Historical and genealogical account of the Clan Maclean

204 HISTORICAL NOTICES.
year, when he expired, in the 47th year of his
age.
The stedfast attachment of the clan Maclean
to that dynasty which always appeared to them
the only legitimate one, was conspicuously shown
at the time of the bold attempt by the last
of his race, Prince Charles Edward, in 1745.
Although the Macleans on this occasion were
deprived of the command of their chief Sir
Hector, his place was nobly and efficiently filled
by the brave and chivalrous Charles Maclean
of Drimnin. No sooner had the scion of the
house of Stuart landed in Moidart than the
fiery cross was seen flying over the hills and
valleys of Mull and Morvern, summoning the
old friends of his forefathers to aid the gallant
aspirant in his attempt to gain the crown of his
ancestors. 500 Macleans, ready to shed the
last drop of blood for the young Stuart, obeyed
the call ; at the head of these Charles of Drim-
nin placed himself; and as Miss Ross of Edin-
burgh* has produced, within this year or two,
under the name of A Ballad of the Forty -jive,
what she evidently intended to represent the
" Gathering of the Clan" on that occasion, the
author of these pages is enabled to gratify his
Maclean readers with the soul-stirring notes
* Miss Ross, by maternal descent, is of a much respected
branch of the Lochbuy family ; vide Maclaines of Scallas-
dale, page 237.