the residence of the illustrious Duke of Perth, which was only a little distance from the said Town;

And now it was judged proper for the army to seperate, one part to go one way, and the other, another, and accordingly the Prince went the Highland road, with the Clans and prisoners for Inverness; And the Lowland Regiment with the horse went the low country road, the sea coast, which was much longer: So that for three or four weeks we remained separated.

And now leaving Criffe we marched to Perth a large fine town, from Perth to Cowper in Angus, from thence to Clame, and from thence to Forfarr, and on to Monross the reason why I am so short in mentioning these places, is, that I have little to say, we passing them so quickly, and nothing extraordinary happening: But at Monross we staid a few days, it is a fine loyal Seaport town, and looked upon, as I was told there, to produce Men of the greatest wisdom in Scotland, and having staid three days there, we were at last somewhat surpriz'd at the sight of Men of War, which appeared on the coast, and the rumour being that Cumberland was pretty nigh, made us suspect that they might land and intercept our passage, so to prevent anything of this, We marched with all haste out of the town; The Foot going out the third day at night, and the rest following early the next morning, except the Hussars who staid there some days after, observing their motions.

And now it seemeth that a curiosity would ask, what sort of Men, these last were? A set of braver fellows, would be very hard to be found; Many of them VOL. II. No. XII.

having mounted themselfs on Horses they themselfs had taken from the enemy; their commander was a wise courageous and virtuous Man, and behaved himself in his station even to the admiration of all, regulating his Choir with that order as to make our Enemies, and the Country fifty miles distance from us, have more fear of them, than almost the whole Army; In fine he was of infinite service to the Prince, as were also his horses: for their conduct was daring, their courage was steeled, and few there were of them that would scruple, if possible, to go to Hell gates and fetch the keys from thence.

Now being parted from Monross, we arrived soon after at Aberdeen, where we staid two or three Days, and notwithstanding our being in the Town, the Presbyterian Ministers ceased not, to preach and pray, publickly against Us; And here it was that I happened to be bedfellow with my Colonel, Lord Balmerino, in the same bed where Cumberland afterwards lay, being in the Cheif Provosts house in town.

And now having orders to march out of Aberdeen, it blew, snow'd, hail'd and froze, that morning to that degree, that few Pictures ever represented Winter with all its Ice-circles about it better, than what many of Us did that day, for here Men were covered with snow Icecircles. Ice-circles hanging on their Eye-brows and beards, and an entire coldness seizing all their limbs, so that it may be wondered at, how they were able to bear up against it, being so beat upon by a severe contrary wind, which brought snow and little cutting hail, bitterly down upon our Faces, in such a

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manner that it was impossible, to see two yards before Us, and very easy it was to lose our companions, the road being bad and over large commons, the snow immediately filling up the Path, made it most terrible.

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However we continued marching on till about Three O'Clock in the afternoon, when my horse, by the inclemency of the said beating upon its face, fairly gave it up, and would carry Me no further; And now by a little halt I quickly lost my Companions and was obliged to light and lead my horse, leg deep in snow, being upon a wide common, it appeared to Me, as seeing all that day's march neither House, Tree, or Barn, and my horse being unwilling to follow Me, made Me think of the situation I was in, covered all over with snow, and in a manner benumbed with cold and in danger every moment of perishing, and soon after falling down upon the snow unable to proceed further, I expected my last very soon; However reflecting, that I had a little Bottle of Spirits, which the Provost's Lady had been so kind as to give Me, I was resolved notwithstanding the reluctance I had to stir, to put my hand into my riding coat pocket, and take it out, and supping a little of it I found, that never repose to a most weary Traveller, Meat to most ravenous hunger, or Drink to a most burning thirst, could be more refreshing or agreeable, than it was at this time to Me, and now I was like to have finished my bottle; when a reflexion came into my head, what my poor horse would do, which scemed to be in as bad a situation as myself, being one of a delicate and tender breed; Knowing that he could drink beer, I resolved to make an experiment,

and see, if I could make him partner with me at my bottle, so taking of my hat I poured the remainder upon the crown of it sinking it pretty low down, taking the snow that was upon it, and a little more, and dissolved it into it, in order to mitigate the force of the spirits, which having done I gave it to my poor horse to drink, which to my great surprize and pleasure he did, his mouth being so cold that he did not perceive the heat of the spirits; however after this feeling ourselfs respire as it were new life and vigour, we endeavoured to proceed and made what ground we could; And after three-quarters of an hour, being almost upon the relapse again, we stumbled against a house to my great surprize and satisfaction and following the walls of it brought Me to the door, where entering together with my horse surprized the poor people, that were sitting at the fire; but they seeing my condition received Me, with a great deal of good nature, and permitted my horse to stand in the house till it was well rubbed and then conducted it to a little place to lye down in, giving it hay and corn, as it wanted; And now after I had eas'd myself of my riding coat and boots and was well warmed and refresh'd, I soon heard of two more, who had almost been in as bad a situation as myself, except that their horses continued to carry them, were come to the next house adjacent, so going out in order to see them, I found them two friends of mine, viz. one Mr. Maxwell and Mr. Vaughan, an English Gentleman, who after some chat concluded that two more harrassing marches, than that over the River Esk and the present, could scarcely be ima

gined; So accommodating ourselfs as well as we could for that night, being obliged to lie with our horses, We parted next morning for Old Meldrum, where most of the Army was got to.

And being now arrived at Old Meldrum, we went the next day for Bamf, a little pretty and agreeable town: And about this time we heard, that the Highlanders, who were with the Prince had broke down the Barracks of the River of Badenock, which had at all times been a great eye sore to them, They being built to keep them in awe, and had taken one Serjeant and eleven private men prisoners, and were now in strait march for Inverness, distant only 24 miles from thence.

And now after a little stay at Bamf, we marched for Cullen, and by this time we heard, that the Prince had made himself master of the Lord President's House, And after some little resistance obliged the Garrison in the town of Inverness to retire into the Castle, where laying a regular siege, soon caused it to surrender at Mercy, taking about 200 Men prisoners with several Officers, cheifly among whom was the Governor of the same, and the Master of Ross; this rapid success of the Princes gave us great courage, so marching from Cullen, through Frockabus, over the River Spey, Elgin, Forres and Nairn, towns, ten miles distance from each other; We came to be greedy spectators of our dear Prince and of what he with his brave Highlanders had effected; And now to second our victorious arms, We were joined by several more of the Clanns and Cheifs, and the brave Amazone Lady McIntosh, Seaforth and others coming in, or causing their Clanns to do it, greatly re

inforced the army, so that in this flourishing situation things were When it pleased the Prince to make a visit to the Duke of Gordon, whither all his Guards were, ordered to attend him, and in going a curious fine Standard, with this Motto upon it, BRITONS STRIKE HOME, that was taken at Falkirk from Gardner's Dragoons, was honourably conferred upon me, by the Prince, at the head of the whole troop, and which I had the honour of carrying ever after.

And now having passed Nairns, Forres, Elgin, and the River Spey; just at the other side under Frokabus, We came to the Duke's Seat, but what reception, or what passed there I know not; But after some little stay we returned back attending our Royal Master again to Inverness; And we no sooner got there, but we had orders to conduct some of the cheif Officers prisoners to Forres, and leaving them there, (they being upon their parole of honour) to go on to Cullen, in order to see and inspect all affairs on that side of the Country, and observe the enemies motions, who lay then at Aberdeen.

And being now there, on the watch continually by our Patroling parties, we heard that Colonel Grant a good French Officer, had taken with his Artillery Fort Augustus, and made the Garrison prisoners of War. On the other hand, a part of Fitzjames's Horse had landed, and joined the Prince, that my Lord Geo. Murray had blocked up 6 or 700 men in the Castle of Blair, where he behaved with a great deal of conduct and policy; For appearing before the Castle with a few men, having hid most of the Highlanders with him in a wood adjacent; the Castle made

a sortie upon him, with about 300 men, which he perceiving, immediately draws them out of the wood and surrounds them; which they seeing, immediately surrendered; so sending them prisoners to Inverness, he persevered in the seige of the castle, but the Hessians coming up soon after, obliged him to raise it, and leave 400 men remaining in it.

[To be continued.]

Provincial Polemics.

The following letters, which were inserted in a provincial paper in the north of England, are now offered to the public in a form which will secure to them all an equal chance of being read; an advantage of which the Catholic letters that were published in the newspaper were deprived, by being printed in obscure corners, 'midst Day's Liquid Blacking,' and " Daffy's Elixir.” One of the letters, to which publication was refused, not having been sent again to the editor, is now published for the first time.

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As the English Catholic, notwithstanding the provocation of C. A., refused to enter on the question of the Veto; and Pacificus is silent on the subject, this work is a theological controversy only.

Would to God that Protestant writers, before they deride and insult the Catholic faith, would weigh well the awful risk they unnecessarily incur. As they presume not to be infallible, they must allow that it is possible that the Catholic Church may be in the right. Should this be the case, they are answerable for the

* With notes by AN ENGLISH CATHOLIC..

impiety and blasphemy of which they may be guilty. An air of disdainful triumph by no means becomes the advocates of a reformation, which, assuming to revive primitive Christianity, has run into countless schisms, on questions relating to antient faith and discipline; and into endless variations, as to the mode in which it was to be established. At any rate, let them treat with reverence the errors, which were cherished by their forefathers for a succession of many generations: let them forbear perpetually to arraign the mistaken opinions of the Christian world. Let them be grateful to that society to which the nations of Europe are indebted for their religion, civilization, and learning.

Such conduct would be decent in Protestant writers, of whatever sect. And let each sect apply to itself the question proposed by the Apostle, " Came the word of God forth from you, or hath it come to you only?" The answer to this question, is the perpetual comfort of the true church-the perpetual reproach of the societies which have separated from it.

Infallibility---The Veto---and

Transubstantiation.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE

SIR,

It is truly laughable to see the nonsense daily broached on the subject of Infallibility. Tossed to and fro, like a shuttlecock, vain is the attempt to find its depository. Some attribute it to a General Council without the Pope; others to the Pope without a Council; some to both conjointly; whilst others place it in a General Council, yet allow the Pope an authority over all Councils.

Thus we have at one time

* Who calls the King" Heretic ?" I can confidently defy C. A. to quote any one publication, by any one of his Majesty's Catholic subjects, in the course of his long reign, in which he is so called. The word heretic occurs several times in scripture; and the Church of England, of which his Majesty is the head, has, in more than one instance, adopted it in its public service. C. A. therefore, will agree that there are persons to whom the term may be applied. I by no means assert that it ought to be applied indecorously or disrespectfully.

But who are heretics? If either the Catholic Church, or the Established Church of England, be the true church, the other is heretical. Why does not C. A. call the Catholics heretical? For fear of giving offence? I doubt not that C. A. perfectly understands the difficulty. On the principle of the right of private judgment in matters of faith, there can be no such thing as heresy: but neither can there be such a thing as a church. On the principle that the Church has authority in such matters, which the Church of England, in its articles, affirms, and which the Catholic Church also maintains; on this principle, that authority must have belonged to that church, from which the Church of England separated, and could not have been transferred, at the time of the separation, to this latter church, nor acquired by it at any subsequent epoch. Whence arises the irritability of Protestants, at the very sound of this harmless word? Heretic is derived from a Greek word, which signifies to choose." Do they really suspect that, according to the scripture sense, and antient use of the word, Christians have no right to choose, among doctrines of religion,

Veto, on the appointment of Ro man Catholic Bishops, within these, his dominions. But, hey! presto! the scene changes, and we are presented with a Synod of Bishops, who, doubtless, in their own conceits at least, have as good a right to be considered infallible as a more general coun cil. These grave and solemn pertheir sonages, presume to set up opinions against those of their infallible master, and to tell him that there will be great danger to their only true and Catholic church, in the concession of a measure in which he, good easy man, affects to see no danger, or which he feels disposed to yield, for a time at least,† to his admired

what they will receive, and what they will reject; but are bound to believe the whole of that which is proposed by those who, from the beginning, were divinely authorized to teach? Do they feel that they are in the same case and circumstances as those, who in former ages, were called heretics?

If the Catholic Church, according to usage founded in prescription, which it neither can, nor ought to peglect or contravene, calls the same. things by the same names, as occasions arise, in the long series of ages, is an anonymous writer, to refer to this practice, in which private individuals have no concern, for the of purpose exciting and sustaining the hatred of one portion of his Majesty's subjects against another portion, at least equally loyal and meritorious with that to which he, C. A., may belong?

+ So this "good easy man" is, it seems, a crafty one. Nothing inclines us so much, as a consciousness of ill conduct in ourselves, to suspect it in others. C. A. has probably heard how religiously the treaty of Limeric was observed, in the time of King William, the Patron Saint of the Orange Clubs; perhaps C. A. has read the articles of the treaty of Pa ris, by which Canada was surrendered to this country, and has read also the "instructions," sent about ten years