The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-12 00:00:00

CLACHNAC UDDIN.

(From the Inverness Courier.)
We noticed in a former number, that the ancient Cladb'
nacuddin—the palladium of the burgh—which for cent",
ries has been regarded with veneration by the natives 01
this town, had been sunk to the level of the pavement at
the Exchange, in making the alterations and repairs f,
the new Reading Rooms. Although the stone *foul°
have been equally safe and well preserved in its new situa-
tion, some of the inhabitants looked upon this removal acst
an evil omen, derogatory to the dignity of the burgh ;
an
a memorial was addressed to the Town Council, fluor;
rously signed, praying that the relic might be restored to Itt
former site. Nay more, a handbill was issued, stating the
the " Clachnacuddin Boys" would assemble and raise the
stone themselves, if the local authorities did not undertake
the duty before the 4th instant. Some time previous:
however, the Council had unanimously agreed to proceed
with the exhumaffbn, and on Saturday last the task was
accomplished. A considerable number of persons assem-
bled on the occasion, and when the stone was fairly exe,n"
vated, and placed in its " fair proportions" before the PO'
lie view, the work was greeted with three hearty cheers--•
William Fraser, better known by the name of Bill 1)11"c:
standing up with his hat off, " like a prophet in drink,.
and giving the time with appropriate action and energY•
bottle of wine was also broken over the stone, and a bless-
ing pronounced.
We have made inquiries in vain as to any authentic
tory of this relic. It is not mentioned by Captain Burt In
his " Letters from the Highlands," written about 1730,
sa
which there is an excellent description of Inverness : but le
is supposed to be of great antiquity, and it derived its nam
of Clachnacuddin, or " Stone of the Tubs," from the cis.'
cumstance that the women used to rest their pails ee it
when fetching water from the river. There is a traditiot
that it was originally the seat of a famous seer or prophet'
who predicted, that so long as the natives of Inverness
preserved the stone, the burgh would flourish and be Pr°g"
perous. When the town was burned, about the year l4llt
after the battle of Harlaw, by Donald of the Isles, the na,"
tives are said to have been consoled for their loss, by find'
ing that the ancient stone was left uninjured by the ire !
In 1791, an extreordinar) uproar and sensation were pro'
duced by an intended transmigration of the stone, by whic'
the Magistrates of the day got into exceeding ill odour
with the community. At the same time there was a ccr'
taro Mrs. Campbell, an eccentric personage of some cele'
brity in the town, being equally conspicuous as the ac'
coucher and troubadour of the burgh—the midwife and
minstrel of the day. This lady exercised her poetical pow'
ers in praise of Clachnacuddin, in a lyric of great length.
several stanzas of which, though not in the style of Can*:
bell or Byron, still linger in the memories of the old
tants. We give a few verses as a literary curiosity :---

" Twas on a Monday morning,
The first of ninety-one;
An ignoramus was employed
To ornament the Stone.
If any man insult the Stone,
Of high or low degree,
A galley slave in Africa
I'd have him for to be.
Although I'm low in station
Pray do not censure me,
For the independent sentiments
Of a Clachnacuddin she I I"
Mrs. Campbell's muse was as prolific as her gessiP, and
like Verdun the Butler's, seldom allowed any occurrence
of notoriety to escape without. an " invocation of the Nine'
The volunteer patriotic mania of the period appears to 11,e.
found all acceptation with her ; for the formation of the Cal
loden and Inverness Companies gave birth to an heroic
b.lllad of about forty stanzas, beginning—
" Culloden the hero has risen his band,
And the brave Invernessians will join hand in hand ;
To their King they are loyal—to their country they're truces
They arc the brave fellows that wear the true blue I"
The uniform of the " Inverness Gentlemen Volunteers,/
was long blue coats with red facings, white vests and in;
expressibles, black leggings, large cocked hats with boars
tails. So sensitive was the troop, and so little inured .t 0
the tented field, that they only exercised and paraded n
the Northern Meeting Rooms. The only "actual servic%
they ever encountered, was the suppression of a Meal Mob'
and killing a weaver.
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BIRTHS.
On the 10th inst., at Ashley Park, in Surrey, Lady
etchers
of a son.
On the sth inst., at Ardwick-place, Manchester, Mrs. Charles de
Berg, of a son.

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MARIED.
On the 9th inst., at St. Helenß
's, Mr. M. M. Holloway, of Hen-
rietta-street, Covent-garden, to Anna, daughter of Mr. Morris, of
Bishopsgate-street Within.
On the 9th inst., ot Bsxley Church, Samuel S. T. Carlow, Esq.,
of Clapham, to Jane, 01(16! daughter of William Spong, Esq., of
S Coftree House, Boxley, Kent,
On the sth inst., at Clapham Clinic:li,Surrey g
John Fisher 111i1-
ler, Esq., to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of .1. A. Z winer, Esq.,
of Albion-terrace, Wandsworth-road.
On the 9th inst. at Christchurch, St. Marylebone, Win. Thos.
Davinier, Esq., of 'South-bank, St. John's-wood, to Fanny, daugh-
ter, of the late W. Graham, Esq., of Portsmouth.
, a
On the 6th inst., at Baldock, the Rev. Herbert Randoleb
Mitcham, Surrey, to Martha, second daughter of Vickris kfrr'
Esq., of Baldoek, Herts.
On the sth inst., at Svvinburne, Northumberland, the marches('
Teodoro Carlo Strozzi, of Lavacchio, in Tuscany, and of Florence,
to Georgiana, daughter of the late G. Strickland, Esq., of
Nea"
ton, and Chesnut-grove, Yorkshire.
M. Polders, Esq., of West Baham, Norfolk,-
On the 4th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square,
the late Viscount Ennisni_ore, and sister of the Esegaaarila
Light Dragoons, to the Lady Catherine
On the 4th inst., at Asiergavermy Anne Hare, daught..r
to Eliza, the eldest daughter of W* Win,
Henning,
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DIED.
On the 7th inst,, at Ch 1 e tenh am, after a long and
Peter Edward Flanagan, F:sq belovedand lamented by his fansi rt
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aged 57. of
On the 9th inst., in Albemarle.street, Lad W b ton relict
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Sir P. Warburton, Bart., of Arley Cheshire. slo i ba
On the Bth inst , at Scot's house: Riekrnansworth, aged_iv -: Is
Stafford, Esq f. " -C
• pbl me I f
~ or 3o years hief Clerk at the u ic
painfi.il Mar
Bow-street, and also Clerk of the Indictments for the county 9
Middlesex.
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On the 15th of July, on his passage from Sierra Leone, Pkilitt
Thomas, second son of J. W. Spicer, Esq., of Esher ?WIW
Midshipmane 9th ins of Ht.,M.agedS. " Wanderer." f the
On he 24, Lieutenant R. H. Chaplain, 0 so,
Madras Engineers, eldest son of the Rev. R. H. Chapman, of Be
wont-street, and of Kirby Misk, Yorkshire. rtephsee'
On the Bth inst., at Cheltenham, Jane, wife of Hay •,, thd
Esq., late in the Civil Service of the East India Compaq °-
the Bombay Establishment.
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Middlesex.—Tuesday, September 12, 1837.