CAELIBLE arc '45.
THESE memorials can only have a local, not any general interest, though connected with a stirring episode of British history. They consist chiefly of the correspondence and papers of the Reverend John Waugh, D.C.L., a Church dignitary who flourished about '45, and who from official and family connexions had great influence in the city of Carlisle. The Doc- tor was a stanch friend to the Protestant succession, and did his best to frustrate the Pretender's enterprise by collecting all the information he could of the progress of the insurgents ; communicating it to his friend Dr. Bettesworth of London, and, "it is believed," to the Duke of Newcastle. The communications to the former are now published, (those to the latter are not forthcoming,) and connected by the historical narratives of Mr. Mounsey ; who, by engravings of medals and other pic- torial elucidations' seems to have spared no pains in the discharge of his editorial duties. But he has only had an ungrateful soil to work in. The Doctor himself was careful to keep out of the mêlée; living in the ancient city of York pending the commotion, and trusting to John Goldie, Esq., an active magistrate of Dumfries, for intelligence. The good city of Carlisle, too, enacted no Troy's part in the business. Deputy-Mayor Pattinson contrived to get his name into the Gazette by a pompons bulletin written when the Highlanders were at a distance ; yet no sooner did they appear before the city-walls with their claymores, though without a single piece of artillery, than the white feather was hung out and a dis- graceful capitulation agreed to. The blame was laid on the refusal of the Cumberland Militia to fight; with what truth does not clearly appear. Fatalism), however, will live in the Jacobite song of which we give the first stanza- " Oh, Pattinson I ohone ! ohone!
Thou wonder of a Mayor!
Thou blest thy lot thou wert no Scot, And blustered like a player.
What bast thou done with sword or gun To baffle the Pretender?
Of mouldy cheese and bacon grease Thou much more fit defender!"
The citizens did not redeem their reputation on the other side ; for when the Rebels fell back from the South and the Royalists advanced, they promptly surrendered to the Duke of Cumberland ; who laughed at their castle as "an old hencoop, which he would speedily bring down about their ears." It is thus manifest that Mr. Mounsey has only had a repulsive stock of incidents and materials to work upon ; not calculated to warm a writer to an enthusiastic pitch, but more suited perhaps to a bur- lesque epic on the past history of his townsmen than to a sober narrative. As to the general undertaking of Prince Charles Edward, this is not an occasion to enter into its merits. It evoked noble spirits that human na- ture will always feel a romantic interest in and delight to honour. But the first successes of the Rebels were the result of surprise ; and per- haps at this moment a body much less formidable than the clansmen might traverse England with equal impunity. The heroes of Fontenoy, however, took a correct measure of their foemen ; and just before the Culloden affair, gaily forded the Spey chin-deep, the regimental bands
meanwhile playing in derision of Highland warfare, - Will ye play me fair play
Bonnie laddie, Highland laddie ?"
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