tion of the stipend. Finding the money good, I rienced in their profession, who agreed to the rate and the sum due, being asked a receipt, Mr. Farmer wrote "Received from Mr. C. through the hands of his agent and factor, the hangman of Stirling, the sum of thirty pounds sterling, &c." But it seems that the year after the gentleman judged it unnecesssary to remit his money by his former agent.

JAMES GRAHAM, MARQUIS OF MONTROSE. though he brought into the field a number partly He was, as a military character, comparable to equal to half of their forces. Baillie, a veteran the greatest heroes of antiquity. At first he en-officer, was next routed by him at the village of gaged eagerly and deeply upon the side of the co- Alford in Strathbogie. venanters. He had been active in pressing the Encouraged by these repeated and splendid town of Aberdeen to take the covenant; and his successes, Montrose now descended into the heart success against the Gordons at the bridge of Dee, of Scotland, and fought a bloody and decisive batleft that royal burgh no other means of safety from tle near Kilsyth, where 4000 covenanters fell unpillage. At the head of his own battalion he der the Highland claymore. This victory opened waded through the Tweed in 1640, and totally the whole of Scotland to Montrose. He occupied routed the vanguard of the king's cavalry. But the capital, and marched forward to the borders; in 1643, moved with resentment against the co- not merely to complete the subjection of the venanters, who preferred to his prompt and ardent southern provinces, but with the flattering hope character the caution of the wily and politic of pouring his victorious army into England, and Earl of Argyle, or seeing, perhaps, that the final bringing to the support of Charles the sword of views of that party were inconsistent with the in-his paternal tribes. The once formidable name of terests of monarchy and of the constitution, Mon- Douglas still sufficed to raise some bands, by trose espoused the falling cause of loyalty, and whom Montrose was joined in his march down raised the Highland clans, whom he united to a the Gala. With these reinforcements, and with small body of Irish, commanded by Alexander the remnant of his Highlanders, Montrose, after Macdonald. With these tumultuary and uncertain traversing the border, finally encamped upon the forces, he rushed forth, like a torrent from the field of Philiphaugh. Recalled by the danger of mountains, and commenced a rapid and brilliant the cause of the covenant, General David Lesly career of victory. At Tippermoor, where he first came from England, at the head of those iron met the covenanters, their defeat was most com- squadrons, whose force had been proved in the plete, 1500 of his clan perishing in the fight. A fatal battle of Long Marston Moor. His army second army was defeated under the walls of consisted of from five to six thousand men, chiefly Aberdeen; and the pillage of that ill-fated town cavalry. Lesly's first plan seems to have been to was doomed to expiate the principles which Mon-occupy the midland counties, so as to intercept trose himself had formerly imposed upon them. the return of Montrose's Highlanders, and to force Argyleshire next experienced his arms; the do-him to an unequal combat. Accordingly, he mains of his rival were treated with more than marched along the eastern coast from Berwick to military severity; and Argyle himself advancing to Inverlochy for the defence of his country, was totally and disgracefully routed by Montrose. Pressed betwixt two armies, well appointed, and commanded by the most experienced generals of the covenant, Montrose displayed more military skill in the astonishingly rapid marches by which he avoided fighting to disadvantage, than even in the field of victory. By one of these hurried marches, from the banks of Loch Catrine to the heart of Inverness-shire, he was enabled to attack, and totally defeat, the covenanters at Aulderne,

Tranent; but he there suddenly altered his direction, and, crossing through Mid-Lothian, turned again to the southward, and, following the course of the Gala water, arrived at Melrose, the evening before the engagement. The first intimation that Montrose received of the march of Lesly, was the noise of the conflict, or rather, that which attended the unresisted slaughter of his infantry, who never formed a line of battle; the right wing alone, supported by the thickets of Harehead wood, and by the intrenchments which are there still visible, stood firm for some time. But Lesly

dignity that revenge for his apostacy could invent, and hanged upon a gibbet thirty feet high, with the book of his exploits appended to his neck. He bore this reverse of fortune with laudable greatness of mind, expressing only a just scorn at the wanton cruelty and insults of his enemies. In excuse for the conduct of the Scots on this occasion, it must be remembered that the bloody battle of Kilsyth was still fresh in their minds, where six thousand brave, but unpractised soldiers, while fighting for the religion and liberties of their country, fell before the disciplined troops of Montrose. The execution took place at Edinburgh, May 21, 1650.

had detached two thousand men, who, crossing | ried to execution with every circumstance of inthe Etterick still higher up than his main body, assaulted the rear of Montrose's right wing. At this moment the marquis himself arrived, and beheld his army dispersed, for the first time, in irretrievable rout. He had thrown himself upon a horse the instant he heard the firing, and, followed by such of his disordered cavalry as had gathered upon the alarm, he gallopped from Selkirk across the Etterick, and made a bold and desperate attempt to retrieve the fortune of the day. But all was in vain; and after cutting his way, almost singly, through a body of Lesly's troopers, the gallant Montrose graced by his example the retreat of the fugitives. That retreat he continued up Yarrow, and over Minchmoor; LORD BREADALBANE'S ESTATE. nor did he stop till he arrived at Traquair, sixteen miles from the field of battle. Upon Philiphaugh Lord Breadalbane's estate, which supports a he lost, in one defeat, the fruit of six splendid vic-population of 13,537 persons, commences two tories; nor was he again able to make head in Scot-miles east of Tay-bridge, in the county of Perth, land against the covenanted cause. At the court and extends westward ninety-nine miles and a of the exiled monarch, Charles II. Montrose of fered to his acceptance a splendid plan of victory and conquest; pressed for his permission to enter Scotland; and there, collecting the remains of the royalists, to claim the crown for his master with the sword in his haud. Montrose arrived in the Orkneys with six hundred Germans, was furnished with some recruits from those islands, and was joined by several royalists as he traversed the wilds of Caithness and Sutherland. But, advancing into Ross-shire, he was surprised, and totally de- The sequestered situation of Craig - Burnett feated by colonel Strachan, an officer of the Scot-House is not dreary; and although it is quite retish parliament, who had distinguished himself in mote from the great road, in consequence of bethe civil wars, and afterwards became a decided ing environed by many gentlemen's seats, and the Cromwellian. Montrose, after a fruitless resist-hills chequered with cottages, it possesses, notance, at length fled from the field of defeat, and withstanding the wildness of the scenery, a very concealed himself in the grounds of Macleod of lively aspect. This noble mansion lies at the foot Assint, to whose fidelity he entrusted his life, of the green hills of Campsie, which not merely and by whom he was delivered up to Lesly, his rise to defend it from the rude blasts, but quite most bitter enemy. He was tried for treason encircle the extensive domain; and the narrow against the estates of the kingdom; and in de- strath or vale is richly embellished by woodspite of the commission of Charles for his pro- lands. A singular superstitious tradition attendceedings, he was condemned to die. He was car-ed the building of the old mansion of Craig-Bur

half to Easdale, in Argyleshire, varying in breadth from three to twelve and sixteen miles, and interrupted only by the property of three or four proprietors, who possess one side of a valley or glen, while Lord Breadalbane has the other; so that, varying his direction a little to the right or left, he can travel nearly one hundred miles from east to west, on his own property.

CRAIG-BURNETT HOUSE.

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net. The grandfather of the present possessor of the Highlands obtained from the summits of had proposed to erect his house on the banks of these mountains are wild and magnificent. CoFinglen Midway, between Glenmill and Baillie, vered with clouds, or skirted with mists, their where was said to be an opening which led under-summits are often scarcely distinguishable from ground to Keirhill, an artificial mound or sepul- the vapours which envelope them; while their chral tumulus. It was this ancient mound the bleak and barren aspect, and the deep rocky chanLord of Craig-Burnett had fixed upon; when the progress of the building, as soon as commenced, was interrupted by the little fairy elves, who, instigated by their wicked propensity to mischief, issued from their subterraneous abode, and demolished in the night what had been built during the day; with this unequal warfare with the inhabitants of the nether world nothing was seen, but frequently a warning voice was heard to repeat:

"Burry, big your house in a bog,
And you'll never want a fau cog.'

The laird listened to the admonition, and built the old castle of Craig-Burnett (part of the gate is now remaining,) as low in the bog as possible, which was finished without further molestation

from his invisible counsellors.

nels with which they are furrowed, testify the violence of the tempests which have swept over them. Towards the pointed summits of this sublime range there is little vegetative mould; but lower down we meet with a thin covering of stunted heath, inhabited only by birds of prey, or by the white hare and ptarmigan. Still further down is the region of the mountain deer and muir fowl, producing more luxuriant heath, intermixed with nourishing pasture, and supporting numerous flocks of sheep. Towards the base of the highest mountains there are many romantic glens, watered by mountain streams, or diversified by winding lakes, and in some places beautifully wooded, and capable of producing various kinds of grain. Many of these glens contain a crowded population, and an unexpected number of flocks and herds, and the principal riches of the county.

TERRITORY OF THE MACKAYS.

The appellation of “ Burry," it is said, was given to the S family, from having a bur: in their throat. The fairies, however, whispered Part of two large parishes on the estate of further admonitions into his ear, and advised him, Sutherland, including Strathnaver, from which whenever he set out on a journey, on no consi-the family derives its secondary title, is situated deration to turn back, or ill-luck would ever in lord Reay's country, or, as it is called in the after pursue him. It chanced soon that, crossing a burr, a short distance from home, his horse tripped, and he was plunged into the water. In vain his servant requested the laird to return and change his clothes; but so entirely did he consider himself under the influence of the fairies. be would not consent, but waited patiently until his man returned with a change of raiment, which he put on, and proceeded on his journey.

HIGHLAND SCENERY.

On the line of the Grampians there are many mountains of considerable altitude, such as BenJomond, Benlawers, Scichallain, &c. The views

Gaelic, the territory of the Mackays. The ranks of the Sutherland regiment of 1793 bore evidence to the propriety of this appellation, as there were one hundred and four William Mackays, and seventeen in one company, Captain Sackville Sutherland's.

THE GREAT MICHAEL.

The following is an account of the large ship built by King James IV. of Scotland, and described by his historian with the greatest exactness.

The King of Scotland rigged a great ship, called the Great Michael, which was the largest, and of superior strength to any that had ever sail

beggars and strangers, who are so numerous, while one hundred feet at bottom, reckoning quite to the the native beggars are so few, the people would ditch; which seems, indeed, to be greatly filed easily support their own poor without any assist-up by the tumbling down of the stones. The vast ance whatever.