ntly quitted the field.

The scene of confusion was now great; nor can the imagination figure it.
The men in general were betaking themselves precipitately to flight; nor
was there any possibility of their being rallied. Horror and dismay was
painted in every countenance. It now became time to provide for the
Prince's safety: his person had been abundantly exposed. He was got off
the field, and very narrowly escaped falling in with a body of horse,
which had been detached from the Duke's left, were advancing with an
incredible rapidity, picking up the stragglers, and, as they gave no
quarter, were levelling them with the ground. The greater numbers of the
army were already out of danger, the flight having been so precipitate.
We got upon a rising ground, where we turned round and made a general
halt. The scene was, indeed, tremendous. Never was so total a rout--a
more thorough discomfiture of an army. The adjacent country was in a
manner covered with its ruins. The whole was over in about twenty-five
minutes. The Duke's artillery kept still playing, though not a soul upon
the field. His army was kept together, all but the horse. The great
pursuit was upon the road towards Inverness. Of towards six thousand
men, which the Prince's army at this period consisted of, about one
thousand were asleep in Culloden parks, who knew nothing of the action
till awaked by the noise of the cannon. These in general endeavoured to
save themselves by taking the road towards Inverness; and most of them
fell a sacrifice to the victors, for this road was in general strewed
with dead bodies. The Prince at this moment had his cheeks bedewed with
tears; what must not his feeling heart have suffered?

FOOTNOTES:

[103] The Jacobite one.

[104] The hero of Quebec.

L. THE PRINCE A FUGITIVE (APRIL-MAY 1746).

+Source.+--_The Lyon in Mourning: or, a Collection of Speeches,
Letters, Journals, etc., relative to the Affairs of Prince Charles
Edward Stuart_, vol. i., p. 367, by the Rev. Robert Forbes, A.M.,
Bishop of Ross and Caithness, 1746-1775. Edited from his manuscript,
with a preface by Henry Paton, M.A. (Edinburgh: Scottish Historical
Society, 1895.)

_Copy of CAPTAIN O'NEILLE'S Journal, taken from an attested copy by his
name subscribed with his own hand._

That night[105] the Prince retir'd six miles from the field of battle
and went next day as far, and in three days more arrived at Fort
Augustus, w