to the enemy within a limited time. 4. That to effect his purpose a party of military had been placed under his direction 5. That he had given information to the enemy against the Chevalier Lansy and another French officer. 6. That he had imposed on some of Glengary's people, by asserting that that chief had promised to deliver them up to the enemy, and that he was to receive thirty pounds sterling of premium for each gentleman he (Glengary) should put into their hands. 7. That in consequence of this false information on the part of Barisdale, an information was given in against Glengary by these gentlemen; and his letters ordering them to take up arms for the prince were delivered to Lord Albemarle, upon which information Glengary was apprehended and all his papers seized.* There may have been no foundation for these grave charges; but well or ill founded, an opinion long prevailed in the Highlands that Barisdale had been unfaithful.

If Glengary's apprehension proceeded upon the information of the gentlemen of his own clan, they must have had better grounds for taking the extraordinary step they are alleged to have done, than the mere assertion of Barisdale; but the charge against Glengary seems highly improbable, as it is scarcely credible, if, as stated, they had letters from him in their possession advising them to take up arms in support of Charles, while he himself kept back, that he would by such a perfidious act have put himself in their power. Glengary, after his apprehension, was sent to London, and, along with the other chief prisoners, was committed to the Tower, where he suffered a long and tedious confinement. Young Glengary had been taken up some months previously and sent to the Tower, in which he was kept a close prisoner for twenty months.†

. Vide lists of these charges in English and French in the Appendix, with the letter to Barisdale requiring an answer, taken from the original draughts in the Stuart Archives. Also letter from Colonel Warren to the Chevalier de St George, 10th October, 1746, copied from the original in the same collection.

+ Shortly after his apprehension Young Glengary despatched the following letter to Paris:

"DEAR SIR,

"TOWER OF LONDON, Jan. 2d, 1745 (1746.)

"I was unfortunately taken prisoner and brought to the Tower of London, where I am at a very great expense, and have nothing to subsist myself with. This is beging that upon recet you applay to Mr Waters, and desire him to send me credit for fifty pounds sterling, and in doing this speedily you singularly serve and oblige, dear Sir, your most humble servant,

"MACKDONELL, younger of Glengary."

"P. S.-Mr Waters may state the above sum either to my account, or to Mr Fergus's (the Chevalier.) Please direct your answer for me, to the care of General Williamson, at the Tower of London.

"Written in the presence of me,

"THOS. HANSON."

The above letter is thus addressed :

"A Monsieur Watters, banquier a Paris, &c., poure faire tenir of Monsieur Gordon au Coledge des Ecossois rue Fosse St Victore, Paris."

Mr Waters, on receipt of the foregoing letter, sent young Glengary a bill on London

Notwithstanding the sanguinary ferocity with which Cumberland's soldiers hunted down the unfortunate fugitives, the lives of a considerable number of those who were taken or surrendered themselves, were saved from immediate destruction by the interference of a few humane persons, who did every thing in their power to put a stop to the exterminating system of these bloodhounds. Though they thus escaped the merciless sword of the destroyer, they were nevertheless doomed to suffer the most extraordinary privations. After having been cooped up in the loathsome prisons of the north, without any attention to their wants, many of them were afterwards huddled together in the holds of ships, where they were condemned unheeded to pine away, and amidst a mass of filth and corruption, to inhale the seeds of pestilence and death. Of one hundred and fifty-seven persons who were immured for eight months in the hold of one transport, only forty-nine survived the cruel treatment they received.

Meanwhile several of the chiefs of the insurrection succeeded in effecting their escape to the continent. The duke of Perth, Lord John Drummond, Lords Elcho and Nairne, Maxwell of Kirkconnel, and others, embarked at Lochnanuagh, on board one of the French ships which arrived on the western coast about the end of April. The duke of Perth, who had been long in bad health, died on the voyage. Another party of twelve or thirteen persons, including Lords Pitsligo and Ogilvy, and Hunter of Burnside, after skulking some time in Buchan, got a vessel which conveyed them to Bergen in Norway. The British consul applied to the governor to have them secured, but he disregarded the application, and the party proceeded to Sweden. Stewart of Ardshiel, and General O'Sullivan also succeeded in reaching France. Old

for the sum required. In the postscript of a letter, dated 21st January, 1746, to Secretary Edgar, Mr Waters says: "Since the above Mr Gordon brought me the inclosed letter from Mr Mackdonell, younger of Glengary; the occasion is so pressing and feeling, that, without consulting any body, I gave him a bill in favour of Mr Mackdonell for £50 sterling, payable at sight in London; will wait to know how to place it."

The originals of these letters are in the possession of his Majesty.

• Jacobite Memoirs, p. 300. William Jack, one of the prisoners, in a letter to his friends in Elgin (Memoirs, p. 299), says, that the sailors used to amuse themselves by hoisting the prisoners up to the yard-arm and dropping them into the sea, and that they would tie them to the mast and flog them; that for several months they had no bedclothes, and that they used to dig holes among the ship's ballast, consisting of black earth and small stones, to keep themselves warm. John Farquharson of Aldlerg, himself a prisoner, in a letter to the Rev. Mr Forbes, published among the Forbes papers, gives an appalling description of the miseries of his fellow-prisoners on their voyage from Inverness to London. He says, that from hunger, bad usage, and exposure" to all weathers, they were seized with a kind of plague which carried them off by dozens;" and that "a good many of those who would have outlived their sickness, were wantonly murdered by the sailors, by dipping them in the sea in the crisis of their fevers." After arriving in the Thames, the common prisoners were put into Tilbury Fort, and would have perished for want had not some humane people supported them. The officers were marched rank and file to Southwark jail amid the hootings of a tumultuous mob, who loaded them with scornful epithets, and assailed them with brickbats, stones, and other missiles.

In

Glenbucket, after being hunted from place to place, eluded his pursuers by assuming the garb of a beggar, and allowing his beard to grow. the month of November he escaped to Norway in a Swedish vessel.* Lord George Murray remained in concealment in Scotland till the month of December, when, after paying a private visit to his friends at Edinburgh, he took shipping at Anstruther in the Frith of Forth, and reached Holland in safety.

A curious and interesting letter of Glenbucket to Secretary Edgar, dated 21st August, 1747, giving an account of his wanderings and escape, will be found in the Appendix. The original, from which the copy was taken, is in the possession of his Majesty.

CHAPTER XI.

Charles leaves Benbecula-Lands in the island of Glass-Despatches Macleod to Stornoway-Leaves Glass, and lands in Harris-Goes to Arynish-Commotions in Stornoway-reaches Iffurt-Returns to Glass and Benbecula-Lands in South UistResides at Coradale-Leaves Uist, and arrives in Ouia-Returns to South UistMeets Miss Flora Macdonald-Voyage to Skye-Arrives at Mugstot-Goes to Kingsburgh-house-Arrives at Portree-Goes to the island of Raasay-Returns to SkyeGoes to Ellagol-Interview with the laird of Mackinnon, with whom he proceeds to the mainland-Arrives in Loch Nevis-Arrest of Kingsburgh, Malcolm Macleod, and Flora Macdonald.

THE storm which drove Charles with such rapidity upon the distant shores of Benbecula, continued for fourteen hours after he had landed. Accommodating himself to the new situation in which he was placed, he manifested no symptoms of dejection at his reverse of fortune, partook cheerfully along with his companions of the homely fare before him, and with an old sail for a bed, reposed upon the floor of his lowly dwelling. In Benbecula the prince was visited by old Clanranald, to whom the island belonged; and having afterwards had an interview in South Uist with Boisdale, Clanranald's brother, Charles was advised by him to proceed to Stornoway, the principal seaport in the island of Lewis, and there give out that he and his company were the crew of a merchant ship belonging to the Orkneys, which had been wrecked on the isle of Tirey, and under the pretence of returning home, hire a vessel for that purpose, and escape to France. Accordingly, after passing two days in Benbecula, Charles and his party set sail for Stornoway on the twenty-ninth of April; but in consequence of a strong gale of wind from the south-west, they were obliged to put in next morning at the small isle of Scalpay or Glass, near Harris, about half way between Benbecula and Stornoway. They landed about two hours before daybreak, and were conducted by Donald Macleod to the house of Donald Campbell, a farmer, known to Macleod, to whom they were introduced as merchants shipwrecked on their voyage to the Orkneys. The prince and O'Sullivan took the name of Sinclair, and the latter passed off as Charles' father. The whole party was hospitably entertained by Camp

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bell, who lent Macleod a boat with which he proceeded next day, the first of May, to Stornoway to hire a vessel, leaving Charles and his friends behind.

Having succeeded in hiring a small vessel of forty tons, Macleod sent an express to Charles announcing his success, and requesting him to proceed to Stornoway. This message was received on the third of May, and the prince left the isle of Glass next day; but the wind proving contrary, he was obliged to land in Loch Seaforth, in the island of Lewis, a considerable distance from Stornoway. Here Allan Macdonald took his leave. Accompanied by O'Sullivan, O'Neil, and his guide, Charles set out on foot for Stornoway, over a wild and trackless waste, in a very dark and rainy night. The guide lost his way, and the party did not reach the neighbourhood of Stornoway till next day at noon. This mistake, on the part of the conductor, was a fortunate circumstance, as the advanced hour of the day prevented Charles from entering the town, where he might have been seized by the inhabitants, who having received information from the Presbyterian minister of South Uist, that the prince had landed in Lewis with five hundred men, with a design of burning their town, carrying off their cattle, and forcing a vessel to carry him to France, afterwards rose in arms to oppose him. Charles stopped at the Point of Arynish, about half a mile from Stornoway, and sent in the guide to acquaint Macleod of his arrival, and to bring out some refreshment, as he and his fellow-travellers had been eighteen hours without food. Donald immediately repaired to the spot with some brandy, bread, and cheese, and found Charles and his two companions standing ɔn a moor extremely fatigued and all wet to the skin. Donald then took them to the house of Mrs Mackenzie of Kildun, at Arynish, where the prince went to bed. Returning to Stornoway, Macleod was quite amazed to find the town in commotion, and above two hundred men under arms. Unable to comprehend the meaning of this sudden rising, Donald went directly into the room where the gentlemen who had taken upon them the rank of officers had assembled, and inquired the cause of such a strange proceeding. He was instantly assailed with abuse by every person present: they informed him of the intelligence they had received from Uist of Charles's landing, and of his alleged intentions, and they accused Macleod as the cause of the calamity with which they were threatened. Unable to deny the fact of Charles's arrival in Lewis, Macleod at once admitted it, and to allay their fears he informed them, that so far from having a body of five hundred men along with him, as represented, he was attended by two companions only; "and yet," said Donald with an air of defiance, "let me tell you farther, gentlemen, it Seaforth himself were here, by G-- he durst not put a hand to the prince's breast!* The gentlemen present then declared that they had no intention to do the prince the least harm, and the only thing they re

• Macleod's Narrative.