cular order.

PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD AFTER THE BATTLE OF CULLODEN.

Our bugles sung truce, for the night cloud had lower'd,
And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky,
And thousands had sunk on the ground overpower'd,
The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.

THOMAS CAMPBELL.

One Female and Six Male Figures.

This tableau contains seven figures, and represents Prince Charles
Edward asleep in one of his hiding-places after the battle of
Culloden, protected by Flora Macdonald and Highland outlaws, who are
alarmed on their watch. Here rests, in fitful and affrighted slumbers,
the recent victor, Prince Charles Edward, a broken and despairing
fugitive, his gallant spirit dissipated, and his well-knit limbs
stained, and bruised, and soiled by urgent journeys and perilous
encounters. Beside him sits a sleepless guardian, the brave, the
beautiful, the heroic Flora Macdonald. A deer-hound, who had crouched
at her feet, has given an alarm of coming danger. The peril is
imminent, but the foe is invisible. What shall be done? Shall the
sleeper be awakened? His devoted protector, prompt as the occasion,
and wise beyond the emergency, counsels on the instant, silence,
caution, self-possession. Thereupon the Highlanders draw together,
and, restraining the frenzy of their first emotions, wait, with
desperate resolution, the first manifestation of coming danger.

The scenery accompanying this piece represents a cave in the rocks; in
the centre of the back wall is an opening, through which the Highland
outlaws are looking. The rocks can be imitated by covering wooden
frames with coarse brown paper, fastened on in a rumpled manner, and
shaded with light and dark brown paint, sprinkled over with small
particles of isinglass. These frames should reach to the ceiling of
the stage, and be constructed in sections four feet wide; they must be
arranged in the background in the form of a half circle, the floor and
sides of the stage covered with the same kind of scenery; a box six
feet long and two feet wide, covered with a robe, should be placed in
the centre of the cave, for the prince to recline upon. Spears,
shields and battle axes may be strewn about, and a small fire made to
smoulder in the foreground. This can be built in an iron furnace,
surrounded by rocks. The prince is costumed in a rich Highland suit.
The coat, which reaches to the knee, is made of Scotch plaid, trimmed
at the bot