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landers failed to hold their positions, and Wightman was 

 left master of the field. Thus ended one more fruitless 

 attempt on behalf of the Stuarts. The causes of failure 

 were various. The death of Charles XII. of Sweden at 

 Frederickshall ; the dispersal of Ormonde's fleet by the 

 elements ; the friction between the leaders of the Scottish 

 expedition ; the lukewarm attitude of the Highlanders 

 generally ; these causes combined to wreck an enterprise 

 which, under more favourable auspices, might well have 

 proved successful. That the wisest course for the Jacobites 

 at Lochalsh was to have made an immediate dash on 

 Inverness, as recommended by the Earl Marischal ; or to 

 defer rising until success was better assured, as Tullibar- 

 dine and Seaforth wished, is tolerably plain. The com- 

 promise was fatal, for it extinguished the flame of rebellion, 

 and left no hope of its being re-kindled. The divided 

 counsels and the petty jealousies of the leaders were 

 sources of weakness, which materially contributed to the 

 utter failure of the insurrection. 



Some of the leaders of the rising of 1719 lived to make 

 history in later years. The Duke of Ormonde, deprived 

 by the fall from power of Cardinal Alberoni, in December, 

 1719, of the means of resuscitating the Jacobite attempt, 

 settled in Spain, where he kept in touch with his confederates. 

 The Marquis of Tullibardine enjoyed the distinction of un- 

 furling the standard of Prince Charles Edward Stuart at 

 Glenfinnan in 1745 ; he died next year in the Tower. His 

 brother, Lord George Murray, became Prince Charlie's 

 ablest officer in the '45. George Keith, the Earl Maris- 

 chal, rose to distinction in the service of Prussia, after a 

 chequered career, and became Prussian Ambassador at the 

 Courts of Paris and Madrid, and Governor of Neuchatel. 

 It is said that Rousseau licked one hand alone in Europe, 

 that of le bon milord Marechal. George Keith went to 

 Scotland after the removal of the disabilities affecting 

 Jacobite exiles, but he ultimately returned to the Conti- 

 nent. He died at Potsdam in 1778. His younger brother, 

 James, had the most distinguished career of all the Jacobite 



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