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234 JACOBITE
I cannot see thee, lady fair,
Turn'd out on the world wide ;
I cannot see thee, lady fair,
Weep on the bleak hill side.
Before such noble stem should bend
To tyrant's treachery,
I'll lay thee with thy gallant sire,
Beneath the beechen tree.
I'll hide thee in Clan- Ronald's isles,
Where honour still bears sway ;
I'll watch the traitor's hovering sails,
By islet and by bay :
And ere thy honour shall be stain'd,
This sword avenge shall thee,
And lay thee with thy gallant kin,
Below the beechen tree.
in which they had embarked. " As all the male vassals of the Duke
of Athol were in our army, with his brother Lord George, the Duker
of Cumberland sent a detachment of his troops into their country,
who committed the most unheard-of cruelties, burning the houses
of the gentlemen who were with the Prince ; and turning out their
wives and children in the midst of winter, to perish in the mountains,
with cold and hunger, after subjecting them to every species of infa-
mous and brutal treatment. As soon as these proceedings were known
at Inverness, the head quarters of our army, Lord George set off in-
stantly with his whole clan, to take vengeance for this treatment ; and
he contrived his march so secretly, passing through bye-ways across
the mountains, that the enemy had no information of his approach.
Having planned his march so as to arrive at Athol in the beginning
of the nighti the detachment separated, dividing itself into small
parties, every gentleman taking the shortest road to his own house ;
and, in this manner, all the English were surprised in their sleep.
Those who found their wives and daughters violated by the brutality
of these monsters, and their families dying from hunger and the in-
clemency of the season, made no prisoners. All the English received
while they slept, the punishment which their barbarity merited.—
They were either at once put to the sword or made prisoners, ex-
cept two or three hundred men, who barricadoed themselves in the
castle of the Duke of Athol, which could not be forced without can-
non. The clan of Athol was the most numerous in our army
amounting to from twelve to fifteen hundred men. A short time be-
fore this, the Duke of Cumberland had despatched a detachment to