Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-01-14
THE PRETEsDERS INVASION OF ENGLAND.

Everybody knows the main incidents
of this romantic campaign the success
ful battles 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 It's final extinction at Colloden.-
But although to US it appears very se-
rious state of atiairs--a crown placed on
the arbitrament Of war. battles in opeh
field, surprise on the part Of the Hanoy-
eriens, and loud talking on the part Of
their rivals the tranquility Of all ranks
and in all quarters is the most inexplica-
bic thing in the whole proceeding. When
the landing was first announced alarm
was OF course felt, as at fair, when it is
reported that tiger has been let loose
from the meIagerie. But in a little
time everything resumed its ordinary ap-
pearance. George himself cried, Pooh,
pooh Don't talk to me Of such non
sense His ministers, who probably
knew the state of public feeling, were
equally unconcerned. A few troops
were brought over from the continent, to
show that force was not wanting if the
application of it was required. But in
other respects no one appeared to be-
| lieve that the assumed fears of the dis
affected, and the no less assumed exul-
taIion of the Jacobite, had any founda-
tion in fact Trade, law, buying and
selling, writing and publishing, went on
exactly as before. The march of the
Pretender was little attended 10, except
perhaps in the political circles in Lon
don. In the great towns it passed almost
unheeded. Quiet families within few
miles of the invaders march, posted Oh
walked across to see the uncouih battal-
ions pass. Their strange appearance
furnished subjects of conversation for q
month, but nowhere does there seem tc
have been the terror of q real state o
war-the anxious waiting for intel
hgence, the pang, The agony, the doubt;
no one felt uneasy as to the result. Eng
land had determined to have no NOR,
Stuart kings, and Scotland was beginnin.
to feel tue benefit of the Union, and lef
the defence Of the true inheritor to th
uniformed, discontented, disunited inha
bitants of the hills. When the tribe,
emerged from their mountains they seem
cd to melt ike the winter SHOWS. NJ
sqnadrons Of stOut-armed cavaliers cam,
, to join them from holt and farm, as il
the days Of the Great Rebellion, wher
the royal flag was raised at Nottingham
Puritans and Independents took no heed
, and cried no cries about the sword o
the Lord and of Gideon They hac
turned cutters at Sheffield, and fustiar
makers at Manchester. The Prime,
: found not only that he created no enlhu
slasm, but no alarm, most painful thins
for an invading chief and, in fact. wher
they had reached the great central plains
of England, they felt lost in the immen
sity of the solitude that surrounded them
/ If they had met enemies, they would
, have fought; if they had found friends
, they would have hoped; but they positive
ly wasted away for lack of either. con
federate or opponent. The exhibition
disappeared like small river in sand
What was the use Of going on? If the,
reached London itself, they would b,
| swallowed up in the vastness Of the no
pulation, and, instead of meeting AZ
army, they would be in danger of beinl
taken up by the police. So they rever
sed their steps. Donald had stolen con
siderably in the course Of the foray. an,
was anxious TO 90 and invest his forum,
in his native vale. An English guinea
coin hitherto as fabulous as the BodacJ
gids-would pay the rent Of his holdin.
for twenty years; five pounds woul,
make him a cousin Of the Laird. Blu
Donald never got back to display th,
spoils Of Charlisle or Derby. lie lott
cred by the road, and was stript 0
his booty. He was imprisoned, an,
hanged, and starved, and beaten, an,
finally after the strange tragi-com
edy Of his fight to Falkirk, had the goo,
fortune, on the bare expanse of drum
r noisse Moer, to hide some o? the ludi
crous features of his retreat in the gIor,
Of warriors DEATH Justice became re
yenged By its severity alter the iusurree
ton was quelled.
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