may
know how to take my measures; and if the express that comes
knows nothing, I am sure it shall not be discovered for me.
I have told Mr. Hay nothing of this proposal, nor no man. If
there come any party this way, I beg you send me ammunition,
and three or four thousand arms of different sorts--some
horse, some foot.

"I have just now received a confirmation of Mackay's going
south, and that he takes with him all the horse and
dragoons, and all the standing foot. By which I conclude,
certainly, they are preparing against the landing in the
west. I entreat to hear from you as soon as possible; and
am, in the old manner, most sincerely, for all Carleton can
say, my lord, your most humble and faithful servant,

"DUNDEE."

It appears by a postscript added on the following day, that before
Dundee's messenger left Lochaber letters had arrived from Melfort. They
seem to have been again full of complaints of the hard things said about
him, and of the undeserved dislike with which all classes in Scotland
seemed to regard him. But of help there was no more than the usual
vague promises, and glowing accounts of apocryphal successes in Ireland.
Dundee congratulated the Secretary on their master's good fortune,
diplomatically fenced with the question of unpopularity, and reiterated
his appeal for succour.

"For the number" [he wrote], "I must leave [that] to the
conveniency you have. The only inconveniency of the delay
is, that the honest suffer extremely in the low country in
the time, and I dare not go down for want of horse; and, in
part, for fear of plundering all, and so making enemies,
having no pay. I wonder you send no ammunition, were it but
four or five barrels. For we have not twenty pounds."

FOOTNOTES:

[78] The passage in which Macaulay has explained the condition and
sentiment of the Highlanders at this time, will be familiar to every
reader. What may be less familiar is a pamphlet entitled "Remarks on
Colonel Stewart's Sketches of the Highlanders," published at Edinburgh
in 1823, the year after Stewart's book.

[79] Now the Third Dragoon Guards.

[80] In Napier's third volume will be found many translations in prose
from this poem, from which I have taken a few touches.

[81] Napier (iii. 552, note) quotes the following minute in the records
of the Estates:--"13th May, 1689: A missive letter from th