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and which was published by the Maitland Club in 1841. 
Curiously enough in this account, the Prince’s journey through 
‘Dumfries is dismissed in a few lines. Mr Maxwell is often 
described as proprietor of Kirkconnell, and he was so afterwards, 
but at the time of the Rising he was merely the eldest son of the 
then proprietor, and his father must have lived until the storm 
blew over, because the estate escaped confiscation. 
On 31st October the Prince left Kdinburgh with an army 6000 
strong. It split into two divisions—one with the Prince at its 
head going by Lauder and Kelso, and the other under Lord 
George Murray going by Lauder and Moffat, and these two 
divisions joined again at Reddings, and Carlisle soon fell into 
their hands. It was at one time feared that the division under 
Lord George Murray would pay Dumfries a visit, and the burgh 
was totally unprepared for any resistance —a very different state 
of affairs from that which existed in the Rising of 1715, when 
the town, with assistance from neighbouring burghs and the 
surrounding district, was so well garrisoned that the rebels under 
Viscount Kenmure dare not attack it. On 21st November the 
Prince left Carlisle, but so great was the disinclination of the 
Highlanders to leave Scotland that his army had dwindled to 
4500. However, he resolved to press on, in the expectation that 
his friends in England would rise and join him, and that assistance 
would come from France. He was doomed to be disappointed in 
both of these hopes, and at Derby the leaders became convinced 
that their numbers were too few to accomplish the object they 
had in view—the capture of London. A retreat was accordingly 
resolved upon, and the Jacobite army began their return march 
to Scotland on 5th December, pursued by a force of 10,000 men 
under the Duke of Cumberland, King George’s second son. This 
force was sufficient to annihilate the little army had it come up with 
it, but Lord George Murray, who had charge of the rearguard | 
attacked his pursuers’ outposts at Clifton on 18th December, and 
caused a check which enabled the Prince’s army to reach Carlisle 
in safety on the 19th. The Duke of Cumberland did not arrive 
there till the 21st. On the 20th the Prince crossed the Esk at | 
Longtown, and the army was then split into two divisions—one 
under Lord George Murray going north by Ecclefechan and 
Moffat, while the main body with the Prince came to Annan. 
Lord Elcho with 500 men rode on to Dumfries that night, where 
he was joined by the Prince next day. With a slight attempt at 
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