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The Land of Burns
.THE LAND OF THE GAEL.
0---( Visit to Culloden Moor—Description
of the Battlefield — The Field
Badly 'Chosen for Highland War-
fare -111m .Bravery of the 'Ioun-
taineers-1Total Defeat of "Royal
'Charley" and IPTis Men—{The :But-
chery Which Followed---RePocc-
ions an the Stuart Line, etc.' etc.
The walk from Inverness to Cullo-
den is a little more than what was al-
lowed for a Sabbath clay's journey in
the days when God's peculiar people
reigned in Palestine. The ground was
covered with ,snow and walking was
any thing but pleasant, but we,need-
ed exercise and fresh air, and away
we went, and in due time reached the
bleak) snow covered Mbar where the
battle was fought, which blasted for
ever the hoipes of the Royal Stuart
Line. Part of the Moor has been
brought under cultivation, but it has
not been utterly spoiled like the field
of Bannockburn. 'The laird who owns
the ground, we iwere told, takes a real
pride in preserving the Moor as niuc'h
as possible in its primitive condition.
A Highlander took same pride in
showing us .where the various clans
were stationed, and told us how a
dispute arose between the Macdon-
ald's and some other clan, as to which
should have place .o.f honor, the right
hand side in the battle, how the Mac-
donaldig a's'serted their hereditary
claim and went in, while the disap-
pointed clan stood mowing the hea-
ther with their sword's till they saw
the ,battle going against their coun-
trymen, then they made a dash, but
if was too late ,tq turn the fortunes of
the day, the battle became a mas-
sacre, and 'the butcher," the name
he called the Duke of Cumberland,
cut them down unmercifully, giving
no quarter, showing no mercy, slau-
ghtering the flying fugitives wherev-
er they were to be found. Manly of the
brave mountaineers chose rather to
die on the field. than to seek safety
in flight, and the spot is still pointed
IAtt'•da -break hungry and cold anti
wearied ;out with tthe nhghit.'s: march-
ing, theye mein stgJtt-o,f the British
army, who in the me'antitne' l'ad taken
up'a favorable position for, thegtnselves,
where cauviott ani'cavalry could +act,.
our D'ruin ino' ,sic lyboor. The tiiountafn-
e'ets,vter•e deslperate, they were, im'pat-
hetlt of delay the, rbload„
leaped; high as the cataracts of •their'
country, the•foe was'now within their.
g e''sp,,they,'wete ready to leap upon
him No faint hearts beat within those
lieathern 'breats, wo possi'b pity o de-
feat ever :entered their heads. Hiad
they not beat those red coats 'before ?
'Had they not marched victoriously
tbrouigh 'Scoltland and Etngland? Had
they n'ot carried the flag of "The Roy-
al ¬ Line,” even to the suburbs
P'f •old ILondon itself? :Id they had gone
on'could they not have taken the very
sl'tronghtold of thee' '"Hanoverian ,Eine
and sent the,wee, •wee'iGerman Lairds,
howling from James'?" Thus reason;
•edt• Lochiel and 'his Highlanders, if in-
deed, they even stopped to ;reason.
The result was that„I at a hasty coun-
cil' of
ouncill?'of 'war which was, called, they de-
cided toattack one of the best discip-
lined, best
isciplined,'best ofificened armies of the day,
well provide'd with cavalry, artillery
and munitions of war, and numerical-
ly 'their
umerical-ly'.their superior, moreover, an army
which was well fed and rested, while
they themselves had degenerated into
an s dhauslted, famished, disorganized
mob, d'is'puting, yea, even quarett'ling
amongst them'selves. How' could we
ewpect a different result from what
did take place? What army, however
brave, cotmmanded by a debating club,
ever succeeded? Where in history •do'
we find an army ever victorious where
bite ha'l'f Of the warriors stood hewing
the heather, while the other -half
were hewing the enemy. The "truth,
however is, that the game was up,
even before this time, but another
good stand could still have ;been made,
had Royal Charley and his gallant
.out here bna
w a ve,Ht bland ,
er of giant t
g
few left e Inverness to the tender mer -
proportions, named Donald MdBean, cies of "the, butcher,” and made his
who has been imanortalized by some) home for the time with the eagles of
poet, Sir Walter Scott, I believe, kill- the north. Fate, however, had decreed
ed thirteen' sof his assailants before Inc'
sank o•verlpo'wered by numbers: His
good )broad -sword Was broken or
and he was 'knocking ;both footmen
'and horsemen dawn with 'apiece of
broken gun carriage when a British
officer rode up; and waving his
sword, called upon them to spare''him,
as it was a pity, he thought, to kill
so brave a .man. 'The command, how-
ever, come too late, a fatal thrust of
a bayonet .reached a gallant helart, and'
brave Donald MdBean, as brave a
man as those who ;defended the Pass
of Thermopylae, or kept the bridge
with brave Horatius, sank to rise no
mare. The fact is that chances 'and
war were against them. Worse ground
could not have been chosen for High-
land' warfare. If they had been led,
purposely like sheep to the slaughter,
it could .net have been more effec-
tually done. Just -think of it, The
Highlanders had been it -rarebit -1g and
re -marching all night by, the bunks of
the river Nairn, for what purpose
none at this late date seem to know,
but some suppose that they intended
to take the British army by surprise.
otherwise, and Providence for this
time at leas, was with the heavier ar-
tillery. The result is too well known
to require any .description from me.
The contest was short, sharp and de-
cisive. The Hi:gihlanders were scat-
tered like sheep without a shepherd.
As Frankl'in says:
"There never was a good war or a
bad peace."
There is a dark side to the picture.
When we see the bonfires blazing,
the banners flying, and hear the vic-
tors shout, we forget the widows and
the orphans of the slain, the thousands
Of hearts that are breaking in many
a cottage. Bairns, the poet of nature;
puts this in his own inimitable style,
when he says:
"When wild war's deadly blast
was :blown,
LAnsi gentle peace returning,
mony a sweet babe fatherless.
3—'1,1. ,9 IC.r
Such was the state elf the High-
lands after the 'battle of Culloden,
when "the: butcher"- .had done his
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work, The "same. poet ,putts' ,it more
pointedly stilt 5n his plaintive song,
"71he Tlovely Lass o' Inverness,"
which I quote with great interest, now
that I ani on the veryt ground:—
"The' lovely lass' o' 'Inverness,
'Nae joy nor plaasere can site'
See,
)For e'en and ' morn she cries,
A'lisl `
And aye the salt tear blins her
Druiinossie Moor! .1$TnmtnosSie
thaw l
A woefu' day;it was _to;tine,
Tor there tI dost in Iadhet dear,
My father.- dear and brethren
witre e."
.But what was the fate o'f, Charley,
the young chevaIier, who attempted to
place his ;father on the throne af his
ancesters? He met a Small remnant of
his army at Kngus'sle. These had re-
fused" to separate without his com-
mand. They were still wilding to fight
and to .die for his sake: The Prince,
however, thought there was dost use
sacrificing any more lives in a cause
that seemed for the time so hopeless,
so he .gave, the command and they dis-
banded, never to meet again. His af-
ter wanderings, his narrow escapes,.
his journey to Skye as Betty Burke,
an Irish servant girl, attending on
Flora Macdonald, and his final, escape
to Firanice, forms; a romantic tale by
itself with •which most people are
familiar, and for which I have no
space in this letter. His wanderings
formed the theme. for many a lyric,
one of the 'best beeinlg "The Cheval-
ier's Lament," by the Ayrshire bard,
a verse of 'which rums as foll'olws:—
'The deed that 3- dared, could it
merit their ,malice
A King and a father to place tout
his throne?
His right are these :hilus, and his
right are these valleys,
Where the wild ;beasts find
shelter, but I can ,find none,
But 'tis not my sufferings thus
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rlhed forlorn,
My ;brave, gallant friends 1 'tis
your ruin ,I mourn,
Your deeds proved so loyal in hot
bloody 'trial,
(Alas! can 1 make you no 'better
return ?"
He night well have used the words
which Bu'rms pint in his mouth -for it
did indeed go hard!—very hard, with
his followers. Kilmarnock, Dunferm-
line and Lord 'Lovat lost their lands,
their liberty and which was still worse
their heads. They were guillotined on
Tower Hill, London. Even Flora
Macdonald was confined for some
time in the tower, and would un-
douhtedly, have lost her head too, for
helping the poor wanderer to escape.
if she had not been a woman. Many
lost their all,. while others were ban-
ished forever from the land of their
forefathers, Thus ended the J'aco'bite
rebellion of K45, which constituted
the most remarkable march and ser-
ies of victories on record, taking ev-
erything into .consideration, thus too,
was extinguished in' blood :the' last
flickering ray of hope of an , ancient
line of Kings. Well might Dr. Nor-
man MclLeod say, while visiting Cul-
loden,. as we are doing —
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"The thunder is hushed .. on the
'bleak heather Moor,
And the. sthielld' from the 'Gael has.
been wrenched Inc the stoure.
The sword has been 'broke in the
grasp of the brave
And the blood of the valiant is
shed by the slave.
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Farewell, 'Royal 'Charles! the con-
flict is 'o'er,
Thy ancestor's kingdom no
strife can restore,
Thine essay with tine claws of my
love have been grand,
The -tame of whose' prowess
forever will .stand."
Having viewed the cairn where the
Dnice stood during the battle, not a
PDint of much danger, we should
hink, and taken another loot': at title
ground occupied by t'the bonne'tted
chieftains and their faithful followers,
's turned our backs on Culloden and
0 lir faces towards the gay capital of
the H'i�ghdanchs.. Several questionsa 'me ,prominently 'before my mind,
asdeductions frons the historical event
whick I' had ju's't ,been contem:p:lat-
Incg. They were these: Was the, Sttu-
art,.or.in fact any 'other 'dyttla'slty worth
ghting for? Had they not been a
tyraninical race throughout? Had they
dtt been believers in the Divine rightKitigis, to do wrong?'Hlad they molt
rsectnted and hunted the Covenant-
s Pike partridge's upon, tthenloun
ins? Were not the best of the pee -
e,' the most 'liberal minds of ,than
y, against them? Were. not the very
an to which. my ancestors 'belonged
the other side? Did m'o't the chiefs
that• clan, command Inc the field
gaimslt them? Did they not; . know'
cm 'better than we at this distant
y? Had not the last of the race
roved himself to be unfit to govern,
e or die? Am I not led away by
dings of sytmpathy, pity for the un-
dtunate, wihioh is naturally strong
my breast? I -lave, I not, so to .speak,
owed My heart to run away. wwithy head? These questions and a finn-
ed more fllashed through my. brain
we returned sllowly towards; In
mess, .from the place where the last
pe of the Stuarts' was extinguishedrover. Then the qu'es'tion ca'm�e up,
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"All nature is but art, unkn'otwa
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)All chance, direction, 'wihich than:
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_All discard, 'har'mony not .under-
s'tood;
All partial evil, universal good; ,
And spite of 'pride inerring rea-
son's 's'pite,
One truth is clear, whatever is, is
right.
Novo, that I am leavingthe High-
lands likely forever, I must confess
that I am fairly enraptured with both
the country and the people, and will
never forget the warm reception 7t:
got in' Inverness. I have heard it re-
lated of Sir Walter Scott that short-
ly
hortly before his death when worn down
by literary labours, he took a trip to
Italy in order to' recruit his failing
strength, and when nearing the top
of Mount Vesuvius one day, he was
heard humming something to 'himself,
and his att'endan't being curious to
know what the great man was saying,•
went near and found he was singing
in a low Voice:—,
"My 'heart's in the (Highlands, my
heart is not here,
,My heart's in the Highlands 'a
• chasing the deer,
A chasing the wild deer and fol-
lowing the roe,
My heart's in the (Highlands wlher
-ever I go."
;Such I believe will be my feelings
towards the land of the Celt and its
whole- smiled, warm, -+hearted people,
to the lateslt days of my life, and now
that I am turning my face towards
the Lowlands, I will say in the lang-
uage of Burns:—
When deat'h's dark stream I fer-
ry o'e'r,. A bine that surely shall come,
In Heaven itself I'll ask no more
,Than just a Highland welco'tne.
Ikey and Rachel took lit'tle Sani to
the pictures. The attendant warned
then that unless the child kept quiet
they would have to leave and get their
money back.
'Half -way through the principal film,
Ikey tinned to Rachel and whispered,
Vel, vot clo you tink of its?'
"Rotten," replied Rachel,
"Yes," answered Ikey; "pink ire
baby."
The son' of the house eaze;d intent-'
ly at his father's dog.
"'I've got it as last," he,urusecl' to
himself.,
"What have you got?" asked father.
ignow now why we call Tony a.
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