Life of Flora Macdonald and her adventures with Prince Charles

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concealment in, or escape from, the country, and the com-
mon people to return to their homes."
The Prince received Lord George Murray's letter by a
messenger when in the midst of his deliberations, with his
friends at Borrodale, as to his future movements. It is very
probable that he had shown it to those devoted adherents
around him, if not to O'Sullivan himself, whose reputation
as an officer was so sharply commented on by Lord Murray.
Be this as it may, the Prince yielded to O'Sullivan's sugges-
tion, and expressed a determination to seek refuge in the
Western Isles.
When His Royal Highness, before the battle of Cullo-
den, entered the town of Inverness he met in private with
several friends warmly attached to his person, and sincerely
zealous in his cause. He happened to state that he expected
some French vessels to arrive on the West Coast with money
and requisite munitions of war, but was at a loss how to pro-
cure a trustworthy person to fall in with these foreign ships
and get some of these requisites privately conveyed to him.
His Royal Highness was informed by Banker Macdonell
that he had just seen a faithful, worthy Skyeman in town
whom he considered a most suitable person for the purpose
required, if he would engage to do it. The Prince ex-
pressed a desire to see him ; whereupon, in a short time,
Macdonell brought Donald Macleod of Galtrigal into the
presence of his Royal Highness, who shook hands with the
humble Hebridean, and spent nearly an hour in conversation
with him in a Close in Church Street, near the Gaelic Church,
wherein shortly afterwards, a number of poor rebels were
imprisoned by the cruel Cumberland, and thence taken to
the adjoining churchyard, where they were made to kneel
down in rows, and were shot to death by a party of Cumber-
land's soldiers. With the view of making a sure aim, the