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Mr. Keiirick also presented a copy of the “ Grazette Extraordinary 
of the Battle of Cnlloden,” and made some remarks on it, and on 
the rebellion of 1745. Although the battle took place on the 
afternoon of Aj)ril 16, the Duke’s despatch was not received in 
London till the morning of the 24th—a singular contrast to the 
rapidity of communication in our own day, when a battle fought at 
Inverness on Thursday afternoon woidd be known, not only in 
London but all over England, at breakfast on Friday morning. 
In the measures ado^^ted to arrest the invasion, the city and county 
of York took a conspicuous part. When the news of the rebels 
having entered Edinburgh was received, a commission was obtained 
from Lord Malton, Lord-Lieutenant of the W^est Hiding, for raising 
a corps to defend the city. Suspected persons were called upon to 
take the oaths, and Mr. Francis Drake, having dechned, was 
deprived of his office of city surgeon, and his salary of £ 15 a year. 
A reader of the Eloracum can be at no loss to discover the Jacobite 
leaning of its author. A more imj)ortant movement was the 
association, chiefly promoted by Archbishop Herring, a man 
warmly attached to the principles of the revolution, of great energy 
of character and talent for affairs, and an excellent speaker. At 
his suggestion a meeting of the county was held at York, Sept. 24, 
1745 ; eight hundred noblemen and gentlemen subscribed the 
declaration, and £31,000 was raised to equip a force for the support 
of Giovernment. Part of the Yorkshii’e troops, under the command 
of Whlliam Thornton, Esq., of Thornville, were in the disastrous 
battle of Falkirk. To quicken the Protestant zeal of the people of 
A^ork, a 2 :)enny edition was pubhshed by Mr. Hildjmrd of a narrative 
of the massacre of St. Bartholomew. York was then inhabited by 
many Poman Catholics, attracted to this northern metropohs, whom 
zealous Protestants charged with rejoicing at the successes of the 
rebels, and being dejected at their defeat. Few, however, of the 
English Catholics were engaged in the rebellion. The Duke of 
Cumberland, though no match for Marshal Saxe, shewed hunself an 
able general in the war with the Highlanders. He instructed the 
soldiers how to make their bayonet-thi’ust so as to render the target 
useless for defence, and drew up his men in such a way that their 
fire threw the Highlanders into confusion, before they could use the 
broadsword. The Duke passed through York on his retium ffiom 
Scotland, in Jul}^ 1746, and received an address from the corporation 
with the freedom of the city in a gold box. He dechned a pubhc 
reception in the Minster, and a collation in the Assembly Eooms, 
