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with their sword and mace"; and, if it was on the same day that 

 "the keys of the city were presented to the prince at Brampton by 

 the mayor and corporation on their knees" {ib), the mayor and his 

 colleagues had enough of humiliation for one day. Especially the 

 mayor, Thomas Pattison, who however was only the deputy- 

 mayor, must have keenly felt his position when he remembered 

 his grandiloquent letter of the 13th inst. to Lord Lonsdale : 



I told your Lordship that we would defend this city. Its proving true gives 

 me pleasure, and more so since we have outdone Edinburgh, nay, all 

 Scotland. • • • If you think proper I would have you mention our success 

 to the duke of Newcastle and to General Wade (Ewald i, 258). 



His lordship did think proper to mention it to the duke of 

 Newcastle, and the duke thought proper to mention it to the king, 

 who ordered the duke to write and congratulate Mr. Pattison upon 

 "the great honour the town of Carlisle has gained by setting this 

 example of firmness and resolution" {ib, 259). And he, poor man, 

 now down on his knees at Brampton, delivering up the keys of 

 Carlisle ! 



Whether Lord Lonsdale also thought proper to mention what 

 he had heard from Pattison to General Wade, we do not know. 

 If he did, then he only confirmed Wade in his opinion that there 

 was no need for him to march at all to the relief of Carlisle ; for 

 on November loth, the very day when the rumour reached Carlisle 

 that he was marching from Newcastle, he had written a letter to 

 Colonel Durand to the effect that as "the rebels" would probably 

 "proceed to Lancashire" without stopping to besiege Carlisle, he 

 saw no necessity for coming to his assistance (Mounsey, p. 47). 

 Nor was it until Thursday, the i6th, that having heard of the siege 

 he left Newcastle only to learn on arriving at Hexham that Carlisle 

 had surrendered. Then he returned to Newcastle, bitterly com- 

 plaining of the state of the roads.* 



* Which, five years later, he was commissioned to repair, when he made 

 what has ever since been known as the "military way" from Newcastle to 

 Carlisle ; no doubt an excellent road ; but, as to make a good foundation for 

 it he placed it wherever he could on the site of the Roman Wall, which he 

 threw down to its lowest course for that ]iurpose, his memory is held in no 

 greater esteem by antiquaries than by military critics. 



