THE HISTORY OF THE PRESENT REBELLION IN SCOTLAND. THE PRESENT REBELLION IS A MATTER OF SUCH CONSEQUENCE TO THIS COUNTRY, AND MUST SO SERIOUSLY ENGAGE THE ATTENTION OF EVERY BRITON WHO HATH THE LEAST REGARD EITHER TO

HIS OWN REAL GOOD, OR THE WELFARE OF HIS POSTERITY, THAT I SHALL MAKE NO APOLOGY FOR THE PRESENT UNDERTAKING; IN WHICH MY READER MAY BE ASSURED, THAT AS THE UTMOST PAINS HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO PROCURE THE BEST INTELLIGENCE, SO HE MAY SAFELY RELY ON THE TRUTH OF THE FACTS RELATED. THE PRETENDER'S ELDEST SON CHARLES, WHO IS NOW IN THE TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR OF HIS AGE, HAVING, IN THE BEGINNING OF THE SUMMER, TAKEN A SOLEMN LEAVE OF HIS FATHER AT ROME, AND IN THE PRESENCE OF THE POPE AND CAR-+ DINALS, / HAVING MADE A SOLEMN VOW THAT HE WOULD NEVER FORSAKE HIS RELIGION; SET OUT WITH ONE PATRICK GRAHAM HIS CONFESSOR, THE MARQUIS OF TULLIBARDIN, GENERAL MACDO-+ NELL, / AND SOME OTHER ATTENDANTS, AMONGST WHICH IS ONE MR((.)) FISHER, A PERSON WHO SOME YEARS AGO MURDERED HIS FRIEND MR((.)) DARBY IN THE TEMPLE, FOR WHICH HE HATH A PARDON UNDER THE PRETENDER'S SIGN MANUAL, AND IS ADVANCED TO THE POST OF MAJOR IN THE HIGH-+ LAND / ARMY. HAVING PAST THROUGH FRANCE BY LAND, AND VISITED THE FRENCH KING IN HIS CAMP, FROM WHOM HE OBTAINED FIVE INDEPENDANT COMPANIES, BESIDES A LARGE QUANTITY OF

ARMS, AND A SHIP OF WAR, TOGETHER WITH FURTHER PROMISES OF FUTURE ASSISTANCE, HE DE-+ PARTED / FOR BREST; WHERE THE AFORESAID SOL-+ DIERS / AND ARMS BEING PUT ON BOARD, IN THE BEGINNING OF AUGUST THEY SAILED OUT OF THAT HARBOUR; THE PRETENDER'S SON HIMSELF, TO-+ GETHER / WITH THOSE ATTENDANTS WHO ACCOM-+ PANIED / HIM FROM ROME, BEING EMBARKED IN A SMALL VESSEL. THEY HAD NOT BEEN LONG AT SEA BEFORE THEY MET WITH ONE OF OUR MEN OF WAR, BE-+ TWEEN / WHOM AND THE FRENCHMAN A VERY SHARP ENGAGEMENT ENSURED; IN WHICH BOTH SHIPS SUFFERED EXTREMELY, AND THE LATTER WAS SO ENTIRELY DISABLED, THAT SHE WAS OBLIGED TO PUT BACK INTO BREST. DURING THIS ENGAGEMENT, THE SMALL VES-+ SEL / WHICH CARRIED THE PRETENDER'S SON ESCAPED, AND MADE IMMEDIATELY FOR THE WE-+ STERN / COAST OF SCOTLAND. NO ENGLISH MAN OF WAR BEING AT THAT TIME IN THOSE SEAS, THEY CRUIZED FOR SOME DAYS OFF THE ISLANDS OF BARA AND UST, AND AT LAST STOOD IN FOR THE COAST OF LOCHABER, AND ON THE ((10TH)) OF AU-+ GUST / IN THE EVENING LANDED BETWEEN THE ISLANDS OF MULL AND SKIE.

ONE MACPHERSON, WHOSE HUT STOOD ABOUT A MILE FROM THE SEA-SHORE, SEEING THESE PEOPLE LAND, HAD THE CURIOSITY TO ADVANCE TOWARDS THEM, AND WAS TOLD BY ONE OF HIS COUNTRYMEN THAT CAME WITH THEM WHO THEY WERE, AND PARTICULARLY, THAT THE YOUNG MAN WAS THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE SON OF HIS KING. CHARLES PRESENTLY CAME UP TO HIM, AND GIVING HIM A FRENCH PISTOLE, ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD NOT BEAR ARMS FOR HIS KING AND COUNTRY, TO WHICH MACPHERSON READILY ANSWERED HE WOULD, AND THEN CHARLES VERY GRACIOUSLY HELD FORTH HIS HAND FOR HIM TO KISS, WHICH HE ACCORDINGLY DID. THE YOUNG PRETENDER THEN THREW HIMSELF ON THE GROUND, AND KISS'D IT, AFTER WHICH HIS CONFESSOR CUT A TURF AND PRESENTED IT TO HIM SAYING, IN THE NAME OF THE MOST HOLY AND INFALLIBLE POPE, I PRESENT THEE THIS AS RE-+ GENT / FOR THY FATHER, AND DO HEREBY, BY VIR-+ TUE / OF THE FULL POWERS TO ME DELEGATED, INVEST THE MOST PUISSANT JAMES ((III.)) WITH THE POSSES-+ SION / AND RULE OF THE KINGDOM OF GREAT BRI-+ TAIN; / WHICH HE IS TO HOLD AT THE WILL AND PLEASURE OF THE HOLY SEE. DOST THOU THERE-+ FORE, / IN HIS NAME, ACCEPT THE GOVERNMENT OF THESE REALMS, ON THE CONDITION OF FIGHTING

THE CAUSE OF OUR HOLY MOTHER THE CHURCH, TO THE UTTER EXTIRPATION OF THE PERSONS OF HERE-+ TICKS; / AND WILT THOU PERSERVERE MANFULLY IN THE SAME, TILL THE BLOOD OF HERETICS SHALL BE WASHED AWAY FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH? THE YOUNG PRETENDER ON HIS KNEES RE-+ CEIVED / THE TURF FROM THE HAND OF HIS CON-+ FESSOR, / AND FAITHFULLY PROMISED IN HIS FATHER'S NAME TO FULFIL ALL THAT HAD BEEN ENJOINED HIM. THEN HE AND HIS CONFESSOR FELL BOTH ON THEIR KNEES, AND CONTINUED IN A DEVOUT PO-+ STURE / SEVERAL MINUTES, INVOKING THE ASSISTANCE OF THE SAINTS, AND REPEATING EACH SEVERAL HUNDRED PATER NOSTERS, AND AVE MARYS. THIS CEREMONY BEING ENDED, IN WHICH ALL PRESENT ASSISTED, THE MARQUIS OF TULLIBAR-+ DIN, / AND FIVE OTHER SCOTTISH CHIEFS TOOK THEIR LEAVE OF THEIR COMMANDER, AND HAVING KISS'D HIS HANDS, SET OUT TO DISPERSE THEM-+ SELVES / AMONG THE CLANS. CHARLES THEN ASKED MACPHERSON HOW FAR THEY WERE FROM A HOUSE, AND WAS TOLD THAT HE WAS FULL SEVEN MILES FROM ANY TOWN, OR INDEED FROM ANY HOUSE, UNLESS SOME FEW

BAD HUTS, SUCH AS HIS OWN, WHICH WERE SCATTERED HERE AND THERE, AND WERE INHABITED BY HIGHLANDERS. CHARLES BEHAVED WITH GREAT CURTESY TO THIS HIGHLANDER, AND ASKED HIM SEVERAL QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY, TILL THE CONFESSOR HAVING ENQUIRED HIS RELIGION, WAS TOLD BY HIM THAT HE WAS OF THE PRESBYTERY. AFTER WHICH ANSWER THE YOUNG MAN GREW IMMEDIATELY RESERVED TO HIM, AND SPEAKING SOMETHING TO HIS CONFESSOR IN A LANGUAGE WHICH HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND, BUT WHICH THE CONFESSOR ANSWERED WITH A SMILE, TURNED AWAY FROM HIM. NOR DID HE EVER AFTER-+ WARDS / SPEAK TO HIM. CHARLES SPENT THREE DAYS IN VISITING THE SEVERAL HUTS OF THESE HIGHLANDERS; AMONGST WHOM HE DISTRIBUTED HIS MONEY VERY LIBE-+ RALLY, / SO THAT BY THE END OF THE THIRD DAY, HE HAD ENLISTED UPWARDS OF ((70)) IN HIS PARTY. HE DELIVERED THEM ARMS (FOR HE HAD ARMS WITH HIM FOR ((500)) MEN ONLY) A SUFFICIENT NUMBER FOR ((6,500)) HAVING MISCARRIED IN THE FRENCH MAN OF WAR. ON THE ((14TH)) OF AUGUST THE MARQUIS OF TULLIBARDIN, AND TWO OTHER OF THE SCOTCH

CHIEFS RETURNED WITH A BODY OF ABOVE ((300)) OF THE CLANS, WHO WERE IMMEDIATELY DIS-+ POSED / INTO A REGIMENT, AND CALLED, THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF HIGHLAND GUARDS. THE COM-+ MAND / OF WHICH WAS GIVEN TO THE MARQUIS, ONE MACKAY WAS MADE LIEUTENANT COLONEL, AND MR((.)) FISHER MAJOR. THE CAPTAINS AND INFERIOR OFFICERS WERE CHOSEN OUT OF THE CLANS. THIS REGIMENT WAS NO SOONER FORMED, THAN THE UTMOST DILIGENCE WAS MADE USE OF TO DISCIPLINE THEM, AND INSTRUCT THEM IN THE USE OF ARMS. NOR WAS MUCH LESS DI-+ LIGENCE / USED BY THE CONFESSOR, ASSISTED BY ANOTHER PRIEST WHOSE NAME WAS FRASER, TO INSTRUCT THEM IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELI-+ GION, / AND THIS WITH SUCH SUCCESS, THAT UP-+ WARDS / OF ((200)) OF THESE IGNORANT PEOPLE WERE CONVERTED IN LESS THAN A FORTNIGHT. THE GOVERNMENT NO SOONER RECEIVED AD-+ VICE / OF THE LANDING OF THE PRETENDER'S SON IN SCOTLAND, THAN IMMEDIATELY A PROCLAMATION WAS PUBLISHED, WITH A REWARD OF ((L.30000)) FOR THE APPREHENDING HIM. AND AT THE SAME TIME, AN ORDER WAS ISSUED FOR ALL THE OFFICERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S LAND FORCES IN GREAT BRI-+ TAIN / TO REPAIR TO THEIR RESPECTIVE POSTS.

THE REGIMENTS WHICH AT THAT TIME LAY IN THE NORTH WERE COLONEL GARDINER'S AND HAMILTON'S DRAGOONS, TOGETHER WITH THE RE-+ GIMENTS / OF FOOT OF LASCELLES, MURRAY, GUISE, AND LEE. THESE WERE ORDERED TO MARCH DIRECTLY TOWARDS STIRLING, WHERE THEY WERE TO ENCAMP UNDER THE COMMAND OF LIEUTE-+ NANT GENERAL SIR JOHN COPE. HAD SOME OF THE WELL-AFFECTED CHIEFS HAD IT IN THEIR POWER, IN THE INFANCY OF THIS REBELLION, TO HAVE ARMED THEIR CLANS IT MIGHT MOST PROBABLY HAVE BEEN CRUSHED IN THE EGGSHELL; BUT THERE BEING A PROVI-+ SION / BY A VERY SEVERE LAW AGAINST THIS, WITH-+ OUT / AN ORDER OF COUNCIL, AND THERE BEING SOME TIME AS WELL AS DIFFICULTY REQUIRED TO OBTAIN THIS ORDER, THE REBELS HAD UNFOR-+ TUNATELY, / AN OPPORTUNITY TO FORM THEMSELVES, BEFORE ANY SUCH STEP COULD POSSIBLY BE TAKEN AGAINST THEM. BY THE ((20TH)) OF AUGUST, BEFORE WHICH TIME THE TWO OTHER CHIEFS WERE RETURNED WITH THEIR CLANS, THE ARMY OF THE REBELS WERE INCREASED TO THE NUMBER OF ((1200)). THEY THEN PROCEEDED TO FORM TWO OTHER RE-+ GIMENTS, / ONE OF WHICH WAS COMMANDED BY

GENERAL MACDONELL, AND THE OTHER BY THE PRETENDER'S SON HIMSELF. ON THE ((22D)), HAVING MADE THEMSELVES TENTS, THEY MARCHED A FEW MILES, AND ENCAMPED ON A HILL, (FOR BEFORE THIS TIME THEY KEPT IN SEPARATE COMPANIES, AT SOME DISTANCE FROM EACH OTHER, IN ORDER TO AVOID DISCOVERY;) A STRATAGEM WHICH HAD SO GOOD AN EFFECT, THAT WHOEVER RECOLLECTS THE ACCOUNTS WHICH THE NEWS PAPERS GAVE US OF THE FIRST LAND-+ ING / OF THE PRETENDER, MUST REMEMBER WITH WHAT INCERTAINTY THEY SPOKE OF A FEW MEN BEING LANDED IN THE WEST OF SCOTLAND, WHO WERE SOMETIMES GENTLEMEN FROM IRELAND HUNTING, AND SOMETIMES WERE QUITE VANISH-+ ED, / EVERY SUBSEQUENT ACCOUNT ACTUALLY CON-+ TRADICTING / THE FORMER; SO THAT FEW, EXCEPT THE MOST CREDULOUS, GAVE ANY BELIEF TO IT, IMAGINING IT WAS RATHER A STORY DEVISED BY SOME PERSONS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES WHICH NEED NOT BE MENTIONED. THIS INFIDELITY WAS OF VERY PERNICIOUS CONSEQUENCE, ESPE-+ CIALLY / AS IT PREVAILED IN SOME MEASURE EVEN AMONG THE GREATER PEOPLE: NAY, SO ACCUS-+ TOMED / WERE THEY TO TREAT THIS REBELLION AS IMAGINARY, THAT EVEN WHEN IT WAS IMPOS-+ SIBLE / TO DOUBT LONGER OF ITS REALITY, THEY MADE IT STILL THE SUBJECT OF CONTEMPT AND

RIDICULE; SAYING IT WAS ONLY A COMPANY OF WILD HIGHLANDERS GOT TOGETHER, WHOM THE VERY SIGHT OF A BODY OF TROOPS, HOW-+ EVER / SMALL, WOULD INFALLIBLY DISPERSE: NAY, ONE GREAT MAN IS REPORTED TO HAVE ASKED, WITH A CONTEMPTUOUS AIR, WHY THEY DID NOT READ THE PROCLAMATION TO THEM? THIS INDUCED A SUPINENESS IN OUR COUNCILS, AND GAVE THE REBELS TIME AND OPPORTUNITY TO GROW MORE FORMIDABLE THAN THEY COULD EVER HAVE BECOME FROM SUCH A BEGIN-+ NING, / HAD THE REPORT OF IT MET WITH MORE CREDIT AT FIRST, AND AFTERWARDS WITH LESS CONTEMPT THAN IT DID. HOWEVER, WE MAY LEARN THE TRUTH OF THAT OLD OBSERVA-+ TION, / THAT IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DESPISE THE MOST CONTEMPTIBLE ENEMY TOO ABSOLUTELY. A LESSON WHICH, I HOPE, OUR FUTURE POLI-+ TICIANS / WILL LEARN FROM THE PRESENT CASE. BUT TO RETURN TO OUR HISTORY: THE RE-+ BELS / BEING NOW UPWARDS OF ((1200)) STRONG, GREW SOMEWHAT BOLDER, AND BEGAN TO PLACE GREATER CONFIDENCE IN THEIR STRENGTH. ON THE ((21ST)), THEREFORE, AS WE HAVE SAID, THEY CAME TO A RENDEZVOUS ON AN OPEN HILL, WHERE THEY ENCAMPED IN THE SIGHT OF THE COUNTRY.

ON THE ((22D)) THEY ERECTED THEIR STANDARD WITH GREAT SOLEMNITY: THE PRIESTS FIRST WASHED IT ALL OVER WITH HOLY WATER, AND BLESSED IT; THEN A CERTAIN NUMBER OF AVE MARY'S AND PATER-NOSTER'S WERE SAID, BE-+ SIDES / PRAYERS TO THE SAINTS; IN ALL WHICH ACTS OF DEVOTION, CHARLES DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF WITH GREATER ZEAL (IF POSSIBLE) THAN THE PRIESTS THEMSELVES. IN THE AFTERNOON OF THIS DAY IN WHICH THEY ERECTED THEIR STANDARD, THEY WERE REINFORCED BY A BODY OF ((200)) HIGHLANDERS, WHO BROUGHT THEM AN ACCOUNT THAT THE KING'S FORCES WERE MARCHING TOWARDS STIRLING. THE CHIEF CARE OF THE REBELS BEGAN NOW TO BE THE PROCURING PROVISIONS, AS THEIR MOUTHS GREW VERY NUMEROUS; IN ORDER TO WHICH THEY SENT OUT A PARTY, WHO, ON THE ((22D)) IN THE EVENING, DROVE A HERD OF BLACK CATTLE INTO THE CAMP, WHICH WERE RECEIV'D BY THEM WITH GREAT JOY. ON THE ((23D)), A PARTY OF ((400)) OF THE RE-+ BELS, / CHIEFLY BELONGING TO THE ROYAL RE-+ GIMENT / OF HIGHLAND GUARDS, ATTACKED AND DEFEATED A SMALL PARTY OF THE KING'S FOR-+ CES, / UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPT((.)) SCOTT. THE CAPTAIN HIMSELF WAS WOUNDED IN THE ARM; AND A SERJEANT, EVEN AFTER THE BATTLE

WAS CUT ALL TO PIECES; WHICH FATE ALL THE REST HAD SHARED, HAD IT NOT BEEN PREVENTED BY ONE STEWART, A CAPTAIN OF THE HIGH-+ LANDERS. / THESE FELLOWS HAD ALREADY SO WELL PROFITED UNDER THEIR POPISH INSTRUC-+ TOR, / AS TO LEARN THE LANGUAGE OF HERETIC DOGS! AND THE TRUE ARTS OF PROPAGATING RELIGION WITH FIRE AND SWORD. THE REBELS BEGAN NOW TO ENCREASE CON-+ SIDERABLY, AND BY THE ((28TH)), THEY WERE FULL ((2000)) STRONG. AT THIS TIME THEY ADDED A BATTALLION TO THE REGIMENT OF GUARDS, AND LIKEWISE FORMED A THIRD RE-+ GIMENT, / OF WHICH THE DUKE OF PERTH WAS DECLARED COLONEL. GENERAL COPE HAD NOW ASSEMBLED A PRET-+ TY / CONSIDERABLE BODY OF THE KING'S FOR-+ CES / NEAR STERLING; BUT THE WAYS TOWARDS THE REBELS WERE SUCH, THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPRACTICABLE TO COME AT THEM WITH-+ OUT / THE UTMOST HAZARD OF LOSING THE WHOLE ARMY IN THE ATTEMPT: NOR HAD HE INDEED ANY OTHER WAY OF ATTACKING THEM, THAN BY TAKING A VAST SCOPE ROUND; WHICH HE DE-+ CLINED, / AS HE CHOSE RATHER TO KEEP HIMSELF POSTED BETWEEN THEM AND THE CITY OF E-+ DINBURGH; / WELL KNOWING, THAT COULD THE CAPITAL OF SCOTLAND BE PRESERVED, ANY SUC-+ CESS /

THEY MIGHT HAVE OF ASSEMBLING A BO-+ DY / IN THE HIGHLANDS, WHERE THEY MUST SOON BE STARV'D, WOULD BE IN THE END FRUITLESS AND INEFFECTUAL. HOWEVER, THE ALARM OF THEIR SUCCESS DAILY ENCREASING IN ENGLAND, AND THE NUM-+ BERS / WHICH FROM TIME TO TIME JOINED THEM GIVING A VERY JUST CAUSE OF UNEASINESS TO OUR MINISTRY HERE, THE GENERAL RECEIV'D PE-+ REMPTORY / ORDERS TO MARCH FORWARDS, WHICH HE DID; AND IN THE MEANTIME THE REBELS GAVE HIM THE SLIP, AND ON THE ((29TH)) MARCH'D TOWARDS PERTH, THE DUKE OF THAT NAME LEADING THE VAN, CHARLES MARCHING IN THE CENTRE, AND GENERAL MACDONELL IN THE REAR. THIS EVENING THEY WERE JOINED BY LORD GEO((.)) MURRAY, BROTHER TO THE DUKE OF ATHOL, AND BY THREE OTHER GENTLEMEN, ONE OF WHOM IS BROTHER TO AN EARL. ON THE ((30TH)), THEY MARCHED NO MORE THAN THREE MILES, ON ADVICE THAT THE KING'S FORCES, UNDER THE COMMAND OF HIS EXCEL-+ LENCY / LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR JOHN COPE, WAS MARCHING TOWARDS THEM. HOWEVER, THIS AFTERWARDS PROVED A FALSE RUMOUR. CHARLES EXPRESS'D GREAT BRAVERY ON THIS OC-+ CASION; / AND SHEWING A MEDAL WHICH HE WORE ON HIS RIGHT ARM, SAID, HE FEARED

NOTHING WHILE HE HAD THE PROTECTION OF THAT HOLY RELIQUE. AND INDEED THE GREATER PART OF THE ARMY, WHO WERE NOW CATHOLICKS (SO WELL HAD THE PRIESTS, WHO WERE NOW LIKEWISE ENCREASED IN NUMBER, BESTOWED THEIR TIME, AND SO PLENTIFULLY HAD THEY BESTOWED THEIR RELIQUES) SEEMED TO RELY MORE, SOME ON AN OLD TOOTH, OTHERS ON A LOCK OF HAIR, AND OTHERS ON SOME SUCH BAWBLE FOR PROTECTION, THAN ON THEIR SWORDS: NOT THAT THEY NEGLECTED THE HU-+ MAN / MEANS OF STRENGTHENING THEMSELVES: ON THE CONTRARY, THEY SPENT AT LEAST TWELVE HOURS IN EVERY DAY IN THE EXERCISE OF THEIR ARMS, TO THEIR INSTRUCTIONS IN WHICH THE FEW OFFICERS THEY HAD ADDICTED THEM-+ SELVES / INCESSANTLY. CHARLES HIMSELF WAS CONSTANTLY BUSIED EITHER IN THIS, OR HIS DE-+ VOTIONS; / WHICH LAST OCCUPIED A FULL THIRD PART OF HIS TIME: NAY, SO VERY DEVOUT IS HE IN HIS INCLINATIONS, THE GENERAL MAC-+ DONELL / ONE DAY ENDEAVOURED, WITH SOME SORT OF RIDICULE, TO GIVE HIM A GENTLE RE-+ PRIMAND; / BUT HE RETURNED IT WITH GREAT SEVERITY, SAYING, GOD KNEW BEST WHAT MIGHT BE THE END OF ANY OTHER JOURNEY HE WAS TAKING; BUT THIS HE WAS CERTAIN OF, THAT WHENEVER HE WAS ON HIS KNEES, HE WAS ON HIS DIRECT ROAD TO HEAVEN; A ROAD IN

WHICH HE WAS CERTAIN ONE DAY OR OTHER TO COME TO A HAPPY END OF HIS JOURNEY. WHILE THEY REMAINED IN THIS CAMP, CHARLES GAVE TWO INSTANCES, THE ONE OF HIS EXACT REGARD TO DISCIPLINE, THE OTHER OF HIS MORE EXACT REGARD TO HIS RELIGION. ONE OF THE HIGHLAND GUARDS HAD STOLE A SHEEP; OF THIS BEING ACCUSED, HE WAS TRY'D BY A COURT-MARTIAL, AND CONDEMNED TO BE SHOT, WHICH SENTENCE WAS ACCORDINGLY EXECUTED; A RIGOUR, WHICH REGARD TO DISCIPLINE MIGHT HAVE EXCUSED, HAD IT BEEN AS WELL EXERTED TOWARDS ANOTHER, WHO HAVING COM-+ MITTED / A RAPE ON AN INFANT OF 11 YEARS OF AGE, WAS PARDONED. NOR COULD ANY OTHER REASON BE ASSIGNED FOR THE TOO GREAT SEVERITY SHEWN TO THE ONE, OR THE TOO UN-+ JUST / MERCY SHEWN TO THE OTHER; BUT THAT THE FORMER WAS A PROTESTANT, AND THE OTHER A PAPIST: NAY, THE ONLY DEFENCE WHICH THE LATTER COULD BE BROUGHT TO MAKE, WAS THAT THE GIRL WAS A HERETIC, AND AGAINST SUCH ALL THINGS WERE LAWFUL. A DREADFUL RELIGION INDEED, WHICH TEACHES US TO DI-+ VEST / OURSELVES OF HUMANITY TO OUR FEL-+ LOW / CREATURES, ONLY FROM SERVING THEIR GOD IN A DIFFERENT MANNER, AND HOLDING DIFFERENT TENETS OF RELIGION FROM OUR OWN: AND

WHICH HORRIBLE ZEAL CAN BE ONLY ACCOUNTED FOR FROM THE WORDLY INTEREST OF PRIESTS, AND THE DARK IGNORANCE IN WHICH THEY BU-+ RY / THE MINDS OF ALL LAY ZEALOTS, OVER WHOM THEY EXERCISE SO DESPOTIC AN AU-+ THORITY, / THAT HOWEVER BENEVOLENT AND GOOD THEY MAY OTHERWISE BE IN THEIR DISPOSITIONS, YET WHEN THE CAUSE OF THEIR RELIGION ONCE INTERFERES WITH THEIR HUMANITY, THE LATTER IS ALWAYS SURE OF BEING SACRIFIC'D TO THE FORMER: SO THAT AS IN THE PROTESTANT RE-+ LIGION, / THAT IS TO SAY, IN THE PURE AND TRUE SPIRIT OF CHRISTIANITY, SINCERE PIETY ALWAYS RENDERS A MAN KIND, GOOD AND CHARITABLE TOWARDS ALL OTHER HUMAN BEINGS: SO DOTH A VIOLENT ZEAL IN POPERY AS CERTAINLY DI-+ VEST / HIM OF ALL THESE AMIABLE PRINCIPLES; AND THE MORE PIOUS THE CATHOLIC, THE WORSE ALWAYS MUST BE THE MAN, IN ALL MATTERS WHERE THE INTEREST OF HIS RELIGION, OR OF PROPAGATING THE FAITH, AS THEY CALL IT, IS CONCERN'D: A FACT SO ESTABLISHED, THAT EVERY PAGE ALMOST OF THE HISTORIES OF PO-+ PISH / COUNTRIES ABOUNDS WITH EXAMPLES OF THE BLOODIEST AND MOST CRUEL ACTIONS DONE, AT THE INSTIGATION OF PRIESTS, BY MEN WHO ON ALL OTHER OCCASIONS HAVE SHEWN THE VERY MILDEST AND BEST DISPOSITIONS.

I HOPE MY READER WILL PARDON THIS DI-+ GRESSION, / WHICH I THOUGHT THE NATURE OF THE FACT SUFFICIENTLY WARRENTED ON THIS OC-+ CASION. / I NOW RETURN TO THESE REBELS, BY WHOSE ARMS THIS BLESSED RELIGION IS ATTEMPT-+ ED / TO BE INTRODUCED, WITH ALL THE WAR AND MASSACRE AND BLOODSHED, IN WHICH ITS GENIUS DELIGHTS, INTO THIS COUNTRY. ON THE ((31ST)), THEY CAME TO PERTH, WHICH THEY TOOK POSSESSION OF WITHOUT ANY OPPO-+ SITION: / HERE MASS WAS CELEBRATED PUBLICKLY, AND CHARLES AND MOST OF THE ARMY ASSISTED AT IT. THEN THE PRETENDER'S DECLARATION WAS PUBLICKLY READ AT THE MARKET CROSS, AF-+ TER / WHICH HE WAS PROCLAIM'D WITH GREAT SO-+ LEMNITY. / A MINISTER OF THE KIRK MEETING WITH CHARLES IN THE STREET, OFFERED TO GIVE HIM ADVICE, NOT TO SHEW SO GREAT ZEAL FOR HIS RELIGION, AND REMINDED HIM OF THE FATE WHICH HIS FATHER HAD MET WITH IN THE LAST REBELLION, WHICH HE ATTRIBUTED TO HIS DISRE-+ GARD / TO THE HOLY PRESBTERY AND ADHERING TO POPERY, TO WHICH, THE MINISTER SAID, HE HAD SACRIFICED HIS CROWN. CHARLES ANSWERED COLDLY, HIS FATHER PREFERRED AN HEAVENLY CROWN TO AN EARTHLY ONE: UPON THIS, ONE OF THE COMMON SOLDIERS REVILED THE MINI-+ STER, /

AND SPIT IN HIS FACE; FOR WHICH FACT, WITHOUT ANY OTHER MERIT, HE WAS WITHIN TWO DAYS AFTERWARDS PREFERRED TO BE A LIEU-+ TENANT. / ONE OF THE HIGHLAND CHIEFS, WHO, THO' HE HAD SIMPLY EMBRACED THE PARTY OF THE REBELS, WAS HOWEVER A RIGID PRESBYTERIAN, DECLARED THE HIGHEST INDIGNATION AT THIS PRE-+ FERMENT, / AND VENTUR'D TO REMONSTRATE AGAINST IT TO CHARLES HIMSELF: HE WAS ANSWER'D, THAT HIS WORD WAS NOT TO BE CONTROULED, NOR THE THE REASONS OF HIS CONDUCT TO BE ENQUIRED INTO BY THE SUBJECT. AND THE VERY NEXT MORNING THIS POOR MAN WAS FOUND SHOT IN HIS BED; NOR WAS ANY THE LEAST ENQUIRY MADE AFTER THE MURDERER. SUCH IS THE SPIRIT OF POPERY AND ARBI-+ TRARY / POWER, TO WHICH THE BLOOD OF SO MANY MILLIONS HATH BEEN SHED FOR A SACRI-+ FICE. / WHILE THE REBELS LAY AT PERTH, THEY HAD FREQUENT ALARMS OF THE KING'S FORCES BEING READY TO ATTACK THEM, ON WHICH ACCOUNT THE WHOLE ARMY, AMOUNTING TO ((3600)) MEN AND UPWARDS, AND WHICH WERE DISPOSED IN THREE REGIMENTS, WERE DRAWN OUT, AND LAY

ONE WHOLE NIGHT AND DAY UNDER ARMS; BUT NO ENEMY APPEARING, ON THE ((2D)) OF SEPTEMBER, AT TEN IN THE MORNING, THEY MARCHED BACK INTO THEIR CAMP. THE SAME DAY THE MARQUIS OF TULLIBARDIN, AT THE HEAD OF ((500)) MEN, TOOK POSSESSION OF THE DUKE OF ATHOL'S HOUSE AT BLAIR, WHITHER THE NEXT MORNING CHARLES, THE DUKE OF ATHOL, LORD ASGILL, LORD GEORGE MURRAY, AND SOME MORE, REPAIRED, AND WERE ENTER-+ TAINED / BY THE MARQUIS, WHO WAS SALUTED THERE BY THE TITLE OF THE DUKE HIS BRO-+ THER. / THE DUKE OF PERTH SUMMONED MANY OF HIS TENANTS TO MEET HIM AT BLAIR, AND BRING WITH THEM ALL THE RENT THEY OWED HIM, ON PAIN OF BEING TREATED WITH THE UTMOST SEVERITY. HE LIKEWISE ORDERED AS MANY OF THEM AS COULD PROCURE ARMS TO FURNISH THEMSELVES THEREWITH, AND BRING THEM ALONG WITH THEM: MOST OF THESE OBEYED HIS SUM-+ MONS, / AND PRODUCED HIM ALL THE MONEY AND ARMS IN THEIR POWER. BUT INSTEAD OF DISCHARGING THESE POOR WRETCHES, AFTER THEY HAD DELIVERED HIM THEIR RENT (AND SOME OF THEM MORE THAN WAS DUE) HE INSISTED ON THEIR BEARING ARMS IN THE PRETENDER'S CAUSE. TO THIS LIKEWISE SEVERAL SUBMITTED, (SUCH ARE

THE TERRORS OF ARBITRARY POWER) THREE HOW-+ EVER / RESISTED, DECLARING, THAT BESIDES THE IN-+ CONVENIENCE / WHICH THE NEGLECT OF THEIR AF-+ FAIRS / WOULD SUBJECT THEM TO, AND THE DANGER OF THE UNDERTAKING, IT WAS AGAINST THEIR CONSCIENCE TO ASSIST THE CAUSE OF POPERY AGAINST THE TRUE RELIGION OF THEIR COUNTRY; TO WHICH ONE OF THEM HAD THE BOLDNESS TO ADD, HE WAS SORRY TO SEE HIS GRACE EMBARK'D IN SUCH A CAUSE: UPON THIS, THE DUKE FLY-+ ING / INTO A RAGE, SNATCHED UP A PISTOL WHICH LAY IN HIS TENT, AND IMMEDIATELY SHOT THE POOR MAN THROUGH THE HEAD. AFTER WHICH THE OTHER TWO MADE THEIR ESCAPE FROM HIM, AND ONE FROM THE CAMP, THE OTHER BEING PURSUED AND KILLED BY ONE OF THE REBELS, WHO WAS WITNESS TO THE WHOLE TRANSACTION. THIS DUKE OF PERTH, NOTWITHSTANDING THE APPARENT CRUELTY OF THIS ACTION, IS A MAN OF A GOOD CHARACTER, AND HATH FOR-+ MERLY / BEHAVED HIMSELF LIKE A WORTHY AND GOOD NATUR'D GENTLEMAN: BUT SUCH IS THE NATURE OF THIS CAUSE, AND OF THE SPIRIT WITH WHICH IT IS CONDUCTED; HEADED BY A YOUNG, RASH, AMBITIOUS, FIERY ZEALOT, UNDER THE AB-+ SOLUTE / GOVERNMENT AND GUIDANCE OF FURI-+ OUS, / ENRAGED PRIESTS, WHO BREATHE NOTHING

BUT BLOOD AND DESOLATION, AND HAVE SO EF-+ FECTUALLY / BREATH'D THEIR HORRID PRINCIPLES INTO THE POOR WILD WRETCHES UNDER THEIR INFLU-+ ENCE / AND COMMAND, THAT THE WHOLE ARMY, ACCORDING TO MACPHERSON, AND OTHERS WHO HAVE SEEN IT, IS LIKER TO A LEGION OF DEVILS THAN OF MEN. MAY GOD CONFINE THEM TO THEIR OWN BORDERS, OR, IF THEY ATTEMPT TO OVERLEAP THEM, INSPIRE THIS NATION WITH A SPIRIT SUFFICIENT SOON TO DRIVE THEM OUT OF HER OWN BOWELS, IN WHICH THEY WOULD QUICKLY BECOME THE MOST VIOLENT AND MOR-+ TAL / DISEASE. THE DUKE OF ATHOL, WHO HAD RETIRED TO EDINBURGH WITH HIS FAMILY, ON THE FIRST NEWS OF THE REBELS APPROACH, HAD TAKEN SUCH CARE TO CONVEY AWAY EVERY THING WHICH COULD BE EITHER CARRIED OR DROVE OFF FROM HIS TERRITORIES, AS WELL AS HIS HOUSE, THAT THE MARQUIS OF TULLIBARDIN HAD GREAT DIFFI-+ CULTY / TO PROVIDE A VERY MODERATE ENTERTAIN-+ MENT / FOR THE PRETENDER'S SON AND HIS FOL-+ LOWERS: / THE ARMY THEREFORE, (WHICH WAS NOW GROWN VERY NUMEROUS) FOUND VERY LITTLE REASON TO BE SATISFIED WITH THE PLENTIFULNESS OF THEIR QUARTERS. INDEED, IF THE PRIESTS HAD CONSULTED POLICY AS MUCH AS RELIGION, THEY COULD NEVER HAVE FOUND A FITTER OPPOR-+ TUNITY /

TO PROCLAIM A GENERAL FAST THAN THE PRESENT. NO BULL OF THE POPE'S WOULD EVER HAVE BEEN MORE CERTAIN OF FINDING A MOST EXACT AND PUNCTUAL OBEDIENCE. THE WHOLE ARMY THEREFORE, WHICH ON THE ((2D)) OF SEP-+ TEMBER / HAD ENCAMPED AT THE BLAIR OF ATHOL, ON THE ((3D)) MARCHED BACK AGAIN TOWARDS PERTH. IN THEIR MARCH THE VAN-GUARD HAD LIKE TO HAVE FALLEN IN WITH A SMALL PARTY OF THE KING'S DRAGOONS; UPON WHICH AN A-+ LARM / WAS IMMEDIATELY SPREAD THROUGH THE WHOLE ARMY OF THE REBELS, THAT SIR JOHN COPE WITH THE KING'S FORCES WAS APPROACH-+ ING; / BUT THESE FEW DRAGOONS PRESENTLY RE-+ TIRING, / DELIVERED THEM FROM THEIR APPREHEN-+ SIONS / ALMOST AS SOON AS THEY WERE RISEN, AND QUICKLY AFTER SOME MORE WELCOME GUESTS ARRIVED; FOR ON THE SAME DAY ABOUT THIRTY HEAD OF CATTLE WERE DRIVEN TO THE CAMP, FOR WHICH THE PRETENDER'S SON PROMISED THE OWNERS PAYMENT, WHEN HE HAD GOT POSSES-+ SION / OF WHAT HE CALLED HIS FATHER'S CROWN. ON THE ((9TH)) OF SEPTEMBER, THE INVERNESS POST WAS STOPT AS HE PASSED BY ATHOL; HE WAS IMMEDIATELY BROUGHT BEFORE THE YOUNG PRETENDER, WHO ORDERED HIS PACKETS TO BE SEARCHED, AND TWO PRIESTS, ONE OF WHOM IS MADE A BISHOP, AND DIGNIFIED BY THE TITLE

OF HIS LORDSHIP, WERE APPOINTED TO READ THE LETTERS. SOME OF THESE LETTERS WERE DETAINED, AND THE REST DELIVERED BACK A-+ GAIN / TO BE CONVEYED AS DIRECTED. WHILE THE ARMY LAY AT BLAIR, MASS WAS CONSTANTLY CELEBRATED TWICE A DAY IN THE CHAPEL OF THE CASTLE; AT WHICH CHARLES NEVER FAILED TO ASSIST, TOGETHER WITH ALL THE PRINCIPAL NOBLEMEN, AND OTHERS. HERE ((30)) FRENCH OFFICERS, TOGETHER WITH THE FAMOUS GENERAL CAMERON, JOINED THEM; THESE WERE IMMEDIATELY DISPERSED IN A NEW REGIMENT, THE COMMAND OF WHICH WAS GIVEN TO THAT GENERAL. THESE OFFICERS, WHO LANDED IN A LONG SMALL VESSEL IN THE WEST OF SCOTLAND, BROUGHT WITH THEM DISPATCHES TO CHARLES FROM HIS FATHER, AND, AS WAS REPORTED, A CONSIDERABLE SUM OF MONEY. THE CON-+ FESSOR / LIKEWISE READ A LETTER PUBLICKLY, WHICH HE HAD RECEIVED FROM THE POPE, CON-+ TAINING / ABSOLUTION AND INDULGENCES TO ALL THOSE WHO SHOULD EMBRACE THE CATHOLIC RELIGION AND THE PRETENDER'S PARTY: AND MANY TOOK HIM AT HIS WORD, PARTICULARLY ONE JAMES CAMERON, WHO HAD SO WELL RE-+ COMMENDED / HIMSELF BY EXPRESSING AN EX-+ TRAORDINARY /

ZEAL AGAINST HERETICS, THAT THE CONFESSOR PROCURED HIM AN ENSIGN'S COM-+ MISSION: / HE WAS AFTERWARDS REBUKED BY HIS BROTHER (WHO IS A RIGID PRESBYTERIAN) FOR GOING TO MASS; UPON THIS HE SWORE, THAT HE HAD GOT HEAVEN AND A PAIR OF CO-+ LOURS / BOTH IN AN HOUR. AT THIS TIME THE ALARM GREW VERY HIGH IN LONDON. ON THE ((9TH)) HIS MAJESTY PUB-+ LISHED / A PROCLAMATION FOR DISARMING PAPISTS AND NONJURORS, AND FOR COMMANDING ALL PAPISTS AND REPUTED PAPISTS TO DEPART FROM THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER, AND FROM WITHIN TEN MILES FROM THE SAME; AND FOR CONFINING PAPISTS AND REPUTED PAPISTS TO THEIR HABITATIONS, AND FOR PUTTING IN EXECUTION THE LAWS AGAINST RIOTS AND RIOTERS. AND NOW ADDRESSES OF THE MOST LOYAL AND ZEALOUS KIND BEGAN TO FLOCK IN FROM ALL CORPORATE BODIES IN THE KINGDOM, IN WHICH THE CITY OF LONDON, THE COURT OF LIEUTENANCY, AND THE WHOLE BODY OF MER-+ CHANTS, / LED THE WAY: ALL THESE WERE CON-+ CEIVED / IN THE STRONGEST TERMS OF LOYALTY, AND EXPRESSING A TRUE SENSE OF THE DANGERS WITH WHICH THESE KINGDOMS WERE THREAT-+ NED /

BY POPERY AND ARBITARY POWER. ALL PEOPLE BEGAN TO THINK OF ARMING THEM-+ SELVES / IN THE CAUSE OF THE PUBLIC; AND SE-+ VERAL / NOBLEMEN, WHO HAVE SINCE PUT IT IN EXECUTION, TOOK OUT COMMISSIONS TO RAISE REGIMENTS FOR THE PUBLIC SERVICE. SIR JAMES COPE WAS NOW AT INVERNESS, WITH HIS FORCES, WHERE HE RECEIVED OR-+ DERS / TO TAKE THE MOST IMMEDIATE ROAD TO THE REBELS, EVEN BY SEA, IF THERE WERE NO OTHER MORE EXPEDITIOUS METHOD; IN PUR-+ SUANCE / OF WHICH ORDERS, HE EMBARKED HIS FORCES AT INVERNESS, AND SAILED DIRECTLY TO-+ WARDS / LEITH, BY WHICH MEANS HE HOPED TO INTERCEPT THE REBELS BEFORE THEY COULD POSSIBLY ARRIVE AT EDINBURGH. THE REBELS LAY ALL THIS WHILE IN THEIR CAMP NEAR PERTH, WHERE THEIR GENERALS AND OTHER OFFICERS LOST NO OPPORTUNITY OF REGIMENTING AND DISCIPLINING THEM WITH THE UTMOST EXPEDITION. ONE EVENING (WHEN MACPHERSON HIM-+ SELF / HAPPENED TO DO DUTY AS ONE OF THE YOUNG PRETENDER'S GUARDS) A PERSON CAME TO THE CAMP, AND WAS, BY HIS DESIRE, CONDUCTED TO THE PRESENCE OF CHARLES, WITH

WHOM HE STAID IN CLOSE CONFERENCE, AT WHICH ONLY THE DUKES OF PERTH AND ATHOL (FOR SO THE MARQUIS OF TULLIBARDIN WAS NOW CALLED) WERE PRESENT, DURING SEVERAL HOURS. SOON AFTER HIS DEPARTURE, IT WAS RUMOURED THROUGH THE WHOLE ARMY THAT THE CITY OF EDINBURGH WAS TO BE BETRAYED TO THEM, AND THAT THEY WERE TO MARCH IN A DAY OR TWO TO TAKE POSSESSION. ACCORDINGLY, ON THE ((11TH)) INSTANT, AT BREAK OF DAY, THE ARMY MARCHED, AND CAME THAT DAY TO DUMBLAIN, WHICH IS ((22)) MILES. THE NEXT DAY THEY HALTED IN THE MORNING, WERE DRAWN UP AND REVIEWED BY GENERAL CAMERON; AND HAVING BEEN UNDER ARMS ALL THAT DAY, ADVANCED IN THE EVEN-+ ING / AS FAR AS DOWN, WHICH IS ONLY TWO MILES DISTANT FROM DUMBLAIN. ON THE ((13TH)), THEY AGAIN MARCHED AT DAY-+ BREAK, / AND IN THE MORNING PASSED THE FRITH AT THE FORD OF FREWS, FIVE MILES ABOVE STIR-+ LING. / HERE CHARLES ATTEMPTING TO GIVE AN EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE OF HIS BRAVERY, BY PASSING THE WATER FIRST, AND MISTAKING THE FORD, VERY NARROWLY ESCAPED DROWNING, FROM WHICH HE WAS PRESERVED BY LEIUTE-+ NANT / DUNCAN MADSON, WHO AT THE HAZARD

OF HIS OWN LIFE RESCUED HIM FROM THE WAVES; A SERVICE FOR WHICH HE WOULD CER-+ TAINLY / HAVE BEEN REWARDED, HAD NOT RE-+ LIGION AND THE PRIESTS (MADSON BEING A FIRM ADHERENT TO THE PRESBYTERY) OPPOSED HIS PROMOTION. INDEED SO STRONG IS THIS BIASS IN THE MIND OF CHARLES, THAT NOT A SINGLE INSTANCE CAN BE PRODUCED OF ANY PREFER-+ MENT / BEING BESTOWED BY HIM, UNLESS ON THOSE WHO HAVE EMBRACED HIS RELIGION. THE ARMY HAVING PASS'D THE FRITH AT THIS FORD, WHICH IS ABOUT FIVE MILES ABOVE STIR-+ LING, / HALTED FOR SOME TIME, WHILE A COUN-+ CIL / WAS HELD AT THEIR FRONT AMONG THE GE-+ NERALS, / AFTER WHICH THEY WERE DIRECTED TO MARCH TOWARDS GLASGOW, AND THEY ALL AP-+ PREHENDED / THE DESIGN WAS TO MAKE AN AT-+ TEMPT / ON THAT CITY; BUT ON THE ((14TH)) IN THE MORNING, THE POSTURE WAS CHANG'D; THEY TURNED SHORT TOWARDS THE EAST, AND CAME TO FALKIRK; AND ON THE ((15TH)) ADVAN-+ CED / WITHIN SIGHT OF EDINBURGH, THEIR VAN-+ GUARD / BEING POSTED ABOUT THREE MILES TO THE EAST OF GOGAR, AND WHICH IS ABOUT THE SAME DISTANCE FROM EDINBURGH. HERE THEY AGAIN HALTED, AND WERE DRAWN UP, IN ORDER, AS THEY SUPPOSED, TO FORM THE ATTACK OF THE TOWN; BUT WERE IMMEDIATELY SURPRIZED TO

SEE THE YOUNG PRETENDER, WITH THE DUKE OF PERTH, ETC((.)) AT THE HEAD OF THE ROYAL RE-+ GIMENT / OF GUARDS ONLY, ADVANCE DIRECTLY TOWARDS THE TOWN, WHERE, AS THEY SOON AF-+ TER / HEARD, THE GATES WERE THROWN OPEN FOR THEIR RECEPTION. GENERAL GUEST, WITH SOME OF THE KING'S FORCES, SOME ARM'D TOWNSMEN, WITH THE BANK AND MOST OF THE VALUABLE EFFECTS, AND WITH PROVISIONS, AS IT WAS THEN SAID, FOR TEN WEEKS, BEING RETIR'D INTO THE CASTLE. THE DECLARATION WAS THEN READ, AND THE PRETENDER IMMEDIATELY PROCLAIMED AT THE MARKET CROSS, AS HE HAD BEEN BEFORE AT PERTH; AT WHICH CEREMONY SOME MAGISTRATES (BUT WHETHER VOLUNTARILY OR BY COMPLUSION WAS NOT KNOWN) ASSISTED, WITH ALL THE GEN-+ TRY / AND NOBLES OF THE REBELS ARMY. THIS CEREMONY WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A TRIPLE DISCHARGE OF THE SMALL ARMS FROM THE GUARDS, AS WELL AS FROM THE ARTILLERY, WITH MOST OF WHICH THE CASTLE HAD SUPPLY'D THE TOWN FOR THEIR DEFENCE; AND THIS SALUTE WAS AGAIN RETURNED FROM THE ARMY WITHOUT THE WALLS; SUCH, I MEAN, AS HAD FIRE-+ ARMS, / WHICH DID NOT AMOUNT TO A THIRD PART.

IN THE EVENING, SOME OF THOSE WHO HAD ATTENDED THE PRETENDER'S SON INTO THE TOWN, RETURNED INTO THE CAMP, AND GAVE AN ACCOUNT TO THE REBELS THERE OF THE RE-+ CEPTION / WHICH CHARLES AND HIS FRIENDS HAD MET WITH; AND WHICH (WHETHER IT AROSE FROM FEAR OR FAVOUR I WILL NOT DETERMINE) WAS MUCH MORE TO HIS SATISFACTION THAN HE EXPECTED. INDEED, HAD THE CITY BEEN INCLINED TO HAVE MADE A VIGOROUS RESIST-+ ANCE, / IT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY DIFFICULT, IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE, FOR THE PRETENDER'S FORCES TO HAVE TAKEN IT IN ANY REASONABLE TIME; ESPECIALLY AS THEY DAILY EXPECTED A VISIT FROM SIR JOHN COPE, AND WHO, IT WAS SAID, WAS TO HAVE BEEN GREATLY STRENGTHENED WITH A REGIMENT FROM THE TOWNSMEN OF EDIN-+ BURGH. / THIS SUCCESS, THEREFORE, (TO WHAT-+ EVER / TREACHERY IT WAS OWING) GREATLY ELATED THE WHOLE PARTY, ESPECIALLY THE PRIESTS, WHO FAILED NOT TO ASCRIBE IT TO THE FAVOUR OF HEAVEN, AS THEY AGAIN DERIV'D THAT FAVOUR FROM THE PREVALENCE OF THEIR OWN PRAYERS. THESE PERSONS LITTLE CONSIDER THE HORRID IM-+ PIETY / THEY ARE GUILTY OF, BY ATTRIBUTING TO THE IMMEDIATE INTERPOSITION OF THE SUPREME BEING, THE CONSEQUENCES WHICH ARE PRO-+ DUC'D / BY THE INIQUITY AND VILLANY OF MEN;

MAKING HIM THUS, IN ORDER TO SERVE THEIR VILE PURPOSES, THE AUTHOR OF THE BLACKEST TREACHERY AND DECEIT; AS IF HE WOULD, BY HIS OWN DIVINE CONDUCT, AUTHORIZE AND SANCTIFY THAT DETESTABLE AND HELLISH MAXIM OF POPISH PRIESTCRAFT, TO DO EVIL THAT GOOD MAY COME OF IT; OR IN OTHER AND TRUER WORDS, AS IF HE WOULD INSPIRE THE BLACKEST PRINCIPLES INTO THE MINDS OF MEN, IN ORDER TO PRO-+ PAGATE / A MOST CRUEL, IMPIOUS, AND IDOLATROUS RELIGION, BY ALL THE MEANS OF TREACHERY AND VIOLENCE. A HORRID BLASPHEMY, BY WHICH THEY HAVE MADE GOD THE AUTHOR OF DREADFUL MASSACRES, IN WHICH A HUNDRED THOUSAND POOR SOULS, OF ALL AGES AND SEXES, HAVE BEEN INHUMANLY, IN ONE NIGHT BUTCHERED IN THEIR SLEEP. THE PRETENDER, WITH HIS PRINCIPAL FOL-+ LOWERS / AND ((500)) OF HIS GUARDS, WERE LODGED IN THE TOWN, WHERE HE WAS TREATED WITH RATHER MORE RESPECT THAN FEAR WILL WELL ACCOUNT FOR, THOUGH I AM WILLING TO ATTRI-+ BUTE / AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO THAT MOTIVE, AS THE WEAKNESS OF HUMAN NATURE WILL ALLOW IT, BASE AS IT IS, SOME LITTLE DEGREE OF EXCUSE PREFERABLE TO THOSE WICKED PRIN-+ CIPLES, / WHICH AS THEY ARE MORE DIABOLICAL, SO ARE LIKEWISE MORE VOLUNTARY AND IN OUR

OWN POWER. THE REST OF HIS GUARDS TOOK UP THEIR QUARTERS IN THE CANONGATE: AND THIS PART OF HIS ARMY FOUND SUFFICIENT MEANS, NOTWITHSTANDING WHAT HAD BEEN WITHDRAWN INTO THE CASTLE, TO REFRESH THEM-+ SELVES, / AFTER THE LABOURS OF A VERY FATIGUING AND HUNGRY MARCH, WHERE THEY HAD LITTLE MORE TO COMFORT AND KEEP UP THEIR SPIRITS, BUT THOSE HOPES OF REWARDS WHICH THEIR PRIESTS VERY LIBERALLY BESTOWED ON THEM IN ANOTHER WORLD, AND THESE NOW AND THEN SWEETENED WITH SOME INSINUATIONS OF TEM-+ PORAL / PREFERMENTS IN THIS, WHEN THE TREA-+ SURES / OF ENGLAND SHALL BE EMPLOY'D TO RE-+ WARD / THE LOYALTY AND SUFFERINGS OF HIGH-+ LANDERS. / AS TO THE MAIN BODY OF THE REBELS, AS SOON AS THEIR SEVERAL GUARDS AND PICQUETS WERE FIXED (FOR THEIR GENERALS OMIT NO SORT OF MILITARY DISCIPLINE OR PRECAUTION) THE REST OF THEM WERE ORDERED IN TO THEIR CAMP, IN ORDER TO THEIR REPOSE, WHICH WAS VERY ACCEPTABLE TO MEN WHO HAD LITTLE ELSE BE-+ SIDES / THE NOISE AND SMELL OF GUNPOWDER TO REGALE THEMSELVES WITH FOR THE LAST ((24)) HOURS: THIS WANT, HOWEVER, WAS SOME-+ WHAT / REMEDIED THE NEXT MORNING, WHEN THEIR FRIENDS SENT A PRETTY LARGE SUPPLY OF

PROVISIONS TO THE CAMP, WHICH WAS NEVER-+ THELESS / SOON EXHUASTED BY SO LARGE A MULTI-+ TUDE; / AND SEVERAL PARTIES, WITHOUT ASKING LEAVE OF THEIR COMMANDERS, DETACHED THEMSELVES UP AND DOWN THE COUNTRY TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR OWN BELLIES. THE REBELS (AS THE GUARDS, ETC((.))) WITHIN THE TOWN, WERE NOW NOT MUCH BETTER SUPPLIED THAN THOSE WITHOUT, THE PROVISION WHICH THE PEOPLE CARED TO AFFORD THEM BEING ALMOST TOTALLY EXHAUSTED THE FIRST DAY, AND THE NEIGHBOURING COUNTRY HAV-+ ING / BEFORE BEEN PRETTY WELL DRAINED BY THE PRUDENCE OF GENERAL GUEST. SOME OF THE MORE VIOLENT DESIRED TO BE LED ON TO THE ASSAULT OF THE CASTLE, THOUGH ALMOST IM-+ PREGNABLE / BY NATURE, AND WELL FURNISHED WITH CANNON, AMMUNITION AND MEN. THIS ATTEMPT WAS TOO ROMANTIC AND IM-+ POSSIBLE, / TO RECEIVE ANY COUNTENANCE FROM THEIR COMMANDERS: AND IT WAS THEN WITH THE UTMOST DIFFICULTY THAT THEY WERE RE-+ STRAINED / FROM PLUNDERING THE WHOLE TOWN; HOWEVER, THE CONSIDERATION THAT THEY WERE THEIR OWN COUNTRYMEN SOMEWHAT ALLAYED THEIR FURY, THOUGH IT DID NOT ENTIRELY PRE-+ VENT / ALL DISORDERS; AND MANY VIOLENCES WERE IN SPITE OF THE SUPERIOR OFFICERS

COMMITTED, AS WELL ON THE PERSONS AS PRO-+ PERTIES / OF THE INHABITANTS, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN; FOR ALL OF WHOM (EXCEPT THOSE CONCERNED IN THE TREACHERY OF DELIVERING UP THE TOWN) THE READER WILL HAVE A JUST COMPASSION. GOD FORBID THAT ANY CITY OF ENGLAND SHOULD EVER BE EXPOSED TO THE SAME DANGER, TO ALL THE RAPINE AND CRU-+ ELTY / WHICH SUCH A BANDITTI OF RUFFIANS, WHEN LET LOOSE BY THEIR COMMANDERS, NAY, EVEN ENCOURAGED BY THEM, WOULD WITHOUT MERCY COMMIT; A SCENE OF MISERY MORE EASY TO CONCEIVE, THAN PLEASANT TO DESCRIBE; AND TO WHICH, WITHOUT MY UNDERGOING THAT IRKSOME TASK, THE READER MAY HAVE AN A-+ DEQUATE / IDEA, BY PERUSING THE HISTORY OF ANY ONE POPISH CONQUEST. AS IT WAS NO EASY MATTER TO PREVENT THE HUNGER OF THE SOLDIERS FROM COMMITTING OUTRAGES AT THIS SEASON, SO THE FURIOUS ZEAL OF THE PRIESTS, AND OF THEIR YOUNG PRETEN-+ DER, / NOW ELATED WITH SUCCESS, WAS AS DIF-+ FICULT / TO BE BRIDLED: AND IT WAS NOT WITH-+ OUT / THE UTMOST PERSUASION, BACKED WITH SOME STRONG REMONSTRANCES FROM THE COOLER AND MORE POLITIC OF HIS PARTY, THAT CHARLES WAS PREVAILED ON NOT TO HAVE MASS CELE-+ BRATED, / AND TE DEUM SUNG IN THE PRIN-+ CIPAL /

KIRK OF THE CITY. NOR WOULD THIS PRUDENT COUNCIL HAVE RESTRAINED HIM FOR THE PRESENT FROM AN ACT WHICH WOULD HAVE IN-+ CENSED / THE WHOLE KIRK OF SCOTLAND, HAD NOT AN ALARM OF GENERAL COPE'S BEING LANDED AT DUNBAR, BY THREATNING IMMEDIATE DAN-+ GER, / GIVEN SOME ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO THEIR ARGUMENTS. THE RELUCTANCE WITH WHICH THIS DESIGN WAS LAID ASIDE, AND IN-+ DEED / THE WHOLE TEMPER OF THESE MEN, MAY WELL BE GATHERED BY THE LANGUAGE OF ONE CALLAGHAN, AN IRISH PRIEST, WHO HAD NEWLY JOINED THEM, AND WHO DECLARED, IN THE HEARING OF MR ((.)) MACPHERSON, THAT NO FARTHER SUCCESS WAS TO BE EXPECTED BY THOSE WHO DURST NOT PUBLICKLY CELEBRATE THE TRUE RELIGION IN DEFIANCE OF A SETT OF PROTE-+ STANT / DOGS; NOR COULD THEY HOPE THE LORD WOULD FIGHT THEIR CAUSE, WHO SUFFERED HIS TEMPLES TO BE POLLUTED BY HERETICS. THE NEWS, HOWEVER, OF SIR JOHN COPE'S LANDING, A LITTLE DEADNED THE JOY WHICH THE ENCREASE OF NUMBERS, WANT OF OP-+ POSITION, / AND THE BETRAYING THE CAPITAL OF SCOTLAND INTO THEIR HANDS, HAD GIVEN THE REBELS; AND THE MORE, AS FAME HAD GREATLY ENLARGED THE STRENGTH OF THE KING'S FORCES, WHO WERE REPORTED TO BE AUG-+ MENTED /

BY TWO DUTCH BATTALIONS, AND IN THEMSELVES TO BE MUCH MORE NUMEROUS, THAN IN REALITY THEY WERE. ON THE ((19TH)), THE WHOLE ARMY OF THE REBELS WAS DRAWN FORTH, AND HAVING RECEIV'D A FRESH DISTRIBUTION OF ARMS FROM THOSE TAKEN IN THE CITY OF EDINBURGH, THERE WERE UPWARDS OF ((4000)) REGULARLY ARMED, AND FULL ((3000)) MORE, WHO WERE PROVIDED WITH DAG-+ GERS / AND OTHER IRREGULAR WEAPONS, THE WHOLE AMOUNTING TO BETWEEN ((7)) AND ((8000)) MEN. WITH ((2500)) OF THESE, GENERAL MACDONELL WAS COMMANDED TO KEEP POSSESSION OF EDIN-+ BURGH, / AND THE REST UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL CAMERON MARCHED THAT EVENING, AND ENCAMPED AT DUDDINGTON, IN ORDER TO MEET AND FIGHT THE KING'S FORCES. ON THE ((20TH)), THE GRANTS OF GLENMORISTON AND SOME OTHERS JOINED THE REBELS, WHO HA-+ VING / BY THEIR SCOUTS RECEIVED INFORMATION OF THE MARCH OF GENERAL COPE, ADVANCED THAT EVENING TO A PLACE CALLED CARBERRY-HILL, WHERE THEY PITCHED THEIR TENTS. INDEED THEY WERE NOW PRETTY WELL SUPPLY'D WITH THE ADDITION THEY HAD RECEIVED FROM EDINBURGH, WITH A

SUFFICIENT NUMBER FOR THOSE FORCES WHICH THEY HAD WITH THEM, WHICH AMOUNTED TO UPWARDS OF ((5000)). IN THE EVENING THE TWO ARMIES CAME IN VIEW OF EACH OTHER, AND ACCORDINGLY, THOUGH THE REBELS HAD PITCH'D THEIR TENTS, BOTH OF THEM LAY THAT NIGHT ON THEIR ARMS. ABOUT THREE IN THE MORNING THE REBELS BEGAN TO MOVE, AND TURN'D AT FIRST EASTWARD AND MARCHED ABOUT A MILE IN LENGTH, THEN FACING ABOUT TO THE LEFT THEY FORMED THEM-+ SELVES IN FIVE COLUMNS; IN WHICH POSTURE THEY ADVANCED TOWARDS SIR JOHN COPE, CHARLES HIMSELF TAKING POSSESSION OF A NEIGHBOURING HILL, FROM WHICH HE MIGHT SURVEY THE WHOLE ACTION. IT IS SAID, HE AT FIRST DECLARED A RESOLU-+ TION / OF LEADING ON HIS ARMY HIMSELF TO THE CHARGE, BUT WAS DISSUADED FROM IT BY GENE-+ RAL / CAMERON, WHO TOLD HIM, HE WOULD THEN PUT HIS OWN LIFE, ON WHICH THE SUCCESS OF HIS FATHER'S ARMS DEPENDED, ON THE SAME EVEN CHANCE WITH THAT OF THE MEANEST SOL-+ DIER; / THAT IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO RESTRAIN HIS NATURAL ARDOUR IN THE ACTION, AND THUS BY EXPOSING HIS PERSON, HE MIGHT WIN THE VICTORY, AND LOSE HIS CAUSE. HE

ADDED, THAT IT WOULD BE TIME ENOUGH FOR HIM TO ENGAGE IN SUCH A RISK, WHEN KING GEORGE HIMSELF SHOULD IN PERSON OPPOSE HIM; BUT THAT SIR JOHN COPE WAS NOT OF CONSE-+ QUENCE / OR DIGNITY SUFFICIENT TO JUSTIFY HIS HAZARDING HIMSELF ARM TO ARM AGAINST HIM. THESE ARGUMENTS WERE BACKED BY THE PRIESTS, WHO DECLARED IT WAS PRESUMPTION; AT THE SAME TIME ASSERTING, THAT BY INVOCA-+ TION / OF THE SAINTS, AND BY AVE MARY'S AND PATER-NOSTERS, HE WOULD LEND MORE ASSIS-+ TANCE / TO HIS CAUSE THAN THE VALOUR OF THOU-+ SANDS / COULD GIVE TO IT. WON, THEREFORE, BY THESE UNITED PERSUA-+ SIONS, / HE WITH HIS PRIESTS ASCENDED THE HILL, WHERE, WHILE THEY DEVOTED THEMSELVES TO PRAYERS TO THE SAINTS, THE ARMY PROCEEDED TO THE CHARGE. ABOUT FOUR IN THE MORNING, THE PATROLE BROUGHT AN ACCOUNT TO GENERAL COPE, THAT THE REBELS WERE IN MOTION IN THEIR CAMP; UPON THIS THE KING'S FORCES, WHO HAD LAIN ALL NIGHT ON THEIR ARMS, WERE DRAWN UP IN ORDER OF BATTLE; THE FOOT BEING IN THE CEN-+ TER, / TWO SQUADRONS OF DRAGOONS PLACED ON

THE RIGHT, AND AS MANY ON THE LEFT, THE REMAINING TWO SQUADRONS BEING DRAWN UP IN THE REAR TO SUPPORT THE FOOT: THE ARTIL-+ LERY / WERE PLACED IN THE FRONT TO THE LEFT. THIS WAS THE SITUATION OF BOTH ARMIES, WHEN THE HIGHLANDERS MARCHED ON TO THE ATTACK; AND SIR JOHN COPE, WHOSE DISPOSI-+ TION / WAS TRULY GOOD AND MILITARY, RODE SE-+ VERAL / TIMES FROM THE RIGHT TO THE LEFT OF THE LINE, ENCOURAGING HIS TROOPS, WHO ALL EXPRESS'D GREAT SPIRIT, AND A RESOLUTION OF DOING THEIR DUTY. THIS DISPOSITION THE GE-+ NERAL / WAS AFTERWARDS OBLIGED IN SOME LITTLE TO ALTER, BY THE ALTERATIONS WHICH THE ENEMY MADE IN THEIRS. THE EXTREME COLUMN OF THE REBELS, WHICH WERE TO THE RIGHT, HAVING ADVANCED TILL THEY WERE OPPOSITE THE CANNON, WHICH CONSISTED ONLY OF SIX SMALL FIELD PIECES, IMMEDIATELY FACED ABOUT, AND RAN WITH THE UTMOST VIOLENCE UP TO THE MOUTHS OF THE CANNON, WHICH BY AN EXTREME NEGLECT OF THOSE WHOSE DUTY IT WAS, NOT HOWEVER TO BE IN THE LEAST CHARGED ON THE GENERAL, NE-+ VER / FIRED ON THEM ONCE: IT WAS THEN THAT THE BRAVE COLONEL GARDNER ORDERED HIS GRA-+ GOONS /

TO CHARGE THEM IN FLANK, WHICH SER-+ VICE / HE COULD NOT PREVAIL ON THEM TO PER-+ FORM; / BUT HAVING GIVEN THEM A SINGLE DIS-+ CHARGE / OF THEIR FIRE-ARMS, THEY IMMEDI-+ ATELY / TURNED ABOUT, AND LIKE MEN STRUCK WITH A SUDDEN PANIC, RAN AWAY. THE COLONEL HAVING IN VAIN ATTEMPTED TO RALLY THEM, (AS DID LORD LOUDOUN, WHO THREW HIMSELF AT THEIR HEAD, AND CHARGED THE REBELS) ON A SUDDEN QUITTED HIS HORSE, AND CHARGED WITH THE FOOT, WHO BEING AT-+ TACKED / WITH GREAT FURY BY THE HIGHLANDERS, AND SEEING THEMSELVES DESERTED BY THE HORSE, AFTER HAVING MADE TWO IRREGULAR FIRES, WHICH DID VERY LITTLE EXECUTION, MANY OF THEM THREW DOWN THEIR ARMS AND TURNED THEIR BACKS TO THE ENEMY. ALL WAS NOW IN GENERAL CONFUSION: POOR COLONEL GARDNER, AND THOSE FEW BRAVE OF-+ FICERS / THAT STOOD THEIR GROUND, FELL A VICTIM TO THE RAGE OF THE ENEMY, WHO FINDING NO LONGER RESISTANCE, FELL TO THE MOST INHUMAN BUTCHERY, WITH WHICH HAVING SOMEWHAT TIRED THEMSELVES, THEY PROCEEDED TO MAKE PRISONERS OF ALL THOSE, WHO SURVIVED THE BLUNTED EDGE OF THEIR SWORDS.

ON THE KING'S SIDE THERE FELL IN THIS AC-+ TION, AND WERE WOUNDED; OF COLONEL GARDNER'S DRAGOONS. THE COLONEL HIMSELF, KILL'D. LIEUT((.)) COL((.)) WHITMORE, WOUNDED. IN HAMILTON'S DRAGOONS. LIEUT((.)) COL((.)) WRIGHT, WOUNDED. MAJOR BOWLES, WOUNDED. IN LASCELLES'S FOOT. CAPT((.)) STUART, KILL'D. ENSIGN BELL, MUCH WOUNDED. IN MURRAY'S. CAPT((.)) LESLIE, SLIGHTLY WOUNDED ENSIGN HOLDANE, DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED. IN GUISE'S. CAPT((.)) PAINTZ, DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED. CAPT((.)) HOWELL, KILL'D.

IN LEIGH'S. LIEUT((.)) COL((.)) WHITEFORD, WOUNDED, CAPT((.)) BREMER, KILL'D. CAPT((.)) ROGERS, KILL'D. THE FOLLOWING OFFICERS WERE TAKEN PRISONERS. OF GUISE'S REGIMENT. CAPT((.)) POINTZ. LIEUTENANTS, CUMING AND PATON. ENSIGNS, WAKEMAN AND IRVINE. OF LORD JOH MURRAY'S. CAPT((.)) SIR PETER MURRAY. LIEUT((.)) JAMES FARQUARSON. ENSIGN ALLAN CAMPBELL. OF LEE'S. COL((.)) PETER HALKET. CAPTAINS, BASIL, COCHRAN, CHAPMAN, AND TATTON. LIEUTENANTS, SANDILANDS, DRUMMOND, KEN-+ NEDY, / AND HEWITSON.

ENSIGNS, HADWICK, ARCHER AND DUNBAR. MR((.)) WILSON, AS QUARTER-MASTER. DR((.)) YOUNG. OF MURRAY'S. LIEUT((.)) COL((.)) CLAYTON MAJOR TALBOT. CAPTAINS, REID, JOHN COCHRAN, SCOT, THO-+ MAS / LESLIE, AND BLACKES. LIEUTENANTS, THOMAS HAY, GRANSTON, DISNEY, WALE, WRY, AND SIMMS. ENSIGNS, SUTHERLAND, LUCEY, HOLDEN, BIRNIE, AND L'ESTRANGE. OF THE EARL OF LOUDON'S. CAPTAINS, MACKAY, MONRO, AND STUART. CAPT((.)) LIEUT((.)) MACKNAB. LIEUT((.)) REID. ENSIGNS, GRANT, ROSS, MACLAGGAN. OF LASCELLES'S. MAJOR SEVERN. CAPTAINS, ADAM DRUMMOND, FORRESTER, AN-+ DERSON, / CORBET, AND COLLIER.

LIEUTENANTS, SWINIE, JOHNSTON, CARRICK, DUNDAS, AND HERRING. ENSIGNS, STONE, COX, BELL, GORDON, AND GOULTON. DR((.)) DRUMMOND. OF HAMILTON'S DRAGOONS. COL((.)) WRIGHT. MAJOR BOWLES. CORNETS, JACOB AND NASH. QUARTER-MASTER NASH. DR((.)) TROTTER. OF GARDNER'S DRAGOONS. COL((.)) WHITNEY. LIEUT((.)) GRAFTON. CORNETS, BURROUGHS AND ALCOCK. QUARTER-MASTER WEST. COL((.)) WHITEFORD, VOLUNTEER. MAJOR GRIFFITH, MASTER-GUNNER OF EDIN-+ BURGH / CASTLE. ABOVE ((300)) PRIVATE MEN KILL'D, ABOVE ((400)) WOUNDED, AND NEAR ((500)) MADE PRISONERS.

OF THE REBELS THERE FELL, CAPT((.)) ROBERT STUART, OF ARDSHEIL'S BATTALION. CAPT((.)) ARCHIBALD MACDONELL, OF KEPPOCH'S. LIEUT((.)) ALLAN CAMERON, OF LINDEVRA'S( AND ENSIGN JAMES CAMERON, OF LOCHEL'S REGIMENT TOGETHER WITH ABOUT ((50)) MEN. THE DUKE OF PERTH, WOUNDED. CAPT((.)) DAVID NARLACK, WOUNDED; AND ((80)) MEN. THE REBELS, AFTER THIS ACTION, IMMEDI-+ ATELY / MARCHED BACK AGAIN TO THEIR CAMP, WHENCE THEY INTENDED TO PROCEED TO EDIN-+ BURGH, / IN ORDER TO CALL A PARLIAMENT, LAY SIEGE TO THE CASTLE, AND PUT THE WHOLE CIVIL GOVERNMENT UNDER THE NAME OF THE PRE-+ TENDER; / BUT AS MR((.)) MACPHERSON TOOK THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ESCAPE FROM THEM, WE CAN-+ NOT / WITH CERTAINTY DECLARE ANY MORE OF THEIR PROCEEDINGS SINCE. GENERAL COPE FINDING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO RALLY THE ARMY, ESCAPED AFTER THE DRAGOONS TO

LAUDER; SOME OF THESE, AS WELL AS THE FOOT, GOT SAFE TO BERWICK, WHERE GENERAL COPE IS SINCE ARRIVED WITH THE REST, WHO, WE HOPE, WILL TAKE A FUTURE OCCASION TO REGAIN THAT HONOUR, AT THE EXPENCE OF THESE VERY RE-+ BELS, / WHICH THEY LOST IN THIS ACTION. AS TO THE REBELS, WE HAVE BEEN SINCE IN-+ FORMED, / THEY HAVE BEEN MUSTERING THEIR WHOLE FORCE, IN ORDER TO INVADE THIS KING-+ DOM, / WHERE, WE DOUBT NOT, BUT THEY WILL MEET WITH A RECEPTION BECOMING A BRAVE NATION, WHOSE ALL IS AT STAKE IN THE CON-+ TEST. / AND AS EVERY ENGLISHMAN, WE ARE CONFIDENT, WILL EXERT HIS UTMOST SPIRIT AND FORCE ON THIS OCCASION, SO WE TRUST IN GOD, THAT THE RELIGION, LAWS, LIBERTIES, AND LIVES OF THIS COUNTRY WILL NEVER, THRO' THE INDOLENCE OR COWARDICE OF ITS INHABITANTS, BE EXPOSED TO THE MERCY AND DISPOSITION OF A LICENTIOUS RABBLE AND CRUEL BANDITTI. INDEED THERE ARE ALREADY MANY INSTANCES OF THIS PUBLIC SPIRIT, WHICH NOT ONLY INDI-+ VIDUALS, / BUT WHOLE BODIES OF MEN HAVE SHEWN; WITNESS THAT EVER-MEMORABLE ASSO-+ CIATION / IN DEFENCE OF PUBLIC CREDIT, ENTER'D UNANIMOUSLY INTO BY SO LARGE A BODY OF THE MERCHANTS OF LONDON, AND WHICH HATH TO-+ TALLY /

DEFEATED ONE OF THE MOST WICKED AND BASEST DESIGNS TO BLOW UP THE WHOLE NA-+ TION, / WHICH WAS EVER DEVISED BY MAN. SOME OF THE CONTRIVERS AND ABETTORS OF THIS DE-+ TESTABLE / SCHEME ARE KNOWN, AND MUST EX-+ PECT / TO BE EVER HEREAFTER REGARDED BY ALL EN-+ GLISHMEN, / AS THE MOST FLAGITIOUS AND PROFLIGATE ENEMIES OF THEIR COUNTRY, AND AS SUCH, TO BE HELD IN EVERLASTING ABHORRENCE. INDEED, CRIMES LIKE THIS DESERVE THE MOST EXEMPLARY PUNISHMENT, AND WILL JUSTIFY A LEGISLATURE, EVEN IN GOING OUT OF THE COMMON ROADS OF JUSTICE TO COME AT AND PUNISH THEM. I SHALL CONCLUDE THESE PAPERS, WITH EX-+ HORTING / EVERY MAN IN THIS KINGDOM TO EXERT HIMSELF, NOT ONLY IN HIS STATION, BUT AS FAR AS HEALTH, STRENGTH, AND AGE WILL PERMIT HIM, TO LEAVE AT PRESENT THE CALLING WHICH HE PURSUES, AND HOWEVER FOREIGN HIS WAY OF LIFE MAY HAVE BEEN TO THE EXERCISE OF ARMS, TO TAKE THEM UP, AND ENURE HIMSELF TO THEM: NOR SHOULD THIS BE DELAYED A MO-+ MENT, / FOR, I REPEAT IT ONCE MORE, HIS ALL IS AT STAKE. THIS IS NOT THE CAUSE OF A PARTY: I SHALL BE EXCUSED, IF I SAY IT IS NOT THE CAUSE IN WHICH THE KING ONLY IS CONCERNED, YOUR RELIGION, MY COUNTRYMEN,

YOUR LAWS, YOUR LIBERTIES, YOUR LIVES, THE SAFETY OF YOUR WIVES AND CHILDREN; THE WHOLE IS IN DANGER, AND FOR GOD AL-+ MIGHTY'S SAKE / LOSE NOT A MOMENT IN ARMING YOURSELVES FOR THEIR PRESER-+ VATION. / ((FINIS.)) //// $ ****