[Sidenote: 16 Sept. 1745]
COPY of the PRINCE'S SUMMONS to the City of Edinburgh to
surrender. Directed to the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town
Council of Edinburgh.
Being now in a condition to make our way into this capital of his
Majesty's ancient kingdom of Scotland, we hereby summon you to
receive us, as you are in duty bound to do. And in order to it we
hereby require you upon receipt of this to summon the Town Council
and take proper measures in it for securing the peace and quiet of
the city, which we are very desirous to protect. But if you suffer
any of the Usurper's troops to enter the town, or any of the canon,
arms, or amunition now in it, whether belonging to the publick or to
private persons, to be carried off, we shall take it as a breach of
your [Sidenote: _fol._ 419.] duty and a heinous offence against the
king and us, and shall resent it accordingly. We promise to preserve
all the rights and liberties of the city, and the particular property
of every one of his Majesty's subjects. But if any opposition be made
to us we cannot answer for the consequences, being firmly resolved
at any rate to enter the city, and in that case, if any of the
inhabitants are found in arms against us, they must not expect to be
treated as prisoners of war.
(Signed) CHARLES, PRINCE REGENT.
_From our Camp, 16th September 1745._
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[Sidenote: 16 Sept. 1745]
Upon the magistrates receiving the above, the inhabitants were called
together and almost unanimously agreed to surrender the town, and
sent deputies out to the Prince to treat with him, viz., Baillies
Gavin Hamilton, John Yetts, and David Inglis, and James Norrie,
Deacon Convener, to whom the Prince caused deliver the following
answer.
His royal Highness the Prince Regent thinks his Manifesto and the
King, his father's, Declaration, already published, are a [Sidenote:
_fol._ 420.] sufficient capitulation for all his Majesty's subjects
to accept of with joy. His present demands are to be received into
the city as the son and representative of the king, his father, and
obeyed as such when he is there.
His Royal Highness supposes that since the receipt of his letter to
the provost and magistrates no arms or ammunition have been suffered
to be carried off or concealed, and will expect a particular account
of all things of that nature.
Lastly, he expects a positive answer to this before 2 o'clock in the
morning, otherwise he will find himself obliged to take measures
conform. By his Highness's command,
(Sign'd) JOHN MURRAY.
_At Gray's Mill, 16 September 1745._
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[Sidenote: 17 Sept. 1745]
After this a second deputation was sent to the Prince, viz., Provost
Coutts and Baillie Robert Baillie, who brought the following answer.
His Royal Highness has already given all the assurances he can that
he intends to exact nothing of the city in general, nor [Sidenote:
_fol._ 421.] of any in particular, but what his character of Regent
entitles him to. This he repeats, and renews his summons to the
magistrates to receive him as such. By His Highness's command,
(Sign'd) JOHN MURRAY.
_Gray's Mill 3 o'clock in the Morning,
Tuesday, 17 September 1745._
A NARRATIVE[190] given me by Mr. ALEXANDER MURRAY, Printer, in
Burnet's Close, Edinburgh.
[190] See ff. 375, 707, 1087, 1323, 1376.
[Sidenote: July.]
About the beginning of July 1746 one Garnet, a dragoon in Lord Mark
Ker's regiment, and son of one Garnet, a printer at Sheffield, came
to the printing house of William Sands and Company at Edinburgh,
and having been asked several questions in relation to the battle
of Culloden, said: That he himself was engaged there; that the
orders they received were _To make no prisoners_: That the reason
of this severity was that the Duke had got notice before the armies
were engaged that the rebels had given orders--To kill men, women,
and children of their enemies, without distinction, for eight days
[Sidenote: _fol._ 422.] after the battle, in case victory should
declare for them; that he himself went to the field of battle the
day after the engagement in the forenoon; that on coming near it,
he heard a doleful noise; that on coming to the place he found that
the noise he had heard was several of the wounded rebels who had
crawled together were bemoaning one another's condition; that in a
short while after he saw some small parties of the king's troops with
officers on their head go through the field and shoot the wounded
rebels; that six or eight of the soldiers fired together at different
rebels, but did not receive the word of command from their officers,
though they stood by and saw the service performed; that they went
thro' the field thus; that some of the rebels seemed pleased to
be relieved of their pain by death, while others begged of the
soldiers to spare them, which, however, was no ways regarded; that
the soldiers employed in this service were foot, so that he himself
was only a spectator; that soldiers went, a day or two after to the
field and did the [Sidenote: _fol._ 423.] like; that such severity
would not have been exercised against a foreign enemy, and that at
this time the French were treated with great humanity, as they are
said to be remarkably human when conquerors; and that a written order
was said to be found in the pocket of one of the rebels after the
battle agreeing with the accounts above mentioned which the Duke had
received before the engagement. This dragoon who named and designed
himself as above seemed to be a discreet, ingenuous man.
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_Edinburgh, October 30th, 1746._
[Sidenote: 30 Oct. 1746]
An officer of the Broadalbine Militia (who was among those who made
openings in the stone walls, through which the dragoons passed)
being told the above, did not believe it, and gave as his reason
that a præmium having been given for every gun and sword brought to
the king's camp after the battle, the men under his command were so
busied in carrying guns and swords from the field of battle to the
camp that he could scarcely keep a sufficient number of them to do
duty, and yet [Sidenote: _fol._ 424.] he never heard of the rebels
being thus killed in cold blood, which, being a thing very uncommon,
he thought his men could not miss to observe and to tell him of it.
This gentleman added, that he heard at that time of the order of the
rebels for giving no quarter; that a particular serjeant in certain
regiment was said to have it; that he asked it of him, but was
answered he heard another serjeant had it, and went to two or three
thus, and always found less reason to believe there ever was any such
order.
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[Sidenote: 8 Oct. 1747]
_N.B.--Edinburgh, October 8th, Thursday, 1747._
I visited Mr. Alexander Murray, printer, out of whose hand I received
a copy of the above in his own hand-writ, and from which I have
faithfully made the above transcript. The copy in Mr. Murray's
hand-writ is to be found among my papers. Mr. Murray is the person
who conversed with the dragoon and the Broadalbine officer in
presence of Mr. James Cochran, co-partner [Sidenote: _fol._ 425.]
in business with Mr. Murray. The said Mr. Cochran vouched to me the
truth of the above narrative in every ace of it, as given by the
dragoon and the officer.