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1727-1789.] JOINS THE PRINCES ARMY AT PERTH. ccxxxvii
ends abruptly with his account of the Raid to Caithness. The original Narrative
is holograph of Lord Macleod, being all written in his bold distinct hand on sheets
of foolscap paper of unequal length, and extending to thirty-eight pages. Although
incomplete, Lord Macleod's Narrative is a very valuable fragment of the history
of the events of the year 1745, and it contains several important particulars
which are not recorded in any of the other histories of the great popular rising.
The interviews between Prince Charles Edward and Lord Macleod are narrated
with great modesty ; and the chagrin which the Prince felt on learning from Lord
Macleod when at supper at Glasgow, that Seaforth, the chief of the Mackenzies,
was against him, was expressed to the French minister in the forcible words,
" He, mon Dieu, et Seaforth est aussi conlre inoi !"
The Narrative of Lord Macleod is printed at length in the second volume of
the present work, from the original at Tarbat House. It will be seen from it
how very actively Lord Macleod was engaged at the head of the regiment formed
of the Mackenzies.
President Forbes of Culloden, on the part of the Government, made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to induce Lord Macleod to accept a commission in the army of the
Government. But both Lord Macleod and his father declined that service, as ap-
pears from their correspondence with the President on the eve of the insurrection.
Shortly after the Mackenzies, under Lord Cromartie and Lord Macleod, had
arrived at Perth to join Lord Strathallan's army, Lady Stonebyres, the grandaunt
of Lord Macleod on the mother's side, who was a zealous Whig, knowing that
Lord Macleod had been educated on other principles, visited him, to try to induce
him to retire to Edinburgh, as his friends wished him to do. Lord Macleod,
however, complained bitterly of the conduct of the Government towards him, and
would not abandon the cause. 1
Prince Charles had appointed Mr. Macgregor of Glengyle to be governor of
Doune Castle, which was a place of consequence in order to a secure passage by
the ford of the Frews on the river Forth. To protect the Castle against General
Blakeney, who had received a reinforcement of two regiments of foot and two of
dragoons from Berwick, a body of Highlanders marched from Perth on the 17th
1 "GoodLady Stonebyres"diedin September of Captain Daniel Vere of Stonebyres."— Scots
1760. — [Letter from Leonard Urquhart, W.S., Magazine, vol. xxii. p. 503. She was akin to
Edinburgh, at TarbatHouse.] " 1760,Septr. 10: Lord Macleod through Sir William Gordon's
at Edinburgh, Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton, widow marriage with Miss Henderson of Fordell.