332 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [1745-
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
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landers, after their retreat from England, were besieging
Stirling, Lord Tweeddale wrote to General Guest,
stating that they meant to take the capital again.
On this, the Edinburghers at once held a solemn
council of war, and valiantly resolved to defend the
city; and once more all their plate and valuables
were committed to the care of General Guest. It was
take, Hawley, who had served as a major at
Sheriffniuir, and always expressed contempt 'for
the Highlanders, marched with fourteen battalions,
besides cavalry and artillery, to Falkirk, where his
army was routed as completely as that of Cope
had been, and all his guns were taken, save one
brought off by the 4th Regiment.
CHARLES EDWARD IN HIS LATER YEARS.
(From a Partrait Sy Oeim Humjhy, R.A., iake?a at Fhrme, 1776.)
arranged that a store of provisions should be
immediately laid in, that the cannon should be
mounted on travelling carriages, that the walls and
gates should be more completely fortified, that a
corps of really resolute soldiers should be embodied;
and again arms were issued to the
Seceders, and all who required them ; but on hearing
that Charles had actually made a requisition
for horses to draw his battering train, their courage
evaporated a second time, and all ideas of fighting
were abandoned; but the arrival of General
Hawley's army relieved them from immediate
apprehension.
Erecting an enormous gallows in the Grassmarket,
whereon to hang all prisoners he might
In the Castle he lodged his sole trophy, the
brave Major Donald Macdonald of Teindreich,
who struck the first blow in the revolt at the
Spean Bridge, and who had been captured in the
smoke at Falkirk. He was brought in bound with
ropes,'and kept in a dungeon till he was sent in
chains to Carlisle, to be butchered with many
others. He was a handsome man, and bore his
sufferings with great cheerfulness.
" It was principle, and a thorough conviction of
its being my duty to God, my injured king and
oppressed country," said he, "which induced me
to take up arms under the standard of his Royal
Highness Charles Prince of Wales, and I solemnly
declare I had no bye views in drawing my sword in
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