orning when the rebels entered
Edinburgh. They immediately sent parties to all the other gates, and to
the town guard, who making the soldiers upon duty prisoners, occupied
their posts as quietly as one guard relieves another. When the
inhabitants of Edinburgh awakened in the morning, they found that the
Highlanders were masters of the city.

FOOTNOTES:

[86] Who had been sent to parley with the rebels.

D. PRINCE CHARLES AT HOLYROOD (SEPTEMBER).

+Source.+--_The History of the Rebellion in the year 1745_, p. 99,
by John Home, Esq. (London: 1802.)

About ten o'clock[87] the main body of the rebels marching by
Duddingston (to avoid being fired upon by the Castle) entered the King's
Park, and halted in the hollow between the hills, under the peak called
Arthur's seat. By and by Charles came down to the Duke's Walk,
accompanied by the Highland Chiefs, and other commanders of his army.

The Park was full of people (amongst whom was the author of this
history,) all of them impatient to see this extraordinary person. The
figure and presence of Charles Stuart were not ill suited to his lofty
pretensions. He was in the prime of youth, tall and handsome, of a fair
complexion; he had a light coloured periwig with his own hair combed
over the front: he wore the Highland dress, that is a tartan short coat
without the plaid, a blue bonnet on his head, and on his breast the star
of the order of St. Andrew. Charles stood some time in the park to show
himself to the people; and then, though he was very near the palace,
mounted his horse, either to render himself more conspicuous, or because
he rode well, and looked graceful on horseback.

The Jacobites were charmed with his appearance: they compared him to
Robert the Bruce, whom he resembled (they said) in his figure as in his
fortune. The Whigs looked upon him with other eyes. They acknowledged
that he was a goodly person; but they observed, that even in that
triumphant hour, when he was about to enter the palace of his fathers,
the air of his countenance was languid and melancholy: that he looked
like a gentleman and man of fashion, but not like a hero or conqueror.
Hence they formed their conclusions that the enterprize was above the
pitch of his mind; and that his heart was not great enough for the
sphere in which he moved. When Charles came to the palace, he
dismounted, and walked along the piazza, towards the apartment of the
Duke of Hamilton. When he wa