CHARLES WATERT0N, ESQ. xlvii 



After the fatal battle of Culloden, our house 

 was ransacked for arms, by an officer sent hither 

 on the part of Government. 



When the inmates of the house, saw with anger, 

 what was going on ; I can easily fancy, that they 

 would do all in their power to baffle the Government 

 intruder ; and that they then took their opportunity 

 of hurling into the lake below, what arms they 

 could lay hold of : the swivel cannon amongst the 

 rest. 



How varied is the turn of fortune ! Success in 

 battle, or the want of it> makes a man a patriot or 

 a rebel. My family, solely on account of its 

 conservative principles, and of its unshaken loyalty 

 in the cause of royal hereditary rights, was by 

 the failure at Culloden's bloody field, declared 

 to be rebellious ; and its members had to suffer 

 confiscation, persecution and imprisonment. It 

 had the horror to see, in a foregoing century, 

 a Dutchman declared the sovereign lord of all 

 great Britain ; and subsequently, Hanoverian 

 princes, and Hanoverian rats called over from 

 the continent, in order to fatten on our fertile 

 plains of England. 



