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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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