and about 500 volunteers, with a regiment of militia.
These amounting in all to about 1500 men, were drawn up on the crofts to
the westward of the citadel. There were likeways two regiments of
militia from the shires of Merse and Teviotdale, who were drawn up on
the Links on the south side of the town to prevent the Highlanders from
escaping.

The Duke called a Council of War, consisting of the principal officers
present, in sight of the enemy, here it was debated in what manner to
attaque the citadel, for the duke had never seen it, and the issue was
that in regard we had neither cannon, bombs, nor granads, it was
impossible to do anything to purpose, for that our men would be
destroied by the fire of the enemy before they came near the ramparts,
for altho' these ramparts and bastions were ruined ever since the days
of Oliver Cromwell, who about the years 1654 and 1655 ordered them to be
repaired out of the old fortifications of Lieth, yet they were
sufficient against such a body of men as we were who came there to
attaque them. On these considerations we were obliged to return to the
town in a very disconsolet manner.

The Duke might have been informed of the condition of that place before
he marched there, but he thought nothing in Scotland, except castles,
impregnable to his troops, and we who knew the citadel never doubted but
dismounted Dragoons cou'd force the place sword in hand. The next thing
to be done was to provide artillery from the Castle of Edin., in order
to attaque the citadel next day, but that night the Highlanders, who
were under the command of one Brigadier Macintosh, marched off to
Seaton House, where they staid 3 or 4 days. Here several detachments
were sent out of Edin. to attaque them, but being without cannon we
cou'd do nothing.

FOOTNOTES:

[52] 14th.

C. THE BATTLE OF SHERIFFMUIR (NOVEMBER).

+Source.+--_A Fragment of a Memoir of Field-Marshal James Keith:
written by himself, 1714-1734_, p. 16. (Edinburgh: Spalding Club,
1843.)

All our troops being now assembled, the Earl of Mar resolved to march
towards the enemy, and on the eighth of November arrived at Denain,[53]
with fourteen battalions of foot and eight squadrons of horse, having
left three battalions in Perth for the defence of the place; the ninth
the army lay at Auchterarder, where he reviewed the troops, who
consisted of about 6000 foot and eight hundred horse. Here we lay two
days, waiting for tw