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243 JACOBITE
Illustrious Prince, we firmly pray,
That she and we may see the day,
When Britons with one voice shall say,
" You're welcome, Charlie Stuart."
You're welcome, &c.
Whene'er I take a glass of wine,
I drink confusion to the swine,
But health to him that will combine
To fight for Charlie Stuart.
You're welcome, &c.
Though Cumberland, the tyrant proud,
Doth thirst and hunger for thy blood,*
Just Heaven will preserve the good,
The gallant Charlie Stuart.
You're welcome, &c.
veyed after her apprehension, lay for some time in Leith roads ; and
after being taken from place to place, during a period of five months,
she was at last put on board the Royal Sovereign at the Nore.
Every attention and respect was paid to her by the commander and
officers, while she remained their prisoner, — and even after she was
in the custody of the King's messengers in London, she found no rea-
son to complain of any thing but her detention. It is probable the
Government, vindictive and cruel as it was in Scotland, dreaded the
effect of English sympathy, if they should take any harsh measures
against such an adventurous heroine as Miss Flora in London. They
carried their resentment no further, therefore, than keeping her for a
short time thus under restraint. In the messengers' custody she re-
mained till July, 1147, when she was finally discharged, and returned
to Edinburgh without being asked a question.
* That the sentiment in this verse is literally true, the following
melancholy incident in Prince Charles's Highland adventures, after the
affair at Culloden, sufficiently demonstrates. " After the contest had
ceased on the field," says Johnstone in his Memoirs, " and the follow-
ers of Charles were completely dispersed, he himself was, for several
months hotly pursued by detachments of English troops ; and so very
near were they frequently to him, that he had scarcely quitted a place
before they arrived at it. Sometimes he was wholly surrounded by
them. The Duke of Cumberland never failed to say to the camman-
ders of these detachments, at the moment of their departure, " Make
no prisoners ; you know what I mean." They had particular instruc-
tions to stab the Prince, if he fell into their hands ; but Divine Wis-