104 Strathspey Fencibles at Dumfries in 1795. 



William Wemyss, of the 2nd Fencible Regiment, officiating- as 

 President, and conducting it " with much solemnity and 

 precision and with great humanity to the unhappy prisoners." 

 The sentence was announced a week later. Four men, 

 Lachlin M'Intosh, Duncan M'Dougal, Alexander Fraser, and 

 Charles M'Intosh were adjudged to suffer death, and Cor- 

 poral James M' Donald to receive 500 lashes. 



The execution was carried out with satisfactory pomp 

 and ceremony and a refinement of cruelty common at the time 

 at Gullane Links on July 17th, 1795. " The prisoners were 

 on Friday last conveyed from Musselburgh Jail about six 

 o'clock in the morning (note how the authorities drew out 

 the agony as long as possible) in two mourning coaches, 

 accompanied in the first by the Rev. Mr M'Gregor, and in 

 the second by the Rev. Mr [James] Grant, chaplain to the 

 Strathspey Fencibles, escorted by a party of the 4th regi- 

 ment of Dragoons, preceded by two troops of dragoons, the 

 Strathspey, the Breadalbane, and a detachment of the Hope- 

 toun Fencibles, and followed by the Sutherland Fencibles, 

 with two field pieces and a party of artillery. The four 

 coffins were conveyed in a cart immediately after the 

 coaches." 



" They arrived on Gullen [sicl Links about twelve o'clock, 

 where they found three or four troops of dragoons and two 

 battalions of the Scotch Brigade from the camp at Dunbar 

 formed on the ground. After the troops were drawn up, and 

 the detachment from the Grants destined to put the sentence 

 in execution, being placed in their centre, and a company of 

 the Scotch Brigade in their rear, the prisoners then walked 

 up to the ground, accompanied by the two clergymen. Upon 

 their arrival. General Hamilton, the Commander of both 

 camps, ordered the sentence of the Court Martial to be read 

 by Captain Taylor, one of his aids-de-camp ; after which Mr 

 Grant, chaplain of the regiment, sung psalms and prayed ; 

 that being finished. Captain Taylor read the approbation of 

 the Commander-in-Chief of the sentence on Alexander Fraser 

 and the three other prisoners under sentence of death, viz., 

 Lauchlin M'Intosh, Duncan Macdougall, and Charles 



