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YEARS I,:.-), O F T H E L I F E, AND » vv. i A RELATION OF THE GALLANT EXPLOITS OF THE OLD HIGHLANDER, SERJEANT DONALD MACLEOD, WHO RETURNED WOUNDED WITH THE CORPS OF GENERAL WOLFE FROM THE BATTLE OF QUEQEC, ' WAS SHIPWRECKED ON THE COAST OF SCARBOROUGH, AND IS NOW A PENSIONER OF CHELSEA HOSPITAL. Thefe Memoirs recount the birth and education of their aged hero— Cuftoms ill Scotland of that tinnte. — He is bound apprentice to a ftone-cutter at Inyer- nefs in his thirteenth year — Ill-ufage determines him to abfcond from his inafter.-—S)nguiftr^.al ventures in his ramble from Invemefs to Perth.— Enlifts at Perth in the JRoyal Scots Volunteers, commanded by the Earl of Orkney— In 1^03, is embarked at Berwick for Flanders.-— Particulars of feveral battle* with the French— ;Saves his life by (killintheuie of the broad-fword— Fights ^ ieveral duels with French officers.-r-ln 1714 arrives in Ireland, and in 17 tc fentto the Rebellion in Scotland — Miraculous efcapes anu curious pairicn|u!s of that event.-»—En3ployedin teaching the ufeof the broad-fword in the'Hig;!!- lands. — Account of the daring robbers in Scotland at that time, — Of the ap- Flanders.— Engaged in the battle of Jontenoy'—Recalled to Scotland with prehenfion of feveral of the mod notorious by^tir hero. — Again fails for r-i i theDiuke of Cumberland in 174^^^ Accounts of the progrefs of the Rebels. — Elcapcs without a wound. — In 1757, isfentto North America.— Becomes acquinted u ith General Wolfe. — Engaged at the battle of Quebeck — General Wolfe falls.— Affifti in carrying of the body of the Gene^. — ^Our hero ac- companies the corp/c to England in November 1759, on board the Royal William,— Public forrow for the lofs of Gen. Wolte — Our hero admitted an Oiit-Penfionei| of Chelfea-Hofpital in his feventieth year.— Soon after.mar- lied in Scotlatid.— rEmbarks again for the Continent and returns wounded— U employed afterwards in a Ics2 maftuf:: the oW Veieifh.-r^Retires to Chelfca Hoipital,— Attains his hundred and V «Jghth ytafi*— Iteflcfticns. f^' iiiii ir< i i i[f Hi^< fl | i | i ii^T n> mil I LON/X)N .-"^FKIHT E P THE [?R}CB 9NI.y SJXPJENCS.J "^^': 1BS& i^' S^.-, il WfWOTTs OF THE LIFE OF SERJEANT DONALD MACLEOD. I % DONALD MACLEOD, a cadet of the f;imily of Ulininiin the Ifle of ,)kvc, from the time of his enlifiing in the Scoftifli :irmy, in tlie rei^n of King William, to his laft campaign with Sir Henry Clinton in Anurica, frnt hun- dreds of heroes to their lontr homes : but, in retnrn, he raifed up from hi> own loms a numerousrace of brave warriors, ihe^ldeftof whom is now cighty-t'.^ree years old, and theyoungeft only nine. Nor, in all probability, would this lad clofe the rear of his immediate progeny, if hi-, prefent wife, the boy's mother, had not now attained to the forty and ninth year of her a^c. It wai formerly cuftomary in Scotland, as well as other countries in Europe, for gentlemen of landed property to make provifion for t'leir Ions by fettling them, in fome chara<5ler a.Hi lituation or other, on their own eftates ; fo that the fame trafts, and even diftrids of land, came, in the natural co\irfc of things, to be occupied by people of the fame name and ki idred, who lived toget!,er like one great family, drawn together by mutual fympathy, and often more ftrongly imited by antipathy to fome common enemy. Sometimes an cftate was parcelled out among feveral brothers, whether in equal ur unequal divi- jions; fometimes large and advantageous farms were let to the younger fons, who, at an eafyrent paid to the elder branch and reprefentativc of the family, enjoyed their poffeiTions under the name of tackfmen : and thefc polTcflions, Aibdivided and fub-let to inferior tenants, palTed by a kind of hereditary ri^ht, which it would have been deemed a fpecies of impiety to violate, in the fami- lies of the original tackfmen, from generation to geneiation. As the tackfmen were often the immediate defcendents of the independent baron or tenant of the, Crown, fo alfo the fubtcnants were, for the mod part, conocded by ties of blood with the tackfmen. All the capital and mod of the fecondary pofTef- fions, and all the offices or places in the eftate, from the fai^or or land-flcward, down to the ground-oHiccr and game-keeper, were in the hands of men who boaftcd of the fame name and the fame defccnt with tfie chief. Such, in ge- neral, was the flate of focicty, and Inch the mode in which landed eftates wer; parcelled out, under the leigncur, in fciidal and warlike times ; when men of family had not .the fame refonrc's in manufa6tures and trade that they have now; and which, if they hnd enjdved, they would have defpifed. Let it not therefore fcom any ways incredible, to thofe who are educated in a commercial age, that Serjeant Donald Macleod, the fubjeft of this Narrative, is thefonof John Macleod tl.'i fon of Roderic AlacleoH, Elq; of Ulinifti, by his wife Margaret Macleod, daughter to Macleod of Talifkar, in the parifti of Bracadill in Skye, and county of Invernels, North Britain. Sir Roderic Macdonald of the Ille of Skye, anceft(xr to the prefent Attorney- Genera!, and Roderic Matleod of Ulin'fli, coufins in the fecond degree, fent • their children Ifahella Macdonald and John Macleod, to be educated in Inver- ncfs. Li former times, niorefimple than the prefent, it was common for boys and girls, of the beft tamilies, to be brought up together in the fame fchools, a^ it is among common people, in common ft:hools in Scotland, even at this day. Ifabelia Macdonald, accordingly, and John Macleod had been brought iiptogether, in a familiar manner, at the public fchool of Invernefs, for feve- ral years, when they acknowledged the mutual influence of love. Ilabella was in the fourteenth year of her age, when John, in hibfixteenth year, ran away with her from fchool, and married her. The fij ft fruit of this union was our hero, Donald, who was bom at UlinifhnL".re on the aoth of June 1687, as ap- pears from the paridi regifter of Bracadill already mentioned Sir Roderic Macdonald informed of the early and unfortunate marriage of t.is daughter, banifljedhei, toge^jer with her young hulband, from his pre- fe to' tiil a') to I pr tht flu Ull be thi heif whl vea 'i6eloved image, together with tender regret and forrow, that (lie whom it vainly reprcfented was now no more ! A year had not elapfed, from the death of his wife, when he mortgaged the land that had been made over to him, for feven years, for a lum of monev ; left a country, the fxglit of which Mas become painful to him ; went to-fe'a; and, after various viciffitudes of fortune, became a Lieutenant of Marines in the Chatham Divifion. By the time that the term of years for which he had granted the polTeflion of his land had expired, he came home, fold it, returned to fea, and purfued his fortune. He role in the naval fervice to the rank of Captain of Marines, in 4 fliip of war, and fell at Belle-Ifle, in the year 1761. Captain Macleod, when he went to fea, left his children, four in number, in the care of their grand-father, Roderic Macleod of Ulinifli ; who was not able to do much for them, as he had a family of his own by a fecond wife, young, numerous, and yearly increafing. His children and grand-children amounted to the number of t>\ enty-three, who lived all together atUlinifhmore; the youngeft part going every day a fpace of about four miles, even amidft the fevereft w ntry florms, to the parifli fchool of Bracadill. Sometimes Donald was obliged to carry his little brother Alexander, fcarcely five years old, on his back. At the fchool of Bracadill, Donald learned to read Englifh, and to write; though his fingers have now become fo fliff, through age, that it is with diffi- culty he can fign his own name. It '.vould coflhim greater exertion to write one page than to walk an hundred miles, or to go through a trial at the broad-fword. The regimen and manner in which he, with his little brothers and uncles, fomc of whom were younger than either he or any of his brothers, were brought up, was as follows. They were clothed with a woollen fliirt, a kilt, or fhort A » ' [ 4 ] . petticoat, and a fhort coat, or rarht-r a wailtcoat with fl'^eves, rcncliing dnWN and buttoned at the wrill. This was the whole oi their clothing. No hats, nor bonnetii, no llockings, nor yec fluics, eichtr in fiminicr or winter ! in Tiin-fhine, rain, tVoft, or Inow ! If tht; elder hoys ha I one |)air ot" bro«;ucs, or coMi'c ihoes, formed riulcly by leathern thongs out ohaw . lul nndrcrtcd hides, it was rathc^r for ornament than uuld have nomiflied a flourjfliing fiflicry ai iiome, furnlPned the tables of both rich and poor with fuch a variety of hAics, good for food, and pleafant to the eye, and which would tend, in more ways than one, to the increafe of population ? li' tempefts and furious Pormsdrive our feanieu within thirty miles of the Spanifli Chores, they have nothing to expei5t but barbarity from a proud and bigotted jseople, whofe jealoufy or our encroachments will now, after the late conven- tion, be greater, ar.d their infolence more intolerable than ever. If the winds and waves tofsthcm on the Caledonian coaft, every fkiff is fitted out, every arm extended for their relief and comfort ! But, not to digrefs too *ar from our iubjert : I Wiien Doiiaii Made id was no more than nine years of age he was fent to nvtrnc^ and bound apprentice to Waltev and John Watfons, alias Macpher-i '^?^^C^?ra.77K?r lures, I whit - ihey isthat^ )und- ^berty part jat re- /f>uld rich le eye, Ition ? )ani(li rotted Inven- Iwinds 1 every from Tent to :phert [ 5 ] fona mafons and ftone-c\itters. On this occafion he was honoured with a ptlr ot brogues and a bonnet. The apiirenrue-tee paid to the Mtcpheifons, who. were elteemed excellent in their prolclli )n, was 50I. Scotch ; that is, 4I. ^5.4^. fterling. He was bound for feven ye?rs. His own family was tofurniUi him clothes : the Macpherfons with bed and board in their own houfe. He was an apt and diligent apprentice, learned his trade with great facility, and pleafed his maftrrs well. Both here, and when he was at the Ichool of Bracadill, hit / fpare hours, like thole ot other boys, were wholly employed in training up him- : Iclf, by cudgel-playing, to the ufc and manai^ementof the broad-fword and target. . The only article ot food that he had, either here or in his giand-tatherV houfe in abundance, w«s milk and fidi. Bread waS dealt lut with a veryfpar- ing hand ; the porridge, or other wu^ei -gruel, was ^re;it!y too ihin ; and as to the foup-meagre, made of oatmeal and a fma;! nandiul ot greens, (which, witk a little barley-bread, was his moll conmion dinner), it di'l notdefeive the name of foup, orbrot!,. To mucn as that of water tinged wiih thofe mgredients. With regprd to HQi, although even the common' pro. le v.ere, on many occa- fions, plentifully fuppUed with this delicate food, it was neither found |)ala- table'tor anv great length ot time, nor yet nutricious, unlefsdidy leafoned with fait, and mixed, in ufing it, with fomrthing of tho mealy or farinaceous kind ; articles of provifion in which the norchern coinnties of Scotland were, at that time, miferably deficient. So t.'iat, on the whole, our hero confefles, that he very feldom had a fuli and fatisfadory meal ; or role from table without a de- gree of appetite — if he (lieathed hisYword, it was for lack of argument. He is convinced that, by this penury of living, his ftomach was contracted, at lead not dilated to the ufual fize of men's brought up in the midft ot pienty. For at no period of his life did he ever defire or ufc near fo much food, of any kind, asthebulkvof thofe around him in any country. At this moment he cats Sparingly, and next to nothing at all, ♦tho' he takes a chearful and even plentiful glals without the fmalleft inconveniency. A gentleman juft turned of forty, after drinking a hearty glafs with Macleod to an hour much later thaa ufual, and who felt the etFeds thereof next morning, was happy to be called up from bed, in London, by the arrival of Mr. Macleod, in good fpirits and health, fromChelfea. While Macleod remained in his grandfather's family in the Ifleof Skye, fcan- tinefs of more folid provifion was, in lome mealure, compenfated by libera-1 fupplics of milk: and, now and then, on holidays, they were treated with an egg. But, with the ftone-cutters he found not one egg, and of milk very little. He felt the pinching pain of want. His fituation became infupportable. Ex- treme hunger induced him to harbour thoughts of breaking loofe from his maf- ter, and try to fatisfy the cravings of nature in lomeotherpart of the kingdom. If all this preflure of hunger and want (liould appear extraordinary, the fur- prize of the reader will wholly vanifti, when he recollefts, that the firft years of Macleod's apprenticefliip rell within the period of that deplorable famine which afflicted Scotland, not yet taught to provide againft fcarchy of grain by means of navigation, ror the laft feven years of the feventeenth century, which was lonw remembered under the name of the Jear years ; and of which tradition has yet preferved in the minds of men a melancholy recollection. It was this dread- ful faniine that occafioned the noted propofal of Mr. Fletcher of Saltoun, tore- deem the begging poor of his country from the fangs of want, by binding them in the chains of flavery. This idea appears ftiocking to a modern ear. Mr. Fletcher's mind was tutored inthe Grecian and Roman School ; nor was it much more than a hundred years fince the Parliament of Scotland had pafi^ed an aft, by which the cnildren of beggars fhould be taken away fi"om their unhappy pa- rents, and be brought up in flavery for a certain term of years. And it was a hundred precifely fiuce the Scottifli Parliament, in 1 597, extended that limited term to life. Mr. Fletcher tells us, that, in the year 1698, there were, befides a gfeat many poor families pining in fecret want, others very meanly provided ^r out of this church bo;.'es, and others who had fallen into various difeafes by C 6 ] . ^ . bvinp; on had food ;— that there were, befidrs all thefc, two hiindrul thoufan^ people, in Scotl;;nil, begging their bread froni door to door. Such, then, were the h-irdtirciiinUiinccs and tinirs in uhi'h Donald Mncieod was brought tip, from the liltli year of his a^rc /learlv to the twelfth. Towards Chrilhnaii, in the year 1699, in the niid'll of froft and Inow, witK his indenture, which he had contrived to^^ct into his hands, and one line n (hirt in hi« pocket, our young adventurr, bcr«*rc it was yet day, (cl out ironi his mallrr's houfc at Invcrnefs, fccictly, withont any oihci dcOination than thit of wandering with hif, face fouthward. Hi* brotMics and his ftockings foon give way, and he was reduced to the ncccflity of encoi'iiiering tlie icy and ru;;- ged puhs throngh which he paffcd with his kjjs and hit pf"ar.ince, rather above the common rank. She put many nueftions, and at length otfcied to take him home with her to her ownhoufe. Heaflied lierwhat (t of whi o'cloc Her and wi from r and hii confiJ< that th ing ab( might taught on the pied cl earthen re idy t( Thef the cou woman manfjoi his fitua his maf her eye Donald made a! Tht ten ou/an4 laclcod I', with < n thirt ro'u Ills lan thu ^s foon ihl rii;;- 'liiscir- ."onUant !:crfon' , iceflwp. \t every untnins. abftrac- that all a differ- i waftcR, , and his nd in it- e had fo nd nou- ifited the St enjoy. 1 a Tour from hig f liberty, Jor wast uld fub- towhat- and iu- in being )ut when he might lamitoua ►r a little madeap- His coat tlcman's ,>aftard.*' hat they he Lord n home, ace from as that Iw'cre not : was ab- ^rewithal d, not by not be- an d, in Is, and at her what [ 7 ] . flie would do witii him. She faid, Urokiiig his curling hair, ** My pretty boy ♦' I have loll my only child, who, h;'.d he lived, would havcjull beer, about. *' your i^c, aiul I think not \inlikc you. I will take you along with me, and " you IhiU bo my Ton. ' He was not infenfiblc tothis good woman's kindnefs; for, \v!\ile (he fhcl tears for piry, he cried out of grateful attei'.tion. Hut ftill he th(m.;^'.t he was too near Invtrncfs ; too much cxpofed to the in<]uinc-J of hii late inirrcis. He, therefore, thanked the kind ftiangcr tor her cttv-r, but politively itliired to accept it. " Alas!" faid flie, *♦ Where wdl you ^o f •' Sonw henrt, I Tar, aches for you this dry." So, finding him rcfolute to p'ufue his journey, (lie put a fliilling in his hand, and a warm handkerchief about his neck, and committed him, with many prayers for hiu lafety^ to the tare of Providence. Turning eaftward from Abcrfddie, he purfued his journey along the north fide of the Tay till he cr.me to Logierait, at the junction of the Tay and the Tumel. This laft river, t!;at he might not Ipend one farthing of his fliilling by taking the ferry-boat, he boldly determined to ford, and adually did ford it, though the water was brcall-high. Butas he journeyed onward to Dunkeld, he was inet by a wtll-dreired man on foot, with another man a little behind him whoappenred to be his fervant. The firft of thelc, who was one of the geiillenien robbeis fo frecpient iti Scotland in thofc days, ftopped our young traveller, and after fcveral queflions, afked him what he had in hl« pocket. Donald, trembling for his fliiilin{^, affirmed that he had nothing. But the ap- plication of a piftol pointed to his breaft, extorted his whole treafuie without «1> lay. The unfeeling plunderer held on his way northward, and the haplels youth whom he had plundered proceeded on his journey, to which he kue\r rot when or where there would be an end. uv It was now in the dullt of the evening, and belngovercome with fatigue, cold, and great forrow at the lofs of his fliilling, he felt an irrefiftible propeniity ta ^o to fleep. No houfe or hut was near in which he might obtain friendly mel- tcr ; but he efpied a flieep cot as he advanced, in which he found a very warm and comfortable night's If^dging, and a mofl profound and refrefliing rcpofe, annng the flieep and the goats. The next morning difcovered a village, notfai* diftant, in which he was refreflied with both oatmeal and milk : on the flrength of which repaft he pafl>d on to Dunkeld, crofled the Tay, and, about two o'clock, arrived at the town of Perth. Here bethought himfdf, at firft, at a greater lofs, amidft allthc convcnienciei and wealth of a very confiderablc town, than he had been while he wandered from mountain to mountain, and found, at long diftances, the thinly feathered and hnmlile abodes of the poor fliepherds. Though gentlefolks, or thofe who oiifiJer themfelves as fuch, would occafionally give a bit of bread, he knew that they were very fliy of affording quarters. He was, therefore, eagerly look- ing about for fome mean houie, where his application for a night's lodging might not give offence or meet with infult, and where the poor inhabitant, taught fympathy, perhaps, by fuffering, might be difpofed to have compaflion on the unfortunate ; when he faw, in the ftrcet called the Skinner-Gate, occu- pied chiefly by people from the Highlands, a woman, in a fmall fliop with an earthen floor, fpinning at a wheel, and watching a few articles which Ihe wa* re idy to lell. ' Thefe circumftances of poverty, together with a benignity of foul expreflTed in the countenance of the woman, encouraged him to apply and not in vain. The woman, whom he afterwards found i.o be a widow, received him into her little rnanfion, and treated him with the utmoft kindnefs. To her queftions refpcding his fituation, he anfwered, that he was a poor apprentice who had riin away from his mafter. The woman, looking earneftly in his face, with tears ftarting into her eyes, laid, " He miift be a bad man from whom you have run awav.** Donald replied, that his mafter was not indeed a cruel man, though nectflity made all of them work, and with very little ftiftenance, by night and "^ v day. Tht tender-hearted woman loft no time to give him a baloii of good brptd vitii [ 8 ] « liberal fup{)ly of bread. This was the firft plentiful meal tliaf lie ever hid re- ceived, to the beft of his rcmembram"-, in his life. He fell immediately to llccp. He was put to bed, and llcpt till twelve o'clock at iii)i;ht, when he .irofe, and found his good hoftefs, at th.it late hour, (lill Ipinninj;. — "Wtll,"(aid ihe, **my " pretty boy, will you have any thing to eat now ?" For he had fallen afletp after talcing the broth, wichout talHng a bit of the meat that had been boiled iii it. He did not defire to cat any tinng more than he had done, but begged Jeavc to go again to bed. Early in the morning the good woman had lighted her fire, and fat down t<» fpin, wiicn her young guefl arole, and, nfniid of being too long troublcfomc, offered to take his leave, with many thanks for her great kinunels. '' Woe ir "me." faid file, *'you have neither ihoes nor (lockings !" With that flic brought forth, out of an old chcft, a pair gf flioes and (lockings which belonged to one of her own children, th;it had been dead about fix months, and while flie fried how they would fit her young guert, which they did pretty well, flicd many tears. She now invited Donald to flop another night, and, in the mean lime, converfed with him, in the Gaelic tongue, about the place and people he had left, and about his own family. Being now at a tolerable diilance from Invcr- nefs, and pretty fafe from the purfuit of the flone-cutters, he unbofomed him- felf to Mary Forbes, for that was his landlady's name, with great frccdonr. — ** Oh !*' faid he, ** is there any body in this place, do you think, that would *' keep me ?" " I don't know," Mary replied, " but there is. Stay in the houfc, " aiTd mind the little things at the door till I come back." Having faid this flie went out, and foon returned with a young man, of very genteel appearance, who kept a fliop in Perth near the fouth end of the Water-Gatc. He was a Strathern man ;' his name James Macdonald. Mr. Macdonald being fatisfied that the boy could both read and write, and that he had a pure as well as a fair fkin, (for, in thoie fad times, cutaneous difordcrs were almofl univerfal), took him immediately to his houfe, and let him fleep in the lame bed with himfelf ; for he had buttwointhehoufe,in one of which by his mother and a fervant girl. When Donald 1 ft Mary F(;rbc8 he promifed to fee her often; and he kept his word. Mr. Macdonald, as he walked homeward to his own houfe, faid to his little fervant, *' I had once a boy, older than you ; and, after 1 had been very good *' to him he ran away with all the money that he could find in the (hop." '• He *' mull have been a very bad boy," Donald replied ; "but I will foonerdiethan ** behave in luch a manner." — " I could fwear, faid Mr. Macdonald, that you " would." The good old gentlewoman, Mr. Macdonald's mother, at her fon's requeft, furnKhed his little man with (lockings and fliirts. He was alfo equipped with a new coat and a bonne'. He might have had breches too, according to the lowland falliion, but he preferred the philcbeg, and his mader indulged him in his choice. He gave perfect fatisfa(!:'tion to his mailer in every thing, and par- ticularly in the bulinefs of going on errands, which he did with aflonifliing ex- pedition. At tiiat time there was rot any general poll in Scotland ; and there- fore the intcrcourfe between merchants was carried on by fpecial mclTengers. Mr. Macdonald put fuuh confidence in his young footman as to fend him to F.dinbu.gh, with fixfv-nine pounds in gold, fcwed up, by Donald's advice, in his clothes. The diilance irom Per h to Edinburgh, by the neareft ^oad, is twenty-eight Scotch, or fosty Euglifli miles. Our young courier, with bread and c> -efe, and two fliillings in his pocket, fet out from Perth at eight o'clock in the morning, and arrived at Kinghorn at fix in the evening, when he luc- kily found a boat, that, in a 11. tie more than an hour, carried him over the Frith or Forth to Lcith ; from whence he ran to Edinburgh in half an hour, delivered his money fafely, receivcJ a proper receipt, with a fliilling to him- felf from the fliop-keepcrs to whom the money, in differenr ,.o.ticns, wascon- figned, flept ail night at a Stabler'^, in the Can. ugate, tei:oif^.i the Frith next moi!vmg, and, towards th;- evening, rc'iurned to Perth. The of^i woiian, Mrs. Macdonald, wlio was futiiig in t.hc "kitchen, exclaimpvl, *■ O l>inM ! whatlisrs r h%i re- to lleep. ofe, and he, '•my en aflecp hnilcd ill t begged clown to blcfome, ' Woe ir ; brought fd to Dijc (lie tried cd many :an lime, le he had m Inver- ted him- xdonr. — lat would lie houfc, i this flie peaiance. He was a y fatisfied 1 as a fair fal), took himfelf ; vantgirl. his word. his little erv good ' "He rdiethan that you requeft, jcd with g to the ed him in and par- liiiigex- nd thcre- ;flengers. d iiim to dvice, in ioad, is ith bread it o'clock I he luc- over the an hour, to him- was con- ^rith next lan, Mr«. whatli^s I 9 ] '* happened ? what hai brought you back !" But, by this time, he had given hxi niafterthe acknowledgment he had received of thcfafe deliverance of the money. At this time there was a recruiting party in Perth, beating up for voluntecri' to lierve his Majefty King William III. in Wic regiment of the Royal Scots, com- manded by the Earl of Orkney. They wore Hocl capi, and were armed with bows and ..rrows, and f words and targets. Donald Mtcleod, ftruck with the martial (ight and foand of this little band, felt his heart beat time to the trum- pet and drum ; and, forgetting his ftature and years, not yet thirteen, went up yud offered his Cervices to the ferjeant. The ierjeaut, looking on him with a finilc of complacency, laid, " Nay, my good lad, vou are too imall : however, " as you foeai a fpirited and well-made youth, I will take you to the Captain.'* The Captain, whofc name was Macdonald, ftrongly prcpolTed with his appear- ance, enquired who he was, and whence he had come. He told this officer all the truth, and (hewed him the indenture executed, on his account, between Roderic Macleod of Uiinifli, his grand-father, andtheMacp' «:rfon8, the Inver« iiefs mafons and ilone-cutters. On this, the Captain recognizing him to be the defcendant of a gentleman, and, as it feemcd, hii own relation, immediately enlifted him by giving him a fliilliug, in the King's name, of Englifli money ; .ind, at the fanae time, the promife of being foon promoted to the rank of a ler- jeant. He now took leave of his good friend Marv Forbes, and James Mac- donaM, an indulgent ma^er, with fome regret, and fet out for Edinburgh with Captain Macdonald, who prefented him, in that city, to Lord Orkney, inform- ing his Lnrdftiip, at the fame time, of hi^; family. In thofe days it was not an uncommon thing for the younger fons ot gentlemen^ and fubilantial farmers and manufaAurers, ':o go into the army as volur>teers, with the view of being ioon made, at leaft, lon-commiffioned officers. The army was not then, as it it now, the common receptacle of all that carry the name and appearance of men. The art was not then known, or profefled, of bendiag the grtateft blackguards and poltroons into brave men, by the power of difcipline : Regard was had to morals,to perfonal courage and fbrength,and to political and perfonal attachments. The noble Earl of Orkney, highly applauded the martial fpirit and appear- ance of his youn^ volunteer; and foon after even trufted him io far as to fend him, in the capacity of recruiting ferjeaat, with a confiderable fum of money, a party of thirty men, and a trufty corporal, into the fiiire of Invcrrefs. A certain number of thefe remained with himfelf, whcre-ever he went. The reft were, ^ent, in fmall partief, under corporals, into different quarters. The luccefs of our young recruiting officer was very uncommon. He re- turned to Edinburgh, after an abfencc of only a few months in the county al- ready mentioned, with a great number of recruits ; and foon thereafter em- barked with his regiment at Berwick, in 1703, for Flanders. The French King, Lewis XIV. at this period aimed at nothing lels than uni- verfal monarchy in Europe. The grand theatres of military aftion were thofe regions that are watered by the great rivers, the Rhiae and the Danube, botli of them having their lource in the neighbourhood of the lofty country of Swit- zerland ; but the firft, running from fouth to north, and falling into the Ger- man Sea on the coafts of the United Provinces; thefecond flowing in a iouth- ^J^erly direaion, and emptying itielf in the Black Sea in the Turkifb territories. Tiie chief commanders in the French army were the Marefchalsde Villeroy, 1 allard, and Villars ; the moft renowned among the Confederates, confifting of the Dutch, the Imperialiils, and the Englifti— Prince Eugene of Savoy, and the Duke of Marlborough. The French, in daily exocaation of being joined by the Bavarian army, headed by the Eleaor, were employed in fortifying their camp near Donawert,on the Banks of the Danube. The Confederate army forced their entrenchment : in which the enemy loft fix thoufand men, befides defer- ters. In this battle, the firft in which our hero Donald Macleod was engaged, he Had ii;8 full fhare: for, according to the beft informed hiftorians of thofe times*, • See Cunningham's Hiftory of Orcat-Britala, vol 1. p. 379% CUMJliMham WaS ttiTelliOK ^.... B ' . [ 10 ], ' r:- V *' The Earl of Orkney's and Lieutenant-general Ingoldfty's regiments, Mi-jor*- ** general Wood's fquadron, and the Lord John Hay's dragoons, piirchafedini- *• mortal glory in the victory of this day, with the lofs of many of their men.'* The battle of Doriawert, otherwife called the battle of Schellenberg, was ft>l- lowed, in Auguft, 1704, by the celebrated aftion at Blenheim, in which, alio, the Royal Scots were engaged. After the battle bad gone fore againft the French, ■with their allies the Bavarians, and the Marefchal de Tallard was taken j)ri- foncr, a ftrong detachment of the former dill maintained their poft in the vil- lage of Blenheim. The Duke of Marlborongh fent a meflage to the conm);in- ders, advifmg them, from motives ot humanity, voluntarily to furrender them- I fclves and their Toldieri. The general officer made choice of for carrying this mciTagc was the Earl of Orkney. {Serjeant Macleod continued to do big duty, with great applaufe, in Lord Orkney's regiment, when, his lordfliip was fent by the Duke of Marlborough, in his fourth campaign, to raifc the fiege of Liege ; at the battle of Ramillics or Mrlplaquet ; and all the time that his regiment ferved in the Duke of Marlbo- rough's campaigns in Germany and Flanders. Yet, in all this quick iuccetlion of battles and ficgc§, he had the good fortune to efcape without a wound, h*; . During the ceflation of arms that preceded the peace of Utrecht, I7r3, he •was- engaged in leveral private encounters. As he one day walked along the ramparts o( the town in which his regiment lay, a French non-commiflioned ofScei, who happened to pafs along underneath, ufed feme taunting expref- Ijons, which provo,;ed Macleod to retaliate, in a torrent of contempt poured forth in different languages, French, German, and Erfe, as each moft readily prcfented an emphatic term of abufe. The Frenchman being ahnoft as hot as the Highlander, a challenge was mutually given, and recti ved. At the time and, place appointed a duel was fought, withfwords, in which the Frenchman fell, giving his antagonift his gold wateh, and confefling, with his laft breath, t|iativvhat had happened was owing to his own wantonnefs. — After the peace was concludtd, and the army was preparing to re-embark for Great-Britain, parties were lent out in feaich of dcferters. Serjeant Macleod was fent with a party to thetown of Breda. Whether there was any thing in the air and man- ner of the Serieant, that was coiilirncd by the French, whom he met with near that place, into Ihidied infoknce, or no, is not here affirmed : but certain it isy that a French officer came up to him, and f^id, " I enliftcd tne two men " whom you want, and (fweaiing by a great oath) I will keep them." A warm altercation cp.fued. Macleod challenged him to fingle combat. The French lieutenant obt; ined leave from hisfupcrior otiicer to fight with Macleod, though ojily a ferjeant. The Frenchman fell in the duel ; and the two men in quef- tion were given up by the fuperior officer on Macleod'i paying the enhfting moiiey, which amounted to fifteen ducats. — On another occafion, and in ano- ther town, to the beft of his remembrance L■ll;^ as. he waS walking with two ladicj) Oil the rampart, a German trooper, looking fttrnly at our hero, faid, in German, *' The Devil take the whole of fuch dogl." "What is that yon fay f" —The German repeated it — Macleod immediately drew his fu.ird— the trooper ran off : but aGeiman officer, who had come up to take his part, ficed Mai.- leod, and a fliarp confli<5t enlued. The officer had more couraj^e and ftrength, than ikill» at the broad-Uvord, and it would have been an eafy tuing for Mac- leod to have cuthjm him on;j but he had no qiu-rel with the gei.tloman who had <;eueroufly come up to the alfiftauce of his countryiwm when his life was threa- tened. He, therefore, fi/uling tjwt he was fully malUr of his man, determined to procee I bv degrees. He firft cut off a part of the calf of his large and thick leg. Ths Capiain fti^l pprjevered in the combat-— the Serjeant wounded him iiiiartly ii^ the fword-arm. , He gave up tliecontcft on this, and,iaid, " It is. enough." The office^* waa offilied to hisquaitersj and, u'oundedas he was, he infiiied on Macleod 's ac- co:npanying him home, and diinking with him ; which they did ^-ery plenH- ftlil). Tiiey boiJi cried, and kiffcdat parting—Such is the nature of man, I V fHvkieJ by felfifli and focial paffians, according to various Htuatlons ! Duelling, in th ifc days, was more frequent in tlie army than now, but lels common among all r;\nks in civil life. Lorci Orkney's regiment, on the peace, was fent to Ireland, in order to keep the cou itry quiet, ar»;| to quell fome rioti and inl'urreftious. By this time Ser- jeanr Macleod's name wits highly dillinguiflied as a brave and ex|;)ert Iwordsman. An Iriih bu'ly, called MicJean, while the Roy,\l Scots lay in the barracks of Dab!t:i, cin-' to challenge hiin to fight with Iword an 1 target. He was pre- (Vufcd, by a Lieutenant Maclean, his name's-fake, a Scotchman, to Captain Mac'lonaid. to whole company our hero, now in the very prime of life, his j6tli year, bjloiij)t;d, a^i has been already mentioned. Lieutenant Maclean hoped that Captain M icil )naKl would not be offended if his name's-fake, the fwordfman, (h'.)uld chailtng'; Serjeant Maclcnd to tlie broad-fword. The Captain gave his hearty concurrence, iov he had the moft perfei^ confidence in the agility, ex- perience and addiels of the Scrjeuit. The Bully went, incompan) with Lieu- tenant Maclean, to Donald Macleod. *' I hear," laid he, " that you are a *• good fwordhnan. Will you fight me for five guineas r" " Aa you area *' Mtclean," Donald replied, " it fijall not coft you fo much; I will, for the *' Lieutenant's fake, fight you for one guinea.** They now fliook hands, in tokenofmuLual good- will': but Maclean gave fuch a fqueeze to Macleod*s fingers as made him roar, to the great diverlion of Lieutenant Maclean and the Bully ; who paid dear for this joke before they parted. Maclean had great mu(- cular ftrength, and was, befides, of gigantic ftature. His hand, by frequent ufo, iiad acquired fuch a power bf fqueezing, ihat it might be compared to a fraith's vice ! He now, before they fliould proceed to the fword, would lay a wager, he faid, that there was not a man in the company, nor in Dublin, that could tun. his wrift an inch, one way or the other, from the pofition in which he fliould i place it. There was a bet laid of two guineas. The Bully laid his right arm flat on the table : but Donald, by a fudden jtrk, turned his wrift, and gained the w;»ger. The champiohs now fell to fwords, and Macleod cut off Maclean's right arm. - . The Scots Royals had not been more than a year in Ireland, when they were called over to Scotland, by the Earl of Marr's rebellion, in 1715- They joined the main army, commanded by the Duke of Argyle, near the town of Stirling. Amr,ng the rebels, under the Ear! of Marr, who lay at Perth, was a Captain Macdonald, a highland robber of Croydart. This man drew near to the Duke of Argyle's camp, with a trumpet from the Earl of Marr, defying the whole army to fingle combat. Lord Marr was willing to infpirit his undifciplined troops by his braggadocio. The Duke of Argyle, who was an excellent Iwordf- mxn himlelf, and kept a band of excellent Iwordfmen always about him, did not defpife and negleft this challenge, as he might have done, but gave permiffion to Serj;'ant Donald Macleod, who was pointed out to his Grace, on this occafion^ as the fitteit antagonift to the rebel champion, to meet him. They met accord- in.ijly, without feconds, unaccompanied, and all alone, at a place appointed, nearly midway between the two armies. Macdonald pullf?d out a large canteen-, fiMed with whifkey ; and, before he L juld begin his attack on our hero, Donald, offered to drink with him. " No, the devil a drop," faid Donald, and calmly ilood on his defence. Macdsnald began ; affailing Macleod with greatfury, bi-t with little ikill. The Serjeant did not think that his life, or^imb, was any ob-. lect : he cut off his purfe, and immediately demanded a parley.—" 1 have cut I' off your purfe/' faid he, " is there any thing more I muft cut off before you " give up ?'* Macdondd acknowledged himfelf inferior in prowefs to our Ser- feant^ and leaving his purfe, in token of his inferiority, went back, with a very bad grace, to Marr*s camp. The Earl of Marr, on the next day, fent ten gui- ,neas to Macleod : his own general, the Duke of Argyle, fent for him and gave him as much. The famous battle of the Sheriffmuir, near Dumblane, had laffed upwardr c ao hour, when a French officer, perceiving that our hero was making great ha C " 3 with his broad fword, vfliettver he wont, had the courage to oppofe him ; but, in a few minutes, his head was, by a touch of Maclcod's hand, fevered from his body. A horfeman, feeing this, fprung forward on Donald like a tyger. A iniall watcr-courlfl wai between them, with the aid of which Donald was able to make a fland. But the horfeman with his long fword wounded him in the flioiilder, and was preffing him lotciy, when he leaped forward, acroli the watcr-oourit, and plunged his fword into the horfe's belly. The animal fell down, and his rider was immediately hewn in pieces by the enraged Serjeant, who, in the art of ftabbing the horfe, had been cut in the head by thehorfcman's fabre, into the very brain. He bound his head tail with a handkerchief, othcrwife, as he fays, he vei:ly believes it would have fallen into pieces. The left wing ot the enemy fled, and left the right wing of the King's army, in which Lora Orkney's regi- ment wasj)ofted, in the field oi battle. Our wounded Seijeant was carried from the Shcriffinuir to Stirling: and from thence, after fomc time, during which he was treated with all due care, he was moved, in a covered waggon, with other i wounded men, under a guard of twenty-five men, commanded by Captain *' Abercrombie to Chelfea hofpital ; where the wound or frafture in his fcull was repaired. A blueneis, or lividity in the ikin, marks the place in the fore- head where the wound was infii(5ted. After he was completely cured, he wm .reclaimed by his Colonel, the Earl of Orkney, now appointed Governor of Edinburgh caflle. Ke again, in confequence of this, joined his regiment which, for many years, lay in Berwick, Newcaftle, and other places on the Scotch and Englifti borders. About the year 1720, or foon after, our hero, as he returned from exercif- ing^fome men on the common near Newcaflle, heard a woman hawking aboivt a paper through the (Greets, which contained intelligence that there was a High- lland regiment to be raifed for the fervice of Government. It appeared that a certain number of independent companies were *o be formed, under different .commanders, for the purpofe of preventing robberies, enforcing the .'aw, and Jceeping the peace of the country ; which, it was undcrftood, they were not to leave, but to fcrve, within its bounds, in the nature and charader of Fenci. •bles. Scrieant Macleod, fond of the highland drefs and mufic, and of the fo ciety of his countrymen, conceived. the defign of quitting an old regiment, and the rank and pay of a Serjeant, in order to enter as a private in one of the new highland companies, headed by Lord Lovat. Me went to Major William Scot, fenior officer in Ncwca^le, and told him, that l>c had come to aft a favour. — ** You dcferve any favour, Macleod," faid the good old Major, "that lean' ;«* grant: but I ^rft dcfire the favour of you to take a drar.;." This requcfl be- -ing readily complied with by tbe Serjeant, he told the Major, that he wiflied to have his difcharge from, the regiment. The Major wasaftonifhed at hisrequeft; anti this the more, that he was in favour with Lord Orkney and all bis officers, and that it -was generally undenftood that he would be one day raifed to the rank of a commiffioned officer. His ^cqueft, however, was granted, on his paying fifteen guineas to the Major : which, it was ui\^erftood, was to be expended, on finding a perfon properly (|ualificd to aft as a ferjeant ; for education to read and write, and cafl up accounts, was by no nveant fo common in thofe days as at prefent. Away, then, Donald, having obtained his difcharge, fet out for Edinburgh, and went ftraigiif to the Earl of Orkney. "How now, Macleod f How do ye do> * Is all the regiment well r"— " Yes, pleale your Lordftip, but I have left the reg'mcnt :" ftiewing, at the fame time, bis difcharge. ** Who dares," laid i^rd Orkney, with an oath, " to give a difcharge to any man in my regiment, "without confuliing me /'* Macleod related his tranfaftion with old Major Scot. Lord Okney was p&cified, being a very good-natured, though hafty man, and cailed upon Simon Black, his fcrvant, to know how much pay wm owing to Serjeant Macleod. Simon, having confulted his bookt, reported that £ol. was due. "D-^nmyb .,'MaidLor nie. Ruthven of Badenoch, Avemore in Strathfpey, and, perhaps, one or two other places. It is to be underftood, that what is here called a dram of whif- key was jufl half a pint : which, it maybe faither mentioned, he took purean^ • unmixed. He never went to bed during the whole journey ; though he flept, once or twice, for an hour or two together, in the open air, on the road fide. By the time he arrived at Lord Lovat's park the fun had rifen upwards of an hour, and ihone pleafantly, according to the remark of our hero, well pleafe4 to find himfelf in this fpot, on the walls of Caflle Downie, and thofe of the an- cient Abbey of Beaulien in the near neighbourhood. Between the hours of Ave and fix Lord Lovat appeared, walking about in his hall, in a morning drefs ; and at the fame time a fervant Hung open the great folding doors, and all the cuter doors and windows of the houfe. It is .about this time that many of the great families in London, of the prefent day, go to bed. As Macleod walked up and down on the lawn before the houfe, he was foom obfcrved by Lord Lovat, who immediately went out, and, bowing to the Ser- jeant with great courtefy, invited him to come in. Lovat was a fine looking taft man, and had fomethingvery infinuating in his manners and addrcfs. He lived in all the fulnefs and dignity of the ancient hofpitality, being more foUcitout« -according to the genius of feudal times, to retain and multiply adherents tha« to accumulate wealth by the improvei^ient of his eflate. As fcarcely any for- tune, and cestainly not his fortune, was adequate to the extent of his views, he was obliged to regulate his unbounded hofpitality by rules of prudent oecono- my. As his fpacious hall was croudcd by kindred vifltors, neighbours, vaflal«. and tenants of all ranks, the taole, that extended from one end of it nearly tm the other, was cov^«d, at different places, with different kinds of meat and drink ; though of each kind there was always great abundance. At the head of the table, the lords and lairds pledged his lordfliip in claret, and iometimei chanqjagns ; the tackfrnen* or duniwaffals, drank port or whilkey punch ; ten- ints, or common huflMindnien, refrelhed themfelves with flrong beer .• and be- low the utmoft extent of the uble, at the door, and f^metimes without the door ofthe hall, you might fee a multitude of Frazers, without flioes or bonnets, re- galing thcmfelves with bread and onions, with a little chepfe perhaps, and fmall beer. Yet, amidft the whole of this ariflocratical inequality, Lord Lovit bad the addrcfs to keep all his guefts in perfeaiy good humour. Coufin, hs would fay to luch and fuch a tackfmao, or duniwa&l, I told my pantry lads to hand you fome claret, but they tell me ye like port and punch befk. In like manner, to the beer-drii^ers, he would fay, Gentlemen, there is what ye pleafe at your fervice J but I fend you alp, bccaufc I underfl^nd ye like ale beft. Everybody i^'. II 11 Is Cm] Was thus well plcafed ; and none were fo ill-bred as to gk'u\liy what had htcn reported to his lordfliip. Donald Macleod made his compllmenfs to Lovat in a militTry air and man- ner, which confirmed and heightened that prepolfelTion in his ftvotir, which ht* had conceived from his appearance. '* I know," fail he, " rvirhoiit your tel- ** ling me, that you hive come to enlifl: in the Highland W^irch. For a rhou- ** fandiuch men as you I would give myeftate." Mnleod acknowledged the jnftice of his lordrtiip's prcfentimcnt ; and, at his requefl:, lirielly related his pe- di(»reeand hiltory. Lovat ciafped him in his arms, and killed him ; and, hold- ing him by the hind, led him into an adjoining bed-chaniher, in which Lady Lov.u, a claijjlitcr of the family of Macleod, lay. Ht faid to his Lady, " M\r " d-iar, here is a gentleman of your own name and bloo I, wiio has given up ;. ^* commillion in Lord Orkney's regiment, in order to I'ervc under me." Lady Lovat railed Iierleif in her bed, congratulated his lordfliip on 1o valuable an ac- qniiition, called for a bottle of brandy, and drank profpcrity to Lord Lovat, th« Highland Watch, and Donald M.icleod. It is fupe.flnons to lay, that in this toaft, the lady was pledired by the gentlemen. Such were the culloms and TiTUiners of the highlands ot Scotland in thofe times, va* •■^*.»v'y>-i iJy t!ie time they returned to the hall, they found tlie laird of Clanronald ; who, havinLi; heard Macleod'; hiftory, iaid, " Lov:.!:, it you do not take care *♦ of this man, you ought to be d d." His lordfliiib immediately bellowed on him the fame rank, with fomewhat more pay, than he had received in the Royal Sco's ; and, after a few days, font h'm on the bufmefs of recruiting. Macleod, from tl>e time that he went to the fliires of Invernefs and Rofs, to re- cruit for Lord 0.kney,pa'red under th:; name of the man that was loft and found. ** The time that h? ferved in the H g'lKind, now called the J^.zd regiment, fo loig as it was ftationed in the mountams of Scotland, a period of about twenty years, was fi'Ud up in a manner very agreeable to the tafte of our hero : in train- ing up new foldiers (t-)r he was no.v employed in the lucrative department of A fJriil ffrjeant) ; in th« ufe or the broad-iword, hunting after incorrigible rob- bers, fliooting, hawking, fiHiing, drinking, dancing, and toying, as heroiss of all tim?5 and countries are apt to do, with tiie young women. As fpecimensof the life he led, in thofe days, the foliowiiijr nre f'r'lcv'-ired from nnmberlefsfcenes in winch he was engag-nl of the fam? kitid. fam^s Riy Stewart, a gentleman, ^^':\ a drivt-r, or rather a llealer of catile, in Strathfpey, had long laid thecoun- rrv, far an I near, under h^'ivy contribiition^ of both horle and cattle ; and de- ft -d, w >unt!e !, and dilptMie.l the otti,:ers of juftice : when Serjeant Macleod, tvith a partv o!' -^^o men, was fant to fnrprize, if polTible, and to fecure him in his honfe, at 'riilloch-Gorum. Tlie lerjeant came upon him luddenly, and carlv in th? morning, while he was in bed. He left the men without, difpoled «t fnnll dillmccs from each other, around the honfe. He himfelf went boldly in, arined with a dirk, a fword. and loaded piftols. His wife, a very lady-like woman, was up and drefTed, early as it was; for it was cu(tomary for fome trulW perfon to keep watch, while the *m/ robber ftept. At the fight of Mac- loi Mrs. Stewart was greatly difcompofed, for (he fuipeobbt.r, diflembling his intentions, alTumed a courteous air, called for whif- key and bre' ; fit down, and let you *• and I talk together, and take our breakfall." Macleod agreed to this, and a bottle of whilkty, at ieaft, was exhaufted in good fellow fliip, before a word was laid of bufinels on either fide. At length, Macleod, after a fliort paufe in the convcifatioi\, faid, " Jamie, what did you with the thirtv head of cattle you *' drove away Jrom the Laird of Glen Bidet's, and the fix k ore, or thereabout,, *' that you took away fiom the lands of Strathdown ?" It wai» in vain to deny the fa<^; Macleodhud not come io try, but tofccurc, and produce him for trial. Siewart, therefore, waving all difcuflion of that point, faid, ''Serjeant Macleod, let me go for this time, and neither you nor the country will be troubled with me anv more." *' Jamie, 1 cannot let yon go ; yon have flaflied many men, and ftolen much horfe and cattle. How many flraths are afraid of youj? ^an\\e^ you nuift. go with me." — " Serjeant Macleod, let me go for this time, and I will give you a hundred guineas." " It was not fcr guineas, Jamie, that I came hce this day ; rather than be drawn off" from the duty of •' a foldierfora few guineas, 1 would go with you and fleal cattle." James Roy was now in great diftrels,and his poor wife, falling on the ground before Macleod, and embracing and holding faft his knees, implored mercy to her hulband with Ihowers of tears and loud lamentations. The noble-minded Serjeant, moved with compailion, took the Lady by the hand, and comforted , her with thefe words : " My dear, I will, for your fake, and the fake of tliefe *' innocent babes, let James Roy go, for this lime, on condition that he will ** deliver all the cattle that I have mentioned, to be given up to their right ** owners." This coudition was eagerly accepted, and Stewart, in the flow of gratitude and joy, would have given Macleod whatever fliare or portion of the hundred guineas he had offered as his ranfom, that he pleafed to accept : but the Serjeant generoufly declined to accept one fingle fliilling; and all that he required was refrefliment for his thirty men, which was afforded in great plenty, A great part of the day was fpent in conviviality, and, in the evening, they were directed to the cattle, which they reftorcd to their proprietors. Very different from the conduft of our Donald, towards the notorious James- .Stewart Roy, was that of Serjeant Macdonald, not many years thereafter. It was known that two oxen, which were miffing, had been taken by Stewart ; and Serjeant Macdonald athisefcape, by giving up ail that he had in the world, which amounted 102451. This fum he kept in a flrong cheft in his own houfe : for, in thofe days, the Highlandeia were unacquainted with Bills of Exchange, and there was no paper currency. Yet Macdonald, to whom James Roy weakly imagined he might now truft his fafety, in order, it was fuppofed, to conceal or difcredit any report of his robbing the robber, had the treachery, a few weeks after, to draw the unfortunate Stewart into an ambufcadc, under the guile of fricndfliip, and iurrender him to juflice. Stewart was hanged, together with one Macallum, at Perth. The fame ardour of mind that diftinguilhed Jame^ Roy among all the cattle-drivers of his times appeared on his trial ; anddur- ioki the interval between his jentence and its execution. His only hope had been, that he might, by cunning or by force, efcape the hands of conflables and foU diers. It never occurred to him to place auj confidence in deficiency of evi- dence, or any chicanery of law. He made a free and full confeffion of the life that he had led, and was anxious to vindicate the character of bis poor wife and » hildren, from all fufpicion of participation in his crimes. He declared that his wife had often forwarned him pf the er.d to which his cogrfe led, and con- jured himi with tear>, to live at home, and be contented with the returns of his own farm. He had many accomplices among his neighbours and kindred ; but i>o delufive hints of a reprieve, not even the exhortation^ of the fanatical mini, fters about Perti^, renowned in all times for blind zeal and abfurdity, could per- fiuide him to give up oa« man, that had comrait^ed himfelf to his her. our. 1 i I.I; l^^gtrly acquicfcinginthc Antinornian doftrine of the Perth clergy, tndotKtrji* who fifttcd him from the country around, even from the noted Prclbytery of Airclitefarder, that the mon who confefl'es his fins maj be faved by faith, h« worked himfeif up, by meditating on fcriptural promilcs, to fuch a pitch of fcn* «hu(iafm,that he believed himfeif to bequite fureof going immediately to heaven. In contraft with the animatfid, and, in fonie refp< 6ls, noble conduft of Jamci Roy Stewart, appeared the brutal ftupidity ot Macallum. This wretch had for many years retired with hh fethcr from all human fotiety, and lived in caves and dens, in the recefles of the Minege? mountains ; into which habitations he brought, like the Cyclops in Homer, fhcep, goats, and even atn. The party that difcovered" Macallum, found, in his den, a deep cavern in a mountain, the bones of the animals he had niacfc his prey, piled up in heaps, or dilpofed in fiich a manner as to fbrm, with hay laid over them, a kind of bed ; the flefti of bullocks faked up in their Ikins ; and large quantities of fire- wood for firnig. Iia the interior part of the cavern lay the father of Macallum in his plaid, refting his head' on a trufs of hay, and groaning in the agonies of death. This mifcr- able obje*^ they did not difturb, but left him to his fate. Young Macallum, in the form a» well as the nature of a favagc, for hif hair and beard had extended themfelves over his face fo as to render it fcarcely vifibic, was conduced to Perth, where hewascondemfied to die, forafcries of thefts committed for more than twenty years. During the time of his trial, as well as after it, he fliewcd an aftomftving indifference about bis fate. He minded nothing but eating ; and had a very conilant craving for food, particularly animal food, which, had it been given^ he would have devoured in immoderate c^uantities. When the xniniilers pearancc of a ferjeant of the Black M^atch. He, therefore^ endeavoured to cajole him as much as poflible into gpod humour, in order t* protra^b time, and devife fome means of etcape. This horfe-ftcater had four handfomc daughters, with one of whom Donald fell greatly in loi^. " Jamie," faid he, to her father, " I believe I muft have *^ one of your laflfes to-night.*' *• Yes, my dear,** faid James, you are welcome ** to make yowlelf agreeable to any of my girls that you chufe. Make up mat- " ters^ between yourfclves, and yt>ur courtltig^ flnlll not be difturbed by Jamie « Robertfon." After a g.eat deal of amorous dalliance, our hero, without any further cerc»ioney, /erired with his i^r^r/, and (he became his wife. ^ In Icfe than an ijour, when DOnaM had fbrgolten every thing but the objeCl oi his love, behold three fine young fellows in the houfe, with rally fwofds, i-amping and raging like lion** One of them particularly, a very ftout man, of tl>e name of Melduam, the lorer of her whom Macleod had fancied, made a great iioife, asd TQwed' Ttnjgeimc&, The men who had accompanied the fct* % C »7 3 jeant, a» he determined ro pafs the mght in R )bertion*s, he had difmilTed to a neighbouring village till next morning. There was nobody near to help him. But up jumped our hero from the fragrant heat'icr-bed, gralped his fword, and laid about hiir. i'o luftily, that the four luiters, who had been ilily fent for by old Robertfoii, not unnaturally, were glad to confult their (afety by flight. Robcrt- fon endeavoured to make Matlrod believe that the young men had come to his houfe by accident ; but the fcrjeant fufpedting the truth, told him that he was a traitor, and fwore that he would call liis men, and, binding him faft, furrcn- dered him to the orticers of juftice. But the fweet girl, whole charms had cap- tivated our hero's heart, threw her arms around his neck, and with many kifleg and tears implored lenity to her father. On thisoccafion Serjeant Macleod a6led a very different part from that of Colonel Kirke*. Though he n ght have veiled fever ity to tne father of the young woman, whom he had gained in fo fliort a time, under the name of juftice, and natural retaliation for intended alFafllnation^ he agreed to connive at Robertfon's efcape, on condition of his giving back the horfes to thofe from whom he had ftolcn them. — As the Britifh laws, made fi nee the Union, had not yet free courfc in the Highlands, and depended, for their execution, on military aid, a great difcretionary power, in all cafes of this kind, was alTumed and exercifed by military officers of all ranks. If it fhould be thought in any degree incredible, that the horfe-ftealer, Robertfon, would fo readily confent to the requeft of Macleod refpe£ting his daughter, let it be recoUeded that the Highlanders of the lower ranks, agreeably to what is affirmed by the excellent hiftorian Cunningham, make no great ac- count of the podeifion of virginity ; and that, in general, the northern nations are lefsfcrupulous on the fubjeAor chaftity than thofe of warmer climates. Some of the northern nations of Afia carry their politenefs fo faras to offer their guefb their wives and daughters ; to refute whom would be reckoned an infult. Donald Macleod has nothing with which to upbraid himfelf on the Icore of Eliza Robertfon. He chcrifhed her as every good and tender hufband ought to cherifh his wife, till the hour of her death, which happened in child-bed: The boy of whom flie was delivered is now a taylor, of the name of Robertfon, in Edinburgh. * Towards the clofe of the year 1739, the independent companies of Highland Watch were encreafed fay four additional companies, and the whole formed into a regiment, being the 42d, under the command of their firft colonel John Earl of Crawfurd. About a year thereafter they were marched to London ; and pre- vioufly to their going abroad, were reviewed before the King in St. James's Park. What happened on that occa/ion falls within the memory of many perfans now living, and will be long remembered as an inftance of that indignant fpirit, which juftice and broken faith inlpire on the one hand, and of that gradual encroach- ment which executive and military power arc prone to make en civil liberty on the other. Many Gentlemen's fons, and near relations, had entered, as private men, in the Highland Watch, under the engagement that they fliould never be called out of their own country. That promife, made long before, in times of peace, was forgotten amidft the prefent exigencies of unluccefsful war ; and It was determined to fend the Highland companies as a reinforcement to the army in Germany under the Duke of Cumberland. A fpirit of refiftance and revolt, proceeding from Corporal Macleane, pervaded the whole regiment. The whole of the Guards, and all the troops ftationed about London, were fent for • Amidft the executions that followed the defeat of Monmouth, in 1685, a young maid pleaded for tl.c life of her brother, and flung herfclf at Kirke's feet, armed with all the charms ^^l^^ch^ezvty and innocence, bathed in tears, fould beflow upon her. The tyrant was enflamcd T rt,^ ^^* "°' ^**'^'^*"<'^ '"*o lov^ or clemency. He promifcd to grant her req«tff, provided that Ihe, in her tuin, would be equally compliant to him The maid yielded to the conditions :' but, after (he had pafled the night with him, the wanton lavage, next morninc, fhewed her tromthe wmdowher brother, the darling objcft for whom (he had facnficed her virtue, hanging on a gibbet, which he had fecretlv ordered there to be ercacd for the execution. Rage, dclp.»ir, and mdijjiiation, took poflcfllw pf bsr mind, and deprived her, for ever, of her fenfcs. c ;• . ii [ «8 ] to furround the Highl.T den, quell what was now called n mutiny, «nd re lure them to obedience. A great deal of blooil was flicd, and lives' loll, on both fides. The long iwords of thehorfe-gnards were oppofed to the bioad-fwoida of the Highlanders in front, while one military corpsafter auothcr wau advanc- ing on their flanks and rear. let, in thcfe clrcumftances, a confiderahle pruty of them forced th'.ir «'ny through the Kind's ttoops, and made good their leti' at northwards, in their way home, as far as Yorkfliire, where, being overtakt-n by a botly of horlcmcn, they took port in a wood, and capitulated on fafe and honourable terms. But, in violation of the engagements come under, on that occafion, to the Highland- ers, three of them, among whom was the hi;rh-fpirited Corporal Maclean, the theprime mover of the Itcellion, were fliot ; the reft fent to the jilantaiions. Though Serjeant Madeod was not of the number of the fecedcrs, he wa» in- dignant at the ufage they had met with; and lome of the horfe-guards, bore, lor years, mark:* of his reientment. — But the lefs that is faid on "illis lubjeft the better. The HighlantI companies, or the 42d regiment, were now lent over to thr Low Countries, and to t. many, where they were engaged in dlttVrent bat- tles, and particularly that of I'ontKnoy, in which Serjeant Macleod was not a little diftinguiflied. On the day before the main engagement there was fimie fkirmiflilng ; and the 4ad regiment was fent to ftorm a fix-gun battery. Led on by their Lieutenant-Colonel, Sir P.obert Munro, they attacked the enemy in theif entrenchments, and lilenced the battery ; but at a very great expence of men. Tliey fufFered much from the French fire, as they advanced to theii works ; but when the Highlanders threw themfelvesin the midft of them, flafli- ing terror anddeatli with their broad- fwords,they were feized with terror, aban- doned their works, and fled in great confufion. Macleod, ai they approached to the French lines received a mufket ball in his leg, yet he did not dropdown, jior yet fall behind, but was among the hrft that eniered the trenches : nor did he make this wound anexcufe for retiring to the hofpital ; but, on the contrary, he made as light of it as polfible, and was in the heat of the engagement the next da) , in which, fo great was the carnage, that on cither fide there fell, as is computed, about twelve thouf^nd. The Higldanders, with an impetuofity thi^ could not be reftrained, or guided by difcipline, rulhed forward, out of the line, and loft more tiian two-thirds of their number ; but not till they had com- mitteil ftill greater flaughter, and revenged their fulfv.rings and lofs on the ene- my. The battle, where the 4cid regUnent was ftationed, was clofe and hot, and individual was oppofcd to individual ; or one, foinetimes, to two, and even a greater number of antagonif^s. Serjeant Macleod, with his own hand, killed 8 French Colonel, of tlie name of Moritrrd ; and, in the midft of dangers and death, very deliberately fervcd himlelf eir to 175 ducats which he had i*i his pockets, and his go'd watch. He had not well gone through this ci^remony, when he was attacked by Captnin James Ramievie, from Kilkenny, an officer in the French fervice, whom he killed after an obfiinate and WWkd contcft. By this time the prowefs ©f our hero drew more and more attention, and he wai> Jet upon by three or four Frenchmen at the fam.' time ; and, in all probability he muft have yielded to their ferocity and nnmbers, had not a gentleman of the naiae of Cameron, ih>U;rh of a humble ftatio;) orj'y in the French fervice, comes to his aid. This gentleman came feafonably to his relief, and he came over w'ith the Serjeant, whom he ha.i faved, to the fide of the Englifh. His Scotch blood, he faid, warmed to his countryman in fuch a fituation, and he invnediately took his part. -The rebellion, which broke out in Scotland in 174.5, called over the Duke of Cumberland, with hia armv, to Britain. But, alter what had happened on the occafion above mentioned,' in St. James's Park, it was not fudged proper to march the 4ad regiment, which had been re-inforced, after thebattle of Fonte- noy, by a number of recruits, into Scotland. When the Duke marched north- wards, 'the Royal Highlanders were, therefore, left at Barnet ; fronn whence they ivcut to Coventry, where they lay a fortrtighl. From Coventry they \' t)'Don preflior teraroachccl pdown, nor did j ontrary, nent the ell, as is fity that It of the ad com- the ene- lot, and d even a , killed gers and id iti his remony, n officer nteft. By \ he was ihability crnan of Service, he caiTic Ih. His and he he Duke . pencd oil proper to )f Fonte- ed nofth- n whence ntry thcv [ '9 ] mnrchcd into VVales ; from whence, after the rebellion was extinguiftied, they went ro Cariifle, r4nd from thence to Ireland. They landed at Limerick in 1746, and marched from thence to Dublin. They were ftatio.icd, at different places in Ii eland, for more than ten years ; during which time they had frequent en- counters wiih the Whiteboys, and Hearts or Steel, and other infurgents; to all of whom tlif Highland impctuofity and broad-fwords were objedts of great ter- ror. Ser;cant M*ack'od continued to be formidable to Iriflj bullies and braggars, und pcrforioed various exploits that fully fupported the charaAcr he had ac- cpijrcd of being an excellent fwordlinan. About the year 1757, after the j^n\ regiment was ordered to America, Seije- ant Macleod was lent over, on bv.finefs of recruiting, to Glafgow. At Bclfaft, where he halted with ihepiirty he commanded for a fewdays, he had an adven- ture, in the lighting way, with one Maclean a taylor, and a native of Invernels, This man, having I'eard of the prowcfs of Donald, and paiticularly hew he had, a great many years ago, maimed a Maclran, came to a refolutiDU, one day, when he was in his cups, ol doing nothing lei's than challenging the Serjeant to fingle combat \/ith broaj-fwords. Macleod, perceiving that the man was fluftered, and imwilling to take an unfair advantage, advii'edhim to re-confider the mat- ter ; telling him, that if h ^ fliould perfevere in his determination of fighting, he would meet him on the following day. But the more that the Scarjeant waspa- cificially inclined, the more obilreperous and infolcnt was the taylor; lo that an encounter at lafl became inevitable. They went with their f'e^onds, to a -field behind the garden, in the out-lkirts of the town, and fet to work immedi- ately. The taylor, who was a well-made and a very nimble fellow, attacked his opponent s« ith great alacrity, and not without a coniideratle degree of art; but he loon txhaufted his I'pirirs and ftrength, and was entirely at the mercy of the veteran, v/hom he had raflily dared to provoke to an engagement. Donald firft cut ctf one of his ears, and then another ; yet the taylor, with a foolifhob- flinacy, ftill maintained the confli<5>, and fwore that he would rather die on the fpot, than yield to any Macleod in the Britifli Ifles ; fo that the Serjeant, infelf- defiince, would have been obliged, as he cxprcfTed it, to lay open the Taylor'* shdly, if he had not fortunately brought him to the ground, by cutting a finevv of his hoiigh. Soon after the Highland regiments arrived in America, Macleod was drafted from the 4ad into the 78th regiment, commanded by General Fraler, to fill the honourable and advantageous ltat!on of a drill-ferjeant. In the coiirle of the war in Canada, in 1758 and 1759, Macleod became perfonally knows to General Wolfe, the poor man's friend, and the determined patron of merit in whatever ftation he found it. The General, finding that our Serjeant, to courage, ho- nour, and experience, added a tolerable knowledge of both the French and Ger- man languages, employed him on fundry occahons that required both addrefs and refolution. He acquitted himfelf always to the General's latisfadtion ; which he expreffed in handfocne prefents, and in the moft fincere and cordial alTuran- v,ces of preferment. At the fiege of Louilbourg, with a handful of men, hefur- prifed a fmall party of French, ftationed as an out-poft, and cut them off with- out leaving a man to tell tidings. This aftion, which was volunteered by the Serjeant, facilitated the reduftion of a poll called the Light-Houfe Battery, from whence our fire was played with effect on the enemy's vefTels, and the batteries on the other fide of the river. A few days after the fiege of Louilbot^'rg was be- gun, a party of the befieged had the courage to make a fally on the alTailanrs. They were led on with great firmnefs and intrepidity by Lieutenant Colonel D'Donnd, an Irilhman in the Frer\ch fervice. This'bold fortie made an im- piefTion that might have led to difaflrous confequences, if it had not been coun- teraaed and overcome by the fpirit of the Royal Highlanders, a part of whom faced the Irifh Brigade that had .nadethe fortie, while the reft threw themfelves between them and the town, and cut oft their retreat. O'Donnel, fightinsr va- liantly, was (lain, but did not fall till his body was pierced through with feve- ral bayonets, His men were all killed or taken prileners, and brought within 'I ■I 1: ' .. . . [ *o ] t)ic Britlfti linep, In tins engagement Serjeant Maclcod rectlvcd a violent con- tufion, by a mulket-ball, on the bone ot his nolc, which was more painlv:!, and is even now more fenfibly fell than other woiiiuli, where balli have pierced him through and through. At tlic ijlorioiu battle of Quebec, Seneant M.icleod, amongft the forcmoft of the grenadiers and Highlanders, who drove the (hiikiiig line ot the enemy from pofl to poft, and complerittd their defeat, had his fliin-bone fliattfied by ^^rapc fclliot, while a niufkct ball went ihnnigh his arm. Me was aflifled lo retire be. hind the Britifli line; .mhI, in doing ihis, was intormtd oi tiu multiplied wounds that threatened the immediate ditlcdution of hi:; admired aiui beh)Vtd (Tcncral. It was, under this weight of artual fuffcriiig, and fyrnpathelic foirow, fotie con- folation to the good old Serjeant, (for by this time he wm feventy years ot age,) ^ that the tender which he made ot his plaid, for thepurpofc otcarrying thedying General to fome convenient place oft the field of a(5tion, was acepted. In Ser- . jeant Maelcod's plaid was General Wolfe borne by four grenadiers; and with general Wolff's corpfe, being now an invalid, he was fent home to Britain, in November, 17 1^9, m a frigate of war, named the Royal William. Minute guns were fired from the fljips at Spithead, from the time of the body's leaving the fliip, to that of its being landed at fhe Point of Portfmouth. Allmie honour . being paid to the rt-mains of General Wolfe, by the garrifon here, the body was put in a travelling hcarfe, and carried to London. Although there were many thoufands of people allcmbled on this occafion, there was not the leaft diftur- bance. Nothing was to be heard but murmuring and broken acLenls, in praifc ,; of the departed hero. On the 20th of November, at nij;ht, his body was de- pofifed in the burying-pbce of his anceftors at Greenwich. A monument was , afterwards erected to his memory in Weftminflcr Abbey. Donald Macleod was ndmittcd, on the the 4th of December thereafter, an put-penfioner of Chelfea Hofpital. This was all that was done for out hero, though his own merit, and the very occafion and circumflances in which here- turned fromAmerica, might well have drawn morecountenance and protection. His wounds, however, loon healed, and he- was enabled, by a perfect recovery of his (Irength, to go a recruiting to the Highlands, for Colonel Keith and Co- lonel Campbell, who raifed fome companies of Highlanders for the war inGer' many. It was in that recruiting excurfion that he married, at Invernefs, Mrs. Jane Macvane, his prefent wife, who accompanied him to the Continent, where, \ with the rank and emolumenti of a pay-maftcr Serjeant, he ferved as a Volun- ''. teer under Coloiiel Campl>t'll, until there was a celfation of arms. In thecourfe pf different engagements, in iy6o and 1761, he received a muflict fliot which • went in an oblique manner between two jf his ribs and his right flioulder. This wound, in cold and frofty weather, and after violent exercile, fuch as walking agiinfl tiuiC for wagers, ftill gives him a good deal of pain. He received alio, in the fame compaigns, a mufket ball in the grein, which could not be extracted, and on account of which he fiill woars a bandage. After the peace he came home with Colonel Campbell's Highlanders, and received pay for two or three years from Chclfca Hoipital. He went now to Scotland, and ftaid about two ^ )ipi } ears and an half at Invernefs, working at his own trade. The conftantufe of the n)cli, however,' was more than he was able to bear, and threatened to re- open l^meof Ivs wound?; he, therefore, came again to England, laid out what money he h.it! faved m the iiurchafe of a fmall houle in Chelfea, in which he lived for about ten ye^rs with his "amily, which was every year increafing, and was employed under Mr. Tibbs, in an extenfive manufa(fture of white lead ; ' bur, on t'le commeiccir.cnr of the late w'=ir in America, leaving his wife and childien, \v\lh the houfe and what little money he had, he went out in a tranf- poit called the Diichefs of Hamilton, to New -York, and from thence to Charlef- lo'vn, wliere he offered himfeif as a volunteer, to the Commander of the Britifli fores in th t <^uart'r. Sir Henry Clinton, whom he had known in Germany. Sir ri''i:ry, flruck with the fpirit of the old man, let him remain with the army, iindcr ihfe name whlcii he himfeif chofc of a drill-fcijcr-int, and very humanely / 'nt con- hilf nnd pit reed moft of ny from tire l)c. woimds iit-ra]. It lie coii- ot age,) jedying 111 Ser- jid with Dritain, Minute i leaving r honour )ody was ;rc many ft diftur- in praifc was de- nent wus after, an )ut hero, ch herc- oteilion, recovery and Co- r inGcf' rfs, Mrs. It, where, I Volun- he courfe ,ot which der. This i walking ived alio, •xtradted, he came 3 or three bout two mtufe of led to re- out what which he fing, and lite lead ; wife and n a tranf- ) Charlef- hc Britifh 3ermany. the army, humanely f 2. ] allowed him, out of his own pocket, half a guinea a day. But when the army began to move northward, that hu mi^ht l)« cxeniptcd from the fatigues of war, he lent him home; according to Mr. MacleodSbeft rccolleftion, in the New Gallant frigate, which carried honic difpatches from his Excellency to Government. He came to a refi)lution n<>w, fince he found that he had no farther profpeA of being employed to his mind in the ainiy, of retiring, wiih what little wealth he had, to the Ilighlands, where he might live cheap, and, when he ftiould die, where his bones might reft with thofe ot his kindied and anccltors. He fold his houfe in Chelfea for about two hundred pounds, to which he added feme fmal- ler fums that he had depofited from time to time, in the hands of Mr. Alexaiv dcr Macdonald, a clerk in the King's ollict, Chelfea, and who there kept a Pub- lic Houfc at the fign of the Serjeant and Crown. As his wife was very much afraid of the fea, he left htr, with the little ones, to purfue their journey home to Inverncfs by land, while he himfelf, with the chief part of the money, and feveral large trunks full ot arms, clothes, and other ftwfF, on which he fct a great value, was to make for the fame place by fea. The fliip in which he em- barked was the Margaret and Peggy ot Ai)erdeen ; the Mafter's name Captain Davidfon. Off the coaft of Yorklhire a tempeft arofc, which drove the (hip on the rocks, and-funk her to the bottom. Maclcod alone, ofthepalTengers, faved his life by lafhinghimlclf toa plank when the (hip was finking. He was taken \ip almoft dead, between Whitby and Scarborough, and carried to the houfe of a gentleman, originally from Airfliire, whofe people had come to look after the wreck. By that gentleman, as well as bv his lady, he was treated with the utmoft humanity. He afked him, after he came to his fenUs, if he knew where he was ? Mr. Macleod replied, that all he knew at that moment was, that he was under the roof of fome good people, who had taken compaflion on his mis- fortune ; but that, if it fhould pleafc God to recover him perfeftly, he would be able to tell where he was, when he (liould be taken out into the open air. Mr. Boyd, in the kindeft manner, advifed him to compoie himfelf for reft, and, in the mean time, gave it in charge to his fervants to wait upon the ftranger, and to adminifter all proper refrefliment .ind neceflary a/Tiftance. For three or four days he was kindly detained by Mr. Boyd, who knew many officers known to Mr. Macleod, and who had himfelf a brother, Major Boyd, in the army. As Macleod's clothes were wet and torn by the rocks, he fitted him as well as he Could, with a fuit from his own wardrobe, two fliirts, and a (ilk handkerchief for keeping his neck warm ; and though he had a gold watch in his pocket, ai well as a ring of fome little value on his hand, Mr, Boyd infifted on his accep- tance of two guineas Nor did his generous goodnefs ftop here; be offered his carriage to take the old Serjeant to Durfiam, from whence he might find con- venient means of travelling to Newcaftie and Edinburgh, in both of which places he had feveral acquaintance. That favour, however, Macleod pofi- lively and refolutely declined to accept ; and, after the warmeik acknowledge- ments of gratitude to the honourable family, took his leave. — Still the generous cares of Mr. Boyd purfued him. He fent his chariot after him on the road, with orders to the coachman, to pafs himfelf for the driver of a retour chaife going that way by accident. The coachman did fo, and after walking about a mile or two before Macleod, and converfing with him, offered him *' a lift," which he accepted. He was made acquainted with the generous deception at the inn at Durham. Donald Macleod, after all his toils, fufferings, and gains, found himfelf at laft fet down at Ii /ernefs, not much richer than when he ferved as an appren- tice to the mafons and ftone-cutters ; except, indeed, we account as riches, a very faithful and attached wife, and a phntifal (lock of flourifliing children, jfuper-added, ia his old age, to a pretty numerous off-fpring procreated in his younger years. As his memory is now confiderably impairai, he docs not pre- tend to makeanexa6l enumeration of the whole of his off-fpring; but he knows qf lixteen fons, thee|deft of whom is turned of eighty, and the youngfftof nine; bpfidcji daughters; of whom, the eldcft, by the prefent wife, is a niantua-ma- k h' I ti J ler, in pretty oood bufinefs, in NewcifHe. Petliapn thli intloMtion may have the j'ood rfiVa that is certainlv iiuendrtl. Of the fixirrn fVm.i, that hr kn'.ui of, not :» Iffs imnihci th:in twelve arc iiidiflerfnt Jlaiions in thf army ffnd ntvy j and, ot couric, in Ionic ftjipr or other, in tlir mihtary (eivicc of fii; (oujitt'y. He lived from 179© to lyficjirj Invtrricls and the nt'i/Mihoiirhood ; where, old ivi he wns, he did a little bidinefs in hit own profeHioH of maroiuy. Hut fonic nej;lfc^ or delay having happened m the paynu nf of iiis pendon, he frt out on toot, aciompaiii.'dby his wife, in the fummer of lyiix}; and arrived in I ondow in the bcjilnninj/ of Au;{uft. He hiid hit fituation before C:olont'l Small, a gcu- ■ tlcmaii of Unbounded philanthropy, univcrfallv rclpci'ted and beloved, and under whom he had lerved for many years in Ireland (od Am-rica. The Colonel treated him, with the iitmoft kindnels, entertaining him holpitably at his honfe, and allowing him a Ihilling a-day while he remaintd in i.ondon, out of hisown jiockcl. By his advice a memorial M\i\ petition, fetting forth the merits and luftcrings of Serjeant Macleml, was drawn up ; and, with the oiintenance and aid of the Colonel, and other officers, he was fiivoured with an oppoitimity of prefcntin^ it to the King. The very firft day that his Majcfty came to St. James's, aft.r his indiipofition, Macleod, admitted to the ftair-cafe leading to the drawing room, prdented his petition, which his Mxicliy gracioufly accepted, and looked over as he walked up (hiirs. At the head of the itairs the King called him. The old Serjeant was going to fall on his bended knee, but his humane Sovereign rcfpraing his age, would not fufirer him to kned, but laid hit hand upon the old man's bread; and, making him ibnd upnglit, exprelTed his iur- piize and joy at feeing the oUlell fohher in his fervice, in the enjoyment of lo great a Ihare ot health and Ihength. The fentiments that filled "his own royal bi caft, he eagerly exprcffcd to the different noblemen and gentlemen that were near him. He gave it in charge to a gentleman prefenf, Mr. Macleod thinks JVlr. Dundas, to take care that the prayer of his petition fliould be granted, which was niodeft enough, being no other than that he might have what is called the Kin;;;'s Letter, that is, being put on the charitable lift, or a lift of perlons recommended by his Mtijcfty for aftiilli'ig a-daf for life, on account of cx'tr.iordinary fcrvices, or fufFcrings. On that lift Lord' Howard, the Cioverrmr ofChciU'u Hofpital, immediately put the name f Serjeant Donald Macleod : and this circnnilhnce, with ten 01 eleven oruine^s received out of his MiijellyV band, together with many cxprcfiions of kindnefs, agreeably to what has been accurattlv enough dated in different ncwfpapers, fent home the old Serjeant »nd his Laiiv, vvitfi their fniall annual penfion, as happy as princes.— But fee again the crooks of one's lot, the labyrinths of life I Tliough Maclecd's name : was inlcrtel in the King's Lift, he was to wait for the aftual receipt of a fliil- v ling a-day until there fhould be a vacancy, which has not yet happened. --Be- lioid, therefore, Serjeant Macleod a«d Mrs. Macleod again in London, in Sep- tember, 1790, after a journey performed on foot, from Invcrners, upwards of five hundred miles, in the fpace of three or four weeks, accompanied by their ' yor.ngeft Ton, a lively little lad, about nine years old, as above-mentioned. Though it docs not appear that any negleft has been fhewn to his Majefty's- - orders rcfperting his old fiervant, yet it is difficult to perAiadethe good old man,, '. flud dill more difhcnlt to fatisfv Mrs. Macleod, that if his Majerty's courtiers- J; had been as lincerely interefled in his welfisireas his Majefly himfelf, fomething' fubtlantial might have been done for him before this day. And he is firmly per- <' luadtd, that wiien his Majcfty, to whom he hopes to be again admitted, couics to tmderflind how he has been treated, hewdl be very angry. Li the mean lin^, it is to be hoped, that he uill draw a liberal fupply from the publication of his pidure, which may be bad to be bound up with this iketch' of his I fe, or feparately, as thefubfcriberplcafes. Before that I'upply be wholly exiiau^sd, it is to be expe<^ted that he will be in the pa^flion of fome regular provifion froiti the gcnerolity, and, indeed, the jufticc-<>f a country which, in ins humble fphere, he has fcrved with moll dillinguii^td icputation. It is ex- rr- n>tly alftiding to the reader to be informed, that inftead of fecurity and eafe, j.^;ii gallant veteran was lately attacked by a confederacy of alTaflins, and was in ^v , '*^ I ' [ as ] the utn).)ft tlanf;