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your own business," was his counsel. When the army of 

 the Prince, flushed with success, was marching through the 

 West of England, Lord John Drummond urged him to 

 change sides and thus "retrieve " his character. It was all 

 in vain : Mackenzie had definitely chosen to go his own 

 way ; and that way was the path of prudence and 

 consistency. The Prince himself, who was not prepared 

 for a Seaforth acting in opposition to a Stuart, was much 

 chagrined at Lord Fortrose's opposition. " He, ! Man 

 Dieu! " he exclaimed, " et Seaforth est aussi contre mot"* 

 Lord Fortrose had got together a body of men from 

 Kintail and Lochcarron for duty at Brahan Castle, and 

 Culloden suggested that he might add to the number. "It 

 will tend," he said, " to make Caber foyf respectable and to 

 discourage folly among your neighbours." Norman 

 Macleod and Sir Alexander Macdonald were no less active 

 in their antagonism to the Jacobites. But in Macleod's 

 case, also, there was a minority in opposition to him. A 

 lawyer named Alexander Macleod of Muiravonside had 

 been specially selected by Prince Charles, for the purpose 

 of attempting to detach the clan from the Government 

 interest ; an attempt which met " with very bad success." 

 Donald Macleod of Bernera, in answer to his chief's 

 summons, sent him twenty men, but he himself joined the 

 Prince. Malcolm Macleod of Raasay, with one hundred 

 men, likewise donned the white cockade. We have here 

 an assertion of the independence which the chiefs of 

 Raasay, as representing the Siol Torquil of Lewis, con- 

 sistently showed in their dealings with the Macleods of 

 Harris. The Macleods of Glendale and Brea also joined 

 the ranks of the Jacobites. Sir Alexander Macdonald, 

 acting in concert with Norman Macleod, summoned his 

 retainers, among whom were men from North Uist, to rally 

 round him for the cause of King George. Macneill of 

 Barra seems to have remained neutral, being dominated by 

 his Superior, Sir Alexander Macdonald. Clanranald was 



* Fraser's Earls of Cromartie t Vol. II., p. 338. 



t i.e., Caberfeidh , or stag's head, the Mackenzie coat of arms. 



