e. We
discerned a body of the enemy on the north of us, consisting mostly
of the Grey Dragoons, and some of the Black. We also discovered a
body of their foot farther north upon the field where we were in the
morning; and east of that, a body as we thought of our own foot, and
I still believe it was so. I formed the horse and foot with me in a
line on the north side of the hill, where we had engaged and kept
our front towards the enemy to the north of us, who seem'd at first
as if they intended to march towards us; but upon our forming and
marching towards them, they halted and marched back to Dumblane. Our
baggage and train-horses had all run away in the beginning of the
action. But we got some horses and brought off most of the train to
this place where we quarter to-night about Ardock, whither we
march'd in very good order: and had our left and second line behaved
as our right and the rest of the first line did, our victory had
been compleat: but another day is coming for that, and I hope ere
long too.

"I send you a list of the officers' names who are prisoners here,
besides those who are dangerously wounded and could not come along,
whose words of honour were taken. Two of these are the Earl of
Forfar, who I'm afraid will die, and Captain Urquhart, of Burn's
Yard, who is very ill wounded. We have also a good number of private
men prisoners; but the number I do not exactly know.

"We have lost, to our regret, the Earl of Strathmore and the Captain
of Clan Ranald. Some are missing, but the fate we are not sure of.

"The Earl of Panmure, Drummond of Logie, and Lieutenant Colonel
Maclean are wounded.

"This is all that I have to say now, but that I am,

"Yours, &c. MAR."

"P.S. We have taken a great many of the enemy's arms."

Lord Mar, on this occasion, showed a degree of personal bravery worthy
of the great name which he bore. He had placed himself on the right,
and, as he was giving orders to the Macdonalds to charge that battalion
of the enemy opposite to them, he encountered a very close fire. "The
horse on which my Lord was," writes an eye-witness on the Jacobite side,
"was wounded, for he fell down with him upon the fire, and got away, and
my Lord immediately mounted another horse: he exposed his person but too
much, and showed a great deal of br