xxx: and some additional details will be found
in Chambers' narrative of the expedition. During later life, an almost
entire silence seems to have been maintained by the Prince upon his
earlier days and his royal claims. But the bagpipe was occasionally
heard in the Roman Palace, and a casual visit, which Lord 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.
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