Blair Collection > Celtic monthly > Volume 6, 1898

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THE CELTIC MONTHLY.
liead from liis body, that, a.^ it fell, it rulied off
the stage to the feet of the town council.
Then there was a great rejoicing. The people
lifted the young sailor on to their shoulders and
carried him round the town, proclaiming his
praises. The town couccil, becau.?e he had saved
the city from paying a ransom, presented him
with a very handsome purse of gold, with which
the young man went back to his ma.ster. He
put back his sword and .suit of tartan into liis
trunk ; and they (jnitted Dublin and put out to
sea When they had got back in safety to
Campbeltown, the young sailor left his farewell
with James Fisher, and gave him a good handful
of gold, with which James afterwards built
himself a slated house in the Shore-street of
Campbeltown. The young man would not dis-
close his name to James ; but it was always
supposed that he was one of the Argyll family,
who had killed a nobleman in a duel, and had
been obliged to di.sguise himself and go into
hiding for a time. No one could match the
Argyll with a sword; and it was always con-
sidered that no other than Argyll could have
van(iuished the champion. James never heard
of him afterward.s ; but he always believed that,
if he could have got himself to Inveraray, he
should have found his young sailor to have been
one and the same person with Mac Cailein Mor."
CHARLES STEWART, LONDON.
^JSR. CHARLES STEWART is a cadet of
^ffl^p the Stewarts of Appin, a clan who
■Mj^ . have for centuries dominated that
district of Argyllshire, and whose connection
with the history of Scotland is well known.
Mr. Charles Stewart springs from the Fasna-
cloich branch of the clan, the estate of that name,
a portion of the great district of Appin, having
been granted, in 15L'3, to bis direct ancestor,
James Stewart, liy his father, Alan Stewart of
Appin, who was married to a daughter of Lochiel,
after their return from Flodden.
Mr. Charles Stewart was born in 1840, and
after being educated at Rugby and the University
of Edinburgh, was called to the Scottish Bar in
1862. After eight years' practice in the Parlia-
ment House, a period which was marked among
other professional labours, by the production of
a valuable book on " Rights of Fishing in Scot-
land," which has since formed the standard work
on tliat branch of the law, Mr. Stewart migrated
to London, where he has attained a prominent
position in the legal profession. Mr. Stewart's
connection, by residence and by sentiment, with
the Highlands has never relaxed, and is now
indeed strengthened by his having been for some
years past the tenant during the shooting season
of the mansion house of Fasnacloich, the old
house of his family in Glencreran, and now the
property of his cousin, Captain Stewart, formerly
of the 72nd Highlanders. The well-known
genealogical work on " The Stewarts of Appin "
is from the pen of Lieutenant-Colonel Duncan
Stewart, formerly of the 92nd Highlanders, who
is the elder brother of the subject of our notice.
The interest \<-hich Mr. Charles Stewart takes
in Highland and Jacobite memorials, as well as
the loyalty of the clan to our present gracious
Sovereign, is evinced by a picturesque incident
which occurred during the past summer, and
which may best be desci'ibed by an extract from
the official Court Journal of 8th May, 1807:—
" Windsor Castle.
Mr. Charles Stewart of the family of Fasnacloich,
Appin, arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the
honour of being presented to the Queen, and oti'ered
to Her Majesty a silver model of the Prince Charles
Edward monument at Glentinnan, which is erected
on the spot where the Prince's Standard was first
raised in 1745, and which was visited by Her
Majesty in September, 1873. The Queen was
graciously pleased to accept the offering. Her
Royal Highness Princess Christian of Hchleswig-
Holstein and Her Royal Highness Pi'incess Henry
of Battenberg were present with the Queen. Colonel
Lord Edward Pelhara Clinton, Master of the
Household, was in attendance."
The model was prepared for Mr. Stewart from
drawings by Mr. W. Skeoch Gumming of Edin-
burgh, by whom also was painted the excellent
portrait of the donor, which we reproduce, and
which was exhibited in Loudon in 1895. The
inscriptions on the model presented to Her
Majesty are in part, as will be observed, taken
from those on the monument itself, erected by
Macdonald of Glenaladale. They are as
follows : —
" To commemorate
the generous zeal, the undaunted bravery, the
inviolable fidelity of those who fought and bled in
the arduous and unfortunate enterprize of 1745."
"This copy of Prince Charles' monument at
Glentinnan, the original of which is erected on the
spot where his Standard was first raised on lOth
August, 1745, is presented, by Her Majesty's
gracious permission, in the GOth year of her glorious
and beneficent reign, to Queen Victoria, the repre-
sentative, by the grace of God, of the unfortunate
Prince for whom that daring and romantic attempt
was made to rescue a throne lost by the imprudence
of his ancestors, by Charles Stewart of the family of
Fasnacloich, Appin, a member of the clan who now
yield to none in their loyalty to the Queen."
Her Majesty, as is well known, takes a lively
interest in all historic memorials of the ancient
Royal House and of the Highland Clans ; and it
is understood that the model has been, or will be,