70 SCOTLAND ILLUSTRATED. 



The other chieftains who followed the prince embraced his cause with similar 

 presentiments : of this we have an example in his interview with Clanronald 

 " the dauntless." Charles, says Home, almost reduced to despair, in his discourse 

 with Boisdale, addressed the two Highlanders with great emotion ; and summing 

 up his arguments for taking arms, conjured them to assist their prince, their 

 countryman, in his utmost need. Clanronald and his friend, who were well 

 inclined to the cause, positively refused, and told him, that to take up arms 

 without concert or support, was to pull down certain ruin upon their own heads. 

 Charles persisted, argued, and implored. During this conversation they were 

 on shipboard, walking backwards and forwards on deck, with a Highlander 

 armed at all points, as was the fashion of the country, standing near them. 

 He was a younger brother of Kinloch-Moidart, and had come off to the ship 

 to inquire for news, without knowing who was on board. When he gathered 

 from their discourse that the stranger was the prince of Wales when he heard 

 his chief and his brother refuse to take arms with their prince, his colour went 

 and came his eyes sparkled he shifted his place, and grasped his sword. 

 Charles observed his demeanour, and turning briskly to him, called out, " Will 

 you assist me?" " I will, I will!" said Ronald; " though no other man in the 

 Highlands should draw a sword, I am ready to die for you." Charles, with a 

 profusion of thanks to his champion, said he wished all the Highlanders were 

 like him. This incident closed the deliberations ; the two Macdonalds declared 

 that they would also join, and use their utmost endeavours to engage their 

 countrymen to take arms.* 



Lochiel had the good fortune to get safe to France, with the prince, and was 

 there made colonel of a regiment, but did not enjoy his commission more than 

 two years, when he died.f 



composed the majority of the little band who commenced this hazardous enterprise. Their standard, which 

 was made "of white, blue, and red silk, and twice the size of a modern stand of colours, was unfurled hy the 

 Marquess of Tullibardine, titular Duke of Athol." 



* In reference to this subject, it must never be forgotten that the Rebellion of 1745 was only a. partial 

 insurrection of a few Highland chiefs, and their followers. Neither were those gentlemen the heads of the 

 most powerful clans nor did the whole of their respective tribes attend them to the field ; only nine parishes 

 in the Highlands contributed a part of their inhabitants towards furnishing the rebel army. . . That the insur- 

 gents met with little encouragement in Scotland, is evident. Their whole number amounted hardly to seven 

 thousand, and of these about two thousand were English. It must not be supposed, -therefore, that near two 

 millions of people who were innocent, were to be involved in the guilt of a few thousands. Such, how- 

 ever, Dr. Johnson seems to have implied, when he states, " that the law which followed the victory of 

 Culloden 1 , found the whole nation dejected and intimidated." The truth is, that, without the assistance 

 of the loyal clans, the victory of Culloden had never been heard of. It was the division among the chiefs 

 and their followers " when Greek met Greek" the unnatural conflict between members of the same 

 family, that invested the duke of Cumberland with the ensigns of a triumph. See U'Nicol's Notes. 



f Lochiel's brother, Dr. Cameron, who fought also at Culloden, was wounded severely in the arm, but 



