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brought the author, on its publication, so large a sum in the 

 second, can be accounted for only by a reference to the keen 

 partisanship of the period, and the peculiar circumstances of 

 parties. The Jacobites, taught by the rebellion of 1715 at 

 once the value of the Highlands and the incompetency of the 

 Chevalier St George as a leader, had begun to fix their hopes 

 on the Chevalier's son, Charles Edward, at that time a young 

 but promising lad ; and, with the tragedy of Brook before 

 them, neither they nor the English Government of the day 

 could have failed to see the foreigner George the Second typi- 

 fied unintentionally, surely, on the part of Brook, who was 

 a " Prince of Wales" Whig in the foreigner Christiern the 

 Second, the Scotch Highlanders in the Mountaineers of Da- 

 lecarlia, and the young Prince in Gustavus. In the Jacobite 

 manuscript of Mr Petrie's collection, the parallelism is broadly 

 traced ; nor is it in the least probable, as the poem is a piece 

 of sad mediocrity throughout, that it is a parallelism which 

 was originated by its writer. It must have been that of his 

 party ; and led, I doubt not, five years before, to the prohi- 

 bition of Brook's tragedy, and to the singular success which 

 attended its publication. The passage in the manuscript sug- 

 gestive of this view takes the form of an address to the vic- 

 torious prince, and runs as follows : 



" Meanwhile, unguarded youth, thou stoodst alone ; 

 The cruel Tyrant urged his Annie on ; 

 But Truth, and Goodness were the Best of Arms ; 

 And, fearless Prince, Thou smil'd at Threatened harms. 

 Thus, Glorious Vasa worked in Swedish mines, 

 Thus, Helpless, Saw his Enemy's Designs, 

 Till, roused, his Hardy Highlanders arose, 

 And poured Destruction on their foreign foes." 



I rose betimes next morning, and crossed the Peerie [little] 

 Sea, a shallow prolongation of the Bay of Kirkwall, cut off 

 from the main sea by an artificial mound, to the quarry of 

 Pickoquoy, somewhat notable, only a few years ago, as the 



