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venerable Market Cross, with the heralds, pursuivants,
and the magistrates (many most unwillingly)
in their robes, while Mr. David Beath
proclaimed ? James VIII., King of Scotland,
England, France, and Ireland,? in the usual old
form, and read the Commission of Regency, dated
1743, with the manifesto of the Prince, dated at
Paris, May 16th, 1745. A number of ladies on
horseback, with swords drawn, acted as a guard of
honour. ? A great multitude of sympathising
spectators was present at the ceremony, and
testified their satisfaction by cordial cheers. In
the evening the long-deserted apartments of
Holyrood were enlivened by a ball, at which the
Jacobite ladies were charmed with the elegant
manners and vivacity of the youthful aspirant to
the throne.??
On the
following day Lord Nairne came in with the Atliol
Highlanders; old Lord Kellie came in with only
an aged serving man ; the Grants of Glenmomston,
250 strong, marched in on the morning of the
zoth, but the main body of the clan stood aloof,
though Lord Balmerino and m a y other noble
and disinherited gentlemen (who came almost unattended)
joined the standard.
The Highlanders remained within their camp,
or when in the city behaved themselves with the
utmost order and decorum; no outrages occurred,
and no brawls of any kind ensued ; meanwhile, the
garrison remained close within the Castle, and till
after the battle of Preston Pans, no collision took
place between them and the troops.
Their quiet, orderly, and admirable conduct
formed a marked difference between them and
most of the merciless ruffians, who, under Hawley,
Huske, and Ctmberland, disgraced the British
uniform; for the little army of Charles Edward
vas as orderly as it was brave, and organised in a
fashion of its own-the discipline of the modem
system being added easily to the principle of clanship,
and the whole-then only 3,000-were now
completely equipped with the arms found in the
city. The pay of a captain was 2s. 6d. daily; of
a lieutenant, 2s. ; ensign, IS. 6d. ; of a private, 6d.
In the clan regiments every company had a double
set of officers. The Leine chrios (shirt of mail) or
chosen men, were in the centre of each battalion,
to defend the chief and colours. The front rank,
when in line, consisted of the best blood of the
clan and the best armed-particularly those who
had targets. All these received IS. daily while the
Prince?s money lasted.
The battle of Preston Pans is apart from the
history _ . - of Edinburgh; . but there, on the 20th Sep
But few took up arms in his cause.
:ember, the Highlanders, suffering under innumerrble
disadvantages, gained a signal victory, in a
?ew minutes, over a well-disciplined and veteran
rrmy, sweeping it from the field in irretrievable
:onfusion. The cavalry escaped by the speed
if their horses, but all the infantry were killed
)r taken, with their colours, cannon, baggage,
Irums, and military chest containing L6,ooo.
Zharles, who, the night before the victory, slept
.n a little house still shown at Duddingston, bore
lis conquest with great moderation and modesty,
:ven proposing to put the wounded-among whom
vas the Master of Torphichen, suffering from
wenty sword wounds, of which he died-in Holy-
:ood, but the Royal Infirmary was preferred, as the
?alace was required for the purposes ,of royalty.
On the zrst, preceded by IOO pipers playing
:?The king shall enjoy his own again,? the prisoners,
to the number of 1,500, of whom 80 were
Dfficers, were marched through Edinburgh (prior
:o their committal to Logierait and the Castle
If Doune), together with the baggage train, which
nad been taken by the Camerons, and the colours
if the 13th and 14th Light Dragoons, the 6th, 44th,
+6th, 47th, and Loudon?s Corps. The Prince had
the good taste not to accompany this triumphal
procession. The officers were for a time placed
in Queensberry House in the Canongate.
Curiously enough, Sir John Cope?s cannon were
all captured on a tramway, or line of wooden rails,
the first of the kind known in Europe, and belonging
to some coal-pits in the vicinity of the field.
The pusillanimity of the regulars was very sinylar,
but none more so than that of a party of
light dragoons commanded by Major Caulfield,
who fled from the field to the Castle of Edinburgh,
1 distance of ten miles, permitting themselves to
be pursued by a single horseman, Colquhoun Grant
of Burnside-a little property near Castle Grantwho,
in the battle, at the head of twenty-eight
Highlanders, captured two pieces of cannon. He
pursued the fugitives to the very gates of the
Castle, which received them, and were closed at
his approach. After this he leisurely rode down
the street, and,?aRer being measured for a tartan
suit in the Luckenbooths, left the city by the
Nether Bow-his resolute aspect, ?? bloody sword,
and blood-stained habiliments ? striking terror into
all who thought of opposing him. Grant was selected
as one of the Prince?s Life Guards, under Lord
Elcho. The dress of these Guards was blue faced
with red, and scarlet waistcoats laced with gold ;
the horse-fumiture the same. He lived long after
these events as a Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh,
where he died in 1792. _. He resided in Gavinloch?s
