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your conntry from the present dismal situation in which it is. 
People of all ranks here have shewn so much their zeal to serve 
His Majesty King George that if the rebels return this way I 
fear what we have already suffered will appear a trifle in 
comparison of what we must yet expect. 
“ About 400 private men and 40 officers were made prisoners 
at Carlisle. Seven were hanged on the 2nd, and five some days 
before of those who had been with General Cope, and had listed 
with the rebels. None of the officers taken were people of any 
note.” 
Drafts of the letters written by Mr Fergusson and by his 
father and Mr William Kirkpatrick to the Duke of Cumberland 
at Carlisle are also extant, but as the purport of them has 
already been given, and they contain no important facts, I have 
not thought it necessary to trouble you with them. 
On 21st January the Duke of Queensberry writes a reply, and 
it seems to have been the only letter sent by him to Mr Fergusson 
at that time, because this letter and the drafts from which I have 
been reading are backed up together as follows :—‘‘ Letter the 
D. of Q., January 21st, 1746, anent the rebellion, with copy of 
some letters of mine to him during the rebellion.” The Duke’s 
letter, which was written from London, is in the following 
terms :— 
“‘T am in hopes that before this time the rebels have mett 
with their deserts. We receiv’ here yesterday the news of 
General Hawley’s march from Edinburgh towards Sterling, and 
we are now in daily expectation of hearing of a battle. If the 
King’s troops gain a compleat victory (which God grant they, may) 
the peace and tranquility of our country, I doubt not, will soon 
be restored, but I am afraid it will take a considerable time to 
recover the calamitous circumstances brought upon it by this 
rebellion, which posterity will have difficulty to believe had so 
small a beginning when the progress and duration of it is 
considered ; lett those answer for that who have trifled with it, 
The rebels, I never doubted, would do mischief at Drumlanrig 
when I[ heard of their behaviour in other places ; but I imagined 
they would behave with rather more discretion when their leader 
was there. I suppose some of the pictures in the gallery might 
give them some offence. I suppose King William’s picture would 
not fail of bearing particular marks of their displeasure, but I am 
glad they have not defaced the pictures with their broadswords, 
