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your conntry from the present dismal situation in which it is. 

 People of all ranks here have shewn so much their zeal to serve 

 His Majesty King George that if the rebels return this way I 

 fear what we have already suffered will appear a trifle in 

 comparison of what we must yet expect. 



" About 400 private men and 40 officers were made prisoners 

 at Carlisle. Seven were hanged on the 2nd, and live some days 

 before of those who h<ad been with General Cope, and had listed 

 with the rebels. None of the officers taken were people of any 

 note." 



Drafts of the letters written by Mr Fergusson and by his 

 father and Mr William Kirkpatrick to the Duke of Cumberland 

 at Carlisle are also extant, but as the purport uf them has 

 already been given, and they contain no important facts, I have 

 not thought it necessary to trouble you with them. 



On 21st January the Duke of Queensberry writes a reply, and 

 it seems to have been the only letter sent by him to Mr Fergusson 

 at that time, because this letter and the drafts from which I have 

 been reading are backed up together as follows ; — " Letter the 

 D. of Q., January 21st, 1746, anent the rebellion, with copy of 

 some letters of mine to him during the rebellion." The Duke's 

 letter, which was written from London, is in the following 

 tei'ms : — 



" I am in hopes that before this time the rebels have mett 

 with their deserts. We receiv'd here yesterday the news of 

 General Hawley's march from Edinburgh towards Sterling, and 

 we are now in daily expectation of hearing of a battle. If tlie 

 King's troops gain a coinpleat victory (which God grant they may) 

 the peace and tranquility of our country, I doubt not, will soon 

 be restored, but I am afraid it will take a considerable time to 

 recover the caljimitous circumstances brought upon it by this 

 rebellion, which posterity will iiave difficulty to believe had so 

 small a beginning when the progress and duration of it is 

 considered ; lett those answer for that who have ti'ifled with it. 

 The rebels, I never doubted, would do mischief at Drumlanrig 

 when I heard of their behaviour in other places ; but I imagined 

 they would behave with rather more flscretion when their leader 

 was there. I suppose some of the pictures in the gallery might 

 give them some offijnoe. I suppose King William's picture would 

 not fail of bearing particular marks of their displeasure, but I am 

 Ejlad they have not defaced the pictures with their broadswords, 



