buffetings and calamities, we should sune redd up a' the marches." "Yes, truly, reverend Father," said Sir Robert, as he dashed a tear from his eye; "if Charles II. were na on the throne, and Lauderdale and M'Kenzie in the council, and Dalriel and Claverse in the field. But hearts o' marble ken neither sympathy, nor mercy and sae fares it wi' oor kintry this day." 66 CHAPTER X. "Though I am not conscious, O Romans! of any crime by me committed, yet it is with the utmost shame and confusion that I appear in your assemblies!-Discord! Discord is the ruin of this city!" A ROMAN PATRIOT. THE most experienced of the Whig officers, particularly Hackstone, Cleland, Henderson, Torfoot, Fleming, Nesbit, and Burly, insisted on the necessity of promptly following up the victory. "It is probably too late already," said they, "Yet let us redeem oor error; ard pursue the foemen to the cross o' Glasgow. There's naething like showing Claverse the naked sword, while he yet smarts under oor blows. We can drive him before us to Embro; take possession o' the military posts o' that city; then the nation wull rise as one man, to aid us: and drive the enemy ower the border. The day wull come, when the nation wull de. clare for us. And as sune as we shall strike a decisive blow; and as sune as the nobles, and the landed men, nae langer dread a forfeiture, then, as we noo hae the best wishes o' the nation, we shall hae its support, and concurrence.” But, unhappily, they were not listened to. And from this inactivity, originated many fatal errors. It was consented to, at last, with a kind of indifference and heartlessness, that the host should set out in pursuit of the enemy. They did set out: and Sir Robert Hamilton, with the main body, reached Hamilton that night. Having established his camp on Hamilton Muir, under the supervision of Colonels Flem. ing, Cleland, and Henderson, who were to arrange the different regiments, and train the men; he set out with a strong party to Glasgow. He halted at Tollcross for the purpose of refreshing his men: but mainly to wait for intelligence from Bailey Wardlaw; to whom he had, the preceding evening, sent a confidential messenger. About noon the man returned with a letter from the Bailey, in the following words, vre. "My trusty freen; ye hae missed the mark maist waefully. Ye should hae pursued the panic struck foemen, hotly, to oor toon. Ye should na hae gien him, ony rest for the soles o' his feet, nor time to put a helmet on his pash. The comments o' Cæsar micht hae shown ye that lack o' numbers, and e'en the lack o' weel trained bands, may be compensated by the rapidity o' the manœuYe micht hae chased them through Glasgow; ower the height o' Shotts, or in by Linlithgow, into Embro Castle, had ye poured yer strength on them wi' the speed o' Auld Noll's movements. Claverse and his men arrived here, covered wi' blude and wounds. Their very teeth chatter in their heads, lik castanets, when they yet speak o't. They met na wi' Muirland men, nor Whigs, said they, but wi' deels incarnate. Ilka stroke was death. And like a thunder shoor o' the auld boy, it rained bullets, wi' halberts, and forks! They are barricadoing the Cross. Come on, if ye can, yours, richt trusty Sir Robert, very sincerely, &c.-J. W." Sir Robert had with him Hackston, and Burly. And there were no less than three opinions among them, touching the best plan of operations. It was, at length, resolved that they should attempt to dislodge the troops under Lord Ross. Sir Robert and Hackston marched up the Gallowgate with one detachment and Burly taking a winding course by the Wynd Head, moved down the High street. They drove the different parties before them. But when they reached the Cross they found a strong, and high barricade, thrown across the Gallowgate, and High Street. From behind this the soldiers poured a severe fire upon them. They were also exposed to a galling fire from the windows, from doors, and from the Closses. They marched up to the barrier, and poured in a destructive fire upon the troops. The main body instantly retreated: while parties of them from behind the tolbooth stairs, and in the door of the tolbooth still kept up a K* fire upon the Covenanters. In this exposed state, serjeant Walter Patterson, and five gallant men fell fighting bravely. The poor serjeant, a blooming youth, fell at the feet of Sir Robert, close by Tam Hamilton; and casting an implor. ing look on them, he pronounced the name of his widowed mother; and coupled with it, that of his "bonnie Bessie Bell, whom he wad ne'er see mair!" And poured out his soul in an agony ! .Et dulces moriens reminiscitur Argos!' "Ye hae slain Tam beck Tam's vengeance was roused into fury. a Clydesdale man, a bonnie ane, and a gude: and be it blude for blude, gin ye should een spill mine." oned to a few of his Avendale men, his grays, to follow him. They hurried forward, and threw themselves over the barrier; and sprung forward, toward the tolbooth stairs; obstinately deaf to the voice of their commander, ordering them to return; and not to throw away their lives, for no purpose. They fell on the skulking soldiers with a terrific shout. They seemed to see nothing, and to think of nothing but Drumclog! The soldiers remained not an instant: they dashed their musquetcons on the ground, and ran. The race was manfully contested along the Trongate. The pavement was strewed with swords, and helmets, and bandaliers, and cockades. The long skirts of the soldiers red coats were hacked and sliced by the swords of the close pursuing Whigs: and the loose fragments streamed in the rear of the strug gling soldiers, like red ribbons floating in the wind! "Cow. ard loons!" cried Tam, who had by this time, fallen consi. derably behind the soldiers, though he was a head of his own men. Ye hae better heels than hearts, well I ween. And lik gude orthodox pock puddins, ye hae learned, I see, oot o' Butler, though that saam Englisher has stoun the idea frae Demosthenes, they say, without letting own that he stole it, 66 "The man that fechts, and rins away, Tam shook his ferrara after them, as he pronounced these words, and returned to his men. Meantime the royal troops were pouring in upon the Whigs from the Saltmarket: and a detachment, entering from Bell's Wynd, had succeeded in driving Burly up the High street. Sir Robert, therefore, sounded a retreat; and conducted his men in good order to Tollcross. Just as Burly had rejoined them, they perceived that the enemy were advancing on them with about two hundred horsemen. "Noo Rathillet," cried the general, "let you and me smite thae uncircumcised Philistines." The whole of the little troop, at this time, not half the number of the enemy, put itself in motion, six abreast; the extent of the enemy's front, and, without waiting to fire, they galloped on them sword in hand, shouting the watch word, "DRUMCLOG!" The front line of the foemen was instantly thrown into confusion; and without firing a pistol, they wheeled about, and galloped back into Glasgow, in the utmost disorder. The Whigs entered the Gallowgate, pell mell, with the retreating enemy; having unhorsed a few of them in the rear line, But not choosing to hazard a second repulse before the barricade; they withdrew to the main body at Hamilton. The ostensible reason why the general officers of the Whigs, ten in number, with their four chaplains, were, as to any important object, totally inactive, for a considerable number of days, was, that time might be allowed to their friends to come in. But by the seventh of June, they had arranged into regiments about six thousand able bodied men, full of courage, and high in spirits. And when the enemy had abandoned Glasgow, the party of Whigs, who hung on their rear, brought a considerable quantity of arms, which they had found in that city. These, with the arms for. merly procured, put this army into a tolerable condition, as it respected arms. They ought now to have followed up their advantage. The enemy under Lord Ross and Colonel Graham, had marched on Kilsyth; and had joined Lord Linlithgow at Larber Muir, on the sixth of June. But they had no disposition to face the Whigs. They directed their march on Edinburgh; and continued to urge the Council to apply for an army from the King. All the South and West of Scotland, they said, were pouring in their strength, and fury upon them: and they had not forces to resist them. Never was there a more favourable opportunity offered to the Whigs to strike a blow. They might have attacked the enemy at Larber Muir; or followed them up to the vicinity of Edinburgh. It was true, they waited the arrival of the the civil magistracy! And though the Indulged admitted the Indulgence to proceed from this source, and it could not be denied that their admission of this privilege to preach by virtue of it, involved an acknowledgment of this supremacy, yet they bowed themselves at the foot of tyranny, and accepted the boon of permission to exercise a spiritual right, which no power on earth could take from them. The other party of the Whigs, surnamed the HONEST, at the head of which were all our general officers, and our heroes, did not hesitate to testify their zeal against this abomination. Jesus Christ, said they, has his kingly rights, and our lord the King has his civil rights; we do not wish to detract one gem of glory, and of his true rights, and his honour, from his royal majesty; do not blend what never can be mixed; do not put on Charles's head what we can see on the awful head of our Lord Jesus Christ alone. Yield us this much for our Redeemer, and our lord the King will never find more loyal subjects, or sin. cerer hearts to serve him, than ours are. We hold more. over, said they, that spiritual officers, ministers alone, have a right to rule in spiritual matters; that the power claimed by Charles II., and conferred on him by prelatism, is an usurped power; that he is a tyrant, while he exercises it; that he came under solemn engagements, voluntarily, at Scoon, when he was crowned, to intermeddle with no such power or things; that he has, we fear, deliberately broken his coronation oath, through the advice of evil counsellors; that when we claimed our natural rights as free-born Scotchmen, and our religious rights, according to his royal promise and oath, made on his bended knees, before Almighty God, and the nation, he has not only denied them utterly, but he has turned loose upon us his fierce soldiery, and he is now destroying the lives of his lieges, whom he had sworn to protect; that the time will undoubtedly come when this dynasty—which is incurable in its follies and tyranny, shall be slung from the throne, as a stone from the sling; that, in our view, the people are actually set free from their allegiance : yet," continued they, "we are willing to wave this; to say nothing against the King's power; and to confine our resentments against the main errors of the times, until |