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to us in the English language, which most of those present understood. When my turn came, I cried out in Gaelic, Deoch slaint an-Reogh.' H.R.H., understanding that I had proposed the king's health, made me repeat the words, and then he also gave the king's health in the Highland dialect. When the prince was told by those present that I was particularly well versed in Gaelic, H.R.H. said I should be his tutor in that language. Afterwards I had also to propose the healths of the prince and the duke."

Before leaving the Doutelle, the prince wrote a short letter to his father to acknowledge the important services rendered by Anthony Walsh, and requesting that the title of Earl of Ireland should be conferred upon that gentleman, by way of a recompense.* By the same opportunity he

* Lord Mahon (vol. iii. p. 350) tells us that he was acquainted at Baden with a Count Walsh, whom he understood to be the descendant and representative of that gentleman, and thence concludes that the prince's request was complied with by his father. The title of Earl had, however, been already conferred on Walsh's father by James II. Charles's request was not simply that Walsh should be made an Irish earl, but that he should have the title of Earl of Ireland. The following is Charles's letter, dated " à l'ancre dans la baie de Longhaylort, 2 Août, V.S."

informed his father of his progress. "I am, thank God," he says, "arrived here in perfect good

health, but not with little trouble and danger, as you will hear by the bearer, who has been with me all along; that makes it useless for me to give any accounts and particulars on that head. I am joined here by brave people, as I expected. As I have not yet set up the standard, I cannot tell the number, but that will be in a few days, as soon as the arms are distributed, at which we are working with all speed. I have not yet got thẹ return of the message sent to the Lowlands, but

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"SIRE, J'ai reçu des services si importans de M. Antoine Walsh, qu'il n'y a rien que je ne me croie obligé de faire pour lui en témoigner mon agrément. Ainsi je lui ai promis d'employer tout mon crédit auprès de Votre Majesté pour lui obtenir le titre de Comte d'Irlande. Il est issu d'une fort bonne famille, très en état de soutenir la dignité de ce nouveau titre, et n'a pas besoin d'autre chose. C'est la première grace que je vous demande depuis mon arrivée dans ce pays. J'espère bien que ce ne sera pas la dernière, mais, en tout cas, je vous supplie de me l'accorder. la regarderai comme une obligation particulière, accordée à votre très obéissant fils, CHARLES, P." According to the Jacobite Memoirs, edited by Robert Chambers, Charles knighted Walsh immediately after his landing, paid him two thousand pounds as an indemnity for the costs he had been at, and presented him with a sword, which had been bought for Charles at Dunkirk, and for which eighty louis-d'or had been paid. By way of inscription, Charles had had the words Gratitudo fidelitati engraved on the blade.

expect it very soon. If they all join, or at least all those to whom I have sent commissions, at request, everything will go on to a wish. Sir Hector's (Sir Hector Maclean is here meant) being taken up is of no consequence but of perhaps frightening some few, for they can make nothing of him, nor of some papers that were found in his room, which he denies having any knowledge of. The commissions, along with the declaration, are arrived safe, and in a proper hand. The worst that can happen to me, if France does not succour me, is to die at the head of such brave people as I find here, if I should not be able to make my way; and that I have promised to them, as you know to have been my resolution before parting. The French court must now necessarily take off the mask, or have an eternal shame on them; for, at present, there is no medium, and we, whatever happens, shall gain an immortal honour by doing what we can to deliver our country, in restoring our master, or perish with sword in hand. Your majesty may easily conceive the anxiety I am in to hear from you. Having nothing more particular at present to add (not being able to keep the ship longer, for fear of men-of-war stopping her

passage entirely), I shall end, laying myself with all respect and duty at your majesty's feet, most humbly asking a blessing."

The above letter is signed "Charles P." Most of those afterwards written from Scotland are signed "Charles P. R." (Charles Prince Regent.)

VOL. I.

CHAPTER IX.

LOCHIEL-THE UNFURLING OF THE STUART BANNER DUKE OF PERTH-CHARLES'S PROCLAMATION.

THE first and most urgent business of Charles, at Borodale, was to inform those Highland chiefs, whom he knew or believed to be zealous in the cause of Jacobitism, of his arrival in Scotland; Cameron of Lochiel, Alexander Macdonald, and MacLeod, were summoned to Borodale. Lochiel obeyed the summons without delay, but, with all his hereditary devotion to the house of Stuart, his only intention, when he set out for the headquarters of Charles, was to urge the latter to return immediately to France. On his way to Borodale, Lochiel called on his brother, Cameron, of Tassefern, who concurred in his opinion as to the "madness and rashness of the whole undertaking," but advised him to communicate his sentiments only by letter. "I know you," said

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