 James Murray of Broughton, the Prince's
secretary, whose disunion greatly embarrassed the affairs of the Adventurer. In
general, a thousand different pretensions divided their little army, and finally
contributed in no small degree to its overthrow.
 
74 The Doutelle was an armed vessel, which brought a small supply of money and
arms from France for the use of the insurgents.
 
75 Old women, on whom devolved the duty of lamenting for the dead which the
Irish call keening.
 
76 These lines, or something like them, occur in an old Magazine of the period.
 
77 i.e., Contiguous.
 
78 They occur in Miss Seward's fine verses, beginning -
To thy rock, stormy Lannow, adieu.
 
79 Which is, or was wont to be, the old air of »Good-night, and joy be wi' you
a'!«
 
80 The main body of the Highland army encamped, or rather bivouacked, in that
part of the King's Park which lies towards the village of Duddingston.
 
81 This circumstance, which is historical, as well as the description that
precedes it, will remind the reader of the war of La Vendée, in which the
royalists, consisting chiefly of insurgent peasantry, attached a prodigious and
even superstitious interest to the possession of a piece of brass ordnance,
which they called Maria Jeanne.
The Highlanders of an early period were afraid of cannon, with the noise and
effect of which they were totally unacquainted. It was by means of three or four
small pieces of artillery that the Earls of Huntly and Errol, in James VI.'s
time, gained a great victory at Glenlivat, over a numerous Highland army
commanded by the Earl of Argyle. At the battle of the Bridge of Dee, General
Middleton obtained by his artillery a similar success, the Highlanders not being
able to stand the discharge of Musket's-Mother, which was the name they bestowed
on great guns. In an old ballad on the battle of the Bridge of Dee, these verses
occur: -
 
The Highlandmen are pretty men
For handling sword and shield,
But yet they are but simple men
To stand a stricken field.
 
The Highlandmen are pretty men
For target and claymore,
But yet they are but naked men
To face the cannon's roar.
 
For the cannons roar on a summer night,
Like thunder in the air;
Was never man in Highland garb
Would face the cannon fair.
 
But the Highlanders of 1745 had got far beyond the simplicity of their
forefathers, and showed throughout the whole war how little they dreaded
artillery, although the common people
