[1213] Jacobite Memoirs, p. 129.
[1214] Idem, p. 236.
[1215] Boyse, p. 164.
[1216] Johnstone’s Memoirs, p. 203.
[1217] “It is not necessary to believe all the Jacobite stories tending to show a wanton and fiendish indulgence, by the duke and his most distinguished followers, in cruelty and any kind of bloody work for its own sake; nor to admit that he ridiculed President Forbes as the old woman who spoke about humanity and the laws. What he did was, we may be assured from his character, not done in a spirit of wantonness, but after a sense of duty. But that duty led him to severity. He was a soldier according to the German notions of a soldier, and a rebel province was a community to be subjected to martial law. Many of the insurgents, attempting to escape or hide themselves when detected by well-known peculiarities, were put to death by the soldiery, who, even when they made a mistake and slew the wrong man, could not easily be punished. The duke, brought up in the German military school, seems to have been unable to distinguish between a rebellion suppressed in constitutional Britain, where all men are supposed to be innocent but those proved to be guilty,—and a revolted German province, where every accorded grace to the unfortunate people proceeds from the will of the conqueror. Thus there was a propensity to subject all the northern districts to something too closely resembling military law or license.”—Burton’s Scotland after Revolution, v. ii. pp. 522, 523.
[1218] Letter from a gentleman in London to his friend in Bath. Bath, 1751, reprinted in Jacobite Memoirs.
[1219] Idem.
[1220] Letter from a gentleman in London, &c.
[1221] Life of George, Earl of Cromarty: London, 1746. Boyse, p. 155.
[1222] From the Stuart Papers.