Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-01-07
The Pretender's Invasion of England.

EVERYBODY knows the main incidents OF
this romantic campaign; the successful bat
ties which gave the insurgents The apparent
command OF the Lowlands the advance
Into England; the retreat from Derby ;
the disasters of the rebel army, and its inal
extinction at Colloden. But although to US
il appears very serious state Of atfairs--a
crown placed on the arbitrament of war,
battles in open field, surprise on the part of
the Hanoverans, and loud talking on the
part of their rivals--the tranquility of all
ranks and in all quarters is the most mex
plicable thing in the whole proceeding
When the landing was first announced
alarm was of course felt, as at a fair,
when it is reported that tiger has been let
loose from the menagerie. But in little
time everything resumed its ordinary APP
pearance. George himself cried, Pooh,
pooh Don't talk TO me of such nonsense"
His ministers, who probably knew the state
ofpnblic feeling. were equally unconeerned.
A few troops we're brought over from the
continent, to show that force was not want
ing ifthe application Of it was required.
But in other respects no one appeared to
believe that the assumed fears of the dis
affected, and the no less assumed exultation
Of the Jacobte, had any foundation in fact.
Trade,law, buying and selling, writing and
publishing, went on exactly as before. The
march of the Pretender was little attended
to, except perhaps in the political circles in
London. In the great towns it passed al |!
most unheeded. Quiet families within a
few miles of the invaders march, posted or
walked across TO see the uncouth battalions
pass. Their strange appearance furnished
subjects OF conversation for a month, but
nowhere does there seem to have been the
terror Of real state of war-the anxious
waiting for intelligence, " the pang, the ag-
ony, the doubt no one felt uneasy as to
the result. England had determined to
have 10 more Stuart kings, and Scotland /
was beginning to feel the benefit of the I'M
ion, and left the defence of the true inheri-
tor to the uniformed. disconted, disunited
inhabitants of the hills. When the tribes
emerged from their mountains they seemed
to melt like the winter SHOWS. No squad
rams OF stout-armed cavaliers came to Join
them from holt and farm, as in the days Of
the Great Rebellion, when the royal flag
was raised at nottingham. Puritans and
Independents took no heed, and cried no
cries about I. the sword of the Lord and of
Gideon. They had turned cutters at Shelf
field, and fustian makers at Manchester
The Prince found not only that he created
no enthusiasm, but no alarm, a most pain
full thing for an invading chief; and, in
fact, when they had reached the great cen
trail plains Of England, they felt lost in the
immensely of the solitude that surrounded +
them. If they had met enemies, they would
have fonght if they had found friends,
they would have hoped but they positively
wasted away for lack of either confederate
or opponent. The exhibition disappeared
like small river in sand, What was the
use Of going on? If they reached London
itself they would be swallowed up in the
vastness Of the population, and, instead of
meeting an army, they would be in danger
of being taken up by the police. So they
reversed their steps. Donald had stolen
considerably in the course of the foray, and
was anxious TO go and invest his fortune in
Lis native vale. An Engtist gutna--s, i
coin hitherto as fabulous as the Bodach qlas p
would pay the rent of his holding for
twenty years five pounds would make him
cousin ofthe Laird But Donald never
got back to display the spoils of Charlsle
or Derby. He loitered by the road. and
was stript Of his booty. lie was imprison- i
ed, and hanged, and starved, and beaten, /,
and finally, after the strange tragi-comedy
of his flight at Falkirk, had the good for
tune, on the bare expanse Of drummossiel
Moor to hide some of the ludicrous fea-
lures of his retreat in the glory of wor-
riors death. Justice became reyenged by
its severity after the insurrection was quell-
ed.--1he Eighteen Christian Centuries. BIZ
Rev. James White.