Keppoch song

ADDENDA. 1*1
royal army, or its adherents, be able to pe-
netrate their territory. But this was a Scot-
tish practice, and issued and used only by
their sovereigns, as a prerogative of royalty,
and not used by the family of the Isles,
which was of a different origin. On hosti-
lities commencing, opportunities of retalia-
tion would be taken, and these Highland-
ers would deem themselves justifiable in
rendering " measure for measure." With
what candour, therefore, can a Scottish
historian complain of a practice authorized
by Scotch law, and of which the massacre
of Glenco is a recent instance? Here the
writer, perhaps, may be allowed to advert
to the return made for this massacre. In
the rebellion of 1745, a party of Glenco
men had been appointed, by the Stuart,
as a guard over the house of a Dalrymple,
to protect it from pillage, as that name was
noted as inimical to the house of Stuart;
and the conduct of the great Earl of Stair,
in support of the revolution, and the house
of Hanover, was well recollected. But
soon after the placing of the party, it was
adverted to, that he was a descendant of