l Eckline and others,
about 160 gentlemen in all, well mounted on horseback, made a sally from
the hills, and crossing the shire of Murray,[62] came to the seaside
near Burgh, where they got several large barks which carried them to the
Orkneys, Arskerry,[63] and other of the islands, from whence most of
them found means to get into the frigates which carried them safe to
France. Other ships coming afterwards carried the rest to Gottenburg, in
the Swedish dominions, where some of them took on in that king's
service.... There were yet with the rebels in Scotland many of their
chiefs, as the Marquis of Tullibardine, the Earls Marischal, Southesk,
Linlithgow, and Seaforth, who having broke his submission, joined them
again in their flight to the northward, the Lord Tinmouth, Sir Donald
M'Donald, and several others of the heads of the clans, who sheltered
themselves for some time in the mountains from his Majesty's troops who
pursued them through the north; and from thence some made their escape
to the Isle of Sky, the Lewis, and other of the north-western islands
till ships came for their relief to carry them abroad; and some of them
afterwards submitted to the Government, as we shall hear below....

The Duke of Argyle having thus gloriously finished the most laborious
and hard campaign that ever was known, he left the command of his
Majesty's troops to Lieutenant-General Cadogan and returned to
Edinbourgh the 27th of February, and in a day or two after set out for
London, where he arrived on the 6th of March.

FOOTNOTES:

[56] Of Argyle.

[57] January 30.

[58] Of February.

[59] Arbroath.

[60] Stonehaven.

[61] Gravelines.

[62] Moray.

[63] Eriska.

F. HARSHNESS OF THE GOVERNMENT (1716).

+Source.+--_Culloden Papers: comprising an Extensive and Interesting
Correspondence from the Year 1625 to 1678 ... the Whole published
from the Originals in the Possession of Duncan George Forbes, of
Culloden, Esq._, p. 61. (London: 1815.)

No. LXXII.

An anonymous letter, written by Mr. Duncan Forbes to Sir Robert Walpole,
most likely in August 1716--a copy is extant (from which the present is
taken) in the President's handwriting.

Sir, ... When the late Rebellion was happily ended by the Pretender's
flight, his deluded followers found themselves all in chains, or obliged
to surrender and sue for mercy, or to fly their country with him. Every
man concerned in that odious work certainly