On the soft grass, in flow'rets drest,

Near the fresh stream beneath the tree, If from my misery I would rest,

The whirlwind howls and summons me.

O why should angry Heaven deny

One moment---one of sweet repose

For were the grave eternity,

?

It would not rest me from my woes---
Ever, ever.

Those laughing girls, those sporting boys,
Remind me of mine own at play;

My heart would revel in their joys--

The whirlwind hurries me away.

Ye old, who die, O envy not

My miserable fate forlorn;
For I must tread upon the spot

Where yet shall sleep the child unborn-
Ever, ever.

I seek the venerable walls

Which in my early youth I knew---
I stop---the eternal whirlwind calls,
Tyrannic," Onwards, onwards, Jew!
Onwards! Exist while all around

Is perishing; in this thy home...
Where all thy forefathers have found
A tomb---for thee there is no tomb;"
Ever, ever.

A cruel smile of scorn and hate

I at the godlike Jesus threw.
The earth is shaking 'neath my feet,
The whirlwind drives me on---adicu!
Ye pitiless, O tremble when

Ye think of me---the wretched me;
God in my fate avenges men

But not his own divinity---
Ever, ever.

Earth revolves, I rest me never---
Ever wandering---ever, ever.

CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL.

NOTICES OF MONTHLY AND QUARTERLY

JOURNALS.

[In consequence of a wish which they have frequently heard

expressed, and in the hope of adding a feature of interest to their work, the editors have lately made arrangements, by which they expect to be enabled for the future to present occasionally a

critical article on some new book. They beg it to be under

stood, that they design on no occasion to notice books of which they would be obliged in conscience to speak unfavourably, but only such as they think possessed of sufficient value, or written with sufficient talent, to be entitled to commendation.

The reader will therefore not look here for the severe and sarcastic remarks which give much criticism its only interest, but only for descriptions of books which it is conceived have some claims on the respectful notice of the public. One feature of their plan is to admit occasionally notices of periodical works, avoiding all reference to the politics now so eagerly debated in them. The article which follows, is one relating to two of the principal periodicals of a late date.]

turous dream, that he bowed to a gentleman with
coal-black hair, whom he fancied he had seen before,
and suddenly discovered that he was only looking at
himself in a glass.

"This woke him. Up he jumped, and in a trice was
He almost dropped
standing before his little glass.
down dead! his hair was perfectly green-there could
He stood staring in the glass
be no mistake about it.
in speechless horror, his eyes and mouth distended
to their utmost, for several minutes. Then he threw
himself on the bed, and felt fainting. Up he presently
jumped again-rubbed his hair desperately and wildly
about-again looked into the glass-there it was, rougher
than before; but eyebrows, whiskers, and head-all
were, if any thing, of a more vivid and brilliant green.
Despair came over him. What had all his troubles
been to this? what was to become of him? He got
into bed again, and burst into a perspiration. Two or
three times he got in and out of bed, to look at him-
self again--on each occasion deriving only more terrible
confirmation than before of the disaster that had befallen
him. After lying still for some minutes, he got out of
bed, and kneeling down, tried to pray; but it was in vain
-and he rose half choked. It was plain he must have
his head shaved, and wear a wig-that was making an
old man of him at once. Getting more and more dis-
turbed in his mind, he dressed himself, half determined
on starting off to Bond Street, and breaking every pane
of glass in the shop window of the cruel impostor who
had sold him the liquid that had so frightfully disfigured
him. As he stood thus irresolute, he heard the step of
Mrs Squallop approaching his door, and recollected that
he had ordered her to bring up his tea-kettle about that
time. Having no time to take his clothes off, he thought
the best thing he could do would be to pop into bed
pretend to be asleep, and, turning his back towards the
again, draw his nightcap down to his ears and eyebrows,
door, have a chance of escaping the observation of his
he jumped, and drew the clothes over him--not aware,
landlady. No sooner thought of than done. Into bed
however, that in his hurry he had left his legs, with boots
and trousers on, exposed to view-an unusual spectacle to
his landlady, who had, in fact, scarcely ever known him
in bed at so late an hour before. He lay as still as a
mouse. Mrs Squallop, after glancing at his legs, happen-
small phial, only half of whose dark contents was re-
In a sudden fright
ing to direct her eyes towards the window, beheld a
maining-of course it was POISON.
she dropped the kettle, plucked the clothes off the
trembling Titmouse, and cried out, Oh, Mr Titmouse!
Mr Titmouse! what have you been'

was.

'I shall go mad-I shall'

Mrs

Well, ma'am, what do you mean? How dare you' commenced Titmouse, suddenly sitting up, and looking furiously at Mrs Squallop. A pretty figure he with He had all his day-clothes on; a white cotton BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE for January 1840 opens an interesting paper on one of the numberless come- nightcap was drawn down to his very eyes, like a man dies of Spain, Calderon's "Goblin Lady." There is going to be hanged; his face was very pale, and his whisLord a-mighty!' exclaimed Mrs Squallop, faintly, much sameness in the plot-work of the Spanish dra- kers were of a bright green colour. mas; but they are far from being deficient in spirit and humour, and this is well shown in the rhythmical the moment that this strange apparition presented itself; translations which accompany the sketch here pre- and, sinking on the chair, she pointed with a dismayed sented. "Goethe's Life and Works," "Thoughts air to the ominous-looking object standing on the window shelf. Titmouse from that supposed she had found it on Asses," a paper entitled "Hints on History," all out. Well, isn't it a shame, Mrs Squallop?' said he, getting off the bed, and, plucking off his nightcap, exhiwith some poetical pieces, fill up the body of the number. All of these are more or less characterised by bited the full extent of his misfortune. What d'ye think talent a feature in which the contents of this jour-of that!' he exclaimed, staring wildly at her. nal are seldom deficient-but there are two other Squallop gave a faint shriek, turned her head aside, and papers which require more especial mention. One of motioned him away. these, an article on "The Essenes," contains some "Oh!-oh!' groaned Mrs Squallop, evidently expectnovel and ingenious views respecting that remarkable Jewish sect, whose character and sentiments, as de- ing him to leap upon her. Presently, however, she a picted by Josephus, have, as is well known, created little recovered her presence of mind; and Titmouse, much speculation in the Christian world. The writer stuttering with fury, explained to her what had taken of the paper before us holds, that Josephus meant place. As he went on, Mrs Squallop became less and As the less able to control herself, and at length burst into a fit of convulsive laughter, and sat holding her hands to her to describe the Christians under that name. fat shaking sides, as if she would have tumbled off her old Hebrew historian's slighting notice of the Christian faith and followers, or rather his silence regard-chair. Titmouse was almost on the point of striking her! At length, however, the fit went off; and, wiping her ing them, has been a matter of marvel and regret, the eyes, she expressed the greatest commiseration for him, and soap opinions advanced in the paper on the Essenes assume and proposed to go down and fetch up some soft a very peculiar interest. We shall content ourselves with saying, that the question is ably discussed in flannel, and try what a good hearty wash would do.' Blackwood, and that the article well deserves a reading. Scarce sooner said than done-but, alas, in vain! Scrub, Decidedly the cardinal article of the number is the scrub-lather, lather, did they both; but the instant the fourth paper of the series entitled "Ten Thousand soap-suds were washed off, there was the head as green a-Year," which is now suspected to be an attempt in a new manner by the author of the well-remembered Diary of a Physician." It is not only, if the public suspicion be correct, a new attempt by that author, but an absolute novelty in fictitious literature, the hero being the reverse in all respects of ordinary heroes, namely, a mean, brainless, selfish varlet, yet nevertheless, from the extraordinary power of the writer, a personage in whom it is impossible not to feel some interest. While occupying the humble station of a shopman in a draper's establishment in Oxford Street, a prospect opens to him of a succession to ten thousand a-year; and, instantly from being despised by all, his master included, he becomes an object of universal homage and adulation. The physician's series was not more remarkable for tragic, than this is for comic power; in proof of which, we cannot resist the temptation to extract a short passage respecting an attempt of the hero, Titmouse, to dye his hair. He has, it must be understood, gone to a shop in Bond Street, to purchase a certain divine fluid, styled the Cyanochaitanthropopion, with which to transform his carroty locks into dark tresses. He receives the bottle containing it from a gentleman-like man sitting behind the counter, with jet-black hair, which, he says, was once of light colour, but had been changed by the fluid. Titmouse is assured the change will be effected in two or three days. He goes home-he rubs his hair for hours with the fluid, in his extreme eagerness to make it succeed-he goes to bed, and dreams a rap

as ever."

He goes in a furious mood to Bond Street-
"Look, sir!--look! Only look here what your stuff
has done to my hair!' said Titmouse, on presenting him-
self soon after to the gentleman who had sold him the
liquid; and, taking off his hat, exposed his green hair.
or discomposed.
The gentleman, however, did not appear at all surprised

You're in the intermediate

Ah, yes!-I see-I sec.
Differs, sir!-I'm going mad!—I look like a green
stage. It differs in different people.'
monkey.'

In me, the colour was a strong yellow. But have you
read the descriptions that are given in the wrapper?
I should think so!-Much good they do me !-Sir,
you're a humbug!-an impostor! I'm a sight to be seen
for the rest of my life! Look at me, sir! Eyebrows,
whiskers, and all.'

Rather a singular appearance, just at present, I must
own,' said the gentleman, his face turning suddenly red
an explosion of laughter. He soon, however, recovered
all over with the violent effort he was making to prevent
Persevere!' interrupted Titmouse, violently, clapping
himself, and added coolly, if you'll only persevere.'
in the public. I'll have a warrant out against you.'
his hat on his head; I'll teach you to persevere in taking
Oh, my dear sir, I'm accustomed to all this!'
'The

you are!' gasped Titmouse, quite aghast.
"Oh, often-often, while the liquid is performing the
first stage of the change; but in a day or two afterwards
the parties generally come back smiling into my shop
with heads as black as crows.'

"No! But really-do they, sir?' interrupted Titmouse,
'Hundreds, I may say thousands, my dear sir! And
drawing a long breath.
one lady gave me a picture of herself, in her black hair,
to make up for her abuse of me when it was in a puce
colour.'

The result is, that he buys a bottle of Damascus cream, to put all to rights; but for what followed, we must refer the reader to the Magazine itself, which, we can foretell, will for some time be in more than usual request on account of "Ten Thousand a-Year."

The British and Foreign Medical Review for January, a copy of which has been obligingly forwarded to us, contains, besides other articles worthy of the high character of the work, one of uncommon interest on tics. The atrocious cruelties of the old system have the recent improvements in the management of lunanow for twenty years been scarcely known; but the rotatory chair, the bath of surprise, close-boxes for the furious, straps and strait waistcoats, are still We were not till now aware that the experiment of a common, even in the most respectable institutions. total abolition of personal restraint has been tried in the Lincoln Asylum, in the great pauper institution at Hanwell, and in America, and that we are likely soon to see the extinction of that last remnant of severity in the treatment of the mentally diseased. The last instance of restraint being used in the Lincoln Asylum was in March 1837, and the consequence has been a marked increase in the tranquillity of the establishment. There is now scarcely a noisy patient in it: "the patients," says the reviewer, " move about less, and talk less to visitors, than in any other asylum abolished restraint is an increase of watching and which is known to us." The succedaneum for the Thus, of course, expense is increased; but a liberality on this point is often the best economy. The reviewer care, a greater number of attendants being required. quotes a lecture on the subject, which has been puband to which we may refer our readers for full inforlished by Mr Hill, surgeon to the Lincoln Asylum, review will probably go some way to produce a conmation. Meanwhile, the following passages from the viction in favour of the system of non-restraint :

"Those who speak in terms of eulogy of the moral restraint once resorted to, and found convenient, will be advantage of even temporary restraints, cannot divest themselves, one would think, of the apprehension that not temporary, but continued for a hurtful period of time. To walk through a ward in which there is one noisy patient, and to order the patient to be instantly put in restraint, may pass for excellent discipline in the eyes of a hasty, frightened visitor; but if the visitor behold? First, an ineffectual attempt of one or two remained to see the order put in force, what would he keepers to effect the restraint; then a greater power brought to bear on the victim; and a scene of struggling, striking, kicking, biting, spitting, swearing, and screaming, which frights the whole ward from its propriety. Let him go again in an hour, and he will find the patient the asylum. In three or four hours it is still the same. still noisy, shouting, and cursing all the powers that rule At length, perhaps, the patient becomes silent. Happy it will be if even then restraint is removed and food is taken to him, or water to allay his thirst. But suppose no restraint is put on at all? Let the noisy patient's attention be diverted by being taken into the airing court; or, at the worst, let him be shut up in his room, the windows well secured, and the bedding removed. time tranquillity will be restored. There will have been no struggle; and the punishment will leave no rankling In that case we venture to say that in a much shorter sense of mortification; and the other patients will not be excited. Still, even in this case, the seclusion should not be prolonged. Many times, however, without any seclusion at all, a sensible keeper may so manage a refractory patient, that if the visitor were to return to the ward in a quarter of an hour, he would find the man whom he would have consigned to restraint quite tranquil, and civil, and cheerful.

In the acute stage of mania, one patient will doubtless require all the attention of one keeper, and perhaps of shut up. But in a well-regulated asylum this occasional two, and for several days, or weeks, if the patient is not attendance on troublesome patients should be a part of each keeper's duty, and taken by each keeper in turn for one or two hours. The attendants, if it is pretended that the patients are to be cured, should be sufficient to spare a keeper for an hour or two from any ward for such stage (no other means of control being omitted) is not of occasional duty. Then it will be seen that the acute such long continuance, and that the patient's temper is unspoiled. The patient will gradually subside into tranquillity, and retain a grateful sense of what has been done; every trifling incident in their management being commonly remembered by them. At the same time, the other patients will not have been familiarised with the wretched spectacle of a poor creature dancing about in a strait waistcoat, like an intoxicated mummy; nor will They will even, to some extent, the maniac's cell. their ears have been assailed with shrieks and curses from for they are keen observers, and have not forappreciate the kindness and patience shown to the new gotten their own sufferings.

comer;

In almost every asylum there are patients who will destroy their clothes, and some who cannot, it is represented, be persuaded to wear them. In the latter case we are glad to see M. Esquirol speak in disapprobation of forcibly confining the patient. One of the most unsatisfactory customs in some lunatic establishments is to exhibit these unfortunate creatures strapped down in chairs, and to comment, in moving terms, on their vioA dress of strong materials, with a strap round lence. The remedy, M. Esquirol says, is as bad as the evil. the waist, the dress being entirely fastened behind by

a small lock (as done at Hanwell), can scarcely be removed by the patient. Boots and shoes may be easily fastened on by a similar contrivance, and in other cases it would be better to let them for a time be without their clothes, secluded of course from the gaze of visitors, than to add to their irritation, when possibly the wearing

subdue, and not to cure?

Of all the sights that can afflict a humane spectator in a lunatic asylum, none is so wretched as that of the patients who are confined in the wooden boxes, or coercionchairs, where they sit from morning till night-nay, we fear, from month to month. So revolting is this custom, that it is difficult to persuade one's self it can ever

of the county, and large parties daily scoured the glens, to lay
waste the property of the disaffected, and use their best endea-
vours to capture the prince. The Duke of Cumberland had given
them the significant order, with a view to the stability of his fa-
ther's dynasty, "to make no prisoners."]

refused to take this pledge from the prince and Glenaladale.

Charles now broke a fast of about forty-eight hours, by a refreshment of mutton, butter, and cheese, with some whisky. Next day, the other four, who had been absent in search of provisions, returned with a dead deer and a live ox. These men also knew the prince at first sight, and took the same oath with the rest. They killed the ox in his presence. They still wanted bread, and only had a little salt; but fresh water was supplied to them in abundance by a spring which glided through the cave.

When the four men had taken the oath, Charles told the whole seven that they were the first privy council he had had sworn to him since the battle of Culloden, and that he should never forget them or theirs, "if ever he came to his own." Hereupon one of them hinted to him, that a priest who used to come them that King Charles II., after his restoration, was amongst them in Glenmorriston, frequently had told not very mindful of his friends. Their guest said he was heartily sorry for that, and hoped he should act differently-for this he gave them his word, the word of a prince.

of clothes is a source of torment which they can only CHARLES had scarcely at any former period been in manifest by tearing them off. Chaining a poor frightened greater danger than now, and at no former time were lunatic to his bed, also, when he perhaps thinks the bed full of snakes and scorpions, is ill judged and cruel. If his personal sufferings so great. It chanced that, a he persists in sleeping on the floor, having such notions, day or two before, there had been added to his party it is better to let him do so, and after a time he will be a Glengarry man, who had fled from the soldiery for reconciled to his bed. It will doubtless be found that his life, after they had put his father to death. This there are patients so ingeniously destructive as, with the help of hands and teeth, to tear up every article of cloth- particular act of cruelty, by sending the Glengarry ing that can be devised. The absolute prevention of this man in the way of the prince, had an effect very difcan only be effected by putting the patient on straw, ferent from what the soldiery could have contemwith body, and arms, and legs, strictly and painfully confined. But are a few blankets, or a gown and a cap or plated, for it was the means of his being introduced two, to be deemed of more value than the immunity of a to the seven Glenmorriston men, who protected him poor creature from torture, of which the effect is only to effectually for the ensuing three weeks. At three in the morning of the 29th, the Glengarry man went with Glenaladale's brother to find out these men, and to negotiate for their receiving the distressed party under their care, but without the name of the prince being mentioned. It was also Charles's wish by their means Three days of repose and good nourishment in Coiraghoth recruited the prince considerably, and, to make inquiry respecting a French vessel which he being afraid to stay too long in any one place, he and understood had come to Pollew, on the west coast of his attendants shifted their quarters (August 2) to Ross-shire, in order to carry him off. Some hours another and equally romantic cave about two miles afterwards, by appointment, the party, including the off, named Coirskreaoch. Here, after taking some prince, met the two messengers on the top of a neigh-look, they made up a bed of heath for the prince in a food, and planting sentries at proper points of outbouring hill, to learn what success had attended the small recess resembling a closet opening from the mission. The men had been found, and had agreed cave. He remained in this cave four days; when, to take charge of the distressed party, the chief man hearing that one Campbell, a captain of militia, and of whom they understood to be Glenaladale. The factor to the Earl of Seaforth [a nobleman who had taken the government side], was encamped within party was to repair to a cave called Coiraghoth, in four miles of him, he thought proper to remove. On the braes of Glenmorriston, where the men undertook the evening of the 6th, he and his attendants set out to meet them before a particular hour. Charles ac- in a northerly direction, and by break of day on the cordingly set out for this place, attended by Glenala- 7th they had passed the height of the country, and dale, the brother of that gentleman, a son of Macdonald come in upon Strathglass, a district belonging to "the Chisholm."* In the evening, two of the men who of Borodale, the Glengarry man, and two boys. had been left as scouts, brought intelligence that they need be in no apprehension from the factor Campbell for that night; and they then repaired to a neighbouring sheiling, or hut, where, after kindling a bed for the prince, composed of sods, with the grass fire, and taking some refreshment, they prepared a uppermost, on which he slept soundly the whole night.

be indispensable. The experience of the Lincoln Asylum, and, more recently, that of Hanwell, with its eight hundred pauper lunatics, encourages a hope that there are few cases, or none, in which the uncleanly may not be brought to decent habits, and the epileptic guarded, and the furious controlled, by better methods. But to effect these ends, which no superintendant should rest satisfied until he has tried to effect, the keepers must be patient, and very watchful, and sufficiently numerous. We sincerely trust it may be found practicable to abolish from all asylums an invention which we are loath to be lieve a needful accessory. It is no part of our wish to reflect in such a manner on any parts of the practice in asylums as to give offence to those whose days are devoted to the severe duties of such places; but it behoves them well to consider what might be done by a more liberal system, as regarded the keepers under them, and to appeal to the governing bodies for assistance towards improvements, which every man of humanity must wish for. There is no passage in the appendix to Mr Hill's lecture which we have read with more pleasure than the following: Ordered, that the chairs used formerly for the double purpose of night-chairs and restraint (long fallen into disuse) be worked up.' This working-up, and the

formal destruction of iron hobbles and handcuffs, and even of strait-waistcoats, which we notice from time to time in the minutes, constitute triumphs in which we earnestly hope it may be found possible for all superintendants to share.

One of the items of recent expense, and which became a subject of comment and censure in a large asylum in the neighbourhood of London, was, For six deal restraint-chairs, L.30. The asylum had previously thirtyfive. At the present moment there is not one in use in the whole of the institution. Two hundred pounds worth of restraint-chairs is thus thrown away. But the poor creatures who sat all day in those disgusting chairs may, it is said, be seen jumping about the wards like liberated children; not yet sure, when approached, that a blow is not coming, and yet shrinking with such expectation, and deprecating the expected cruelty in simple, but in touching words; but gradually acquiring confidence, and regaining the almost lost traces of humanity."

THE SEVEN MEN OF GLENMORRISTON. [In the extraordinary history of the wanderings of Prince Charles Stuart after the battle of Culloden, it is a part of peculiar interest, in which he is described as being succoured and faithfully protected for several weeks by a band of robbers. The civilised man of the present day is astonished to consider that, at the time when Sir Robert Walpole, speaking from his experiences amongst English gentlemen, declared every man to have his

price, seven outlaws were found in the wilds of Inverness-shire, who had virtue enough to resist a bribe of thirty thousand pounds. Remarkable as this part of the history is, it is that which has been perhaps most obscurely related; a result probably of the

difficulty which must have been experienced by contemporary

writers, in obtaining proper information. The defect is remedied in a new and much enlarged edition, which is about to appear, of the History of the Rebellion, originally contributed by Mr R. Chambers to Constable's Miscellany in 1827. In that work, as now extended, the history of the Prince amongst the Glenmorriston men is almost entirely new matter, derived from the written reports of conversations held in 1751 with one of the men, these reports having been framed by the Rev. R. Forbes, Scottish Episcopal minister at Leith, whose manuscripts are now in the possession of Mr Chambers. We present this part of the work, both on account of its own apparent interest, and as a specimen of what the History of the Rebellion will be in its new form. The work is to appear in connection with the series of publications

entitled "PEOPLE'S EDITIONS."

It must be premised that, towards the close of July (1746), after more than three months of incredible hardship, Charles found himself amongst the hills between Glenmorriston and Strathglass, in Inverness-shire. He was attended by two or three faithful adherents, to whom he had recently confided himself, the principal being Macdonald of Glenaladale, who had been a major in his army. Late in the evening of the 28th, they reached the highest, and consequently safest point amongst the hills, where, though drenched with rain, the prince could get no better lodging than a small chink in a rock, which gave him scarcely room to stretch

himself, and where he had no fire, no food, and not the slightest comfort of any kind but a pipe of tobacco. At this time a great quantity of troops were quartered at Fort Augustus, in the centre

The men who had promised to entertain the party were only in a modified sense "robbers." They had been out in the rebellion, and had consequently seen their little possessions in Glenmorriston become a prey to the spoiler. About seventy of their fellow dalesmen who had been induced to obey an order of the Duke of Cumberland, for surrendering their arms at Inverness, had been seized and thrust on ship-board, to be deported to the colonies. These men, determined not to be dealt with after the same manner, had entered into an association of offence and defence against the duke and his army, binding themselves by solemn oath never to yield, to fight on any particular emergency to the last drop of their blood, and never till the day of their death to give up their arms. At first they were seven in number, namely, Patrick Grant, a farmer, commonly called Black Peter of Craskie; John Macdonell, alias Campbell; Alexander Macdonell; Alexander, Donald, and Hugh Chisholm, brothers; and Gregor Macgregor. Afterwards, in the course of their marches with the prince, an eighth, Hugh Macmillan, joined them, and took their oath. They lived at this time a wild life amongst the mountains, supplying themselves with necessaries chiefly by bold attacks upon the military parties, from whom they often retrieved cattle and other spoil.

It was into the hands of such men that the fugitive prince was now to pass. At the appointed time, he and his friends approached the cave of Coiraghoth, where only three of the men at this time were, namely, the two Macdonells and Alexander Chisholm. Glenaladale went forward to converse with them, and hinted that he had young Clanranald in his company. They professed that they would be very glad to see young Clanranald, and take all possible care of him. They were then brought out to meet the party; but they had no sooner set eyes upon the person who was to pass for young Clanranald, than they knew him to be the prince. He was received by them with the greatest demonstrations of fidelity and kindness, and conducted to their cave, where, at Charles's request, they took an oath, administered by Glenaladale, in the dreadful terms then customary amongst the Highlanders "that all the curses the Scriptures did pronounce might come upon them and all their posterity, if they did not stand firm to the prince in the greatest dangers, and if they should discover to any person, man, woman, or child, that the prince was in their keeping, till once his person should be out of danger." This oath they kept so well, that not one of them spoke of the prince having been in their company till a twelvemonth after he had sailed to France. Charles proposed that he and Glenaladale should take a like oath of fidelity to the men-namely, that, if danger should come, they should stand by one another to the last drop of their blood; but the men

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He remained in this place two days. During that time, he dispatched a messenger to Pollew, to make inquiry respecting some French vessels which were said to have landed there in order to carry him away from Scotland. That he might be ready to take advantage of these vessels, if it should be found that they had not sailed, he resolved to draw somewhat nearer to the west coast. His messenger, before setting out, had been appointed to bring him intelligence to a partiin the morning of the 9th, he and his friends and attencular place, judged convenient for the purpose. Early dants, about a dozen persons in all, set out to the northward by an unfrequented moor-road, and came that night to a sheiling, where they halted for a few hours. At two o'clock in the morning of the 10th, they once more addressed themselves to their journey, and at remainder of the day in a wood, and at night repaired noon came to Glencannich, where they passed the to a neighbouring hamlet. At two o'clock in the morning, they left this village, and climbed a hill called Peinachyrine, on the north side of Glencannich, where

they passed the day, and sent off two of their party to obtain a fresh supply of provisions. This place, which is about forty Highland miles from Pollew, is the most northerly point which the prince reached on the mainland. At night they repaired to a sheiling, in which they remained two days, waiting for the return of the joined them, with intelligence that the only vessel messenger. At the end of that time, the man rewhich had ever touched at Pollew had sailed again, leaving a couple of men, who had set out for Locheil's country in quest of the prince. Anxious to know if these men had any dispatches for him, he resolved to return towards Locheil's country, in order, if possible, to meet them.

They set out at night (August 13), and recrossing the water of Cannich, and passing near young Chisholm's house, arrived about two in the morning at a place called Fassanacoill in Strathglass. Here it was back intelligence of the state of the country to the thought proper to tarry, until scouts should bring south, and if the search for him was over in that quarter, and the troops returned to Fort Augustus. While the scouts were absent, the party remained in a dense wood, completely concealed from the neighbouring people. They were supplied with provisions by one John Chisholm, a farmer, who had been in the confide the secret of the prince being of the party. insurgent army, but to whom they did not at first Charles having at length expressed a wish to see Chisholm, Patrick Grant and another were dispatched to bring him. They desired him to come along with them,

The chief of this small clan, whose residence is at Erchless Castle in Strathiglass, is so styled in the Highlands.

↑ So says Patrick Grant, in his report to our authority, the Rev. Robert Forbes of Leith. A cave is shown in Glenstrathfarrar, to the north of Glencannich, as having been used by the prince; but, if Grant be correct, the prince never was in Glenstrathfarrar, nor within the distance from it of seven miles.

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a friend whom they knew he would like well to see." Apprehending from this that they had a of some consequence with them, he said he had a bottle of wine which a priest had left with him, and "What! he should be glad to take it along with him. John," said Grant, "have you had a bottle of wine all this time, and not given it to us before?" On coming into the presence of the prince, John knew him at first sight. Patrick Grant, according to his own simple recital, put the bottle of wine into the prince's hands, and requested him to drink to him, "for," said he, "I do not remember that your Royal Highness has drunk to me since you came among our hands." Accordingly, the prince put the bottle of wine to his mouth, and drank a health to Patrick Grant and all friends. John Chisholm, having received good payment for any provisions he had furnished, and finding that they had been purchased for the use of his prince, immediately offered to return the whole price, and pressed the thing much; but the prince would not hear of it at all, and ordered him to keep the money." Chisholm took the same oath as the Glenmorriston men.

Some traits of the prince's personal condition and conduct while with the Glenmorriston men, as reported by Patrick Grant, may be appreciated by those who still regard with a feeling of melancholy interest the tale of the last Stuart. His clothes, which were of the Highland fashion, were coarse, tattered, and squalid, almost beyond description, and he constantly slept in them, seldom getting a clean shirt above once a fortnight. He suffered, from this, the usual annoying consequences. Notwithstanding this and other bodily afflictions, "he bore up under all his misfortunes with great resolution and cheerfulness, never murmuring or complaining of the hardness and severity of his condition." He was observed to make a practice of withdrawing himself every morning and evening to perform his devotions. "Glenaladale," said Patrick Grant, “was interpreter between the prince and us, and it was agreed upon that we should say nothing but what the prince should be made to understand, and that the prince should say nothing but what we likewise should be made to understand. By this means the prince discovered that we were much addicted to common swearing in our conversation, for which he caused Glenaladale to reprove us in his [the prince's] name; and at last the prince, by his repeated reproofs, prevailed on us so far that we gave that custom of swearing quite up." Patrick Grant stated that the prince walked so nimbly in the day time, that few persons could hold out with him; but he did not travel so well by night, when, being unaccustomed to the rough and boggy ground on the Highland hills, he was constantly getting himself immersed in some deep hole, from which his companions had to draw him out. All the time he was with the Glenmorriston men, his appetite was observed to be good. When the party were at their meals, they sat in a circle, each having his morsel on his knee. The prince would never allow them to keep off their bonnets when in his company-probably a precaution against his rank being detected, in the event of any hostile party approaching them before He used to give directions about they were aware. their homely cookery, and sometimes tended a roast

himself.

It would appear that not exactly every thing said
by the men was interpreted to the royal wanderer.
After he had parted with them, and got into new
hands, conversing about these faithful adherents, he
spoke of one in particular as an uncommonly clever
fellow, stating that the name this man bore among
his companions was Ho Sian. In reality, this expres-
sion was Aos Ian, "Hark you, John," which they
often had occasion to use to John Macdonell, perhaps
the ablest of their number, and one to whose judgment
they usually deferred in all important matters. It
will amuse the reader to learn that Mr Forbes, with
true Jacobite feeling, adopted the mistaken phrase
of the prince, and advised Macdonell to assume it as
his ordinary name, and hand it down to his children.
In due time, the spies returned with intelligence
that the troops had returned to their camp at Fort
Augustus, and that there was consequently a prospect
of the prince being able to execute his design of cross-
ing the Great Glen, and joining Locheil in Badenoch.
They therefore set out at six in the morning of the
17th, and, travelling by an unfrequented road, at ten
in the forenoon reached the braes of Glenmorriston.
Having passed the day on the top of a hill, they set
out at night, but had not travelled above a mile, when
they learned that a strong military party had been
sent to the braes of Glengarry, in quest of the prince.
Upon this it was resolved to proceed no farther, until
the motions of the enemy should be further known;
and they repaired to a neighbouring sheiling, where they
passed the remainder of the night. In the morning
of the 18th, three men were sent off towards Loch Ar-
kaig, in Locheil's country, two of whom were to seek
out, and, if possible, form an appointment for the
prince with Cameron of Clunes, while the other was
to turn at Glengarry, and bring back intelligence
of the movements of the party said to be in that dis-
trict, so that Charles might perhaps be able to pro-
ceed even while the meeting with Clunes was in the
way of being arranged.

We have here a remarkable anecdote of the prince,
which may be best related in the language in which
Mr Forbes has reported it from the mouth of Patrick
Grant. When returned to Glenmorriston Braes, "The

to send his preservers a pecuniary acknowledgment
till he had got his purse replenished, so as to be able
rate of three guineas to each man.
of their services. Grant returned to their haunt in
Glenmorriston with twenty-four guineas, being at the

[The Glenmorriston men remained for some time longer in
to be hanged for stealing a cow; but this is a mistake, arising
from a person of the same name as one of them having pretended
arms against the government, but ultimately resumed their ordi-
nary occupations. It has often been stated that one of them came
behalf, when condemned to that fate in 1754. Hugh Chisholm
survived to 1812, and to the last day of his life would never allow
any one to shake his right hand, that hand having been honoured
with the royal gripe, on parting from Prince Charles.]

to be the Glenmorriston man, in order to excite interest in his

WARM BATHS FOR THE WORKING-CLASSES.
wider circle of readers :--
ON this subject there lately appeared in an Edinburgh
newspaper, a letter by Dr Andrew Combe, which is here,
with the valued permission of the writer, submitted to a

"Sir, I was very glad to see a letter in your paper of
baths, at a cheap rate, for the use of the working-classes,
should take up the matter for themselves. I sincerely
Saturday, recommending the establishment of warm
hope that this excellent suggestion will be adopted, and
and proposing, as the surest way of succeeding, that they
that ere long the existing want will be supplied. The
has been done in other places.
object of the present letter is, in some measure, to smooth
the way, by offering a few remarks, and mentioning what

than the Glenmorriston men thought it safe for him,
Prince was pretty positive to proceed forwards sooner
and they would by no means allow him to go, till they
should think it safe for him so to do. In a word, the
kind contention ran so high, that they threatened to
turn their backs upon him, and to leave him, if he did
not listen to their counsel, as they knew the country
best, and what dangers might happen to him in it;
and immediately insisted upon his taking some little
refreshment and rest, and staying there as long as they
or to drink, because they would not do as he desired.
judged it safe for him. But the prince refused to eat
eat and drink heartily, he could not well hold out
Upon this, they plainly told him, that if he did not
with the fatigues he was obliged to undergo in his
present situation; that if he should happen to turn
faintish by abstaining from meat and drink too long,
and then danger should come nigh them, he would not
be in a condition either to get away from it, or to act
his part in any shape so well as he would wish to do;
and therefore they urged him more than ever (as being
and rest, which accordingly he did. The prince said,
absolutely necessary for him) to take some refreshment
I find kings and princes must be ruled by their privy
more absolute privy council than what I have at pre-
council, but I believe there is not in all the world a
sent,' &c. They added, they had rather tie him than
That cheap and easy access to the use of the tepid or
comply with him, so well did they know his danger.
warm bath would be one of the greatest benefits which
The prince was at last obliged to yield the point, as
assured him, if he complied with their requests in
he found them positive to the last degree, and as they
its soothing and refreshing effects after the fatigues of a
behalf of his safety, the enemy should not get within could be conferred on the working-classes, will be readily
two miles of him without being discovered. This was acknowledged by every one who has himself experienced
the only time (said Patrick Grant) that we ever
differed with the prince in any one thing, and we journey, or after the labours and cares of the day are
were very sorry for it." It is distressing to think over, and who has had occasion to remark the influence
in generating a feeling of self-respect, and consequently
on moral conduct. When the exhausting nature of the
that, on the very day when Charles was acting thus of personal cleanliness in the preservation of health, and
on the braes of Glenmorriston, the brave Balmerino occupations of many of the working-classes, and their
unreasonably with his humble but faithful followers
taken into account, it can scarcely excite surprise that
and the gentle Kilmarnock were laying down their limited command of the means of comfort and cleanli-
lives in his cause on the ensanguined scaffold of Tower-ness, in the shape of ablution and change of clothes, are
hill.
they should so often result in a craving for support and
excitement, which leads ultimately to intemperate indul-
gence in the use of spirits, beer, and tobacco, and by
degrees also to permanent dissipation. The Temperance
vow; but unfortunately they have done little to remove
the cause which leads to the abuse, and, consequently,
Societies have done much to mitigate this latter evil, by
have been far less successful in subduing the tendency
erecting an artificial barrier against it in the form of a
than they might otherwise have been. From the known
no hesitation in expressing the opinion that its frequent
soothing and refreshing effects of the warm bath, I have
use is, independently of its numerous other advantages,
peculiarly calculated to supply the deficiency alluded to;
and I feel assured that if a portion of the funds collected
by the aid of these societies had been expended in erect-
ing comfortable baths, accessible at a very small rate to
the families of their members, they would have not only
rendered the fulfilment of the vow far more easy and
agreeable, by removing the temptation, but they would
have conferred a return in positive enjoyment and moral
as on the members themselves, which could not have
comfort on the wives and families of the members, as well
failed to ensure the hearty co-operation of all in widely
provement of any class of society, whether high or low,
extending their sphere of usefulness. In seeking the im-
it is not enough merely to lop off what is sinful or hurtful
-we must endeavour to fill up the void with a positive
good, otherwise the evil tendency will be apt to return in
the hour of weakness, and resume its sway, strengthened
by the consciousness of a now-broken resolution. For
as one of the safest and best of these substitutes. It will
this reason, the Temperance Societies would do well to
direct more of their attention to providing substitutes for
as negatively to health, and doing something to prevent
the renounced indulgence, and to the use of tepid bathing
have the additional advantage of adding positively as well
the spread of fever and other epidemics among both rich
and poor.

While the party rested at this place, Patrick Grant
and Alexander Chisholm went out to forage for pro-
visions, and in the course of their walk, met the Laird
of Glenmorriston (Grant), who had been in the
prince's army, and had had his house burnt and his
lands pillaged in consequence. Glenmorriston asked
them where they now lived, as they were seldom seen
-what they were doing and how did they obtain
the means of subsistence. "What is become," said he,
"of the prince? I have heard that he has passed the
braes of Knoydart." Even to this gentleman, whom
habit had trained them to regard with the greatest
respect, they would not disclose any of their secrets,
merely remarking that, as the enemy were plundering
the country, it were a pity not to share in the spoil;
and that they accordingly did so, and made a shift to
live upon it. On their return to the prince, they in-
formed him of this interview, and said that, if his
royal highness pleased, they would bring Glenmorris-
ton to see him, he being a faithful and trusty friend.
"The prince said, he was so well pleased with his
present guard, that he wanted none other; and that
he had experienced poor folks to be as faithful and firm, as
any men, rich or high, could be."*

On the 19th, the man who was to bring intelligence
from Glengarry came back, reporting that that dis-
trict was clear of troops. The prince, therefore, with
his party, now ten in number, set out in the after-
noon, under the benefit of a fog, and passing through
Glenmorriston and the minor vale of Glenluing,
arrived late at night on the braes of Glengarry.
When they came to the Garry water, it was found
breast-deep with the rain; nevertheless, they crossed
it in safety, and ascending the hill for about a mile,
tarried there for the remainder of the night, in the
open air, notwithstanding that it rained heavily. Early
in the morning (August 20), the heavy rain still con-
tinuing, they advanced six Highland miles across hills
and moors, and about ten in the forenoon came to the
hill above Auchnasaul, where the two messengers had
been appointed to meet them on their return from
inconvenient habitation, "it raining as heavy within
Cameron of Clunes. They passed the day in a most
as without."+ Towards the afternoon, after they had
begun to despair of the return of their messengers,
and were deliberating what should be done, the two
men came in, bringing a message from Clunes to
Glenaladale, to the effect that he could not wait upon
him immediately, but had directed that the party
should lodge for that night in a certain wood two
miles off, where he would meet them in the morning.
Two of the men, Patrick Grant and Alexander
Macdonell, were now dispatched to reconnoitre their
proposed lodging-place, and finding it suitable, they
quickly returned to bring forward the party. Their
provisions were now reduced to half a peck of meal,
and they had starvation staring them in the face. By
the greatest good fortune, Patrick shot a large hart at
the place where they were to pass the night; so that
when the prince and the rest arrived, they had one of
the finest meals they had as yet enjoyed.

Charles now fell under the care of other friends,
and some days after dismissed all the Glenmorriston
men except one, Patrick Grant, whom he kept for
some time longer, and carried along with him, but only

* Mr Forbes's report of conversations with Patrick Grant.
† Glenaladale's Journal.

That there is a possibility of providing comfortable baths at a very cheap rate, seems to me proved by the fact, that in Paris, Brussels, and almost all the continental towns of any magnitude, in some of which, as in Paris, from eightpence to a shilling, and still yield such a profit rents are very high and fuel very dear, baths are furnished in a style adapted for the middle classes at the rate of establishments. In this country, consequently, where to their proprietors as to induce them to keep up their the purpose, are not high, and where moreover many fuel is cheap, and rents, in many situations suitable for manufactories have steam going to waste, it ought to be possible, by good management, to provide baths of a plain and comfortable kind for one-third or one-half of these prices, at least where the payers are themselves the proprietors, and look for no pecuniary profits. But to accomplish this most desirable end, a large number of persons must be interested, as the expense of providing ten baths per day would be nearly as heavy as for providing a hundred. It is from the very extensive use of baths on the continent that they are able to afford them at so low a rate. Brussels, for example, with a population not nearly equal to that of Edinburgh, possesses several bathing establishments, each containing from thirty to tained in one's own house, at any hour of the night or day, without trouble or disturbance, for a sum not exceedsixty baths; and from which a warm bath can be obing half a crown or three shillings. Every thing is proon a spring cart at an hour's notice, and the whole carried vided and brought by the servants of the establishment unspeakable comfort of the traveller as well as of the invalid. So much is the use of the tepid bath considered away again without noise or confusion, and often to the as a matter of course on the continent, that few even of

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the second party. That second party is perhaps only
rendered by them slothful and luxurious, or at least
easy and inenergetic, without being after all secured
by them from want. Better it were for each genera-
tion in that rank of life in a great measure to depend
upon, and only contemplate providing for, itself.

Provision against old age-the night that cometh
when no man may work-is another of the more
common occasions for the exercise of forethought.
An infirm old age is a contingency to which all are
liable, and it ought therefore, if men are to be self-
dependent at all, to be provided for. How often,
however, do we see disproportioned exertions even for
this respectable object! With many it is looked for-
ward to as an awful time, sure to occur, and sure to
Thus unduly
be attended with tremendous evils.
fearful of the event, they make such excessive exer-
tions to alleviate its woes, as at the least deprive them
of all enjoyment of the present, and perhaps cut them
off in the middle of their days. A recently deceased
friend of ours was one of those who are unduly anxious
about the future, to the neglect of the present. In
his case, all the pleasures and recreations appropriate
to adolescence and middle life were postponed for
after-fruition; but unfortunately the beatific future,
the tranquil haven of quiet enjoyment, which he had
all along contemplated, he did not live to reach.
Worn out by application to business, he fell a prema-
ture victim to loss of appetite and general exhaustion,
leaving his vast pecuniary gatherings to a brother who
had already more than enough, who was more sordid
than himself, and with whom, during life, he had kept
up barely a friendly, certainly not a fraternal inter-
course. This man was never married; he had never
had any to provide for but himself. So inordinate a
provision for comforts which a single person at any
age can obtain for a small annual sum, seems prepos-
terous. If any are exempt from the obligation to get
If they live to be old,
rich, it is surely the class of bachelors, and their co-
ordinates of the female sex.
their surviving friends are probably few in number,
and it is impossible they can have any save distant
relations. Therefore, if they make a moderate provi-
sion for the probable duration of their own lives, they
may be said to have done all that a regard to their
happiness, and all that society, can fairly demand of
them. Nevertheless, it is very often in this class that
we find the most glaring instances of a disproportioned
anxiety about the future.

With regard to old age, there is one important
feature of the case which is too little considered. It
is generally contemplated as a certainty, while in
only a contingency. Out of twenty men
reality it
of thirty years of age, it is certain that only some
smaller number will reach sixty. No one knows, of
a
course, that he is not to be one of those who will reach
sixty, and it may be said that all are therefore bound
in prudence to provide against old age. But if all do
so, it is certain that some will have done it in vain,
and that the provision will prove useless for this end.
Here is a loss to be avoided. It is to be avoided in
advanced communities by mutual assurance, in the
form of deferred annuities-a plan under which each
pays only so much as will serve, in the whole, to
provide for those who really do reach old age. It is
well, of course, when any one can, by reasonable exer-
tion, provide himself abundantly against the infir-
mities of advanced life, without resorting to this ex-
pedient; but, supposing this to be impossible, it is
of importance to be aware that the principle of the
deferred annuity spares the necessity of contemplat-
ing age as a thing which must be provided for whether
it is to occur or not, and which enables every man to