Keppoch song

21'2 SUPPLEMENT.
nishing the prime movers and principafs
of this insurrection, cowardly turned their
vengeance upon ignorant and illiterate
Highlanders, the remedy and rod of pu-
nishment; the clan act having been provi-
ded before the disease broke out, and as if
the ministry wished for it, as they had now
made it the interest of the superiors to foment
and excite it. Thus the succession of the
present reigning family is ushered in by
a partial distinction, in favour of one class
of subjects against the other, as if they
wished to favour pretending superiors
against the west Highlanders, and to renew
the scenes of Milroy and Glenco, and as if
they expected them to embrace the first
opportunity of taking arms in retaliation.
Accordingly, Angus of Keppoch is drawn
into the snare, allured by the conduct of
the marquis of Huntly, afterwards acknow-
ledged by his son to have been a papist,
and by the example of Macintosh of Bor-
lum, the near relation and neighbour of the
chief Macintosh (there were two Borlums),
appointed brigadier-general in therebellious
service. It is a fair and honourable conclu