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backwards on the bloody turf, they died " with their feet to the foe." But 

 we need not here indulge in individual scenes ; the entire field was now an 

 arena where as mournful a tragedy was enacted as ever drew tears from a 

 widowed mother. The shrill note of the bagpipe, the clang of the bugle, and 

 the shouts of infuriated troopers, brought at once tidings of triumph and retreat. 

 Cumberland remained in possession of the field, and on that field lay a thousand 

 gallant clansmen who had surrendered their lives victims of a mistaken loyalty.* 

 The Prince, who had now witnessed the destruction of his army and the death- 

 blow to his cause, was hurried off the field by the officers of his staff, and 

 consigned, as a fugitive, to those natural fastnesses where alone the royal name of 

 Stuart was still revered. His adventures during the period which followed have 

 furnished as noble a record of manly fortitude and endurance as ever did honour 

 to human nature. Denounced, and destitute of the most common necessaries 

 thirty thousand pounds offered for him, alive or dead pursuing only the most 

 lonely tracks there sleeping in caves, and here soliciting shelter in some solitary 

 cabin his life, from that of a prince, was suddenly encompassed with every 

 danger which could threaten him as an outlaw with every privation that could 

 afflict the body every circumstance that could distract the mind. Those who 

 affect to despise his pretensions as an aspirant to the throne, cannot refuse him, 

 as a man, the tribute of their respect and admiration. 



The victory was decisive ;f but the glory to which the victors laid claim was 

 sullied with the greatest inhumanity. The wounded and defenceless were cut 

 down without distinction. Those who had merely assembled as spectators, 

 shared in the disasters of the field. The cry of " no quarter" spread conster- 

 nation among the flying, while it sanctioned the pursuers in the work of carnage. 

 The Highland garb whether of the unarmed peasant or the hostile clansman 

 was a fatal signal to the wearer. The accents of the " mountain tongue" 

 were answered by the shouts of extermination ; and he who counted most 

 victims showed the greatest loyalty. Vengeance was now the word ; and seldom 

 has a retreat presented scenes of cold-blooded ferocity like that from Culloden 

 Moor. That these were to be charged rather to the officers than the men, 

 and most to the commander, is undeniable. The occasion offered one of the 



The French piquets stationed on the right took no share in the engagement, but intimidated by the 

 disastrous commencement, remained passive witnesses of the conflict, and at its close, surrendered them- 

 selves prisoners of war. This inactivity, however, was neither to be attributed to want of courage, or 

 want of zeal in the cause ; but to a conviction that no sacrifice of life could retrieve the honours of the day. 



f Prince Charles's resources, notwithstanding the loss of this battle, were by no means desperate ; eight 

 thousand men were ready to meet him at Ruthven, in Badenoch, had he signified his desire to renew the 

 strife. Anderson. 



