d Mahon fixes in
1785, drew forth the recital which is the subject of this poem. The
prince fainted as he recalled what his Highland followers had gone
through, and his daughter rushing in exclaimed to the visitor, 'Sir! what
is this! You must have been speaking to my father about Scotland and the
Highlanders! No one dares to mention these subjects in his presence:'
(Mahon: ch. xxvi).

St. 2 _Drowsing His thoughts_; The habit of intemperance, common in that
century to many who had not Charles Edward's excuses, appear to have been
learned during the long privations which accompanied his wanderings,
between Culloden and his escape to France.

St. 5 _Hebrides_; Charles landed at Erisca, an islet between Barra and
South Uist, in July 1745.

St. 7 _Fettering Forth_; 'Forth,' according to the proverb, 'bridles the
wild Highlandman.'--Charles passed it at the Ford of Frew, about eight
miles above Stirling.--_At Gladsmuir_; or Preston Pans; Sep. 21,
1745.--_White Horse_; The armorial bearing of Hanover.

St. 8 _Clan Colla_; general name for the sept of the Macdonalds.

St. 10 _Caer Luel_; Urien ap Urbgen is an early hero of Strathclyde or
Alcluith, the British kingdom lying between Dumbarton and Carlisle, then
Caer Luel.

St. 12 _Ben Aille_; a mountain over Loch Ericht in the central Highlands.

St. 13 _Ice-brook-temper'd_; 'It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook's
temper': (_Othello_: A. 5: S. 2).

St. 14 _At Falkirk_; Jan 17, 1746. 'On the eve after his victory Charles
again encamped on Bannockburn.'

St. 16 _The mortal moor_; named Culloden and Drummossie: Ap. 16, 1746.
The cold at that time was very severe.

St. 17 A _nation's craven rage_; See _Appendix_ F.

St. 21 _Love's gentler judgment_; We may perhaps quote on his behalf
Vergil's beautiful words

. . . utcumque ferent ea facta minores,
Vincet amor patriae laudumque inmensa cupido.

--It is also pleasant to record that over the coffin of Charles in S.
Peter's, Rome, a monument was placed by George the Fourth, upon which, by
a graceful and gallant 'act of oblivion,' are inscribed the names of
James the Third, Charles the Third, and Henry the Ninth, 'Kings of
England.'

On the simple monument set up by his brother Henry in S. Pietro,
Frascati, it may be worth notice that Charles is only described as
_Paterni iuris et regiae_ | _dignitatis successor et heres_:--the title,
King, (given to his Father in the inscription), not being assigned to
C