the country. One of these apprehended the lady
Mackintosh, who was sent prisoner to Inverness. They did not plunder her
house, but drove away her cattle, though her husband was actually in
the service of government. The castle of lord Lovat was destroyed.
The French prisoners were sent to Carlisle and Penrith: Kilmarnock,
Balmerino, Cromartie, and his son the lord Macleod, were conveyed by
sea to London; and those of an inferior rank were confined in different
prisons. The marquis of Tullibardine, together with a brother of the
earl of Dunmore, were seized and transported to the Tower of London, to
which the earl of Traquaire had been committed on suspicion: in a few
months after the battle of Culloden, Murray, the pretender's secretary,
was apprehended; and the eldest son of lord Lovat, having surrendered
himself, was imprisoned in the castle of Edinburgh. In a word, all the
gaols of Great Britain, from the capital northwards, were filled with
those unfortunate captives; and great numbers of them were crowded
together in the holds of ships, where they perished in the most
deplorable manner, for the want of necessaries, air, and exercise. Some
rebel chiefs escaped in two French frigates, which had arrived on the
coast of Lochaber about the end of April, and engaged three vessels
belonging to his Britannic majesty, which they obliged to retire. Others
embarked on board of a ship on the coast of Buchan, and were conveyed to
Norway; from thence they travelled to Sweden. In the month of May, the
duke of Cumberland advanced with the army into the highlands as far as
Fort-Augustus, where he encamped, and sent off detachments on all hands
to hunt down the fugitives, and lay waste the country with fire and
sword. The castles of Glengary and Lochiel were plundered and burned;
every house, hut, or habitation, met with the same fate without
distinction; all the cattle and provision were carried off; the men were
either shot upon the mountains like wild beasts, or put to death in
cold blood, without form of trial; the women, after having seen their
husbands and fathers murdered, were subjected to brutal violation, and
then turned out naked, with their children, to starve on the barren
heaths. One whole family was enclosed in a barn, and consumed to ashes.
Those ministers of vengeance were so alert in the execution of their
office, that in a few days there was neither house, cottage, man, nor
beast, to be seen in the compass of fifty