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detained General Hawley at her house at Falkirk, was executed on Tower Hill, together with Lord Bal- merino. Lord Tullibardine was only saved a similar fate by dying in the Tower before his trial came on. The Duke of Perth and Lord George Murray con- trived to escape. The Duke died while out at sea, but his more fortunate comrade reached Holland, where he lived for fifteen years. Sir Thomas Sheridan, the Prince’s Governor, made good his flight to Rome, where he died broken-hearted within the same year. Of Charles, it may be said, that with his de- parture from Scotland, he cast off all the good qualities of his nature. Henceforth, a wanderer on the face of the earth, soured by misfortune, bereft of the excitement of an ambitious campaign, and the influence of a vigorous race, he succumbed to weak- nesses which grew into vices. It is with regret and pity, it is almost with shame, that we have to chronicle the remainder of his life. The change, however, was not accom- plished in a day. On his arrival in Paris he was graciously received by the King, and enthusiastically by the French people. Whatever his faults Charles remembered his friends, and at his request com- mands were conferred on them in the French army. For himself he only obtained empty words. His applications to the Courts of Spain and