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\centerline{\bigtitle Prince Charlie}
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\centerline{\bigtitle And The '45}
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\centerline{\bigtitle By JOHN STIRLING}
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\centerline{\smallertitle AN ADDRESS}
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\centerline{Delivered at a Meeting of Bathgate Branch}
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\centerline{British Legion (Women's Section)}
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\centerline{\title Prince Charlie and the '45.}
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Prince Charles Edward Lewis Philip
Casimir Mary-Silvester Stuart was born at
Rome on the 31st December, 1720.  He was
the grandson of James VII. of Scotland and
II. of England. At the age of 22 he conceived
the design of recovering the throne of his
ancestors.  He landed from a French ship in
the Highlands of Scotland in the year 1745
with seven attendants.  He was joined by
several Chiefs and their vassals. George II.
had ascended the throne of Britain upon the
death of his father, George I.

The force of Charles Edward was small,
considering the great work that had to be
achieved\thinspace; but he was not deterred from advancing.

As even a summary of the romantic story
of ``Bonnie Prince Charlie'' would be too long
for the time at our disposal, I will only give
you a short sketch of the incidents of his
journey from Perth to Edinburgh, by Bathgate
Hills and Kirkliston.

\goodpage
\pageno=4
%page 4

Leaving Perth on a September day in 1745
the Prince and his army arrived at Dunblane
on the evening of the same day, his force being
greatly augmented on the way thither.  In
passing Doune a collation was provided for
him, when the daughters of his entertainers
solicited the honour of kissing his hand, while
a younger sister boldly asked for liberty to
``pree his Royal Highness's mou'.''  This
request being interpreted to Charlie, he
imprinted numerous kisses on the fair and
blushing face.

During the march toward Falkirk many
robberies of cattle were committed by the
Highlanders, which so enraged Lochiel that
he shot one of his men in order to stop their
plundering.
\poem{
As sheep and cattle were drove away,\\
Yet hungry men sought for their prey\thinspace;\\
Took milk and butter, kirn and cheese,\\
On all kinds of eatables they seize.\\
}

\noindent In passing Stirling a demand was made on the
inhabitants for a supply of provisions for
Charlie's army.  The dealers in provisions, on
learning this, supplied a considerable quantity,
for which they were duly paid.

When near Falkirk the army halted and
passed the night in one of the parks at Callander
House, then the seat of the Earl of Kilmarnock,
by whom the Prince was most
hospitably entertained.  Colonel Gardiner's
Dragoons, who declined to oppose the passage
of the Highlanders across the Forth, awaited
% page 5
their approach at Falkirk\thinspace; but on the Highlanders
appearing, they retreated to Linlithgow
Bridge.  Colonel Gardiner, I may say, was
born at Barnfoot, parish of Carriden, near
Bo'ness.

On Lord George Murray's arrival with his
men at the Bridge, in the dark of the morning,
he found the Dragoons had fallen back to
Kirkliston, and his passage across the Avon
was thus unopposed.

Entering Linlithgow at 10 a.m. on Sunday,
16th September 1745, the Prince joined Murray
as the honest Burghers were preparing to proceed
to the church.  Here, as in all other
towns, the Prince had many supporters.  The
Provost, douce man that he was, fled, like the
Dragoons, at the approach of the Highlanders,
his wife and daughters taking his place by
waiting on the Prince at the Cross, dressed in
Stuart tartan gowns, wearing the white
cockade, and kissing his Royal hand.

In the evening, about four miles from the
town, the army encamped on rising ground,
where it spent the night.  On\break Monday the
march towards Edinburgh\break was resumed, the
Dragoons of Colonel\break Gardiner always retiring
as the Highlanders\break approached.

Reaching Corstorphine, the army, to avoid
the guns of the Castle, took a southern direction
towards Slateford, where it bivouaced on % sic bivouacked
a field called Gray's Park.

% page 6
On the news reaching Edinburgh that
Charlie's army had left Perth to capture the
Capital, the utmost commotion was caused.
A sort of panic seemed to seize old and young
when the news became known that the van of
the Army had reached Kirkliston.

Ex-Provost Drummond placed himself at
the head of a Company of Volunteers, composed
chiefly of University students,\break telling
them that the Commander of the Castle had
promised to support him with two Dragoon
regiments.

``Now, gentlemen,'' said the bold Drummond,
``judge for yourselves. If you are willing
to risk your lives for the defence of the Capital
of Scotland, and for the honour of your country
I am ready to lead you to the field.''

Instead of advising other Companies to
follow the example of his own, he told them
that, although his own men were all going out
to conquer or die, that was a resolution proper
only for young, unmarried men.

In the Lawnmarket, where the Volunteers
were joined by the Dragoons, Drummond found
only 48 willing to face the Highlanders.  At
length 140 were got together, leaving 350
behind who refused to leave the walls of the
city. In going down the ``Bow'' this small
number was diminished, the facilities it presented
for desertion, in the shape of closes,
being fully taken advantage of.

% page 7
\goodpage

The Town Guard and the men of the
Edinburgh Regiment, although deserted by
their brothers-in-arms, marched out and\break joined
the Dragoons at Corstorphine.  Finding no
appearance of the Highlanders, the Dragoons
and Volunteers returned to the city, leaving a
few Dragoons to watch for the appearance of
the enemy, who, on the first appearance of the
Highlanders, fled---along with a regiment of
Dragoons placed at Colt\-bridge---towards the
city.

After all this mock heroism, Charlie
knocked at the city gates, which, after a little
negotiation, were opened to him, without a
blow being struck.

Hume, the historian of the rebellion, who
saw Charlie enter Edinburgh, describes him as
possessing a fine presence and figure\thinspace:---``He
was in the bloom of youth, tall and handsome,
and of a fair and rudy complexion.  His face, % Rudy, -ie, adj. Also\thinspace: ruddy. [ME and e.m.E. rudi (a1225), rudie (c1230), rody (14th c.), roody (Lydgate), roddy (1477), ruddy, -ie (16th c.), ruddy (a1529), OE rudig\thinspace; f. as Rud(e n.3]
which in contour exhibited a perfect oval, was
remarkable for the regularity of its features.
His forehead was full and high, and characteristic
of his family.  His eyes, which were of a
light blue colour, were shaded by beautifully
arched eyebrows\thinspace; and his nose, which was
fully formed, approached nearer to the Roman
than the Grecian model.  A pointed chin and
a mouth rather small, gave him, however,
rather an effeminate appearance\thinspace; but, on the
whole, his exterior was extremely prepossessing\thinspace;
and his deportment was so graceful
and winning that few persons could resist his
attractions.

% page 8
\goodpage

``His dress on this occasion was a light
coloured peruke, with his hair combed over the
front.  This was surmounted by a blue velvet
bonnet, encircled with a band of gold lace, and
ornamented at the top with a Jacobite badge---a
white cockade.  Instead of plaid, he wore a
blue sash wrought with gold, and on his breast
the star of the Order of St. Andrew.  A pair
of military boots and a silver-hilted broadsword
completed his costume.''

He was enthusiastically received by the
people, and as he rode away towards Holyrood
they compared him with Robert the Bruce.
On the same day as his entry into the city, his
father was proclaimed as King James, at the
Cross, by the heralds and pursuivants\thinspace; and a
Commission of Regency was granted by the
King, appointing Charlie as Regent.

During this ceremony, Mrs Murray of
Broughton, a lady of great beauty and a
devoted adherent of the Stuarts, sat on horseback,
decked with a profusion of white ribbons,
with a drawn sword in her hand.

While the Heralds were proclaiming King
James at the Mercet Cross of Edinburgh, Sir % mercat m (plural mercats). (Languedoc) market. Scots. edit. Alternative forms. edit · markeet, market, mercate, mercatt, mercet, mercket. Noun.
John Cope, King George's General, was landing
his troops at Dunbar, preparatory to his
marching against Prince Charlie and his Highlanders.
Here he was joined by some judges
and lawyers from Edinburgh, who had fled
from the Highlanders.  They had come, not as
fighting men, but as anxious and interested
spectators of the approaching conflict.

% page 9
In his march towards Edinburgh, Cope,
being aware of the rapid movements of the
Highlanders, and to prevent a midnight surprise,
sent out sixteen men to act as scouts,
the men having been Volunteers in Edinburgh.
They were sub-divided into eight parties of
two each, and proceeded at night by four
different roads that led to Duddingston.

Six of these parties had returned by daybreak
to the camp, and reported no enemy in
sight\thinspace; but the other two parties, who had
taken the road to Musselburgh, did not return,
as they had been taken prisoners by an attorney's
apprentice, and conducted to the rebel
camp at Duddingston.

When they came to Musselburgh they did
not cross the bridge, but crossed the Esk, it
being then low water, at a place close to its
juncture with the sea. At the opposite side
was a snug thatched tavern, kept by Luckie
Fraser, who sold excellent oysters and sherry.
The sign and the heap of oyster shells at
Luckie's door enticed the vigilent patrols to % Vigilant, adj. Also\thinspace: vigyllant, vigil(l)ent, vigiland, vegeland. [e.m.E. vigilaunt (1531), vigilant (1538), vigilent (1640), F. vigilant, L. vigilant-, f. vigilāre.]
tarry awhile in the tavern\thinspace; and while enjoying
themselves this Jacobite attorney apprentice
looked in, and knowing them, and suspecting
the errand they were on, resolved to capture
them\thinspace; and knowing they would not return as
they came, on account of the tide, waited their
approach on the steep narrow bridge that
crossed the Esk, surrounded and bound them
before they could draw a trigger, and marched
them into the Prince's camp at Duddingston.

% page 10
One of the prisoners was Francis Garden,
who afterwards became Lord of Session under
the title of Lord Gardenstone\thinspace; the other, Mr
Robert Cunningham, and who afterwards was
General Cunningham.

The result of the Battle of Prestonpans,
on Saturday, 21st September, was the utter
defeat of Cope's army.  The Highlanders,
throwing away their muskets, drew their claymores,
making a terrible slaughter amongst
Cope's Infantry, and swept them from the
field, while the Dragoons fled pell-mell before
the victorious and dreaded Highlanders.

Amongst the most prominent who fell on
the field were the christian and gallant soldiers,
Colonel Gardiner and Captain MacGregor, son
of the famous Rob Roy. Two bullets had % sic butlets
pierced MacGregor's body, and as he lay on
the ground he raised his head on his hand and
called to his men---‘My lads, I am not dead\thinspace!
By God\thinspace! I shall see if any of you does not do
your duty.''

This had a wonderful effect.  The MacGregors
fell on the English Infantry, and with
the tremendous sweep of their broad-swords
frequently cut a body in two.

The march of Prince Charlie to Derby---
when London might be said to have been
within his grasp---the retreat, and the Battle
of Culloden, where his sun paled and set in
blood, and where that butcher, the Duke of
% page 11
Cumberland, permitted such atrocities as will
make his name a stench in the nostrils of every
Highland Clan, need not be recounted here.

\vskip 0.5em
\centerline{\smallertitle Authenticated Local Incidents.}

I will now give you a brief sketch of a few
authenticated incidents of local interest in connection
with Prince Charlie.

Part of Charlie's army, under Lochiel,
tarried over night in the neighbourhood of
Bathgate Hills, while Prince Charlie and Lord
George Murray slept at the Deans while on
their way to Edinburgh. The first of these
statements is proved from the fact of the
great grandmother of the late Aleck Hamilton,
of Kirkroads, being plundered by the Highlanders
under Lochiel.  Lizzie Muckle, as she
was called, then resided in the neighbourhood
of the Silver Mine, and made an honest though
humble livelihood by ``keepin' kye.''

The commissariat of Charlie's army had
not been of the best, or most plentiful, because
the plunderings of Lochiel's men were such
that he had to mete out summary justice by
shooting one of them as a warning to the
others. This seems not to have proved effectual,
as on passing Lizzie Muckle's cottage some of
them entered and robbed her of all her store
of meal and milk.

The plucky auld Scotch dame did not
tamely submit to such lawless conduct, but
went immediately to Lochiel's quarters and
% page 12
made her complaint to him. Lochiel, the very
personification of chivalry and honour, at once
paid her more than the value of her stolen
property, the sum being, as handed down from
generation to generation of Hamilton's, ``ten
gowden pieces.'' So pleased was Lizzie with % sic gowden used elsewhere
this huge sum, that she over and over again
declared to her neighbours that she ``never
made as muckle of kye before.''

The other incident, equally well vouched
for, was the Prince and Lord George Murray
staying over-night at the Deans, where the
parents of the Blind Poet of the Deans resided
for over forty years.  On the Poet's father
entering the farm he was especially cautioned
by the laird to be careful of an old walnut tree
growing close by the house, as the history of
the tree existing in the Norvell family, was
that it was planted by Prince Charlie, on the
night he visited the Deans, when on his
way to Edinburgh, to oppose Sir John Cope.

The room in which the Prince slept in the
old Deans mansion---Boghall House as it was
then called---was ornamented with the Stuart
tartan\thinspace; the hangings of the bed in which he
slept were also of the same material.  These
hangings, at the sale of the mansion furniture,
passed into the hands of ``Provost'' Bowie, proprietor
of ``The Sun'' Inn, in the ``Bunker'---
Brown's Square\thinspace; they were purchased by Dr
Kirk, at the death of the ``Provost,'' and they
are now in my possession.

% page 13
The following verses are from Hamilton's
Rhyming History of Bathgate\thinspace:---
\poem{
This brings us tae the 'Forty-five,\\
Tae Charlie and the Clans,\\
Wha slept ae nicht on Bathgate Hills\\
When gaun tae Prestonpans.\\
\stanza
The rank and file, row'd in their plaids,\\
Lay doon at Clinkingstane,\\
While Lord George Murray wi' the Prince\\
Unto the Deans has gane.\\
\stanza
A royal banquet there was spread,\\
Wi' Norvell at its head,\\
Wha drank tae Johnny Cope's defeat\\
Before they gaed to bed.\\
\stanza
A worthy ``Provost'' in our toon,\\
Within his hoose can shaw\\
The curtains o' the Prince's bed,\\
The counterpane an' a'.\\
\stanza
At dawn o' day the Cameron Clan\\
Brak' in on Lizzie Muckle,\\
And toom'd her girnal and her kirn,\\
Which put her in a pickle.\\
\stanza
Some ran wi' jugfu's o' the cream,\\
And made it into crowdie\thinspace;\\
While others clap'd theirs on the fire\\
For brockin and powsowdie.\\
\stanza
Brave Lizzie ran straight to Lochiel,\\
And telt him 'bout his men\thinspace;\\
The Chieftain laugh'd, and frae his purse\\
Drew gouden pieces ten,\\
\stanza
And flung them right intae her lap,\\
Then turned and wish'd good-bye\thinspace;\\
And lang did Lizzie Muckle tell\\
She ne'er made mair aff kye.\\
}

% page 14

\goodpage

\centerline{\smallertitle Traditional Stories of the ‘45.}

There are many traditional stories of the '45.
The two following have a local interest, and it
would be a pity should they be lost to our
children, and our children's children\thinspace:---
\vskip 0.5em
\centerline{\smallertitle The Macdonald Massacre.}

On the 13th February, 1692, the Macdonalds
of Glencoe were brutally massacred, and Sir
John Dalrymple, Master of Stair, Secretary
for Scotland, was largely responsible for this
unspeakable crime.  The home of the Dalrymple's
was Newliston House, near Kirkliston.

When Prince Charlie had got as far as
Linlithgow, in his march on Edinburgh, in
1745, he was informed that the road he had
to traverse passed Newliston.  Knowing the
feelings of the Highlanders for the name of
Stair, he was afraid that he would not be able
to prevent them from ruthlessly destroying
the estate unless it was well guarded.

The destruction would have a sinister
effect on the population of Edinburgh, and
might endanger the success of his enterprise.
It was, therefore, proposed to put a strong
guard on Newliston until the Highlanders
had passed.

The Chief of the Macdonalds of Glencoe
(the grandson of the Chief who was murdered
with his clan) was in the Royal army, and,
learning of the proposal, sought an audience
with the Prince.

% page 15
``It's right,'' he said, ``that a guard should
be put on the House of Newliston, but that
guard must be furnished by the Macdonalds
of Glencoe.  If they are not thought worthy
of that trust, they cannot be fit to bear arms
in your Royal Highness's cause\thinspace; and I must,
of course, withdraw them from your standard.''

The Chief's claim was readily admitted.
The Macdonalds of Glencoe mounted guard on
the House of Newliston, and not an article
was interfered with.

Surely this is one of the finest of true
stories, showing the unbounded loyalty of the
Macdonalds.  What a serious tragedy had
these facts been lost\thinspace!

\vskip 0.7pc
\centerline{\smallertitle The MacGregor and the '45.}
\noindent Prince Charlie landed at Moidart in July 1745.
Fate at first lured on the brave and reckless
son of the Stuart race.  The Clans rallied to
the Prince's standard in great numbers. Everything
seemed favour\-able, and the march to the
Capital was begun.

As the Highland forces approached Stirling
Gardiner's Dragoons retreated before them.
When the Prince reached Linlithgow, the
Dragoons were at Kirkliston.

Numerous rumours were in circulation,
one being that a large Government army was
between them and the Capital.

Who would go and spy out the land?
Volunteers were asked for.  The lot fell on
% page 16
James MacGregor, one of the sons of the
famous Rob Roy.

MacGregor was disguised as the servant of
an Officer of the Dragoons, who had been
captured and subsequently escaped from the
Highland army. This disguise was particularly
apt, as in Sir John Cope's army were one or
two Highland regiments recruited after the
Rebellion of 1715.  The Dragoons were
picketted near Kirkliston, to which spot the
bold MacGregor went.

He was called before Colonel Gardiner
and closely examined.  The story he told was
terrible in the extreme---and told in such vivid
detail, that it rang true.  He related how there
had been a skirmish between the two armies\thinspace;
how he and many more of the Government
troops had been captured and cruelly treated
by the half-civilised Highlanders, and how he
had managed to escape when Linlithgow was
being looted.

MacGregor played his part right well, and
mixing with the Dragoons, many of whom were
raw recruits, told most awful tales of the
blood-thirsty, half-human, half-animal enemy,
and of the fate that was in store of any who
fell into their hands.

The moral of the Government troops had % sic morale
already been much reduced by the continuous
retreat from Stirling\thinspace; but MacGregor's stories,
coupled with the rumours told by the villagers,
struck terror into their soul. He accompanied
% page 17
the Dragoons as far as Colt\-bridge\thinspace; but after
he had acquired much useful information, he
slipped away again to the Highland army, who
were now at Corstorphine.

MacGregor later got permission to lead
his own Company of the Duke of Perth's
Regiment against the Dragoons. The outposts
of the Dragoons saw the Highlanders approaching,
and, thinking that they were the
advance guard of the Highland army, fled
without firing a shot.

James MacGregor did not long survive
his early exploits.  He fell, mortally wounded,
at the Battle of Prestonpans.

Should you ever visit the graves of Rob
Roy and his wife Helen, in the peaceful
churchyard of Loch Voile, give a kindly
thought to their son James, who did his best
work, not in the fastnesses of his native hills,
but by the quiet waters of the River Almond,
near Kirkliston.

\vskip 1pc
\centerline{\smallertitle How Colonel Gardiner Fell.}
\noindent Colonel Gardiner, who resided at Bankton
House, near to the edge of the battlefield,
---and where it still stands---alone of all Cope's
leaders, lost his life in the struggle at the
Battle of Prestonpans.  His own Dragoons
deserted him in the first rush of the Highlanders\thinspace;
but seeing a body of Infantry leaderless,
% page 18
he lept to their head, and appealed to them
to ``fire away and fear nothing.''

After the battle Gardiner's faithful servant
found him still alive, but suffering from two
gunshot wounds in the right side and several
sabre cuts in the head. The Colonel was conveyed
to Tranent Manse, and succumbed to
his injuries during the night.

Engraved on a monument at Bankton
House is the following quatrain by Hugh
Miller\thinspace:---
\poem{
His valour, his high scorn of death,\\
To fame's proud meed no impulse owed\thinspace;\\
His was a pure unsullied zeal\\
For Britain and for God.\\
}% More on the battle of Prestonpans and Col. Gardiner
% can be found in https://ia600202.us.archive.org/28/items/prestonpansandv00mcnegoog/prestonpansandv00mcnegoog.pdf
% ``Prestonpans and vicinity'' by P.McNeil, 1902.
\noindent Colonel Gardiner was intensely religious, and
in recent years has been written of as the
``General Gordon'' of the eighteenth century.

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Perhaps in all Scottish history there is
nothing so full of romance, so pathetic, so
chivalrous, so faithful and true, as this record
of the Rebellion of 1745.  Flora M`Donald's
life devotion, the incorruptible honesty and
faithfulness of the Highlanders, when by the
utterance of a few words, or the pointing of a
finger, \pounds 10,000 would have been secured\thinspace; yet,
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not a word was uttered, nor a finger raised---
These are actions that will ever command the
admiration of ages yet unborn.
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English bribes were a' in vain,\\
Though puir and puirer we maun be\thinspace;\\
Siller canna buy the heart\\
That beats aye tae thine and thee.\\
}

No wonder that our own Rabbie Burns
had his great heart stirred, or that his voice
was raised in behalf of the unfortunate race,
or that the great mass of the Scottish people
silently, yet deeply, sympathised with ``Bonnie
Prince Charlie.''

The songs that have been written about
Prince Charlie are part of the National life\thinspace;
they will, in their mingled beauty and sadness,
keep alive for ever love for the brave and
unfortunate hero of the '45.
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