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and which was published by the Maitland Club in 1841. 

 Curiously enougli in this account, the Prince's journey through 

 Dumfries is dismissed in a few lines. Mr Maxwell is often 

 described as proprietor of Kirkconuell, and he was so afterwards, 

 but at the time of the Rising lie was merely the eldest son of the 

 then proprietor, and his father mtist have lived until the storm 

 blew over, because the estate escaped confiscation. 



On 31st October the Prince left Edinburgh with an army 6000 

 strong. It split into two divisions — one with the Prince at its 

 head going by Lauder and Kelso, and the other under Lord 

 George Murray going by Lauder and Moffat, and these two 

 divisions joined again at Reddings, and Carlisle soon fell into 

 their hands. It was at one time feared that the division under 

 Lord George Murray would pay Dumfries a visit, and the burgh 

 was totally unprepared for any resistance — a very different state 

 of affairs from that which existed in the Rising of 1715, when 

 the town, with assistance from neighbouring burghs and the 

 surrounding district, was so well garrisoned that the rebels under 

 Viscount Kenmure dare not attack it. On ■21st November the 

 Prince left Carlisle, but so great was the disinclination of the 

 Highlanders to leave Scotland that his army had dwindled to 

 4500. However, lnj resolved to press on, in the expectation that 

 his friends in England would rise and join him, and that assistance 

 would come from France. He was doomed to be disappointed in 

 both of these hopes, and at Derby the leaders became conv^iuced 

 that their numbers were too few to acjomplisli the object they 

 had in view — ^the capture of London. A retreat was accordingly 

 resolved upon, and the Jacobite army began their return march 

 to Scotland on 5th December, pursued by a force of 10,000 men 

 under the Duke of Cumberland, K.ing George's second son. This 

 force was sufficient to annihilate the little army had it come up with 

 it, but Lord George Murray, who had charge of the rearguard 

 attacked his pursuers' outposts at Clifton on 18tli December, and 

 caused a check which enabled the Prince's army to reach Carlisle 

 in safety on the 19th. The Duke of Cumberland did not arrive 

 there till the 21st. On the 20th the Prince crossed the Esk at 

 Longtown, and the army was then split into two divisions — one 

 under Lord George Murray going north by Ecclefechan and 

 Moffat, while the main body witii the Prince came to Annan. 

 Lord Elcho witli 500 men rode on to Dumfries that night, where 

 he was joined by the Prince ne.xt d:iy. With a sliglit attempt at 



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