. His companions, however, were able to bear
him off in safety.
The Highlanders next morning sought for their prisoners with great activity. An
old gentleman told the author he remembered seeing the commander Stewart,
 
Bloody with spurring, flery red with haste,
 
riding furiously through the country in quest of the fugitives.
 
70 The Judges of the Supreme Court of Session in Scotland are proverbially
termed, among the country people, The Fifteen.
71 To go out, or to have been out, in Scotland, was a conventional phrase
similar to that of the Irish respecting a man having been up, both having
reference to an individual who had been engaged in insurrection. It was
accounted ill-breeding in Scotland, about forty years since, to use the phrase
rebellion or rebel, which might be interpreted by some of the parties present as
a personal insult. It was also esteemed more polite even for staunch Whigs to
denominate Charles Edward the Chevalier, than to speak of him as the Pretender;
and this kind of accommodating courtesy was usually observed in society where
individuals of each party mixed on friendly terms.
 
72 The Jacobite sentiments were general among the western counties, and in
Wales. But although the great families of the Wynnes, the Wyndhams, and others,
had come under an actual obligation to join Prince Charles if he should land,
they had done so under the express stipulation, that he should be assisted by an
auxiliary army of French, without which they foresaw the enterprise would be
desperate. Wishing well to his cause, therefore, and watching an opportunity to
join him, they did not, nevertheless, think themselves bound in honour to do so,
as he was only supported by a body of wild mountaineers, speaking an uncouth
dialect, and wearing a singular dress. The race up to Derby struck them with
more dread than admiration. But it was difficult to say what the effect might
have been, had either the battle of Preston or Falkirk being fought and won
during the advance into England.
 
73 Divisions early showed themselves in the Chevalier's little army, not only
amongst the independent chieftains, who were far too proud to brook subjection
to each other, but betwixt the Scotch and Charles's governor O'Sullivan, an
Irishman by birth, who, with some of his countrymen bred in the Irish Brigade in
the service of the King of France, had an influence with the Adventurer, much
resented by the Highlanders, who were sensible that their own clans made the
chief or rather the only strength of his enterprise. There was a feud, also,
between Lord George Murray and
