh, in Glenmoriston, ii. 
 365 ; iii. 97, 98, 102, 202. 
 
 Macmorland, Alexander, peruke- 
 maker in Leith, letter to, from 
 Ralph Bigland, ii. 254. 
 
 MacMurrich, Lauchlan, i. 163. 
 
 MacNab, Alexander, i. 89; iii. 112, 
 
408 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 151, 202; letter from, to bishop 
 Forbes, 201. 
 MacNab, Charles, innkeeper at Portree, 
 
 ii. 21, 23. 
 
 John, of Inshewan, iii. 202 ; 
 
 letter from, to lady Lucy Stuart 
 
 Traquair, i. 200. 
 MacNaughton, John, execution of, i. 
 
 246 n. 
 
 MacNeil of Barra, i. 289 ; ii. 288 ; 
 
 iii. 29, 31, 33, 60. 
 
 captain, i. 374 ; iii. 127. 
 
 -' Donald, letter from, to Mac- 
 Donald of Belfinlay, ii. 340. 
 
 M'Phail or M'Intosh, Elspet, in Gask, 
 iii. 57. 
 
 MacPherson of Cluny, i. 84, 88, 255, 
 261 ; ii. 34, 45, 86, 88, 90-93, 194, 
 274, 278, 333, 376-378; iii. 38, 39, 
 41, 42, 45, 47, 48, 101-103, 121, 
 148. 
 
 of Dalraddy, ii. 88 n ; iii. 47. 
 
 Alexander, iii. 43. 
 
 Archibald, of Sleat, iii. 1 10. 
 
 > Benjamin, in Gallovie, iii. 43. 
 
 Donald, of Breackachie, ii. 375- 
 
 380; iii. 37-39, 41, 43, 44, 48, 92, 
 
 101, 315, 316. 
 
 brother of Cluny, iii. 37. 
 
 Duncan, iii. 48. 
 
 ' presbyterian minister at 
 
 Laggan, ii. 86, 315 n. 
 James, his Original Papers, iii. 
 
 355-36o. 
 
 piper to Cluny, iii. 48. 
 
 captain John, of Strathmashie, 
 
 his account of the engagement at 
 Clifton, and the defeat of the Athole 
 garrisons, etc. , ii. 86-94 ; letter 
 from, to bishop Forbes, containing 
 an account of the prince's wander- 
 ings in Badenoch, iii. 37-48 ; letters 
 from, to bishop Forbes, ii. 70, 103, 
 174 ; letters to, from Forbes, ii. 44, 
 104, 3I5- 
 
 John, of Benchar, ii. 375, 377, 
 
 378, 380. 
 
 schoolmaster in Skye, ii. 
 
 presbyterian minister at 
 
 Sleat, ii. 36. 
 or M'Colvain, John, iii. 39, 42, 
 
 101. 
 
 Lewis, ii. 88 n. 
 
 Murdoch, iii. 43, 46, 48. 
 
 Paul, iii. 48. 
 
 M'Phie, Alexander, iii. 96. 
 MacQueen, Archibald, of Totrome, ii. 
 18, 21, 73. 
 
 MacQueen, Daniel, in Rum, iii. 86. 
 Peter, ii. 30. 
 
 MacRa, Murdoch, hanged as a spy at 
 
 Inverness, ii. 205, 299. 
 MacRaw, captain, i. 97-99. 
 MacRory vie Lauchlan, John, i. 332. 
 Maddox, Samuel, i. 24 and n, 29, 47, 
 
 50. 
 
 Magdeburg, archbishopric of, iii. 367. 
 Main, Miss, iii. 62. 
 Maitland, Mr., iii. 256, 258-261, 293. 
 Mallack, ii. 251, 252. 
 Mamnynlealum hill, i. 337. 
 Manchester, ii. 121, 122, 160, 193, 194. 
 Mansfield, lord, iii. 285, 324, 325. 
 Mr., iii. 246. 
 
 Manuscript of the rev. Mr. Thomas 
 Bedford, at Burnhall, iii. 290, 291. 
 
 Manwaring, lieut. , of the Old Loo, iii. 
 29. 
 
 Map (Finlayson's), iii. 99. 
 
 (Grante's), ii. 327. 
 
 Marischal, earl, ii. 61 ; iii. 198, 199, 
 305. 
 
 Maryland, Jacobite prisoners in, ii. 
 
 242 and n. 
 Mason, Edward, iii. 176. 
 Masquerade in Edinburgh, iii. 285. 
 Massie, captain, iii. 60. 
 Mathies, Robert, iii. 59. 
 Maxwell, sir William, ii. 324. 
 Meader, Charles, ii. 338. 
 Mellaneuir, in Benalder, iii. 39, 41. 
 Melsater. See Moodie. 
 Menzies, Mr., Falkirk, ii. 163. 
 
 Mr., Inverness, iii. 156. 
 
 captain James, iii. 272. 
 
 lady Mary, ii. 137. 
 
 sir Robert, ii. 132. 
 
 Meoboll, i. 191; iii. 377. 
 Middlesex Journal, iii. 277. 
 Middleton, captain, of the Shark, iii. 
 
 28. 
 
 George, of Seton, iii. 173. 
 
 Millar, captain, i. 94. 
 
 George, town clerk of Perth, i. 
 
 9 and n, 18 ; ii. 233-238. 
 
 Millbank, captain, ii. 338. 
 
 Millennium, date of the, iii. 254. 
 
 Miln a Smiston, ii. 334. 
 
 Milton, South Uist, i. 296, 304, 
 
 See MacDonald, Angus. 
 
 Missen, Mr., deputy-sheriff of Middle- 
 sex, iii. 140 and n, 141. 
 
 Mitchell, rev. Alexander, of Edin- 
 burgh, ii. 262 ; iii. I, 7, 21, 164, 
 198 ; letter to, from Cooper of 
 Gogar, iii. 370 ; letter to, from 
 bishop Forbes, iii. 370. 
 
INDEX 
 
 409 
 
 Mitchell, Collin, of Portobacco, ii. 
 243. 245- 
 
 Moffat, xiii, i. 231 ; ii. 192, 236; iii. 
 227, 236, 237. 
 
 Moidart, i. 90, 194, 319 n. 
 
 Moir, George, a prisoner in Edinburgh 
 castle, i. 126. 
 
 John, merchant in Edinburgh, 
 
 iii. 201 ; letters to, from major 
 MacDonald, i. 39, 41. 
 
 Molloy, sergeant, i. 294. 
 
 Monaltry. See Farquharson, Francis. 
 
 Monasteries, suppression of, in Eng- 
 land, iii. 367. 
 
 Moncrief, family, i. 9. 
 
 Money, scarcity of, in Scotland, iii. 
 268, 273. 
 
 Monro of Culcairn, i. 96, 262, 350 ; 
 ii. 268, 270, 344 ; burns Achnacarry, 
 
 i. 91 ; death of, 92, 312 and n. 
 sir Hary, iii. 151 
 
 sir Robert, ii. 129. 
 
 Montague, duke of, iii. 267. 
 Montgomery, Mr., advocate, iii. 243. 
 
 Christian, ii. 80. 
 
 John Roy, servant of MacLeod 
 
 of Brea, iii. 124, 125. 
 Montrose, iii. 18. 
 
 Moodie, lieutenant, of Melsater, iii. 
 25-28. 
 
 Moore, lieutenant, i. 50. 
 
 Morar, i. 69, 332, 333. 
 
 See MacDonald. 
 
 Mordaunt, brigadier, ii. 235. 
 
 Morgan, David, 'the pretender's 
 councillor,' last speech of, i. 43 and 
 n ; his poem The Christian Test, 47. 
 
 lieutenant John, searches lady 
 
 Bruce's house for wearers of tartan, 
 
 ii. no, in. 
 Mary, i. 47. 
 
 Morrison, widow, of Leith, ii. no 
 and n. 
 
 Richard, ii. 161, 162. 
 
 Morou, secretary, ii. 97. 
 
 Morton, earl of, iii. 26, 30. 
 
 Marion, iii. 322 n. 
 
 Mortonhall, iii. 243. 
 
 Mossfennan house, iii. 228, 241. 
 
 Mott, Miss, iii. 295. 
 
 Mougstot, i. 72, 119, 120, 300, 331 ; 
 ii. 5, 8-10, 12, 13, 16, 17 «, 27, 29, 
 99, 100; iii. 123. 
 
 Moultrie hill, i. 222 n. 
 
 Mourouss. See Muirhouse. 
 
 Moy, i. 90, 207, 352 ; Loudoun en- 
 deavours to surprise the prince at 
 Moyhall, i. 84 ; ii. 134 and n, 135- 
 138 «, 166, 245 n, 269, 355. 
 
 Muirhouse, ii. 117, 192. 
 
 Muirlaggan, meeting of highland 
 
 chiefs at, i. 88. 
 Mullantagart, i. 100. 
 Munster, treaty of, iii. 367. 
 Murray of Abercairny, i. 291, 364 n. 
 
 miss, of Polmaise, iii. 223, 224. 
 
 the hon. Alexander, iii. 235, 
 
 244, 245 and n. 
 Alexander, printer in Burnet's 
 
 Close, Edinburgh, his account of 
 
 barbarities perpetrated after Cul- 
 
 loden, i. 250, 252. 
 sir David, i. 89 ; letter to, from 
 
 secretary Murray, 247, 248 and 11. 
 lord George, i. 66, 67, 85-87, 
 
 102, 122, 135, 254-258, 260-264 »j 
 
 316, 356-366; ii. 87, 88, 91, 154, 
 
 195, 270, 275-279 and n. 
 John, of Broughton, secretary to 
 
 the prince, i. 84, 88, 89, 105, 174, 
 
 239 and n, 370 ; ii. 97, 143 ; iii. 
 
 122, 148, 228, 383; character 
 
 of, i. 296 ; poem on his turning 
 
 evidence, 245; letter from, to sir 
 
 David Murray, 247. 
 Mrs., of Broughton, i. 83; ii. 
 
 164. 
 
 Patrick, silversmith, i. 38, 39 n, 
 
 223. 
 
 sir Patrick, of Ochtertyre, 
 
 treacherous conduct of, towards the 
 duke of Perth, i. 290-292. 
 
 Mushet, Dr., of Maryland, ii. 243, 
 245- 
 
 John, of Maryland, ii. 243, 245. 
 
 Mutiny desertion bill, ii. 373, 374. 
 Myat hill, iii. 278. 
 
 Nairn, i. 189, 259; ii. 274, 275. 
 house, 208. 
 
 river, i. 190, 256, 257, 261, 362, 
 
 363, 365 ; 160, 225, 231, 279, 
 3«- 
 
 lord, i. 209, 263 ; ii. 154, 192 ; 
 
 iii. 146. 
 
 Mary, iii. 252, 297, 304. 
 
 Robert, ii. 206, 230, 248, 299, 
 
 302 and n ; iii. 59. 
 Nantes, i. 201, 281. 
 Naples, king of, washes the feet of 
 
 twelve old men, iii. 225. 
 Nasmith, sir James, of New Posso, 
 
 iii. 242. 
 
 National debt of Great Britain, iii. 
 
 296, 298, 331, 333- 
 Neidpath castle, iii. 243. 
 Neil, Henry, Maryland, ii. 242. 
 Neish, John, ii. 235 and n. 
 
410 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 Nelson, Mr., iii. 199, 200 and n. 
 Newburgh, countess of, ii. 373. 
 Newcastle, duke of, ii. 241 ; iii. 34, 
 136 n. 
 
 New Durn, ii. 273, 334. 
 
 New Posso, iii. 242. 
 
 Nicol (Nicle), Thomas, iii. 60. 
 
 Nicolson, Mr., ii. 75. 
 
 Donald, a servant of captain 
 
 MacLeod, i. 143 ; ii. 79 ; iii. 124. 
 Nicolson's Rock, Skye, i. 73, 132; ii. 
 
 29; iii. 48. 
 Nisbet, sends intelligence to Edinburgh 
 
 of the prince's drunken habits in 
 
 Rome, iii. 222. 
 John, writer in Edinburgh, iii. 
 
 222. 
 
 Noreberry, captain, of the Old Loo, iii. 
 28, 29. 
 
 Norfolk, duchess of, ii. 373 n. 
 Norrie, James, deacon convener, 
 
 Edinburgh, i. 249. 
 Norris, widow, ii. 110 n. 
 North, lord, iii. 309. 
 North Briton Extraordinary, iii. 248. 
 North Strand, i. 197. 
 North Uist, i. 104, 197, 198. 
 Norwall, Mr., of Boghall, ii. 108. 
 Nottingham, the, man-of-war, i. 295. 
 
 Oatmeal, scarcity of, in the high- 
 lands, i. 292. 
 Oban, i. 322. 
 
 O'Burn, lieutenant, i. 350. 
 Ode on the birth of a great Prince, ii. 
 263. 
 
 Ode on the 20th of December 1746, i. 
 229 and n. 
 
 Ogilvie, lady, ii. 113. 
 
 lord, i. 87, 263 ; ii. 192, 197, 
 
 215 ; iii. 18, 139 n, 146. 
 
 Thomas, a prisoner in Edinburgh 
 
 castle, i. 126. 
 
 Old Meldrum, ii. 344. 
 
 Oliphant, Laurence, of Gask, i. 346, 
 347, 351 ; ii. 156; iii. 149, 206 n, 210 
 n, 211, 212 n, 216, 219, 221 n, 222, 
 223, 226 and n, 227, 232-235, 244- 
 246, 266-360 passim. 
 
 Mrs., of Gask, ii. 342 ; iii. 208, 
 
 210 and n, 211, 212, 219-226 and 
 n, 227, 246, 247, 261, 263-360 
 passim. 
 
 On a late defeat, i. 226. 
 
 O'Neil, captain, i. 69, 71, 89, 95, 113, 
 160, 163, 167, 178, 194-196, 296- 
 298, 304, 322 n, 323, 329, 330; 
 ii. 32, 98 n ; iii. 375, 382 ; journal 
 of, containing an account of the 
 
 battle of Culloden and of the ad- 
 ventures of the prince, i. 102 and n, 
 108, 365 ; his narrative criticised by 
 Donald MacLeod, 156-157, 166; 
 by Edward Burke, 199 ; and by 
 captain Alex. MacDonald, 353 ; 
 various copies of his journal in 
 circulation, 375-377 ; his account 
 compared with that of Donald Mac- 
 Leod, 378. 
 
 Orbiston, lady, i. 210. 
 
 Orelli, colonel, death of, iii. 12. 
 
 Orkney, John, iii. 18. 
 
 Orrom kirk, ii. 239. 
 
 Orrory, earl of, ii. 368. 
 
 O'Sullivan, colonel, i. 69, 83-86, 89, 
 95, 102, 104, 106, 163, 166, 167, 
 177, 178, 190, 191, 194, 201, 210, 
 259, 261, 268, 282-284, 294, 298, 
 321-323, 326, 329, 330, 352, 366, 
 370, 373 and n, 374 ; ii. 32, 95, 97, 
 98; iii. 11, 375, 376. 
 
 Ouia island, i. 71, 268, 370. 
 
 Oxford, ceremony of conferring 
 degrees at, iii. 365. 
 
 Robert Harley, earl of, i. 61. 
 
 Palaces in Scotland, list of, in pre- 
 paration, iii. 344, 372. 
 
 Palinurus, a name bestowed upon 
 Donald MacLeod of Gualtergill, 
 q.v. 
 
 Pamphlets, collection of, sold in Edin- 
 burgh, iii. 259. 
 
 Paraphrase upon Psalm cxxxvii, i. 
 228. 
 
 Park. See Gordon, sir William. 
 Parliament - house lion ornamented 
 
 with the white cockade, ii. 221. 
 Parsons, lieutenant, iii. 58. 
 Partington, presbyterian minister, ii. 
 
 47- 
 
 Paterson, James, i. 56. 
 
 Paul, John, in Inverness, iii. 35. 
 
 Paunch market, Leith, ii. 261. 
 
 Pearl necklace intended as a wedding 
 
 present for the prince, iii. 252, 255, 
 
 294 ; sale of, 269. 
 Peebles, iii. 243. 
 Peinachyrine hill, iii. 99. 
 Pendlebury, Samuel, i. 64. 
 Penicuick, iii. 243. 
 
 house, iii. 228. 
 
 Pennant's Tour, remarks on, iii. 263, 
 
 267-270, 273, 277-279, 283, 284, 
 
 319, 359>.36p. 
 Pennsylvania, iii. 325. 
 Penrith, i. 283; ii. 86, 87, 90, 120, 
 
 123, 193 and n, 194 and n, 238. 
 
INDEX 
 
 411 
 
 Perth, examination of witnesses and 
 prisoners in, ii. 233-235 ; iii. 144, 
 145, 150. 
 
 duchess of, ii. 137. 
 
 duke of, i. 66, 67, 86, 87, 105, 
 
 255, 258, 259, 263, 290, 291, 358, 
 361, 363, 370; ii. 118, 129, 154, 
 193, 197, 232, 270, 273-277, 279 ; 
 iii. 11, 50, 146, 180, 181, 212, 284, 
 383. 
 
 Peter the Great, ii. 203, 204. 
 Peterkin, James, iii. 16, 67. 
 Pinkie house, ii. 115. 
 Pitcalny. See Ross, Malcolm. 
 Pitlochrie, i. 357. 
 Pitsligo, ii. 260. 
 — - lord, ii. 154, 192, 193. 
 Poisoned bread, rumours of, ii. 253, 
 
 301, 317 and n, 331 ; iii. 2, 55. 
 Polmood and its proprietors, iii. 228. 
 Pomona, ii. 338. 
 
 Poolewe, i. 98, 340, 341, 345, 346 ; ii. 
 364- 
 
 Portobacco, ii. 243. 
 
 Portree, i. 73, 130, 131 and n, 178, 
 
 332 ; ii. 14-27, 33, 72, 101 ; iii. 127. 
 Presbyterian preachers, tactics of, ii. 
 
 107-109 ; epithets applied by them 
 
 to the prince and his army, 154. 
 Presshome library, the burning of, iii. 
 
 164. 
 
 Preston, ii. 120, 122, 193, 194, 239. 
 Primrose, sir Archibald, of Dunipace, 
 
 letter from, to his sister, before his 
 
 execution, i. 222 and n ; his death 
 
 and burial, 223. 
 
 lady Margaret, i. 223 and n. 
 
 lady Mary, i. 223. 
 
 Privy council of prince Charles, iii. 
 
 98, 100. 
 
 Public Advertiser, iii. 339; letter to 
 the, 295. 
 
 Public Ledger, extract from, iii. 311. 
 Putei, Mr., iii. 255. 
 
 Queensberry, duke of, iii. 261. 
 
 Raasay, island of, i. 130, 131, 143, 
 176, 373 ; »• 6, 14, 22, 24, 26, 78 ; 
 iii. 123, 124; ravaged by Cumber- 
 land's soldiers, ii. 79. 
 
 See MacLeod, Malcolm. 
 
 Races run by naked women at Fort 
 Augustus, ii. 308 and //. 
 
 Rairnish, i. 325. 
 
 Raith, bishop, iii. 336, 357, 359. 
 Rannoch, braes of, iii. 38. 
 Rape perpetrated by the devil in 
 Windsor park, ii. 369, 370. 
 
 Ratcliffe, Charles, lines on the execu- 
 tion of, i. 239 and n. 
 
 Ratisbon college, iii. 66 n. 
 
 Rattray of Craighall, ii. 232 and n. 
 
 of Rannegoolen, ii. 232. 
 
 Jean. See Elphinston, lady. 
 
 John, surgeon in Edinburgh, ii. 
 
 114, 312 and n, 361, 362 ; iii. 329 ; 
 letter to, from bishop Forbes, iii. 
 92 ; letter from, to Lockhart of 
 Carnwath, on behalf of Cameron of 
 Glenpean, iii. 94. 
 
 Mrs., i. 75, 112 n; ii. 70, 114, 
 
 ii5- 
 
 Peggie, ii. 106. 
 
 Rea, a dragoon, kills two unarmed 
 men in Inverness, iii. 54. 
 
 Reay (Rae), lord, captures the Hazard 
 sloop, 358 ; ii. 271. 
 
 Reid, a justice of the peace in Perth- 
 shire, ii. 232. 
 
 George, collector of news for the 
 
 Caledonian Mercury, iii. 298. 
 
 Renny, James, wine-cooper in Leith, 
 i. 267. 
 
 Reynolds, Mrs., iii. 306, 309. 
 Richmond, duke of, iii. 267. 
 Riddoch, John, stewart-deputy of the 
 
 Orkneys, ii. 337. 
 Ritchie, vintner in Peebles, iii. 243. 
 Rob Gib's contract, i. 81. 
 Robertson of Strowan, iii. 221, 280. 
 of Woodsheal, iii. 221, 280, 
 
 281. 
 
 of the Caledonian Mercury, iii. 
 
 298. 
 
 Mrs. See Inches, lady. 
 
 of Lude, i. 208 n. 
 
 John, sheriff-clerk of Peebles, 
 
 iii. 243. 
 
 Robinson, provost, iii. 168, 173, 174. 
 
 Robiston chapel, ii. 334. 
 
 Rogart. See Gray, John. 
 
 Rollo, Jean, arrested for wearing 
 
 tartan, ii. III. 
 Roman catholics spared by the duke 
 
 of Cumberland's soldiers, i. 94, 95 ; 
 
 in Maryland, ii. 241 and n. 
 Rona island, ii. 78, 79 ; iii. 186. 
 Rondill, i. 193. 
 Rosantie, iii. 30. 
 
 Rose, Mr., presbyterian minister at 
 Nairn, i. 55 ; ii. 274 and n. 
 
 rev. Charles, consecration of, iii. 
 
 319. 
 
 « Stewart, i. 7 and n. 
 
 William, ii. 188. 
 
 Ross, Andrew, deputy-sheriff of the 
 Orkneys, iii. 27. 
 
412 
 
 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 Ross, David, of Priesthill, ii. 172, 
 «73» 177- 
 
 Malcolm, of Pitcalny, iii. 150, 
 
 151. 
 
 Robert, ii. 262. 
 
 William, in Culloden, iii. 58. 
 
 Rossary chapel, ii. 334. 
 
 Rossinish in Benbecula, i. 71, 72, 107, 
 
 165, 166, 176, 183, 196, 268, 323, 
 3 2 5, 372. 
 
 Rowanburn, ii. 192. 
 Roy, Duncan, i. 163. 
 
 John, innkeeper, ii. 334. 
 
 Royal-oak club, Edinburgh, iii. 309, 
 
 328, 330, 343, 346, 349. 
 Royal palaces in Scotland, iii. 344, 
 
 372. 
 
 Royal Sovereign, the, i. 305. 
 Ruddiman, Thomas, his estimate of 
 
 the amount of specie in Scotland at 
 
 the union, iii. 273. 
 Rum island, ii. 76. 
 
 Rutherford, George, lord, petition of, 
 
 i. 319 and n. 
 Ruthven in Badenoch, i. 89, 263, 294, 
 
 356, 357, 363 5 134, 138 «, 160, 
 
 166, 231. 
 
 Rutlets, Walter, merchant at Dunkirk, 
 
 i. 287. 
 
 Ruxby's design for assassinating the 
 prince, iii. 122. 
 
 Sabbath observance at Dalrachny, ii. 
 
 134, 138 n. 
 Sackville, lord George, i. 124, 125. 
 St. Clare, general, iii. 145. 
 St. George's dragoons, i. 356, 357. 
 St James's Chronicle, extract from, iii. 
 
 324- 
 
 St. Kilda, i. 162, 328. 
 
 St. Ninians, xii, i. 17 and n, 83, 209 ; 
 
 ii. 132. 
 
 Salm, prince of, iii. 272. 
 Saltcots, ii. 244. 
 Sanders, Robert, iii. 167. 
 Sands and Co., printers in Edinburgh, 
 i. 250. 
 
 Sauchie, i. 223 ; ii. 130-132. 
 Scalen academy, iii. 283. 
 Scallan, in Glenlivet, ii. 333. 
 Scalpa or Glass island, i. 69, 166, 167, 
 
 169, 172, 191, 193, 199, 323, 324, 
 
 325 n ; ii. 100. 
 Scone house, i. 209. 
 Sconsary, Skye, i. 146. 
 Scoorvuy hill, i. 335. 
 Scoorwick Corrichan, i. 336. 
 Scorobreck, i. 132. 
 Scots college at Paris, iii. 285. 
 
 Scott, Alexander, carpenter in Aber- 
 deen, iii. 176. 
 
 captain Caroline, i. 71, 91, 93, 
 
 94, 106, 107, 143, 195, 295, 309, 
 
 3io, 335, 37o, 373 ; ii- 79, 98 ; iii. 
 16-18, 58, 72. 
 
 captain John, son of Scotstarvet, 
 
 taken prisoner by major MacDonell, 
 
 i. 37, 207. 
 
 dame Magdalene. See Bruce, 
 
 lady. 
 
 Scottish dances fashionable in London, 
 
 ii. 254. 
 
 estates, sales of, iii. 249. 
 
 Scotus. See MacDonald, Donald. 
 Scrabster Rings, iii. 25. 
 Seaforth, earl of, i. 168 ; ii. 5, 85. 
 
 William, marquis of, iii. 352. 
 
 Seaman, Mrs. Bettie, i. 276, 281. 
 
 Richard, baxter in Leith, i. 280. 
 
 Searches for wearers of the tartan in 
 
 Edinburgh, ii. no- 112. 
 Semple, lord, iii. 180. 
 Seton. See Middleton, George. 
 
 Robert, ii. 185 n. 
 
 Shanvel, ii. 334. 
 
 Shape, ii. 123, 194. 
 
 Shapinshire island, ii. 338. 
 
 Sharp, solicitor, iii. 151. 
 
 Shaw, wounded at Culloden, and 
 
 killed after the battle, iii. 3, 4, 17. 
 
 of Kinrara, iii. 12, 13. 
 
 Alexander, iii. 4 and n, 13 n. 
 
 Angus or Lauchlan, presbyterian 
 
 minister at Petty, iii. 3 n, 4, 13 and 
 
 71, 17, 22. 
 Lauchlan, quartermaster in 
 
 Semple's regiment, ii. 356 ; iii. 4, 5. 
 Shawfield. See Campbell. 
 Shebbeere, Dr., iii. 339, 341. 
 Sheldon, rector of the English college 
 
 of jesuits at Monte Porzio, iii. 277. 
 Shepherd, Isabel, i. 39. 
 Sheridan, captain, i. 350. 
 sir Thomas, i. 84, 89, 105, 190, 
 
 201,282-284,288,370; ii. 160, 198; 
 
 iii. 51, 120, 382. 
 
 Sheriff, Alexander, Leith, bankruptcy 
 
 of, iii. 299. 
 Sheriffmuir, ii. 93 ; iii. 46. 
 Shrewsbury, iii. 75. 
 Simpson, lieutenant, ii. 216. 
 Sinclair, captain, ii. 303 n. 
 Skeen, Alexander, iii. 16, 67. 
 Skinner, rev. John, of Langside, xii, n; 
 
 i. ii. 177, 184 n, 259-260 and n : 
 
 iii. 198. 
 Skipness. See Campbell. 
 Skuirdustan, ii. 333. 
 
INDEX 
 
 413 
 
 Skye, isle of, i. 106, 107, 123, 371, 373 
 passim. 
 
 Sleat. See MacDonald, sir Alexander. 
 
 Smidhopburn, iii. 230, 241. 
 
 Smith, commodore, captain of the 
 
 Eltham, i. 112, 115, 116; ii. 340. 
 agent for transportation of 
 
 banished jacobites, ii. 372 n. 
 
 rev. Mr., iii. 293, 294, 299, 306. 
 
 George, iii. 295-306. 
 
 of Burnhall, iii. 240 11, 309, 
 
 3 l6 - 
 
 Mrs., of Burnhall, iii. 235, 306, 
 
 338, 340-342, 345- 
 James Brander, in Conloch, iii. 
 
 65- 
 
 Sneu, baroness of, iii. 272. 
 Snizort, iii. 123. 
 water, ii. 18. 
 
 Soliloquy, September 29th, 1746, i. 
 235- 
 
 Song in praise of Miss Flora Mac- 
 Donald, ii. 82. 
 Song of Solomon paraphrased, iii. 357, 
 
 358, 360, 361, 363- 
 Song to the tune of ' a Cobler there 
 
 was,' i. 223. 
 South Briton, iii. 295, 302-304, 310, 
 
 339- 
 
 South wark, iii. 157, 158. 
 Spada, count de, iii. 265. 
 Spey, the, ii. 273, 333. 
 Spittle, Mr., of Leuchat, iii. 278. 
 Springkell, ii. 324. 
 
 Standford, Francis, dedication of his 
 Genealogical History to Charles II., 
 iii. 275. 
 
 Stapleton, brigadier, i. 257, 355, 356. 
 Steuart, sir Henry, of Allanton, xx, 
 xxi. 
 
 Stewart, Dr., of Annapolis, Maryland, 
 
 ii. 242, 245. 
 
 of Appin, ii. 86, 194. 
 
 colonel, of Ardshiel, i. 94, 263, 
 
 294 ; ii. 87. 
 
 of Glenbucky, iii. 364 ; mysteri- 
 ous death of, i. 21 and n, 53. 
 
 lady, i. 146 ; ii. 186, 187, 337, 
 
 338 n, 340 ; iii. 293, 294. 
 
 major, a prisoner in Inverness, 
 
 iii. 156. 
 
 Alexander, minister of Blair- 
 
 Athole, i. 316. 
 footman in the prince's 
 
 household, ii. 224 ; memorial of his 
 
 misfortunes after Culloden, 231- 
 
 247. 
 
 Andrew, letters from, to lord 
 
 Mansfield, iii. 285. 
 
 Stewart, David, of Ballachalun, ii. 242. 
 
 Francis, ii. 211, 248, 298 n, 302 
 
 11 ; his narrative of barbarities after 
 Culloden, ii. 188- 191, 204-206. 
 
 James, of Chines, i. 316. 
 
 of Urrard, i. 316. 
 
 sir James, of Burray, ii. 339, 340 ; 
 
 iii. 25 ; taken prisoner, 26, 27 ; 
 death of, 30. 
 
 John, one of the prince's attend- 
 ants in Rome, iii. 232, 364. 
 
 bailie of Inverness, ii. 
 
 186, 188; letter from, to bishop 
 Forbes, 211. 
 
 rev. John, of Inverness, iii. 56 
 
 and n, 194, 196 ; letters from, to 
 bishop Forbes, 165, 203, 206 ; 
 letter to, from Forbes, 204. 
 
 colonel John Roy, i. 86, 88, 263, 
 
 351 ; ii. 161, 194, 197, 214, 277, 
 278; iii. 43, 44, 149, 291, 383. 
 
 captain Lodowick, ii. 214. 
 
 captain Robert, ii. 212 and n, 
 
 221, 225 ; his account of the skirmish 
 at Keith, 213-217 ; letter from, to 
 bishop Forbes, 333. 
 
 Thomas, ii. 328 ; iii, 69. 
 
 sir Walter, of Strathdown and 
 
 Glenlivet, ii. 214, 215. 
 
 William, of Annapolis, Maryland, 
 
 ii. 242, 245. 
 
 Stirling, i. 83, 265 ; ii. 132, 148, 
 236. 
 
 castle, xii, i. 209 ; siege of, ii. 
 
 129, 131 n, 133, 195-197- 
 Stobo kirk, iii. 242. 
 Stockport, ii. 194. 
 Stolberg, prince of, iii. 267, 272. 
 Stonefield, i. 381. 
 
 Stoneywood's regiment, ii. 278, 344, 
 345- 
 
 Stonyfield, near Culloden, ii. 310. 
 Storm, great, of 1774, iii. 343. 
 Stormont, ladies of, i. 9. 
 Stornoway, i. 69, 70, 156, 157, 166, 
 167, 191, 277, 324, 369; ii. 100; 
 
 iii. 376. 
 
 Strachan, Mrs., iii. 340. 
 
 James, ii. 240 and n. 
 
 Strange, Mrs., iii. 306, 310. 
 Strath, i. 134, 137, 138; ii. 19. 
 
 of Cluns, i. 99, 100. 
 
 Strathallan, viscount, ii. 154, 156, 209 ; 
 iii. 144, 149; death of, 12. 
 
 viscountess dowager, iii. 120. 
 
 Strathbogie, ii. 213, 214, 284; iii. 7. 
 Strathcluny, i. 343. 
 Strath Deveron, ii. 334. 
 Strathdown, ii. 333. 
 
414 THE LYON IN MOURNING 
 
 Strathglass, i. 343-345 5 3°7, 355 5 
 iii. 209. 
 
 See Chisholm. 
 
 Strathmashie. See MacPherson, John. 
 Stretton, iii. 171. 
 
 Strickland, colonel, i. 201, 210, 282; 
 ii. 129, 164 ; death of, 283. 
 
 Stromness, iii. 25, 28. 
 
 Stuart, prince Charles Edward, house- 
 hold accounts of, in Scotland and 
 England, ii. 115-127, 129-134, 139- 
 152, 167-169; his privy council, iii. 
 98, 100; protest of, iii. 159; his 
 cheerfulness in adversity, i. 69, 
 73, 74, 76, 97, 101, 108, 109, in, 
 132, 135, 173, 177, 196, 299; 
 
 ii. 99 ; his religious disposition, 
 i. 108, 120, 122, 123, 278, 342; 
 
 iii. 104; his humanity, i. 13 1, 136, 
 175, 176, 194, 215 ; acquires a taste 
 for drink, i. 119, 323, 327; ii. 23, 
 97 and 11 ; iii. 41, 45 ; grants 
 a bond in favour of Hepburn of 
 Kingston, ii. 261 ; an instance of 
 his remarkable memory, iii. 329 ; 
 his knowledge of the Erse language, 
 i. 124 ; contradictory reports as to 
 his religion, i. 96 and n ; ii. 97 ; iii. 
 128, 129, 131, 135, 205, 206, 216 
 and Ji, 217, 233 and n ; his marriage, 
 iii. 129, 208-210, 233 and «, 234, 
 247-255, 262-266; description of the 
 bride, 267 ; prospects of an heir, 
 268, 285 ; his intemperate habits, 
 222, 223, 231, 232; poems on his 
 birthday, marriage, etc., i. 229 
 276 ; ii. 263-265 ; iii. 117, 274, 344, 
 359 > portraits of, ii. 320-322 ; relics, 
 xviii-xx, i. 81, 112, 136, 137, 142, 
 143, 176, 219 », 273; letters from, 
 to Roy MacDonald, ii. 31 and n ; 
 John MacLeod of Raasay, 78 ; to 
 his father, i. 58, 21 1 -2 1 5 ; letters to, 
 from the due de Bouillon, iii. 142 ; 
 the prince de Campo Florido, 143 ; 
 the king of Prussia, 253 ; its authen- 
 ticity questioned, 255, 256. 
 
 See also Itinerary. 
 
 Henry, cardinal of York, i. 209 ; 
 
 iii. 104, 223, 232-235, 267, 277. 
 James Francis Edward, chevalier 
 
 St. George, letter to, from prince 
 
 Charles, ii. 58 ; lines on the death 
 
 of, iii. 214, 215. 
 Sutherland, duchess of, i. 359. 
 
 earl of, iii. 24, 36, 165. 
 
 lieutenant Andrew, iii. 151. 
 
 James, iii. 16, 67. 
 
 Switenham, captain, i. 352. 
 
 Syddall, Thomas, blacksmith, i. 221 ; 
 
 execution of, 27 and n. 
 barber, i. 22 ; the last 
 
 speech of, 26 and n. 
 Sydney, Algernon, iii. 326. 
 Symmer, Andrew, i. 209. 
 
 Tain, iii. 165. 
 
 Tallisker. See MacLeod. 
 
 Taremore, ii. 216. 
 
 Tarsquivag. See MacDonald, Archi- 
 bald. 
 
 Tartan, searches in Edinburgh for 
 
 wearers of, ii. no- 112. 
 Taxation, increase of, ii. 358, 359. 
 Taylor, Mrs., ii. 189. 
 David, wright in Inverness, iii. 
 
 53 ; his sufferings after Culloden, 
 
 59- 
 
 rev. James, episcopal minister in 
 
 Thurso, account of the sufferings of, 
 iii. 23-37 ; letter to, from bishop 
 Forbes, ii. 172 ; extract of letter 
 from, to bishop Forbes, ii. 174. 
 
 John, ii. 343. 
 
 Tennis castle, iii. 242. 
 
 Terpersie. See Gordon, Charles. 
 
 Theresa Gustava de Stolberg, iii. 281. 
 
 Thomson, Mr., of Maryland, ii. 242, 
 245. 
 
 Alexander, advocate in Aberdeen, 
 
 ii. 316, 317, 331, 332. 
 gardener in Culloden, iii. 
 
 58. 
 
 captain James, i. 51, 52. 
 
 Threpland, sir Stewart, i. 88, 348 n ; 
 
 379, 380 ; iii- 3& 
 Thunderton. See Dunbar. 
 Thurso, iii. 36. 
 
 Tilbury Fort, i. 180, 181 ; ii. 254; iii. 
 
 31, 66, 127, 158. 
 Tinwald, lord, speech of, to the grand 
 
 jury at Edinburgh, ii. 199-204. 
 Tombae, ii. 333. 
 
 Tommadow, in Glenkengie, iii. 108. 
 Tordarroch, i. 190. 
 
 Torramhuilt or Torvauilt wood, i. 91, 
 
 100, 349 ; iii. 102. 
 Torulum. See MacDonald, Ranald. 
 Toschack, David, butcher in Perth, a 
 
 repentant informer, ii. 234. 
 Tott, ii. 18. 
 
 Tottrome, ii. 16, 18, 19, 26, 29, 72. 
 
 See MacQueen. 
 
 Tournay, treaty of, i. 201. 
 Town/ys Ghost, i. 306 and n. 
 Trapeau or Trapound, lieut., ii. 112, 
 342- _ 
 
 Traquair, earl of, ii. 238 ; iii. 120 
 
INDEX 
 
 415 
 
 Traquair, lady Lucy Stuart, letter to, 
 from John MacNab, iii. 200. 
 
 Trenchard, John, publication of his 
 book on standing armies, etc., ii. 
 334- 
 
 Troday island, ii. 9. 
 
 Troternish, isle of Skye, i. 72, 73, 131, 
 132, 300 ; ii. 9, 14, 99, 101 ; iii. 123. 
 
 Tullibardine, i. 209. 
 
 marquis of, i. 89, 201, 204, 208, 
 
 263, 288, 294; ii. 154, 233; be- 
 trayed by Buchanan of Drumakill, 
 i. 282 ; death of, 283. 
 
 Tulloch, Mr., in Dumbenan, ii. 334. 
 
 chapel, ii. 334. 
 
 Tullocherom. See MacDonald , Alex. 
 
 Tweed dale, marquis of, iii. 122, 166. 
 
 Tweedhopfoot, iii. 241. 
 
 Tweedie, Mr., of the Bield, iii. 229. 
 
 Tweedie-brae-foot, iii. 230. 
 
 Tweedshaw, iii. 230. 
 
 Tweedsmuir kirk, iii. 229. 
 
 Tytler, William, clerk to the signet, 
 iii. 228. 
 
 Uia. See Ouia. 
 Uishness point, i. 268. 
 Uiskchilra, in Benalder, iii. 41, 43, 
 44. 
 
 Uisknifichit, iii. 44, 46. 
 
 Uist, i. 104, 191, 197, 198, 204, 327 ; 
 
 iii. 376. 
 Ulbster, laird of, iii. 24, 36. 
 Upon the tenth of June 1747, i. 233 
 
 and n. 
 
 Upon the death of Sir Alexander Mac- 
 Donald, i. 239 and n. 
 
 Upoji a young lady who died on seeing 
 her lover, Mr. Dawson, executed, i. 
 241 and n. 
 
 Urquhart, ii. 305 ; iii. 106. 
 
 a government agent, i. 145. 
 
 captain, iii. 55, 61, 231. 
 
 rev. Mr., iii. 165. 
 
 Urrard. See Stewart, James. 
 
 Usan harbour, near Montrose, iii. 20. 
 
 Van Hoy, Dutch ambassador, letter 
 
 to, from the marquis d'Argenson, 
 
 iii. 270, 274. 
 Victoire, madame, abbess of Charle- 
 
 ville nunnery, iii. 280, 281. 
 Virginia, prisoners transported to, ii. 
 
 239-241. 
 
 Visionary battle near Aberdeen, ii. 
 181. 
 
 Voltaire in London, iii. 246. 
 Wade, general, i. 265. 
 
 Wagstaff, Mr., i. 213 ; ii. 61 ; iii. 217, 
 
 218, 222, 226, 232, 235, 244, 245 ; 
 
 his collection of MSS., 276 n, 277 ; 
 
 death of, 257, 258. 
 Walden, viscount of, iii. 166. 
 Walker, captain, his treatment of rebel 
 
 prisoners, iii. 60, 156. 
 rev. Mr., of Old Meldrum, ii. 
 
 184 n. 
 
 Walkinshaw, John, i. 66, 183, 314, 
 315 ; ii. 249; iii. 183; letter of, 
 in vindication of lord Balmerino, i. 
 58-60 and n. 
 
 Ward, lieutenant John, iii. 55, 61. 
 
 Warren, col. , of the Bellona, i. 295, 312. 
 
 Warwick, squire, ii. 1 17 n. 
 
 bridge, ii. 192. 
 
 Waternish, i. 72, 299, 330, 331. 
 
 Watson, colonel George, iii. 168, 173. 
 
 David, vintner in Leith, iii. 37. 
 
 Thomas, vintner in Leith, ii. 346. 
 
 Watt, James, ii. 132. 
 
 William, merchant in Kirkwall, 
 
 iii. 26, 27. 
 
 Watterstien. See MacLeod, Norman. 
 
 Wauchope (Wachope), of Niddrie, ii. 
 361, 362. 
 
 Web, solicitor, in London, ii. 236, 
 237. 
 
 Webster, rev. Alexander, ii. 108, 154, 
 157- . 
 
 Wecomica, Maryland, ii. 240, 242. 
 Weekly Magazine, extract from, iii. 
 333- 
 
 Weir, captain John, i. 28 and n, 47. 
 Welch of Mossfennan house, iii. 228. 
 Anthony, owner of the Doutelle, 
 
 i. 202, 203, 282, 293. 
 
 Ellie, iii. 241. 
 
 Wellhouse, Kilmorack, ii. 261 ; iii. 77. 
 Wemyss, countess of, iii. 245 and n. 
 Westminster Magazine, iii. 290, 292. 
 Wharton, Jestinian, of Maryland, ii. 
 
 242, 245. 
 Whim, the, iii. 243. 
 Whinmore, ii. 62. 
 Whisperer, newspaper, iii. 252. 
 Whitburgh, xix. 
 White, major, i. 33, 55. 
 
 rev. James, iii. 1, 293. 
 
 Whitera. See Grant, John. 
 Whitney, colonel, ii. 129. 
 Wigan, ii. 121, 122, 193, 194. 
 Wilkes, John, iii. 221, 224, 251, 260. 
 Williamson, governor of the Tower, 
 
 his cruel treatment of prisoners, i. 2, 
 
 33, 55- 
 
 Willox, rev. James, ii. 157. 
 rev. John, xii. 
 
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 Wilson, John, printer in Edinburgh, 
 iii. 306. 
 
 Thomas, prebendary of Carlisle, 
 
 i. 21 and n. 
 
 Windlestraelee, iii. 228 and n. 
 
 Winrame, James, iii. 112. 
 
 Wolf, major, aide-de-camp to general 
 Hawley, iii. 169, 174-176. 
 
 Women running races at Fort Augus- 
 tus, iii. 57. 
 
 Wood, a dissenting preacher, ii. 155 
 
 — — captain Andrew, last speech of, 
 i. 64 ; narrative of his conversion to 
 the true church, ii. 47. 
 
 Woodfall, Henry Sampson, printer, 
 iii. 319, 320, 339. 
 
 William, iii. 339. 
 
 Woodhouselee, iii. 228 11. 
 
 Woodsheal, iii. 221. 
 
 See Robertson. 
 
 Wrae castle, iii. 228, 242. 
 
 Wright, James, i. 270 ; letter from, on 
 the conduct of sir Archibald Prim- 
 rose at his execution, 223. 
 
 Marjory, xi. 
 
 Yates, Mrs., iii. 285. 
 Yetts, John, bailie of Edinburgh, i. 
 249. 
 
 York, cardinal of. See Stuart, Henry. 
 
 duke of, iii. 137 and n. 
 
 castle, ii. 89. 
 
 Young's Night Thoughts, ii. 155. 
 
 Alexander, in Inches, iii. 56. 
 
 Walter, sergeant in Ogilvie's 
 
 regiment, iii. 18. 
 
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