Keppoch song

canto iv. A KEPPOCH SONG. 91
Till friendly death does close his toils,
And earth he quits for heavenly smiles.
Doth Scotia gratitude return;
Say, what's the reward for Bannockburn?
Five centuries of time have roll'd ;
Where's now the Lord of the Isles so bold?
ing to Peterhead. The captain having his two sons pressed,
made a private paction with the officer of the press to let go
his two sons, and take his apprentices, which was done. The
Countess of Errol was highly offended at this treachery, and
wrote, and used all her interest to get him released, but with-
out success. He served seven years on board the navy. He
was on board the Defiance, a 64 gun-ship, in the action off
Minorca, under Admiral Byng, for which that admiral was
shot. The Defiance leading the van, had to sustain the fire
of the whole French fleet. He was afterwards at the taking
of Cape Breton, Crownpoint, and Quebec, in all which severe
service he received not one wound: it was his fate to die a
more severe death. On the conclusion of the war, he sailed
from America, as chief mate of a vessel for the West Indies.
On the second voyage, the ship sprung a leak at sea, and being
loaded with lumber, would not sink; and their provisions
bei.ig under water, the whole ship's company died of hunger,
the captain excepted, the writer's uncle being the last man
that died. The captain was taken up about an hour after, at
the last extremity, and, by administering cordials, with great
care, he recovered his speech, so as to give account of the fataj
accident, but not his health: he died the summer after. An*
gus left but one daughter, and is become extinct,