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mountaineers the various objects of civilised life they captured were incomprehensible. One man _ into whose possession a watch had fallen, when it stopped sold it for a mere song, thinking it a ‘dead beast.’ What puzzled the Highlanders most was the chocolate they found in Cope’s baggage chest, and which was hawked about as ‘ Johnnie Cope’s salve.’ Charles, elated as he was, instead of attending to his own wants, spent several hours in providing for the relief of the wounded of both armies. His followers, however, drank fathom-deep the health of the Prince, who, as they said, could eat a dry crust, sleep on straw, take his dinner in four minutes, and win a battle in five: whilst the Scotch ladies asked for locks of his hair, and wore minia- ture portraits of him in which he was represented as the ‘ Highland Laddie.’ We are told that one of his admirers—a Miss Lumsden—informed a young artist, Robert Strange, to whom she was engaged, that he might think no more of her unless he joined Prince Charlie. It may be added that he obeyed, and eventually married the lady. This battle which went in England by the name of Preston Pans, and was called by the Jacobites the battle of Gladmuir, made Prince Charles master of the best part of Scotland. The court of George II. had become thoroughly alarmed by the victory of Preston Pans, and Marshal C