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The retreat of the Americans. Nairne's later service in the War. Isle aux Noix and Carleton Island. Sir John Johnson and the desolation of New York. Nairne and the American prisoners at Murray Bay. Their escape and capture. Nairne and the Loyalists. The end of the War. Nairne's retirement to Murray Bay.
Sir John Johnson devastated the Mohawk valley, in the present State of New York, and some of his prisoners were received at Carleton Island. The worst outrages came from the Indian allies, of whom Nairne thought so badly.
And I do forever interdict the entrance of all other vessels which shall be commanded by the said Henry Whitby, John Nairne, and Slingsby Simpson, or either of them.
Already it had been under debate and in the end the Bishop gave orders that labour might continue on most of the Church's festivals; that of the patron saint of the parish was in time abolished. Nairne thus helped to bring about a considerable industrial reform. But beyond this he achieved little.
As the Highland army rushed into Edinburgh, Miss Nairne, like other ladies who approved of their cause, stood waving her handkerchief from a balcony, when a ball from a Highlander's musket, which was discharged by accident, grazed her forehead. 'Thank God, said she, the instant she recovered,'that the accident happened to me, whose principles are known.
It may be observed that the best and most genuine Andrea Ferraras have a crown marked on the blade. The incident here said to have happened to Flora Mac-Ivor actually befell Miss Nairne, a lady with whom the author had the pleasure of being acquainted.
The age of peace has been heralded in by the songs of Burns and Lady Nairne, the authoress of The Land o' the Leal, who has done much to restore the taste for our beautiful old melodies, by wedding them to pure and appropriate verse. In such pursuits, Mainzer by this time dubbed doctor by a German university passed five years very pleasantly, but, in a worldly point of view, very unprofitably.
Blair's I left him, in order to attend a consultation, during which he and his amiable host were by themselves. I returned to supper, at which were Principal Robertson, Mr. Nairne, and some other gentlemen. Dr. Robertson and Dr.
There is a significant old Scotch song with a ballad ring, by Lady Nairne, two verses of which form each a complete picture not only of different seasons, but of different phases of feeling happiness and misery. 'Bonnie ran the burnie down, Wandering and winding; Sweetly sang the birds aboon, Care never minding.
But they had never been hampered by such restrictions and, when Nairne tried to check them, they said that they would not be hindered. When, in 1797, he ordered one Joseph Villeneuve to cease the "flambeau" fishing at night, the fellow "roared and bellowed" and set him at defiance; no less than twenty companions joined him in the fishing.
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