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1746] THE HANOVERIANS AT INVERNESS 219
and a man of humanity) could not witness such a prodigy of fol- 38°-
intended wickedness without saying something, and therefore
making a low bow to General Hawley or General Husk, he
said, ‘ I hope your excellency will be so good as to mingle
mercy with judgment.’ Upon this Hawley or Husk cried out
in a rage, ‘ Damn the rebel-dog. Kick him down stairs and
throw him in prison directly.1 The orders were literally and
instantly obeyed, and those who were most firmly attached to
the Government were put in prison at the same time.
The country people durst not venture upon burying the
dead, lest they should have been made to bear them company
till particular orders should have been given for that purpose.
The meeting-house at Inverness [and all the bibles and
prayer-books in it were] 2 was burnt to ashes.
Lady Inches said it was really Loudon’s piper that the stout
blacksmith killed, and that Macintosh’s house is seven or eight
miles from Inverness. When Lady Macintosh was to be
brought a prisoner into Inverness, a great body of men, con¬
sisting of several regiments, were sent upon the command, and
when she was leaving her own house the dead-beat was used by
the drummers. In the commands3 marching from and to fol. 381.
Inverness the horses trode many corpses under foot, and the
generous-hearted Lady Macintosh behoved to have the morti¬
fication of viewing this shocking scene.
Robert Forbes, A.M.
1 See ff. 259, 1320, 1378.
2 The passage in brackets is scored through as delete [Ed.]
3 Here begins volume third of Bishop Forbes’s Manuscript Collection. It is
entitled: ‘The Lyon in Mourning, or a Collection (as exactly made as the
iniquity of the times would permit) of Speeches, Letters, Journals, etc. relative to
the affairs, but more particularly, the dangers and distresses of. . . . Vol. 3d. 1747-
Cui mo do parcbat subject a Britannia Regi,
Jactatus terris, orbe vagatur inops l
On the inside of the front board of volume 3d are adhibited—I. Piece of the
Prince’s garter-ribbon. 2. Piece of red velvet, anent which on back of title-
page is as follows : (by Mr. Robert Chambers) The small piece of red velvet on
the inside of the board was part of the ornaments of the Prince’s sword-hilt.
While on his march to England he rested on a bank at Faladam, near Black-
shiels, where the young ladies of Whitburgh, sisters to his adherent, Robert
Anderson, presented some refreshments to him and his men. On being re¬
quested by one of these gentlewomen for some keepsake, he took out his pen-