HOW PRINCE CHARELS'S MEN ENTERED EDINBURGH.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1521, 26 February 1886, Page 3

HOW PRINCE CHARELS'S MEN ENTERED EDINBURGH.

Crossing the Burghmuir by moonlight, the Jacobites, reached the vicinity of the Nether Bow Port, by entering under the archway near St John's Street; and the narrative of Provost Stewart's trial records what followed then. The sentry at the gate stopped a hackney coach that approached it from the inside —the identical vehicle in which the deputies had returned from Gray's Mill, and the driver of which wanted to pass out at that critical juncture. "Open the port," he cried, " for I behove to get out" " You cannot," replied the sentinel, " without an order from Provost Stewart" " Let the coach out instantly," said James Gillespie, under-keeper of the gate, " for I have an order to that effect." " Oh, sir, 'tis very well; you have the keys of the port and must answer for it," replied the soldier, as he pulled back the gate in the arch between its two massive towers. At that moment a Highlander sprang in and wrested his musket from him—it was the Chief Lochiel—and immediately the whole clan Cameron advanced up the street, with swords drawn and colours flying, their pipes playing

" We'll awa' to Sliirramuir, And haud the Whigs in order."

Other noise there was none, and no bloodshed ; not au armed man was to be seen in the streets, to the astonishment of the Highlanders, who saw only the people in their night-dresses, at the windows, by the light of the early dawn.—From Cassell'g Old and Neui Edinburgh.