Tha luchd na foilleadh air an tom, Is am Balg-Shuilich donna na dhraip; Cha b'e bhuir cairdeas ruinn a bh' ann A chbhur lamh a bhi tais. i. e. The false party are on the field, beholding the chief in danger : it was not your love to us that made you abftain from fighting, but merely your own cowardice." This reproach fo ftung Macpherfon, that calling up his men, he attacked the Camerons that fame night in their camp, and made a dreadful flaughter of them, pursued them to the foot of Binn imhais, and killed their chief, Charles Macgilony, at a place called Coire Thearlaich, i. e. Charles's Valley." Though the above conflict put an end to the dispute with the Camerons at that time, yet it created another equally dangerous betwixt the Macpherfons and Davidfons: these› were perpetually plundering and killing each other; infomuch, that the King fent Lindfay Earl of Crawford, and Dunbar Earl of Moray, two of the greatest noblemen in the kingdom, to compromise matters and reconcile them. This being found impoffible to do without bloodshed, gave rife to the celebrated trial of valour on the north Inch of Perth, which happened on Monday before the feast of St Michael, in the time of King Robert the III. in the year 1396. The Scottish hiftorians fay that it was fought betwixt the Clan Chattan and Clan Kay; the laft they fuppofed to be the Mackays, inftead of the Clan Cay or Davidfons, which occafioned their mistake, the Mackays not even inhabiting near, but at a great distance from the Clan Chattan. It was agreed that the Macpherfons and Davidfons fhould each choose thirty men from their feveral clans, who were to fight before the King and court, and the conquerors were ever after to be the fuperior. The north Inch of Perth was cho. fen as the field of battle; and the combatants were allowed no other weapons but broad fwords. The day appointed being come, both parties appeared; but upon muftering the combatants, the Macpherfons wanted one of their number, he having fallen fick. It was propofed to balance the difference, by with-drawing one of the Davidfons; but fo refolved were they upon conquering their opponents, that not one would be prevailed upon to quit the danger. In this emergency, one Henry Wynd, a foundling brought up in an hofpital at Perth, commonly called an Gobh Crom, i. e. "the Crooked' Smith," offered to fupply the fick man's place for a French-crown of gold, about three half-crowns Sterling money; a great fum in those days. Every thing being now fettled, the combatants began with incredible fury; and the Crooked Smith being an able swordsman, contributed much to the honour of the day, victory declaring for the Macphersons, of whom only to befides the Gobh Crom were left alive, and all dangerously wounded. The Davidfons were all cut off except one man; who, remaining unhurt, threw himself into the Tay, and escaped. Henry Wynd fet out from Perth after the battle, with a horse-load of his effects, and fwore he would not take up his habitation till his load fell; which happened in Strathdone, in Aberdeenshire, where he took up his refidence. The place is ftill called Leac 'ic a Ghobhain, i. e. "The Smith's Dwelling." The Smiths, or Gows, and Macglafhans, are commonly called Sliochd a Ghobb Chruim, i. e. "The defcendants of the Crooked Smith;" but all agree that he had no pofterity,. though he had followers of the first rank, to the number of 12, who were proud of being reputed the children' of fo valiant a man; and the more to ingratiate themselves in his favour, they Addrefs of the Clans to Gorge 1. they generally learned to make fiords as well as to use them; which occafioned their being called Goru, i. e. "Smith." His 12 apprentices fpread themselves all over the kingdom. Most of them took the name of Macintosh; thofe who write otherwife, own their defcent from them, though many of them are Macpherfons, &c. Smith of Balharry's motto, "Caraid an am feum," ie. "A friend in need," feems to allude to the Gobh Croms affifting the Macpherfons on the above occafion.. 173 As foon as the Gobh Crom had killed a man, he fat down to reft; and being perceived by the captain, he demanded the reafon; the other anfwered, that he had performed his engagement, and done enough for his wages: the captain replied, that no wages would be counted to him, he fhould have an equivalent for his valour; upon which he immediately. got up to fight, and repeated the above faying.". -Pen. Macin. Pen. Macph. Buchan. Abercrom. Hift. op Maray, &c. &c. Address of One Hundred and Two chief Heritors and Heads of Clans in the Highlands of Scotland to King George I. on his Acceffion to the Throne; which, by Court Intrigue, was prevented from being delivered to his Majesty. The confequence was, that the Clans, in refentment of this fuppofed neglect, raifed a Rebellion in the following year 1715. Faithfully copied from the original preferved in the Mufaum of the Antiquaries of Scotland. May it pleafe your Majesty, WE E of the chief heritors and others in the Highlands of Scotland under fubfcribing, beg leave to exprefs the joy of our hearts at your Majefty's happy acceffion to the crown of Great Britain. Your Majefty has the blood of our ancient Monarchs in your veirs and in your family; may that Royal Race ever continue to reign over us. Your Majefty's princely virtues, and the happy profpect we have in your royal family, of an uninterrupted fucceffion of Kings to fway the British fceptre, muft extinguish thofe divifions and contests which in former times too much prevailed, and unite all who have the happiness to live under your Majefty into a firm obedience and loyalty to your Majefty's perfon, family, and government; and as our predeceffors have for many ages had the honour to diftinguish themselves by their loyalty, fo we do moft humbly affure your Majefty, that we will reckon it our honour stedfastly to ad here to you, and with our lives and fortunes to fupport your crown and dignity against all oppofers. Pardon us, great Sir, to implore your royal protection against any who labour to mifreprefent us, and who rather use their endeavours to create mifunderstandings than to engage the hearts of your fubjects to that loyalty and cheerful affectionate obedience which we owe, and are ready to testify towards your Majefty. Under fo excellent a King, we are perfuaded that we, and all your other peaceable faithful fubjects, fhall' enjoy their juft rights and liberties, and that our enemies fhall not be able to hurt us with your Majefty; for whofe royal favour we prefume humbly to hope, as our forefathers were honoured with that of your Majefty's ancestors. Our mountains, though undervalued by fome, are nevertheless acknowledged to have, in all times, been fruitful in producing hardy and gallant men; and fuch, we hope, fhall never be wanting a mongst mongst us, who fhall be ready to undergo all dangers in defence of your Majesty's, and your royal pofterity's, only rightful title to the crown of Great Britain. Our behaviour fhall always witnefs for us, Alex. M'Donell of Glengarie Donald M'Donell of Lundie that, with unalterable firmness and zeal, we are, May it please your Majesty, Jo. M'Donell of Oberchalder nior John McLeod of Gefto rach Hugh Frafer of Aberskie nach Normand M'Leod of Gri- Tho. Houston of Dulchirafernish chan James Fraser of Belladrum W. MacDonell of Keappoch Ro. M'Donald of Murffie Tho. Frafer of Dunballoch Alex. Frafer of Farrachne Alex. Frafer of Eafterheadfhaw Hugh Frafer of Eafter Ardachie James Frafer of Milndire Allan M'Leane of Inverfcadle T. M'Lean of Mingarie Lach. M'Leane of Achure Don. MacLean of Drimgig ha younger Allan MacLean of Reddel Lauchlan M'Lean of Drim-> The Power of Love and Filial Duty. From the French of M. IMBERT A Cromwell, Lord Murvey was one of T the time of the protectorship of those victims whom that usurper had deftined as a facrifice to his intereft or revenge. Mirvey, who then refided in a public capacity at a foreign court, being informed that his profcription had been fecretly resolved on, prepared to avoid it by flight. But he had left at London, with an aged fifter, a daughter named Julia, an only child, dear to his heart, whom he had quitted with regret, and whom he ardently wished to fee again. He had just received the news of his fifter's death'; and the image of his daugh ter, Power of Love and Filial Duty. ter, left without protection, overcame the idea of his own danger. He did not hesitate to expofe himself on a theatre which the tyrant had decreed to be the scene of his death: but he took fuch precautions as prudence fuggefted; for the fame fentiment which made him feek his dear Julia at the hazard of his life, infpired him with the defire of preferving it for her. He difguifed his name, his rank, and his features, and had at laft the happinefs of arriving in London, and of rejoining his daughter without being known or even fufpected. In Julia were united the most interesting figure, the pureft mind, and the most fufceptible heart. She loved her father paffionately, but the pleasure of feeing him was quickly allayed by the danger which threatened him. Joy made her forget this for a moment, but the cruel reflection immediately returned. The fentence pronounced against him haunted her thoughts; fhe knew that the hatred which fuggefted it was implacable, and her heart made a fudden tranfition from the pureft joy to the most torturing anguish. "Ah, my father!" faid fhe bursting into tears, "what have you done? fhould the minifters of the tyrant tear you from my arms!-The defire of revisiting your Julia has made you forgetful of your felf. How can I defend that life which you have hazarded for my fake? This proof of your love draws tears of affection from my eyes; alas! it may fhortly coft me tears of anguish. If heaven, which at prefent permits tyranny, fhould make you fall its victim, I fhall die; but I fhall die with the bitter thought of having been the cause of your death." -Mirvey preffed his daughter to his heart, and anfwered her with his tears. It became neceffary, however, to confider in what way his return was to be concealed. The Protector and his fervants were vigilant-what was to be done, and to whom was such a secret to be imparted? Mirvey, content with the love and the duty of his daughter, agreed to deprive himself of the light of day, to be in a manner buried a live, till it should please heaven to avert the hatred of his perfecutor, or to avenge the fufferings of England. A narrow unfrequented vault under the houfe appeared to Julia the only afylum to which he could intruft a deposit fo dear. This vault had a small opening into a back court, which to avoid fufpicion fhe shut up, and a lamp afforded him the only light he enjoyed. Thus a dungeon, dark and cold, was the only means which the unhappy Julia could devife to fave her father, whofe jailor fhe feemed to be, even when exerting the most affectionate attentions. Her own hands prepared his food, and fhe prudently avoided feeing him during the day. 175 What a fituation this for the unfortunate Mirvey! He had nothing to confole him but a few books, which his grief made him fhut as foon as they were opened, and ink and paper, which were useless, because he found himself fecluded from the reft of the world. But Julia, though more at liberty than he, fuffered not lefs. Her difquietude was more intolerable than the irksomeness of the most vexatious captivity. Her fear made her put a wrong construction on every thing the faw, every thing fhe heard; and the leaft noife made her tremble. She burnt with defire to hear the news of the court; but she durft not afk, left the motive for her questions should be fufpected. Her father was for, ever prefent in her thoughts; yet fhe imagined the could not pronounce his name without betraying him. Her eyes were continually attracted towards the place which concealed him, tho' they never were fuffered to reft there even for a moment, left a single look fhould discover his retreat. The reader may perhaps be already interefted for Julia; but he knows but half of her diftrefs. Her heart, fo anxious for the fate of her father, was befides a prey to love; to that fentiment which, in the foul of an Englishwoman, is never a flight affection or feeble emotion, but the most imperious of paffions. The young Thermond, worthy at once of her love and of her efteem, had paid his addresses to her when her aunt was alive, who a few months before her death had remitted him to Julia's father. Mirvey thought him not unworthy of his alliance; but afterwards for political reafons changed his mind. The father of this young Lord had taken part with Cromwell, and Mirvey had charged his daughter to forget an affection which now appeared criminal in his eyes. This order came too late. Far from loo The aunt, fening the bonds of these two lovers, it only ferved to bind them the clofer. overcome by their diftrefs, and feduced by their tears, confented to their union by a private marriage. Such was the fituation of Julia at the return of her father. Having felicitated her upon her obedience, of which, however, perhaps he was not perfuaded, "My dear child (faid he), I demand and expect from you a new proof of your docility and affection. The fecret of my return must for ever remain unknown. If my destiny does not alter, I am refolved that the world fhall never know that I had the weakness to return to a country of which I am afhamed, and which has difhonoured itself by its submiffion to a tyrant. This vault, which conceals my life from the world, must also conceal my death. Let it be my grave as it has been my afylum. But I will that my fecret remain even after my death, that no one may know know that my ashes repose in my ungrateful country. "If my daughter, when I am gone," faid he with a frightful tone," fhall difcover that fecret, I give her up to the avenging hand of heaven; I pronounce upon her from this moment my paternal maledic tion and if by a ftill more criminal infideHity fhe dare, while I am alive, to difclofe this fecret to any one, whoever he may be, this weapon fhall fhed my blood before her eyes, and I will leave to my dishonoured country a daughter worthy of it—a parricide." Julia knew her father's temper too well to confider this difcourfe as a common threat, or the effect of a tranfitory paflion. Mirvey, whom we have hitherto defcribed as an affectionate father, was at the fame time of a character firm even to obftinacy, and in temper fierce and inflexible. Irritated by the circumftances of the times, and by his misfortunes, he had become still more favage; fo that every thing was to be feared from his defpair. Julia promifed, and even bound herself by an oath which her father, dictated. Her duty feemed to have become more facred as the had deviated from it. Love, which had been the occafion of her fault, had not freed her from the remorfe which attended it: and though there had been no other motives, the recollection of a fault which the could not repent of, but which she could not diffemble, would have been fufficient to oblige her to the blindeft obedience. It is eafy to imagine how difficult fuch a filence must have been, and how much it would increase the embarraffment of a fituation already fo painful and so distreffing. What could fhe fay to Thermond, who, in right of a lover and of a husband, confidered the abode of his Julia as his own? Could the dare to receive him in direct difobedience of her father; or could they fee one another in fpite of him, over the vault in which he was immured, when perhaps the noife of their steps, or the found of their voices, might reach his ears? Or could fhe, in converfation with her husband, difguife the trouble of her heart; or juftify herself, when an oath the 'moft facred condemned her to filence? One expedient, however, though a weak one, fuggefted itself to Julia. She wrote to Thermond, that being alone in the house, where the remained in expectation of an old female relation, and not being in a condition to declare their marriage, the thought it a duty the owed to decency and to her honour to deprive herself of the pleasure of feeing him where she was. She added, that all the precautions he could take would not be fufficient to conquer the fear of an involuntary indiscretion; and that relying upon his love, the hoped he would spare his dear Julia from -an-interview fo imprudent. Thermond had a fifter a few leagues from London, who ao lone of his family was acquainted with his marriage, and in whose house Julia propo fed to meet her lord. The pretence the had chofen was weak, efpecially for a lover tender and paffionate like hers. But neceffity was the cause; and Julia's will was a law to Thermond. Her letter, while it afflicted him, expreffed fo much tenderness and fenfibility, that he could not but fubmit to what it exacted. The faithful Julia, in recompence for what the called his complaifance, promised to fee him at his fifter's every day; and she was true to her promise. What courage and fortitude does not love infpire! Julia, with a delicate conftitution, enfeebled by vexation, dividing her cares between love and filial duty, devoted the day to her husband, and the night to her father. The unhappy Mirvey, who imagined that his daughter repaired the fatigue the gave herself during the night by eafe and quiet during the day, was yet juftly afraid that her health had fuffered. He knew not that deep never vifited her eye-lids either by night or by day. To what fatigue was the not expofed by her long and habitual excurfions to her husband? to what embarrassment in concealing from him the true reafon of them? Add to all this, the vexatious conftraint in which fhe lived, the continual conflicts of a heart full of filial duty, and the tendereft love, forced to hide the father from the husband and the husband from the father. Whence was the to derive ftrength fufficient to fupport fuch multiplied affliction, fuch varied calamity? How many tears did the fupprefs! and the lefs fhe wept the more the fuffered.-The end of her miffortunes, however, feemed still at a distance; and an unforeseen accident occurred to augment her distress. From the continual agitation of her mind she had inadvertently left among the papers which came to the hands of her father a letter of Thermond's of a recent date, At the fight of this, the anger of the impetuous Mirvey was kindled into rage. "Perfidious child," cried he with a voice of thunder, " is it thus you have qbeyed me!" Julia offered to fpeak; but he interrupted her: "Art thou about to add falfehood and impofture to disobedience? What do I fay? Difobedience! Great God, to whom have I confided the fecret of my life? She who can despise the commands of a father and facrifice nature to love, may she not -" "Hold," cried Julia with an accent of agony and grief, "fpare a child, guilty indeed, but unfortunate. Yes my father, it is true, I have seen Thermond after your interdiction; but is it fo eafy to extinguish the paffion of love? Your own fifter permitted me to hope for a happier lot; and it was in her prefence, and with her approbation, that Ther |