remainder of the day in a wood, and at night repaired to a neighbouring hamlet. At two o'clock in the morning, they left this village, and climbed a hill called Peinachyrine, on the north side of Glencannich, where they passed the day, and sent off two of their party to obtain a fresh supply of provisions. This place, which is about forty Highland miles from Pollew, is the most northerly point which the Prince reached on the mainland. At night, they repaired to a sheiling, in which they remained two days, waiting for the return of the messenger. At the end of that time, the man rejoined them, with intelligence that the only vessel which had ever touched at Pollew had sailed again, leaving a couple of men, who had set out for Locheil's country in quest of the Prince. Anxious to know if these men had any dispatches for him, he resolved to return towards Locheil's country, in order, if possible, to meet them.

They set out at night (August 13), and recrossing the water of Cannich, and passing near young Chisholm's house, arrived about two in the morning at a place called Fassanacoill, in Strathglass. Here it was thought proper to tarry, until scouts should bring back intelligence of the state of the country to the south, and if the search for him was over in that quarter, and the troops returned to Fort Augustus. While the scouts were absent, the party remained in a dense wood, completely concealed from the neighbouring people. They were supplied with provisions by one John Chisholm, a farmer, who had been in the insurgent army, but to whom they did not at first confide the secret of the Prince being of the party. Charles having at length expressed a wish to see Chisholm, Patrick Grant and another were despatched to bring him. They desired him to come along with them, to see a friend whom they knew he would like well to see. Apprehending from this that they had a person of some consequence with them, he said he had a bottle of wine which a priest had left with him, and he should be glad to take it along with him. What! John,' said Grant, have you had a bottle of wine all this time, and not given it to us before?'

On coming into the presence of the Prince, John knew him at first sight. Patrick Grant, according to his own simple recital, put the bottle of wine into the Prince's hands, and requested him to drink to him; for,' said he, "I do not remember that your Royal Highness has drunk to me since you came among our hands.' 'Accordingly, the

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Prince put the bottle of wine to his mouth, and drank a health to Patrick Grant and all friends. John Chisholm, having received good payment for any provisions he had furnished, and finding that they had been purchased for the use of his Prince, immediately offered to return the whole price, and pressed the thing much; but the Prince would not hear of it at all, and ordered him to keep the money? Chisholm took the same oath as the

Glenmorriston men.

Some traits of the Prince's personal condition and conduct while with the Glenmorriston men, as reported by Patrick Grant, may be appreciated by those who still regard with a feeling of melancholy interest the tale of the last Stuart. His clothes, which were of the Highland fashion, were coarse, tattered, and squalid, almost beyond description, and he constantly slept in them, seldom getting a clean shirt above once a fortnight. He suffered, from this, the usual annoying consequences. Notwithstanding this and other bodily afflictions, he bore up under all his misfortunes with great resolution and cheerfulness, never murmuring or complaining of the hardness and severity of his condition.' He was observed to make a practice of withdrawing himself every morning and evening to perform his devotions. Glenaladale,' said Patrick Grant, was interpreter between the Prince and us, and it was agreed upon that we should say nothing but what the Prince should be made to understand, and that the Prince should say nothing but what we likewise should be made to understand. By this means, the Prince discovered that we were much addicted to common swearing in our conversation, for which he caused Glenaladale to reprove us in his [the Prince's] name; and at last the Prince, by his repeated reproofs, prevailed on us so far

that we gave that custom of swearing quite up.' Patrick Grant stated that the Prince walked so nimbly in the daytime, that few persons could hold out with him; but he did not travel so well by night, when, being unaccustomed to the rough and boggy ground on the Highland hills, he was constantly getting himself immersed in some deep hole, from which his companions had to draw him out. All the time he was with the Glenmorriston men, his appetite was observed to be good. When the party were at their meals, they sat in a circle, each having his morsel on his knee. The Prince would never allow them to keep off their bonnets when in his company-probably a precaution against his rank being detected, in the event of any hostile party approaching them before they were aware. He used to give directions about their homely cookery, and sometimes tended a roast himself.

It would appear that not exactly everything said by the men was interpreted to the royal wanderer. After he had parted with them, and got into new hands, conversing about these faithful adherents, he spoke of one in particular as an uncommonly clever fellow, stating that the name this man bore among his companions was Ho Sian. In reality, this expression was Aos Ian, ‘Hark you, John,' which they often had occasion to use to John Macdonell, perhaps the ablest of their number, and one to whose judgment they usually deferred in all important matters. It will amuse the reader to learn that Mr Forbes, with true Jacobite feeling, adopted the mistaken phrase of the Prince, and advised Macdonell to assume it as his ordinary name, and hand it down to his children.

In due time, the spies returned with intelligence, that the troops had returned to their camp at Fort Augustus, and that there was consequently a prospect of the Prince being able to execute his design of crossing the Great Glen, and joining Locheil in Badenoch. They therefore set out at six in the morning of the 17th, and, travelling by an unfrequented road, at ten in the forenoon reached the braes of Glenmorriston. Having passed the day on the top of a hill, they set out at night, but had not

travelled above a mile, when they learned that a strong military party had been sent to the braes of Glengarry, in quest of the Prince. Upon this, it was resolved to proceed no farther, until the motions of the enemy should be further known; and they repaired to a neighbouring sheiling, where they passed the remainder of the night. In the morning of the 18th, three men were sent off towards Loch Arkaig, in Locheil's country, two of whom were to seek out, and, if possible, form an appointment for the Prince with Cameron of Clunes; while the other was to turn at Glengarry, and bring back intelligence of the movements of the party said to be in that district, so that Charles might perhaps be able to proceed even while the meeting with Clunes was in the way of being arranged.

We have here a remarkable anecdote of the Prince, which may be best related in the language in which Mr Forbes has reported it from the mouth of Patrick Grant. When returned to Glenmorriston Braes-The Prince was pretty positive to proceed forwards sooner than the Glenmorriston men thought it safe for him; and they would by no means allow him to go, till they should think it safe for him so to do. In a word, the kind contention ran so high, that they threatened to turn their backs upon him, and to leave him, if he did not listen to their counsel, as they knew the country best, and what dangers might happen to him in it; and immediately insisted upon his taking some little refreshment and rest, and staying there as long as they judged it safe for him. But the Prince refused to eat or to drink, because they would not do as he desired. Upon this, they plainly told him, that if he did not eat and drink heartily, he could not well hold out with the fatigues he was obliged to undergo in his present situation; that if he should happen to turn faintish by abstaining from meat and drink too long, and then danger should come nigh them, he would not be in a condition either to get away from it, or to act his part in any shape so well as he would wish to do; and therefore they urged him more than ever-as being absolutely necessary for

him-to take some refreshment and rest, which accordingly he did. The Prince said: "I find kings and princes must be ruled by their privy-council, but I believe there is not in all the world a more absolute privy-council than what I have at present," &c. They added, they had rather tie him than comply with him, so well did they know his danger. The Prince was at last obliged to yield the point, as he found them positive to the last degree, and as they assured him, if he complied with their requests in behalf of his safety, the enemy should not get within two miles of him without being discovered. "This was the only time," said Patrick Grant," that we ever differed with the Prince in any one thing, and we were very sorry for it." It is distressing to think that, on the very day when Charles was acting thus unreasonably with his humble but faithful followers on the braes of Glenmorriston, the brave Balmerino and the gentle Kilmarnock were laying down their lives in his cause on the ensanguined scaffold of Tower-Hill.

While the party rested at this place, Patrick Grant and Alexander Chisholm went out to forage for provisions, and in the course of their walk, met the Laird of Glenmorriston (Grant), who had been in the Prince's army, and had had his house burnt and his lands pillaged in consequence. Glenmorriston asked them where they now lived, as they were seldom seen-what they were doing -and how did they obtain the means of subsistence. 'What is become,' said he,' of the Prince? I have heard that he has passed the braes of Knoydart. Even to this gentleman, whom habit had trained them to regard with the greatest respect, they would not disclose any of their secrets, merely remarking that, as the enemy were plundering the country, it were a pity not to share in the spoil; and that they accordingly did so, and made a shift to live upon it. On their return to the Prince, they informed him of this interview, and said that, if his Royal Highness pleased, they would bring Glenmorriston to see him, he being a faithful and trusty friend. • The Prince said, he was so well pleased with his present guard, that