e Highland road by Ruthven in Badenoch,
to Inverness, where it was resolved to attack Fort Augustus and Fort
William. Of either I can give no distinct account, but that the first
was taken, and the siege of the other deserted.

Earl Cromertie and others were sent to different countries to cover the
rising of some and prevent that of others. This weakened the army, and
tho' many joined the day before the battle of Culloden, a great number
did not. Earl of Cromertie, tho' many expresses were sent to order his
returning to Inverness, in place of doing as commanded, was surprized
and taken prisoner; and these that did join were much fatigued. None had
got pay after they left Tay bridge in their march north, and they were
straightened in provisions for some days before the battle. Cumberland's
army was not opposed in passing the Spey, tho' a considerable force had
been sent there for that end.[101] The Prince was in danger of being
taken at MacIntosh's house, and his safety was chiefly owing to a
mistake of Earl of Loudon's men.

FOOTNOTES:

[101] This is incorrect.

J. THE EVE OF CULLODEN (APRIL, 1746).

+Source.+--_Memoirs of Sir Robert Strange, Knight, and of his
Brother-in-Law, Andrew Lumisden, Private Secretary to the Stuart
Princes_, vol. i., p. 54, by James Dennistoun, of Dennistoun.
(London: 1855.)

Such was the position of my undertaking[102] when, all of a sudden, news
was brought to Inverness that the Duke of Cumberland, with his army, had
passed the Spey on the 13th of April. The town was in a general alarm,
and even in confusion. Nothing was heard but the noise of bagpipes, the
beating of drums, and the clash of arms. The field of Culloden was the
following day to be the general rendezvous, and every individual betook
himself to his corps.

The army was now mustering upon the field, it being the 14th; but
unfortunately we had not been joined by a considerable number of our
men, who were actually upon their march from different parts of the
country, and would have been up in the course of a few days. The whole
of the Macphersons, a considerable body of the Frasers, some few of the
Macintoshes, in general all the Mackenzies, and several other bodies of
men who had been raised in the more northern counties, had all received
repeated expresses, and were hastening to join the army. In this
situation, divested as it were of part of our numbers, we hourly
expected the Duke. He had com