myself from taking arms on account of my age; but I never could have
had peace of conscience if I had stayed at home.... I am at a loss
when I come to speak of the ... (Pretender's son,) I am not a fit
hand to draw his character, I shall leave that to others. (Here he
gives a fulsome character of the Pretender's son.)

"Pardon me if I say, wherever I had the command, I never suffered
any disorders to be committed, as will appear by the Duke of
Buccleugh's servants at East Park; by the Earl of Findlater's
minister, Mr. Lato, and my Lord's servant, A. Cullen; by Mr. Rose,
minister at Nairn, (who was pleased to favour me with a visit when I
was prisoner at Inverness;) by Mr. Stewart, principal servant to the
Lord President at the House of Culloden; and by several other
people. All this gives me great pleasure, now that I am looking upon
the block on which I am ready to lay down my head; and though it
would not have been my own natural inclination to protect everybody,
it would have been my interest to have done it for ... (the
Pretender's son) abhorred all those who were capable of doing
injustice to any.... I have heard since I came to this place, that
there has been a most wicked report spread, and mentioned in several
of the newspapers that ... (the Pretender's son) before the battle
of Culloden, had given out orders that no quarter should be given to
the enemy. This is such an unchristian thing, and so unlike ... (the
Pretender's son,) that nobody (the Jacobites) that knows him will
believe it. It is very strange if there had been any such orders,
that neither the Earl of Kilmarnock, who was Colonel of the regiment
of the Foot Guards, nor I, who was Colonel of the second troop of
Life Guards, should ever have heard anything of it; especially since
we were both at the head-quarters the morning before the battle; I
am convinced that it is a malicious report industriously spread
to....

"Ever since my confinement in the Tower, when Major White or Mr.
Fowler did me the honour of a visit, their behaviour was always so
kind and obliging to me that I cannot find words to express it; but
I am sorry I cannot say the same thing of a General Williamson: he
has treated me barbarously, but not quite so ill as he did the
Bishop of Rochester; and had it not been for a worthy clergyman's