the author had the pleasure of being acquainted.
As the Highland army rushed into Edinburgh, Miss Nairne, like other ladies who
approved of their cause, stood waving her handkerchief from a balcony, when a
ball from a Highlander's musket, which was discharged by accident, grazed her
forehead. »Thank God,« said she, the instant she recovered, »that the accident
happened to me, whose principles are known. Had it befallen a Whig they would
have said it was done on purpose.«
 
91 Henry Sacheverell, D.D., was a violent high-churchman, who, in 1710, was
impeached for an attack made on the Godolphin Whig ministry. He afterwards
became very popular.
 
92 The Author of Waverley has been charged with painting the young Adventurer in
colours more amiable than his character deserved. But having known many
individuals who were near his person, he has been described according to the
light in which those eye-witnesses saw his temper and qualifications. Something
must be allowed, no doubt, to the natural exaggerations of those who remembered
him as the bold and adventurous Prince, in whose cause they had braved death and
ruin; but is their evidence to give place entirely to that of a single
malcontent?
I have already noticed the imputations thrown by the Chevalier Johnstone on the
Prince's courage. But some part at least of that gentleman's tale is purely
romantic. It would not, for instance, be supposed, that at the time he is
favouring us with the highly-wrought account of his amour with the adorable
Peggie, the Chevalier Johnstone was a married man, whose grandchild is now
alive, or that the whole circumstantial story concerning the outrageous
vengeance taken by Gordon of Abbachie on a Presbyterian clergyman, is entirely
apocryphal. At the same time it may be admitted, that the Prince, like others of
his family, did not esteem the services done him by his adherents so highly as
he ought. Educated in high ideas of his hereditary right, he has been supposed
to have held every exertion and sacrifice made in his cause as too much the duty
of the person making it, to merit extravagant gratitude on his part. Dr. King's
evidence (which his leaving the Jacobite interest renders somewhat doubtful)
goes to strengthen this opinion.
The ingenious editor of Johnstone's Memoirs has quoted a story said to be told
by Helvetius, stating that Prince Charles Edward, far from voluntarily embarking
on his daring expedition, was literally bound hand and foot, and to which he
seems disposed to yield credit. Now, it being a