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18 Labourer 22nd September Aberdeen abroad affidavits Alex Alexander Andrew Angus Badenoch Bamf battle of Culloden battle of Preston battle of Prestonpans behalf Black Boswell brother Cameron Cape Breton Captain Carlisle Castle clemency Colonel Gardiner Colonel Gardiner's house Colonel Lascelles Colonies commanding Culloden Dark hair David Donald Dougal Campbell Drummond Duke of Newcastle Duncan Edinburgh enlist escape faut favour Forbes French gaol George Glasgow Government Governor guard Hamilton healthy Highlanders Inverness Jacobite Johnson King's Kinloch Labourer 19 Leeward Islands letter lives London Lord Lovat Louisbourg lusty M'Donald Macdonald Morison Murray October officer pale pardon persons Perth Perthshire petition for mercy plantations pock-pitted Pretender's Prince Charles rebel prisoners rebellion regiment reprieved Robert Taylor Ross-shire Royalist ruddy Scotland sent September 1746 Servant Sharpe ship shoemaker Sir James slender Smith soldiers Southwark sprightly strong surgeon swarthy taken testified Tilbury Tilbury Fort trial Walkinshaw Weaver William Willm wounded wrote York
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Page 4 - Johnson strongly expressed his love of driving fast in a post-chaise. " If (said he) I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman ; but she should be one who could understand me, and would add something to the conversation.
Page 25 - I thank God I was not in the least daunted at hearing the bloody sentence which my unrighteous judge pronounced with a seeming insensibility till he came to...
Page 37 - Highland names followed with the word labourer, indicating that they belonged to the humblest class. Too implicit allegiance had been the weakness, instead of rebellion being the crime, of these men, and in many instances they had been forced into the service for which they were punished as absolutely as the French conscript or the British pressed seaman.
Page 43 - Here elements have lost their uses, Air ripens not, nor earth produces : In vain we make poor Sheelah toil, Fire will not roast, nor water boil. Through all the valleys, hills, and plains, The goddess Want in triumph reigns, And her chief officers of state, Sloth, Dirt, and Theft around her wait.
Page 36 - As for what was in all the rest of the written leaves, which was wrote in good and intelligible Latin, I must conceal, lest God being offended with me should send His plague and judgments upon me. It would be a wickedness much greater than he who wished that all men in the world had but one head, that he might cut it off at a blow. " Having thus obtained this delicate and precious book, I did nothing else day and night but study it ; conceiving very well all the operations it pointed forth, but...
Page 34 - Your letter received enclosing extract of letter from Captain Massey, commanding officer at Tilbury Fort, relating to keeping the prisoners there clean. It seems to be very odd that he should want an order for allowing the wards to be cleaned and attending the sick; and I do not understand what authority can be wanted for that purpose.
Page 5 - ... young prince claiming his birthright, with an appeal to their chivalry, and we can hardly feel surprised at their decision. But why, we ask ourselves, should this movement have alarmed the powerful Government of London ? That it did so is abundantly clear. Putting Black Friday on one side, we know that the battle of Falkirk, fought when the Highlanders were in full and hurried retreat, appalled the Court.
Page 36 - As to the sending away people to the plantations, it is answered that none were sent away but such as were taken at Bothwell Bridge, or in Argyll's rebellion ; and the turning capital punishment into exile was an act of clemency, not of cruelty.
Page 21 - Let me entreat you to imitate your grandfather in his valuable talents of honesty and probity, for this truth will always be found the best policy.