te could do had been done, and in vain.

Charles had, up to the last, looked for victory. He offered to lead on
the second line in person; but his officers told him that Highlanders
would never return to such a charge. Two Irish officers dragged at his
reins; his army was a flying mob, and so he left his latest field,
unless, as was said, he fought at Laffen as a volunteer, when the Scots
Brigade nearly captured Cumberland. He had been eager to give up
Holyrood to the wounded of Prestonpans; _his_ wounded were left to die,
or were stabbed on the field. He had refused to punish fanatics who
tried to murder him; his faithful followers were tortured to extract
information which they never gave. He lost a throne, but he won hearts,
and, while poetry lives and romance endures, the Prince Charles of the
Forty-Five has a crown more imperishable than gold. This was the ending
of that Jacobite cause, for which men had fought and died, for which
women had been content to lose homes and husbands and sons.

It was the end of that gifted race of Stuart kings who, for three
centuries and more of varying fortunes, had worn the crown of Scotland.

[Illustration: The end of Culloden]

But it was not the end of the romance of the Highland clans. Crushed
down, scattered, and cruelly treated as these were in the years that
followed Culloden, nothing could break their fiery spirit nor kill their
native aptitude for war. In the service of that very government which
had dealt so harshly with them, they were to play a part in the world's
history, wider, nobler, and not less romantic than that of fiercely
faithful adherents to a dying cause. The pages of that history have been
written in imperishable deeds on the hot plains of India, in the
mountain passes of Afghanistan, in Egypt, in the Peninsula, on the
fields of Waterloo and Quatre Bras, and among the snows of the Crimea.
And there may be other pages of this heroic history of the Highland
regiments that our children and our children's children shall read with
proud emotion in days that are to be.

FOOTNOTES:

[37] Others were Frederick the Great, and David Leslie!

[38] In _Waverley_ this generous speech is attributed to Flora Macivor.

[39] Readers of _Waverley_ will remember that in this fight Fergus
Macivor was taken prisoner.

_THE BURKE AND WILLS EXPLORING EXPEDITION_

ON August 21, 1860, in the most lovely season of the year--that of early
spring--the citizens of Me