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length the Highlanders appearing in sight, the alarm spread, and Howard, the 

 second in command, repaired to Callander House to report to the general 

 and receive his orders. Hawley made light of the matter, and merely replied, 

 that the troops might keep on the alert and put on their accoutrements, but 

 that there was no occasion for remaining under arms. The officers, never- 

 theless, thought it expedient to prepare for the worst, and formed the troops 

 in front of the camp. When the general arrived, three regiments of dragoons 

 were ordered to take possession of a hiU towards which the Highland infantry 

 were advancing in quick time, and ultimately took the lead of Hawley's cavalry. 

 Here Prince Charles's army drew up in order of battle, forming two lines, with 

 a reserve in the rear. On the particulars, as it respects those in command of 

 the different divisions, we need not dwell. About three, p.m. both armies stood 

 within a hundred yards of each other, when Hawley ordered his dragoons to 

 charge. This was obeyed vnth alacrity, but a volley from the Highlanders 

 under Lord George Murray, and the attack with broad sword and target that 

 immediately followed, told so severely, that several troops of horse, little accus- 

 tomed to the Celtic mode of warfare, galloped right off the field. This left the 

 infantry exposed ; and the Highlanders, seizing the advantage, fell upon them 

 with the broad sword, and put them to the rout. A tempest of wind and 

 rain, which at the time blew directly in the faces of the royal troops, blinded 

 their eyes, and by wetting the powder, rendered their muskets almost useless ; 

 while, on the other hand, it neither blunted the claymore, nor impeded the 

 Highlanders' advance. The battle was maintained for some time with vigour ; 

 but at length resistance being only partial, the king's forces were driven 

 back on Linlithgow, and the rout complete. Their artiUery, ammunition, and 

 baggage, fell into the hands of the victors ; but the tents were set fire to by 

 order of Hawley, who, though not formally condemned for his generalship 

 in this affair, became highly unpopular, and was superseded by the duke of 

 Cumberland, of whose qualifications, " moral and military," we shall have farther 

 occasion to speak. 



The banks of the Carron, though much celebrated in histoiy and tradition, and 

 not deficient in picturesque features, are best known in modern times as the 

 seat of those immense forges from which has issued so large a portion of 

 the cannon employed in the late war, and of the domestic implements in daily 



Callander house stands about a mile east of Falkirk, in a magnificent park, containing four hundred 

 Scotch acres, and is altogether a princely residence. A room is shown in which Queen Mary, who, having 

 come to be present at a baptism in the noble family to which it originally belonged, passed the night; and 

 another which had afforded repose to Prince Charles Edward on the night of the 15th Sept. 1745. 



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