DIGITISED MANUSCRIPTS

( 30 ) For many weeks Charles continued his lonely wanderings. On one occasion he had to seek con- cealment in a cave among robbers ; but fierce and lawless as they were, they never thought for an instant of earning the price of blood; on the con- trary, they spared no effort to secure his safety and to supply his wants. After endless perils and ad- ventures, Charles effected a meeting with some of his faithful adherents, among whom was Cameron of Lochiel, who provided him with a plenty to which he had long been unused. Devouring some scollops out of a saucepan with a silver spoon, he cried, ‘Now, gentlemen, I live like a prince.’ One day lying concealed in a close thicket, that from being half suspended in the air was called ‘the cage,’ Charles heard that a French ship which had been despatched to his relief had anchored in the neighbourhood. He immediately set out, but travelled only at night, and on the 20th September, attended by Cameron of Lochiel and about a hundred other faithful friends, embarked at the very same spot -where he had landed fourteen months before, for the coast of France, which he reached in nine days. After the escape of Prince Charles? the Duke of Cumberland’s butcheries were followed up with wholesale execution, both in Scotland and England. Lord Kilmarnock, the husband of the lady who had