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General Preston saluted with cannon the officers
of State who returned to Edinburgh on the 13th
November, and hauled down his colours, which had
been flying since the 16th of September. Guest then
assumed the command, and was nobly rewarded,
while Preston was consigned to neglect, and the
humble memorial of his long service was laid in
vain before the Duke of Cumberland. Thus he
reaped no advantage from his loyal adherence to
confined in damp vaults, and treated by the imtated
soldiers with every indignity and opprobrium.
To these were soon added a multitude of prisoners
of all ranks, belonging to the regiments of Buckley,
Berwick, and Clare, of the Irish Brigade in the
French service, captured by the Mi&~ord Haven
(40 guns), on board the Luis XK, off Montrose.
On the 9th December, Lord John Drummond, en
route to join the Prince in England, marched
THE WEIGH-HOUSE
(From a Drawk~ ay Storcr, #ubZished in 1820.)
the House of Hanover, whose policy it was then to
slight the Scots in every way.
By a letter from the Lord President to the
Marquis of Tweeddale (the last Scottish Secretary
of State), we learn that at this crisis bank notes had
ceased to be current, that all coin was locked up,
?so that the man of best credit in this country
cannot command a shilling;? that bills on Edinburgh
or London were of no value ; and that bills
drawn for the subsistence of the Earl of Loudon?s
regiment had been returned protested.
On the departure of the Prince the Castle was
crowded with those persons who had fallen under
the suspicion of Government ; among these were
-Alexander Earl of Kellie, and upwards of sixty
gentlemen, all of whom were heavily ironed, closely
through Edinburgh, with 800 men and a train of
18-pounders. He sent a drummer to the Castle
to effect an exchange of these prisoners, without
avail; and sixteen who were proved to have been
deserters from our army in Flanders were thrown
into the Castle pit, from whence four were taken
to the gallows in the Grassmarket. In the same
month young Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart, aidedecamp
to the Prince, was treacherously captured
in the night, near Lesmahago, by the Reverend
Mr. Linning, who, as the price of his blood,
received the incumbency of that parish, acccrding
to ? Forbes?s Memoirs ? ; and from the Castle he
was taken to Carlisle, where he was hanged, drawn,
and quartered.
About the end of November, when the High
