officers, who with difficulty restrained
them with their drawn swords and cocked pistols, conjuring them to
return to their ground or they would be undone. As the dragoons in their
flight betwixt the lines passed by our left wing they could not forbear
giving them part of their fire likewise. Our left had not been fully
formed when the attack begun on the right; a considerable body of the
enemy's horse came up also to attack them, but receiving part of the
fire of our left they broke and run off; their infantry coming in upon
that side were opposed by some of our battalions, who receiving the
enemy's fire went in amongst them sword in hand and drove them down the
hill with great impetuosity and slaughter, but not being in sight of our
right (by reason of the unevenness of the ground) they made a halt till
such time as the two wings should join in the centre and the second line
come up. His R. H., whose attention was turned to all quarters observing
that our left wing was outlined by the enemy, sent Brigadier Stapleton
with the pickets of the Irish Brigade and some other battalions from the
second line, which extended our first line and recovered the disorder
we were like to be put into. Then our whole army marched down towards
the enemy, who were retreating on all sides in great disorder, but by
reason of the unevenness of the ground and night coming on with a storm
of wind and rain they could not overtake them, as they were positively
ordered to keep their ranks. The enemy, finding they could neither
possess nor save their camp, set fire to their tents and retreated with
great precipitation towards Linlithgow, and were just got to the east
end of the toun of Falkirk when Lord John Drummond entered it on that
side, Lord George Murray in the middle, and Lochiel in the west end of
the toun. We took most of their cannon, ammunition, and baggage which
they had not themselves destroyed. We reckoned about seven hundred of
the enemy taken prisoners and about six hundred men and between thirty
or forty officers killed. We had not above forty men killed on our side,
amongst whom were two or three captains and some subaltern officers.

I. RETREAT TO THE NORTH (FEBRUARY TO APRIL, 1746).

+Source.+--_The Lyon in Mourning: or, a Collection of Speeches,
Letters, Journals, etc., relative to the Affairs of Prince Charles
Edward Stuart_, vol. i., p. 83, by the Rev. Robert Forbes, A.M.,
Bishop of Ross and Caithness,