pointed at, will be able to quell very soon any insurrections that have or may happen; especially as we have no reason as yet to think that they are like to be supported by any debarkation of foreign troops. Your Lordship's said letter to him is written with so much good sense, and so agreable to the character of the man who truly wishes well to his King and Country, that I hope your Lordship will continue to give him your advice often; and wh I hope he will pay a due regard to. I must likewise beg to hear frequently from you. His Majesty is expected here on Monday or Tuesday next; when I shall not fail to let him know of what use your presence in the north has been at this juncture. Ι I am, with very great regard, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, No. CCCCXIX. TWEEDDALE. Mr T. Mulloy to Dear Sir, Ruthven, in Badnock, August 25th 1745I SHOULD have sent you some Scotish occourances before now, but waited to send you matter of fact. matter of fact. Last night Cap' Swettenham came to this barrack, who was prison' eight days in the pretended Prince Charles Regent his camp (as he stiles himself). The Cap was taken about a fortnight agoe, goeing from this place to Fort William to command three companys of the Regim which is in garrison there. He is released upon his parole of honor, through the intercession of some Irish Gentlemen who are along with the Prince, and came from France with him; particularly one Col, O'Sulevan & Col' Kelly. The Capt" has a passport signed by the Prince: he is not to act against the enemy, and is to return when required. I have read the passport. The day after the Capt" was made pris', there was two Companys of the Royall Scots and a Serg and 12 men of Guise's taken, and is now prison" in the Prince's camp; they were going to reinforce Fort William. I shall not trouble you with the particular distance of places which I shall, in the title of the rebellious clans, relate; but refer you to the map of Scotland; but shall suffice that this barrack is not much above 26 miles distance (the near way) either from Fort William, Fort Augustus, or Fort George, where our regim are at present in garrison; and not much farther from the enemy's camp, from whom we expect a visit hourly. The Prince landed in the northwest islands above a month agoe, in a small vessell carrg 18 guns. He was separated from a French man of war, who was to conduct him with a number of men on board; but fell in with the Lyon man of warr, as you had it word for word in the publick papers, which gave his ship opportunity to make off. At his first landing the Highlanders refused joyning him, and told him it was madness to attempt, and would have him go off; but the Prince made answer, that he was often these 3 years past invited by them, and by others in England and Ireland, and that he would not return until he had gained his point or loose his life in the attempt, and be no longer a begar in France, or in any other Court; which answer prevailed upon the Highlanders to joyn him (as follows): 1st Clan-Rannell with his clan; Kinlogh Mooder & clan; Logheal & clan; Capagh and clan; Glan-Garry and clan; Glan Puckett & clan; besides petty Lairds & their clans. Laft Last Monday the Prince's standard was sett up, and carryed by the old Duke of Atholl, a man above seventy years old. Such loud huzzas and schiming of bonnetts up into the air, appearing like a cloud, was not heard of, of a long time. Last Thursday they drew up in their order, and the Prince reviewed them to the number of 1,500; which was the day the Capt. left them. No Gentleman could be better used than he was when he got among the Gentlemen; neither was there any thing that was taken from him, but what was return'd, except his horse's saddle and sword; and the Prince had order'd a pair of horses to be given him in lieu of his own; but that was neglected. Gen' Cope is within two days march of this place, with four regim" of foot and two of dragoons, with some artillery, in order to meet the enemy; and the enemy is preparing to meet him, and thretens high. The Lord only knows how it will end. The enemy has neither foreign troops nor artillery, but about 18 pattararoes of one pound each. They told the Capt. that they will be in England in a very little time, where they are sure to meet with friends enough. There is none of those we call loyalists here has joyned us yet; they say they have no arms. God send they may prove loyall. I have been called upon severall times since I begun to write this scraul, by false allarms. This redoubt has no fortification nor defence, but a shallow wall, and our small arms; which hurry, I hope, will make excuse for the imperfection of this lett'. I recommend you and your family to God's care; and I make no doubt of your ac customed goodness towards my people. I thank God I enjoy good health, and am in good heart. There is no way of sending my wife relief of money as yet. I have lost most of my things at Aberdeen. My sincere respects to your fire-side. D'S' be pleased to make my complem" to M & M" D'Anvers, to Alder" Rogers and M Rogers, to Aldera Revins; and be pleased to accept of the like from your most sincere humble TER. MULLOY. servant, My dear Lord, No. CCCCXX. From Mr Thos Fraser, of Gortuleg, to Lord Lovat. THIS goes by Tho' McAlister, or William, one of the Chelsea pensioners; he begs your Lop's good offices with Gen' Guest. I am sure nobody needs recommend him to you. I am still here, endeavouring to keep your Lop's people in order; I am afraid the contagion is like to spread more than I at first imagined. The people from the wes tthreaten all their neighbourhood with destruction, if they do not join. Menaces of this kind, and other circumstances that I shall not trouble your Lop with at present, gives me my handfuls ado to keep the people in order. I have seen Capt" Thomson, Lieut Ferguson and Rose, and five Serj" and two or three men of the Comp" taken prisoners last week. They talk a good deal of the civilities they met with from the young Pretender; they were liberate upon their parole of honour, to return when summoned thereto. They are discharged from touching at any fort or garrison, or conversing with any officers belonging to the enemy, as they call them, untill they are at Edin'. And while here, they religiously observed their engagement; for they would not go near the fort, or converse with any of the officers in it. They call the Highland camp upwards of 2,000 strong. I go this day to Strathherick if I can, to take care of some idle people there; but a great deal will depend upon the civilities of the Highlanders, as we are left at 3 D 2 their their mercy. What the devil keeps Sir John Cope? I shall have the hon' to write your Lop how soon I have any thing to say; and I expect to hear from your Lop how soon you receive your post letters; and it is very necessary that your Lop write very strong things, that I shall communicate to your Lop's people.. 26th Aug 1745. I ever am, &ca No. CCCCXXI. The Lord President to Major Grant. tn My d' George, 26 Aug, 6 at night. BY a dispatch, which I received this afternoon by Cap Stewart's man, from St John Cope, dated at Trinifuir the 24th at night from his camp, he was to march next morning in quest of the adventurers, .who, I should hope, will not think fit to wait for him. I am willing to believe, that the intelligence you sent me from Urquhart is not precisely true. That fools might have join'd I doubt not; but I'flatter myself their numbers are small; & yet I shall give notice to Sir John of the rumor. In my opinion you ought forthwith to acquaint your nephew with the arrivall of Sir John amongst us, that he may give the proper directions to hold his people in readiness to join him, & to act by his directions, if there shall be occasion. Dr Sir, I am, &c. No. CCCCXXII. The Lord President to Sir John Cope. 26 August. YOUR dispatch from Trinifuir the 24th was this day deliver'd me at 2 afternoon. I had none besides since the 18th; so that if you wrote any other letters, they have miscarry'd. Upon receipt of yours, I have dispatched messengers to L Fortrose & L Lovat, entreating they may have their people in readyness to answer occasions. I have also wrote to Major Grant, Gover' of Fort George, that he will give notice to his nephew, the young Laird of Grant, to the same purpose; & I have used the freedom with the Laird of Macintosh's Kinsmen, in his absence, to advise them to hold themselves in readiness against the time they may have his directions: he, I understand, is with you; & he will give the proper orders, when you judge it necessary. Where this letter may find you, I cannot exactly tell; the messenger, however, has orders to put it into your hands as carefully as he can. What numbers you are to meet with, I cannot certainly know; only report from their neighbourhood, which seldom is under the truth, makes them no more than 3,000: in my apprehension they are not so many, especially if Clanranald's men from the island of Uist, have not join'd them; & I am certain, by a letter from Mac Leod from Sky, dated the 22a 12 at night, that they had not sail'd from Uist at that time, & were then unwilling to risque. Tho' you left old Glengary behind you, I have strong suspitions, that the gross of his clan have joined the other Highlanders; & this day it is rumor'd, that Glenmoriston, who was quiet Saturday morning, has also marcht to their assistance: that he has done so I hardly believe, tho' its very possible that severall Mac Donalds and Camerons in his hands, & in Urquhart's, may have been seduced; & after all, the numbers, with their addition, cannot be what they are called: what they give out is, that they are to wait for you on the north side of the mountain over which the road of Corryarig leads, in a precipitous or boggy Ld Loudoun's boggy ground, where cavalry cannot act; but if the bushes are weell beat, there can be no surprise in day-light, & I have no notion that they will look the troops with artillery in the face. I shall look for your further commands with impatience. compan' here were yesterday hardly 150. The distance of the places, where Mac Leod's, Mac Kay's, & Sutherland's companys are rais'd, in the cause. I am, d' Sir, heartily yours. Culloden, Monday, 26 August, 7 at night. P. S. I ask your pardon for the impertinence of suggesting to you, what will most certainly occur to yourself, that the Highlanders can at pleasure mar the made roads, & thereby prevent the carriage of heavy artillery over steep or boggy grounds. No. CCCCXXIII.. My Lord,' Sir John Cope to the Lord President. Ruthwin, Aug 27th, 1745. THE reason of my coming here shall be fully explained to your Lordship when I have the honour to see you. The only message I have had since I left Stirling, that has the appearance of countenancing the King's troops, is from the Laird of Grant this morning his kinsman is returned to him; and I have desired, if possible, that he will meet me with some of his men, and the rest that he can gather together, the next day, or as soon as possible. I bend my course directly to Inverness. If your Lordship approves it, I think it may be right for Lord Loudon's men, and any other armed men you may have at Inverness, to join me on the march it will give a spirit and appear. ance at least of some consequence to the friends of the Government, and deter wavering people from going lengths to hurt themselves. The accounts of the enemy vary extremely as to numbers, but not as to situation. Lochiel's people on the north-west side of Loch Lochy; another body at Loch Garry on the west of Loch Oyich. Their whole plan, by all we can learn, has been to wait for us at and near the Corriarick Hill, where they expected us to-morrow. What turn next they will take is at present very uncertain; but I am hopeful their followers, when they are apprehensive that all their dwellings may be destroyed if they venture southward, may leave them; and our troops being here, may raise the spirits of our friends. I have ordered more arms, &, &c. to Inverness, as likewise biscuit and other provisions. 5000 arms are coming from London; and some, if not all the garrison that came out of Ostend, being 5 good battalions, are actually on board for Leith. This I can take upon me to assure you to be true by the last good authority I had from London. Tho' I have mentioned La Loudoun's men, I beg to leave it to your Lordship's discretion and ordering, and I shall approve of every thing you are pleased to do. I have passed the Spey, and incamp just on the north side of it. M'Intosh goes off to-morrow at break of day to his people. I have lugged along with me about 200 arms, not thinking it possible to come thro' so many friends country without meeting some hands to put them into; but not one as yet. I am in great hopes from Grant and M'Intosh. Cluny has been with me; his men I ordered to meet me at Garvimore, and first bent my march that way this morning. I have sent Cluny home this morning, to bring his men to me as soon, as possible. I have not time for more. I am your Lordship's most obed' Serv, JNO. COPE. My Lord, No. CCCCXXIV. The Lord President to Lord Fortrose. 28 August, 6 at night. THIS moment I have a letter from Sir J. Cope, from Ruthven. He has not pass'd the Corryyarig; not from any notion of opposition, but from ane apprehension the enemy may give him the slip, and march southwards by the skirts of Argyleshire. If they did so, they must be unhappy, because they must meet with 5 battalions of the late garrison of Ostend, who were order'd for Leith, & ship'd many days ago. Sir John is desireous, from the countenance which the Gov' expects from it's freinds, to crush this insurrection as speedily and with as little loss as possible; and is therefore solicitous to have, from the well-intentioned, as many men together as may easily be compress'd. What I therefor humbly suggest to your Lop is, that, without loss of time, would order as many men as you can arm quickly, to be immediately brought together as near this country as possible, arms for the rest being hourly expected; & that you would be so good as to give me notice what's to be done in this way. I am, with perfect good will, &. you No. CCCCXXV. Dear Sir, The Lord President to Sir J. Cope. Culloden, 28 August, 10 at night. SO soon as I received your's of yesterday's date, from Ruthven, I dispatch'd messengers to Lord Fortrose & Lord Lovat, who have both given assurance of their assistance. What I press'd them to, was, the bringing immediately together as many as they can arm, & the prepareing others to receive arms, which are soon expected. Their answers you shall soon be acquainted with; but their assistance is hardly to be depended on for immediate service; I sent also for the Commanding Officer of La Loudon's at Iñ', & for the Gov', & acquainted them with your commands. There is no doubt the men, who are 150 and no more, as I wrote you, can be spared safely from Inverness; & they therefore are this night order'd to hold themselves in readyness to march at ane hour's warning; but, as you have not signify'd when you intended to sett out, or where you would have had them meet you, they are not to be put actually in march till they receive further orders; but upon the shortest warning they will move. If Macintosh carry any orders to this neighbourhood, or if by his directions given to him your design can be collected, Loudon's people shall be order'd to answer it. There are no other arm'd men in this neighbourhood; and there neither has been nor is there as yet, any authority for bringing them together, nor any mean of subsisting them: Besides, that no danger seem'd immediately to press. Concerning the numbers of the Highlanders, I know nothing further than what you have in my last; their situation, by what I can learn, is more easterly, towards Corryyarrig, with ane intent, as they pretended, to meet & surprize you. What course they will take, upon your altering your route, is uncertain. You do not mention when you propose to leave the Spey; & I presume you have consider'd what is to be done in case they, leaving their miserable huts to mercy, should resolve to pass the Corryyarig, & march southwards. But it seems to be fitting that you acquaint us, without loss of time, & |