Remember Culloden.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1424, 15 June 1899, Page 15

Remember Culloden.

JACOBITES DROP A TEAR ON THE FAMOUS FIELD. (“Daily Mail” Special). The Jacobite feeling, it appears, is not yet dead in the land, and this was evidenced on Saturday, April 16, when a “Daily Mail” representative visited the historic, field of Culloden, near Inverness, to witness the commemoration of the one hundred and fifty-third anniversairy of the famous battle which fell yesterday. From different parts of Scotland as well as England tributes in the shape of handsome wreaths were sent to decorate the cairn which has been raised on the battlefield to the memory of the men who nobly fought for the hapless Stewart- cause. \ Mr Theodore Napier, an Edinburgh ■sc-ion of a noble house, dressed in all the warlike paraphernalia of an old Highland chief, was the chief actor in the ceremony, and he intimated that the Marquis de Ruvigny and Raineva-1. president of the Legitimist Jacobite League of Great Britain and Ireland, regretted that lie found, it impossible to take part in the ceremony. IT WAS A PATHETIC SIGHT to see the remnants of a lost cause stand on the ground when the fate of their cause was already settled. Among the many wreaths was one from the English branch of the Legitimist Jacobite League, addressed from 7. Victoria street, Westminster, which bore the following inscription: LEST WE FORGET. In memory of those who fell on Cu.llouen Moor, April id. 1740, in the cause of their rightful king, James third anti eighth. In no more our annals show Battles won and banners taken, Still in death, defeat, and wee, Ours in loyalty unshaken. Sir Robert Menzics, chief of the clan, and several Jacobites in Newcastle and other English towns forwarded their tributes. As tho Jacobites decorated the cairn the mournful dirge of the bagpipes was heard, and added an impressive touch to the scene. Mr Napier delivered a short speech, in i which lie DREW A VIVID PICTURE cf the brutality of the Duke of Cumberland to tho pursued Highlanders alter tiie battle, and of the stout- fight they made for their Sovereign. He deprecated the fact that a road had been cut through the part where the Highlanders were buried, and suppposed the reason was that they were Jacobites. It should, he said, be tho endeavour of ail Jacobites by every constitutional means to bring back to power the- old royal family. It was all very well to have a good Queen —no one had excelled Queen Victoria as a ruler, and every one admired her—but while that was so, her title to the throne was not a good one, and it was a well-known fact that more than 600 persons were nearer to the throne by right than Queen Victoria. Mr Napier concluded by urging all to fight for the fight for the good old Stuart cause. The pilgrims afterwards left the battlefield, mornful and sad, but impressed with the fact that they had done what in them lay to honour the fallen brave.